The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-03-20

| NthltIu DcpdIment, WnlCn clearly sustain
the facts as set forth by him, and as clearly
place the responsibility Of the death o.
General Lyon where it belongs.-Ep.l
Mcclellan, but ten days before ha /, in re-
ply to Lyons appeals, in telegram | have
! quoted exl rcss|y pointed To Cairo as a
/ threatened position, and had alluded TO the
| Inadequate forces at his command for its
| defense. What should an officer do under
such circumstances Fremont did the
best he could he got all the men he could,
aud went down with steamboats, 10 Cairo.
And for this ho was condemned all over
the country, because he went down there
with scanboats and made parade" when
really it was useful, because it impressed
tho secessiouists and capitalists of St
Louis with the conviction that lie had q
larger force than he really had. But let me
say. IN passing, just here, that great com.
! plant was made because General Fr.mo, (
went down to the boat in carr,a &c and
| four. My friend did not speak of it, but the
charge has been in circulation all over the
country. Now, the facts in relation to that
matter are just these, as learned at St.
! Louis. His friends, without his knowledge,
when the expedition was ready to start,
brought q carriage and four to his house for
him to ride down to the boat in. When
! Fremont came to the door and saw it, he
| positively refused to ride in it, prcfcrring
to walk to the levee or to go iii an ordinary
carriage. But his friends told him that il
had been said that he dar not show himself
| to the people for fear of being assassinatod
and il was necessary that he should go
down to the boat as publicly m possible, III
order to show that there was no truth in
in the report an thercupon Fremont COZ
sented t. enter the ca rlage, and this was
added to the charges against Lin.
| hiVe heard great deal, too---and the
| House will pardon me for tn $50 digressions
as "a few incidental points strike my mind
! while spcakiug-abouta costly Sc 900 house
which he hired in st. Louis Tor himself and
his staf. have boon in that house. and SO
has my friend from st, Louis; for at one time
both ho and | were able to pass its "barri
cadcs." Other generals and other officers
have found that they must exclude most OF
the thousand visitors desiring to see them
| if they wished to attend to their grave and
responsible trusts but from one end of the
country to the other Fremont was denounc-
ed for these barricades. | found out this
in regard to that celebrated house; that
the officers crowded into that ono house
where they were at the instant call of the
commal ding general no time lost in send
| ins messengers from one Office To another
but ali under the same roof and the tclc
graph with them, would, if they had beer
| III po ato quarters have been allowed
under the Army regulations, S6 400 for quar-
ters. Fremont paid 900 year for this
house and yet he has been denounced fol
that as an evidence of his reckless eXtrava
gancc.
There is another thing to which | wish tt
| hninrn
When got TO ST. Louis at one time, hcurt
u great many sncers about Fremont havin
ordered hve hundred tons of ice, and abou
the glorious time he and his staff woult
have with their sherry cubblcrs, &c., oI
their march to southwestern Missouri.
made inquiry about it, and found tha
II was Oh requisition from the surgeon
that this ice was supplied. 1t was not
t. accompany the army, but TO be used il
the hospitals along the railroad where the
sick were suffering, and to which the wound
ed, ate: battle, would if possible, have been
brought. 1t made my heart bleed to thill
that the general commanding should he de.
nou iced 10. this. In some Of the Indiaus
regiments, my own fel!ow-citi2ens, for who's,
sulierings in the field or the hospital have
felt deeply, nearly half of the men wero ~
ing sick from fcvers contracted by malaria
and exposure, and because thoy were not
used to tie muddy water of the Missouri
After they went into hospital, aud drank the
same water, they continued sick. One reg
inert, the twenty-seoond. had majority
in hos tai from the malaria and the drink
ng of this water. The surgeons asked fol-
ice for hospital purposes, Tor the sick and
suffering men who had gore out to fight
to suffer and to die, if needs be- for THEN
country. And for yielding to that, and
showing, as he always has, a deep solicitudt
for the men under his command, Fremont
was denounced in ST. Louis and all over the
country. Let the denunciation go on. The
brave men whose parched lips were thus
cooled, will not forget the man who has
been thus condemned for this additional act
of "extravagance."
But, Mr. Chairman, | have no time to ox
anime and explain all the charges thick
as the leaves i'll NallombrOsa' '--whi, Ia have
been le against him. The balance,
most ot them at least, are Of pieco w.t.
those to which | have alluded. Let them
al pass.
THE sADDEsT DAYS IN MISSOURI
Ny friend says that the "hundred days
of Fremont were the saddest days for al
the loyal pers ons in Missouri that they had
seen. differ with him in that There was
a sadder day for them than those. 1t wa:
after Fremont was deposed, and after this
army that had gone forth with banners and
music to southwestern Missouri, and the enc
my fleeing before them, took up its line OF
march back to the line OF the railroad, and
the more del sely populated settlements
| The people OF southwestern Missouri, who,
i'll the ex b rance Of their zeal, when they
saw the stars and stripes borne by Fremont s
army had capped their hands with Joy
and proclaimed themselves for the Union--
these men from tho very heights OF coa-
| ii lence aud hope, wero plunged into very
valley of do ponden y by this forward move
IN sat Icing changed into retreat. And
when the army took up its backward march,
they, knowing what tate they might expect
to m set from the vengeance OF the rebel
hoids of Price-The halter, tn prison, out
rage and robbery, tyranny and spoliatiOn--
| followed that army, with their sorrowing
families, in sad procession, back 10 st. Louis,
pennless and homeless, when, had Fremont
not been supei seeded, the army would have
me on with the banner they had welcom-
81 full high advanced, instead of coming
aok, and leaving all southwest Missouri 10
be ravaged by traitors, until three mouths
afterwards a moro fortunate general led
another army over the same route that
Fremont trod and on the same mission.
No, sir that was the saddsst day that the
loyal men OF Missouri had ever seen.
FRENoSrs PROCLAMATION.
My friend has said that the proclamation
0f General Fremont was bJmbastic. | can-
not turn aside from this argument 10 analyze
its sentenoeS and 10 diseusa the auestion