Charles Sumner: “I have long honored Colonel Fremont for his genius in geographical enterprise, his eminent intelligence, his manly…”

“I have long honored Colonel Fremont for his genius in geographical enterprise, his eminent intelligence, his manly fortitude, his perfect integrity, and his easy command of men,--swaying to his own beneficent purpose even the savages of the forest, while Nature herself, in her winter fastnesses, bowed before his march.”