Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-11-27
GENERAL Jim LANE.

GENERAL JIM LANE.
One of the most disgraceful and impolit-
ic acts of the President was the appoint,
ment Of the notorious Jim Lane, Of Kan
sas, Brgadier General, and sendiug him
to renew his career Of murder, rapine and
robbery in Missouri. If it was the pur-
pose of the President TO drive the whole
people Of Missouri into rebellion, then
the employment OF Lane aud Montgom-
cry was admirably calculated to promote
the object in view, but it can be justified
on no other ground. The St. Louis Re.
pubEcm says of him.-LancaSter Intel.
4 His marches have been mere raids
tracked by fires needlessly kindleG and
blood needlessly shed. His career aocords
with much that We have believed OF his
anteccdents and also with his represen-
: ts hons of Kansas, public men, who stand
high in the estimation of large part Of
the Republican party there. They have
painted HIM in much worse colors than
we have ever presumed 10 show him up
in. II their account Of him is true, he is
not fit to be trusted, with responsible mil
itary command: and what is in common
decency and feeling due, not only TO the
interests and welfare CT Missouri, but TO
the rights of humanity and the good
name OF our countrymen, demands that,
if he is suffered still to hold that com.
mand he should be compelled to exerS
else il outside of Missouri Anybody,
who, reading what lie writes, and seeing
l, ports of what he writes, and seeing re '
ports OF what he says, cannot half perceive
that he has before him the evidences of a
1ruAianly ohorootor and savage apirii. mnsi
be obtuse indeed. We cannot admire the
= taste or discernment of the press which
admires him; nor believe in the Judge
ment or hardly honesty Of those who
would wish to have continued to him the
! power of bounding on his followers 10
new deeds of devastation, waste and ruin.
Such men and presses have but little re
gard for the interests of this State or of
humanity; but seem animated only by
an insane thirst fer destruction. Their
spirit is that of a Comanche and If prop
agatcd widely among our people, would
make them unfit to enjoy any ins titutions
OF their repu blicanism orciyilized society.
They are the foes OF both"
The Milwaukee NeeS says:
"Gen. jim Lane, OF Kansas is an ayow
ed abolitionist. lie was one of the old
freedom.shricker in the border rutlian
war; and did as much as any man living
to incte hoSulities between the North
and South. He is now as great u terror
! to loyal men in the West as he is to the
rebels. Indeed, Governor Robinson of
KansGs IA member of the late Republican
party says IN public letter: 81 knOw Of
no bcttlT rag ,haH 10 ocai' a man who steals, roJS
and ma tiers, a Hiet, roJJcr amt m,udcrcr, and
take he Responsibility" The man here re-
femed to is Jim Lane, anu the Governor
pl,inly says his cri mes will be endured
no longer that he protects the thieves,
ard that, if the President persists in sus-
tanning him, "ciOa var wW iacoduby eaSUc IL
Kansas, rot Jctgeen Uaioni5ts and seces5ionists,
but Jct,Cen there's and their victtmS."
Thus we see what n similarity there is
between secessionist and an ultra aboli-
ZIONIST. The trs. instinct of both is to
abuse power, and to oppreSs all, whom
they can, with high hand.
friend of ours, who has Just returned
from LawEence, the home of Lane, in
forms us that the Government advertised
for one hundred horses, TO be delivered
upon acertain day. When the day orri-
we'd, Jim Lane furnished the horses, at
SllO each, from those he had taken while
travelling through the country.
! The President should ut once remove
this man, who, under the Constitution. as
he is 4 Unled-Sates Senator has no right
to hold the Office of BrigadIer Genera
The country does not wish civil war in
Kansas between honest men and thieves,
] Pc nj ms
be believed. Lane and his army are only
ilega.zed collection OF bandits"
The Springfield MO correspondent of
the New York Times, in giving an ac-
count of Gen, Fremont's leaving the ar
my, says:
"It is also said that he carried off with
him all his orders and special order books,
report books, Adjutant's returns and pa
pers of every kind, carrying all his staff
away with him, and not ieaviHg solitary
scrap Of paper 10 state rhat stores covH orshouM
6eEund IN lie Subsistence or QtartsrmaSter's
Departments the strength Of the command, NE
position qfMeforces, rhs date upon rhich tie
recent causelesspanic Vas Started."
How TO pUzzLE REPUBLICAN PoLITI-
ClAN.--lnquire of him monthly the prn- /
clples of his party for twelve consecutive
months, and make verbatim notes of his
answers every time, 10 each of which .
make him aflix his signature. At The .
close of the year, confront him with the
various reports,
rfD. Truth itself becomes falsehood FIRE.
sented in any other than its right relations.
There is no truth but the whole truth"
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