The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-02-01
JIM LANE IN CHICAGO.


US how it might have been done.
Jim LANE IN CHICAGO.
Gene raj Lane, of Kansas, was in Chicago on
Wednesday last, and was called on ct his hotel
nv an immense throng of citizens, who clamorcd
for speech until he responded:
The uppermost fact in every loyal mans mind
vss that this rebellion must be crushed in soms
vsv He knew there was not loyal man pre-
,ens Who was unwilling to lay down his own lille,
and sacrifice even his own family to accomplish
this result. There was no resolution so strong
among oil true patriots as that, demanding that
the rebellion must BE- put down so as to stay
down. The curse Of slavery has been agitated
long enough, and It must now be radically cur.
ed For eight long months the North has been
contending against the rebels, and what have we
rot to show for it? What results have been
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS advantage obtained For
eight long months the Government has been
prosecuting this war 60 as to hurt nobody. 1t
* time some one was hurt. We were willing
enough to kill white men in the South and to
allow them to be killed in the North, but we
we're afraid of committing sacrilege if we touch
ed the sacred negro. [Cries of "that's SOIL
Yes, afraid TO touch the sacred negro who has
caused the whole of this trouble But let me
tell you the Government has got over this no.
ton, the people have got over it, and think /
can certify that this crowd have got over it. -
Applause and cries OF Eyes, we have" We
have been permitted to discuss all questions hui
man and divine, oil questions of society, Of NOR
als and religion, TO canvass the character Of God
and the nature Of his laws, but have been forbid
den to say a word about the viper which has
stung US in our bosOms.
1t is no time for talking now, but for action.
We have consumed eight months in inactivity,
have wasted three hundred millions Of dollars
and sacrificed twenty-five thousand lives, and
turned this country upside down in our insane
endeavors to put down this internal rebellion
and save slavery. / tell you it can't be done,
and the Government has come to that conclu-
sion. Let me tell you, confidentially, that on
Monday last, they opened new set of books
and came to the conclusion that If the Union
can't be saved and slavery saved, then down goes
slavery. The rebels have either got to submit,
to die or to run away. I tell you the time has
submit or be sent down forthwith to that hell
already yawning to receive them.
This desirable consummation was effected by
compromise. The radical men agreed the con.
sentative men should carry on the war accord
ing to their notions, for eight months, provided
they were allowed the next eight. The time is
up for the conservatives, and they now hand the
war and its conduct over to the radicals, and w
cry conservative man should now extend the
same encouragement aud support which we gave
to them in the prosecution of their method.
There are in the South 100000 strong and
loyal male slaves who have fed and clothed the
rebel army and have as good as fought upon
their side. Government now proposes that
these loyal slaves shall feed and clothe our
army and fight upon our side. The other day
while was talking with the President, Old Abe
said to me, Lame, how many black men do you
want to have to take care of your army?" l
told him as my army would number 81, 900
proposed to have thirty-four thousand contra
bands in addition to my teamsters and wagon
masters. I consider every one Of my soldiers
engaged in this glorious Crusade of Freedom a
knight Grant and entitled to his esquire to pre-.
pare his food, black his boots, load his gun and
take of his drudgery. Vanity and pride are
necessary adjunets Of the soldier, and do not
propose to lower him by mental offices, nor com
pei him to perform the dates of the slave. So,
while shall elevate the slave by giving him his
freedom and making man, of him, / shall also
elevate the soldier and leave him no work to do
but fighting. IA voice in the crowd-"What
are you going to do With the niggers sn]
The General, singing out to the owner of the
voice and pointing his finger at him, replied
"Ah, my friend, you are just the man have
been looking for, will tell you what am going
to do with them. ! am going to plant them
on the soil Of the gulf coast, after we have got
through this war, let item stay there and cuti-
vate the land; have Government extend pro-
lection to them as it does to the Indians, and
send superintendents and governors among them
and pay them wages for their labor. There
could be no competition between black and
white labor" He believed, whether the rebels
killed the idea or not, that the blacks at no dis
tant day would have possession of that Gull
country, to which they we're acclimated and
physically conditioned. He proposed to estab
sh free State governments as he went along,
and he could promise his hearers that either be
or the rebels would be cleaned out.
After urging the benefit of vigorous prose-
cution Of the war, the General closed by again
thanking the crowd for the handsome reception,
and retired to the parlors amid almost cnthusias.
tic applause.
Signs Of Despair among the Rebels.
The tone of the Southern press grows more
and more responding We observe several re-