Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-04-04
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the hte and character OF Col. FREMoN
from the Cleveland Herald. He is the Her
aids candidate for President:
1--WE give below a mcagre sketch of tn
eventful and heroic life Of this man, who
still in the prime of his days.
We expect to draw from Conrressiona
records and other sources, many facts con
nected with his efforts for Freedom in Cali
fornia, which viii show how soon any mar
who betrays predictions in favor of Free
dom over Slavery is a marked man, and t.
what base means the friends Of Slavery will
descend to crush such a man. ~
FREMONT, JOHN CHARLss, the "Path6n.
der Of the Rocky Mountains man who
has opened to America the gates of her Pa
cifc empire, was born in South Carolina
January, 1918. His father was an emf
grant gentleman from France, aud his mo-
ther lady of Virginia. He received a
good education, though left an orphan at
four years of age; and when at the age Of
seventeen he graduated at Charleston Col
lege, he still contributed to the support Of
his mother and her children. From teach
ING mathematics he turned his attention to
civil engineering, in which he made so great
proficiency that he was recommended to
the government for employment in the Mis-
sissippi survey. He was afterwards en-
ployed at Washington in constructing maps
of that region. Having received the COM
mission of a lieutenant Of engineers, he pro-
posed to the Secretary of War to penetrate
the Rocky Mountains. His plan was ap-
proved, and in 1912, with handful of men
he reached and explored the South Pass
He not only fixed the locality of that great
pass through which myriads now press their
way to California, but be desaed the astron-
onny, geography, botany, geology, and mc-
teorology of the country, and described the
route since followed, and the poiuts from
which the flag of the Union is now flying
from chain of wilderness fortresses. His
report was printed BY the Senate, transla-
ted into foreign languages, and Fremont
was looked on as one Of the benefactors of
his country. Impatient of other and broad
er fields, he planned new expedition to
the distant territory of Oregon. He ap-
preached the Rocky Mountains by new
line, scaled the summit south of the South
pass, DETECTED to the Great Salt Lake, and
pushed his examinations right and left along
his entire course. He connected his survey
with that of Wilkes Exploring Expedition,
and his orders were fulfilled. But he had
opened one route to Columbia, and he
wished to find another. There was a vast
region south of this line invested with fab
ulous interest, to which he longed to apply
the test of exact science. It was the be-
ginning of winter. Without resources, ad-
eouate supplies, and so much as a guide,
and with only twenty-five companions, he 1
turned his face and made toward the Rocky |
Mountains. Then began that wonderful |
filed with romance, daring and |
in which he was lost to the world
nine months, traversing $4,000 miles in
sight of eternal SHOWS, in which he revealed
The grand features Of Alta California, its
great basin, the Sierra Nevada, the valleys
Of San Joaquin and Sacramento, revealed /
lhe real El Dorado, and established the pc
,graphy of the Western portion of the con-
tinent. In August, 1874, he was again in
and his fame was sealed. He /
vas planning third expedition while writ
no history of the second, and before its
publication in Is45, was agaiu on his way
o the Pacific, collecting his mountain com
AIDES, to examine in detail the Asiatic slope
# the continent which resulted in giving a
lew volume of science to the world, and
Jaliforna to the United States. After the
onquest Of California, in which he bore a
1art, he was made the victim of quarrel
f two American commanders, and stripped
# his commission by court-martial The
President reinstated him, but Fremont
would not except mercy but demanded
ustice. His connection with Government
low ended. He was a private citizen and
poor mar. He had been brought from
california prisoner, where he had been
Explorer, conqueror, peace maker and gov
rnor. He determined to retrieve his hon
z on the field where he had boen rob
ed Of it. One line moro would COM
'lete his survey, the route for great road
tu0 A4lSSISSlppl 70 San L HfduclSCO, A8'tlH
e appeared in the far West. His old
fiocked around him, and with
men and one hundred and thir-
y-threc mules he started for the Pacific {
N the Sierra San Juan all his mules and s
1ore than one-third of bis men perished in
more than Russian cold; and Fremont ar
wed on foot at Santa Fe, stripped of all but {
fe. The men of the wilderness knew Ere {
iont; they re6tted his expedition; he start
d again; pierced the country of the fierce :
nd remorseless A paches; met, awed or de- K
,ated savage tribes; and in hundred days
God on the banks of the Sacremento.- II
he men of California reversed the judg- {
lent of the court-martial, and Fremont was
lade first Senator Of the Golden State.
Synopsis of the New Tax Law.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
stts, gives the following synopsis of the 8
Iew tax law, which, our readers arc aware,
as passed both branches of the Legisla-