The life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and his narrative of explorations and adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California / the memoir by Samuel M. Smucker.

  • John C. Frémont
Date:
1856
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Credit: The life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and his narrative of explorations and adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California / the memoir by Samuel M. Smucker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ed, august, and deliberate political bodies that ever convened in this country. Nor was be the choice of a majority only. With a unanimity as general as it was marked and hearty, was he selected ; and the selection is responded to with a zeal and enthusiasm scarcely paralleled in our political annals. Why is this so? It is believed the following pages will furnish the solution. His Memoir, exhibiting his personal characteristics, will show the remarkable vigor of his mind—the astonishing rapidity with which he mastered any subject to which his attention was direct- ed, the resolute and unyielding perseverance with which he pursued every enterprise, and the unvarying success which has thus far attended his career. IIis Narative of Adventures and Explorations, written in the dis- charge of a professional trust, and before he had any political aspirations, will be found to corroborate and strengthen the impressions made by the Memoir. It will show him brave, resolute, watchful, patient of toil, securing obedience and order under the most trying circumstances—persevering, like a second Columbus, in the face of dangers, difficulties, and privations, to the glorious consummation of every trust committed to him. May his past be the true augury of his future. As with his own hand he planted our national banner on the summit of the Kocky Mountains, that it might wave over the millions of freemen soon to inhabit their eastern and western slopes, so may the same hand plant the same banner upon the flag-staff of our national capital, to wave a signal of protection over every acre of our national domain.
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