The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-26
LIEUT.. COL. FREMANTLE-CHARGE OF
THE COLDsTREAM GUARDS.

the pets of the household, and Fremantl,
is their Lieutenant Colonel-a scion O
the English aristocracy, he of cours
was eminently endowed with all tn
prejudices of his caste against the pie
bean institutions of America, and earl,
enlisted his warmest sympathies in tn,
cause Of the Confederacy. He VISITED
America during the struggle, entering
the United States unauthorizedly BY
crossing the Rio Grande, and left just
after the battle of Gettysburg by way OF
New York. He wrote a book-what
Englishman does not write book p
which book Is filed with the most full
some praise, nauseating flattery and in
tense adulation of everything he saw,
heard, or experienced in the South, and
the most vulgar, lOw-bred and malig-
nant abuse OF the Yankees, their insti-
tutions, peculiarities, government, Off
GERS and soldiers. Relating all the stale
talsehoods of American cowardice and
cruelty, which the press of Richmond
was SO ready at manufacturing to order
during the war, and with which its col
umns daily teemed.
We have the book before us now, and
no loyal man can read page in it with
out feeling a strong desire to soundly
kick Lieutenant Colonel Fremantle, and
bis entire regiment. Wonder If this
pulling churchman's mother knew he
was out--or if Her Majesty was cogniz-
ant OF the fact, that an officer of her
household troops was absent from duty
in America for the purpose of writing q
book to insult, villify and SANDER the
people of friendly nation, instead of
perfecting himself in his tactics, and
preparing to meet the Fenians at home?
We notice this impudent aristocrat and
WHISPERED toxcomb, at this time, and
recall his almost forgotten narrative of
travels to the recollection of the public,
because he has lately had the impudence
to appear again in print, as falsiher of
truth and history. He volunteers to de-
nounce as unfounded some very fair and
impartial, and truthful statements made
London Times, with regard to the treat
ment of the Union prisoners at the
South. According to the >averments of
the noble Coldstreamer, who, more blind
in his prejudices against the "bullying'
and barbarous North, and in his sympa-
thies for the modest and magnanimous
South, than even the most malignant
secessionist, holds that there never has
been an instance in history where so
great humanity was shown, as was ex-
hibited by all classes in the Confederacy
towards the Union prisoners. The con-
duet of the Southern people was, in lis
opinion, terrible rebuke to the barba-
rous cruelties practiced by the North.
The English people will, of. course,
attach great weight and Importance to
such high and honorable testimony, and
as they are glad of any excuse for dis
crediting the overwhelming evidence
that has been brought forward to estab-
iish the ill-treatment of the prisoners.
they will seize upon Colonel Fireman.
ties statements with eagerness, and be-
lieve him even in preference to tie gbc ste
OF the thirty thousand dead, Could they
rise from their graves to near witness
against their tSrturerr pu s;s own ad.
49,. ana as as ebundantly shown in
.'s "Il.''s- Fremantle, though Bril-
tish or-,cer, was as much at heart Con-
federate as if he had held commission
in theirarmies; consequently, any state
ment he has made, or may make, must
be looked upon in the same light as if
made by Wirz, or jeff. Davis himself,
and is entitled to the same credit. To
suppose that Wirz, who is trial, would
be competent witness in his own case,
or that Mr.. Davis could give an impair
tial and truthful history of the suffer-
ings experienced by the prisoners in the
South, is no more ridiculous than to
suppose that Colonel Fremantle is
worthy of belief, when he denies, in
general terms, that any unnecessary
cruelties were practiced by their keepers
upon Yankee prisoners
I1Hu VIC ttC SBuNS, o''" WV saw SA's
Coldstreamert too insignificant for furthel
notice, we would like 10 make some ex
tr acts from his delectable book, his ag
slomeratiOn of bitterness and Islander
entitled Three Months in the South
ern States" and published at Mobile
merely to prove the aninaus which i'm
pels him to defend such miscreants ant
murderers as Winder, Wirz and DICE
Turner, against the indignant denuncia
tions of the civilized world. But such
game as this Coldstreamer is not worth
the eandle-and we should have passed
him by in silence, but that some people,
who are easily appalled, by great names,
believing him to be an impartial critic,
and disinterested witness, may have
been led astray by his unblushing and
impudent denial of facts sworn to by a
thousand witnesses, each one of whom
ID more than the peer of Fremantle in
honesty and trustwortlliness.
Some rather al n pular nrocao d IN us n ava