The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-25
General Fremont.

Tho following which we extract fron the St.
Louis correspondent of the New York World is o
graphic description OF the Pathfinder, and ut.
tiers a few brave words in his defence
If a man has business that entities him to oc-
cupy u few minutes of Fremont 8 day, he will
60 to his headquarters, a handsome dwelling in
the south of the city, garden-cinctured and flag
surmounted, and will be stopped at the gate by
dapper soldier, who will call for the corporal
a clean young fellow in blue uniform, as
jaunty and neat as that of middy-and the
corporal will take him to an ante-room, where
be will await the issue Of complicated series
of card deliveries, until grave and reverend
valet, who in the course Of long life of useful
ness has borne tho titles Of ''Pey ton Niggah,"
" Randolph's Chattc, " I" Benton's Institu-
tion,' and " Fremont's Contraband," opens
the door, obsequiously bows the white head,
which age has powdered, and ushers him into
long, well lighted drawing room, whose furni-
ture is shrouded, whose Brussels is covered with
green baiZe, whose mortified air proclaims, in
muhled tones, inter aran0 silent drawing rooms,
and there, by table, where lies a wilderness of
papers that no man must touch sits Ma or- Gen
eral John Charles Fremont.
lie is a little thinner, q little grayer than in
the days Of five years ago, when we fought for
the good cause under him, using for our tails
manic watch word the linking OF his name with
freedoms bat the man still IS there, grown
greater in the process Of suns. In the intensity
of the yes, in the lines that are furrowing
cheek and forehead, and the quiet earnestncss
Of voice and phrase, even in wllaJ his dcfamers
cal! his faults, the quick, sharp tone of COM
mand in which he addresses his subordinates,
ana the tier ignoring Of conflicting opinion,
you recognize the qualities which the quick in
stinct OF the people long ago recognized as those
OF born leader, and which Abraham Lincoln
who, more than any other man, reflects the
mind of the pcoplc-selected to call into battle
and guide unto victory the invinciblc legions of
the West. Fremont is always equal to himself
and the OCCASION. Whatever cabals against
him may flourish and burgeon in quiet places
whatever rumors may float in the streets and
trelnblc on the wires though the atmosphere
above him and below him be filled with the re-
proaches of mutinous officers and an angry cab
met though savage enemy be laundering on
his frontier, and rebel state be writing under
his feet like the great dragon under the heel of
st. Michael, Fremont is as quiet and collected.
as master of himself and his Instruments, as
though in his office at Nlarposa, giving orders
for the quartz crusheTs instead of coumbiads,
and disbursng his hundreds where now he scat
ters his millions. If lie is inaccessible, it is not
a selfish procedure, for no man can see him with
out ccnfessing that here is an exception to the
mistake of history that the right man is in
the right place.
There are few men but would fail in such
position. 1t is a difficult thing to hold
wildcat in each hand and attack a panther in
front of you and when, in addition, YOUR own
friends begin brisk and magnanimous fire in
the rear, success becomes at last coniactural.-
Yet this is nearly Fremont's position to-day
AS fast AS he concentrates his forces the enemy
occupy the towns thus vacated and the outrag-
ed Unonlsts besieee the General for succor. III
ne scatters his tro rs garrson-wisc among the
towns the country clamors against inaction, and
reproaehfully points to New Madrid and Column
bus. hte every nerve is strained for public
use the lll-tlmed criticisms of imprudent friends
endanger his efficiency and while, with his lit
tie army of lllinoisans, he prepares to do bat
tie with the whole southwest, he is ordered to
send u large propor5 ion Of his command to de- |
fend the capital.
1t seems to us western peoI lie that that order
would kindle shame in the east that would |
blister the cheek OF every Yankee that stays at
nome, though 1t be hard as Bunker Hill Monu- |
ment. Ii The swarmng millions of the North |
cannot defend the capital against double any
number the Sepoys can bring against it, with
out calling for help from Illinois, who has pour
o. from her southern praries the army which
must singly breast the storm of rebellion rolling
up the valley of tho hlississippi-let us know it
at once, that our children may leave school and
our old men forsake their easy chairs and fight !
Tor people, the memories Of whose forefaih-
ers are dead in their souls. That is the way it ,
seems to us western people-but what do We
know about war
Fremont says nothing Of this, but receives