The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-07-05
Oregon and Lane.

The Democratic papers of Oregon are unani
nous in their denunciaton of Joe Lanes conduct
ut Charleston. They repudiate secession and all
who advised or approved it. The Portland (Ore
Sonl Advertiser, upon tie receipt of the result at
Charleston, and Joe Lanes famous dispatch to the
g 90 out, stand out, stand on the Constitution
has the following touching note;
oBITUARY-JoSEPH LANE.
"-Speak of me as am:
Nothing eXtenuatei or aGeht set down in malice. :"
The task of COMMUNICATING the virtues of the
departed great, is very appropriately reserved I'M
til that period when the individual is no LONGER an
actor on the stage of events Seldom if ever
do we write with so little fear of future amend
ments, or view with such clearncss and impartial
ity the events OF past career, as at that time,
when party prejudice and private luminosity have
subsidized, and the little fobes and peccadiOes of
life are forgiven and forgotten amid the stern re
alities of death. Upon the public journalist pecu-
liarlv devoves this duty. While on the one hand,
he should never shrink through any morbid
weakness from holding up folly and crime as Il
negative example TO the rising generation. so. on
the other. he should ever pause in the busy crowd.
to Chronicle the virtues and recite the praises of
those i'lustrous ones who fall by the roadside into
"that sleep which knows no waking"
were
suggested by that brief but startling announce
merit which heraldcd to the would of voters the
wonderful fact that Joseph Lane-familiarly
known as "Ancient JOseph-tbe soldier, the pa
triot and the statesman, had been gathered to his
fathers" Is In the Charleston Convention. on the
first ballot expired Joseph Lane, late U. s. sena-
tor from Oregon. The funeral obseouies will
take place from Browns Hotel. The friends OF
the war debt are respectfully invited to attend
An vii ha IaIi -
Rev. Delusion Smith" Por Mobile FrotruE
His lat words were, Il t nd upon the Con.
stitution'
'Twasb but yesterday, and we saw this venerable
man, the flower of whose youth had been spent In
the service of the Republic, come forth from that
retirement so needful and so wished for. and Weld
Ing once more reluctant assent to the united
voice OF Oregon, assume again the distastef Sen
atOriai robe
"She heaved world of signs,
And saving that she'd nc'er consent,
Consented
Can history furnish parallel of such a sacrifice
But yesterday he was with us--was one of us shar
Ing his tabaccy' with the men, his smiles with tn,
women, and recounting the privation and incidents
OF that eventiul period when we came to Oregon.
Such simplicity
! But yesterday, and clad in honorable habili
ments, with that vcrit,ble patch upon his pants
an" We HN"iV hiH III stfalllS Ol more IMAM kOmal
eloqrence. depict the dangers which surrounte,
the Union; and when. after modestly abiding t,
The super-human exertiOns made by him, durir.
4 his Senatorial career, to procure the PAYMENT o
the Debt said that in the event of Congress re
luslne 30 allow our claim, he considered il tn
duty Of tbs State to assume its payment, and tina
in conte n! lati0n of such IA course, as an humble
citizen o Oregon, he was willing to contribute hi
magniiic' n domain towards its liquidation. Sue
eloquenee Such patriotism
/ To-day, and we form one of that vast Assem-
i blage, who with fearful eyes and hcavng breast
are-standing round that faithful ballot box
! bathp1 in tears