Vindication of Major General John C. Fremont : Against the Attacks of the Slave Power And Its Allies
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If he had simply been stationed with an immense force to guard ^ the city of St. Louis, as has been the case at this city, he could have fortified it as he did ■ his outposts with his soldiers, and, too, without the aid of Congress. Again : General Fremont found the commerce , and labor of the city paralyzed ; and much want and suffering; a large number of the laboring , people of St. Louis thrown out of employ, dis- 15 satisfied with the Govemnjent, because taught bj those wealthy and traitoro...us scoundrels who had furaiahed thca-i labor, but now did not, that the Government was the cause of the war aud their suffering. The labor on the barracks and fortifications furniahed employ for several thousand hands at good waj^es, and by this expenditure the minds ot many men were disabused, apd St. Louis now presents the spectacle of poor patriots and wealthy trai- tors — the entire foreign population loyal. The feud between the German and Irish element when Fremont reached St. Louis was of a character approaching an outbreak.
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