Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1862-04-25
Washington Correspondence Of the Fremont Journal.
Letter from Washington.

Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON, April 15 1862
Ma. EDlToR;--In my last letter, expressed
the opinion that Slavery would be abolished in
this District probably without the aid of one
Democratic vote In this 1 was not quite right
Three Democratic votes were given for the bill
Two of these votes were from New York, and
the other from Rhode Island The New York
members were at Manassas and Centreville i'm
mediately after the evacuation of these places by
the rebels, They saw during that visit enough
of the institution and its consequences to effect
ually wean them from it. The Rhode Island
member is under the influence Of good con-
stituency who are daily becoming more anti
slavery from the significant teachings of the
present war.
need scarcely say to you that the Republi-
can members feel proud of the small Job of
emancipation which has just passed SO success
fully through their hands.
The principal bill now before the Senate is
the confscation bill. 1t would soon assume a
satisfactory shape, if it were not for the ever
lasting negro interest This is the point on
which there will be most debate.
To touch the negro of a rebel, even if said
rebel is in the field, to some weak men among
the Republicans is sore temptation. 1t mat
ters not what is done with the real estate and
the other goods and chattles, but the moment
the proposed law squints toward the negro, all
goes wrong.
No later than yesterday I heard Republ-
can Senator tell captain of Artillery, that he
had ga constitutional objection to touching an1
bodys Niger" This man was supposed by
those who sent him here, to be a sound Repub-
lcan. There are nearly half dozen such in
the Senate.
The tax bill, as it passed the House will 90
through the Senate with but little alteration.
By the time the first ofJune comes, there will
be deficiency in our last years expenses o.
thirty millions of dollars. Five hundred mil.
lions We're appropriated to defray the curren
expenses of the fiscal year. But that sum prove,
to be thirty millions too small just think o
that, ye tax payers, and then scream, "hurral
for Mcclellan" who has had control of nearly
half your army for the last nine months, and
has done nothing with it but capture an empty
fortification.
The old war cry, "all squet on the Potomac y
has passed away, and a new one is about to be
adopted. Gall is quiet at Yorktown" will be
the next one. The rebels will not let this one
be sung as long as the last one was if we can
place any dependence in what they say. They
claim that they are getting our troops into Just
the place where they want to have them, but
they have played bluff SO often that il seems as
if no one can be fooled by their statements any
more, yet we see the Mcclellan papers are at
work building up Notifications and multiplying
l H. \
From this we may infer that all will be quiet
at Yorktown for quite time.
This same game of bluff was well played in
the West, where Buell., with his sixty thousand
men, was held in check four months by fourteen
thousand rebels. do believe that none but {
man educated at West Point could be so de
ceived. Another West Point scholar wanted
two hundred thousand men to keep the rebels il
Kentucky from taking that State. They mus
cultivate the imagination at dreadful rate il
that same Military Academy.
1t must be a source of great pleasure to the
numerous friends of Gen. Mcclellan, TO lately
learn the high esteem in which he is held in
Richmond. man is in nearly as much dan
ger there to say word against him as he would
bein some of the Northern cities. The rebels
have good cause to think highly of him.
| In my last letter. wrote you of the good
prospect there was for the capture of Richmond
Since then that whole plan has been counter.
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the printer before the week is out. When n !
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