The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-08-22
From the Lawrence Republican.

Our citizens were delighted, a few days I
since, to behold the sanity presence OF Gen. |
James II. Lane, mounted on a splendid /
horse, patroling Massachusetts street, and
with an air of patron, hailing every one
he saw, whether friend or foe, strangers or
acquaintance. One could but contrast the
sight with the condition OF the virtuous
Senator'S affairs short two years ago, when
he rode through the streets, on an old cream
horse, said to have belonged the ''aid So
ciety,'' his worn seal-skin coat serving the
double purpose of an over and under coat,
and his whole appearance showing what was
then true-a very poor man.
To day he boasts a princely fortune.
drives splendid horses, gaily caparisoned
with hundred and tlcenty five dollar set of
! harness, lives in the finest residence IN the
/ CITY, owns over twelve hundred acres OF
! heavy timbered land across the river, worth
at least twenty FIVE dollars per acre. Is build
ing miles of stone wall, as he says, on bis
farm in Clinton, and is really an English
lord among the toiling people of Kansas.
Such are the rewards of patriotism! Such
gifts does a salary of $4,000 per annum be-
stow on noble Senator of the United States
in short two years time I!
WHO shall say that Joshua r. Giddings
told the truth when he said that the cost OF
living in Washington was so high that a
i $4,000 salary per annum would scarcely
!, support a Congressman or Senator?
The history of our distinguished Senator
brands it as, at least. grand mistake.
He has kept his family there during much
of his Senatorial career, living there IN q
sumptuous style, in mansion of his own
bought e1clusively with Senatorial savings
has also, out Of the same revenue, Dough
immense landed property in Kansas. com
Melted a home mansion, for the bare wall;
of which ne paid $500; paid several thou
sand dollars of debts, and in a word, sur
rounded himself with all the appearances o
a man of wealth and princely revenue.
Surely the position of a United States
Senator is desirable.
We utterly scout the idea that maIigners
of the noble Senator have set afloat, that hii
! Provost Marshal. Capt. Clark, was compel
:, led to divide with his superior some Of the
: profits of his purchases of the irregular
claims' at fifty cents on the dollar, th
vouchers for which he so mysteriously ant
unfortunately lost at Baltimore, loss tha
produced such CONSERVATION among th
poor claimants, and caused them to be will
ing to dispose of their hard earned claims
at one-half their face.
o We also repudiate the story that the mos
excellent Senator did not turn over to thu
Government the ten thousand dollars in golC
that was taken from the cashier of the Osce
ola Bank, when Lane was betting high or
small cards" with his Brigade in Missouri
Equally unfounded must be the report tina
he shares in the profits of the rich beef con
, tracts and other fat jobs let out by his Com
missaries and Quartermasters and General
out West No man in his senses can be
. lleve such scandalous reports. No! Gu
Senator is as honest as he is virtuous, an
he is as virtuous as he is truthful
A FRIEND OF LANE.