Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-27
An IntervIew with Fremont---HIs
From the St. Louis Nsue Zelt-Germau


From the st. Louis Nsue Zelt-GermAn
The Boston Pioneer Ia German paper)
states that Mr.. HeinZen editor of the Pio-
nser) and Wendell Phillips had recently,
upon the invitation of Fremont, an inter-
view With the latter OF his villa on the
peninsula of Nahant, near Lynn, Massa-
chuse it's, where the family of Fremont are
accustomed to spend the summer. The
object of the interview was OF course po-
litieal one, and the design was to discuss
and regulate with the General several
points of the radical democratic confess
sion of faith, which may be represented as
obscure or undetermined.
Mr.. Heiuzen gives in the Pioneer detail
ed account of this interview, which, at the
present stage of the electoral campaign is
of great interest, and of which we there
fore give the substance. The Pioneer says;
We premise that both we and MIR. Wen
dell Phillips left no question undiscussed,
that we expatiated without reserve on all
questionable subjects, and that no false
delicacy deferred US from giving TO FIRE.
mont an opportunity to declare himself on
all points against which the enemies OF
tie party direct their attacks, and which
leave its friends in uncertainty.
The result of this Interview, which last
ed four hours, was, that phillips and my
self\ left Mr.. Fremont, both the man and
the candidate for the Presidency, fully sat
isfied, and that we felt the confidence which
we had formerly put in him doubled rather
than weakened.
/. Relate to the RsJels-(with regard
to this point we remarked that he had
omitted to maintain and emphasize in his
letter the position which he had assumed
in Missouri, aud that there was conspic-
90
and the lengthy reference to the violations
of the law by Liucoln.) Fremont presup-
poses his position in this respect to be so
well known that he regarded it, he said,
unnecessary to recur to it more fully, es-
pecially when he declared himself as fully
agreed with that paragraph of the plat
form which demands the suppression of the
rebellion by force of arms and without
compromise. II was principally the I'M
opposed violations of the law by Lincoln
and his ministers which caused him to fear
for the republic, which ia this way lost
her consciousness, while simultaneously
was morally undermined by the most IN
precedented corruption. A republic, IN
general could never gain by war like
this; but if in addition, such arbitrary acts
of the government were allowed to pass
without the most determined opposition
sides these arbitrary acts, the administra-
ton of Lincoln had now brought it about
that we stand alarmed before the question
whether the republic can be bought. The
reelection of Lincoln had wholly become
a question of money. Fremont therefore
considered i. prime necessity TO stir up
again the peoples consciousness of right,
and thus to capacitate it to save the re-
public.
II. Relative to the Slavery Question:
"There must be no cessation nor rest until
slavery is extirpated to the last root"
III. Relative to the Rights of Negroes
The negroes ought to have all the rights of
the whites. The word white must disap-
pear from the laws and constitutions
1.-THE absolute equality of all men before
the law" according to Phillips, the gem of
the platform) was exhausting the question.
w, The ConfScdtion QueStion.-Fremont
knows the condition and character of the
South from personal observation and expe
rience. He msiatains that with the para
graph of the c evelsud platform as it now
reads no one would be able to effect a re-
construction of the South. The paragraph
did not speak of confscstion of the lands of
only the leaders of the rebellion, but, in
general, of the rebel lands, and it must,
therefore, be regarded as a measure of rev.
enue. Ii must have also the effect to in
flame all the rebels to the utmost resistance,
and make them irreconcilable. Thus con-
strued, it must forever produce the most
unlaVorable prejudice against party which
wished to attempt reconstruction of
States with population from which they
had taken all their property of land. For
these reasons he had regarded it necessary
to migrate the impression of this paragraph
and by his declaration to point to its pos
sible effect. 1t confiscation was to be lin
tied to the chief culprits, the leaders, he
agreed to it.
v. The Relation to the Democrats. Not
only on account OF the disgraceful relations
to foreign countries and the arbitrariuess
and corruption at home, but also on ac-
count of its total inability to restore the
South to the Union, even at the greatest
sacrifice, the administration of Lincoln is
the ruin of the country, and its removal
the chief object upon which everything
else is contingent. Fremont is of opinion
that prolongation of the administration
of Lincoln would be followed by the in.
dependence of the South, which, in turn,
would be followed by the secession of the
West from the East, aud the downfall of
the republic. 10 view, therefore, OF the
immense Importance of the removal of
Lincoln from Washington, and in view of
the immense power which the possession
and the employment of all the means of
the nation places at his disposal, the most
important point is, 10 unite against him
all the elements which are available for
the salvation of the republici and for such
union the democratic element furnished
the largest contingent. At such union,
denial and Remuneration of the platform,
Or in general the principles of freedom,
was out of the question. Let us show to
the people who are attached to the demo-
cratic party the Importance and necessity
of union in this time of danger; let US at
the same time declare, openly and firmly,
our aims aud principles, and let US reach
out to them the hand If they share our
sentiments. Should the abandonment of
convictions and principles be demanded,
we remain true to them at every risk. "If