But there would be huge campaign events and women began attending these campaign events - in special ladies’ sections - but they were not even there before. But it was considered undignified for a presidential candidate to go out and give some kind of a crazy speech, speak profanities or whatever they might do, considered almost unimaginable. I mean, it's remarkable considering where we are now. Now, candidates not go out to campaign in the way that they do now. And there were roars of approval for Jessie Benton Fremont. And they seized upon this prominent and accomplished woman as their symbol. And they were helping to power the antislavery movement. “It was considered OK for women to be engaged in benevolent causes to help people in need. They didn't have it, but some were seeking it, and it was a time when women who weren't supposed to be involved in politics had found a way to be involved in the antislavery movement. This was a time when women were seeking the right to vote. And then she became a symbol for progressive women. Articles about her would describe her fluency in various languages, talking with ambassadors in Washington and so forth. Letters written by her would end up in the newspapers. She was often a defender of her husband when he was in controversies. One thing that it shows is that before that campaign in 1856, Jessie Benton Fremont had made herself famous. Nobody can even hear him, he’s not a great public speaker.
John does come to the balcony and says a few words. “Thousands of Republicans, they’re outside the Fremont House in New York City. And it drove people farther apart to have this instantaneous reaction, and reaction to the reaction all the time.” in the North, where they were horrified by this, they would read about how the Southerners were celebrating it. And southerners would read another version of Charles Sumner's caning. And Northerners would read one version of Charles Sumner's caning. … They were getting the same news, but filtered through partisan news editors. Which sounds like it ought to bring America closer together, but did not. And there was suddenly this simultaneous national conversation. And it was at the same time that weekly newspapers were becoming daily newspapers. And within a few years, telegraph wires connected all the major cities in the United States. That you could suddenly know with certainty what was happening just then in another city 50 miles away, or 100 or 500 miles away. “People then realized that this was a profound change in the human condition. On the telegraph’s impact on American politics Inskeep sat down with On Point’s Meghna Chakrabarti to discuss his book, the cyclical nature of American history and what the Fremonts tell us about politics today.
How does a famous explorer with no experience in government ride a wave of political and social tensions to become the Republican party’s first presidential nominee? With a lot of help from his politically savvy wife. Inskeep’s new book, “Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity and Helped Cause the Civil War,” traces the history of John and Jessie Fremont - America’s first celebrity political power couple - and their failed 1856 presidential campaign. Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” understands there are some parallels between American politics then and now. In 1856, less than a decade before the start of the Civil War, the debate over slavery threatened to split the country in half, while the invention of the telegram and rise of partisan news outlets exacerbated a new age of political strife and hostility. No, this isn’t about Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign – it’s about John C. Once upon a time in American history, the Republican Party nominated a candidate for president whose political career was based on his fame, and whose name was plastered on buildings all over the country. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Interview Highlights Author of " Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War." ( NPR host and author of “Imperfect Union” Steve Inskeep, at On Point Live. Steve Inskeep, host of NPR's Morning Edition and NPR's morning news podcast Up First.
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