The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-01-11
HOUSE, OF REPRESENTATIVES, }
~ ,.-r-,- H. L.
To tie Editors oftAe Chicago Trt5Hne::

10 tie Edtt0rS of tie chicago I|tbHRe:
Your sense Of justice, and the friendly
relations that have always existed between
US. will, | trust, allow me brief space III
your columns TO correct a very great mis-
take into which your excellent and racy
Washington correspondent has fallen in his
letter published last Saturday. IT, says.
g He has searched diligently to find one stu
gle member to defend Fremont" that '.the
most he can hope from those members who
were on his staff in Missouri is entire ST.
lence,'' and that .'if Mr.. Colfax says a word
in his behalf, he will surprise those who
know him most Intimately
The fact is, members who stand by Ere
mont are numbered by the score. My be
lief as | have stated IL each of the four edi-
torials | wrote on this subject, has been
that he may have mistakenly given his con-
tidence to some men in st. Louis, who,
though men of great energy. abused his con
tidencc for their own gain; but that the
attempt to saddle on him the charges against
Mckinstrv, who, as Quartermaster at st.
Louis before he went there. and whom he
he had no more power TO remove than he has
to remove you from the editnrship of the
Tribune, and for whose acts he was no more
responsible than Gen. Mcclellan is for the
official acts of the Quartermsster General
here, General Meigs, is, in the last degree,
unjust. Probably mo- ey may have been
expended In the Western De-
psrtment- possibly one tenth as much has
been wasted in the army of the Potomac
though | hope not. But shall not tres
pass on you, if You print this letter, any
extended defense of Fremont lie will
speak for himself. Suffice it to say. with
out making any catalogue of names, that
among those in the House who sympathize
with him, and who state openly that they
have n It lost confidence in him as a man. as
4 General or as patriot, are Speaker Grow,
Thaddeus Stevens, Chairman Of the Com
mittee on WAYS and Means, and the leader
of the House; John f. Potter. Chairman OF
Public Lands; John Covode. Chairman of
Public Expenditures; c. B. Sedgwick,
Chairman of Naval Affairs-names which |
allude to, not because they are better than
scores OF others, but because they are wide
" known to your readers. trust you who
know me intimately" will do me- the JUS
tice to believe that | never deserted friend
because of public canor or adyer-ity, and
that l never hesitated at the expression of
of nv convictions, in or out of Congress
We may all OF Us be very deluded. but l
KNOW lHat my OPINION - d CtitsSlrJtlous one,
and that | would to day gladly give my pay
for this whole Congress if Fremont had
been sent to Port Royal instead Of Sherman.
Let me add tha, If there should be a FIRE. |
mont debate here, you viii probably have
10 look to the GloJe for it and not TO the
telegraph. y debate on Tuesday. in which .
Col. Shanks Of Indiana, Tone Of Fremon.'s !
lids in Missouri VIM. Morris, Of Penusvl-
7ania. and the writer hereof, participated on
me side, and Col Blair on the other side Of
he controversy, was not alluded 10 in the
proceedings telegraphed from
lere TO the Associated Press North and
south. Yours trulv.
SCHUYLER COLFAX.