Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-01-15
JIM LANES OMMI,SARIAT DE.
P<AhTMkNT.

Mondays q dze'te gives us the plan
which this r .doubtabe General has
made for supp lying his army with pro-
vi ions in the following terms
Lane has purchased patent horse
power saw II ull to aid :bc Fusileers in
bridge build ng He has also bough,
five hundI eG hand corn mills, being
about two 10 company, TO te run b,
CO ntTa and :. y regiment comes to a
corn field; the con,rabands pitch in
and husk ou the cora, shell it, dry it on
pans, and grind it IN the mills, and then
conver, it u to hoe cake, pone and other
tor rs OF tire article. Cattle and hogs
will lie pro cured by the tcrageIs and re
ductd 10 r,ltons. He intends there
shall be no famine in his army. 1t will
have the tes,t the country affords and
wherever n secesh can live, there bis
troops can also tubsist. He will take
some prov is ,ons with him at the start,
and trust TO the resources Of the country
aud TO the enterprise Of his bows TO col
lect what ,iey need. The Government
viii be subjected to no expense on
Lanes account, atl er the outfit is pro-
vided. His men will take care of them
selves from thencetorward, and of the
rebels into the bargain.
In fewer words, those Government
troops who shall be honored by being
part Of Lanes command, will be required
to support themselves by the pillage OF
the unfortunate citizens Of the districts
he may chance TO occupy.
This experiment is by no means an
org nal one with the hero Of Kansas.
Some hundreds Of years since an Aus
lrian Emperor, sore pressed by his ene-
mics, authorized powerful subject to
arm and equip thirty thousand men at
his own charge, aud Wallensteim was
placed at the head Of an army OF mer-
censry savages, who were taught BY
their leader to expect their pay and their
sustenance from pillagc alone. No one
who has carefully read the history OF
the "Thirty Years War;" will care to
have the experiment repeated in any
portion of our own cdontry. The an
nails Of the world exhibit no picture Of
such intense suffering ard misery as the
Inhabitants of that portion Of Germany,
caused by the presence OF the Imperial.
ist forces we're compelled to undergo. A
band Of lawless soldery, under the CON-
mand OF an able general, had full icence
to punder and rob the unarmed peas
ant aud burgher. II maltered not
whether the people were friends or foes,
the / uke Of FriedIand soldiers must be
paid aud fed. GAnnt famine hung upon
the rear Of the Imperial army wherever
it went.
In utter despair the people neglected
their tillage, and the whole surface Of
the country seemed destined to return
to that savage solitude which was it.
original state under the aborigiaes o.
Taci,us' time. Horses, dogs, cats, and
garbage Of the foules, kind were eaten
BY the unhappy peop.e, and in not un'
frequent cases mothers forgot the ties O.
natural affection, and by cannibalism OF
the most revolving nature, pursued for q
few days longer their miserable lives. l,
would be impossible for US to depict the
state Of Lower Germany At this time,
Nor was this state Of thing circumsc.ib.
ed within . narrow limit. As Of en- as
the resources Of particular locality
were exhausted the Imperial army
moved it's quarters ouly to carry with i,
the same horrors and aesola,ion which
marked its progress everywhere. Ger.
many was more than century recover.
ing from the effects Of this policy, and
10 one can estimate At this day the i'm.
msnse damage inflicted by this scamp o.