The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-10-29
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Removal of Fremon'.

the command of the Department of the
Mississippi, keeping the people of the
West, who have the utmost confidence
in the ability, patriotism and energy OF
the gallant pathfinder, in an unsettled,
indignant, AMI discouraged frame of
mind There is something peculiar in
the treatment accorded to Fremont. That
General took possession of his depart
ment at a Tune when Missouri was over
run with hordes ofrebels, burning bridg
es, destroying railway trains, making at
,acks here and there, and threatening
importan. positions. Pillow, with a
large army, was threatening Cairo AM
Birds Point, while HARDEE and THoMp
SON, and other maraulers, were at Cape
Glradeau and other points, con empia
ting an attack upon St. Louis, which CT
ty was filed with traitors waiting to as
sist such an enterprise. LYON was at
Springfield, facing an overwhelming
force OF the enemy. Fremont saw at a
glance The magnitude OF the contest in
Missouri, and promptly prepared for it,
st. Louis was a point of the greatest i'm
portance, and he Immediately took meas
ures to secure it. lie found martial law
necessary to su6due treason within it.,
and he quickly took the responsibility OF
proclaimng it, a step the wisdom OF
which is now universally acknowledged
He protected the railroads by making the
people along them responsible for their
preservation. He made Binds Point and
Cairo SO strong that Pillow was lain 10
retire AM leave them. AT this time he
had but few thousand troops, mainly
months volunteers, whose time had
ne rly or quite expired. 1t was impossi-
Bile that he should have reinforced LYON,
and secured the integrity Of menaced po-
silions. Besides, the govern ment had
supplied him with no means of transpor-
tation, and the few men whom he had at
Rolla were unable TO move upon Spring
field to the assistance of LYON To sure
ly protect ST. Louis without the presence
of "A vast army, he promptly surrounded
1t with Gordon of works, now finished
Government was confessedly dilatory, or
unable to supply him with arms and
equipments, and yet to-day he has fine
ly appointed army Of probably $4,000
men in the State. All this time, too, he
has been forwarding preparations for an
expedition down the Mississippi. evil
dcatly part Of plan favored and ordered
by the powers at Washington, and these
Preparations are said to be nearly com
pletcd. We believe we can look in vain
for similar evidences Of energy in the
conduct OF any other department of the
army. And yet all has been done com
paratively without money. The admin
istration has sent but two millions Of dol
lars to FREMoSr's department, wheyewlth
to put in the field a score or two of reri
ments OF infantry and cavalry. And
many of these regiments, at critical mo-
mentS, nave been taken from him, to the
embarrassment of his plan of operations
The capture Of Lexington is against him,
bat it IS to be recollected that the State
o. Missouri is as large as the whole Of
New Eng gland, and poorly supplied with
telegraphs aud railroads, and means of
prompt communities ion. PRICE threat
encd Jefferson City and Bonneville, equal
ly with Lexington, and those points were
10 be prot"cle also. STURGIs was with
In sight Of MuLLIGAN before the surren-
der, and yet could not help him, because
he had no way Of crossing the river,
showing that il WAS no fault Of FREMoNr's
that MULLIGAN WAS rot saved But
grant that it was, why lay SO much stress
upon that defeat, and yet say nothing Of
SooTr and McDowELL's Bull Run, or
BUTLEK's Great Bethel And if FIRE.
MINT has given no results in the field,
we should like to know what McCLELLAN
at Washington has done Doubtless both
have done all that could be expected
There seems to be one distinction.
however, between Fremont and tho 9th
er Generals, and that, in the opinion Of the
people Of the West, accounts for the vir-
ulence with which the former is denoun-
ced. Gen. FREMONT fails to regard sa-
very as sacred, and is willing. knowing
il TO be the cause of The rebellion, to
crush the head Of the viper. Gen Fac.
MoNT's proclamation was virtually "a
proclamation Of emancipation, and be
cause il cut 10 the heart Of slavery be.
cause in made war upon that " sacred in
s,itution," he is denounced, and threat