Identifier: frmont49storyo00dell (find matches)
Title: Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935
Subjects: Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Discoveries in geography Explorers
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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pansion of slavery; by the extreme aboli-tionists as one who would immediately rend the shacklesand decree Emancipation. The former, and indeed all hisopponents, found no charge too reckless, no lies or slanderstoo despicable, for their presentation. Seldom has a cam-paign been marked by more wretched mud-slinging asit is called, though all the candidates themselves weredignified. Besides Lincoln, many men later prominentin the Union cause took the stump for Fremont. Amongthese was Whitelaw Reid, then editor of the Xenia (Ohio)News. The enthusiasm for Fremont was, of course, confined tothe northern, non-slave States, and even there largely to oneclass, for the Democrats of that section of the Republichad not yet found themselves unequivocally on the sideof anti-slavery and the Union, as they so admirably did afew years later. But at the same time, it is certain that For letter of acceptance dated July 8, 1856, see Bigelows Life, p. 456et seq. ^Editorial New York Herald, July 13, 1856.
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