The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-06-09
]. G.. Fremont First Candidate in
the Field.

ed-a motley crew Of original abohtionists OF
Abbey Kelley-Foster Parker Pilsbury School,
and pretended war Democrats, who have been
loud in their professions of zeal for the
vigorous prosecution of the war for the sup
preston of the rebellion, but who have new
er done anything but find fault and grum
bic at every measure Of the administration
for that purpose. These men, urged on,
and countenanced by the most unmitigated
copperheads, and rebel sympathizers, such as
the editors of the Milwaukee Meas, Chicago
Times, New York World and ''last, though
not least" the Richmond EBqujrer-
self appointed, and not the representative
of any portion of the people-make up the
constituency from whom JohnC. Fremont
has accepted the nomination for the Presi-
dency. He has deliberately accepted the
position of standard bearer of the fanatics
and political soreheads and enemies of his
country and thereby absolved the great mass
of the Republican party, who have been his
real friends, from all fealty and loyalty to
him or his cause. We have yet to learn that
there was an original Fremont man, who
supported the pathfinder" 1856, in the
convention. On the contrary it was filled
with, and engineered from the start, by the
very men who most bitterly hated him and
most strenuously opposed his election. They
have taken him up now, " not that they
love Fremont" more, but that they hate
Lincoln more. The same feeling that indu
ced Fremont to accept the nomination, induc-
ed his most bitter enemies to forego their dis
like and nominate him-they thought he
could damage the Union cause, and thus indi-
rectIy aid the Copperheads, more than any
other man; hence they nominated him. Ere
mont, as he says in his letter of acceptance,
was induced to the self-immolation, solely by
the hope of defeating Lincoln. We must con-
TESS to bitter disappointment in our estimate
of the man, when we read Mr.. Fremont's let
ter accepting the nomination, the concluding
portion of which we give in another column.
We were an original Fremont man in '56.
Through the columns of the Telegraph we
labored for him as we never labored for
any other man, before or since. We labor
ed for him then as we shall labor against
him now-for the good of our country-tor
the cause of constitutional liberty, and for
the preservation and perpetuation Of Republi-
can institutions. These we believe to be
before and paramount to all personal con-
siderations, whether of love or hate.
The letter Of Mr.. Fremont conditionally
accepting the Cleveland conv ention, is in
dicative. The nomination is accepted in
the same spirit that it was made-soeIy on
the ground Of personal hostility to President
Lincoln, and determination to defeat his
election if again nominated. The real good
of the country had little to do with the
action of the convention and even less, it
would SEEM with the action of the nominee.
We regret the action of Fremont now more
on his own account than from any fear we
have that his nomination will have any effect
on the result of the coming election in
November next. If our own city and county
is any criterion to judge by, his nomination
and acceptance, will tend to unite and
strengthen the real friends of the Union in
stead of distracting and weakening them.
After an exciting canvass III 1856, when
the democ racy were in their zenith of power
/ two thirds of the electoos of Kenosha County
held high position in the affections of the
Republican party but we do not believe he
will receive more than twenty five votes in
the county, with President Lincoln and the
candidate of the Chicago convention in the
field, and not one half of that number will
| be friends of his who voted for him in 1856
The reason is plain. Those old friends of
his were and are intensely loyal intensely
devoted to the cause of the Union and the
armies of the republic nobly fighting It's
battles and many Of them have sealed their
patriotism with their hearts blood. They
will allow no personal admiration, nor per-
sonal dislike to stand between them and
their country. They believe in Abraham
Lincoln-they believe in his entire honesty
of purpose-his patriotism and devotion to
the country-and to the constitution he
has sworn to protect-they believe he is hui
man and liable to err in Judgment as other
men are-they know that he has had load
of responsibility resting upon his shoulders,
ever since he was inaugurated, greater than
was ever before laid upon the shoulder of a
President of the United States, and they
believe he has met those responsibilities with
a prudence and judgment that could only be
inspired by the fullest faith in the final tri-
umph of the Rhythm the latent power and
vigor of American principles of Free Govern :
ment resist the combined attacks Of treason
and rebellion-they bell eve that Abra-
ham Lincoln has done all that any man
could do under. the circumstances, to put
down rebellion, and preserve, in its purity
the American Constitution and the guaran
-tevd rights of the people under it, and more
than all, they believe that with years of ex-
perience added to his other qualifications,
he can do more to close up the war, by the
suppression of the rebellion and the restora-
ton of the Union and with it the blessings
of Peace, than any other mau in this nation.
Believing this, the friends of the Union
the men who once voted for Fremont-will