The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-01-09
schuyler Colfax writes a letter on Fremont
to the Chicago sSrribume," which that
OODer refuses To publish.


paper refuses tO publish.
From the South Bend und) Register, Dec. .2G.l |
The following lett was forwarded to
the Chicago Tribune for publication, but
as it had not appeared in the columns Of
that paper up to its issue Of Tuesday, We
herewith print it from copy furnished
US by Mr.. Colfax:
.a House. OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
WASHINGTON, Dec. IL, 1861.
Your sense Of justice, aud the friendly
relations that have always existed be
tween us, will, l trust, allow me brief
space in your columns to correct very
great mistake into which your excellent
and racy Washington correspondent has
fallen in his letter published last Satur-
day He says, che has searched dill
gently to fnd ono single member Of either
House who proposes to defend Fremont
that .'the most he can hope from those
members who were on his staff in Mis-.
souri, IS entire silence aud that "if Mr.
Colfax says wore in his behalf, be will
surprise those who knew him most init
| mately."
The fact is, members who stand by
Fremont are numbered by the score
Ny belief, as | have stated in each of the
four editorials l wrote on this subj jec.,
has been that nc may have mistakenly
given his confidence to some men in St.
Louis who, though men of great energy,
abused his confidence for their gain but
that the attempt to saddle on him the
charges against McKinstry, who was
Quartcrmaster General at St. Louis be-
fore he went there, and whom he had no
more power to remove than he has to re-
move you from the editorship of the Tr,.
bune, and for whose acts he was no more
responsible than Gen Mcclellan is for
the official acts of the Quartermaster-
General hcrc-Gcn. Meigs-is: in the
last degree, TN ust
Probably money may have been in u
diciously expended in the Western De-
partmcut-po>sibly one tenth as much as
has been wasted in the Department of
the Potomac though | hope not. But
| shall not tresp pass on you, if you print
this letter, any extended defence Of Free
mont. lie will speak for himself. Suf-
flee it to say without making any cata
logue of names, that amongst those 10
the House who sympathizc with him, and
who state openIy they have not lost con-
fid"ncc in him as a man. as General, or
AS Patriot, are Speaker Grow, Thadde
US Stevens, chairman Of the Committee
on Ways and Means, and the leader OF
the Housc John f Potter, Chairman
of the Committee on Public Ladds John
Covode, Chairman of the Committee on
Public Expenditures; G. B. Sedgwick,
Chairman of the Committee on Nava
Affairs-nanes which | allude to, no,
because they are better than scores ol
others, but because they are widely
known to your readers. trust you who
"know me intimately, VIII GO me the
justice to believe tha. never deserted as sar.
sity and that l never hesitated at the
expression of my convictions, in or out
of Congress. We may all of us be very
deluded, but know that my opinion is
a conscientious one, and that would to
day gladly give my pay for this whole
Congress if Fremont had teen sent to
Port Royal instead of Sherman.
Let me add, that if there should be
Fremont debate here, you will probably
have to look to the Globe for it. and not
to the telegraph. A debate on Tuesday,
in which Col Shank, cf Indiana. Zone of
Fremonts al Is in Missouri), VIM Nor.
ris Davis, Of Pa, and the writer hereof.
participated on one side, aad Col Blair
on the other side of the controversy, was
not alluded to in the Congressional pro
ceedings tclcGraphed from here to the
associated press North and West.
Yours truly,
SCHUYLER CoLFAX