The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-03-03
An EXPLANATION.

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We find in the Topeka Courier, of the IL,
the following Lane speech on the receipt of
the intelligence of the election of his sue
cessor in the u. s. Senate. The grim chief
tain exceedshimself.
Mr.. President Ladies and Gentleme,.-
Fellow citizens of the State Of fKansas-Don't
you know me, Sim Lanes" Why have
been ss common as household words in
Kansas Ioryanized the old free State party
am ats father! Great God! defend
Kansas in its infancy and / love Kansas
| Yes, as a mother loves new born babe SO
Jim Lane loves Kansas! ar
The old border ruffians fends of hell that
sought to plant slavery upon the soil OF
Kansas, the land of the vine and the fg
tree, were by me hurled back and defeated,
and Kansas secured to freedom. And right
here let me deny having ever injured any
man, or hurt any woman, and il any man
withstand up here and say that Jim Lane is
corrupt or a dictator, will brand him as a
liar, scoundrel willful falsier and william, and
will craw the accursed, foul, damnable
falsehood down his internal black throat!--
Jim Lane corrupt? Great God! If there
is any one thing that all the people know
better than all others, it is that / am an
honest man
O my dear ladies, how do love YOU
But love liberty better. The little seed
sown in ffty-six has grown up in my heart,
till from its tall, straight aud lofty trunk,
can now be cut ties for the Underground
Railroad if il were necessary. But, thank
God, all slaves are now free, and here de-.
clare that / am the father of the procla-
nation that struck from them their vile
shackles. Great God
1t is said that l came here border ruff
fan, and prejudiced against color. In an
swer, refer you to my cradle history, my
sore shin story, and my Cherokee act in the
ravine. s..
This head, once covered with curly hair,
is now bald, but God forbid that l should
deny my African origin.
Why, then, should be made the victim
of this infamous fraud2 Great God! My
enemies can't kill me. They have tried,
but my family, if am not injured worse
than I have been, may be larger. But here
1 am obliged TO speak In relation to the
humiliating position am at present placed
in. Shorn Of my Samson-like strength, by
the acts of the most damnable Legislature
that ever assembled at any time, IN any
State. Great God what have been their
acts PN tell you! ges.
Assembled on the 18th day of January,
A. D. 1862, they organized by electing my
enemies to all the important offices. And
then, and there, in Topeka, the capital OF
Kansas, Kansas redeemed, converted and
baptized by me, Jim Lane, they entered In
to a scheme of hellsh villainy, more black
ened with "usurpation' and fraud than any
thug history has ever chronicled; and after
twenty nine days of accursed drunkenness,
hellish debauchery, and infamous bribery,
they did there-reaching the climax of Cor
ruption-consummate amid the widest
bowling of men, made fiends by the contin-
nal effect and influence of the whisky fur
nished by that pro slavery grocery-keePer,
Tom Carney, elect him, Tom Carney, to
the United States Senate. Great God!
The people will bury them beneath the
burning lava of their indignation deeper
than the corrupt city of Pompeii was
buried eighteen hundred years ago, by the
volcano that lowered above it, as the Nigh
ty and irresistible wrath of the people tow
ers aloft above this fraud and the men that
consummated 1t. GREAT GOD!!!