Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-10-02

| preparing both in Kentucky and Missouri that
will need men to do it, and the sooner they are
supplied the easier will be the performance and
the sooner it viii be accomplished
A review of Fremont's Generaishrp.
The New York Times contains the following
review of FRENoST's conduct:
WASHINGTON, Monday, Sept. 30 1851.
Gen. Fremont was absent from his post the
greater part of month after his appointment
On the very day of his arrival ut St Louis (July
25,) special agent of Gen. Lyon called on him
for reinforcements, and to explain that the land
ing of Pillow at New Madrid and the march of
Hardee TO Pocahontas was not combined move
( ment upon St. Louis, as their organs Ostenta-
tously gave out, but feint to prevent reinforce
ments being sent from st. Louis to Gen. Lyon,
whom Ben. Mccullough was preparing to fight.
This not succeeding. Gen. Lyon sent his aid and
also a field officer to Gen. Fremont; they also
failed Fremont insisted that Pillow was about
to march from New Madrid upon St. Louis, and
to meet this he decided to send 5000 men to a
point opposite Cairo to hinder and obstruct Pill
lows march, and with the remainder of his forces
to commence terrifying the city Of st. Louisl
Lyon was left to die; Fremont decided that Lyon 5
Judgment was at fault i'm supposing that South
west Missouri, and not St. Louis, was the point
which jeff Davis had ordered his forces to strike.
So much for subordinating an accomplished mill
tary man like Gen. Lyon to a civilian like Ere
mont, who had never studied military book nor
even so much as seen a battle. Fremont sent his
5000 to meet the terrible Pillow, and then COM
menced his Notifications at St. Louis. He is
tually fortifying il nowl
Thus, by allowing the weakest, silliest, most
incompetent of all the rebel Generals to de-
ceive him by transparent feint, and beguiling
him into the wrong placing of five thousand sol
diers, Fremont lost to the country General Lyon
and his army. This loss occurred on the 10th of
August Shortly after this, General Price left
Springfield for Lexington, about 22O miles off
He marched directly to his object, and on the
usually travelled route, with an army of upwards
of twenty thousand men To prevent the cap
ture Of this beautiful and important city, General
Fremont ordered il occupied by fifteen hundred
men, He allowed his sixty thousand men to re
main scattered from Dan 20 Beersteba; he had
left Lyon to hold Springfield with five thousand
FIVE hundred men, against more than twenty
thousand, and vet in the face of that disaster
disaster produced by setting up his inexperienced
judgment against the matured one of an expert
enced General-Fremont placed Mulgan in
Lexington to resist twenty thousand men with n
force smaller by two thousand men than was that
of Lyon. Hence n second army was utterly lost.
Lost by reason of the same want of judgment
that caused the loss of the first. Lost, not by
treachery, not By cowarice, not by want of skill
on the lrlrt of those who fought the battles, but
by the lack of judgment exhibited by the civilian
who controlled movements of which he has neither
theoretical nor practical knowledge.
Gen. Mccullough in day or two, according
TO the latest accounts, will arrive at Lexington
with some IL 900 regulars of the rebel army. to
unite with the victorious Mssourians. This
great force will be swelled in its march to Jefer
son City by the forces of Martin Green, Parsons,
Reed, and Others of less note, and will give Nc
Cullou.h force of near 50,00O men before he
reaches the State capital.
OF course he will be met by the largest force
that can he COLLECTED readily by u civilian who
has demonstrated with such painful distnctness
that he knows not how to handle troops. The
result of the battle to be fought will determine
the fate of St. Louis, and of Missouri, and of the
Union. If the decision is against us St. Louis
falls. In that event the election which comes off
in few days will enable jackson 20 be re elected
Governor by his troops and friends in the over
run counties, and will give him disunion legis-
lature that can legally fasen on the State the
expenditures, script, &c, made since April, and
amounting to seven or eight millions of dollars.
With tie loss of St. Louis comes the loss of the
/ Union-the cities of the Ohio river will insist
upon the employment of the Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois troops in driving the confederate troops
out of Kentucky, lest after some temporary sue
cess they should destroy one more of them.
Hence, if Fremont is allowed to lose third
army. it cannot soon be replaced; and Europe
seeing the confederates not only holding their
own territory and shutting the Government up in
Washington, but actually conquering the largest
city of the United States west of the Alleghan,es
and holding it, would unanimously recognize the
rebels.
Are not these things so? Fellow countrymen
of the East, can you, any more than we of Mis-
sour, afford to unnecessarily hazard the very
| existence of our Government? Will you not
join us in our earnest appeal to the Admins
tration to place an educated military man al
the head of our troops, to fight battle upon
which everything dear to US depends Wehave
lost two armies in Missouri-another will ruin
us | am aware that the Administration j:
wholly made up of politicians but | am of the
opinion that when reflection teaches them how
much depends upon the defeat of the large ar
my Of Ben. Mccullough, that they will con
sent to the wishes of Missouri and allow an edu-
Gated soldier, of the highest skill and of actual
experience, to lead our army against the enemy
They can not afford to risk another defeat
'twould be fatal. If there was a large necessity
for putting a civilian at the head of our force:
in Missouri, on an occasion so momentous, il
would be different But there is no necessity
none at all-no reason can be given that will
prove that civilian should, on this great oc
casiOn, command our army in the coming bat
tie instead of a military man.
Fellow countrymen, pray for your infu
ence to have sent to US, not an army, for we have
soldiers enough, but an able, experienced. sober
minded commander, who has the the solidity of 6
lack Taylor. aud the military skill, comprehen
sion and rapidity of Lyon. Fremont has never
acquired the theory of, nor ever practiced, the
military art-we beg for who is familiar
with both the theory and the practice. We have
had enough of high-sounding proclamations o
what is about to be done to satiate even our Mex
lean neghbors, and therefore desire a man who
act more and proclaim" less. Give ole
officer like Wool, young one like Mcclellan
who SAYS little and does much. and we will sooI
send the dsuniOnists south across the Arkansas
line bowling. But if the inexperience and inca
pacity OF Fremont is to be placed in opposition t
the experience. dash AM skill of Ben. McCul
lough the history OF Their encounter can be a
easily written as hereafter.
Incendiary.
ayes, and that's the cry all over the West; an,
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