SEPTEMBER 8, 1861:
In
response to President Lincoln’s demand that General Fremont scale back his
Missouri Emancipation Proclamation, Fremont sends his wife Jessie (daughter of
Senator Thomas Hart Benton).
President Lincoln recalled of their meeting that "She sought an audience with me at
midnight and taxed me so violently with many things that I had to exercise all
the awkward tact I have to avoid quarreling with her. She surprised me by
asking why their enemy, Montgomery Blair, had been sent to Missouri. She more
than once intimated that if General Frémont should conclude to try conclusions
with me he could set up for himself. The next we heard was that Frémont had
arrested Frank Blair and the rupture has since never been healed."
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