Evansville weekly journal., 1848-08-24


said if Butler called his conduct dishonorable,
he would cram the bill down his throat.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the House a communication was received
from VIM. Widill, Commissioner of Indian af-
fairs making reflections upon MIR. Clingman,
and denying the charge made in debate. The
discussion was finally ended by the withdraw
al of the papers.
The Post-ofice bill was debated till the hour
of recess.
Both Houses adjourned to-day at noon.
The President has signed the Oregon bill.
Gen. Shields appointment as Governor of
Oregon has been confirmed. The other terri
torial officers will be appointed.
The Journal publishes communication
from Newburgh, Ind, signed, as the editor
says, by three responsible men, giving an ac-
count of a speech delivered by Gen. Lane at
that place. These three worthless say that Gen.
Lane denounced Gen, Taylor as ''a liar" If
the editor of the Journal had been acquainted
with Gen. Lane, he would have known that
this was incredible. General lane is quito
above using such language toward Gen. Taylor.
He took occasion to vindicate the conduct of
the Indiana second regiment from the asper-
sions cast upon them BY Gen. TayIor's report.
He did not, however, charge General Taylor
with intentional faIsehood nor does Gen. Lane
believe Gen. Taylor capable of it. The allu-
sion to the meeting in Mexico, to ratify the
nomination of Cass and Butler, is not correct.
Gen. Lane did not get up the meeting. He
was invited 10 it by those who did. Instead
of telling the volunteers that they were already
citizens he told them just the contrary.-LOn.
Dem.
This was evidently authorised by Gen. Lane
himself. Three respectable gentlemen testif-
ed in letter to US that Lane, in his speech at
Newburg, denounced Gen. Taylor as liar,
but he disavows the language. Probably he
forsets the precise words he made use of in
| the burning ardor of his Locofoco eloquence.-
He now talks about the ssaspersions" cast by
Gen. Taylor upon the second Indiana regiment.
He knows very well that Gen. Taylor, in his
report. snid nothing of that regiment but what
the reports of ita own officers constrained him
to esy-that in fact he sought to excuse their
retreat rather than speak harshly of it. A high
| ly respectable gentleman, personal friend of
Gen. Lane, informed us three days ago thathe
heard the Gen. in New Orleans, while on his
way to Vera Cruz after his furlough, say with
especial emphasis that there was not the
slightest ground of just complaint against
Gen. Taylor on account of his report, and fur
thermore our informant heard Gen. Lane say
at the same time, that, If Gen. Taylor would
come out as no. party candidate for the Presi-
dency, he would support him with his whole
heart.
Lane did not get up the Cass and Butler meet
ing of the u. 9. soldiers in Mexico after the
ratification of the treaty. Ifhe did not get it
up, he presided over il and was the most ac-
tive man in the management ofits proceedings.
Unless we are misinformed, he made speech
at it, and, whena subordinate officer from Ten
nessee,. friend of Taylor, rose TO reply TO the
Locofoco speeches, Lane by his authority eth
er as president of the meeting or as General of
the army refused TO let him proceed. The par
agraph in the Democrat says that Lane, sin
stead of telling the volunteers at that meeting
that they were already citizens, told them just
the contrary" This is by no means probable
for it was proclaimed in the very preamble
and the resolutions of the meeting, that, the
war being at an end, the volunteers were nc
.llonger soldiers in the service Of their country
but private citizens with all the rights of such
citizens. Now it is not at all likely that such
resolutions would have been unanimously
adopted by the meeting if Gen. Lane, the pres
ident of the meeting, had told the volunteers
just the contrary" Nevertheless the poor fell
lows found when they arrived at N. Orleans,
that, although they had been graciously per.
mitted to consider themselves "private citi-
zens with all the rights of such citizens when
their partizan influence was wanted in Mexico,
they were neither more nor less than soldiers
when the Administration wantedthe privilege
of slowing them away and packing them off in
rags and wretchedness 10 distant parts of the
country.--LouisviLle Jour. f