Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-03-20

Fremont went down to the boat in Q car.
riage and four. My friend did not speak
of it. but the charge has Teen in circulation
all over the country. Now the facts in
relation to that matter are Just these. -
learned at ST. Louis. His friends. without
his knowledge. when the expeditio was
ready to start, brought a carriage and four
to his house for him to ride down to the
boat in. When Frem ont came 20 the
door and saw it. he positively refused to
ride in it. preferring to walk to the levee
or to go in an ordinary carriage. But his
friends told him it had been said that hs
dare rot show himself to the people for
fear of being assassin ated, and It was ne
cessary he should go down to the boat as
publicly as possible. in order to show that
there was no truth in the rep ort; and there
rpop Fremont consented to enter the car
riage. and this was added to the charges
against him.
have heard great deal, too-and the
Honse will pardon me for these digressions,
as few incidental points strike my mind
while spesking-about costly $4,000
house which he hired in ST. Louis for him.
house. and so has my friend from st. Lou
is. FOR at one time both he and / were able
to pass its "barricades Other generals
and other officers have found that they
musr exclude most Of the thousand visit
crs desiring to see them. il they wished to
attend to their grave and responsible trusts;
but from one end to the other Fremont
was denounced for these barricades. I
found ont this in regard to that celebrated
house: that the officers crowded into that
one house. where they were at the instant
call of the commanding general. no time
lost in sending messengers from one Office
to another, but all under the same roof,
and the telegraph with them. would, If
they had been in separate quarters. have
been allowed under the Army regulations.
Sc. 400 for quarters. Fremont paid sc. 900
year for this house, and yet he has been
denounced for that as an evidence of his
reckless extravaganza.
There is another thing to which wish
to refer before leave these minor points.
When / got to St. Louis at one time.
heard great many sneers about Fremont
having ordered 500 tons OF ice. and about
the glorious time he and his staff would
have with their sherry cobblers. DC. on
their march to southwest Missouri.
made inquiry about it, and found that il
was on a requisition from the surgeon that
this ice was supplied. 1t was not to sc-
company the army, but to be used in the
hospitals along the railroad, where the
sick were suffering. and to which the
wounded. after battle, would, If possible,
have to be brought 1t made my heart
bleed to think that the general command
ing shoald be denounced for this. In some
Of the Indiana regiments. my own fellow
citizens, for whose sufierings in the field
and the hospital have felt deeply. nearly
half the men were lying sick from fevers
contracted BY malaria and exposure. and
waters Of the Missouri. After they went
into hospital, and drank the same water
they continued sick. One regiment. the
22d. had majority in the hospital from
the malaria and the drinking Of this water.
The surgeons asked for ice for hospital
purposes. for the sick and suffering men
who had gone out to fight. to suffer and to
die. if needs be. for their country. And
for yielding to that. and showing, as he
always has. a deep solicitude for the men
under his Command. Fremont was denoun-
ced in ST. Louis and all over the country.
Let the denunciations go on. The brave
men whose parchcd lips were thus cooled
will not forget the man who has been thus
condemned for this additional act Of ''ex-
travagance."
But. Mr.. Chatham, / have no time 70
examine and explain all the charges
''thick as the leaves in vallombrosa"-
which have been made against him. The
balance. or most of them at least, are of .
piece with those to which have slladed.
let them all pass.
THE sADDEsT DAYS IN MISSOURI.
My friend says that the hundred days"
of Fremont were the saddest days for ell
the loyal persons in Missouri that they had
seen. | differ with him in that. Thsre
was sadder day for them than those. Il
was after Fremont was deposed. after this
army that had gone forth with banners
and music to southwestern Missouri. and
the enemy fleeing before them, took up its
line Of march back to the line of the rail-
road, and the more densely populated set
Elements. The people Of southwestern
Missouri, who. in the exuberance of their
zeal. when they saw the stars and stripes
borne by Fremont's army. had clspPsd
their hands with Joy, and proclaimed them
selves for the Union-these men from the
very heights of confidence and hope, wsrs
/ plunged into the very valley of despondsn-
cy by this forward movement being chang
ed into retreat. And when the arnt
took up its backward march, they. know
ing what fate they might expect 10 meet
from the vengeance of the rebel hordss of
Price-the halter. the prison. outrage and
robbery. tyranny and spoliation-ollow-
ed that army, with their sorrowing fsmi-
lies. in ~ad procession. back to St. Louis,
pennilass and homeless. when. had Free
mont not been superseded. the army would
have gone on with the banner they had
welcomed full high advanced, instead Of
coming back, and leaving al southwest
Missouri to be ravsged BY traitors. untl
three months afterwards more fortunate
general led another army over the same
route that Fremont had :rodden. and On
the same mission. No. sir; that was the
saddest day that the loyal men of Missouri