The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1861-10-22
A SPEECH FROM GEN. LANE.
How the Kansas Brigade Carries on the Wa,


some other reforms for the better defence o
the border, Gen. James II. Lane made Al
elaborate and. characteristic speech in referenc,
Of the Kansas Brigads. He said:
Two months ago the Kansas Brigade wa:
organized. / WAS put at the head of it, will
the respect, the confidence, aye, the love o
every man in that command. Every day
since it entered the field it has been actively
engaged for the protection of Kansas and tho
Government. 1t has not been whipped, il
has not surrendered. Why is it that these
creatures at the Fort sneer at il? They abuse
the Kansas Brigade because it has not sur.
rendered to the enemy. They snecr at the
Kansas Brigade because we have never en-.
gagged the enemy without whipping them like
the devil Go to Nevada where Sc of the
Kansas Brigade met and defeated 200 rebels
go to Balls Mill, where l3O Kansas whipped
$50 traitors; 90 to Dry Wood, where 400
men under Montgomery for two hours fought
1000 of the enemy and drove them back
from your soil; 90 to Papiusville. where 600
Of our men conqured 1900 rebels, killed five
of their captains, and drove them back to
their den. Go To Morristown, the death bed
of our gallant Johnson, where 400 Of the Kan.
sas Brigade drove 600 traitors from their en-
trsnchments; % to Oscela, one Of tie strong
est natural points in Southern Missouri, where
after eighty miles march through the enemy S
country, we met greatly superior force, be 1t
it, and took and destroyed more than a mil
/ lion dollars worth property. Go to these
fields, and tel me why the Kansas brigade is
sneered at.
Our sin is, that we have never been whip,
ped. The Brigade is conspired az inst
This last Sabbath was desecrated Ivy - con-
sracy at the Fort b.tween Robinson and
Price to destroy the Kansas Brlgale Chas.
Robinson ond Capt Price conspir'd to des
troy it, They were guilty of treason bascr
than that Of Price, Great cheering have
com, here to talk plainly to you. Cries of
That's right Let us have it, What is
the charge they make against the Kansas
Brigade! We are jayhawkers!
But they say we steal slaves-great Goi!
Lieut.. Col. Blunt, of Montgomery's regiment
h. S just returned from the interior of Nilsson
ri, and they tell ma he comes back with moro
slaves than white meu. "Good,' 80 od."
and cheers. Sccessionists got no slaves from
the Kansas Brigade. When Uuion man
comes to my camp to recover slaves tell MIN
10 look upC the camp ~ naked ground
"Rcsort to the same measures that you would
if Were not here" If b, fails to recover his
slaves we give him a certificate-as voucher
to the Govcrnmr mrnt-thaJ such man lost
such slave 10y the march Of the Kansas Bri
gade.
Slavery disappears before my Brigade
I A I
applause But it disappears on on the prn
ciple that have laid down. venture to say
that if were to tell Montgomery or Blunt or
Stewart or Williams or Bowles, "you shan't
take those slaves the reply would be
'slAvcs are men, and you shant make me mig
ger catcher for traitors Great cheering
IL there is a man here who would act as slave
catcher for Price? | wonder if that dirty dog
Prico would 40 - This ia the sin, this is
the charge against us. We march to crush
out treason and let slavery take care Of i:
self. II they don't want slavery to perish let
the n lay down ther arms-or do the other
thiog-kecp Lanes Brigade out of Missouri.
Rapturous applause. In my oppinion this
war will never bc successfully carried out so
long AS an army marches through a slave State
as boat goes through flock of ducks. They
fly up on its approach and nestle down as soon
as it has passed. The boat is safe and SO are
the ducks. When you march through State
you must so march that traitors will feel the
horrors of war. Take the u ion men bv the
hand, but lay waste the property Of traitors.
Why is 50 much sympathy shown for traitors
and none for Union men. Hundreds and
hundreds Of Union men have followed the
Kansas Brigade to escape the clutches of trail
tors. Not y word of sympathy for such men.
But let n STAKEHOLDER lose niger and the
very air resoundS with cries for the return Of
the fugitive. |" Shame" SHANE Now
I'll tel you what | want o. you. Well do
the fighting. Wen try and not surrender.
We ask the people of K,nS's to stand b..
tween us and the cowardly traitors who stand
in our rear.
But the Kansas Brig de is to be dissolved
because it built forts and organized forces at
Humboldt, Leroy, NcoSho Falls, Verligrs,
Walnut Creek, Fall River, Turkey Creek
seven forts on your frontier, when the people,
instead Of being stampeded and driven from
the State, can rally for their defence. 1t is
because Mathews invaded Humboldt Four
davs before that raid I ordered r fort to he
built there, but for some reason it was not
doue. But who followed Matthews and kill.
ed him7 Ny ordr book will show tn at |
ordered Lieut. Col. Blunt to pursu' Matthews
to Arkansas, and he dill pursue him till ne
slow him. Blunt marched down into the
Cherokee county; he followed Matthews to
his den and killed him.
What is the reason Price and Rains did not
march into Kansas7 Did Pricc keep "a the
10000 Did Robinson do itl DID Blood,
who went in pursuit Of a herd Of cattle and
ran to Pixies Peak, did Blood drive away tie
l2,OOOl Did Sam Smith do itl But the' I
say Price and Rains had no attention of inyad |
ing Kansas. Price marched $1,000 men to
within eight miles Of Fort Scott. He inten
dcd to take it. The "peace" men all lcf, and
a town is always in danger when the traitors
run away. There were more valuable stores
at Fort Scott and Lincoln, at that time, than
there were at Lexington. But we GET no ere.
dit for diving back the traitors because we
los, sixty mules. If am charged with those
mules the they ought at least to give me Gre
lit for what have captured from the enemy
We took $50 at one haul al Morrstovn aud
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