The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-08-18

The Journal publishes a commuBa55otDn
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 ass liar" If
the editor Of the Journal had been acquainted
with Gen. Lane. he would have known that
this was incredible. General Lane is quite
a bove 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. Taylor's report.
He did not however, charge General Taylor
with intentional falsehood, nor does Gen. Lane
believe Gen. Taylor capable of it. The allu-
sion to the meeting in Mexico, to raify 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 tie told them just the contrary.-LOu.
Dem.
This was evidently authorised by Gen. Lane
himself Three respectable gentlemen testifi-
ed in letter to US that Lane, in bis speech al
Newburg. denounced Gen. Taylor as liar,
but he disavows the language. Probably he
forgets the precise words he made use of in
the burning ardor of his Locofoco eloquenCe
He now talks about the ':aspersions' cast by
Gen. Taylor upon the second Indiana regiment.
He knows very well that Gen. Taylor, in his
report: said nothing of that regiment but what
the reports Of its own officers constrained him
10 say-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 that he
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.
The paragraph quoted above says that Gen.
Lane did not get up the Cass and Butler meet
ing of the u. S. soldiers in Mexico after the
ratification of the treaty. 1.-The did not get it
up, he presided over it and was the most &C.
tive man in the management Gifts proceedings.
Unless we are mislnformed, he made a speech
at it, aud, when subordinate officer from Ten
nessee, friend of Tay lor, rose to ply 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 no
longer soldiers in the service Of their country
but private citizens with all the rights of such
citizens. Now ii 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.