The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-27
Gen. Lane on the War.

Gen. Lane was at Chicago on Wo1.
and made speech on The war, in which,
the administration had changed its pclicy M
make the following extract from his ,.n.
reported by the Chicago Tribune:
sit is no time for talking now. but f.,.
We have consumed eight months in ;na. aV'@
have wasted three hundred millions If I SnIHH
and sacrificed twenty five thousand l;,o '0'a'
turned this country upside down in our .,5 tN
vors to put down this Internal rebellion an% Ir''
slavery. | tell you it can't be done ."I
Government has come to that conclusion Wv
me tell you, confdentaly, that on Mond,, ~
they opened "A new set OF BOOKS and come j., ="
conclusion that if the Union can't be sovaJ IL, |
slavery saved, then down goes slavery 1a
rebels have either got to submit, to die q, IA, '|
away. Tell you the time has come wh.n ~ ua
must stop. The rebels must submit or w. r'.'
down forthwith to that he'll already yawnjn,
receive them.
This desirable consummation was ef1ctoaA.
compromise. The radical men agreed TIM,
conservative men should carry on the w,r
cordlng to their notions, for eight months w.
vded they ware allowed the next egh, r.,
time is up for the conservatives. and thew ma,
hand the war and its conduct over to the ,.%
calls. and every conservative man should now =.
tend the same encouragement and SUPPORT vh.,
We gave to them in the prosecution Of ,b..
method.
There are in the South $50, 900 stgoor AN,
loyal male slaves, who have fed and cntbed ii.
rebel army, and have as good as Tough. upa
their side. Government now proposes tn,
these loyal slaves shall feed and clo,he oorg,.
my, and fight upon our side. The Other ,Eay
whsle was talking with the President, On
Abe said to me, Lane, how black men DO van
told him, as my army would number 81 ,tA
proposed to have 81 900 conlrabands in ad;l,p,
to my teamsters and wagon masters. coLsI,r
every ono of my soldiers engaged in this yoa.
Gus crusade of freedom d knight Grant, and en-.
titled 10 his squire to prepare his food. black
his boots, load his gun, and take off his drudge.
ry Vanity and pride are necessary adjuncts q
the soldier, and Do not propose 10 lower him
by inenlal Offices, nor compel him to perform ii,
duties of the slave. So, while shall elevate tn
slave by giving hmm his freedom and maxim,
man OF him. ! shall also elevate the soldier, and
leave him no work to d. but fighting. 4 rou,
in the croWd-What are you going to do viii
the niggers?]
The General, singing out the owner OF tie
voice, and pointing bis bong finger at him, rs-
piled All, my friend, yon are just the man
have been looking for. will tell you wha, /
am going to do with ,hem. AIN going to plan;
them On the soil Of the Cult coast after we have
50. through this war, Let them ,,ay there and
cultivate the land, have government extend a
protection to them as it does to the Indian.
and send superintendent and governors among
and pay them Wages for their labor. There
could be no competition between black and vhs
labor lie believed, whether the rebels liked
the idea Or not, that the blacks at 10 dlstan.da,
would have possession of that Gulf country, to
which they were aeelimated and physically con,
citloned He proposed to establish free STATE
governments as he went along, and ne could
promise his hearers that either be Or the rebels
| would be cleaned OUT