The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1862-01-11
Gen. Gin Lane.

Of journalists have become suddenly iubi.
liant over a telegraph despatch from Wash
ineton, announcing that the President has
authorized Gen. Lane to concentrate, as
speedily as possible, 10000 men at Lesven-
worth, to be composed of $1,000 cavalry,
10000 infantry, 1000 artillery, | 200 fusi.
Tiers, and the balance loyal indians. With
this force Lane is to sweep at once down
through Missouri, clearing out Price as he
goes, into Arkansas. and thence down Red
River, so that, along about the first. OF
Nav, he vii! come to grand halt ut New
Orleans, having thrashed out all secession
ism before him. Attached to his grand
army, on the start, are also 10 be about
1890 coutrabands,' but this number Is
to be increased as he goes TO ten or fifteen
thousand; the said eontrabands to be
seized by the way and to be used as team
sters, cooks, foragers, aud . hewers of
wood and drawers of water generally to
the army The plan is, to be encountered
with very little baggage; Lane does not
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bread or Secretary Chase for money. He
proposes to make the traitors furnish the
rations and bear the expenses Of the
march. 1t is they that caused the trouble,
and they must bear the cost OF the court
and jury which will try the case The
way to do it is this:
\ regiment comes to n corn field the
cortrab bands pitch in and husk out the
/ corn, shell it, dry It on pans, and grind 1t
/ in the mills. and then convert II into hoe
cake, pone and other forms Of the article
Cattle and hogs will be procured by the
] foyagers And reduced to ratIors. lie in
I tends the, shall be no famine in his army.
1t will have the best the country affords !:
and WHEREVER the secesh can live, there his
troops can also subsis!. He will take some
provisions with HIM at the start, and trust
to the resources OF the country and to the
( enterprise of his boys to collect what they
need The Government Will be subjected
10 no expense on Lanes account, at err the
outfit is provided. His men will take care
of themselves from thenSe forward, and oil
the rebels into the bargain.
This is called conducting the war or
Jim Lane principles, and to this whole
scheme the President is said to have giver
his consent We have some doubts abou
it. We guess the 7riJttnsS are somewhat
over sanguine in drawing their picture
Their notion evidently is that Lanes chic
, business will be TO free niggers and desolat,
the country through which he marches OF
pure iayhaw ker principals. This is Ger
tanly the opposite Of the policy oil
, which the President wages the war in Ken
turky, Missouri or any other part of tn
, country. It's scarcely probable that Their
| will be one policy for the East, Soutl
and West and another for the far West
, We are willing to concede to Lane Gen
eralship, and great energy OF character
We have no doubt, also, that at the hea'
of so, 600 men, on the route proposed, h
: will do execution But that he is to b
turned loose upon the country in questio
> without any restraint, with power to ravagt
plumber, cut, Stay, hang and destroy a
7, HJitum, is larger destruction than sLoul
be committed to any Gle neral, and least
all, to Jim Lane.