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The Old Pathfinder.The | Dispatch mentioned briefly .last week the death of Gen. .John 0. Fremont.No person can hear the namo of»John 0. Fremont spoken without a thrill of joy. It sets thoughts wandering to and fro and recalls M the ^wonderful reminiscences of that brave and daring num. The Press notes-the following coincidence of the pathfinders of the two worlds, “It isa curious coincidence that while the pathfinder of the Old World was crowning a strange career of ] wanderings in many savage'lands with a wedding at the altar of the ^ most historic minister in the me! ^ tropolis of his native country, ^ another pathfinder, with a history ; ^ even more thrilling, full of daring, j of adventure, of wondrous visions , ^ of wealth, of romance, political j aspirations, national heroism, and ; ,military glory, should have Iain! dvinji in the metropolis of his ! (fa the rl a nd. American history :rajjcan“Tlioral re a; wit tim Milpusla f tsunpoloffligreofthe.•aiicep od of 1serhardly includes altogether a more romantic and picturesque figure•• • • • i • • *than John Charles Fremont. Whether we think of him as aiding to plant the Stars and Stripes in the halls of the Montoziiunis: or as ' bearing perils oflieat and cold and u,totThiliistipiV.wild beasts and savages to find a way through the passes of the Kooky Mountains; or as a part of that wonderful golden tale of Mfi, when California was our national i Ve El Dorado; or as shaking his long] j±vXeCoChJolbn i froA1gei§1at;*ii.cuilv locks‘in the United States...Senate Chamber; or as. running away with, pretty Jessie Benton, the daughter of “Old Bullion, who wrote of thirty vears in those old|y I ♦time halls; or as leading a newborn party as its Presidential can-• * • • 1 *didate into a political battle lor j liberty; or as wrestling .with] : “Stonewall Jackson, the Con- j federate Cromwell, in the Slieuan-; Oil' •’ Idoah Valley—no matter to what, mi part’ of his eventful career we revert an atmosphere of romance surrounds this American cavalier almost from the cradle to the grave* He is a cold man indeed whom the history of John 0. Fremont does not thrill at some point.The youth of the land will alwaysbe fascinated by his daring as- a pioneer explorer. Old soldiers will honor his tomb on future memorial days and every Be publican of 1850 will feel his heart beat more quickly when the name of. j TJi the party’s lust, standard bearer| onis mentioned; but all the world Ire• * • * loves a. .lover, and the sweetest flowers upon his grave will be the roses that bright-eyed maidens devote to the daring wooer of the* * . , jSenator’s daughter of long, long ] lis;.• • • •.. i ‘po;rejbuleiiani)Umiyeusi inansp;th:tinOilexini
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Belmont Weekly Dispatch
Belmont, New York, US
Tue, Jul 22, 1890
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