The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-10-19

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Last evening esockton's Hall was crowded 4
IL utmost capacity BY On audience anxious 4
hear the great military chieitain. Every nool
and corner vas 6lled long before the hour 70
which The meeting vas called together.
Al 3 o'clock the meeting was organised BY th
election Of the following olRcers:
Presidsnt-Gen. Marx W. Dslahay; Secrets
rss-D. W. Wilder, J. K. Bartlett, d. Il. Moore
Gen. Lane, on coming forward was received
with rapturous applause. He began BY saying
lhave come here tonight not to make aspect
20 You, but 70 have plain talk about Kansa
matters, and matters relating to the best inter
ests Of the country. This Il period IN our hia
tory when every man 10 called upon to act an,
to act cautiously. Iii mot expected that ever,
man will join the army, but those who remain .
home are not to forget that they may be Gale,
| upon to act for those in the Geld. ask ever,
Kansas man who is here TO give his protection
70 the Kansas soldie-. am uttering no word
for myself 10 for the soldier who Aghts you
battles,
Two months ago the Kansas Brigade wa or
CANNED. I was put at the head Of it with tn,
respect, the confidence, aye. the love, Of every
man in that command. Every since it entered
the field it has been actively engaged for thu
protection Of Kansas and the government. Il
has not been whipped-it has not surrendered
Why 10 il that these creatures as the Fort sneel
| at Il? They abuse the Kansas Brigade because
il has not surrendered to the enemy. They sneel
at the Kansas Brigade because We have neve,
engaged the enemy without whipping them like
the devil.
Go to Nevada, where 50 of the Kansas Brigade
met and defeated 200 rebels; 60 to Balls Mill
where $50 Kansans whipped $50 traitors; 70 to
Dry Wood, where 400 men under Montgomery
for two hours fought 1000 Of the enemy, and
drove them back from your soil; go to Morris.
town, the death.bed of our gallant johnson,
where 400 Of the Kansas Brigade drove 600 trait.
ors from their intrenchmcnts; 60 to Osceola, one
OF the strongest natural points in Southern Mis-.
souri,, where, after eighty miles march through
the enemys country, We met greatly superior
force, beat it. and took and destroyed more than
million dollars worth Of property. Go to these
fields. and tell me why the Kansas Brigade 10
sneered At
Our sin is that we have never been whipped
That brigade 10 conspired against. This last Sab.
bath was desecrated by . conspiracy at the Fort,
between Robinson and Prince, to destroy the
Kansas Brigade. Charles Robinson and Captain
Prince conspired to destroy it. They we're guilty
OF treason baser than that of Price (Great cheer.
ing) have come here to talk plainly to you
(Cries Of "That's right" "Let US have it" What
is the charge they make against the Kansas Bri-
gade! We sre Jayhawkera
l stated in Washington that the institution Of
slavery could not survive the march Of the Fed.
eral army-ahat there Uould Be an army Of one color
marching into he slave States, aud an army of an
nth L thort hat
6scation must follow treason; as thunder follows
the lightning's fash.
COnfscated property goes to the Government,
and this rule has been adopted by my Brigade.
If we are jayhawkers, We are jsyhawking for the
Government.
Now f--oh the dirty puppy-if that creature
Prince, or that still dirtier creature, Robinson,
can find an instance Of violation of this rule in
my command, the guilty man shall be hung.
But they say We steal slaves-great God 1t.
Col. Blunt, Of Aontgomery's regiment, has just
returned from the interior Of Missouri, and they
tell ME he comes back with more slaves than
white men. ("Good," Good" and cheers) Sc
cessionsts get no slaves from the Kansas brigade.
When Union man comes to my camp to recover
slaves, I tell him to look upon the camp as naked
ground. "Resort to the same measures that you
would If were not here" If he fails to recover
his slaves we give him certi6cate-as vouch
er to the Government-that such man lost a
slave by the march of the Kansas brigade.
Slavery disappears before my brigade. ZAP.
plause.) 1 guess that's true. (Renewed ap-
plause.) But it disappears on the principle l
have laid down. ! venture to say that If / were
to tell Montgomery or Blunt or Stewart or Will
liams or Bowles ''you shan't take those slaves"
the reply would be-"slaves are men, and you
shant make me niger catcher for traitors."-
Great cheering)
Ts there a man here who would act az slave
catcher for Price! I wonder if that dirty dog
Prince would do it! This is the sin, this is the
charge against U.s. We march TO crush out treason
and let daw,y take care of Itself If they don't
want slavery to perish let them lay down their
arms-or do the other thing-keep Lanes Br-
gade out of Missouri. (Rapturous applause.) In
my opinion this war will never be successfully
carried out so long as an army marches through
slave States as boat goes through flock of
ducks. They fly up on its approach and nestle
as soon as il has passed. The boat is safe and
so are the ducks. When you march through
State you must destroy the property of the men
in arms against the Government-destroy, devas-
tate, desolate. This is a war
Take the Union man by the hand but lay waste
the property of traitors. WHY'S so much sympa
thy shown to traitors and none for Union men
Hundreds and hundreds Of Union men have fol.
lowed the Kansas Brigade to escape the clutches
of traitors. Did you ever hear this puppy Prince
say word about Maj. Dean who was robbed and
driven from his home by traitors!
Not word of sympathy for such men. But
let STAKEHOLDER lose niger and the very air
rcsounds with cries for the return Of the fugitive.
["shame," 'Shame."] Now III tell you what l
want of you. Wen do your fighting. Well try
and not surrender. We ask the people of Kansas
f~-s- A. IL
who stand in our rear.
Why, here's paper-great God that it should
come from Kausas-the State Journal what a
pity it is that it should be published in Lawrence
it says that my adjutant, Marcus J Parrot, is
getting ny petition to dissolve the Kansas bri.
gsde-to dissolve the only force that can protect
Kansas. venture to say that if Mark is right
industrious he can get every secessonst in Mis-
souri, to sign 1t. l cannot believe it, but if he
has pity him. Laughter. But do not be-
leve it. Besides, the evidence 10 against it, for
never knew this Lawrence Journal to publish
one truth
But the Kansas Brigade is to be dissolved be-
cause it built forts ana organized forces at Hum
Creek, Fall River, Turkey Creek-scven forts on
your frontier, where the people, instead of being
stampeded and driven from the State can rally
for your defense
1t is because Mathews invaded Humboldt?
Four days before that raid ordered fort to
be built there, but for some reason it was not
done. But who followed Mathews and killed
him! NY order book will show that l ordered
Lieutenant.C Colonel Blunt to pursue Mathews to
Arkansas, and he did pursue him till be slew
Blunt marched down into the Cherokee coun-
try he followed Mathews to his den and killed
him
What is the reason Price and Rains did not
march into Kansas! Did Prince keep of the
10000! Did Robinson do it Did Blood, who
went in pursuit Of herd OF cattle and ran TO
Pixies Peak, did Blood drive away the 1a,000i
Did Sam. Smith do itp But they say Price aud