The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Fremont and Halleck.

‘ As this war proceeds it involves a diversity of ideas and principles in the great ‘ "band"’ which is fighting for the Union. The South is tolerably homegeneins; the North is actuated by motives as diverse and various as those which actuated the leaders of the Holy Alliance. But there was no difference between the Czer and Pressian King as wide as that which separates Halieck from Fremont. The latter is, indeed, favored above all men, because he is an incarnation of faith to millions--‘"the substance of things hoped for-- evidence of things not seen"’--so he is fated and besworded and berhymed, because he represents an undeveloped idea. When he was removed from his command the officers of one of his regiments assembied and voted that he was a good General and ought not tobe removed. To Americans, save those in the regular army, that proceeding does not appear remarkable. Just imagine the officers of a regiment of Zonaves passing similar resolutions when Canrober: was superged so by Pelissier, or those of a Highland regiment acting in the same way when Sir Coin Campbell was passed over by General Godrington! A peculiar people indeed! A very great people, too, with a future on this continent, which, if not exactly that the phrenzied fights of their crators, when they expaliate before King But kum ( Bunenmbe) would make it, must be grand and prosperous.

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