Annals of Cleveland

Fremont, General John C.

Abstracts: 26

614

Cleveland Morning Leader, 30 May 1864 (ed; 5 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

614 - L. May 30; ed: 2/2 - The time draws near for the Baltimore convention,
and the people are universally for Lincoln. "Copperhead" newspapers every-
where are boosting Fremont and knocking Lincoln. "The army of the Union at
the front and the army of the Union at the North are one and undivisible.
The one will triumph over rebels in arms, the cther over Copperheads every-
where." (5)

Elections, Campaigns and Candidates / United States

Index terms:

Baltimore, Md.; Fremont, General John C.; Lincoln, Abraham; Republican convention (Baltimore); Union

617

Cleveland Morning Leader, 4 June 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

617 - L June 4; ed: 1/1 - The Chicago TIMES says that if Mr. Lincoln is
nominated at Baltimore, such is the disgust felt by his party towards him
that it is probable the presidential race in Ohio will be between the Dem-
ocratic nominee and Fremont.
"Now in opposition to this the coolest of cool assumptions, we put our
prediction upon record, that General Fremont, even if an electoral vote
for his support is formed, will not poll 5,000 votes in the State of ยบ
(3)

Elections, Campaigns and Candidates / United States

Index terms:

Baltimore, Md.; Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; Fremont, General John C.; Lincoln, Abraham; Ohio

670

Cleveland Morning Leader, 24 September 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

670 - L. Sept. 24; ed:2/1 - With General Fremont's resignation, the arena
of politics is now occupied by two individuals, Lincoln and McClellan.
Fremont declares that the reason Lincoln did not keep the North united
is because he did not smite slavery as frequently and powerfully as
Fremont thinks he might have done.
"Lincoln's Administration has been a success by reason of that care-
ful policy which he has pursued, and by which slavery will become a dead
thing never to be revitalized in the South." (11)

Elections, Campaigns and Candidates / United States

Index terms:

Fremont, General John C.; McClellan, George B.; North; South

1353

Cleveland Morning Leader, 5 April 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1353 - L Apr. 5; ed: 2/1 - The NEW NATION, a new newspaper started in
behalf of Fremont, has a Washington correspondent. Like most of the
Bohemians who write from the capital of the country, he occasionally
endeavors to render his lucubrations somewhat spicy by means of a new
sensation. This man informs the readers of the NEW NATION "that great
events are seething in Washington and are ready to burst to the light
the instant the people move." -
a
LEADER:
"The NEW NATION is quite orphic in its style. Possibly it intends
to have the public understand that the PATHF INDER is to have a grand
ovation of Congressional applause which is to come forth as an unpre-
cedented outburst! By hanging around the ante-rooms of politicians
and eavesdropping the sagacious gentlemen whom the people send to Wash-
ington as their servants, this sensational writer has discovered that
the strength of Mr. Lincoln in the country at large, is a wind bag that
needs only to be punched to collapse. After this revelation we shall
be looking for the inauguration of a punching campaign.
"In the meantime let the nation watch with all commendable diligence
until this atmospheric phenomenon shall duly take place. We should like
to see politicians properly stimulated, even unto legislative wisdom.
But we would rather forego the startling military disaster than to have
an unprecedented outbursst from Washington. The latter can be survived;
the former may prove disastrous." (11)

Newspapers

Index terms:

Cleveland LEADER; Fremont, General John C.; Lincoln, Abraham; NEW NATION, THE (newspaper); PATHFINDER, THE (periodical); Washington, D. C.

1392

Cleveland Morning Leader, 17 September 1864 (5 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.4 ~ View at ChronAm

1392 - L. Sept. 17:2/4 - In a letter to the editor, E. Cluseret says
that three individuals without means, proposed to publish his newspaper,
NEW NATION, under certain conditions. They did not fulfill them and
created debts ruining the newspaper. Then they declared that the news-
paper belonged to them. Was this rational? "I am a very unimportant
personage in comparison with Mr. Fremont, who has boasted to me that he
could stop the course of justice for five years in New York in his own
favor; but I doubt if he can stop that of public opinion." (5)

Newspapers

Index terms:

Cluseret, E.; Fremont, General John C.; NEW NATION, THE (newspaper); New York

1511

Cleveland Morning Leader, 24 March 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

1511 - L. Mar. 24; ed:2/2 - "According to present indications there will be
four conventions within a few months.
"A convention of Union men at Baltimore, who will nominate the next
President of the United States; a convention of peace-Democrat Copperheads
at Chicago, who will nominate Wallandigham or George B. McClellan; a con-
vention of the Tammany war-Democrats, who will repudiate the whole litter
of Copperheads; and a convention at Cleveland, of fierce, uncompromising
Fremont men. These last three will not affect the decision of the Baltimore
convention, as that will represent the majority of the people both in civil
and military life." (3)

Political Parties

Index terms:

Baltimore, Md.; Chicago, Ill.; Copperheads; Fremont, General John C.; McClellan, George B.; Union; Union convention (Baltimore, Md.); Vallandigham, Clement L.

1512

Cleveland Morning Leader, 27 April 1864 (ed; 2 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1512 - L Apr. 27; ed:2/1 - The NEW NATION of New York city fondly suspects
that the lower it can put Lincoln and Grant, the higher Fremont shoots.
"Men are something, but principles are everythirg, and no man in the
country can compensate for the loss of victory by the Union party of the
land." (2)

Political Parties

Index terms:

Fremont, General John C.; Grant, Gen. U. S.; Lincoln, Abraham; NEW NATION, THE (newspaper); New York city; Union party

1575

Cleveland Morning Leader, 7 March 1864 (2 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

1575 - L. Mar. 7:4/2 - The WESTLICHE POST and the NEUEZEIT, two German
dailies in St. Louis, have advanced the name of General Fremoni for
president. An attempt to nominate him at the national convention, which
will be held in Cleveland, May 10, will be made. The movement is a
further development of the convention of radical Germans held here last
fall. (2)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Fremont, General John C.; NEUEZEIT, THE (German newspaper); St. Louis, Mo.; WESTLICHE POST, The (newspaper)

1577

Cleveland Morning Leader, 18 April 1864 (ed; 10 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1577 - L. Apr. 18; ed:2/1 - Friends of General Fremont are to hold a
convention here May 31. People in the meantime are invited to enter upon
incessant propagandism from man to man tending to convince the people
that they must rely on themselves.
"The entire strength of the Union men must be combined in order to
insure an overwhelming defeat cf all adversaries." (10)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Fremont, General John C.; Union

1579

Cleveland Morning Leader, 19 May 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1579 - L. May 19; ed:2/1 The NEW NATION, a newly-born paper and an
organ of General Fremont, is devising means to crowd the Cleveland con-
vention with people. It advises that money be collected and carloads of
poor be shipped to the convention. A placard labeled, "Fremont and the
Cleveland Convention," is issued daily in many papers.
"We find it in the New York WORLD; therefore, we will undoubtedly
find it in all other Copperhead journals in the country." (6)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Copperheads; Fremont, General John C.; NEW NATION, THE (newspaper); New York city; New York WORLD

1581

Cleveland Morning Leader, 30 May 1864 (8 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.5 ~ View at ChronAm

1581 - L. May 30:4/5 - The Clevelard convention is to meet in Cleveland
tomorrow in the interests of John C. Fremont. They have no local habi-
tation, and no organization in the city is favorable to the movement. .
Probably there will be 500 to 1,000 delegates attending. . . . . (8)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Fremont, General John C.

1584

Cleveland Morning Leader, 2 June 1864 (ed; 18 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1584 - L June 2; ed:2/1 - The "Fremont" convention held here May 31 was
given wide publicity by the Democratic press throughout the country, but
its slimness and insignificance was a surprise even to those who knew how
feeble the whole affair would be.
The authorized delegates present did not exceed 200. Of the six
or eight individuals who manipulated the convention only General Cochrane
of New York was f any national prominence. -
The state of Missouri, in which a rabid red Republicanism finds ex-
istence, virtually controlled the convention.
The object of the convention, aside from gratifying a spite toward
President Lincoln, was to affirm a more radical policy than any yet
enunciated, and to put forward a man who will carry the policy into
effect.
Mr. Foster, the special champion of radical views, was obliged to
confess in his speech Tuesday (May 29) that the Republican party holds
the same views on the subject of slavery as expressed in the Fremont
platform.
The doctrines laid down in the Fremont platform, those that are
vital, will all be substantially affirmed at Baltimore, (the Republican
convention.) Their realization will be much sooner attained by a strict
unity of the Union party, than by such a disorganizing scheme as the
one inaugurated in Cleveland.
"We have commented thus at length, not from any apprehension, ...
but from the conviction that the Copperheads... will endeavor to fan the
whole affair into importance.
"The Convention, in a word, was made up of oily politicians from
New York, impetuous, hair-brained Germans from St. Louis, several
venerable abolitionists... together with an admixture of personal friends
and parasites of Fremont, all controlled by one feeling - that of hatred
for Abraham Lincoln." - - (18)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Baltimore, Md.; Cochrane, General George; Democratic press; Foster; Fremont, General John C.; Lincoln, Abraham; Missouri; New York; Republican convention (Baltimore); Republican party; St. Louis, Mo.; Union

1585

Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 June 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1585 - L June 3; ed: 1/1 - The Chicago TIMES says that the Cleveland
Fremont convention at Chapin's hall had more than 2,000 delegates,
and followed by saying the convention hall was filled. The New York
WORLD writes that this hall will hold 3,000.
"The hall will not hold more than six hundred at the outside, and
at no time was it more than two-third full." - - (6)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Chapin's hall; Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; Fremont, General John C.; New York WORLD

1586

Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 June 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

1586 - L June 3; ed: 1/2 - The Cleveland Fremont convention was made up
of pro-slavery politicians like Cochrane, worn-out Democratic backs
like Bird Chapman, and thieving speculators like McKinstry.
They protest "love of the Union and hatred of slavery, while their
official organs, in essence as well as in appearance, are the New York
WORLD and the Chicago TIMES." (11)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Bird; Chapman; Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; Cochrane, General George; Fremont, General John C.; McKinstry, Sheriff; New York WORLD; Union

1587

Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 June 1864 (ed; 4 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1587 - L. June 3; ed: 2/1 - Article 12, Sec. 1, of the amendment of the
constitution proposed at the Fremont convention says: "The electors
shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president
and vice president, one of whom at least shall not be inhabitant of
the same state with themselves." -
"Cochrane and Fremont are both of New York, and in the event of
their carrying their own state, the electors on their ticket would have
to take their choice between the two, being constitutionally disqualified
from voting for both." (4)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Cochrane, General George; Fremont, General John C.; New York; U. S. constitution

1588

Cleveland Morning Leader, 7 June 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1588 - L June 7; ed: 2/1 - Fremont announced that in the event of the
nomination of Lincoln at Baltimore he will accept the nomination of
the Cleveland convention.
"Of course he will. The man who sent all his friends from every
quarter to the convention here to nominate him, at whose suggestion
and in whose interest it was gotten up, who paid its running expenses,
and who contrived and, by means of his tools, maraged the whole affair,
solely and entirely that he might receive the nomination, would not
be likely to refuse it." (6)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Baltimore, Md.; Fremont, General John C.; Lincoln, Abraham

1589

Cleveland Morning Leader, 10 June 1864 (ed; 5 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1589 - L June 10; ed: 2/1 - "A letter of General Fremont's accepting the
nomination of the convention, seals his political fate, and dishonors
his name."
He gratifies the Copperheads' sympathetic feeling for the Rebels by
stating that he "does not heartily concur" in that portion of the Cleve-
land platform which sets forth that "confiscation of the lands of the reb-
els, and their distribution among the soldiers and actual settlers, is
a measure of justice." (5)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Fremont, General John C.

1590

Cleveland Morning Leader, 16 June 1864 (ed; 2 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1590 - L June 16; ed: 2/1 - Fremont, in his letter of acceptance, says
nothing of continuing the war and is very guarded on the subject of
confiscation. He has already attracted the drowning Democracy. The
New York NEWS contains a letter signed "Peace Democrat," favoring the
nomination of Fremont. "It would not be at all surprising if this
should be done at Chicago." (2)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Chicago, Ill.; Fremont, General John C.; New York; New York NEWS, The

1591

Cleveland Morning Leader, 17 June 1864 (2 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1591 - L June 17:2/1 - The NEW NATION writes regarding the Fremont and
Cochrane party that there is so little difference between them and the
Democratic party, that it would be easy to adopt a common ticket.
"The NEW NATION is right in saying there is no difference between the
two parties. They are alike as two peas, as the two Dromios, or as one
body with two faces that resemble each other." (2)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Cochrane, General George; Fremont, General John C.; NEW NATION, THE (newspaper)

1592

Cleveland Morning Leader, 4 July 1864 (12 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1592 - L. July 4:2/1 - Mr. Phillips, having committed himself to the
support of Fremont, now regards it as his duty to defend the character
and work of the Cleveland convention.
Mr. Tilton of the INDEPENDENT, strongly opposed to Mr. Lincoln
before the Baltimore convention, after it, sustains him and criticizes
the men and spirit of the Cleveland Fremont convention.
Mr. Phillips felt obliged to lecture his young friend Tilton, who in
return fairly "picked Mr. Phillips to pieces" in a cutting reply.
"We regret to see a man like Mr. Phillips allowing his personal
prejudices against Mr. Lincoln so completely to warp his judgement on
questions so vital to the Republic. After this severe chastisement at
the hands of Mr. Tilton, we hope to see him converted from the error -
of his ways." (12)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Baltimore, Md.; Fremont, General John C.; INDEPENDENT (newspaper); Lincoln, Abraham; Phillips; Tilton; Union convention (Baltimore, Md.)

1686

Cleveland Morning Leader, 26 May 1864 (ed; 2 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1686 - L May 26; ed: 2/1 - Democratic members of Congress are franking
newspapers to their constituency which contains the most infamous
abuse of the President. They want General Fremont for the next Pres-
ident.
This is a genial duty, so far as the Copperheads are concerned,
but General Fremont has too great a record in the same cause of freedom
to submit to such treatment." (2)

Politics and Government / United States

Index terms:

Fremont, General John C.; Lincoln, Abraham; U. S. Congress