‘"like Master, like Man."’
--The ferocious and blood thirsty proclamation of
Fremont is in keeping with the character of the man who is said to be personally a miserable coward.
All cowards are truculent and cruel.--The spirit of the man is in entire keeping with the savageness of the proclamation.
He hates the
South with a personal bitterness more profound and rancorous even than that of
Gen. Scott The illegitimate son of
Mrs. Pryor, of
Richmond, by a French fiddler, cannot be expected to bear much love to a section familiar with the antecedents of his illustrious house and himself.
Fremont's brutal
Provost Marshal in
St. Louis,
Col. Justus McKinstry who, we observe, has been lately promoted to
a Brigadier Generalship, is, if possible, a greater poltroon than
Fremont.
When the late
Gen. Weightman who fell gallantly fighting at the recent battle in
Missouri, was a young
Cadet at
West Point, a rencontre occurred between him and a big bully of a senior class, this same
McKinstry in which the latter received a most humiliating lesson, one of the scars of which on his face, he is likely to carry to his grave.
A few years ago, a Kentucky gentleman, who met
McKinstry in the
West, was informed by this doughty warrior that he received the scar in the
Mexican war!
This incident sufficiently illustrates the character of the man. The truth is, he never performed a single action in the
Mexican war which was chronicled by the press, except eating a dinner which
Santa Anna left behind in his carriage on one of his sudden escapes.
Such are the men who are now playing the despots over the gallant people of
Missouri!
