Weekly Indiana State Sentinel

Make Room for Bennett Again.

Bennett is, in many things, a most infamous scoundrel, but he manages somehow to make his scoundrelism and his interest run in the same current. His interest now is to elect Fremont; consequently he will do or say nothing that can lessen or injure his prospects. Whatever he says, therefore, in connection with his candidate for the Presidency, is to be regarded as good evidence in the hands of his opponents.

Having said this much, we wish to call attention to the monstrous fabrications that are got up by political knaves and palmed off upon an unsuspecting public as truthful biographies of Fremont. Speaking of these, the Herald says:

The so-called lives of Fremont, with one exception, are execrable; they are beyond example the most atrocious attempts at murder that we have ever seen in the way of biography. There has been one written by a Mr. Bigelow, and another by a Mr. Upham. We have looked into these volumes, and really cannot conceive that it would be possible to produce anything more calculated to injure and weaken the candidate. Bigelow dives into the most absurd and ridiculous researches, raking and scraping up all sorts of private matters, apparently for the purpose of giving material to the enemy; for the very events upon which have been based at least one-half the personal assaults which have been directed against Colonel Fremont, have been first given in this book. Blockheads should never be politicians, particularly among an intelligent-thinking people like those of this country.

Upon this exposure of the Herald, the Ohio Statesman makes the following sharp and pithy comment:

That these lives, hunting into the unexplored and unexplorable private history of Fremont and his parents, have been the cause of the many articles in the public papers, aiding in the mysterious hunt after an untarnished history, is most true, and why not. If it were necessary to start up the indecent question of run-aways, of births, of divorces and marriages in Fremont's history by his own biographers, it was but natural that others should seek also to aid in the commendable exploration into the indelicate love scenes, of both the dead and the living!