Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-06-19


Of going to Cairo, as lac could have done for a
few dollars on one Of the vessels Transporting the
troops which accompanied him, he CHARTER.
ED a MAGNIFICENT STEAMER, AT A
! COST OF 81 600 TO THE GOVERNMENT,
TO CONVEY HIMSELF AND CORTEGE
hLONE. Inc steamer was anchored out in the
stream instead of lying at the wharf as all others
did aud do, aud when the General drove in his
carriage and four to the waters edge, YET AN
I OTHER STEAMER, Mt a still further cost 10
the Government, as We learn from claim present
cd for 1t, was employed to put himself and suite
onvbOard. foreign prince and potentate, in a
season OF national mourning, might thus live and
thus enter his pleasure yacht or his barge of
state, but inseusbility amid the calamities of
civil war, and wastcfulness, when the public debt
is being increased at the rate Of from ONE TO
/ TWO MILLIONS DAILY, when exhibited by
a Genera Of the American Army, is spectacle
/ from which the patriot may well turn away in grief
and lumilaton.,
Sir. there was but one thing more
needed to complete this wrctched picture
Of public debauchery and crime, and that
unhappily, was furnished. The following
extract from the report Of the committee
shows that Major General John g. Fre-
mont coHSpired 10 overthrow tie ConStitu-
ton Of his country. and trdmple under
.JootHe liberties Of his Government:
"The statement Of these witnesses-oificers
OF uuimpcachable integrity and intelligence
will, we are sure, be heard by the Government
with equal ast0nishmcnt and sorrow General
/ Fremont rrOclaims, on assuming his command,
that there were no longer any civil rights; that
/ there was no government except that outside of
the Constitution, which had been suspended; that
it was his determination to administer his de-
partment without reference - law or regulation;
that the people Of the United States were in the
field and that he was at their head, and that he
| mean! to carry out such measures as they, the
people, expected him to carry ont, "without regard
to the red tape" OF the Washington people
| that is, the President and Congress 1t is sngu-
1 lar how perfectly these sentiments harmonize
! with those held by the usurpers who 10 this aud
other ages of the world have sought to establish
absolute power upon the ruins Of public liberty.
Some Of those usurpers, tlking yet higher ground
than that assumed in the interview with Colonel
Andrews have claimed for them selves mission
to CARRY OUT the Will of God, but none of
them have sunk their pretentions below sp eclal
| mission to carry OUT the will Of the people.
/ Caesar, when he stood upon the banks Of the Ru-
| bcon and waved to his veterans to advance, did
not make boller declaration against his coun-
/ try than this. The words, so earnestly and 50
often spoken, ANNOUNCED A BEVOLU-
| TION CONCEIVED, but which, happily, most
strength to bring forth. No man has lived in the
tide Of the times wise and pure enough to he in
trusted with such power as is here claimed.
Military chieftaius who cut red tape always do
it with their swords, and history proves that the
throat Of their country suffers quite as much as
does the tape in the operation. As free nsti-
tutiOns have their foundations in law, and in the
obedience Of the people and their representatives,
civil and military, tO it, this expression of pur-
. pose to cast aside all pohcal and constitutional
restransts made in the halls Of Legislation even,
would alarm, but when made in the field by a
! cheftan at the head of a great army, it chills
and the patriots heart by its parricida! spirit
! 1t reveals an inscriptions ambition, which
awaits but the prestige and power of victory to
| sweep the Government itself, as O cobweb, from
its path
"Ihis sad page in the history Of the late COM
mander of this department, gathers deep shad-
ow from the circumstances under which these de-
clarations we're made. General Fremont had a
few week. before taken and subscribed the fol-
! lowing military oat: q, John c. Fremont, do
solemuly swear that | will bear true and faithful
allegiance to the United States, and that will
serve them honestly and faithfully against their
| enemios or opposers whomsoever; aud that l will
observe and obey the orders OF the President of
United States and the orders Of the officers over
me- according to the rules and articles OF war;
| He thus, in the sight of God and his country, had
! plghted faith with bis Government that he would
/ bear to it true allegiance, and he stood
| pledged by the most solemn ofhuman sanctions to
support that Constitution which, when the peo-
pie are in the field places at their head the
President Of the United States, and not any gen
eral holding a commission under him. With a
confding fonIues5 he had been summoned from
the obcurty of private life, and, preferred above
the veterans and a whole army of patrIots he
made q Major General. Scarcely has he
glgded UN his sword, to whose honor the best in
tcrests Of the nation has been committed, when
he sIys to his suborlinates and followers that he
! draws it, not in the name of law or Of the Gov
ernmcnt, but in defiance Of both, to enforce such
mea sures as, in his judgment, the people expect
I cd him TO carry OUT These words were spoken,
as it wcre in the very sick chamber Of the Re-
public, and had the undertaken while the patient
was yet struggling tor life. They were uttered
against the government OF a country not then
tranquil and strong and able to battle with all the
as.ailants, but of a country distracted and hum.
! bled, and bleeding under the stabs OF traitors.
| They came from no flush of excitement springing
! from a triumph of arms. but were the solemn and
oft repeated enunciations OF general just enter
ing the field Ofhis future operations and surveying
for the first time the strength of his gathering ar
my They were addressed to officers of high
rank in the service, and were intended to impress
them with obedience to his revolutionary pro
gramme. General Fremont already held the
sword, and it was most impo rtant for his purpose
that Colonel Andrews, the head OF the pay de-
partment here, and Major Johnson, a paymaster
under him, should not interfere with his free use
Of the national purse"
Sir, il what age 10 we live? Is this
the age of republican simplicity and in
teSrity, or are we transported to the days
Of fraudulent uSurpers, to the unhallowed
scenes of the Roman Caesars? Are we
in republican America, or have we, by
some magic process, been suddenly drop
ped down in the midst Of oriental luxury
and kingly indulgence? Has the Admin
istration Of this Government sought for
a model among the principles of Wash
ington and Jefferson, or from the exam
pie of Tiberius, Caligula, and Domitian?
The great philosophic poet says that
corruption wins not more than honesty"
But is that true in these latter days?-
have shown that, by the deliberate find
ing of committee raised under the au-
thority of this House, and by the action of
the House itself, the late Secretary of
War, Simon Cameron, is declared guilty.
in this awful crisis, of plundering, and
with criminal knowledge Of permitting to
be plundered, the resources Of the peo-
pie, the treasury of his country.
With that brand upon him, he steps
from, ona a,,a1tal etatinp 10 nm nj har and