Year: 1862

l

 We find the following in the Chicago

 Tribune given as the substance of a speech

 made by Jim Lane at Chicago on the 22d

 ut. It is the most remarkable and start ling manifesto that has been put forth with- in the last sixty days. Says the Tribune:

 The general expressed his profound grati- tude for the reception and the ardor and en- thusiasm manifested However much he might be delighted, he appreciated the fact that this enthusiasm was not on account of Jim Lane, but the fact that Jim Lane was the advocate of crushing out this rebellion so that we should never have another.

 The uppermost fact in every loyal mans mind was that this Esbsaa js must must 6s crush rus 1 loyal man present who was unwilling to lay down his own life, and sacrifice even his own family to accomplish this result There was no resolution so strong among all true patri- ots as that, demanding that the rebellion must be put down so as to stay down. The curse of slavery has been agitated long | enough, and 1t must now be radically cured

 For eight long months the North has been contending against the rebels, and what have we got to show for it? What results have been accomplished-wha advantage ob- tained? For eight long months the govern ment has been prosecuting this war so as to hurt nobody. It IS time some one was hurt. We were willing enough to kill white men in the South and to allow them to be killed in the North, but we were afraid of commit ting sacrilige if we touched the sacred ne gro. Cries of "that $ so." Yes afraid to touch the sacred negro who has caused the whole of this trouble But let me tell you the government has got over this notion, the people hay egOt oyer itand l think l can say that this crowd has got over it. Applause and cries of ives, we have" We have been permitted to discuss all questions hu- man and divine; all questions of society; of morals and religion to canvass the char acter of God and the nature of his laws, but have been forbidden to say a word about the viper which has stung us in our bosoms.

 It is no time for talking now, but for ac- ton. We have consumed eight months in inactivity, have wasted three hundred mill ions of dollars and sacrificed twenty-five thousand lives, and turned this country up side down in our insane endeavors to put down this informal rebellion and save slave ". l tell you it can't be done and the gov ernment has come to that conclusion. Let | me tell you, confdentially, that on Monday | last they opened new set of books and | came to the conclusion that if the Union l can't be saved and slavery saved, then down | goes slavery. The rebels have either got to | submit, to die or run away. l toll you the | time has come when play must stop The | rebels must submit or be sent down forth ! with to that hell already yawning to receive them

 This desirable consummation was effected . by 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 conservative, | and they now hand the war and its conduct | over to the radicals, and every conservative | man should now extend the same encaur- l agement and support which we gave to them | in the prosecution of their method.

 There arein the South 6S0.000 strOngand l. loyal male slaves who have fed and clothed | the rebel army and have as good as fought | on their side. Government now proposes | that those loyal slaves shall feed anl c0the | our army and fight upon our side. The other | day while l was talking with the President. | Old Abe said to me, Lane, how many | black men do you want to have to take care |

 

 would number 34,000 1 proposed to have | 34000 contrabands in addition to my team sters and wagon-masters. 1 consider every | one of my soldiers engaged in this glorious | crusade of freedom knight errant and en- titled to his squire to prepare his food, black . his boots, load his gun and take off his drudg- | cry. Vanity and pride are necessary ad- | iuncts of the soldier, and do not propose to lower him by menia offices, nor compel | him to perform the duties of the slave SO | while l shall elevate the slave by giving him his freedom and making a man out of him, l shall also elevate the soldier and leave him no work to do but fighting. A voice in the crowd-"What are you going to do with the niggers?"

 The general, ,singlng out the owner of the voice, and pointing his long finger at him, replied "Ah. my friend, you are just the man 1 have been looking for will tell you what l am going to do with them. l am going to plant them on the soil of the gulf coast, after we have got through this war, let them stay there and cultivate the land have government extend pro- tection to them, as it does to the Indians, and send superintendents and governors among them and pay them wages for labor" He believed, whether the rebels liked the idea or not that the blacks at no distant day would have possession of that gulf to which they were acclimated and conditioned. He proposed to es- tablsh free State government as he went along. and he could promise his hearers that either he or the rebels would be cleaned out.

 After urging the benefit of a vigorous prosecution of the war, the general closed by again thanking the crowd for the hand some reception, and retired to the parlors amid most enthusiastic applause, where he was soon engaged in more presentation.