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But Lincoln was not always decorous in handling Frémont’s champions. To a friend of the Pathfinder, Lincoln abruptly declared: “Sir, I believe General Frémont to be a thoroughly honest man, but he has unfortunately surrounded himself with some of the greatest scoundrels on this continent; you are one of them and the worst of them.”
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