The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-09-05
GREAT SPEECH BY GEN. LANE
RErALIAToRY RESOLUTIONS
The Removal of Gen. Schofeld
Demanded.
AN ASSEMBLAGE EN- MASSE OF
ARMED CITIZENS.
At LeavenwOrth.

The following speech was delivered by
Gen Jas. H. Lane, at a meeting in LeaVen-
worth, on Thursday evening, August 9th.
The meeting is SAID to have been the iarg
est ever held in this State. We are indeb ed
to the Times for the report of the speech:
The meeting was called to order bv Sam.
F Atwood, Who nominated Mayor Anthony
for chairman, In the absence of which
gentleman, however. Hon. A. G. Wilder was
chosen president. H. said: "Fellow citi
zens, allow me the honor of introducing a
man who always introduces himself-Gen.
Jun Lane
Gen Lane then came forward, amid the
cheers Of the assembled crowd, and said,
substantially:
FELLOW CITIZENS: l have come back
again, and, all uuprepared, have consented to
address you. 1t is always embarrassing to
speak without subject; but l propose to
take a subject by reading a resolution
| which shall ask you to adopt; not, now
ever. until all have been heard upon it, for
| am we'll aware that there may be differences
of opinion, and | would not urge vote
until the matter has been fully and fairly
discussed; and l am prepared to answer
any one who may wish to speak in opposi-
ton to the resolution, which is as follows:
''ResOLved That SO many of the loyal
men OF the border as can be spared from
home protection be requested to assemble at
Paola. on the 9th day of September, with
such arms and ammunition as they can
~rocure, organized and equipped as follows:
La : twenty men TO select captain, the
company bringing with them wagon, with
one blanket to each man, and fifteen days
subsistence"
In agony of spirit am TO speak of friends
and nerghbors massacred; defenseless and
unprepared sent to meet their God; martyrs,
permit me to say, to a mistaken policy. The
people of Kansas have understood. in their
opposition to the rebellion, what the Govern
ment has found out only within few months.
Missouri has been in our possession for two
years, and for half that time no organization
of Confederate army has existed within
that Slale-iU is within our own lines that
the best men of Kansas have bled and died
unprepared And why? Two years ago
the people of Kansas decided that there was
no safety except in determination. Did you
not? Cheers, and cries of 1--WE did ~
Yes -
astic4lly received from a campaign on the
border, where determination was his battle
f cry. Then, we had man at the head OF
: this Department who announced this policy
, on many fields, and the determination of
, rebel sYmpathizers was the motto of Gen.
) Curtis But a man ''dressed in a little
, brief authority went to Washington, and
said TO the President: The bushwhackers are
the conservatives, and we want a conserva-
tive commander of the Department of Mis-
| souri,, and these men will return to their
allegiance to the country. He Pledged his
word that if the President would remove
5 Curtis and appoint Schofield, it would be a
r guaranty of peace in Missouri. and allow
: the Withdrawal of every Federal soldier
within her border.
Acting upon the representations of Gam
ble, the President appointed conservative
for the purpose of restoring quiet TO the
bushw hackers of Missouri-Gnd the blood
of the people Of Laurence IS chargea6le to TIL
fact that a CONSERVATIVE has controlled tn
military affairs of the Department
= With one accord the people of Kansas arr
), now, as they have been. In favor of the ex
;. termination of the population of the bordeI
/ counties of Missouri, from whence all mer
q who would give US any information hav
{ been driven, or murdered in them. l haV'
y traversed miles of that country, and fount
i the roads f led with refugees, exiles iron
/ their homes because they were not sympa
n thizers with treason. And have traverse'
; the border, on the Missouri side, and seel
their forest Businesses, in which thousand
o OF men may secrete themselves from an.
IS iorce sent out against them; while on on
q side We have wide praires, affording no con
= ceament or protection. If the bush hacker
!. mold the f.rests on the Missouri side, th
people will be compelled to give up the prs
MES on the Kansas side of the border.
Y We attempt t. capture these bush " hackers
do we not find them as peaceable citizens {
20 Missouri, working upon their farms an
= about their houses, with protection papeI
Ill IN their pockets?
ne All Kansas knows. from the history
E. eighteen hundred years, that guerilias car
y not exist without the sympathy and COLT
h. sion of the inhabitants of the country thr'
te. which they roam. Therefore. not for me-
I'D buIchery. not for any exercise of cruelt,
- nor for the qualification of any prejudic.
,er We may Lave f1Imed, but from an instin
u of sell preservation, we said there must
y an utter determination of the bushwhacke
~ on the Missouri side of the line / repea
a. that for self preservation, there shall be e:
Ter termination IN the first Tier of counties
tn. the border of Missouri. A voice Al
-er the second tier. too. Yes Ii EXTERN
er. nation IN the first tier will not secure
IS Kspsas protection TO the lives and proper
of hen ci'izens. let the second tier 20. a.
me t.it ami ier as,sr ties until the obje
Is accomplished aud tue Stsse secure.