The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-13

this danger, and he warned the officers
Immediately in command, of the large
force gathering against them at these
points. This attack was prevented by the
show Of force which Fremont sent to that
place, which he displayed as much rs pos
sible, for effect on the enemy, whom he
had not sufhcient force to meet. This dis !:
play has also been charged against him
The correspondence shows that after it
became known where Prices intended
point of attack was-which at first was sup
posed TO be Boonsille-pFompt dispositions
were made to re-enforce Mulligan from
four points where troops were available.
The very numerous dispatches from Gen
eral Fremont to the various detachments
and the full and energetic arrangements
TO re-enforce Mulligan, are q forcible
comment on the charge that he was un-
mindful and inaccessible at that time.
In the midst Of these efforts, with al.
most every point in Missouri threatened
by the enemy, and Cairo and Paducah in
danger. the army scattered In small de-
iachments, trying TO save the whole State,
not half troops enough to send the re-en-
forcement that were called for, and no,
arms for what he had the peremptory or.
der of Gen. Scott to send 5000 well
armed troops to Washington shows
the blissfnl state Of mind at the
Capital in regard TO Western affsirs.-
This was backed by an order from Score
tary Cameron and the President, and left
no alternative. Two regiments were sent,
and reached Cincinnati on their way,
when the western men at Washington gol
the order countsrmanded These reei.
ments were then diverted to Kentucky.
About this time, with = situation OF af
fairs requiring immense exertions and
great additional supplies to save the State
without money. which at all times had
been very sean.ily supplied to him, the
credit Of General Fremont was broken
down by attacks from Washington. The
subsequent advance of Gen. Fremont, iu
the face of all these obstacles. to South
ern Missouri, with an enthusiastic army
aud with two of the finest months of the
year for campaigning before him, the mis-.
sion of Cameron and Adjutant General
Thomas 10 Missouri, their coolIy setting
themselves ut work TO break down his ad
vance, and the removal OF Gen. Fremon
from the head of an army, which, had il
not been attacked in the rear, would have
entered Memphis last fall, are well known
to the public.
Had Cameron and Thomas set them.
selves at work to aid Fremont, instead oi
to break him down, they could have for
wardcd him then the transportation and
supplies which they said be lacked. Trains
from st. Louis could have been sent to
his victorious army with everything il
needed. Instead of that they predicted
his failure for the want of these supplies,
and then went back to Washington 10
await the fulfllment Of their predictions
which involved the destruction Of his ar
my, and the loss OF Missouri and the
whole border-and to help along the break
down If the event was likely to falsify
their prophecies.
The history of all the treason and
trcachery of this rebellion has nothing 20
infamous as this, and il is to be hoped,
now that the spirit of the war is changed,
that this stain upon its conduct will be
wiped out.
The advance which has now been made
at such great cost in Missouri, was &C
complished by Fremont last fall; and it
will be seen by his letter to the President
in September, which We publish in our
abstract, that he had then planned the
movements by the Cumberland and Ten
nessee rivers on Nashville and Memphis.
II Cincinnati Gazette.