The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-12
Fremont Looming Up at Last.

| new levy from the North to fill their places.
Fremont Looming UP at Last.
Fremont has done something at last. He
has found his way out Of the mountains, and,
what is better still, he has whipped the renown-
| ed Stonewall Jackson in his retreat out Of the
valley Of the shenandoah, in which he held SO
brief and brilliant a carnival. Had the Path
finder entered the valley by the southern end,
at Harrisonburg, ,as he was ordered, instead
of going the wrong way, he might have cap
| tured the whole of the rebel chieftain's force.
But, though Jackson made good his retreat, he
was considerably crippled in various ways
particularly by the loss of the famous Ashby,
and Fremont deserves great credit for fight
and victory at last. He has retrieved the
| disgrace brought upon our arms by the rout
of Banks, and the discoverer of California looms
up large once more for the Presidency, whilst
the Massachusetts, general has lost his chance
through the aid of his friends from the same
State He is little too conservative for them.
Fremont is the man they delight to honor.
After his unfortunate .fasco in Missouri, which
induced the President, in obedience to the popu-
y,
radicals put their heads together to devise the
ways and means of retrieving for Fremont his
lost ground in another field. By the same in
auence which procured for him the second
major generalship in the regular army, and
such wide latitude of action in the West,
they had him appointed to another command
that of Rosecrans, in Western Virginia. He was
to uts;~ nd o;I
beautiful stroke of satire on the part of the
President to thus dispose of the Explorer of
the Rocky Mountains. But by the continuance
of his radical friends, a large number of men
was subsequently placed at his disposal, and
the division Of Banks and the commands of
other generals were deprived Of troops intend
ed for them in order to swell his force. Every
men in the mountains, where the enemy had
few or no troops But the mystery is now ex-
planned. The radicals prepared the rout Of
Banks by causing him to be stripped of the
command of Shields, in order to have it sent
to Mcdowell. 1t required no extraordinary
sagacity to perceive that so sharp general as
Jackson would find out all about this shifting
that he would Immediately take advantage of
it and pounce upon Banks like wildcat. He
did so, and the exciting race through the valley
of the Shenandoah to the Potomac was the con-
sequence. We're it not for the bravery of the
Maryland regiment, which detained Jackson
at Front Royal for five hours, instead of quar-
ter of an hour, as he expected, neither Banks
nor any part Of his army would ever have
reached the Potomac. The disaster was all
arranged in order that Fremont might be
brought upon the stage. It is laid down by
the author Of the cart Of Poetry" as a fixed
canon not to be departed from
Nee Deus intersit, nis dignus vndics nodus.
Let not deity make his appearance unless
the difficulty be SO great that it requires to be
solved by such deliverer. The difficulty is
created designedly that Fremont, the avenger,
might appear at the critical moment. Jackson
threatened both Washington and Baltimore, and
terrible panic ensued. Fremont steps on the
stage from behind the mountains, and, presto,
change, Jackson disappears. Had the fifteen
thousand men sent to Mcdowell, who did not
want them, remained with Banks, Jackson
would not have dared to enter the valley from
which he had been driven or had the thirty or
thirty-fve thousand men given to Fremont
been added to the army of Mcclellan, he would
have been in Richmond long ago, and that with
out half his present loss. But the programme
Of the radicals was to cheat cClellan, Mcdowell
and Banks, and make Fremont the hero and
demi-god of the situation. Moreover, Fremont
being the senior major general, and next to
Mcclellan, should the tide Of war set in strong
ly towards that part Of Virginia, he would
outrank Banks, Shields and Mcdowell, and as
sumo command of all their troops. Such is
the plot of the radicals.
But the proper business OF the Man Of the
Mountain is to clear out the valley of the rebels
with his large army, and to hold the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad so strongly that there
can be no escape for the rebel army at Rich
mond by that route; for, whatever the radi-
Gals may intend the part performed by FIRE.
mont is, after all, but the by play Of the grand
performance. The blood shed in the valley
ever since Banks was compelled to retreat was
spilled in vain. Such battles have no decisive
results. The real drama Is being enacted near
Richmond and in the Southwest, and the two
great actors are Mcclellan and Halleck. If
Fremont plays well his role in subordination to
them, and aids in accomplishing the great end
they have in view, he may yet redeem the error
of his way in Missouri, and make some atone.
ment for the lives so needlessly lost and the
panic 30 wantonly caused by the disaster to
Banks in the valley Of Virginia.
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man, having publicly proclaimed that the prin-