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The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Masonic circular. (search)
This war an anti-slavery war.
--The proclamation of Fremont by which he sets free all the slaves held by persons whom he is pleased to style "rebels"--that is, by a large majority of the Missouri slaveholders — gives entire satisfaction at Washington, and is received with ecstatic joy by the Black Republican press in all quarters of Yankeedom. --Even the New York Herald, which a few weeks ago recommended the "squelching out"of the Tribune and Times on account of their Abolition procliviti ntraband, and confiscating them as property belonging to the rebels.
Fremond and Butler both mean the same thing.
They both designed to make the war an anti-slavery war, and such it is to all intents and purposes.
It will be observed that Fremont proposes to liberate only such slaves as belong to rebels.
But, besides that the slaveholders of Missouri are nearly all "rebels" in this sense of the term, by the very act of setting free so large a body of negroes, he renders that species of
"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 p ryor, 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
The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fremont and his proclamation. (search)
Fremont and his proclamation.
The Louisville Courier, of the 2d instant, has a long and able article on the progress of despotism in Missouri, in which it thus deals with Fremont and his proclamation:
Major General Fremont, known to the country principally by his insubordination and peculations in California during the MFremont and his proclamation:
Major General Fremont, known to the country principally by his insubordination and peculations in California during the Mexican war, and as the representative of the idea of the abolition of those "twin relics of barbarism, slavery and polygamy," in the Presidential canvass of '56, has issued a proclamation in which he assumes all the administrative powers of the State, establishes martial law throughout its limits, supersedes the constitution and ciMajor General Fremont, known to the country principally by his insubordination and peculations in California during the Mexican war, and as the representative of the idea of the abolition of those "twin relics of barbarism, slavery and polygamy," in the Presidential canvass of '56, has issued a proclamation in which he assumes all the administrative powers of the State, establishes martial law throughout its limits, supersedes the constitution and civil law, confiscates property at his discretion, consigns all persons who may disregard his despotic commands to the tender mercies of a drum-head court- martial — the members of which act as persecutors, judges and jurors — and subjects his victimes to "sudden and severe" punishments at his discretion — a proclamation in which he <