Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-04-03
From the New York Indcp
GENERAL FREMONT.

General Frcmont's history seems
destined to DC romantic to the end
The idol of the people in the campaign
of 1856, he retired from notice at tho
close of it, with singular reticcncc,
and without any of the weakness COM
mon to ordinary ambition. At the
breaking out of rebellion, Mr.. Fremont
promptly returned from abroad, and
offered his services TO the country
He was at once made Major General,
and appointed to the command OF the
Western department. After few
weeks Of indiscriminatc praise, there
arose some dissent, which rapidly
swclled to blame, and then it seemed
as If a mania of misrepresentation
and fault.6nding had seized ncwspa-
pcrs and their readers.
Fremont was recalled from his COM
mand, and with discretion seldom
found in public men. maintained ST.
lence, and awaited the action Of his
Government. Called before the Com
mittce Of Congress on the Conduct OF
the War, he made Statement of his
course, and presented the letters, dis
patches, kilograms, etc, that revealed
the interior history Of his campaign.
This statement and the documents ac-
complaining were printed in full in the
New York Tribune of March 4.
No paper was more decided than the
New York World in the ccnsure which
led to Gen Fremonts recall. Nothing
can better show the change in public
opinion than the temperate and, in
the main, just remarks which the
World makes in view of this State
mcnt." There is scarcely charge OF
all the swarm that were bruited, that
is not quietly brushed away by the
Worlds admissions.
General Fremont never stood high
or in popular estimation than now.
TO all his former fame he adds the in
tcrest arising from the popular convic-
tion that he has been maligned and
mistreated. At this time no other
name carries such instant and irrcsist-
able enthusiasm with it.
1t was the misfortune Of General
Fremont to see further than his supe-
riors without being able to carry them
with him. He saw at glance the
whole field in the West. He began
to organize upon scale commensu-
rate with the real magnitude Of the
field of danger. He alarmed an Ad-
ministration, cautious and slow, that
did not see the real exigcncy of the
West and prepared it to be influence
ed by the personal and political enmi-
ties that men aimed at him.
-Four months have passed since his
suppression, and the very plans which
General Fremont sketcLed are now
prosecuted by his successor and the
policy for which he was recalled, has
Lecn adopted and carried forward to
victory.
Every thoughtful man will be apt
to say, all the success of February
might have been yet more easily gain
ed in November Halleck and Buell.
have done well with vastly augmen-
ted means, what Fremont would long
ago have done as well with incalcula-
bly, less means and expense.
ID tucIC 0uotuSi PotsubShV
could bear as we'll q searching inves-
tiGation into its expenditures, its con-
tracts, and materials, as has Gen. FIRE.
monts What mistakes were made
that have not been paralleled and
doubled on the Potomac What 9th
or name is now more uDsnllied in hon.
or for administration Of pecuniary
trusts?
1t is sign of disorder in the times
that the country may not avail itself
Of the services of those who best rep
resent its convictions and are able to
give them victory. After a careful
observation of the facts, and knowl-
edge of the history Of his administra-
ton from the first, we are prepared to
express our deliberate judgment, that,
of all the men who have been brought
forth by the times, not one has shown
so much as Fremont a natural genius
for civil and military administration
Gen. Blenker, against whom some
serious charges had been preferred,
has been restored to his command.
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