Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-09-21
For the Journal.
THE REMOVAL OF GEN. LANE.

DENTAL election, great many men, who usu-
ally take no part in political discussions. and
are equally Indifferent TO the success of the
Wing or the Democratic candidates, threw
aside their usual Indifference and took bold
and jealous part for the election of Gen. Tay- +
lor. think j, perfectly safe 10 say, that,
without their support, he would not have been
elected. They were induced to this step by
the often repeated declarations of Gen. Tay-
Tor, that he would prescribe no man for opin-
ions sake that all he desired was the good
of the country, !" he had no enemies to punish,
no friends to researd." You may Judge how
bitter must be their disappointment, when they
see every day these solemn pledges violated,
and every principle of honesty and good faith
shamefully abandoned. This is the true rea-
son of the remarkable revolution in public
sentiment that is now progressing and it
must eveniuate in the humiliation of the Wing
party. The people may be once deceived, but
it will be long before the same farce is again
enacted. Hereafter. it will be understood that
none but strict party candidate will be sure
of support, for men are SO averse 10 being
humbugged, that they will sooner postpone
their preiudices and wishes than submit 10
imposition. s-@E----. 1#E
do not know single instance where the
present Chief Magistrate has more completely
and fully falsifed all the Just expectations of
bis friends, than in the removal of Gen. Lane;
a man whose sole fault consisted in his hav-
ing corrected some unjust, and, as it was
thought, until now, unintentional aspersons
upon the volunteers of Indiana, and thus made
himself obnoxious to the President, who, in
his account of the battle of Buena Vista, had
not given them proper credit. Gen. Lane, in
consequence of his distinguished services in
the Mexican war, and his entire fitness for the
post. had been appointed Governor of Oregon.
He is now superseded by Mr. Marshall, of
Indiana. The reason for this change is an
nounced in the Louisville Journal, a Taylor
: paper, TO be, among other things, because Gen
Lane, in his publications and addresses reIa-
tive 10 The battle at Buena Vista, had been
guilty of the grossest calumnes and false
hoods !" when, in truth and in fact, the only
publications and addresses which were made
by him, were intended to remote gross calum-
MES and fc!sehoods cast by Gen. Taylor and
his friends upon the volunteers of In
diana! But even were these charges of Gen.
T. true-and that they are false, the gallant
s conduct of the same regiment at Huamantla,
under Gen. Lane, sufficiently proves-how
long since has it been the case, that differ,
ence Of opinion between officers as to the
o credit or discrelt due to any particular branch
of the public force. in particular action. has
: been regarded as disqualification for office
6 or just cause for removal Gen. jackson
who, as it is commonly asserted, exceeded
e Gen. Taylor in his prescriptions, never stoop
q ed 10 the meanness of furnishing those who
doubted the accuracy OF his official despatch
0 es, or who presumed TO think that, in one o.
two instances. he had not given sufficien
- credit 10 particular battalons. Such an exhi
i bition of contemplate litteness and persona
spite, was reserved for the present '' hero,
l. age"
IS have not the number of the LouiSUdl
RS Journal near me, in which the precious con
e. fession is made, that the Chief Magistrate Q
RS this great Republic is exercising his oficia
Of powers for the punishment of those whom
r is pleased to designate his enemies but al
is informed that the Editor seeks 10 excuse th
$, disgraceful &C; by an assertion of Gen. Lane
k incapacity for the fulflment of the duties ne
er cessary to the Office There never was ba
Il. ser or more unfounded SANDER upon the cha
lg racter of any gentleman. Gen. Lane can boas
~ that not only did he, by his energy and brave
s. ry in Mexico, acquire the name and repuiatio
r. of Marion, but the local authorities of Puebl
\. and other important places in the Mexica
- territory, can testify TO his skill in diplomac
h also. He, at least. wrote his own dispatches
~ as the writer knows of his own knowledge
40 The description of the bombardment of Jalis
tn co by moonlight, by the forces OF Lane, ha
ot been frequently quoted as a specimen of hig
literary ability, in connection with the remar
of foreigner, that the Americans in Mexic
as were an army OF armed scholars and reform
e. ers. His name is as permanently and honora
bly, attached to, and engrafted upon, the his
E. tory of the war, as that of Gen Taylor him
self; and, what is far more TO his credit, b
re- has always been successful in attaching I
3 himself, by his kind and cordial manners, in
j. telhgent conversation, and refined and digni
q. fed bearing, every one who has had the goo
is fortune to enjoy the pleasure of his acquain
an lance The Marion of the war was trough
lie in the field only, but "ready" everywhere
an and under all circumstances fact whic
of seems 10 have escaped the Inscriptions pal
n tzan who conducts the Louisville Journal
Should, as he suggests. the American peopl
think proper to elevate GenrLane to the hig
IN office of President of the United States. it
ed very certain that he will at least discharge tb
Isl Office himself, and not, by folly and weakness
nd turn his military laurels into civil willows.
40 aa.s VINDEX.
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IN Communicated
WHEREAS, We, The members of Thaddeu
lie Lodge No. S, of the l. O. G. F., have ju: