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1 Fremont's Romanism Established, Acknowledged by Archbishop Hughes 1 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/fromest0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FREMONT'S RDMANISM ESTABLISHED. ACKNOWLEDGED BY ARCHBISHOP HUGHES. HOW FREMONT'S NOMINATION WAS BROUGHT ABOUT. Hughes, Seward, Fremont, and the Foreigners-a most foul coalition. We have linked together the names of Bishop Hughes, Wm. FT. Seward,'and John C. Fremont, and charge upon this trio a most fbul coalition, a coalition which was projected'in the city of Washington by the Seward-politicians, the friends and advisers of Fremont, and the agents of Bishop Hughes, during the past s'Pring, and which has been covered tip, concealed, and hidden from the people until its consummation was realized, their mutual pledges to each other fulfidled, and the object for which it was concocted seemed almost within their grasp. For months past the Republican leaders have been accustomed to as- semble, night after night, in their rooms in that rity; and there discuss the merits and prospects of their various aspirants for the presidency, and to ar- range the details of the campaign. Among these political tricksters and Garrison Abolitionists, Seward had many enthusiastic admirers, Chase had his friends, McLean his supporters, Banks his lukewarm followers, and here and there was a Haleite. Th)se were the five prominent aspirers for the normination .by the Philadelphia Re- publican Convention, which finally chose for its standard-bearers, Fremont -and Dayton. Seward was tire choice of the majority of the Republicans who nightly assembled in that city. He was regarded as the'founder of this-fac- tion, the genuine exponent of its principles, and as the fittest bearer of its flag, which was to be Unfurled throughout the north. The elements of his strength con-isted in the nnion of the Abolitionists and the Foreigners under the lead of Bishop Hughes, and for a while his nomina- tion seemed certain, but the state elections of Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and various municipal elections throughout the north, demon- strated so clearly the strength of the North American vote, and so clearly the utter hopelessness ofc;irrying Mr. Seward unless this American vote could be in- veigled into the support of the Republican nominee, that he (Seward) was aban- doned because of his anti-Americnu sentiments, and his known affiliation with Arclihishop Hughes. The Retpublicans had earnestly desired a union of the Abolitionists, Poreigne I, and Americans north. Without a union in these elements, in opposition to the ruling dynasty, they could not hope for success, and that union upIon Seward being impossible, he wasabandoned. Then came Chase. He was the governor of the great state of Ohio, and in the eleetiott which had terminated in his success there had been a perfect union of the Abolitionists and Foreigners, with a large portion of the Ohio Americans under, the lead of Thomas H. Ford. Upon him for a time the union of these elements seemed practicable; but when it becatme perfectly understood that Chase was a violent opponent of American doctrineg, and that the Ohio Americans had been inveigled into his support by that arch trickster and political game-player, Thomas H. Ford, and

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