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under circumstances requiring a knowledge
of international law. In December lS49, he
was elected n Senator Of the United States
and was such till March 4th, 1851, n period
of about fifteen months, and his entry into
the Senate soon demonstrated that the great
duties of that Office had been the subject of
great study and the numerous and important
measures that he introduced and advocated,
showed the wisdom and breadth of his views.
During n large portion Of his life he has
been the commander and director, as well as
the active leader, of bodies of men of iron
wills and heroic bravery, under circumstances
of great delicacy, difficulty, and danger, and
with unexampled success, demonstrating his
great executive ability.
a scholar, man of highly cultivated lite
rary tastes and of profound and various prac
tical science, ho commenced a schoolmaster
and professor of mathematics, to support his
widowed mother and his sister. Having made
a cruise of two and q half years in the Navy,
he became surveyor and engineer, and an
explorer Of Continent. He passed through
every grade of military life, from a lieuten-
ant to a commandcr-in chief. lie was the
conqueror and governor of California. Then
a Boundary Commissioner, then Il Senator of
the United States a Travelled man in will
dernesses and in courts, he is familiar with
iization, and every form of life and manners,
and his remarkable variety Of life and of cul
tiyltion have made him a gentleman accessi
BILE and acceptable to all classes of persons
When, with family on his hands, without
wealth and without friends overcome, but
not conquered, by his enemies. he was offered
his sword and his rank by the President Of
the United States, with an implied stain upon
his name and he spurned them both, and
preferred to stand alone, in conscious rccti
tude, nothing but John c. Fremont to begin
the world anew, you saw the man. Such arc
his antecedents. 1t is impossible that such Il
man, with such experience. and such ability.
| and such principle such cncrgy.Hnd such love
of true glory, should not be fit for any civil or
military office. no matter how high. But there
are antccedents which he has not. 1t is not
possible to believe that he would counsel
corrupt bargaining to secure a political clc-
vation. 1t is impossible to imagine him a
trimmer, a tine-server, II facle man to be
| kncaded, and moulded and used by Il ,so
who are about him. 1t is impossible to
make him say that he is not John G. Fremont
but mere party platform. lie has no train
of corrupt retainers. who have tor a quarter
of century been attached to his interests ,anl
are entitled to his first and highest i.yor'
and his bosom confidence. lie never bit the
hand that led him up to honor. lie mover
betrayed his associates lie never abandon.
ed and betrayed the principles on which he
had been elevated. lie never betrayed Free
dom that he might rise by Slavery. lie
never sold himself to "A blgoted, proscriptiye
secret and steathy political faction, that he
might be restored to the place and the power
which he could not retain when clothed witt
the influence and patronage Of the whole
Government. He never approved and coun
seled disunion and rebellion if he should bC
found in the minority, and he has never cal
led the repeal of the Missouri Compromls'
a boon from the North to the South. Ii,
has not hese antecedents.
Then, with such man and such cause
on such question, how shall we vote Lis
ten to the voice from the North and tn,
South, and the East and the West Is il
not the voice of God, saying elf you de
sire Freedom, say so-it you prefer Slavery
say SO. BE ready with your answer - i.