![]() IN the social disruptions of the French Revolution, many broken fortunes were replanted in America, and in the words of Chateaubriand, then himself a wanderer in our country, "the names of settlements in the United States became a touching record of the wrecks of European homes." What seemed then only an adverse stroke of fortune to those upon whom it fell, proved the establishment of many prosperous families - the seed scattered by the storm bearing a hundred fold on the rich soil of the New World.ĭuring this time, a passenger ship bound to one of the French West Indian possessions, was taken by an English man-of-war on the eve of reaching her destination. He regrets that the brief time allowed for its preparation, and the pressure of engrossing professional duties have prevented his making it less unworthy of its subject. A glance at the following pages will satisfy the most cursory observer that this is no mere eulogy, but a faithful record of the life of Colonel Fremont, prepared, if not with skill and elegance, at least with diligence and a conscientious regard for truth. Made for the partialities of political or personal friendship. To escape the suspicions, however, to which a biography of a presidential candidate is necessarily exposed, he has uniformly given official documents and contemporary evidence of the events he records, whenever it was practicalbe, that his readers may have as little trouble as possible in adjusting the measure of allowance to be The author is not conscious of having suppressed anything that ought to have been revealed, or of having stated a single fact which he did not believe to be susceptible of proof. Fremont, and the substance of every letter, report, or speech of a public character that he has written or made, having a tendency to enlighten the country in regard to his qualifications for the highest honors of the Republic. He has endeavored to lay before the reader every event in the life of Col. Under this impression he has aimed at but two results - fullness and accuracy. He felt, however, that the public were more concerned with the matter than the maner of his work, and would pardon almost anything in its execution more readily than delay. THE engrossing and universal interest recently awakened, in the subject of this memoir, by the presentation of his name as a candidate for the presidency, is the author's apology for the faults of hasty preparation, which appear in the following pages. GENIUS HE WAS AMONG THE FIRST TO DISCOVER AND ACKNOWLEDGE, Fremont Keeps Christmas Reading Blackstone. Terrific Snow Storm on the Rocky Mountains - Col. ![]() ![]() Fremont and Party, 800 Miles in Eight Days. Fremont, clasped his knees convulsively, swore eternal fidelity to him and his, and begged the privilege of fighting and dying for him". įremont's Pardon of Don Pico - "Overcome with emotion, he flung himself upon the floor before Col. Jessie Fremont, Near the Present Site of Lecompte, in Kansas.įremont Plants the American Flag on the Highest Peak of the Rocky Mountains.įremont's Dangerous Passage Through a CaÅon in the Platte River. Fremont's Encampment, Accompanied by His Wife, Mrs. ![]()
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