Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-03-07
An ExnianaiIou.

We fnd in the Topeka Tribune Of the 18th,
the following LANE speech on the receipt of the
intelligence of the election OF bis successor in the
United States Senate. The grim old chieftain
exceeds himself:
Mr.. President. Ladies and Gentlemen: Fellow
Citizens of the State of Kansas: Don't you know
me, "Jm Lanel" Why. | have been as cormon
as household words in Kansas. / organized the
old Free State party. i am its fatherl Great
Godll | defended Kansas in its infancy. and
love Kansas. Yes, mother loves her new
born babe so Jim Lane loves Kansas
The old border ruffian fends of hell that
sought TO plant slavery upon the soil Of Kansas,
the land OF the vine and fig tree, were by me
hurled back and defeated. and Kansas secured to
freedom. And right here let ne deny having
injured anv man or hurt any woman, and if any
man will stand up here and say that Jim Lane
is corrupt or dictator, | will brand him as a
liar scoundrel, wllful talsitier and william: and
| will cram the accursed. foul, damna5e false
hood down his internal black throat Jim Lane
corrupt Great Godl If there is any one thing
that all the people know better than all others, it
is that am an honest man.
Oh my dear ladies. how do love you. But
love liberty better The little seed sown in fittv-
six has grown up in my heart, till from its tall,
straight and lofty trunk. can now be cut ties for
the under ground railroad if it were necessary.
But thank God, all slaves are ree and here
declare that am the father of the proclamation
that struck from them their vile shackles Great
Cod
Ii is said came here border rufian, and
prejudced against color. In answer, refer YOU
to my cradle history. my sore shin story. and my
Cherokee act in the ravne.
This head. once covered with curly hair, is now
bald. but Gcd forbid that | should deay my AT
rican origin.
Why then should / be made the victim of
this Infamous frard Great God NV enc.
mics can't kill me. They have tried but my
family, if | am not injured worse than have
been. may be larger. But here | am obliged
to speak in relation to the humiliating position
| at present placed. Shorn of my
Sampson-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. I'll tell YOU yes.
Assembled ON the 18th day of January, A. ID.
1864, they organized by electing my enemies to
all the important Offices. And then and there in
Topeka. the capital of Kansas, Kansas redeem
ed, converted and baptsed by me, Jim Lane
they entered into a scheme Of hellish vlany
more blackening with "usurpation" and fraud
than any other thing history has ever chronicled
and after twenty nine days of accused drunken
ness. helish debauchery and infamous bribery,
they did tbefe-reachiag the climax Of corrup-
tion-consummate. amid the widest bowling of
men, made fiends 10y the continual effect and in
auence of the whisky furnished by that pro-
slavery grocery keeper. Tom Carney. elect him,
Tom Carney, to the United States Senate. Great
Cod!
The people will bury them beneath the burn
ing lava OF their Indignation deeper than the cor
rupt city OF Pompeii buried eighteen hun
dred years ago by the volcano that lowered above
it as the mighty aud irresistible wrath of the PEG
pie towers aloft above this fraud and the men
that consummated il. GREAT GOD.