This Would Be So If The Inquiries Made By That Committee
And Their Report Had Resulted In Any General Condemnation Of The Men
Whose Misdeeds And Peculations Have Been Exposed.
This, however, is
by no means the case.
Those who were heretofore opposed to General
Fremont on political principles are opposed to him still; but those
who heretofore supported him are ready to support him again. He has
not been placed beyond the pale of public favor by the record which
has been made of his public misdeeds. He is decried by the
Democrats because he is a Republican, and by the anti-abolitionists
because he is an Abolitionist; but he is not decried because he has
shown himself to be dishonest in the service of his government. He
was dismissed from his command in the West, but men on his side of
the question declare that he was so dismissed because his political
opponents had prevailed. Now, at the moment that I am writing this,
men are saying that the President must give him another command. He
is still a major-general in the army of the States, and is as
probable a candidate as any other that I could name for the next
Presidency.*
* Since this was written, General Fremont has been restored to high
military command, and now holds rank and equal authority with
McClellan and Halleck. In fact, the charges made against him by the
committee of the House of Representatives have not been allowed to
stand in his way.
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