The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-01-02
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tb"t Paper Refuses so PuTIish.
From The South Bend Qnd.) Register, Dec. 25th.
The FLOWING letter was forwarded to The
Chicago Tribune tor publication. but as it had
iot appeared in the columns of that paper up to
us Issue OF Tuesday, we herewith print it flom
copy furnished us by MIR. Cofax
HUosE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, J
WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. IS, 1861.
Your sense ofjust'ce and The friendly relations
hat have always existed between us, will trust
allow me brief space your columns to cor
rect very g eat mis- AXE luto " ich yonr ex-
cellent and racy Washing ton correspondent has
fallen in his letter published last Saturday He
saws ,he'has searched diligently 10 find one single
member of either House who proposes to defend
Fremont" that the most he can hope from
hose members who were on his staff n Nilsson
ri is entire silence. 'aud that 'if Mr. Coax says
4 woid in his behalf, he will surprise those who
know him most Intimately
The fact is, members who stand by Fremont
are numbered by the score NJ, belitt,as ! have
stated in each of The four editorials wrote on
his suhject,ihal he may have mistakenly gwen
his confidence to some men in st Lous who,
fhongh men OF great energy. abused his conf
dence tor their own gain F; but that TO attempt
20 saddle upon him the charges against Mchlns-
try, who was Quafternasier-GeueTal Of st Louis
before he went there, and whom he had no mo- e
power TO remove than to remove you from The
Tribune, AID tor whose acts he was 10 more re
eponslble than Gen. Mcclellan is for the official
acts OK the Quar- ermaster General here, Gen.
Meig8 Is, IN he last degree. unjust.
Probably money may have been injndciously
expended in he Western epartment-possi-
bly, One-euth as much has been wasted in the
DepaI tmeBt Of The Potomac though hope not.
But snail not tespass upon you, if you print
Ibis letter, any extended defence ui Fremont -
Suffice 1t to say, without making any catalogue
OF names, that rmongst those in the House who
sympathIze with him, and who stare openly that
hey have not lost confidence in him rs Man
As General, or as Patriot, are Speaker Grow,
Fhaddeus Stevens, Chairman Of the Committee
on Ways and Means and the leader Of the House;
John F. Potter. Chairman OF the Committee on
! Public Laws ; John Cov0de. Chairman If the
Committee on Public Expenditures: g d Sedg-
wick, Chairman OF the Committee on Naval AZ
| fairs-names which | aliude to. not because
! they are better Than scores Of others, bur be
cause they are widely known to your readers.
trust you who - know me in ina ely" will
do me the Justice to believe that l never desert
I'd fiend because of public clamor or udversI-
| ~ and that never hestated q the expression
OF my convictions, i'll or out Of Congress We
may all of US be very deIuded, but know thar
my opinion is CONSCIENTIOUS one aud that
would to-day gladly give my paw for his whole
| Congress if Fremont had be sent TO Port Roy
| al, instead Of Sherman Let me add, that i
here should be a Fremont debate here, you Will
| probably have to look to he Globe TO it and
toJ to the telegraph A debate on Tuesday, il
which Col. Shak OF indiana Gone OF Fremont
aids in Missouri VIM. Morris Davis, OF Penn,
aud the writer hereof, participated one side
and Col. Blair on he othe side OF he conIr0-
versy, was not alluded 10 in tire Copgrsssiol al
teleg aphed from here 10 the Associated Press
North and West.
| Yours Truly, SCHUYLER CoLFAX