Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-05-29
incident by bis future biogrspher.
LANES DESIRE TO pE PRECEDENT.

He wished me 10 advocate his claims TO
the Presidency. ] told him that II ne~
man was TO be chosen by the Republican
party | would vote for Frank. Blair OF Mis-
souri,. and refused 70 mention him in con-
nection with any office whatever He "look-
ed helr at mel adopt his own choice Ian
guage-but said nothing about it.
On another occasion he told me-the re-
quest sounded Ike a command-to praise
him Tor his mag,sanimity.
MokE ASSASSINATION.
As a few weeks before, he had tried TO
make Inc the agent for assassinating Robt
5 kelly-as he was then pursuing Mr.. Shep-
herd-with whom he quarrelled when he
could not make him a tool-with malig-
nifty which it would be euphony to charac-
terize as Internal, peremptoriiy refused TO
do 80.
THE DANITEs or KANSAS.
Lane organized Club Of Dantes in
Doniphan county,, | became member OF
it, Although he could have attended it
and was expected to attend it, he ATTEMPTED,
on the second night Of its meeting, osmake
me the agent TO induce the Club to kill Bob
Kelley. lie saw that my unlucky indeft-
edness TO him did not give him Q sufficient
hold over me-that some day, il he again
dared to attempt to rule my editorial course
] would throw my property in his face and
DEFY him. He wished. therefore to engage
me in criminal enterprise-and then
would be his slave forever. never hated
Lane till he asked me to do this deed.
did indeed despise him from the bottom OF
nv soul, but did not believe him TO be ca
pable Of scheme 40 diabolcal-to involve
a Young man, without any cause in orimi
nal act of private revenge. it was so cow
ardly, contemplate, and hellish that left
him without saying a word ] need hardly
add that did not put my neck in his halter,
that did not choose to become his assassin,
that Bob Kelly was not killed, or that Lane,
after creating the disturbances in DOniphan,
on his next visit to the town, entertained us
with magma nimous and conservative
speeches.
LANES sACRILEGE.
1t was to be expected that the secret riot
er should appear in public az a conservator
of the peace it was in keeping with the
character of the man who once, in Indiana
as an eminent citizen Of that State, a friend
Of his, who knew the fact, declared-went
from the bed of a common brothel where he
had passed the night, to a Christian church
in the morning and partcok of the holy sac
rament Of the Lords supper.
LANE A CURSE 10 KANSAS
determined now, after | had thus seen
how he had intended to ruin me. to watch
him with ceasele-s, untlring vigilance, until
could oil tain legal proof agains him--not
to use it in a court of Justice but privately
to compel him to abandon his hopes 81 high
office in the party he disgraces ami degrades,
and to leave the Territory to which his
presence, excepting on two occasions only.
has been great and almost an unmi.igated
curse.
But found that there is danger, while
watching an anaconda, OF being crushed in
its loathsome folds.
am not the only young man whom he
has tried to Use for his cowardly schemes OF
secret and criminal revenge, and he may
find, too, that he has reckoned without his
host in more cases than in mine.
| DELICATE SUBJECT.
That 800 loan which was never Dor
rowed-? Lane, | will spare you that his
tory for the ladys sake. do not wish to
drive from you any purifying influence. for
God knows that you need it, and He may
have sent her, whom you wronGed so fouly,
as an angel Of mercy, to save you from be-
coming yet more devilisl than Won now are
and to rekindle the lamp Of conscience in
your dark and murky soul
But beware, Lane, beware for | have
not told all that know yet.
| The closing sentence is significant.
"But beware Lane, beware. for hoet
not told oil that kao,c yet" These
facts will constitute another sweet
morscl to be rolled under the tongues
of the Reverend Rifle Bcccher and the
"three thousand clcrgymcn Of New
England" and other pious and bcncyo
lent contributors to "blccding Kansas.
Great is Republication and jim
Lane is its prophet.
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Murders and Robberles in Kansas-Tht
Free State Men Responsible for the
Atrocities.