Year: 1863

from command IN Kansas; and einOo that hour


Senator Jim has had thiAgs very nearly his own


way; and n is neither his fault nor thai Of his


abolition caQ,seirs if he has failed TO become


Omnipotent. All will remember the incredible


reports of victories achieved by certain Kan
| sas commanders known to be in Lanes


interest In several fights IL was gravely


stated that these doughty warriors had killed
! more Of the enemy than their own numbers /;
that two Thousand men had fought twenty thou


sand for two successive days by Shrewsbury
clock" and that the enemy were at length


forced to retire pellmell, leaving unspeakable
amounts of artillery and stores behind them,


aud no less than three thousand of their


dead upon the field. These and similar re-


ports were common at the time when Senator


Jim was laboring to have one of his tools made


major general and placed in undsputed com


mand of the department They we're eagerly


swallowed by the abolition press. and were
quoted In disparagement of the less brilliant


battles fought by conservative generals Of the
regular army. But at last, after the promo
ton sought by Lane had been made, the truth
leaked out through the rebel journals and other
sources, and the country finally woke up to q
knowledge that 1t had been shamefully, per-
sistently and deliberately duped by an organ
ized system Of wholesale lying.


We venture to affirm that there is not
an officer who served with or near Lane
in the early campaign of Missouri,
and not Missouri citizen acquainted
with the facts and entitled to credit for bis state
ments in court of justice who will not testify
to-day, ifcalled upon, that Lanes march through
Missouri at the head OF his Kansas brigade was
simple devastation-a sort Of grand carnival
of highway robbery and burglary-the very
apotheosis Of jayhawking. Political principles
were held in profound contempt so long as there
was good horse TO be stolen, a farmyard to be
devastated, bureau to be ransacked. Q strong
box to be carried off. The slaves Of the most,
devoted UniOnists shared the fate Of those own
ed by generals in Prices army and so far was
Lanes enormity in this respect carried that even
Gen. Hunter-who certainly is not over squeam-
ish where slave property is at stake, though
otherwise an honest man-was compelled to in
terfere and to issue orders of restitution.


lne present. eNOTCS VO secure Vreu OCuOuetQ
removal or to have Kansas erected into sepa-
rate department, under command Of some Jay
hawking general, are only the last manifesto
tious of Senator Jim's desire to obtain control
OF the Quartermaster, Commissary and Pay
departments Of the army in Kansas and the
Territories, with carte blanche for plunder in
the border counties of Missouri and Arkansas.
Red handed, rapacious, utterly INSCRIPTIONS
as to veracity, making joke of homicide, and
ready to base political power on the devasta-
ton of region half as large as Europc-Sena-
tor Jim Lane is a true type of the kind of men
evolved by the workings of abolition princi-
pies in the hotbed of frontier population.
Let our upright President spurn his insolent
pretensons, and kick him and his horde of
harpies into outer darkness. There can be no
peace in Kansas, no quiet or security, except
that of ashes and death, along the Missouri
border, while this great archetype Of the fanati-
cal party is permitted to roam and ravage un-
whipt of justice.