On September 17, Thomas S. Ewing, who had served in the senate with Frémont, wrote Lincoln that the Pathfinder was “a man of imperfect military education & no military experience & habitually jealous of those who possess these qualifications which he has not—Those who knew him in California represented him to me as having there assumed state & pomp & ceremony under circumstances and in a style calculated to provoke ridicule—and that he was withal arrogant & jealous of power, quite disposed to combine the Russian autocrat with the Turkish Sultan—The sooner you call him to Washington for the purpose of consultation & dispose of him in a quiet way, the better.” Elsewhere Ewing described Frémont as “a vain pompous blatherskite.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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