Daily National Era

COLONEL FREMONT

There is scarcely a man in the nation to whom a more romantic interest attaches than to him whose name we have written at the head of this article. The perils he has passed through, the dangers he has voluntarily encountered, and the discoveries he has made in the untrodden regions that stretch away from the western boundaries of Missouri and Arkansas, to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, all conspire to excite our admiration and win our respect. He has his ever-enduring monuments in the eternal mountain peaks, that rear their bald and bristling summits above the clouds and which now bear his name. So circumstanced as to be able to live at his ease, or adorn courtly circles, or pass his life where statesmen and politicians "most do congregate," his bold and free spirit has scorned the twaddling of carpet knights, and the plots of politicians, and, amid savage wilds and howling wildernesses, over barren wastes of sand, or in the gorges of mountains, in the dead of winter, subsisting on the flesh of horses, or roaming on the broad prairie, where the savage lurks for his foe, he has carried the banner of the great Republic, gathered from barbarism and savage wastes themselves the knowledge that shall aid in making civilization a practical realization, and won the thanks and commendation of every lover of his country.

Louisville Times.