Year: 1862




retary, w. P. Isham, Chicago.



Lanes Programme - A Characteristic


Hpeech-Ris views of the COntraba and


Question.


AT Chicago, on Wednesday evening last,
General James II. Lane received an en-
thusiastic welcome from the citizens, and
made Characteristic speech, as follows:


II is no time for talking now, but for &C.
ton. We have consumed eight months in
inactivity, have wasted three hundred mil
lions of dollars and sacrificed twenty-five
thousand lives, and turned this country
upside down in our insane endeavors to put
down this internal rebellion and save
slavery, tell you it can't be done, and
the government has come to that conclusion.
Let me tell you, oonfdentially, that on Mon
day last they opened o new set of books
and came to the conclusion that if the
Union can't be saved and slavery saved,
then down goes slavery. The rebels have
either got to submit to die or to run away.
l tell you the time has come when play
must stop. The rebels must submit or be
sent down forthwith to that hell already
yawning to receive them.


This desirable consummation was effected
by a compromise. The radical men agreed
that the conservative men should carry on
the war according to their notions for eight
months, provided they were allowed the
next eight. The time is up for the conser-
vatives, and they now hand the war and its
conduct over to the radicals, and every con-
servative man should now extend the same
encouragement and support which we gave
to them in the prosecution of their method.


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loyal male slaves who have fed aud clothed
the rebel army and have as good as fought
upon their side. Government now pro
poses that these loyal slaves shall feed and
clothe our army and fight upon our side.
The other day, while Twas talking with the
President, Old Abe said to me- "Lane how
many black men do you want to have to
take care of your army2 l told him as my
army would number $4,000 proposed 10
hare thirty; four thousand coHtraJandS in ad-
ditiOn TO my teqmSterS and 1OdgOn masters. I
consider egery one Of my soldiers engaged in
this glorious crusade Of freedom knight er-
rant, and entitled to his squire to prepare his
food, black his boots, load his gun and take
off his drudgery. Vanity and pride are
necessary adiuncts of the soldier, and do
not propose to lower him by menlal offices,
nor compel him to perform the duties of the
slave. So when shall elevate the slave
| by giving him his freedom and making u
man of him, shall also elevate the soldier
and leave him no work to do but fighting"
| "a voice in the crowd-"What are you GO
ing to do with the niggers?


The General, singing out the owner of
the voice, and pointing his long finger at
him, replied, "Ah, my friend, you are just
the man have been looking for; will tell
you what am going to do with them.
am going to plant them or the soil of the
Gulf coast, after we have got through this
war; let them stay there and cultivate the
land; have government extend protection
to them, as it does to the Indians, and send
superintendents and governors among them
and pay them wages for their labor. There
could be no competition between black and
white labor" He believed, whether the
rebels liked the idea or not, that the blacks
at no distant day would nave possession of
that Gulf country, to which they were &C
climated and physically conditioned. He
proposed to establish free state govern
ments as he went along, aud he could
promise his hearers that either he or the
rebels would be cleaned out.