The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-24
politiral.
From the Louisville Journal.
The Removal of General Lane.


The editor of the Democrat, as was TO be expected
denounces the removal of General Lane from the
Governorship of Oregon. Every man who knows
any thing about the case, knows perfectly well that
President Taylor could not have continued Lane in
office without setting deep stigma upon his own
name and fame. General Lane, during the last
presidential canvass, in his many speeches and
publications relative to the battle of Buena Vista,
charged General Taylor twenty times over, and in
the strongest and most offensive terms, with nten-
tlonal and deliberate falsehood. OF course General
Taylor, II he knew himself not TO be guilty as
charged, knew that his violent and yindicuve &C
cuser was an unprincipled calumnator, and he
Gould not, after entering upon the discharge OF ms
duties as President, have kept his accuser IN ONCE
without thereby saying 10 the nation, either that
the said accuser had not illuminated him, or that
he was willing TO retain an unprncipled calumnla-
tor IN office of high trust and responsibility. He
was bound to dismiss Lane by every consideration
OF honesty and self respect II he had retained him,
all the Locofocos would have sworn that he was
afraid TO remove him, and they would also have
sworn that il was tantamount TO full acknow ledg
ment Of the truth OF his accuser's publications.
Some Wings, We stated on Wednesday, strong
y advised President ylor let General Lane alone
as a matter of mere policy To all such advice the
old hero gave but one answer He knew General
Lane TO be an untruthful and unprincipled man,
and he scorned to keep such man in office from
any consideration of mere policy He was resolved,
far possible, To fill all Offices in his gift with
honest men, disdaining to be responsible for dis
honest ones. He determined to do his duty
faithfully, leaving the people TO do theirs. If Pre-
sident Taylor were assured that the success of his
Administration, his reelection the presidency,
depended upon his retaining dishonest man in
office he would scorn TO be guilty of it. He had the
courage to do his duty in the midst Of enemy =
country, surrounded by ten thousand perls, and he
has the courage to do his duty in his own country
under circumstances equally formidable.
If General Lane had been man of proper pride
of the least sefrespect he would not have waited
for President Taylor To dismiss him from the gov
ernorship of Oregon. He would have disdained to
hold the Office by the sufferance of whom he had
repeatedly and publicly denounced falsitier and
a caluInniator. But he has self-respect what
ever. We know this from our own experience of
him. Last fall, after having, we subsequently
learned from the written testimony of twenty wit
nesses, denounced paper in the most opprobri
terms in his public speeches, mere ''ve-
hce of les he called upon in person, assured
us that he admired paper more than any other
in the country subscribed for it, and then asked
publish statement that turned out to be false
hood, and which was stamped talsehood by his
own published address TO the citizens of Indiana.
The Louisville Democrat says that the Senate Of
the United States will certainly reject the nomina-
ton Of General Lanes successor. OF course the
Senate will do Just il pleases in that matter. II
the Locofocos of that body choose 10 reject nomi
nation for the Governorship of Oregon, the Presi-
dent will no doubt make a second, and, II they re-
ject the second, he will unquestionsbly make third;
but If they think that they can, by rejection after
rejection, force him to renominate Lane, they will
find themselves most egregiously mistaken. They
can, by the rejection of all the nominations made,
cause Oregon to be without Governor, but, il
they do SO, the responsibility will be their own and
not the Presidents and they will find that he can
get along without a Governor of Oregon as well as
they can Ii ia his right and his duty, as long as
he il President tolerate man as Governor of a
Territory in whom he has not confidence, and he
will exercise that right and perform that duty in
spite Of all the Locofoco Senates and other Locofoco
bodies in the United States