No man in the United States has so great a hold on the hearts of the masses as has Gen. Fremont at this time. Whenever his name is mentioned in public assembly it is hailed with cheers. It was so in this city at the lecture of Wendell Phillips, on Friday night. The immense hall was densely packed by a highly intelligent audience, and when the speaker first mentioned the name of Fremont, the intense silence was suddenly broken with one united and prolonged cheer, coupled with the waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and other demonstrations of approbation; and even when the storm began to subside, and the speaker was about to resume his remarks, it suddenly broke out again with more violence than ever, as if the audience could not enough manifest their love for the man whose name was thus incidentally alluded to by the lecturer. Sympathy for a General whom it is thought has been unfairly treated may have had something to do with it, but it mainly arose from the approbation felt for his immortal proclamation, which struck the key-note of emancipation, which will never cease to vibrate while there is a slave on the American soil. – Pittsburg Gazette.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 31, 1862, p. 2
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