{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3685", "width": "2473", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Qass\\nBook\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3503", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3503", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "wentietb Century\\n0a$$ic$\\nVol. I. No. 2.\\nOctober, 1899.\\nW/\\nJames\\nHenry\\nLane\\nLJl\\nIssued Monthly.\\nPrice, $1 per year.\\nCRANE COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,\\n110-112 EAST EIGHTH STREET, TOPEKA, KAN.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "THE\\nTWENTIETH CENTURY\\nCLASSICS.\\nIssued monthly, under the editorial supervision of W. M. Davidson,\\nSuperintendent of Schools of the city of Topeka.\\nThe object is to furnish special reading of a high order for the use of\\nhigh schools, teachers, and for select reading.\\nThe first year s work will be divided into three groups, and be given\\nentirely to the following local series\\nHistory i. John Brown of Kansas.\\n2. Jim Lane of Kansas.\\n3. Eli Thayer and the Emigrant Aid Society.\\n4. Territorial Governors of Kansas.\\nLiterature, i. Kansas in Poetry and Song.\\n2. Selections from Ironquill.\\n3. Kansas in Literature.\\n4. Kansas in History.\\nNature i. Plants and Flowers of Kansas.\\nStudy 2. Birds of Kansas.\\nGroup. 3. Geography of Kansas.\\n4. Minerals of Kansas.\\nSubscription price will be $1.00 per year in advance, postage paid. Sin-\\ngle numbers, 10 cents. Clubs of six will be entitled to one subscription\\nfree.\\nWe invite subscriptions. No expense will be spared by the editorial\\nmanagement or by the publishers to make this series of the highest\\nstandard.\\nCRANE COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,\\nTOPEKA.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nAND SCHOOL READINGS\\nUNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OK\\nW. M. DAVIDSON\\nSUPERINTENDENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF TOPEKA, KANSAS\\nJAMES HENRY LANE", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS AND SCHOOL READINGS\\nJAMES HENRY LANE\\nTHE GRIM CHIEFTAIN OF KANSAS\\nWILLIAM ELSEY CONNELLEY\\nAuthor of The Provisional Government of Nebraska Territory\\nBefore Ood, I believe I shall see the day ivhen this black and brutal party shall\\nbe broken in pieces, and from the waters of the Yellowstone to the warm reaves of the\\nChilf one long line of free States shall rear themselves, an impenetrable barrier, against\\nwhich the Western waves of slavery sliall dash themselves in vain. UNTIL THEN J\\nAM A CRUSADER FOR FREEDOM J a^es Henkt Lane.\\nCrane Company, Publishers\\nToPEKA, Kansas\\n1899", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "-^0^\\nX\\nvfc^\\n48556\\nCopyrighted by\\nCrane Company, Topeka, Kansas\\n1899\\nTWO COPIES RI-CEIVED,\\ncr ron,\\nSECOND COPY,\\nNui/ L 6 im", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "OPPORTUNITY.\\nMaster of human destinies am I.\\nFame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait.\\nCities and fields I walk I penetrate\\nDeserts and seas remote, and passing by\\nHovel and mart and palace soon or late\\nI knock unhidden once at every gate!\\nIf sleeping, wake if feasting, rise before\\nI turn away. It is the hour of fate.\\nAnd they who follow me reach every state\\nMortals desire, and conquer every foe\\nSave Death; but those who doubt or hesitate,\\nCondemned to failure, penury, and woe.\\nSeek me in vain and uselessly implore.\\nI answer not, and I return no more!\\nJohn James Inqalls.\\n(5)", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Kansas will stamp upon the civilization of the age a hundred years\\nof history before another parallel is produced to that iveird, mysterious\\nand partially insane, partially inspired, and poetic character, James\\nH. Lane. It is not strange that his birthplace should be questioned.\\nIt is in keeping with his wayward, fitful life of passion and strife, of\\nstorm and sunshine a mysterious existence that now dwelt on the\\nmountain-tops of expectation and the very summit of highest realiza-\\ntion, and anon in the valley of despondency and deepest gloom. Seven\\ncities claim the honor of Horner^ s birth. I do not think a great\\nman ever lived who was not born of a strong, naturally intellectual,\\npoetic and emotional mother. Milton W. Reynolds.\\n(6)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY.\\nStates are not great\\nExcept as men may make them\\nMen are not great except they do and dare.\\nBut States, like men,\\nHave destinies that take them\\nThat bear them on, not knowing why or where.\\nThe high order of Kansas society is the result of the\\ngreat intelligence and the exalted genius of the founders of\\nthe State. Men of education, high moral worth and refined\\ntaste, came to Kansas at the very first\u00e2\u0080\u0094 even with immi-\\ngrating Indian trihes when it was still a part of the In-\\ndian country, and Missouri Territory/ It would seem\\nthat the land always had a fascination for men of talent,\\nlearning, genius. To herself Kansas has always tied her\\nchildren with an attachment which amounts to devotion.\\nOne of the causes for this is, that the history of Kansas is\\nan inspiration. This State was born of a struggle for\\nliberty and freedom. So fierce were the fires kindled here\\nin these causes that they purified the nation. It is only\\nnecessary for us to be well informed in the history of our\\nState to make us love her, to make us devoted to her, to\\nmake us patriotic. The history of Kansas is full of men\\nwho will grow in stature as long as man loves liberty.\\n(7)", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8 PREFATORY\\nTlie jDrocesses of the evolution of so glorious a common-\\nwealtli from chaos and disorder are worth our closest atten-\\ntion. Thej deserve from us devoted study and contempla-\\ntion. By the deeds and achievements of our fathers should\\nwe be inspired to a faithful performance of every duty\\ndemanded for the preservation of our liberties, secured to\\nus by their sacrifices, their tears, and their blood; and\\nsacredh intrusted to us to be guarded for the coming gen-\\nerations.\\nThe enlightened citizen is a good citizen. When every\\ncitizen is a sovereign, liberty can only be preserved and\\ntransmitted to posterity by an intelligent and educated\\njDCople knowing well how it was secured and what it cost.\\nIn this principle lies the foundation of our system of\\npopular and universal education. The genius of our insti-\\ntutions makes it a crime against the national life to permit\\na child to grow up in ignorance. Men are patriotic as they\\nare enlightened, devoted to the institutions of their country\\nas they understand and appreciate them. Old systems and\\nancient nations perished because the great masses of their\\npeople were kept in ignorance, servitude, and penury.\\nGreat men leave the impress of their genius upon the\\ninstitutions they help to found. To rightly understand the\\ninstitutions of our State, it is necessary that we should have\\nsome knowledge of the men who builded it. In this view\\nthe study of the life of the late Senator James Henry Lane\\nbecomes to us a duty.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PREFATORY\\n9\\nThat Senator Lane did service so valiant, so vital in the\\nnoble cause of freedom that he should be accorded the grati-\\ntude and love not only of this but of all the coming genera-\\ntions in Kansas and the nation, has long been the almost\\nunanimous opinion of the people of this State. The con-\\nsciousness that this is true, grows.\\nThere were giants in those days and in the imminent,\\ndeadly breach towered the form of James Henry Lane\\nabove them all. His life is interwoven with that of our\\nState. As she grows in power and place, so must grow his\\nfame.\\nIn the preparation of this paper I have had the kindly\\nassistance of Judge F. G. Adams, x^o work on Kansas\\nsubjects can be written, if it requires any research what-\\never, without diligent search in the mines of material\\naccumulated in the archives of the State Historical Society\\nby the long and toilsome labor of Secretary Adams.\\nW. E. C.\\nToPEKA, Kansas, October 7, 1899.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE FORMATION OF KANSAS\\nTERRITORY.\\nThan in our State\\nNo illustration apter\\nIs seen or found of faith and hope and will.\\nTake up her story\\nEvery leaf and chapter\\nContains a record that conveys a thrill.\\nThe genius and indomitable will of Lane liberated a\\nland.\\nLet ns follow the development of the Territory from the\\npurchase of Louisiana from France. This was April 30th,\\n1803. Possession of Louisiana was delivered to the United\\nStates December 20th, 1803, at New Orleans. The United\\nStates did nothing toward exercising authority in Louisiana\\nuntil March 10th, 1804, when Amos Stoddard assumed the\\nduties of Governor of Upper Louisiana. On March\\n26th, 1804, Congress divided the territory acquired by the\\npurchase of Louisiana into two parts. One of these was\\nnamed the Territory of Orleans, and comprised that part\\nof the country south of the north line of the present State\\nof Louisiana. The remainder of this vast expanse was\\nerected into the District of Louisiana and attached to\\nIndiana Territory for the purposes of government. On\\n(11)", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nMarch 3d, 1805, Congress changed the name of the ])is-\\ntrict of Louisiana to that of the Territory of Louis-\\niana/ and detached it from Indiana Territory. Presi-\\ndent Jefferson appointed James Wilkinson its Governor.\\nIt retained this status until June 4th, 1812, when Con-\\ngress changed its name to Missouri Territory, and formu-\\nlated for it a system of government. The common law\\nof England was declared by the Legislature to be the law\\nof the land. In 1819 the Territory of Arkansas was\\nformed with the present boundaries of that State. In\\n1820-21 Missouri was admitted as a State with its present\\nboundaries, except that it did not include the Platte\\nPurchase, which was added in 1836, in violation of the\\nterms of the Missouri Compromise. The residue of the\\nvast area remained de facto as well as de jure Missouri\\nTerritory. It extended from Texas to British ]^orth Amer-\\nica, and was bounded west by the watershed of the Valley\\nof the Mississippi, It had no capital no seat of govern-\\nment, and very few white inhabitants.\\nThis old Missouri Territory was divided by act of\\nCongress June 30th, 1834. It was declared Indian coun-\\ntry, ^what it had in fact always been, and came to be\\nspoken of as the Indian Territory. The south division\\nwas that portion south of the north line of the lands as-\\nsigned to the Osages produced east to the west line of the\\nState of Missouri; and was attached to Arkansas. The\\nremainder of the Territory of Missouri was placed under\\nthe jurisdiction of the United States District Court of\\nMissouri. In 1834 a joart of Missouri Territory, on the\\nnorth, was set off to the Territory of Michigan. What re-\\nmained was still the Territory of Missouri, and so remained", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 13\\nuntil the passage of the Kansas-N^ebraska bill, May 30,\\n1S54. Then its existence Avas terminated. All tliese j cars\\nit had a government, although an extremely limited one,\\nwith all its functions condensed into the dicta of tlie\\nUnited States District Court of Missouri.\\nThe want of a more effective government was recog-\\nnized. In 1844 the Secretary of War recommended the\\norganization of a Territory. A bill for this purpose was\\nintroduced in the Senate, but not passed. Another effort\\nin this direction was made in 1848, and failed. Up to\\nthis time there had been no absolute need for a Territorial\\ngovernment. But in the years 1849 and 1850 it is esti-\\nmated that one hundred thousand persons passed over the\\nplains to California. Such a knowledge was obtained of\\nthe beauty and fertility of the land, that popular clamor\\narose for its opening to settlement. Even the emigrant\\ntribes of Indians began an agitation in this direction, in\\nwhich the Wyandots at the mouth of the Kansas river took\\nthe lead. During the first session of the Thirty-second\\nCongress, in the winter of 1851-52 and in the spring of\\n1852, these people petitioned Congress for a Territorial\\norganization. IS^o attention being paid to their petitions,\\nthey decided to elect a delegate to the second session of this\\nCongress, and did so elect Abelard Guthrie, October 12th,\\n1852. Toward this action was first shown the opposition\\nof the slave pow-er to the erection of a Territory west of\\nMissouri.\\nGuthrie secured the passage through the House of a bill\\nto organize ISTebraska Territory, with bounds which include\\nKansas and ^Nebraska as now constituted, and also portions\\nof Colorado and Wyoming. This bill failed in the Senate,", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nbut by a comparatively close vote. It forced the attention\\nof the country and Congress to the demand of the people\\nfor a Territorial government.\\nSenator Benton, of Missouri, introduced in the Senate,\\nin 1850, a bill for the location and construction of a great\\nnational highway to the Pacific ocean. The discovery of\\ngold in California made the building of this road impera-\\ntive. Two routes were proposed for this road. Senator\\nBenton favored the one leading up the Kansas river. Illi-\\nnois, Iowa and the free States generally favored Council\\nBluffs as the starting-point. Fort Smith had been proposed\\nas an initial point, also, but it was soon seen that the road\\nmust be built either up the Platte or the Kansas valleys.\\nMr. Guthrie acted for Senator Benton in his movement\\nfor a government for I^ebraska, as the country was be-\\nginning to be called. He was a Wyandot by marriage and\\nadoption. Upon his return from Washington his tribe de-\\ntermined to organize a Provisional government for Ne-\\nbraska Territory at the anniversary of their Grreen Corn\\nPeast, August 9th, 1853. Afterwards it was resolved to\\nform the Provisional government at an earlier date, which\\nwas done; the date being July 26th, 1853. The conven-\\ntion was held in the Wyandot council house, in what is now\\nKansas City, Kansas. William Walker was selected as\\nProvisional Governor. A preamble and resolutions were\\nadopted which served the Provisional government as a Con-\\nstitution. An election for Delegate to Congress was held.\\nThree men claimed the election, but no Delegate was ad-\\nmitted to a seat. However, all appeared there, and urged\\nthe establishment of Nebraska (Kansas) Territory.\\n[The foregoing account is condensed from Connelley s Provi-\\nsional Government of Nebraska Territory.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "JAMES IIENKY LANE 15\\nII.\\nAt the assembling of Congress in 1853 it was realized\\nthat something mnst bo done with ISTebraska (Kansas).\\nSome action by Congress was demanded from every quar-\\nter. What that action should be was the question with the\\nextremists of the slave power. The action by the people\\nthemselves had. been opposed by the partisans of the radi-\\ncal Democracy in Missouri. True, they had not broken\\nover the border in savage and brutal bands that was re-\\nserved for a later day. But they had threatened Guthrie\\nAvith arrest at Fort Leavenworth and also to use the\\nmilitary if necessary to prevent or suppress the movement\\nfor a Provisional government.\\nThe South was not averse to the opening of the country\\nto settlement, nor to the erection of Territorial govern-\\nments, if slavery could in some way be made a fundamental\\ninstitution of some of them.\\nThe pledged faith of the nation in the form of the\\nMissouri Compromise confronted them. Their objections\\nto opening the country to settlement could be overcome\\nonl}^ by the repeal of this sacred compact. As no other\\nway appeared, to this unwelcome and dangerous step did\\nSenator Douglas now set himself. The two things which\\nnerved him were the extreme and radical element now con-\\ntrolling the South, and on his part a desire to attain to the\\nPresidency. Pie hoped the one would become the means\\nof securing the other, lie was in trepidation as to the\\neffect in the ISTorth, but without the support of the South\\nhis ambition were better flung away altogether.\\nTime for decisive action was at hand. The matter", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\npressed. As to who first entertained tlie idea of proposing\\nthe measure of repeal, we are not concerned. In 1852\\nSenator Atchison, of Missouri, expressed the belief that\\nthe slaves then in ^Nebraska (Kansas) were free by the\\noperation of the Missouri Compromise, and asked its repeal\\nbefore he would consent to have anything done by Congress\\nfor the country. Some believed that it had been in effect\\nrepealed by the Compromise of 1850, when the doctrine\\nof popular sovereignty was first enacted into law. Senator\\nDouglas finally embodied this idea in a bill.\\nThis bill he introduced in January, 1854. It provided\\nfor the erection of but one Territory, to be called l^ebraska,\\nembracing Kansas and ]^ebraska and the country west of\\nthem to the Rocky Mountains. This bill was recalled by\\nSenator Douglas, who then brought i:i another, the now\\nfamous Kansas Nebraska Bill, providing for two Terri-\\ntories, Kansas and ISTebraska. It became a law May 30th,\\n1864.\\nKansas here took definite form. Its eastern, northern\\nand southern boundaries were as they remain to-day; its\\nwestern limit was the summit of the Kocky Mountains.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE LAND\\nNow Nature hangs her mantle green\\nOn every blooming tree,\\nAnd spreads her sheets o daisies white\\nOut o er the grassy lea.\\nBurns.\\nIt may be well for its to inquire what this country is\\nlike, which was so unexpectedly made an entity and prom-\\nised a place in the sisterhood of the Rej^nblic.\\nAt the time of which we write the wild man possessed it.\\nTo him its undulating fertility was of no value except to\\nthat degree in which it produced wild animals for him to\\npursue. In its solitude it was a land of plenty. The Osage\\nand Kansas Indians were required to make so little effort\\nto obtain food that they became too lazy to maintain the\\nset forms of their language. Words were shortened and\\nsentences abbreviated. Rolling herds of buffalo grazed\\non the swelling prairies, rising and falling like the billows\\nof the sea. When stampeded their hoof -beats rumbled like\\nlow and distant thunder. The wild flowers flamed on the\\nmeadow-grass. The leaves of the cottonwood quaked and\\nshimmered on the borders of the serpentine streams. The\\nbroad-headed, sliort-boled bur-oak made the prairies along\\nthe streams and the rich bottom lands look like orchards.\\nThe autumnal sumac set every hill aflame. Where the\\nswarthy squaw tilled the soil Avith a bone ho a harvest\\n-3 (17)", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nbloomed and the yellow maize liung the Indian lodges with\\na golden tapestry.\\nThe cheeriness and charm\\nOf forest and of farm\\nAre merging into colors sad and sober\\nThe hectic frondage drapes\\nThe nut trees and the grapes\\nSeptember yields to opulent October.\\nThe cotton woods that fringe\\nThe streamlets take the tinge\\nThrough opal haze the sumac bush is burning\\nThe lazy zephyrs lisp,\\nThrough cornfields dry and crisp,\\nTheir fond regrets for days no more returning.\\nThe Valley of the Kaw is more fertile than that of the\\nNile, and its bursting- granaries furnish loaves for all peo-\\nples. Great as has been our progress, the possibilities of\\nthis State are not realized to-day. The land is sim-kissed,\\nand no disease is indigenous to its plains.\\nMan is destined to reach the highest intellectual plane\\non the prairies of Kansas, and in our progress how much\\ndo we owe to the heroic deeds of our fathers Well might\\nthey say:\\nWe have made the State of Kansas,\\nAnd to-day she stands complete\\nFirst in freedom, first in wheat;\\nAnd her future years will meet\\nRipened hopes and richer stanzas.\\nThe boys and girls of the Kansas homes are most fortu-\\nnate. The generous and fertile farms pour golden streams\\ninto bursting barns. The school-house and the church", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 19\\ncrown every hill. Xo saloon desecrates the dale. The\\nrich landscape inspires the poet to son^\\\\\\nO ]\\\\[arniaton O ^Marmaton\\nFrom out the rich autumnal west\\nThere creeps a misty, pearly rest,\\nAs through an atmosphere of dreams.\\nAlong thy course, O Marmaton,\\nA rich September sunset streams.\\nThy purple sheen,\\nThrough prairies green,\\nFrom out the burning west is seen.\\nI watch thy fine.\\nApproaching line.\\nThat seems to flow like blood-red wine\\nFresh from the vintage of the sun.\\nThe Kansas-Xebraska hill dedicated this land to human\\nslavery. Another people, than our fathers thought to find\\na home here, and foist slavery ui^on the State forever.\\nSenator Ingalls pictures the land as they would have made\\nit:\\nIt is appalling to reflect what the condition of Kansas\\nwould have been to-day had its destiny been left in the\\nhands of Shang^ and those of his associates who first did\\nits voting and attenqjted to frame its institutions. A few\\nhundred mush-eating chawbacons, her only population,\\nwould still have been chasing their razor-backed hogs\\nthrough the thickets of black-jack, and jugging for cattish\\nin the chutes of the Missouri and the Kaw.\\n*A name by which the Missourian is contemptuously described by the Senator.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "BLACKENING SKIES.\\nmen\\nWho meeting Caesar s self, would slap his back,\\nCall him Old Horse and challenge to drink.\\nThe white population of tlie South in the days of slav-\\nery was antithetical. The aristocratic planter was edu-\\ncated, refined, high-minded, gallant, gracious. This class\\nconstituted an aristocracy based upon slavery and the\\nwealth produced by the cultivation of large plantations.\\nThe wealth of the entire South, outside of the Appalachian\\nMountain districts, belonged to this class. Educated, bred\\nin the belief in the slavery of human beings, they saw\\nnaught but right in this monstrous institution. This aris-\\ntocracy taught that labor was degrading; any white man\\nwho labored was regarded by them with contempt, hatred.\\nWhere slaves were numerous there resided a class of\\npoor whites contemptuously called by the master and slave\\nalike poor white trash. Slavery, while leaving them\\nfree, had reduced them to a social degradation even below\\nthat of the slaves themselves. Low as was their social\\nplane, their moral plane was beneath it. Their opposition\\nto education and refinement extended to a detestation of\\npersons aspiring to or possessing them. So irresponsible\\nwere they that the laws of the land or those intrusted with\\ntheir execution permitted this class to be a law unto them-\\nselves, and took no more note of their petty crimes than of\\n(30)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 21\\nthe habits of the starved and scrawny swine they herded.\\nThe origin of this people has been the enigma of the times,\\nbut it is now believed they are the descendants of the\\nmongrel folk dumped on the eastern shores of North Caro-\\nlina from the slums and prison-houses of all Europe in the\\nfounding of that colony. They possessed none of the quali-\\nfications necessary for hardy pioneers, and drifted aim-\\nlessly, a menace to every community in their path.^*\\nWhile this people possessed no slave, it was the most\\npersistent believer in the righteousness of slavery. Held\\nin the deepest contempt by the aristocracy, these dregs of\\nhumanity were ready to do their every command. Murder\\nand arson ^vere for them a pastime, and these were commit-\\nted with impunity at the bidding of their masters, who con-\\ntrolled them as absolutely and with more ease than they\\ndid their actual slaves. By the year 1850 these poor\\nwhites were drifted against the western State line of Mis-\\nsouri in great numbers. With them were demoralized and\\ndegraded men from every walk of life. Senator Ingalls\\nsays they hated an abolitionist, and feared him next to\\na free negro.\\nUpon the passage of the Kansas-lSTebraska bill this\\nhuman driftwood floated in over the eastern portions of\\nKansas. They broke over the State line by thousands, and\\nselected claims. They selected the choice lands, and\\noften pretended to select claims for others, who could\\nnot come. That the Indian tribes still owned mucli of the\\nland mattered not at all to them. Having located, many\\nof them returned to Missouri, leaving some of their number\\nto murder any who dared to molest their illegally made se-\\nlections, or claims. A part of the history of Douglas\\n*See notes 1 to 7 at end of this chapter.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22\\nTWENTIETH CENTUItY CLASSICS\\ncounty is an account of the ruffianly actions of these same\\nmen in relation to claims/ and their efforts to prevent\\nFree-State men from settling tliere, and to drive away such\\nas did scuttle.\\nThis class acted under orders from such men as Price,\\nAtchison, and Stringfellow.\\nThe indignation aroused in the ^N orth hy the passage of\\nthe Kansas- T^Tebraska bill and the manifest intention of the\\nSouth to make Kansas a slave State at all hazards, caused\\nthe organization of societies in many of the Northern\\nStates having as their object the assistance of emigrants\\ninto Kansas who were opposed to slavery. The l^ew Eng-\\nland Emigrant Aid Society was the only one of these which\\ncame to be a factor of any potency in the winning of Kan-\\nsas. Its organization and its public and published declara-\\ntion that it proposed to make Kansas a free State, were\\nnotice to the South and to the advocates of slavery that the\\nfree States of the ^North and their people would contest for\\nthe soil of Kansas.\\n^N^orthern emigrants to Kansas preceded the arrival of\\nGovernor Keeder by the time from July to October. Indi-\\nviduals had arrived before the first company came in July.\\nThey usually avoided the Missouri border in the selection\\nof homes, and sought the interior of the Territory; they\\nsettled in greatest number south of the Kansas river. They\\ncarried with them little property, but tliey brought some-\\nthing of infinitely greater value simple and blameless\\nlives and high moral purposes. Two things they came for\\none to find homes for themselves and their children, the\\nother to make a free State of the land in which these homes\\nwere cast. And to sustain these they possessed the spirit", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": ".TAMKR HENRY T.ANE 23\\nwhich inspiml tlic iiiartvrs. Vhvy sncce( (hMl. In llic stern\\nand forbidding- face of an opposition such as lias raivlv\\nl)oen encountered hy a migrating people^ and Ix ing, too,\\nalways in tlie minority/^- they stamped the institutions of\\ntheir chosen land with the. aggressive spirit and ideas of the\\nPuritans. They set their faces against the evil of the cen-\\ntury. The two extreme, antagonistic principles of our gov-\\nernment met and battled for the mastery of the Republic\\nhere on the Plains. The Puritan idea with its unconquer-\\nable vitality triumphed.\\nIn the coming of Governor Reeder did the pro-slavery\\npeople see the arrival of their champion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 their salvation.\\nHe was awaited with hot and feverish impatience. ]\\\\ris-\\nsourians and their partisans expected him to become at\\nonco the mouthpiece of their creed, the promulgator of\\ntheir views, the sheet-anchor of their hopes in the fixing\\nof slavery permanently in Kansas, now so happily estab-\\nlished there in theory and in law. They assumed that as a\\nmatter of course all the machinery and power of the Ad-\\nministration would be exerted to this end through Governor\\nReeder s administration of the Territorial government.\\nThat he would for a moment dare to run counter to their\\nwishes had not entered their minds. It was supposed and\\nbelieved that he would consult their leaders, Price, Atclii-\\nson, Stringfellow, and others, to see what they desired, then\\nact accordingly.\\nThe first intimation that they might be disappointed, to\\nan extent at least, came when Governor Reeder made a tour\\nof the Territory to fjrocure information. Information, m-\\n*That is, the New England people were never a majority.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\ndeed What he desired of information which could not be\\nsupplied by the slave leaders of the border, w^as beyond the\\ncomprehension of the turbulent Missourian.\\nThe Governor tells us that the citizens of Missouri were\\nvehemently urging the immediate election of a legislature,\\nbut that for good reasons (which he gives) he determined\\nto first call an election for Delegate to Congress. It was\\ncalled for JSTovember 29th, 1854.\\nGeneral Atchison gave expression to the policy to be pur-\\nsued by the Missourians in this election. He said\\nThe organic law of the Territory vests in the people\\nwho reside in it the power to form all its municipal regula-\\ntions. They can either admit or exclude slavery and this\\nis the only Question that materially affects our interests.\\nUpon this subject it would be unnecessary for me to\\nsay one word, if things had been left to their ordinary and\\nnatural course. Men heretofore migrated and settled new\\nTerritories upon this continent, from the Atlantic to the\\nPacific ocean, following the parallels of latitude, and carry-\\ning with them their habits, customs and institutions. But\\nnow new laws are to govern new lines, new habits, customs\\nand institutions are to be substituted, and that, too, by\\nforce of money and organization.\\nThe ^N orth is to be turned to the South, and all the\\nTerritories of the United States to be abolitionized colo-\\nnies are to be j^lanted in all places where slavery and slave\\ninstitutions can best be assailed and Kansas is now a favor-\\nite position, from whence they can now assail Missouri,\\nArkansas, and Texas. Men are being sent from Massa-\\nchusetts and elsewhere for the avowed purpose of excluding", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 25\\nslaveholders from Kansas, and, as a matter of course, to\\nsteal and protect fugitive slaves. The first thing, however,\\nthey have come to do is to throw into Kansas a majority of\\nvotes to control the ballot-boxes.\\nThis is the policy of the abolitionists. These means\\nare used by them. Their money and all other influences\\nthey can bring to bear are to be exerted for this purpose.\\nGen. Atchison said further My mission here to-day is\\nif possible to awaken the people of this county to the danger\\nahead, and to suggest the means to avoid it. The people of\\nKansas, in their first elections, will decide the question\\nwhether or not the slaveholder is to be excluded, and it\\ndepends upon a- majority of the votes cast at the polls.\\nNow, if a set of fanatics and demagogues, a thousand miles\\noff, can afford to advance their money and exert every nerve\\nto abolitionize the Territory and exclude the slaveholder,\\nwhen they have not the least personal interest in the matter,\\nwhat is your duty? ^Vlien you reside within one day s\\njourney of the Territory, and when your peace, your quiet\\nand your property depend upon your action, you can, with-\\nout an exertion, send 500 of your young men who will vote\\nin favor of your institutions.\\nShould each county in the State of Missouri only do\\nits duty, the question will be decided quietly and peaceably\\nat the ballot-box. If we are defeated, then IMissouri and the\\nother Southern States will have shown themselves recreant\\nto their interests, and will have deserved their fate. The\\nabolitionists will have nothing to gain or lose. It is an ab-\\nstraction with them. We have much to gain and much to\\nlose.\\nIf you burn my barn, I sustain a great loss, but you", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nTWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\ngain nothing. So it is with the colonization societies and\\nthe dupes they send to abolitionize Kansas.\\nIf these abolitionists steal your negroes, they gain noth-\\ning. The negroes are injured; you are ruined. So much\\ngreater is the motive for activity on your part.\\nFellow-citizens, we should not be apathetic when so\\nmuch is involved. We should be up and doing. We must\\nmeet organization with organization. We must meet those\\nphilanthropic knaves peaceably at the ballot-box and out-\\nvote them.\\nIf we cannot do this, it is an omen that the institution\\nof slavery must fall in this and the other Southern States,\\nbut it will fall after much strife, civil war and bloodshed.\\nIf abolitionism, under its present auspices, is estab-\\nlished in Kansas, tliere will be constant strife and bloodshed\\nbetween Kansas and Missouri. Xegro-stealing will be a\\nprinci]de and a vocation. It will be the policy of philan-\\nthropic knaves, until they force the slaveholder to abandon\\nMissouri nor will it be long until it is done. You cannot\\nwatch your stables to prevent thieves from stealing your\\nhorses and mules neither can you watch your negro quar-\\nters to prevent your neighbors from seducing away and\\nstealing your negroes.\\nIf Kansas is abolitionized, all men who love peace and\\nquiet will leave us, and all emigration to Missouri from the\\nslave States will cease. We will go either to the i^orth or\\nto tlie South. Kor myself, I can gather together my goods\\nand depart as soon as the most active among you. I have\\nneither wife nor child to impede my flight. In a hybrid\\nState we cannot live we cannot be in a constant quarrel\\nin a constant state of suspicion of our neighbors. This", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "JAMES ITENRY LANE 27\\nfeeling is ciitoi-taiiicd a lar ])()rti()ii of iiiankind V ry-\\nwhere.\\nTo Ruoceed in iiiakini Tvaiisas a slave Territory, it is\\nnot sufficient for the South to talk, Init to act; to go peact;-\\nably and inh.ahit tlie Territory and peaceably to vote and\\nsettle the question according to the principles of the Doug-\\nlas bilk\\nSuch speeches were made everywhere in western Mis-\\nsouri. Many of them were more radical and inflammatory.\\nThe organization resorted to was the secret society which\\nmet in Blue Lodges. Money was contributed with wdiich\\nto buy whisky and hire men to come from long distances to\\nvote and de1)auch Kansas. At this election the border-\\nruffians first voted in Kansas, as it was their first opportu-\\nnity to do so. Fifty miles inland they seized the polls and\\nvoted for Whitfield, the pro-slavery candidate, who was\\nelected by practical unanimity. The madness and folly of\\nthe action of the ruffians are best realized when we see that\\nWhitfield would have been elected by a large majority had\\nthey remained at home.\\nIn January following, Governor Keeder caused an enu-\\nmeration of the inhabitants of the Territory to be made for\\nthe basis for an apportionment for members of the legisla-\\nture shortly to be elected. In the meantime the leaders in\\nMissouri were perniciously active. They sought by every\\nmeans to iniiame the j^assions of their motley and brutal\\nfollowing. Exaggerated accounts of the army of aboli-\\ntionists coming into the Territory at the instance and by\\nthe aid of Northern organizations were industriously circu-\\nlated. All the border counties of Missouri were organized", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "Jio TWENTIETH CENTtTRY CLASSICS\\nfor resistance to what was termed the ragged, miserly,\\nnigger-stealing crew, who skulk behind the name Free-\\nState. The Blue Lodges were found as far east as\\nBoonville. The degree to which they had aroused their\\nfollowing may be judged from the tone of their news-\\npapers\\nWe hate a deceiver. And a party like this\\nwe hold in meaner contempt than we do the immediate and\\navowed pupils of Lloyd Garrison. Their Janus-faced,\\ndouble-dealing conduct must make them abhorred of God\\nas they are despised by honorable men, and their last end\\nwill be down, like the dog, bereft of a soul to rise, but\\nsecure in earthly preservation, for no creeping thing of\\nGod s make will work in their accursed carcasses.\\nIt cannot be that such wretches will triumph over all\\nright and justice. We know the spirit of the West too well\\nto admit of it. We will to the rescue, with lead and steel if\\nnecessary, for triumph our enemies shall not, imless God\\nforsakes us, and this country is too new to deserve the judg-\\nments of Sodom and Gomorrah. Missourians, remember\\nthe 30th day of March, A. D. 1855, as Texans once re-\\nmembered the Alamo.\\nThe election was held March 30th. The agitation of the\\nprevious weeks along the border had been effective. It bore\\nfruit on this day. To such a pitch had the passions of the\\nMissourians been wrought that they came over by hundreds\\nand thousands to vote in Kansas. Their conduct all along\\nthe line can be described best by telling what occurred at\\nthe house of Harrison Burson, in the second district, now\\nin Douglas county;", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 29\\nClaiborne Y. Jackson addressed the crowd, sayin\u00c2\u00ab2, that\\nlie had come there to vote; and that he had a riglit to vote,\\nif he liad been tlierc but five minutes, and tliat he ^vas uu-\\nwilliuff to c:o liome witliout voliui;-; wliich Avas received with\\ncheers. Jackson then called upon them to form into little\\nbands of fifteen or twenty, vhich they did, and went to an\\nox-wagon filled with guns, which, were distributed among\\nthem, and they proceeded to load some of them on the\\nground.\\nIn pursuance wdth Jackson s request, they tied white\\ntape or ribbons in their button-holes, to distinguish them\\nfrom the abolitionists. They again demanded that the\\njudges should resign; and upon their refusing to do so,\\nsmashed in the window, sash and all, and presented their\\npistols and guns to them, threatening to shoot them. Some\\none on the outside cried out to them not to shoot, as there\\nwere Pro- Slavery men in the house with the judges. They\\nthen put a pry under the corner of the house, which was a\\nlog house, lifted it up a few inches and let it fall, but de-\\nsisted on being told there were Pro-Slavery men in the\\nhouse. During this time the crowd repeatedly demanded\\nto be allowed to vote without being s^vorn, and Mr. Ellison,\\none of the judges^ expressed himself willing, but the other\\ntw\u00c2\u00a9 judges refused thereupon a body of men headed by\\n[Sheriff] Jones rushed into the judges room with cocked\\npistols and drawn bowde-knives in their hands, and ap-\\nproached Burson and Eamsay. Jones pulled out his watch\\nand said he would give them five minutes to resign in or\\ndie. When the five minutes had expired and the judges\\ndid not resign, Jones said he would give them another min-\\nute and no more. Ellison told his associates that if they did", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nnot resign, there wonld be 100 shots fired in the room in less\\nthan fifteen niinntes, and then, snatching np the ballot-box\\nran out into the crowd, holding up the ballot-box and hur-\\nrahing for ]\\\\[issouri. About that time, Burson and Ram-\\nsay were called out by their friends, and not suffered\\nto return. As Mr. Burson went out, he put the ballot\\npoll-books in his pocket and took them with him, and as\\nhe was going out, Jones snatched some papers from him,\\nand shortly afterward came out, holding them up, and cry-\\ning, Hurrah for Missouri After he discovered that\\nthey were not the poll-books, he took a party of men with\\nhim and started off to take the poll-books from Burson.\\nWhen Mr. Burson saw them coming, he gave the books to\\nMr. Umbarger and told him to start off in another direc-\\ntion so as to mislead Jones and his party. Jones and his\\nparty caught Mr. Umbarger, took the poll-books away from\\nhim, and Jones took him up behind him on a horse and\\ncarried him back a prisoner. Afterwards they went to the\\nhouse of Ramsay and took Judge John A. Wakefield [the\\nFree-State candidate for Representative] prisoner, and car-\\nried him to the place of election, and made him get up on a\\nAvagon and there make a speech; after which, they put a\\nwhite ribbon in his button-hole and let him go. Then they\\nchose two new judges and proceeded with the election.\\nIt was the same everywhere. The legal, resident voters\\nof the Territory had no rights which the Missourians con-\\nsidered it their duty to respect, and the Free-State men had\\nlittle representation in the Legislature. Governor Reeder\\nwas aware of the frauds, but was powerless to prevent or\\ncorrect them. He refused certificates to some of the per-", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "JAMES HEXRY LANE 31\\nsons elected. The Missouri opinion of this act is expressed\\nin the following newspa]: er coninicnt\\nWe just learn as we go to press, that Reeder lias re-\\nfused to give certificates to four Coiincilnien and tliirteen\\nmembers of the House. Tie has ordered an election to fill\\ntheir places on the 22d of May. This infernal scoundrel\\nwill have to be heniped yet.\\nGovernor Reeder s refusal to issue certificates to the\\nfraudulently elected members of the Legislature marks the\\nbeginning of complete anarchy in Kansas Territory.\\nNOTES.\\n1. This Carolinian section was originally settled by a far\\nmore diversified population than that which formed the colonies\\nto the northward. This was especially the case in North Carolina.\\nThis colony was originally possessed by a land company, which\\nproposed to find its profit in a peculiar fashion. This company\\npaid contractors so much a head for human beings put ashore in\\nthe colony. One distinguished trader in population, a certain\\nBaron de Graffenried, settled several thousand folk at and about\\nNew Berne, on the swampy shores of the eastern sounds. They\\nwere from a great variety of places: a part from England, others\\nfrom the banks of the llhine, otliers again from Switzerland.\\nThere was a great mass of human driftwood in Europe at the\\nclose of the seventeenth century, the wreck of long -continued\\nwars; so it was easy to bring immigrants by the shipload if they\\nwere paid for. But the material was unfit to be the foundation of\\na State. From this settlement of eastern North Carolina is de-\\nscended the most unsatisfactory population in this country. The\\ncentral and western parts of North Carolina had an admirable\\npopulation, that principally came to the State through Virginia;\\nbut this population about Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds, tliough\\nits descendants are numerous, perhaps not numerically much in-", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nferior to that which came from the Virginia settlements, is vastly\\ninferior to it in all the essential qualities of the citizen. From\\nthe Virginia people have come a great number of men of national\\nand some of world-wide reputation. It is not likely that any other\\npopulation, averaging in numbers about five hundred thousand\\nsouls, has in a century furnished as many able men. On the other\\nhand, this eastern North Carolina people has given no men of\\ngreat fame to the history of the country, while a large part of the\\nso-called poor white population of the South appears to be de-\\nscended from the mongrel folk who were turned ashore on the\\neastern border of North ^Carolina. [Narrative and Critical His-\\ntory of America, Vol. IV, p. xxviii, Introduction.]\\n2. Those unacquainted with the inhabitants of the Border at\\nthat time cannot well comprehend how that public sentiment\\ncould so easily be swayed and shaped by drunken, vulgar and in-\\nflammatory speeches. First, there were the native Missourians,\\nwho were a singular class of people, and have not, perhaps, their\\nprototypes in the world certainly not in the United States.\\nTheir fathers were chiefly renegades from the Eastern States, who\\nhad fled to escape the just desert for crimes committed. They in-\\nherited all the vices of their ancestors, and had learned many new\\nones. They were incredulous and suspicious of strangers and\\neasily excited against them. When enraged they were as furious\\nas a mad dog and as cowardly and unmanly as a jackal. They had\\nno conclusions, but only beliefs. They never knew anything but by\\nrumor. They had few ideas and opinions of their own, but gath-\\nered them from their leading men. No matter how clearly a\\nstranger might demonstrate a truth to them, they would not be-\\nlieve it. No matter how absurd a proposition advanced by one of\\ntheir favorite leaders might be, they would embrace it as coming\\nfrom the Oracle of Truth. Utter strangers to principle, they were\\nnever happier than when in meanness. Loud in their professions\\nfor law and order, there was not a week passed during which\\nrobberies, murders and disturbances were not committed. When-\\never an individual became unpopular in community, he was ac-\\ncused of all kinds of misdoings and evil designs, warned to leave\\nwhich failing to observe, he was attacked by a mob, his prop-\\nerty destroyed, and lucky he was if he escaped with his life.\\nWhisky was held in high esteem by all classes. Of native", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 33\\nMissourians there were two classes the wealthy and the poor\\nholding about the same relation to each other as did the planters\\nand the poor whites of the South. The poor were much more nu-\\nmerous but being ignorant and pecuniarily dependent upon tlieir\\nwealthy neighbors, they were the pliant tools of the latter.\\nBoth classes of native Missourians along the Border were\\nat that time alike unscrupulous, ungenerous and ignoble. The\\nwealthy, highly aristocratic, possessed all the cravings to rule of\\nSouthern slave-masters. Though full of blarney and suavity, with\\nthe exterior polish of gentlemen, they would not shrink from any\\nmeasure to attain their ends.\\nThere were also a peculiar, though pow^erful, class along the\\nBorder, composed chiefly of native Missourians, who might justly\\nbe termed the loungers and loafers. They accompanied trains\\nacross the Plains, went on hunting expeditions, and had generally\\nbeen through the Mexican War. They were a powerful class\\nthe military of the Border. They formed the mobs, did the steal-\\ning and a good share of the drinking. They were ever ready for\\nany adventure, anything wild and daring. [History of Kansas\\nTerritory p. 98. By John N. Holloway.]\\n3. The Puritan idea is aggressive. It has an unconquerable\\nvitality. Assailed, it grows stronger wounded, it revives buried,\\nit becomes the angel of its own resurrection. Senator Ingalls,]\\n4. Andreas History of Kansas, p. 93.\\n5. Andreas History of Kansas, p. 95.\\n6. Andreas History of Kansas, p. 95.\\n7. Andreas History of Kansas, p.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "SLAVERY.\\nThere is some soul of goodness in things evil,\\nWould men observingly distill it out.\\nShakespeare.\\nWhat was this institution against which Kansas rose and\\nrevolted\\nIn the early stages of man s existence his normal condi-\\ntion was a state of warfare. In this age of his development\\nhe slew his captives. It came to be seen when man began to\\ntill the soil, that a captive might be made to be of use and\\nservice in the performance of labor for his master. His\\nlife was spared upon this discovery, and instead of receiv-\\ning death for his misfortune he Avas enslaved. Thus human\\nslavery was a reform when first established, and an indica-\\ntion of advancement in society. It was practiced by al-\\nmost all ancient peoples. For their times, the Jewish\\nsystem was humane. A period beyond which a slave could\\nnot be held was fixed. A jubilee was established.\\nHuman slavery began in America at Jamestown, Vir-\\nginia, in 1619, the Dutch selling negroes to the planters\\nthere in that year. It spread over the whole country but\\nas it was unprofitable on the sterile hills of the North, it\\nfinally came to exist only in the South. Jefferson wrote\\nit down that the slaves were certain to be free at some time\\nin the future. The fathers of the Kepublic could not deal\\nwiih the question, for no arrangement could have been de-\\n(34)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "JAMES 3IENKX LANE\\n35\\nvised for its settlement at that time. As the sentiment\\nagainst slavery grew in the ISTorth, slave labor grew mor(^\\nremnnerative in the Sonth, and consequently the sentiment\\nin its favor increased there. After the Missouri Com-\\npromise, the ideas, slavery and anti-slavery, came to 1)0\\nrecognized as the two antagonistic principles of our govern-\\nment. More than once did the efforts to advance the one\\nor the other endanger the life of the Union. All its prac-\\ntices were abhorrent to the enlightened mind. Infants\\n^vcrc torn from their mothers and sold away. Husbands\\nAvere sold away from Avives, children from parents and\\nfrom one another, and carried away amid Avails, groans, and\\ntears. Slave-drivers carried heaA^y Avhips Avitli Avhich to\\nflay the backs of their hapless victims into these Avounds\\nsalt Avas forced, or Avater Avithlicld from stiffening, black-\\neuing, festering gashes.\\nWhile it Avas the torment of the danmed to tlie slaves,\\nit Avas even a greater ca^I to their oAvners. The conscience\\ndied. The nature of man became brutalized. Political\\ndecay and barbarism, perhaps savagery, are the sure states\\nof those countries Avhich do not rise above human slavery.\\nBut hoAV inscrutable are the Avays of Providence An\\neminent Trench Avriter avers that ultimate good must arise\\nfrom every evil custom of a people. Virtue and chastity\\nof Avomen, he affirms, are the result of long ages of the\\nbrutal selfishness of man, and his inhuman treatment of\\nher. And from these actions of primitiA^e man, too horri-\\nble to record, Ave haA^e to-day, and have had for thousands\\nof years, the chaste and continent home, the family, Avhich\\nis the unit and foundation of our CA^ery social and political\\ninstitution.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 TWENTIETH OE NTURT CLASSICS\\nSo it was with human slavery in N^orth America. It\\nwas born of the selfish g-reed, nurtured and protected by\\nthe violation of every laAv of mercy, justice, and humanity\\nplanted here by the uprooting and destruction of whole\\npeoples murder foul horrors too black to write. But in\\nits abolition here, men discussed freedom. A higher liberty\\nthan man had enjoyed came to be our ideal. We cast off\\nthis evil with groans, at the expense of blood and treasure,\\nbut from the struggle we emerged with broader views. We\\ncome now to be the champions of this high ideal of liberty.\\nWe insist that it is the birthright of all men everywhere.\\nIt is our boast that we enjoy the highest degree of liberty\\nof any people in the world.\\nIn the destruction of slavery in Kansas we made it im-\\npossible of existence anywhere in America. And it should\\nbe the pride of Kansans that their fathers began this con-\\nflict for universal freedom. To blot out and burn away\\nthis plague-spot and foul leprosy of the nation did the peo-\\nple of Kansas set themselves. And the result was anarchy\\non the border and in Kansas Territory. Their blazing\\nhomes lighted up the prairies.\\nWithin a month after the election of the Legislature\\nthere came into Kansas a strange man. That man was\\nJames Henry Lane, knoAvn in Kansas history as the Grim\\nChieftain of Kansas, and familiarly among his friends\\nas Jim Lane long afterwards a Senator froni Kansas,\\na General in the Civil War, and an intimate, friend of the\\nmartyred Lincoln. He bore a heroic part in that pre-\\nliminary struggle. We shall see more of him in the pages\\nwdiich follow.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE MAN.\\nYea, tliis man s brow, like a title-loal\\nForetells the nature of a tragie volume.\\nThe precise date of the arrival of James Henry Lane in\\nKansas is not known. It was sometime in the month of\\nApril, 1855.1-^\\nLet us look at this man who came in honorahle poverty\\ninto Kansas Territory on the eve of the great events here,\\nand of greater in the nation than had before been wit-\\nnessed since its founding. He was tall, and like Cassius,\\nbore a lean and hungry look.\\nMeager were his looks,\\nSharp misery had worn him to the bones.\\nHe was poorly clad he cared little for his personal ap-\\npearance. His cowskin overcoat and calfskin vest (both\\nwith the hair of the animals still on them) came to be\\nproverbs in Kansas.\\nHis eyes were dark and restless, and when he was aroused\\nthey burned with the depth and intensity of charcoal fires.\\nHis features were good, forehead high, nose finely cut,\\nmouth firm but with some lines of weakness, chin and jaw\\nsquare and heavy. His arms were long, and every old-time\\nKansan will tell of his long and bony forefinger and its\\npotency in all Kansas affairs in which he engaged. His\\npresence was commanding. We are assured by all who\\nSee notes 1 to 5 at end of this chapter.\\n(37)", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nkneAV him personally that no mere word-description of\\nhim can ever be made to convey any adeqnate idea of the\\nman. Plis energy was boundless, limitless his personality\\nwas strong, potent, overpowering; his tenacity of purpose\\nwas persistent, indomitable; his whole organism one of\\nvigor, cogenc} magnetism.\\nIt is uncertain whether he was born in Kentucky or In-\\ndiana. The probability is that he was born in Lawrence-\\nburg, Indiana, June 22, 1814. It is possible that it may\\nbe yet determined by research that he was born in Boone\\ncounty, Kentucky, It is well established that he often\\nclaimed Kentucky as his native State. In the sketch of his\\nlife written by himself, he says he was born on the bank of\\nthe Ohio river, but does not say upon which bank.^\\nHis father was Amos Lane, and came of that stock called\\nby Prentis the from everlasting to everlasting Scotch-\\nIrish. It is claimed that lie was a native of l^ew York.\\nIt is almost certain that he was born in Guilford county,\\n^orth Carolina. From the best accounts it seems that the\\nLane family were originally Pennsylvanians. From this\\nState some of tliem went to Virginia, some to North Car-\\nolina, and some to New York. Amos Lane went to New\\nYork when a young man, and was there a clerk in a store\\nfor some time. At Ogdensburg he met and married Miss\\nMary Foote, at that time a teacher. She was born in Con-\\nnecticut, and was of a distinguished New England family.\\nShe was a woman of piety. She was for forty years a\\nmember of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was pos-\\nsessed of more than an ordinary share of good common-\\nsense, and a desire to accomplish sometliing in the world.\\nShe was the inspiration of her husband s efforts to enter", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n39\\nthe practice of law. For many years they were very poor,\\nbut they labored diligently, she at teaching, he at any-\\nthing he could find for his hands to do. He was a Demo-\\ncrat, and is said to liave been a friend if not an acquaint-\\nance of Thomas Jefferson. This was made a reason for\\nnot admitting him to the bar when he first came to Indiana.\\nHe came from ISTew York to Cincinnati as early as 1804.\\nIn the spring of 1808 he moved to Lawrenceburg, Indiana.\\nIt was here he was refused admittance to the bar. He then\\ncrossed the river into Kentucky, and after further moving\\nabout, returned to Lawrenceburg in 1814.^\\nAmos Lane was elected to the first Legislature of In-\\ndiana, in 181G; was the Speaker of the House. He was\\nelected to other terms in the Legislature, and in 1833 was\\nelected to Congress, where he served several years. He\\nwas an ardent supporter of Andrew Jackson, with whom\\nhe was upon terms of close friendship. Until his death in\\n1850 he was the ruling power in politics in southern In-\\ndiana, in the Democratic party. He was a famous orator,\\nshrewd, and not always governed by the highest motives,\\nespecially in his political transactions.\\nBut it was to his mother that James Henry Laije owed\\nmost of his genius. She was in every sense a superior wo-\\nman, and she has been spoken of as having a coal of fire\\nin her heart, so ambitious, so restless, and full of energy\\nwas she. What education her son obtained she imparted.\\nShe designed him for the ministry in the church of her\\nfaith. Her life was one of constant effort in his younger\\ndays. While her husband traveled over the country to at-\\ntend the migratory Circuit Court, she kept boarders and\\ntaught school in her own cabin. A very eminent man", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "iO TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nhas said that it is a prerequisite to success to be bom right,\\nand James H. Lane was richly endowed by heredity.\\nIn the days of his boyhood, Indiana was the frontier.\\nHe was born during the War of 1812, and only a year\\nbefore the battle of the Raisin. Men are not educated\\nwholly in school-rooms. If they have not the faculty of\\ngaining knowledge in the broader school of life, book-\\nlearning is wasted iipon them. The noisy, turbulent,\\noften dangerous frontier is a school better equipped to\\ndevelop strength of character, self-reliance, resource in\\nemergency, than any other. Here society is rude and un-\\nsettled in the process of taking definite form. Theory\\ncounts for little action for everything. In such, a fron-\\ntier schooling did Lane become familiar with the motives\\nand forces that move men especially frontiers-men.\\nThe exaggerated style of speech, the boisterous and ag-\\ngressive manner, the personal courage, the iron constitu-\\ntion, the remarkable and tireless persistency in the prose-\\ncution of an enterprise once engaged in, these were the\\ninheritance from his environment on the frontier, where\\na strong and independent people were laying broad and\\nwell the foundation of a great State. In this school was\\nLane well learned. His faults (and he had many) were\\nalso those of the frontier, where they were not considered\\nof so great consequence as in older and better ordered so-\\nciety. In this same school was Lincoln learned, and one\\nof the reasons for the strong attachment between these two\\nmost remarkable men was their graduation from the fron-\\ntier life of southern Indiana.\\nWhile he was well learned in the rude school of the fron-\\ntiers-men, it must not be supposed that he was unlettered.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 41\\nHe possessed a fair knowledge of the elementary branches\\nof learning. This was meager enough, and as has been\\nsaid, he owed most of it to the personal attention given\\nby his mother. After all, the mother is a great teacher.\\nIt is not so much the amount of knowledge imparted, as\\nthe degree of enthusiasm inspired, that tells in the later\\nlife of the pupil. Her noble aspirations and the tender\\nsolicitude for her family, her devotion to every duty and\\nthe constancy of her life purposes, touched his heart; of\\nthis he gave evidence all through his life. In no institu-\\ntion of learning could he have been so well fitted for the\\nleadership of men and movements as in the schools of his\\nmother and the frontier of the Republic.\\nFor some years he was engaged in trade in Lawrence-\\nburg,^ in company with a brother-in-law. It seems to have\\nbeen a pork-packing establishment, combined with the for-\\nw^arding of the produce of the country to market. In\\nthose days ISTew Orleans was the only market of conse-\\nquence for the products of the Ohio valley. He, like Lin-\\ncoln, pushed his o^vn flatboat back and forth, to and from\\nthat mart. But in this vocation he was handicapped by\\nhis peculiar bent of mind. Such occupations are ever irk-\\nsome to natures contented only to lead. The nearest mart\\nis too far away and the road to it too quiet and common-\\nplace for them. In their view, the result is not worth the\\neffort. They long for excitement, for opportunity for\\nleadership. Lane was a born leader of men. His environ-\\nment and training had vastly developed his natural abili-\\nties. He saw in politics a field exactly to his liking; per-\\nhaps his tendency in this direction was inherited. He\\nsays he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and prac-\\nticed in partnership with his father.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nTWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nHis entrance into politics was in a small way an elec-\\ntion to the common council of his native village. He was\\nrepeatedly re-elected. He made his first public speech in\\n3 832, in favor of General Jackson. He was but eighteen,\\nand it is said that his effort was a very creditable one.\\nHe was elected to the Legislature in 1845, and in the win-\\nter following was a candidate before the convention of his\\nparty for the nomination for the office of Lieutenant-Gov-\\nernor he was defeated by one vote.\\nIn the fall of 1842 he was married to Miss Mary E.\\nBaldridge, a granddaughter of General Arthur St. Clair.\\nIn July, 184G, Lane raised a company of volunteers\\nin Lawrenceburg for the Mexican war. He informs us\\nthat this was before the requisition of the President had\\nreached the State of Indiana. He marched his conjpany\\n(of which he had been elected captain) to ITew Albany.\\nThere it was made a j^art of the Third Ttcgimcnt, Indiana\\nVolunteers, and Lane was elected Colonel of the regiment.\\nThe regiment hurried to Mexico, and was a part of Gen-\\neral Taylor s command. Colonel Lane served under Tay-\\nlor until the spring of 1847. At the battle of Buena Vista\\nhe distinguished himself as a brave soldier and an able offi-\\ncer. In this battle the command of a large part of the\\narmy devolved upon him.\\nColonel Lane returned to Indiana in Julj^, 1847, and\\nraised the Fifth Indiana Regiment, of which he was elected\\nthe Colonel, and which he took to Mexico. This regiment\\nwas placed under General Butler, and did not reach the\\nCity of Mexico until after its capture by General Scott.\\nWhen peace was concluded his regiment was discharged.\\nHe arrived in Indiana in July, 1848. His record as a", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n43\\nsoldier in the Mexican War was both creditable and honora-\\nble. He did his duty faithfully and well, and won the\\nconfidence and praise of his superiors in command.\\nIn 1849 the Democratic party of Indiana nominated him\\nfor the office of Lieutenant-Governor, and he was elected by\\na large majority. His party made him an Elector-at-large\\nin the Presidential campaign of 1852. lie was elected,\\nand cast the vote of the State of Indiana for Franklin\\nPierce for President. He w^as elected by the Democratic\\nparty to the Thirty-second Congress, and voted for the\\nIvansas-lSTebraska bill. He afterwards reported that he\\nvoted for the bill because he had been instructed to do so.\\nThere was for many years in Kansas a persistent repetition\\nof the terms of an agreement said to have been made be-\\ntween him and Douglas. It A\\\\ 1as said to have been on this\\nwise: Lane was at first opposed to the Kansas-Xebraska\\nbill. Douglas succeeded in convincing Lane that the pas-\\nsage of the bill would make him (Douglas) President.\\nLane was to go to Kansas, organize the Democratic party\\nthere, and when the Territory should be admitted as a\\nState he was to be elected L^nited States Senator, and con-\\ntrol the patronage of the State under the Administration\\nof Douglas. In the meantime he was to control the Pcd-\\neral patronage of the Administration then in power, so far\\nas the influence of Douglas could make it possible. The\\nfacts concerning the truth or falsity of this agreement\\ncannot now be learned. Many of the old-time Kansans yet\\nliving insist that such an agreement existed. The proba-\\nbility is that Lane did not think of coming to Kansas until\\nhis attention was attracted to it by the debates in Congress\\non the Douglas bill. It is not improbable that some ar-", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44: TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nrangement was discussed between Lane and Douglas;\\nwhether it reached to the dignity of an agreement or not\\nis very doubtful.\\nWhether he came to Kansas alone or was accompanied\\nby his family seems to be a question, also. On his arrival\\nhe immediately built a cabin on his claim adjoining Law-\\nrence. Here Mrs. Lane soon joined him.*\\nThe latest biographer of Lane leaves it in doubt as to\\nwhere he intended to fix his residence in the Territory,\\nand intimates that it was purely accidental that he stopped\\nat Lawrence.^\\nNOTES.\\n1. Speer says, One bright morning in April, 1855. [Life of\\nJames H. Lane, p. 12, by John Speer.]\\nAndreas History of Kansas says, As early as April [1855] a\\nmost remarkable man had, unheralded and comparatively un-\\nknown to his neighbors, come to Kansas and settled near Law-\\nrence. [See page 106.]\\n2. This sketch was published in the Crusader of Freedom, Feb-\\nruary 3, 1858. The paper was published at Doniphan, by James\\nRedpath, Only one chapter was published, as the paper was dis-\\ncontinued.\\nThe majority of authorities say that he was born in Boone\\ncounty, Kentucky. As Kentucky was a slave State, he could have\\nhad no object to serve in stating that he was born there if it was\\ntrue that he was born in Indiana. Almost all his friends believed\\nhe was born in Kentucky. The theory that he was born in Indiana\\nis of later date. Until 1860 we find it rarely stated that he was\\nborn in Indiana, and almost always that he was born in Kentucky.\\nHis earliest friends say Kentucky.\\n3. The authorities for the statements in this paragraph are\\nmany, from the newspaper files and clippings in the library of the", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENEY LANE 45\\nHistorical Society to the statements of the associates and friends\\nof General Lane. V. J. Lane, Esq., of Kansas City, Kansas, is of\\nthe same family he is a Pennsylvanian, and came to Kansas from\\nIndiana.\\n4. In the History of Kansas by Andreas, p. 106, it is stated that\\nhe left behind him a family which he did not love. He says in\\nhis sketch in the Crusader of Freedom that Mrs. Lane and the chil-\\ndren accompanied him from AVashington City, but that she be-\\ncame dissatisfied with frontier life and its hardships and returned\\nto Indiana, but that no harsh feelings were entertained by either.\\nThey were divorced and remarried.\\n5. See Speer s Life of Gen. James H. Lane, p. 12.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "BEGINS WORK.\\nKansas is richer in historic lore than any other region of the\\nGreat AVest. Its traditions go back to the time of the ]Montezumas\\nand the Spanish conquest of Mexico.\\nJames II. Lane came to Kansas a Democrat lie had\\nnever been anything else. His party in Indiana had hon-\\nored him with high positions. He had no intention of\\ntransferring his allegiance to another political party when\\nhe arrived in Kansas. In his Chicago siDcech he says he\\ncame to Kansas to organize the Democratic party. It is\\nsaid that he made a sj)eech at Westport, llo., where he had\\nstopped while on his way to Kansas, in which he said that\\nhe wonld as soon bny a negro as a mnle, and that the ques-\\ntion of the success of slavery in Kansas depended upon the\\nsuitability of the country to produce hemp. This reference\\nto the negro and the mule was a favorite form of express-\\ning assent to slavery it has been attributed to other men,\\nat other times and places, among them, Governor Keeder.\\nLane afterwards admitted that when he came to Kansas he\\ncared nothing about the great question of slavery. Paul\\nwas the greatest Apostle of Christianity, 3^et in the begin-\\nning he persecuted the Church. People generally sup-\\nposed that the question of freedom or slavery in Kansas\\nwas almost settled when the Kansas-^Rebraska bill was\\npassed. But far-seeing men like Seward, Sumner, Thayer,\\n(46)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 47\\nand Ivobinson saw in this bill the beginning of the end of\\nslavery. Lane saw the same thing, and gave expression to\\nit in the address in which he announced that Until then\\nI am a crusader for Freedom. But when he arrived in\\nthe Territory there was comparative quiet. Only men well\\ninformed upon local and national conditions could foresee\\nthe whole conflict at that time even these did not compre-\\nhend its magnitude and its consequences. Of the intentions\\nof the Missourians he had probably heard, and, too, of their\\nactions in the beginning; but no man could fully realize the\\nconditions existing here until he came and saw for himself.\\nMany a man came to Kansas in favor of slavery, and, like\\nLane, was made a crusader for freedom by the course of\\nthe Missourians.\\nOn July 27th, 1S55, a number of Democrats met in\\nLawrence for the purpose of organizing the Democratic\\nparty in Kansas Territory. Lane was president of the\\nmeeting. An address was formulated it urged the neces-\\nsity of the organization of the Democratic party upon\\nnational grounds, disclaimed the intention or right of the\\nparty to interfere with any domestic institution, aflirmed\\nthe right of the people to manage their own affairs, de-\\nnounced ballot-box stufiing, and invited people from all\\nsections of the country to come and live in Kansas and help\\nto manage its aifairs. It was supposed that a strong party\\non the lines suggested could restore order and harmony.\\nBut these men misread the Missourians only the exclusion\\nof settlers from the free States could restore order satisfac-\\ntorily to them.\\nOne of the causes of the failure of this movement was\\ntlie fact that at the time there were no national parties.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 TWENTIETH CENTURY CIiASSICS\\nThe passage of the Kansas-!N ebraska bill reduced the Dem-\\nocratic party to the rank of a sectional party; from the\\nsame cause the Whig party was in the process of dissolution.\\nButler says that Buchanan was elected by means of frauds\\ncommitted by his party in Pennsylvania. Conditions of\\nnational strength or decay manifest themselves on the\\nfrontiers of a country before they can be observed else-\\nwhere. In Kansas at this time there was the party of\\nslavery and ruffianism, and the party of resistance to its\\ncampaigns of rapine and murder. In the latter were\\nmany Democrats some from the extreme South.\\nThe effort to organize the national Democratic party in\\nKansas was a flat failure it met with no response from the\\npeople. They saw no hope for relief from its existence.\\nThe so-called Democratic newspapers of the border ridi-\\nculed the movement. Its advocates saw the futility of tem-\\nporizing measures.\\nLane was a politician by nature and education. His\\nefforts to establish the national Democracy in Kansas,\\nwhile consistent and legitimate, gave color to the rumor\\nthat he had come to the Territory as the vice-regent of\\nDouglas, and to retrieve his political fortunes ruined in\\nhis old home by his support of the Kansas-Nebraska bill.\\nUpon the failure of this movement he abandoned the Dem-\\nocratic party. And this left him open to the charge of\\nchanging his party for the purpose of obtaining office.\\nHowever, his abandonment of the Democratic party and\\nhis subsequent association with the Free-State movement\\nshould no more be considered a change of party for political\\npreferment by Lane than it should of the men in the effort\\nwith him. Most of them became afterwards prominent", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 4:9\\nmembers of the Free-State party, and did valiant service\\nin the battle for freedom.\\nThe first Free-State convention in the Territory having\\na tendency to the formation of a distinct party was licld\\nin Lawrence, Angnst 14th, 1855. Many meetings had\\nbeen previously held under the auspices of calls from\\nMany citizens, and other similar names. One of con-\\nsiderable importance was held on Jime 25th, but it was\\nmore for the purpose of defying and denouncing the acts\\nof the bogus Legislature and to announce that the true\\nresidents of Kansas would resist, and to declare for a free\\nTerritory and a free State, than to formulate a policy for\\nfuture action.\\nLane met with the convention of August 14th, and ad-\\ndressed it. His address was not well received. He was a\\nstranger. Two weeks previously he had issued the national\\nDemocracy manifesto. And in his remarks he affirmed\\nthat he w^ould again vote for the Kansas-IN ebraska bill.\\nHe said, however, that he was as anxit)us as any member\\nfor a free constitution for Kansas and for Kansas to be-\\ncome a free State. He counseled moderation. He seemed\\nthe only man present who saAv into the future and clearly\\ncomprehended the conditions of the whole country and\\nthe relations the conflict beginning in Kansas bore to it.\\nEvents of the preceding sixty days had revealed to him\\nwhat others here did not see. There is the existence\\nof a Union hanging upon the action of the citizens of\\nKansas, he said.\\nDr. Eobinson reported a preamble and resolutions which\\nw^ere strong and conservative. They repudiated the bogus\\n4", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nLegislature then in session at Shawnee Mission, and coun-\\nseled resistance to its acts. Lane opposed the resolutions\\nas reported, and advised opposition to the Legislative acts\\nin a legal way. Complete harmony, however, came of the\\nwrangling, and the resolutions were adopted as Dr. Rob-\\ninson had reported them. A delegate convention of Free-\\nState men was recommended to be held at Big Springs on\\nthe 5th of September.\\nLane was not a man to enter any cause with half a heart.\\nOnce enlisted, he worked with an energy such as no other\\nman of his time possessed. His resolutions were suddenly\\nformed he was quick to decide and to resolve was to act.\\nHe was not satisfied with his reception by the convention.\\nWith intuition he saw the true way to the hearts of the\\npeople. As the convention was adjourning he had it an-\\nnounced that he would speak that night in the hall in which\\nit had met. He would, he said, denounce a noted leader of\\nthe ruffians who came to Kansas to despoil her settlers of\\ntheir rights and liberties often their lives.\\nSpeer relates an incident in this connection, which\\nshowed Lane s j)i esence of mind. The meeting was in\\nRobinson Hall, second floor. As he spoke to an audience\\ncharmed with his invective frontier eloquence, the building\\ngave way. Instantly bringing his arms do^ai with empha-\\nsis, he exclaimed, Stand still ISTot a soul moved. ^NTow,\\nhe continued, let two of our best mechanics go quietly\\nout, examine the building, and report. They did so, and\\nreported that it had sunk three or four inches, but the\\nfoundation was solid and the building safe. The meeting\\nAvent on.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 61\\nThis address was the first he delivered in Kansas in the\\nstyle which was all his own. It created a sensation. It\\nrevealed to the people a man of wonderful powers. From\\nthe delivery of this address may be dated the beginning of\\nhis ascendency in Kansas. It is fittingly described by one\\nof his old acquaintances\\nHe electrified a Free- State audience in Lawrence by\\nannouncing that he would speak the next evening on the\\npolitical issues of the day, championing the Free-State\\ncause. The crowd was immense. They came from their\\ncabins on the prairies, from the valleys and the hills.\\nThey wanted to know from his own mouth the ^Grim Chief-\\ntain s position on political questions. The hour came.\\nLane was in his best mood. He was prepared for a\\nvituperative, sarcastic, ironical and intensely personal\\nspeech. Such the crowd usually likes, or used to in the\\nearly frontier days, when men were walking arsenals\\nand crept over volcanoes. Such an analysis of character\\nwas never heard before or since in Kansas. It was equal\\nto John Kandolph s best effort in that line. His late Demo-\\ncratic associates were dcnoimced, burlesqued, ridiculed and\\npilloried in a hysteria of laughter by an excited, cyclonic\\ncrowd. No one ever afterwards doubted where Lane stood.\\nHe crossed with a leap the Kubicon of radical politics and\\nburned all bridges behind him. He was not baptized, he\\nwas immersed in the foaming floods of radicalism. As the\\nwhitccaps rose higher and higher on the stormy and tu-\\nmultuous political sea, Lane contended the stronger, and\\nbaffled them.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "THE BIG SPRINGS CONVENTION,\\nStrike for your altars and your fires\\nStrike for the green graves of your sires,\\nGod and your native land.\\nThe extent of this paper will not allow us to consider all\\nthe events by which Kansas was made free. Nov will it\\nsuffer us to give even a short acount of all the eminent ser-\\nvices of General Lane-\\nThe convention held bj the Free-State men at Big\\nSprings, September 5th, has become historic. It was here\\nthat the men of Kansas, making party subservient to prin-\\nciple, rose above partisanship and became patriots.\\nLane desired to be appointed delegate to this convention\\nfrom Lawrence. He was opposed, but the opposition was\\nnot successful in defeating him. Many citizens of the\\nTerritory were not only against slavery, but were hostile\\nto the negro, whether bond or free, and were in favor of\\nlaws which would forever exclude him from the State,\\nwhatever his condition. Lane held to this view. A great\\nmajority of the citizens of the Territory were of the same\\nopinion, and were called black-law men. But the most\\nradical opposition to the prevailing sentiment was in Law-\\nrence, and this black-law tenet was the one thing urged\\nagainst Lane^s selection as a delegate.\\nBig Springs was a celebrated camping-ground on the\\ntrail to California. It is in Douglas county, eleven miles\\n(53)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 53\\neast of Topeka. But two persons with their families lived\\nin its vicinity in September, 1855. They were W. Y. Rob-\\nerts and W. R. Frost. The delegates, knowing that they\\nwould find no accommodations in the neighborhood, came\\nprepared to camp on the ground. Their place of meeting\\nwas the open plain, and no fitter place to formulate a plan\\nto battle for liberty than the broad prairie upon which tlie\\nconvention met could have been found.\\nHere were men from the refinements of New England\\nhomes, and with college diplomas in their pockets. New\\nYork, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, almost all the States north\\nof Mason and Dixon s line were represented. Men from\\nMissouri and from the foot-hills of the Cumberland Moun-\\ntains were there. To some the name abolitionist was a\\nreproach too vile to be borne; others gloried in it. Some\\nwere not opposed to the institution of slavery others were\\nfor excluding all negroes. Some would have indorsed the\\nbogus Legislature then in session others would have taken\\nup arms to drive its members out of the Territory into\\nMissouri, where many of them lived. Some would have\\nbeen content with the assurance of no further molestation\\nfrom the rufiians; others would have exalted the flag to\\nthe stars, nor held back the crusade for freedom as long\\nas a shackle bound a slave in America.\\nThese diverse elements met for a definite purpose to\\nform a party to act in concert in the making of a free State.\\nTo harmonize these men with opinions so different and\\npolitical principles so divergent and to enlist them in a\\ncommon cause was no light task. For a long time it seemed\\nimpossible that it could be accomplished. Freedom trem-\\nbled in the balance.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54 TWENTIETH CENTUEY CLASSICS\\nMiicli of the work to be done was assigned to committees.\\nTo a most delicate and difficult position was James Henry\\nLane assigned that of chairman of the committee on\\nresolutions. It was his duty to evolve a declaration of\\nprinciples to which all would adhere in the coming struggle,\\nliere inaugurated, and to which all would subscribe now\\nand be bound by in the dark and terrible days to come.\\nIn its preparation he consulted with every member of the\\nconvention, now reasoning with one, now pleading with an-\\nother, and labored the whole night through.\\nThe platform was reported by Lane on the morning of\\nthe second day of the convention. Beyond a few remarks,\\ngeneral in their nature, and explanatory of the work sub-\\nmitted, Lane did not indulge himself on reporting it. The\\nresolutions were bitterly attacked and warmly discussed.\\nFailure seemed imminent. At this critical crisis Judge\\nSmith arose and began a speech of great earnestness and\\nfeeling. With his white locks trembling in the wind, and\\ntears streaming down his furrowed cheeks, he besought\\nthem in the spirit of a patriarch and a patriot, to cast\\naside all minor differences, and to unite in one common\\nstruggle toward rescuing Kansas from the vile dominion\\nof slavery. Then Lane arose, the last man to speak, and\\ndelivered a thrilling, telling speech which swayed the men\\nof the convention as the wind sways the grass of the prai-\\nrie. And the historian records that the platform was\\nadopted unanimously and with enthusiastic cheers. Every\\nboy and girl in Kansas should study it carefully, for on its\\ndeclaration of principles did the fathers of Kansas stand\\nbefore the world, confident of the ultimate triumph of their\\ncause. It stated the wrongs they had suffered and the end", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 55\\nthey hoped to accomplish. And time justified their hopes\\nand vindicated their action.\\nAnother committee reported resolutions. Its chairman\\nAvas the late Judge James S. Emery, of Lawrence. It had\\nbeen appointed to consider the attitude to be assumed by\\nthe people of the Territory toward the bogus Legislature.\\nThe report eloquently recited the usurpations and out-\\nrages perpetrated by that illegal and bogus body, and de-\\nclared we will endure and submit to these laws no longer\\nthan the best interests of the Territory require, as the\\nleast of two evils, and will resist them to a bloody issue\\nas soon as we ascertain that peaceable remedies shall fail,\\nand forcible resistance shall furnish any reasonable pros-\\npect of success.\\nA candidate for Delegate to Congress w^as nominated.\\nThis honor was bestowed upon Governor Reeder, who\\nmade a brilliant address in accepting it, in which he quoted\\neffectively the lines at the head of this chapter.\\nThe convention to be held in Topeka on the 19 th of\\nSeptember to consider the propriety of forming a State con-\\nstitution w^as indorsed.\\nA committee consisting of James H. Lane, Samuel C.\\nPomeroy (afterwards Lane s colleague in the United States\\nSenate), and G. W. BroA\\\\m, was appointed to wait on Gov-\\nernor Shannon and deliver to him a coj^y of the proceed-\\nings of the convention.\\nThe Hon. II. Miles Moore was one of the delegates to\\nthe Big Springs convention, and sums up the results of its\\nwork in the following eloquent statement\\nIt had in truth and in fact accomplished a great and\\nglorious work for the Free-State cause in Kansas: it had", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "J\\n56 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nfully organized the party in the Territory, put forth its\\nplatform, nominated a Delegate to Congress, appointed a\\nday for his election, and indorsed the constitutional conven-\\ntion called to he held at Topeka on the approaching 19th\\nof Septemher. It had flung its banner to the breeze in-\\nscribed in letters of living light Kansas must and shall\\nBE FEEE, PEACEABLY IF WE CAN, BUT FOECIBLY IF WE\\nMUST. No SLAVE SHALL LONGEE CLANK HIS CHAINS ON\\nHER viEGiN SOIL. The days of secret Free-State meetings\\ncalled by Many Citizens, Sundry Citizens, etc., held\\nin Lawrence or elsewhere, with the names of the partici-\\npants suppressed or not announced, was past, thank God!\\nFrom this time henceforth their names were to be pub-\\nlished broadcast and knoT\\\\ai and read of all men no skulk-\\ning now, but a fight in the open and to the death if need be.\\nThe Big Springs convention had given new life and inspira-\\ntion to the Free-State settlers throughout the Territory,\\nwhere before a spirit of despondency and apathy had pre-\\nvailed. Hope and courage took on new life. Free-State\\nmeetings were held in many towns and settlements in the\\nTerritory.\\nFrom this date Lane was the recognized leader of the\\nFree-State movement in Kansas. He threw his soul into\\nthe work of the liberation of his adopted Territory from\\nthe usurpers who had sworn to enslave her. He was here,\\nthere, everywhere. Sometimes he could not hire a horse\\nto ride; then he would walk miles and miles to attend a\\nFree-State meeting- He went about speaking as one hav-\\ning authority. A stranger in the Territory in April, he\\nwas known to the whole people in October. They came to", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n57\\ndepend upon him and upon his superhuman efforts in\\ntheir behalf. They hurrahed for Jim Lane. They seemed\\nto have known him all their lives. It was only necessary\\nto have it known that Lane was to be in a certain to^vn or\\nat a certain cross-roads at a certain time all the people in\\nreach were sure to be there to hear him. He never failed\\nwith a Kansas audience. And woe to the man who had\\nmaligned him or the cause he represented\\nNo other man who ever lived in Kansas had the power\\nover an audience possessed by Lane. His oratory affected\\nmen differently, as they were differently constituted.\\nSome wept; some whooped and yelled; some cursed and\\nswore; some must needs leave the room and walk about\\nin the fresh air, to such a pitch were they wrought some\\nsat transfixed and mute, so absorbed that they were obliv-\\nious to every external thing, even to their own existence,\\nhanging upon his every word and action. Upon one point\\nall were agreed they believed whatever he said they did\\nwhatever he commanded.\\nIt was said that he should never speak in Wyandotte.\\nOne day he appeared there, without having sent previous\\nnotice. In the afternoon it was noised abroad that Lane\\nwas in to^Mi. It was with the utmost difficulty that a hall\\ncould be secured for him. Trouble began as soon as he\\nleft his hotel to repair to the place of meeting. He was\\nsurrounded by a mob, some armed with ropes, others with\\npistols and knives. On a street corner it became neces-\\nsary for him to appeal to the mob to postpone its vengeance\\nuntil it had heard what he had to say. He had not a\\ndozen friends in the audience which assembled. He began\\nhis speech amid jeers and howls of execration, and was", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nurged to make it brief, as they wanted to escort him to\\na neighboring cottonwood tree for a further and final\\ninterview. Eut gradually a calm settled upon his audi-\\nence. At the end of ten minutes he had won but a single\\napplause; then came another; and still another; then a\\nfull round of applause and in a quarter of an hour he was\\nmaster of the situation. In half an hour every man was\\nwhooping and hurrahing for Jim Lane, and would have\\nturned their ropes, their pistols and their knives upon\\nanyone he might have suggested, had occasion arisen. In\\nthis meeting was the famous Grey-Eyes incident it is too\\nwell known to require repetition here. It is well told in\\nSpeer s Life of Lane.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF\\nKANSAS TERRITORY.\\nNations are the same as children\\nAlways living in the future,\\nLiving in their aspirations and their hopes\\nPicturing some future greatness,\\nKeaching forth for future prizes.\\nWith a wish for higher aims and grander scopes.\\nThe delegate convention at Topeka, September 19 th,\\n1855, did an important work for Kansas. It fixed the\\ndate for the election of delegates to form a constitution\\nupon which admission as a State was to be sought. It\\nfij^ed, also, the date of the meeting of the Constitutional\\nConvention.\\nLane did not arrive in time to attend the session of the\\nfirst day. His imexplained absence was construed by some\\nto indicate a weak adherence to the Free-State cause.\\nBut all day he was liastening toward the convention; he\\narrived at dark, having ridden sixty miles since daylight.\\nWhile tying his horse a crowd began to assemble around\\nhim; in ^ve minutes he was addressing a street audience\\nof large size where but a few moments before there was\\nonly an occasional passer-by.\\nIn addition to its other duties this convention provided\\nfor the appointment of a committee of seven men to have\\na general superintendence of the affairs of the Territory\\n(59)", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60\\nTWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nSO far as regards the organization of a State Government,\\nwhich committee shall be styled The Executive Committee\\nof Kansas Territory.\\nThose appointed upon this most important committee\\nwere James H. Lane, Joel K. Goodin, Cyrus K. Holliday,\\nMarcus J. Parrott. Philip C. Schuyler, George W. Smith,\\nand George W. Brown. The committee organized by the\\nelection of James H. Lane as president and Joel K.\\nGoodin as secretary. By its powers this committee was\\nvirtually a Provisional Government of Kansas Territory.\\nUpon it devolved the power to call elections, and to declare\\nthe results thereof. It was to find the ways and means to\\nmake Kansas a free State, should the movement now en-\\ntered upon result in her admission to the Union. In the\\nmeantime it was to lead in the battle with the cohorts from\\nMissouri who were planning their subjugation.\\nKansas was now entering upon the most critical and\\ncrucial period of her history. On the 3d of October the\\npro-slavery people met in Leavenworth and took the pre-\\nliminary steps in the formation of the Law and Order\\nparty. The bold stand made by the Pree-State people\\nfor their rights and their announced intention to not obey\\nthe laws of the bogus Legislature indicated that the subju-\\ngation of Kansas was to be more of a task than at first sup-\\nposed. It was realized by the advocates of slavery that the\\nBlue Lodges of Missouri must be supplemented in their\\nwork by a strong organization upon the soil of Kansas it\\nwas hoped that the full and free cooperation of the two\\nbodies might result in the accomplishment of the object\\nthey so devoutly prayed for.\\nOn the 14th of !N ovember the Law and Order party was", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 61\\norganized in Leavenworth, pursuant to a call issued by a\\ncommittee appointed at the preliminary meeting. Gover-\\nnor Shannon was made president of the meeting which\\nformed this party. The resolutions adopted denounced\\nthe work of the Constitutional Convention which had met\\nat Topeka October 23d, as treasonable. The true intent\\nof the party thus organized was set forth by one of the\\nspeakers when he said We must enforce the laws, though\\nwe resort to the force of arms trust to our rifles and make\\nthe blood flow as freely as do the turbid Avaters of the\\nMissouri. And the sentiment expressed in this explicit\\nstatement bore fruit at a later day, as the ruined homes\\nand murdered Free-State men did testify.\\nThe Executive Committee conducted the affairs of the\\nTerritory in a conservative w^ay in the interest of the Free-\\nState people, a majority of the actual settlers in Kansas.\\nBut the legal government, the one having the recogni-\\ntion of the Federal Government, was vested in Governor\\nShannon and the oflicers appointed by the President. This\\nmade the government of the Executive Committee and that\\nunder the Topeka Constitution which succeeded it revolu-\\ntionary or semi-revolutionary governments. It required\\ngreat tact, ability and address to avoid a conflict with the\\nFederal authorities. The safety of those representing the\\ngovernments called into being by the Topeka movement\\nlay in the common knowledge that they were only trying\\nto establish a State Government in accordance with all the\\nrights of American citizens, and working to secure the rec-\\nognition of the Federal Government by lawful and peaceful\\nmeans. No attempt to exercise any administrative func-\\ntions of the governments established was ever made, l^one", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 TWENTIETH CENTUEY CLASSICS\\nwas ever contemplated until the assent of the Federal Gov-\\nernment liad been obtained.\\nLane was elected president of the Topeka Constitutional\\nConvention, which met October 23d. It continued in ses-\\nsion until the 11th of ISTovember. The constitution framed\\nbj it was a good one, and was ratified December 15th,\\n1855. On January 15th, 1856, State ofiicers and a Legis-\\nlature were elected. The Legislature convened on the 4th\\nof March, and established all the forms of a State Govern-\\nment. Governor Charles Robinson sent in an able message.\\nThe Legislature elected as United States Senators James\\nH. Lane and Andrew H. Reeder.\\nThe meeting of the Legislature terminated the existence\\nof the Executive Committee of Kansas Territory. It\\nmade a report of its doings, and closed up its affairs.\\nIt incurred expenses amounting to $15,265.90, and issued\\nscrip in payment. It had led the Free-State cause\\nthrough the ordeal of establishing a State Government^\\nand through the Wakarusa War. This committee was\\ncomposed of the ablest men of the Territory, and Lane\\nwas the moving spirit in it. It did in a most wonder-\\nfully efficient manner the work of a provisional and semi-\\nrevolutionary government, through the darkest and most\\ndisordered and dangerous period of the Territorial his-\\ntory. It seemed to have within itself the com-\\nbination of qualities required to plan and execute what-\\never the exigencies of the times demanded in the interest\\nof the Free-State party.\\nThe records of the Committee are in the archives of the\\nState Historical Society.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE WAKARUSA WAR.\\nOne more look at that dead face,\\nOf his murder s ghastly trace\\nOne more kiss, oh, widowed one\\nLay your left hands on his brow,\\nLift your ri^ht hands up, and vow\\nThat his work shall yet be done\\nWhitticr s The Burial of Barber.\\nThe darkest hours of Kansas history were those from\\n^N ovember 20th, 1855, to January 1st, 1857,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a little more\\nthan one year. What the noble and devoted people of the\\nTerritory suffered in this short time can never be written.\\nSome enumeration of deeds can be made, but the murder,\\npillage, and rapine were not the only evils, great as they\\nwere. The terror of the lone wife as she waited in intense\\nagony for the return of the husband gone to the assistance\\nof the neighbor being despoiled of his rights perhaps his\\nlife; the dread that brutal bands might break in and\\nmurder herself and her children in his absence the despair\\nof the widow, and her grief and her tears when her hus-\\nband was borne to his desolate cabin stark and cold in\\ndeath; these things cannot be recorded in the books of\\nmen.\\nThe period indicated includes the Wakarusa War, and\\nthe war of the summer of 1856, in which Lawrence was\\ndestroyed by Sheriff Jones and TJ. S. Senator David R.\\nAtchison, with their hordes of border-ruffians. By the\\n(03)", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 TWEITTIETH CEITTtrRT CLASSICS\\nsummer of 1857 the Free-State settlers were so increased\\nin numbers that life and property were more safe. From\\nthat time .the Missourians became less fierce in their at-\\ntacks, if even a little more expert in their stealing, and\\ngradually abandoned the contest, leaving Kansas to get to\\nthe stars without their assistance.\\nIt has been said that the blood of the martyrs is the seed\\nof the church. The trials of the Free-State settlers, their\\nsufferings, their blood crying from the ground, were some\\nof the causes which enabled them to finally triumph over\\nall obstacles. The outrage and injustice heaped upon\\nthem gave them the sympathy of all the I^orthern States.\\nThe triumph of the people over such barriers is an achieve-\\nment without a parallel in history. These were the diffi-\\nculties which Kansas surmounted to reach the stars.\\nThe border-ruffians supposed that each invasion had con-\\nquered Kansas and the abolitionists. But no sooner\\nwere they across the border than resolutions were passed\\ncondemning their actions. These were sent East and pub-\\nlished in newspapers in sympathy with the Free-State\\nmovement. This was a strange kind of warfare and de-\\nfense to people who regarded a knowledge of the alphabet\\na crime next in heinousness to that of being an aboli-\\ntionist. At first they ridiculed it, but finally it became\\na grievance hard to be borne. One of the reasons which\\nthey gave for sacking Lawrence was, that they passed\\nresolutions there and published them in Yankee news-\\npapers. The brave and manly actions of the Free-State\\nmen in those troublous times is a heritage richer than\\ngold and pearls, and more valuable to coming generations\\nthan rubies and fine sco^ 1. Seward said that when men", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS 65\\nforgot the lessons of liberty they should come to Lawrence\\nto re-learn them.\\nKansas with her woes and glory\\nis destined to live in song- and story.\\nThe postmaster of Westport, Mo., was a certain Jones.\\nIt was his one cherished ambition to be instrumental in\\nwiping out the Free-State town of Lawrence. To this\\ndesire is directly due the Wakarusa War. The murder cf\\nCharles W. Dow and the events growing out of that hor-\\nrible deed are well known to all.* He was a good citizen,\\nan inoffensive and peaceable man who had committed no\\ncrime greater than coming to the prairies of Kansas a Free-\\nState man to make himself a home. His murderer, a\\nMissouri ruffian, fled to Westport. He surrendered him-\\nself to the said Jones, who had recently been appointed\\nby the bogus Legislature as sheriff of Douglas county,\\nwhere Dow was murdered. The ideas of justice enter-\\ntained by the Law and Order party may be compre-\\nhended when it is known that instead of taking measures\\nto punish the murderer, Jones caused a warrant to be\\nissued for the arrest of the next friend of the murdered\\nman.\\nJones had a purpose in this. He undoubtedly instigated\\nthe murder. His purpose was to so exasperate the Free-\\nState men that they would rescue his prisoner, which\\nwould give him a pretext to call for the military and with\\nit work his will on Lawrence, where he designed that the\\nrescue should occur. The rescue, however, was not made\\nin that town, but on a road some miles away. This, while a\\ndisappointment, did not stop Jones. Even if the rescue\\nRead Spring s Kansas, p, 86, and following.\\n5", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nliaci not occurred in Lawrence, he was sure the rescuers\\nwould go there, and this was sufficient for his purpose.\\nHe could still have some color of excuse for his revenge.\\nJones immediately sent a runner to Westport to cry for\\naid. Later he made a requisition upon Governor Shannon\\nfor three thousand men to carry out the laws. The Gov-\\nernor ordered General Richardson to collect as large a\\nforce as possible and with it report to Jones. Inflammatory\\nand false statements were spread along the border. A\\nforged letter purporting to have been written by Secretary\\n(afterward acting Governor) Woodson was sent into\\nPlatte coimty to further arouse the Missouri ans. In re-\\nsponse, General Atchison hastened to the field. It was\\nsaid in Missouri that pro-slavery settlers in Kansas were\\nbeing murdered by the Free-State men. The fury of the\\nFree-State men was said to be terrible. Governor Shannon\\nissued a proclamation. Men and money were raised all\\nalong the border to help Jones. Missourians from every\\nwalk of life hastened to arms. One bloodthirsty editor\\nleft his paper, taking only time to pen a hasty notice that\\nhe was off to the war and expected to wade waist-deep in\\nthe blood of abolitionists.\\nThe Free-State people at Lawrence appointed a Com-\\nmittee of Safety, and took what precautions they could to\\nprotect their homes from the fury of the lawless ruffians\\ngathering to overwhelm them with complete destruction.\\nDr. Ivobinson was appointed commander-in-chief of the\\nforces mustered for defense. Lane was appointed second\\nin command, and given charge of the field. He fortified\\nthe town, and constantly drilled the Free-State settlers who", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "JAMES IIENKY LANE\\n67\\ncaiiio in to assist in repcllini; the invaders should tlicy\\nattack the town, as it was expected they would.\\nThe determined stand of the Lawrence people and their\\nresolution not to stand meekly and be butchered was nnex-\\npected by the border-ruffians, who had been taught that tho\\nabolitionists could not fight, and Avould not if they\\ncould. They hesitated to attack, and most of them re-\\nmained in their camp at Fraidvlin, four miles away.\\nAnother cause for their hesitation was their dread of the\\nSharps rifles with which the Fi cc-State men were armed.\\nThese rifles had been sui^plied to them by the Emigrant\\nAid Society and other similar associations. The terror in-\\nspired by these guns Avas really frightful. It Avas believed\\nthey could be fired sixty times a minute, and that they\\nw^ould kill a man a mile away.\\nThe Eree-State men sent a deputation to wait upon Gov-\\nernor Shannon, who was by it first informed of the merits\\nof the pretensions of Jones. To his credit be it said, that\\nGovernor Shannon did what he could to amend the errors\\ninto wdiich he had fallen. He went to Franklin, and finally\\nto Lawrence, in the role of a peace-maker.\\nOn December Gtli Thomas W. Barber Avas wantonly\\nmurdered in a most outrageous manner as he was returning\\nto his home from LaAvrence, Avhere he had been laboring i]i\\nthe trenches and drilling in the ranks of her defenders.\\nHe Avas shot by George W. Clark, Indian Agent, probably\\nfor the sole purpose of exasperating the Free-State men to\\nattack the camp of ruffians at Franklin. If they became\\nthe aggressors, Jones s course Avould be justified. A most\\nconcise account of this murder can be found in Wilder s\\nAnnals of Kansas. Suitable tablets in the ISTational Hall", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nof Kepresentatives at Washington and in the Hall of Repre-\\nsentatives in the Capitol huilding at Topeka commemorate\\nthe martyrdom of Barher. His innocent blood crying from\\nthe ground moved men to seek a deep revenge in after years.\\nThe efforts of Governor Shannon, and the Sharps rifles\\nin the hands of Free-State men, bore fruit. A treaty of\\npeace was concluded at Lawrence on the 8th of December,\\n1855, signed by Shannon, and, on behalf of the Free-State\\nmen, by Robinson and Lane. The Missourians returned\\nto their lairs, and the defenders of Lawrence were dis-\\ncharged. They were addressed by Robinson and Lane.\\nLane said in part:\\nFellow-Soldiers You assembled to vindicate the\\nright to defend this city and inhabitants of the Terri-\\ntory against threatened destruction. Well and gallantly\\nhave you discharged that duty. The tocsin of war is no\\nlonger heard from the besieging army they have returned\\nacross the border from whence they came our fortifications\\nare not demolished those beautiful buildings still remain\\nto ornament our city and to accommodate our citizens. You\\nstill retain the rifles you know so well how to use. The\\nladies God bless them are still among us, to encourage\\nmanly and chivalric deeds.\\nYou have won a glorious victory by your industry,\\nskill, courage and forbearance. In these fortifications,\\nwrought as if by magic, you took your position, there de-\\ntermined never to surrender while a man was left alive to\\npull a trigger; with a desperate and wily foe almost in\\nyour midst, you restrained your fire determined to con-\\ntinue them in the wrong, and compel them to commence\\nhostilities to take all the responsibility of a battle which", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n69\\nyou believed would shake the Union to its very basis. The\\nbesieging army had time to ascertain our true position\\nfound that position just and honorable that there was no\\ngood cause of complaint against us and having marched\\ninto Kansas, marched out again, leaving us occupying the\\nidentical position we did when the invasion was made.\\nWhile congratulating ourselves upon our success, let\\nus not forget the gallant Barber, who fell in the discharge\\nof his duty. lie was a noble spirit, worthy of the cause\\nfor which he bled. Had he fallen upon the battle-field in\\nmanly combat, we could not have complained. While we\\nforgive, we cannot forget his cowardly and brutal murder.\\nLong may liis manly bearing be remembered by all true\\nmen.\\nFor days and weeks we were impressed with the belief\\nthat our hands were to be imbrued with the blood of\\nour brethren, while we were determined manfully and to\\nthe death to defend our hearthstones. Our hearts bled in\\ncontemplating the dreadful alternative. The fearful crisis\\nis past, and, we hope, never to return. Our Missouri\\nfriends understand us and our cause better than when they\\ncame, and will not again permit themselves to be stirred\\nup in anger against us.\\nThat beloved Union, for the safety of which we trem-\\nbled, will not again, we trust, be imperiled by a foreign\\nforce from a sister State invading our Territory.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "LANE IN THE EAST.\\nI could a tale unfold whose lightest word\\nAVould harrow up thy soul.\\nSometime in ^^rarcli, 1S5G, Lane left Kansas to make a\\ntour of the principal cities of the Free States in the inter-\\nest of the Free-State settlers. Other Free-State men went\\non a similar mission some of them with Lane. One noble\\nwoman engaged in this work Mrs. Sara T. L. Tlobinson,\\nwife of Dr. Charles Eobinson.\\nBut one meeting can be noticed here that held in\\nChicago, Saturday evening, May 31st. Tliis chapter is\\ncomposed of extracts from the speech delivered by Lane\\nupon this occasion, and comments thereon, and is quoted\\nfrom Andreas excellent history of Kansas a work long\\nsince out of print. This account will be found on pages\\n136-137.\\nOne of the earliest and most enthusiastic Kansas meet-\\nings held was at Chicago, Saturday evening. May 31st, in\\nCourt-House Square. The Kansas speakers were Colonel\\nJames H. Lane and Mr. Ilinman, fresh from the smoking\\nruins of Lawrence. The Chicago Daily Tribune, June 2,\\ngave a two-column report of the meeting imder such head-\\nlines as these: Illinois Alive and Awake! 10,000\\nFreemen in Council 2,000 Old Hunkers on Hand\\n$15,000 Subscribed for Kansas\\n(70)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n71\\nHon. ^N orman Jiidcl presided, and made the opening\\nspeech. ITe was followed by Francis A. Hoffman. J. C.\\nVanghan, in an oloqnent speech, presented the claims of\\nKansas for inimodinto relief, and offered the following\\nresolntions\\nResolved, Tliat the people of Illinois will aid tiie Frefnlom oj\\nKansas,\\nResolved, That they will send a colony of 500 actual settlers to\\nthat Territory, and provision them for one year.\\nResolved, That these settlers will invade no man s rights, but\\nwill maintain their own.\\nResolved, That we recommend the adoption of a similar policy\\nto the people of all the States of the Union, ready and willing to\\naid; and also a thorough concert and cooperation among them,\\nthrough committees of correspondence, on this subject.\\nResolved, That an Executive Committee of seven, viz., J. C.\\nVaughan, Mark Skinner, George AV. Dale, I. N. Arnold, N. B. Judd,\\nand E. I. Tinkham, be appointed, with full ])owers to carry into\\nexecution these resolutions.\\nResolved, That Tuthill King, R. M. TTough, O. B. Waite, J. 11.\\nDunham, Dr. Gil)bs, J. T. Ryerson and W. B. Egan be a finance\\ncommittee to raise and distribute material aid.\\nFollowing the reading of the resolntions, they were sec-\\nonded by Peter Page, Esq., and passed amidst the most\\nenthusiastic and prolonged cheering.\\n^ext, Hon. W. B. Egan, one of the most eloquent Irish\\norators of the city, spoke to his Irish fellow-citizens, rous-\\ning them to tlie highest pitch of excitement.\\nThe President then introduced Col. James II. Lane, of\\nKansas. As he rose up and came forward, he was greeted\\nAvith an outburst of applause from the crowd that contin-\\nued for some minutes, during which time he stood statue-\\nlike, with mouth firm set, gazing witli those Avondrous eyes\\ndown into the very heart of the excited throng. Before the", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\napplause had subsided sufficiently for liis voice to be beard,\\ntbe fascinating spell of his presence had already seized upon\\nthe whole vast audience, and for the next hour he controlled\\nits every motion moving to tears, to anger, to laughter,\\nto scorn, to the wildest enthusiasm, at his will. ISTo man\\nof his time possessed such magnetic power over a vast mis-\\ncellaneous assembly of men as he. With two possible\\nexceptions (Patrick Henry and S. S. Prentiss), no Ameri-\\ncan orator ever equaled him in effective stump-speaking,\\nor by the irresistible power by which he held his audience\\nin absolute control. On that night he was at his best.\\nIt was doubtless the ablest and most effective oratorical\\neffort of his life, l^o full report of it was given at the time.\\nOne of the hundreds of young men made Kansas crazy\\nby the speech, and who forthwith left all and followed him\\nto Kansas, thus wrote of it twenty years after\\nHe was fresh from the scenes of dispute in the belliger-\\nent Territory. He made a characteristic speech, teeming\\nwith invective extravagance, impetuosity, denunciation and\\neloquence. The grass on the prairies is SAvayed no mort\\neasily by the winds than was this vast assemblage by the\\nutterances of this speaker. They saw the contending fac-\\ntions in the Territory through his glasses. The Pro-\\nSlavery party appeared like demons and assassins; the\\nFree-State party like heroes and martyrs. He infused\\nthem with his warlike spirit and enthusiastic ardor for\\nthe practical champions of freedom. Their response for\\nhis appeals for succor for the struggling freemen was im-\\nmediate and decisive.\\nCol. S. S. Prouty.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n73\\nIt is doubtful if the writer of the ahove, or any other of\\nthe ten thousand hearers of that night, can recall a single\\nsentence of his speech. The emotions aroused were so\\noverwhelming as to entirely obliterate from meinory the\\nspoken words. A few broken extracts are preserved below.\\nHe began\\nI have been sent by the people of Kansas to plead\\ntheir cause before the people of the ISTorth. Most people\\nhave a very erroneous idea of the people of Kansas. They\\nthink they are mostly from Massachusetts. They are\\nreally more than nine-tenths from the ISTorthwestern States.\\nThere are more men from Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, than\\nfrom all New England and ISTew York combined.\\nSpeaking of the President, he said:\\nOf Franklin Pierce I have a right to talk as I please,\\nhaving made more than one hundred speeches advocating\\nhis election, and having also as one of the Electors of Indi-\\nana, cast the electoral vote of tliat State for him. Frank\\nwas, in part, the creature of my own hands and a pretty\\njob they made of it. The one pre-eminent wish of mine\\nnow is that Frank may be hurled from the \\\\Vhite House\\nand that the nine memorials sent him from the outraged\\ncitizens of Kansas detailing their wrongs, may be dragged\\nout of his iron box.\\nOf the climate of Kansas, he said\\nKansas is the Italy of America. The corn and the\\nvine grow there so gloriously that they seem to be glad and\\nto thank the farmers for planting them. It is a climate", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74: TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nlike that of Illinois, but milder. Invalids, instead of going\\nto Italy, when the country became known would go to Kan-\\nsas, to gather new life beneath its fair sky and from its\\nbalmy airs. The wild grapes of Kansas are as large and\\nluscious as those that grow in the vineyards of southern\\nFrance.\\nHe alluded to Col. W. IT. Bissell, then the Kepublican\\ncandidate for Governor of Illinois, as follows\\nIt is true, I was side by side with your gallant and\\nnoble Bissell at Buena Vista and in Congress. I wish I\\ncould describe to jo\\\\i the scene on the morning preceding\\nthat glorious battle. On a ridge stood Clay, Bissell, Mc-\\nKee, Hardin, and myself. Before us were twenty thou-\\nsand armed enemies. It was a beautiful morning, and the\\nsun shone bright upon the polished lances and muskets\\nof the enemy, and their banners waved proudly in the\\nbreeze. In our rear the lofty mountains reached sky-\\nward, and their bases swarmed with enemies ready to rob\\ntlie dead and murder the wounded when the battle was over.\\nAround us stood five ragged regiments of volunteers, two\\nfrom Illinois, two from Indiana, and one from Kentucky;\\nthey were bone of your bone, blood of your blood, and it\\nwas only when you were near enough to look into their\\neyes that j^ou could see the d 1 was in them. It did\\nnot occur to me then that I should be indicted for treason\\nbecause I loved liberty better than slavery.\\nHe then gave a warm and glowing tribute to Col. Bis-\\nsell, his brother-in-arms.\\nThen followed a most vivid and awful narrative of the", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n76\\noutrages perpetrated upon the Free States men by the\\nMissouri ruffians; so vivid that the Osawatomie murders\\nseemed but merited retaliation, and most sweet revenge\\nto liis excited hearers.\\nThe Missourians [said he] poured over the border\\nin thousands, with bowie-knives in their boots, their belts\\nbristling with revolvers, their gims upon their shoulders,\\nand three gallons of whisky per vote in their wagons.\\nWhen asked where they came from, their reply was, From\\nMissouri; when asked, What are you here for? their\\nreply was, Come to vote. If anyone should go there\\nand attempt to denj^ these things, or apologize for them,\\nthe Missourians would spit upon him. They claim to\\nown Kansas, to have a right to vote there and to make its\\nlaws, and to say wliat its institutions shall be.\\nCol. Lane held up the volume of the Statutes of Kansas,\\nthen proceeded to read from it, commenting as he read\\nThe Legislature first passed acts virtually repealing\\nthe larger portion of the Constitution of the United States,\\nand then repealed, as coolly as one would take a chew of to-\\nbacco, provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Of this\\nbill I have a riglit to speak God forgive me for so enor-\\nmous and dreadful a political sin I voted for the bill. I\\nthought the people were to have the right to form their\\nown institutions, and went to Kansas to organize the Demo-\\ncratic party there, and make the State Democratic, but\\ntho IMissouri invaders poured in the ballot-boxes were\\ndesecrated tho bogus Legislature was elected by armed\\nmobs you know the rest.\\nThe Pro-Slavery fragment of the Democratic party", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76 TWENTIETH CEKTURY CLASSICS\\ntalk much about Knownothingism. It is their song day\\nand night. Well, these Kansas law-makers have gone to\\nwork and repealed at once the clause in the ^Nebraska\\nBill that gave the right to vote to foreigners in Kansas on\\ndeclaring their intention to become citizens, and made\\nit requisite for them to have lived in the Territory five\\nyears and to take the final oath and at the same time, they\\nmade all Indians who adopted the habits of the white men,\\nvoters at once. And what was the distinguishing habit\\nof white men? Why, it was understood to be drinking\\nwhisky. All that was necessary to naturalize a Kansas\\nIndian was to get him drunk. What Kno^vnothing lodge\\never went so far in their nativism as this ^made foreign-\\ners in the Territory wait five years to become citizens, and\\nenfranchising the drunken, thieving Indians at once, one\\nand all\\nThe Pro-Slavery fragment of the Democratic party\\nalso delights in the term ^negro-worshipper, to desig-\\nnate Free-State men. I will show you that these Pro-\\nSlavery men are of all negro-worshippers the most abject.\\nAccording to the Kansas code [Col. Lane read from the\\nbook, giving page and section], if a person kidnaps a\\nwhite child, the utmost penalty is six months in jail if\\na negro baby, the penalty is death. Who worships negroes,\\nand slave negro babies at that To kidnap a ^hite child\\ninto slavery six months in jail; to kidnap a negro into\\nfreedom death\\nHe concluded his scathing review of the infamous co de\\nas follows\\nIs there an lUinoisan who says enforce these mon-\\nstrous iniquities called laws? Show me the manl The", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n77\\npeople of Kansas never will obey them. They are being\\nbutchered, and one and all will die first As for myself,\\nI am going back to Kansas, where there is an indictment\\npending against me for high treason. Were the rope\\nabout my neck, I would say that as to the Kansas code, it\\nshall not be enforced never nevee\\nFollowing, he argued, elaborately and conclusively, the\\nright of Kansas to come into the Union as a Free State\\nnow. He closed his speech with a detailed account of\\nthe murders and outrages perpetrated upon the Free-\\nState settlers, giving, with a masterly power of tragic\\ndelineation which brought each particular horror, blood-\\nred and distinct, before the eyes of the excited throng.\\nHe knew of fourteen cases of tar and feathering the\\nmost awful and humiliating outrage ever inflicted on\\nman. He told of Dow, shot dead while holding up his\\nhands as a sign of his defenselessness lying, like a dead\\ndog, in the road all the long day, until in the evening his\\nfriends found his body, dabbled in his life-blood, and bore\\nit away. Barber, unarmed, shot on the highway, brought\\ndead to Lawrence, where his frantic wife, a childless\\nAvidow, mid shrieks of anguish, kissed the pallid lips that\\nto her were silent evermore. Brown, stabbed, pounded,\\nhacked with a hatchet, bleeding and dying, kicked into\\nthe presence of his wdfe, where in agony he breathed out\\nhis life she, now a maniac. A voice from the crowd\\ncalled, Who was Bro\\\\vn Lane continued\\nBrown was as gallant a spirit as ever went to his God\\nAnd a Democrat at that not one of the Pro-Slavery frag-\\nment, though. For the blood of free men shed on the soil", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nof Kansas for the blood now flowing in tlic streets of\\nLawrence for every drop wliicli has been shed since the\\npeople asked to be admitted as a State, the Administration\\nis responsible. Before God and this people I arraign\\nFrank Pierce as a murderer!\\nIn conclnsion, I have only this to say The people of\\nKansas have undying faith in the justice of their cause in\\nthe eternal life of the truths maintained and they ask\\nthe people of Illinois to do for them that which seems to\\nthem just.\\nThe Chicago Tribune, in its report of the meeting,\\nJune 2, says\\nWe regret we can only give a meager outline of the elo-\\nquent and telling effort of Col. Lane. He was listened to\\nwith the deepest interest and attention by the vast throng,\\nand as he detailed the series of infamous outrages inflicted\\nuj^on the free men of Kansas, the people Avere breathless\\nwith mortification and anger, or wild with enthusiasm to\\navenge those wrongs. During Col. Lane s address, he waj\\noften interrupted by the wildest applause, or by deep\\ngroans for Pierce. Douglas, Atchison, and the doughfaces\\nand ruffians who had oi^pressed Kansas, and by cheers for\\nSumner, Kobinson, and other noble men who have dared\\nand suffered for liberty.\\nLanguage is inadequate to give the reader a conception\\nof the effect of the recital of that tale of woe Avhicli men\\nfrom Kansas had to tell the flashing eyes, the rigid mus-\\ncles, and the frowning brows told a story to the looker-on\\nthat types cannot repeat. Prom the fact that an immense\\ncrowd kept their feet from 8 till 12 o clock, that even then", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "JAMES 3IENKY LANE 79\\nthey were unwilling the sjoeakers shoiikl cease, or thtit the\\ncontributions should stop from the fact that workingmen,\\nwho have only the wages of the clay s bread, eniptic. d the\\ncontents of their pockets into the general fund that sailors\\nthrew in their earnings that widows sent up their savings\\nthat boys contributed their pence; that those who had no\\nmoney gave what they had to spare; that those who had\\nnothing to give offered to go as settlers and do their duty to\\nFreedom on that now consecrated soil; that every bold\\ndeclaration for liberty, every allusion to the Revolution of\\n76, and to the possibility that the battles of that period\\nwere to be fought over again in Kansas, were received as\\nthose things most to be desired something of the tone and\\ntemper of the meeting may be imagined.\\nThe effect of the meeting will be felt in deeds. Be the\\nconsequences what they may, the men of Illinois are re-\\nsolved to act.\\nTake it with its attending circmnstances the short-\\nness of the notice, the character of the assembled multi-\\ntude, and the work which was accomplished it was the\\nmost remarkable meeting ever held in the State. We\\nbelieve it will inaugurate a new era in Illinois. We believe\\nit is the precursor of the liberation of Kansas from the\\nhand of the oppressor, and of an all-pervading political\\nrevolution at home.\\nAbout half-past 12, Sunday having come, the meeting\\nunwillingly adjourned, and the crowd reluctantly Avent\\nhome. At a later hour, the Star-Spangled Banner and the\\nMarseillaise, sung by bands of men whose hearts were full\\nof the spirit of these magnificent hymns, were the only\\nevidences of the event that we have endeavored to de-\\nscribe. j", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "LANE S ARMY OF THE NORTH.\\nOnce more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,\\nOr close the wall up with our English dead\\nIn peace there s nothing so becomes a man\\nAs modest stillness and humility\\nBut when the blast of war blows in our ears,\\nThen imitate the action of the tiger\\nStiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,\\nDisguise fair nature with hard-favour d rage\\nThen lend the eye a terrible aspect\\nLet it pry through the portage of the head\\nLike the brass cannon let the brow o er whelm it\\nAs fearfully as doth a galled rock\\nO erhang and jutty his confounded base,\\nSwill d with the wild and wasteful ocean.\\nThe effect of the campaign in the N^orth began to mani-\\nfest itself on the border, where the ruffians were ever on\\nguard. Upon the resumption of navigation on the Mis-\\nsouri river in the spring of 1856, emigrants to Kansas\\nbegan to arrive at the border towns. They were from the\\nfree States, and at first were in parties so small that the\\npro-slavery people did not molest them. A small quantity\\nof ammunition and some guns may have reached the Free-\\nState settlers by this route.\\nHumor had borne into the dark recesses of ruffianism\\nsome intimation of the magnitude of Lane s work in the\\nl^orth. The emigrants passing up the river to Kansas\\nwere taken as a sort of advance guard of what came to be\\nknown as Lane s Army of the E orth. It was decided\\n(80)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n81\\nthat they must be stopped. Boats were searched; emi-\\ngrants for Kansas were turned back or made prisoners.\\nThe arms consigned t the Free-State men were confiscated.\\nThe tide thus early setting toward Kansas was temporarily\\nchecked. But it found a new route, througli Iowa and\\nN ebraska, and came into Kansas from the northward.\\nThe arms intended for the Free-State settlers were con-\\nsigned by way of this route; some of them reached their\\ndestination.\\nIn Kansas affairs were approaching a white heat. Jones\\nwas furious wdien his prey was snatched from his paws by\\nShannon s conclusion of the Wakarusa war, though it is\\ndoubtful whether he would have attacked Lawrence when\\nhe found the Free- State men so determined to protect\\nthemselves, armed as they were with Sharps rifles. But\\nhe pretended that he would. He raged in the Blue\\nLodges of Missouri, and fumed against Shannon s action.\\nHe sought another occasion to try the bowie-knife and\\nrevolver cure for abolitionism upon the hated Law-\\nrence. In this he had recourse to his unserved writs. Two\\nof the party which rescued Branson w^ere Samuel N\\nWood and Samuel J. Tappan. He went to Lawrence to\\narrest them, and was resisted by a half- jovial, half-in-ear-\\nnest crowd of Free-State men who jostled him and per-\\nmitted his prisoners to escape. At night he was shot,\\nthough not dangerously hurt. The assassin acted upon\\nhis own responsibility, and was unknown to the people of\\nthe town. They disavowed his action, condemned it, and\\noffered a rcAvard for his arrest.\\nThe attempted assassination of Jones was the opportu-\\nnity of the Missourians. Jones was reported dead. The\\nborder was aflame.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nAt this time, too, it was determined to devote some at-\\ntention to the officers elected under the Topeka Constitu-\\ntion. These officers had attempted to perform none of the\\nfunctions of the offices which thej held, and it was well\\nknown that thej had no intention of doing so until so\\nauthorized bj an enabling act of Congress. In May the\\ngrand jury of Douglas county was instructed to indict\\nthem for treason, and did so. It was thought that Dr. Kob-\\ninson could be of great service to Kansas by making a\\ntour of ISTew England. On his way there he was arrested\\nat Lexington, Mo., but Mrs. Kobinson was allowed to pro-\\nceed. She did a noble work for the Free-State cause,\\naccomplishing fully that which had been assigned to her\\nhusband. Dr. Robinson Avas returned to Kansas, and,\\nwith others, held a prisoner for four months at Lecompton.\\nGovernor Reeder fled in disguise. It was a matter of con-\\ncern along the border that Reeder escaped, that Lane could\\nnot be arrested, and that there existed no sufficient excuse\\nfor the immediate murder of Dr. Robinson.\\nThe United States Marshal issued a proclamation May\\n11th, 1856, calling for law-abiding citizens to appear\\nat Lecompton in sufficient numbers for the execution of\\nthe law. Kansas was invaded again by Missourians.\\nThe hordes poured again over the border. Free-State\\nsettlers were everywhere arrested and distressed. J^one of\\ntheir leaders were in position to organize resistance, being\\nabsent from the Territory or under arrest. The long-\\ndesired opportunity to destroy Lawrence was at hand.\\nOn May 21, Jones led in a body of armed men and de-\\nstroyed the Free-State hotel. He also burned the dwell-\\ning of Dr. Robinson, and destroyed the offices of the Free-\\nState newspapers. Tlie town was pillaged.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 83\\nThe Topeka Legislature was dispersed July 4, and the\\nCongressional Committee of Investigation was threatened\\nwith hanging by Captain Hemp. It was virtually\\ndriven from the Territory. Anarchy reigned.\\nBy August 1st armed bands of Missourians and their\\nallies from other slave States were in almost undisputed\\npossession of Kansas Territory. They were encamped\\nand fortified at various points. Osawatomie was at the\\nmercy of a company of Georgians a short distance away,\\nwho lived by pillaging the Free-State men. Twelve miles\\nsouthwest of Lawrence, on Washington creek, on the claim\\nof J. P. Saunders, the Missourians had fortified them-\\nselves in what they called Fort Saunders. At Frank-\\nlin they had a blockhouse, defended with a cannon. This\\nAvas a sort of headquarters from which bands went forth\\nto raid the settlers, and to which they carried their plun-\\nder. Two miles south of Lecompton Col. H. T. Titus\\nturned his house into a fort and garrisoned it with Mis-\\nsourians. These posts had been maintained by the Mis-\\nsourians all summer. Each was a center from which\\narmed bands harried the surrounding Free-State settlers,\\nand to which the fruits of robbery were carried.\\nThe policy of inaction, and the role of non-combatants\\nand martyrs, could no longer be borne by the Free-State\\nmen. It seemed that their extermination had been de-\\ncided upon by the relentless Missourians. John Brown\\ntook the field. As long as Free-State settlers could be mur-\\ndered with impimity in Kansas, murder was lightly re-\\ngarded by the pro-slavery invaders. When John BroAvn\\nwith his Bible and his gun stood in the breach, it became a\\ndifferent matter. When he met the Missourians at Black", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nJack and administered Cromwellian knocks to ruffian\\npates, pro-slavery people everywhere were shocked at his\\nimpiety. Whitfield, the dull and heavy pro-slavery Dele-\\ngate to Congress, took the field with a large band of cut-\\nthroats at his heels, and pretended to be searching for\\nBrown he was very careful not to find him.\\nThe Free-State men made a demonstration against the\\nfort of the Georgians near Osawatomie, August 5th. They\\noutnumbered their assailants, but fled in haste to Fort\\nSaunders, leaving a portion of their supplies. Thus re-\\ninforced. Fort Saunders became a formidable point. Free-\\nState settlements in its vicinity Avere uprooted.\\nThis was the condition of Kansas when the Missourians\\nwere again troubled by rumors. Lane abandoned his cam-\\npaign for Fremont and Kansas in the I^orth, and hastened\\nhome to take the field against the border-ruffians. He came\\nat the head of some six hundred emigrants, three hundred\\nof whom were armed, some of them very poorly. He led\\nthem over the route afterwards called Lane s Trail,\\nand sometimes known as the Iowa route. He arrived\\nAugust Yth. He was disguised after reaching the Kansas\\nline, and was known as Joe Cook.\\nMajor D. S. Hoyt was an estimable citizen of Lawrence\\nwho deplored the existing conditions, and who supposed\\nthat some arrangement might be concluded with Col.\\nTreadwell, commander of Fort Saunders, whereby order\\nwould be restored in Douglas county. Against the pro-\\ntests of his friends he proceeded unarmed to the fort\\nupon this mission. He was received with apparent cor-\\ndiality and good feeling. Upon his return, two men were\\nsent a short distance with him. Arriving at a wood near", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n85\\nthe fort, they murdered him, mutihated his body with a\\ncorrosive substance, and partly Imried it. This brutal and\\ntreacherous murder occurred only a day or two after Lane\\narrived in Lawrence, and before his presence was known\\nto any except his most trusted friends. The Free-State\\nmen were exasperated. Their leaders determined to at-\\ntack Franklin; this intention was kept secret from the\\ncitizens of Lawrence. On the evening of the 12th of\\nAugust, eighty-one men commanded by Captain Joseph\\nCracklin left Law^rence to attack and if possible destroy\\nthe blockhouse at Franklin, and to gain possession of the\\ncannon with which it was defended. This was under-\\ntaken by Lane s advice. He accomj)anied the attacking\\nparty, and as the column was nearing Franklin made\\nhimself know^n to his men, who, it is said, seemed now\\nto think everything would go right.\\nThe attack was successful. The Free-State men drew\\na wagon loaded with hay to the blockhouse, and fired it.\\nThe Missourians fled, and the panic they were in can be\\ninferred when it is kno\\\\\\\\ai that they left their whisky,\\nseveral barrels of which were found and destroyed by the\\nattacking party. The cannon was secured and carried to\\nLawrence; as no ammunition for it was captured, the\\nFree-State men took the type of the Herald of Freedom\\nand cast it into balls for this piece of artillery.\\nOn the 13th of August the Chicago company arrived in\\nTopeka it consisted of thirty men. Lane ordered it to\\nreport to the Free-State camp some three miles from\\nFort Saunders. They arrived at 2 o clock the morning of\\nthe 14th. This increased the Free-State force to some\\nfour hundred men. During the day the body of Major\\nHoyt was found, and, gathered around it, the Free-State", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nmen swore revenge. On tlie morning of the IStli Lane\\nsent out scouts, and tlie men demanded to be led at once\\nto the attack, which had been fixed for the following\\nmorning. The demand of the men was complied with,\\nand at 2 o clock in the afternoon they were led against\\nthe fort, which they found deserted. The ruffians had\\nfled, leaving much plunder, and forty muskets. The fort\\nwas burned.\\nThe Free-State men began the return march to Law-\\nrence, but on their way were informed that the Missou-\\nrians under Titus were raiding the Free-State settlers.\\nUpon the receipt of this intelligence the force turned\\ntowards Lecompton. On the 16th the fortified house of\\nTitus was bombarded with the cannon taken at Franklin.\\nAt every fire the Free-State men would call out, There\\nis a new edition of the Herald of Freedom for you\\nThe fort and its garrison were surrendered. The fort\\nwas burned, and the prisoners taken to Lawrence. The\\nroar of the cannon was heard in Lecompton, and the Ter-\\nritorial officers hid themselves. Governor Shannon was\\nfound embarking on a scow to flee across the river.\\nThe following day Governor Shannon appeared in Law-\\nrence, and concluded a peace with the Free-State men.\\nPrisoners were exchanged. This step angered the Mis-\\nsourians, who had lost their prey once before by a treaty\\nof peace. They were resolved not to be foiled in like\\nmanner again. They took the matter into their own\\nhands. The presence of Lane in the Territory became\\nknown to the Missourians at this time. August 16th\\ntheir leaders issued a call which ran thus:\\nTo THE Public It has been our duty to keep correctly", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n87\\nand fully advised of the movements of the Abolitionists.\\nWe know that since Lane commenced his march the Al)o-\\nlitionists in the Territory have been engaged in stealing\\nhorses to mount his men, and in organizing and prepar-\\ning immediately on their arrival to carry out their avowed\\npurpose of expelling or exterminating every pro-slavery\\nsettler. We have seen them daily become more daring as\\nLane s party advanced. We have endeavored to prepare\\nour friends to the end, which was foreseen, and which we\\nnow have to announce Lane s men have arrived!\\nCIVIL AVAR HAS BEGUN\\nLane s name was in the mouth of every Missourian,\\nand a terror to their hearts. Missourians were appealed\\nto and asked to reinforce their brethren in Kansas, as\\nLane was in the -field! Clark, the murderer of Bar-\\nber, fled, and reported that\\nAn army of Lane s men have demolished Franklin;\\nsix to eight hundred strong, attacked Col. Titus near Le-\\ncompton.\\nThey attacked the guard of the United States troops\\nwho had in charge Robinson and the other prisoners, who\\nsurrendered without firing a gun, and are now in the hands\\nof Lane s men. It is impossible to state in a letter all the\\noutrages committed by these marauders. We have had\\n^YQ expresses from different parts of the Territory since\\nthis morning, from Iowa Point to Lecompton. They are\\ndriving all the pro-slavery men out of Douglas county.\\nThe fugitive s are arriving every hour.\\nWe call upon our friends in Missouri, in the name of\\nhumanity, to come to the rescue, witli men and provisions", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88 TWEl^TIETH CENTUEY CLASSICS\\nto support tliem. Ws have determined to clean the Terri-\\ntory or fall in the attempt To arms! at once,\\nand come to the rescue.\\nThe Kansas Herald Extra had these headlines. They\\nshow the panic and consternation caused by the presence\\nof Lane and his army\\nWar and Desolation Lecompton taken by Lane s\\nMen Col. Titus s Company Held as Prisoners Sheriff\\nJones s House Threatened- by the Outlaws Murder and\\nButchery\\nAn account of the storming and taking of Titus s house,\\nand the general devastation by Lane s men, closed as\\nfollows\\nIs there a heart in the breast of any Law-and-Order\\nman in Kansas that will not respond to the following ear-\\nnest and touching ajipeal. Let the cry be To arms\\nTo arms\\n]^EAR Lecompton, August 16^ 1856.\\nTo Col. Payne and Others, Friends of Law and\\nOrder: The Abolitionists have come on us this morning\\nabout daylight, whipped and taken prisoners our men.\\nLecompton is taken, and deserted by the women and chil-\\ndren. These are Lane s men, about eight hundred strong.\\nThe United States troops are also whipped and beaten.\\nWill you come to our rescue before we are all murdered\\nWe are out of powder and lead and every kind of ammuni-\\ntion. Our friends are now stationed in Sheriff Jones s\\nhouse, as many as can, and will fight to the last. Will you", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE S9\\nhelp US If so, come at once. Unless we get help we will\\nall be murdered. Yours,\\nL. J. Hamilton.\\np. S. Col. Titus and his men arc all taken prisoners.\\nGovernor Shannon resigned and Secretary Woodson 1)c-\\ncame Acting Governor August 21st. As it was known that\\nhe would aid in every way the Missourians in their work\\nof exterminating the Free-State men, the ruffians deter-\\nmined to make the most of their opportunity. It was not\\nknown when Governor Shannon s successor would arrive,\\nand it was hoped that the Free-State settlers could be\\ndestroyed or conquered before his presence could prevent\\nso desirable a consummation. Their leaders issued a\\nmanifesto August 26th, setting forth reasons why this\\nshould be accomplished. The ruffians were urged to Let\\nthe watchword be extermination, total and complete.\\nUnited States Senator Atchison and B. F. Stringfellow\\nwere at this time at Little Santa Fe, Mo., with a force\\nof about one thousand men. These they organized under\\nthe name of The Army of Law and Order in Kansas,\\nand Atchison was made commander of it. This army\\nmoved into the Territory on the 29th, and camped some\\nfifteen miles from Osawatomie, to which towm they sent a\\ndetachment of about three hundred and fifty men. The\\ndetachment arrived at the town on the morning of the\\n30th. The village was defended by John Erown with\\nabout thirty-five men they were forced to retreat after a\\nheroic defense. Brown s son and another man were killed,\\nas were also some of the attacking party. The town was\\npillaged and burned.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90 TWENTIETH CENTUEY CLASSICS\\nA force of Free-State men of about three hundred, under\\nthe advice of Lane, marched against the camp of the in-\\nvaders. Upon their approach the ruffians fled to Missouri,\\nwhen their pickets had exchanged shots with the advance-\\nguard of the Free-State men.\\nHaving dispersed the army of Atchison and String-\\nfellow, the Free- State men marched against Lecompton in\\ntwo columns, one on each bank of the Kansas river, com-\\nmanded by Harvey on the north and Lane on the south\\nbank. Lane was delayed, and did not arrive until Harvey\\nhad retired. But the demonstration was a success; it se-\\ncured the release of the Free- State prisoners, and the dis-\\nbandment of one division of the Missourians.\\nThe ruffians met with more success in Atchison, Jeffer-\\nson and Leavenworth counties. The Free-State men were\\nin a minority, and they were unorganized. They could\\noifer no effective resistance to the robbery and murder\\ndaily perpetrated against them. Governor Shannon re-\\nported that dead bodies could be seen along all the high-\\nways. Murder was so common that it ceased to cause\\ncomment it was taken as a matter of course. Many\\nrefugees from these counties came to Lawrence for safety,\\nand to seek for assistance to expel the Missourians and\\nto regain their homes.\\nA meeting of the principal Free-State men was held in\\nLawrence, and it was determined to cross the river and\\ndrive out the border-ruffians prowling and murdering in\\nLeavenworth and Jefferson counties. It was determined\\nto march on the city of Leavenworth when the coimtry\\nwas cleared. Lane, Harvey and John Brown attended the\\nmeeting, and the command of the column to march on", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENEY LANE\\n91\\nLeavenworth was tendered Brown. He declined it, as it\\nwould have been necessary for Colonel Harvey to take a\\nsubordinate place, which he did not believe would be sat-\\nisfactory to Harvey s men. A successful campaign was\\nbegim. The chief command devolved upon Lane. At\\nSlough creek Major Harvey surprised a number of the\\nruffians and captured almost all of them, with their arms\\nand baggage. He was then ordered by Lane to march to\\nHickory Point and attack a band encamped in a black-\\nsmith shop. The shop was fired with a load of burning\\nhay, when a truce was declared, flags exchanged, and hos-\\ntilities between them ceased. Lane heard of the arrival of\\nGovernor Geary, and ordered Colonel Harvey to return to\\nLawrence; but not receiving this order, he went to Oska-\\nloosa, where he and his force were arrested on a charge of\\nmurder. Lane escaped from the Territory.\\nLane had been in the Territory little more than a month\\nvictory after victory rested with the Free-State men after\\nhis arrival. One of his friends afterwards wrote of this\\nshort campaign:\\nThis short, brilliant, decisive and successful campaign\\n^vas glorious in its inception glorious in its execution, and\\nmost glorious in its results. On it the freedom of Kansas\\nand the stability of our free institutions and the Kepublic\\nitself was staked, and most nobly were they defended.\\nThis was the last attempt on the part of the people\\nof Missouri to make Kansas a slave State by force of arms.\\nThe only reliance now of the conspirators was on the\\nadministration at Washington and ballot-box stuffing\\nand other frauds in elections; and failing in that they\\nattempted secession, which ended in the destruction of", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nslavery. This campaign was the crowning glory\\nof the Grim Chieftain s career, and placed him on the top\\nof the temple of fame in Kansas.\\nIt is onr belief that his friend correctly weighed his\\ndeeds, and that the campaign begnn in Chicago in May\\nand ended in Kansas in September, 1856, liberated Kansas\\nfrom the dominion of slavery and saved her to a nation\\nmade wholly free by the fires kindled against the foul\\ninstitution on her ot\\\\ti soil, made sacred by the blood of\\nher noble sons.\\nDISAPPEARANCE OF THE BORDER-RUFFIANS.\\nAt the close of the civil war that class of Missourians\\nknown as border-ruffians began to seek their favorite\\nhaunts the extreme frontier of the Great West. Sheriff\\nJones w^ent to ^NTew Mexico, and many of them followed\\nhim there. Yery few of them remained in Missouri. With\\npeace came the development of the farms and mines, the\\nshops and railroads, the towns and cities of both States.\\nMany Missourians settled in Kansas, and are staunch and\\npatriotic Kansans. Many Kansas people live in Mis-\\nsouri, and where strife and bloodshed once were, streets\\nand business blocks now are, and fraternity and prosperity\\nprevail. The development of the two States is in the same\\ndirection, and Kansas City, Mo., is a Kansas town, built\\nby Kansas enterprise, Kansas industries, and Kansas pro-\\nducts. Harmony exists, and we are here, as everywhere\\nin the Republic, a happy, united and patriotic people.\\nThe Missourian of the border-ruffian days is now known", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 93\\nonly to history. These pages have had much to say of him.\\nKansas history cannot he recounted without relating his\\ndeeds of ruffianism. But in his stead has arisen a citizen-\\nship), patriotic, industrious, progressive. The Missouri\\nof to-day is an Empire State of the Union.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "ABRAHAM LINCOLN S SECOND\\nNOMINATION.\\nI come not, friends, to steal away your hearts;\\nI am no orator, as Brutus is\\nBut as you know me all, a plain, blunt man,\\nThat loves my friend and that they know full well\\nThat gave me public leave to speak of him\\nFor I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth.\\nAction, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,\\nTo stir men s blood t I only speak right on\\nI tell you that which you yourselves do know.\\nThe Union League Avas a secret political organization.\\nIt was composed of Republicans, and was organized in the\\ninterests of the Republican party during the war of the\\nRebellion. Many of the most prominent members of the\\nparty belonged to it. It took secret action, and worked out\\nits plans through the influence of its members in the party.\\nFor a year before the meeting of the convention to nom-\\ninate candidates for President and Vice-President, many\\nof the influential members of this Leag-ue had been work-\\ning secretly against the renomination of Mr. Lincoln.\\nGeneral Lane was a member of the League, and a delegate\\nto the Grand Council of the order, which met on the niglit\\nbefore the meeting of the iN ational Convention. A very\\ngreat number of the delegates to the convention were mem-\\nbers of the League, and if that body had decided to oppose\\nthe nomination of Mr. Lincoln, he could not have been\\n(94)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 95\\nmade the candidate of the Republican party in 1864. The\\nfollowing account of the meeting of the Grand Council is\\ntaken from Speer^s Life of Lane, page 279, and following.\\n^h\\\\ Speer was a delegate to the Grand Council\\nIt was a terrible body in its malignity toward the\\nPresident. Fortunately, I am saved the attempt to de-\\nscribe it. That eminent statesman and author, ITon.\\nW. O. Stoddard, who was Lincoln s private secretary,\\nand who wrote a Life of Lincoln, Lives of the Presi-\\ndents, and many other works both in prose and poetry,\\nhas given its history most graphically, (see Story of a\\nl^omination, North American Review, 1884, Vol. 13G,\\np. 263,) from which I quote:\\nThe Grand Council assembled at an early hour, and\\nits doors were sternly closed to all but those with absolute\\nright to enter. The Grand Council was a dignifiedly sim-\\nple gathering. There were no press reporters present.\\nNo brass bands made music. No time was lost in prelim-\\ninary or other organization, and no committees were re-\\nquired. The ample platform contained only three men^\\nthe Grand President and the Grand Recording and Corre-\\nsponding Secretaries. There was all the more time for the\\ntransaction of business, and this began the moment the\\nmeeting Avas called to order. There had been both prepara-\\ntion and consultation among the intending assailants of\\nthe Administration. These arose to speak in rapid, but not\\nconflicting succession, in different parts of the hall. Per-\\nhaps the severest attack upon the President and the con-\\nduct of the. war was made by one of the United States\\nSenators from Missouri; but there were others whom he", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nlittle surpassed in vehemence. The charges made were ap-\\npalling, and it was well that their eloquent utterance was\\nto form no part of the published proceedings of the Balti-\\nmore Convention. Had they been openly uttered in the\\nconvention, to go forth to the country, whether they were\\ntrue or false, that body could afterward have reached no\\npeaceful agreement by ballot, nor could it have adopted\\nany platform of resolutions upon which it could have placed\\nAbraham Lincoln before the people as a candidate for the\\nPresidency. There vvere not many faults possible to the\\nruler of a free people whereof Mr. Lincoln was not accused,\\nbefore the excited patriots made an end of their speeches\\nfor the prosecution of the public criminal whose course\\nin office they were denouncing.\\nOnce more it seemed as if a rising tide were sweeping\\nall before it. iNot a voice had been raised in defense of\\nMr. Lincoln. This may have been, in part, from lack of\\noj)portunity. The Grand President, Judge Edmunds, was\\na devoted friend of Mr. Lincoln, and yet, as if with malice\\naforethought, he sat there behind his desk on the raised\\nplatform, calmly recognizing, as presiding officer of the\\nGrand Council, only the known enemies of his friend, until\\nit seemed as if most of them must have been heard.\\nThere came a liJl in the storm, and Jim Lane of\\nKansas arose, near the front, in the middle aisle of the\\nhall. He was instantly recognized by the chairman but he\\nstood in silence for a moment, until he had deliberately\\nturned around and locked all over the room. The substance\\nof his remarks was nearly as follows\\n^Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Grand Council: For a man to\\nproduce pain in another man by pressing upon a wounded spot\\nrequires no great degree of strength, and he who presses is not", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 97\\nentitled to any emotion of triumph at the agony expressed by the\\nsufferer. Neither skill nor wisdom has been exercised in the bar-\\nbaric process. For a man, an orator, to produce an effect upon\\nsore and weary hearts, gangrened with many hurts, worn out with\\nmany sacrifices, sick with long delays, broken with bitter disap-\\npointments; so stirring them up, even to passion and to folly,\\ndemands no high degree of oratorical ability. It is an easy thing\\nto do, as we have seen this evening. Almost anybody could do it.\\nFor a man to take such a crowd as this now is, so sore and\\nsick at heart, and now so stung and aroused to passionate folly\\nnow so infused with a delusive hope for the future, as well as\\nwith false and unjust thoughts concerning the past; for a man to\\naddress himself to such an assembly, and turn the tide of its pas-\\nsion and excitement in the opposite direction, that were a task\\nw^orthy of the highest, greatest effort of human oratory. I am no\\norator at all; but to precisely that task have I now set myself,\\nwith absolute certainty of success. All that is needful is that the\\ntruth should be set forth plainly, now that the false has done its\\nworst.\\nHe had gained in a minute all that could be won in\\nan audacity bordering upon arrogance. Rapid and vivid\\nsketches followec presenting in detail the leading features\\nof the history of Mr. Lincoln s Administration. Each was\\nmade complete in itself, and at the end of each chapter\\ncame some variation of this formula\\nI am speaking individually to each man here. Do you, sir,\\nknow in this broad land, and can you name to me, one man whom\\nyou could or would trust, before God, that he would have done\\nbetter in this matter than Abraham Lincoln has done, and to\\nwhom you would be more willing to trust the unforeseen emer-\\ngency or peril which is to come That unforeseen peril, that\\nperxilexing emergency, that step in the dark, is right before us,\\nand we are here to decide by whom it should be made for the\\nNation. Name your other man.\\nVery little time was wasted upon the general list of\\ncharges; for they had spent themselves in making; but a\\nmasterly picture of Mr. Lincoln s long-suffering, patience,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00947", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nfaithful toil, utter imselfisliiiess, and of the great advances\\nalready gained under his leadership, was followed by a\\nsudden transfer of the thoughts of all to the scene in the\\ngreat wigwam on the morrow\\nWe shall come together to be watched, in breathless listen-\\ning, by all this country, by all the civilized world; and if we\\nshall seem to waver as to our set purpose, we destroy hope and\\nif we permit private feeling, as to-night, to break forth into dis-\\ncussion, we discuss defeat; and if w^e nominate any other man\\nthan Abraham Lincoln, we nominate ruin.\\nGentlemen of the Grand Council of the Union League, I am\\ndone.\\nThe Senator sat down, but no man rose to reply. His\\nspeech had not been a very long one, but it had been enough\\nto accomplish all he proposed for it. The resolution ap-\\nproving the Administration was adopted with but few dis-\\nsenting voices, many not voting. Another vote declared\\nthe voice of the Union League to be in favor of President\\nLincoln s reelection, and the greatest political peril then\\nthreatening the United States had disappeared. Thirty\\ndays later,- it would have been a hard task to find a man\\nwho would confess to having ever entertained a doubt as to\\nthat result; but then the delegates to the Grand Council\\nwere not in a position to make remarks or answer ques-\\ntions.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "A WORD AT THE CLOSE.\\n**A great man owes as much to his defects as to his good (juali-\\nties. The hardness and brutal abruptness which so iritelligil)ly\\nshock our friend M. Taine in Napoleon were part and parcel of his\\nforce. Had he been as well-bred, as polite and unassuming as we\\nare, he would not have got on he would have been as powerless\\nas we are. Re nan.\\nIt was never the intention to make this paper a biograpliy\\nof General Lane. Many of his eminent services to Kansas\\nand humanity must be passed over without so much as a\\nmention. Some of these are the most prominent of his\\nimperishable labors. He performed services sufficient to\\nmake his name immortal. Many of these we have not had\\nspace to notice at all. But writers have been unjust to him.\\nIt has been our desire to call attention to his part in tlic\\nstruggle in Kansas for liberty and freedom. His life miglit\\nbe divided into three periods:\\nFirst. Til at ending with his arrival in Kansas.\\nSecond. That in Kansas, ending Avith his election to tlic\\nSenate of the United States.\\nThird. Tliat embracing his lal)ors in the United States\\nSenate, and the renomination of Abraham Lincoln.\\nHis achievements in either period are sufficient to make\\nhim famous. Those of the second period make his name\\nimmortal.\\nIt is not our purpose to convey the impression that Gen-\\neral Lane had no faults. He had many. A great man", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\ncannot be imitated in his genius the faults of all are to\\nbe avoided. Cromwell ran his thumb along the edge of\\nhis sword while he prayed he broke Irish heads and tram-\\npled on Irish rights he was accused of many evils in his\\nday. The faults of David are not concealed by the divine\\nWord.\\nGeneral Lane was a politician before he was a statesman.\\nIt may perhaps be said that he was always a politician;\\ntliat he became a statesman. He desired a seat in the\\nUnited States Senate. This was his object; his ambition\\nin life. A man without a purpose accomplishes nothing.\\nHe was a man with a purpose and a definite one. A seat\\nin the United States Senate was always before his mind s\\neye. It was his pole-star. To reach this mark, this goal,\\nin Kansas, was his every energy bent and each and every\\nresource of a mind, the equal of which in resource has not\\nbeen seen since his day, was marshaled with an intensity\\nwe could but say was impossible had it not been witnessed\\nand well attested. Circumstances which would have ruined\\nanother man turned to his advantage and were stepping-\\nstones to his success. His perseverance and tenacity are\\nillustrated by his trip to Leavenworth to raise the neces-\\nsary five hundred dollars by Avhich means he saved his\\nnewspaper at Lawrence from falling into the hands of his\\npolitical enemies. Alone, poverty-stricken, afoot on the\\nwind-swept prairies, struggling among snow-drifts, bent\\non a mission hopeless to any other mortal and well-nigh so\\nto himself, this set purpose, this ambition, this high mark\\nwas his guiding star.\\nBut it is of faults that we are speaking. His political\\nmethods were not always honorable or just. He was often", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 101\\n1111 scrupulous, but he did not resort to bribery. His word\\nwas often broken ,vithout cause. He neglected his friends\\nupon many occasions. Some of tlie political metliods ho\\ninaugurated still exist in the Kansas of to-day. lie had no\\ndesire to accumulate money; he was never trustworthy in\\nthe matter of paying debts, and left many debts unsettled.\\nIn liis early days in Kansas he could not pay. He was\\nsometimes extremely bitter and ifnjust towards his political\\nenemies he carried his enmity to Dr. Robinson to excess,\\nand deeply wronged him.\\nBut his services to Kansas and to luimanity far outweigli\\nlus faults were they multiplied a hundred fold. In the\\nwarfare of the border he was to Kansas what Francis\\nMarion was to South Carolina in the war of the Revolution.\\nTheir methods of fighting w^ere similar. He did much by\\nthe mystery of his movements, and his name carried terror\\nand panic to his enemies as did that of the Revolutionary\\nliero.\\nIt may be set down as a truth almost beyond dispute,\\nthat most movements for reformation and advancement in\\nhuman progress are first led by men, or women, supposed\\nby their associates to be erratic and eccentric if not\\ninsane. The sunlight first lights up the craggy mountain-\\ntop. At some point in every age there stands a man who\\ndiscerns the coming light while those in the valleys below\\nare wrapped in darkness. He recognizes what they cannot\\nsee: that systems and institutions are worn out, have be-\\ncome fossilized and inflexible, insuflicient and intolerable.\\nIt has been said that Christ s answer to the woman at the\\nwell was the most revolutionary utterance ever made in the\\nhistory of the world that it contains the principles of com-", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nplete liberty of both soul and body for all mankind for all\\ntime. Yet how slow is the growth of an idea Almost two\\nthousand years later it was necessary to kindle fires on the\\nprairies of Kansas to burn away human slavery in America.\\nIn a reformatory revolution such as the fathers of Kan-\\nsas inaugurated; the prudent man, the conservative man,\\nI had almost said the just man, cannot lead. He is\\nhedged about with a scrupulous regard for conventionalities\\nand obsolete ritualisms imposed upon his age by some\\nadvance in the upward growtli of man in a long-gone\\npreceding age. He does not discern that society is about\\nto exercise its highest right, and readjust itself to the\\nhigher plane made necessary by the changed environment.\\nHe fortifies himself with Shakespeare s modern instan-\\nces. And the glcrv of the Anglo-Saxon people is that\\nthis is so. It has given them a genius for the establishment\\nof stable governments possessed by no other people. It is,\\ntoo, their higher glory that they have never failed at the\\nproper hour to produce the man who discerned the coming\\nchange and rose to the occasion of its execution. Such men\\nwere Cromwell, and Washington, and Franklin, and Abra-\\nham Lincoln, and James Henry Lane.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "SELECTED MISCELLANY.\\nThere vvns a Brutus once, that would have brookM\\nThe eternal devil to keep his state in Rome.\\nTHE TERROR OF HIS NAME IN MISSOURI.\\nThe terror of his name in Missouri was really frightful\\nand inconceivable. The writer had some business about\\nthat time over in Missouri, and stayed all night with a\\nfarmer, though not a slaveholder, not far north of Platts-\\nburg. After supper he began conversation by asking the\\nwriter where he came from and where he was going. Very\\npointed questions under the circumstances, the) writer\\nthought, but after answering in a manner that he flattered\\nhimself the great Talleyrand would have envied, could he\\nhave heard it, the Missourian seemed satisfied, and contin-\\nued the conversation in a very frank and friendly manner.\\nSoon he remarked They are having great trouble over in\\nKansas. This news appeared to be very astonishing, and\\nthe writer inquired where Kansas was, if it was in Mis-\\nsouri. ]^o, said he, looking as though he pitied the\\nwriter s knowledge of geography, Kansas is the Territory\\nwest of Missouri. Congress gave it to the South for a\\nslave State, but the abolitionists have gone there in great\\nnumbers to make it an a])olition or free State. And as it\\ncould not be made a slave State while tliey were there, our\\n.(103)", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\npeople went over to drive them out. I never went over,\\nbut I was afraid they would make me go. The abolitionists\\nfought our men and drove them back. They have a General\\nwho was a Colonel in the Mexican war for a leader or com-\\nmander. He is over eight feet high and well built in pro-\\nportion, and when he was commanding in Mexico his voice\\ncould be heard all over the battle-field above the roaring of\\nthe cannon. Stranger, this is God s truth I m telling you.\\nHe has his men armed with Yankee guns, called Sharps\\nrifles, that will shoot sixty times a minute and kill a man a\\nmile away. Our people thought they could drive them out\\nwith cannons, but they have now got cannons over there,\\nsome Yankee invention, I suppose, that they load by putting\\nthe balls in a hopper, the same as a miller puts grain in a\\nhopper, to grind I can t describe it to you or tell you how\\nit works. I do not think the abolitionists can be got out,\\nand the South must lose Kansas.\\nAnother night the writer was told that when the Chief-\\ntain took any of the Missourians as prisoners he made them\\ndig their own graves, and then had them shot and buried\\nthem in the graves which they themselves had dug. [The\\nGrim Chieftain, p, 85.]\\nHOW HE ARMED HIS MEN.\\nOn one occasion he made a call for men to drive out a\\ncompany of Missourians, who were building a blockhouse\\nand molesting and running off Free-State settlers from that\\nneighborhood. Many men came without arms, expecting\\nthat he could in some way furnish them. Apparently\\ntaking no notice of the fact, he gave the command to fall", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENEY LANE\\n105\\nin and follow him. When they had marched some distance,\\nCapt. Asaph Allen and some one else, supposing that it\\nwas an oversight that the men were not provided with arms,\\nsouglit the Chieftain at tlie head of the colnmn and asked\\n\\\\Yliat are the men going to do for arms Suddenly\\nstopping and looking them sternly in the face as though\\nhe was perfectly surprised at their stupidity, replied:\\nWhy, take them from the enemy, and marched on.\\nWhen he came near to the camp of the enemy, he sent a\\nFree-State man ahead, and instructed him to run into\\ntheir camp and tell them he was coming with his whole\\narmy, and also to offer his service to them, and tell them\\nhe had served during the Mexican war as a gunner, and\\nrequest to be put in charge of a cannon which the Chief-\\ntain knew they had. The Free- State man did as instructed,\\nand took charge of the cannon without waiting to be for-\\nmally installed as gunner, saying he was going to blow the\\nabolitionists to pieces while they were coming up the road,\\nand began giving orders to the men what they should do.\\nJust then the Free-State men came in sight on the\\ndouble-quick. Everything in that camp w^as confusion\\nworse than confounded. The cannon by some means went\\noff prematurely, tearing the top of the blockhouse off,\\nwhile the Missourians started pell-mell, helter-skelter\\nfor their lives, leaving most of their arms and all their\\ncamp equipments and baggage. When the arms were dis-\\ntributed to the Free-State men, the Chieftain walked up\\nto Captain Allen, as cool and unconcerned as though noth-\\ning unexpected had occurred, and said E ow, you see\\nhow it is done. [The Grim Chieftain, p. 79.]", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "EXCERPTS FROM SMITH S SKETCH\\nOF JIM LANE.\\nVerres Nicholas Smith was a newspaper man in Kansas in the\\nsixties. He was a Democrat. He was an elegant and accom-\\nplished writer, and was for a time associated with Hon. John Speer\\nin a newspaper enterprise. He was a large and fine-looking man,\\nand dressed like a dandy. He possessed a finished education, and\\nhis ideas were impracticable. He could never comprehend or\\nunderstand Western life and manners. He was the butt of ribald\\njests of the crowds of unwashed in the frontier towns. He was\\na fine speaker, but his language was Greek to some of his audi-\\nences. Hon. George W. Martin, of Kansas City, Kansas, tells of\\nan instance which illustrates this. Smith married Ida, the daugh-\\nter of Horace Greeley.\\nMr. Smith was politically opposed to General Lane, and did him\\ninjustice in telling only half the truth. He shows us but one side\\nof his character the side of the politician. But his sketch is\\none of the best to be found in the style in which it is written. It\\nwas published in Lippincott s Magazine, March, 1870, and signed\\nJacob Stringfellow. A few extracts from his paper are given.\\nThose in quotation-marks are quotations from General Lane s\\nspeeches 1\\nThe late Senator Lane was the most finished actor I\\never saw. He was a sporadic Frenchman of the eighteenth\\ncentury, strangely out of time.\\nThey say Jim Lane is illiterate (looking an exclama-\\ntion-point with every sentence) that he is ignorant,\\nand not fit for the United States Senate! Why, men of\\nKansas, his mother was a Connecticut schoolmarm and a\\n(106)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n107\\nmost devout ]\\\\rethodist, and from his youth up he was most\\ncarefully educated for the Christian ministry; but his\\nmodesty, his insuperable (long drawn out) modesty,\\nkept him out of the pulpit\\nThey say Jim Lane is profane. (The biographical\\nwas his chosen style.) Great God What! Jim Lane\\nan irreligious man Why, I never swore in my life Yes,\\nthough (in tragic bass), ^^once! once! It was at the\\nhead of my Indiana regiment in Mexico, at the battle\\nof Bueny Visty. (He knew better than this.) I looked\\nto my front, and there were acres and acres of Mexicans\\n(taking off his coat) to my rear, and there their cavalry\\nwere drawn up, their richly caparisoned steeds and their\\nmurderous spears glistening in the morning sun (jerking\\noff his cravat) and to my right and left, and there were\\nmore acres and acres of Mexicans. (Tragic bass again.)\\nThen, in the excitement of the moment, and forgetful\\n(accent on /o/-) and forgetful of my religious princi-\\nples, I exclaimed to my brave Indiana boys (a shrill\\ntenor), Charge on em, (with a strong oath) charge on\\nem! (Tragic bass.) The only time I ever swore\\nin my life I\\nWliat this magnetism was may be guessed when men\\nof calm blood like the late George L. Stearns, on leaving\\nhim would say, What a captivating man Senator Lane\\nis His tones are as sweet as a woman s. Flushed with\\ntriumph or confident of success, he was irresistible, his\\nvoice soft and musical and his manner confiding. His\\npresence could be as distinctly felt as a register, and there", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "108 TWENTIETH CENTUEY CLASSICS\\nwas companionship even in his silence. It will astonish\\nsome to whom his nam\u00c2\u00a9 was once an imprecation and a\\nterror, to know that scholarly men and men of travel would\\npronounce him the most pleasing person they ever met,\\nthough there was not a common thought between them.\\nIf in the plenitude of his power he was surrounded by\\nknaves and vagabonds, it was not only because power is\\nwarming and grateful, but the animal spirits of a suc-\\ncessful man are themselves a charm.\\nLike that versatile Chelonian, the mud-turtle,\\nhe contained within his shell the flavor of every creature\\ndear to the palate of man fish, flesh, or fowl. In the\\nmidst of Christians, he had been carefully educated for\\nthe Church; among scoffers, religion was but a cloak for\\nhypocrisy. In Kansas he wore the fells of wild beasts;\\nin Boston he appeared in black broadcloth and white cravat,\\nand whined through his nose as religiously as the melodeon\\nof a country parsonage. Among ^ew-Englanders, his\\nmother was a Connecticut schoolmarm with South-\\nerners he was a Kentuckian; among Western men, a\\nHoosier and thus his real origin was as great a mystery\\nas the source of the Nile.\\nWhat said he, meeting on the roadside a member\\nof a Bourbon county convention packed against him\\nwhat vote against Jim Lane, and come from Indiana\\nin his most wheedling notes and a smile that fairly lifted\\nthe subject out of his boots. Enough. The fellow went\\ninto the convention next day and logrolled for Lane.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n109\\nWhat Henry (Slay was to the early Kentuckians was\\nLane to the pioneers of Kansas.\\nStill, neither friends nor enemies dreamed how formi-\\ndable Lane was. That unconquerable embodied will walked\\none bitter day in the winter of 18 GO from Lawrence to\\nLeavenworth, thirty-five miles, with the snow full knee-\\ndeep, to look after the snares laid for the next Senatorial\\nelection. A printing-press was to be sold in Lawrence.\\nEive hundred dollars must be had to snatch it from his foes.\\nThe errand was well-nigh hopeless. In Leavenworth the\\nhospitality of the taverns, that opens to but golden keys,\\nshut him out. Mine host of the Renick, who had been\\ncoaxed into forgiveness of more than one reckoning, was\\nhardened to flint. Lane s friends had lost faith in his star.\\nHe reached Leavenworth at bedtime, and looking down,\\nlike a famished Russian wolf, upon the unconscious town,\\nwith its long rows of wooden houses, uniform as a marmot\\nvillage, he saw but one that he felt would give him a de-\\ncent w^elcome the home of an old Republican from Mary-\\nland. There he slept, if his busy brain could know sleep.\\nLi the morning a last appeal was made to his adher-\\nents, the money raised, a buggy ruinous as his own for-\\ntunes procured, and he came down like Encke s comet upon\\nthe enemy at Lawrence.\\nSuch was the personnel of the foremost candidate from\\nsouth of the Kaw at Topeka in 1861. Frederick Stanton\\nand a dozen others were his competitors. For days preced-\\ning the election. Lane worked with the perseverance of\\nthe saints and the energy of despair. He waylaid the", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "110 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nvacillating Solons in the dark, decoyed them into the out-\\nskirts and bound them with appalling oaths. The hazel-\\nbnish that girded the town was rife with whispered cau-\\ncuses. On the eve of the balloting, all night long, from\\nroom to room of the Capitol House he went, restless as the\\nWandering Jew, exhorting, cajoling, encouraging his wa-\\nvering followers with the promises of future benefit, and\\nteaching some other candidate his helpless dependence\\nupon Jim Lane by a lesson in the objective method. Sit-\\nting over the fire, and taking the charred cottonwood poker\\nmeditatively in his hand, he would sketch a map of Kan-\\nsas on the floor then tearing bits of paper, designated by\\nthe names of the several candidates, would lay them upon\\nit Here s Jim Lane, and Charley Robinson, and Fred\\nStanton, south of the Kaw (WinchelFs out of the ring)\\nand there s Parrott, and Ewing, and Pomeroy, north.\\nThen, maneuvering his paper men to suit the particular\\ncase, he would demonstrate to a geographical certainty\\nthat the only hope of his eager listener lay in a steady ad-\\nherence to Jim Lane and his fortunes.\\nHe neither slept nor allowed the unhappy Legislature\\nto sleep. Into the arms of one sturdy henchman, six feet\\nhigh and hairy as a buffalo, he threw himself, declaring in\\nhis most mellifluous notes that when he ceased to remem-\\nber him the mother would forget her babe. Exhausted by\\nsuch emotional outbursts, he would rush into his own room\\nand throw himself on the bed, from which feverish anxi-\\nety soon roused him. Toward midnight a fresh idea\\nseized him. He convened in the parlor the bar-tenders,\\nthe waiters, scullions, cooks the whole tavern s crew\\nand any stragglers who would listen to a final persuasive", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 111\\neffort. There, ranged against the wall, in the baleful\\nlight of a tallow candle, on their haunches they sat, like\\nthe Peruvian mummies in the Temple of tlie Sun, listen-\\ning to the eloquence of desperation. He painted the future\\nglory of Kansas under his fostering care, and poured his\\nheaping cornucopia of promises at their feet, until the\\nvery shoeblack rolled the whites of his eyes in an ecstatic\\nvision of empire.\\nOne drowsy member from south of the Kaw had slunk\\ninto his room from the persecutions of Lane, Just before\\nday, when poets say it is darkest, and the prosaic, who are\\nnever awake at that hour, sleep soundest, he felt the grim\\nchieftain creep into his bed. Resistance was useless, and\\nin that time and place, sacred to the counsels of Giant\\nDespair and his amiable spouse, and the entertaining\\ncourse of lectures by Mrs. Caudle, the half -conscious mem-\\nber pledged himself for the ten-thousandth time to stand\\nfirm.\\nMartin F. Conway, the member of Congress and can-\\ndidate for re-election, was there. Conway was a timid\\nman of genius, and had drunk aesthetic tea in Beacon\\nstreet. Sorely pressed was he by the importunities of\\nLane. The ultimatum scared him. For Lane or against,\\nhe soliloquized, until, half-distracted, and mindful of\\nBoscobel oak and Alfred s neatherd, he sought an evasive\\npeace in the solitude of a neighboring hayloft. Lane s\\nall-searching eyes found him out, and gathering half a\\nscore of Conway s retainers, he mounted the cockloft and\\nburst upon his affrighted gaze as he lay dreaming in a bed\\nof fodder. Without a moment s delay for the recovery of\\nhis sleeping faculties, Lane besought him to obey the wish", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112 TWENTIETH CENTUEY CLASSICS\\nof his own friends and declare for Jim Lane. (These\\nsame friends had never taken a thought of that collateral\\nissue.) The man of books struggled for a moment, but\\ndragged up, so to speak, by the hair of his head, he gave,\\nwith one spasm of inward pain, an unequivocal pledge of\\nsupport.\\nLane s fortunes had crouched low for a mighty spring.\\nHis election was announced to him by a breathless clans-\\nman as he sat on a sofa in the Capitol House. He ran his\\nfingers nervously through his hair, and the tears flowed\\nfreely.\\nHow he redeemed his lavish promises to pay, let him\\ntell:\\nOf the fifty-six men in the Legislature who voted for\\nJim Lane, five-and-forty now wear shoulder-straps.\\nDoesn t Jim Lane look out for his friends\\nWithout the loss of time he hurried to the capital, with\\na rabble at his heels, simultaneously w^ith the incoming\\nPresident and a threatened attack by the enemy. The\\nplace was without defenders, except his own jayhaAvkers\\nand a regiment of ofiice-seekers commanded by Cassius\\nM. Clay. These slept at night in the East Room of the\\nWhite House, on arms borrowed from the arsenal. The\\nprestige of first defending the President s sacred person\\nwas one secret of his boundless influence with Mr. Lin-\\ncoln.*\\nIn the fall of 61, just before the snufiing out of Fre-\\nmont s great expedition into southwest Missouri, Lane\\n*Read Speer s Life of Lane, page 341.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n113\\nmade a blustering campaign into the same devoted region.\\nEverytliing disloyal/ said lie, from a Dur-\\nham cow to a Shanghai chicken, must be cleaned out.\\nFaithfully was this obeyed. Even the chaplain was seized\\nwith a pious zeal to complete his unfinished church from\\nthe spoils of ungodly altars. One day on the homeward\\nmarch, the army, borne down with fatigue and plunder,\\nwas suddenly commanded to deflect. Upon inquiry be-\\ning made as to the cause^ Lane, pointing in solemn mirth\\nto a spire that rose in the distance, said, See that steeple\\nyonder If we go the chaplain Avill try to steal it, and\\nwe will never get home in the world.\\nThe renomination of Mr. Lincoln at Baltimore was his\\nwork. Lane was lord over the hearts of men,\\nand he quickly demolished those coalitions against\\nthe President built in the eclipse of that disastrous year.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "SKETCH OF JAMES H. LANE BY\\nMILTON W. REYNOLDS.\\n[I find this in one of my old scrap-books. It was written for\\nthe Kansas City Times, by Kicking Bird. It seems to have\\nbeen one of a series of papers on Kansas Statesmen, by that\\nwriter, published in that newspaper. The precise date is un-\\nknown; but it was written sometime in 1885.]\\nKansas will stamp upon the civilization of tlie age a\\nhundred years of history before another parallel is pro-\\nduced to that weird, mysterious, and partially insane,\\npartially inspired, and poetic character, James H. Lane.\\niN^one other than himself can equal him. It is not strange\\nthat his birthplace should be questioned. It is in keeping\\nwith his wayward, fitful life of passion and strife, of\\nstorm and sunshine, of tempest and calm a mysterious\\nexistence that now dwelt on the mountain-tops of expecta-\\ntion and the very summit of highest realization, and\\nanon in the valley of despondency and gloom. Seven\\ncities claimed the honor of Homer s birth.\\nTwo States claim parentage for the child of genius and\\nan unbalanced brain, Jim Lane. And Avhat adds to the\\nstrangeness of this mythical character and fabulous birth-\\nright is the fact that Lane was born of quite illustrious par-\\nentage. His father, Amos Lane, was a lawyer of considera-\\nbly more than local celebrity, a cousin of the distinguished\\nJoe Lane of Oregon, a man long in politics. Speaker of the\\n(114)", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE\\n115\\nHouse of the first Indiana Legislature, and a member of\\nCongress in Jackson s time. Brewerton, in his book, The\\nWar in Kansas, published in 1856, says James IT. T.ane\\nAvas born in Boone county, Kentucky, on June 22, 1822.\\nBrewerton claims that he got the information from Lane\\nhimself. Lane was a smart lad, and was present on the in-\\nteresting occasion of his birth, and wouldn t equivocate\\nabout a matter of this kind. Wilder s Annals corroborate\\nthis statement of Brewerton, though admitting that Lane\\noften conveyed the impression, or allowed it to be conveyed,\\nthat he was born in Indiana. Hon. John Speer, who long\\nedited Lane s home organ, and was one of his nearest\\nfriends, in a biographical sketch written in 1878, says\\nLane was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, June 22, 1814.\\nHoUoway s History of Kansas says General James H.\\nLane was born June 22, 1814, on the banks of the Ohio,\\nin Boone county, Kentucky.\\nLane came of good stock if not from the blue blood of\\nthe bluegrass region where statesmen and fine horses are\\ngrown, he must at least have been born not far from such\\nsurroundings and inspirations. His father, as already\\nstated, was a lawyer and politician of note. Speaker of the\\nIndiana House of Representatives, and member of Con-\\ngress in Jackson^s time and his mother was a woman of\\nrare acomplishments and very strong intellectual attain-\\nments, with the highest moral and emotional sensibilities.\\nThere have been a considerable number of public men, even\\ngreat men, born of fool fathers. I don t think a great man\\never lived who was not born of a strong, naturally intel-\\nlectual, poetic, and emotional mother. A woman does not\\nhave to be educated or bookish to be intellectual. The in-", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "116 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nspired Joan d Arc was a poor peasant girl. Yet so inspired\\nwas she that she could control dynasties, lead armies and\\nmould masses of men by the power of her enthusiastic and\\nmagnetic will. What a grand crop of statesmen, Caesars,\\nAlexanders and iN apoleons Joan d Arc could have raised\\nSome such woman was the mother of Lane.\\nJim Lane, up to and for some months subsequent to his\\narrival in Kansas, had been a Democrat of the straitest\\nsect an Indiana Democrat. He was learned in the school\\nof Jackson, and had been taught the teachings of\\nJefferson and the fathers and founders of Democracy.\\nHe supported Douglas s Kansas-and-!N ebraska bill in Con-\\ngress with all the vigor^ ability and enthusiasm of his\\nardent and impassioned nature. Mythical stories are told\\nof Douglas sending him out to Kansas to organize the Dem-\\nocratic party upon a national platform with Douglas as\\nthe central figure, and the occupancy of the White House\\nby the great Illinoisan as both the primary and ultimate\\nobject, and Lane his spokesman and the leader in the\\nSenate from the young State of Kansas of the recon-\\nstructed, materialized, victorious and invincible Democ-\\nracy. These stories can for the most part be classed as\\nmyths, fictions, and vain imaginings of those who would\\nfurther mystify the character and thus elevate in some\\nquarters an estimation of this strange being. There is\\nthis to be said in this connection: had this been Lane s\\nmission and his destiny had been rounded and filled in\\nthis manner, the position of Kansas in the van of civiliza-\\ntion would not have been essentially different from what\\nit now is, and the condition of the country itself would\\nnot have been radically different from what it now is, as", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE HT\\nmost philanthropists and philosophers would suppose. It\\nwas the destiny of this country to be either all slave or all\\nfree. The tAvo forces were irreconcilable, the conflict irre-\\npressible. Slavery would have been extinguished under the\\nDouglas plan of popular sovereignty, but not so rapidly as\\nunder the radical war plan. Shut out from the Territories,\\nthe new States hostile and ineradicably opposed to the insti-\\ntution, it would have been segregated, cribbed and confined\\nto the sterile lands of the Southeast and the few rich\\nremaining lands soon to be wasted and worn out in the\\nSouthwest, and would have died a slow, lingering, but\\ncertain death. The teachings of the fathers, the civilization\\nof the age, modern Christianity, were against it, and\\nagainst such forces hell, earth and sky cannot contend\\nsuccessfully.\\nBut Lane could not wait for such slow processes.\\nFruit grown only in hothouses could satisfy his quick-\\nened tastes. He came to Kansas in April, 1855. He\\nremained quiet but three short months. He kept his dexter\\nfinger carefully, cautiously but continuously upon the\\npublic pulse. He studied at least the surface of politics\\nmost diligently. He presided at a Democratic Territorial\\nconvention in July, 1855, called to nationalize the party,\\nthus giving coloring to the imaginations of those who had\\npictured Lane as the vice-regent of Douglas, initiating a\\nplan for the capture of Kansas and the whole country under\\nDemocratic methods and auspices. The movement met\\nwith an early and flat failure. It was ridiculed by the\\nDemocratic organs in the country, and Lane saw at once\\nthe futility of fighting for fame and the rewards of destiny\\non that line. The criticisms of old party associates irri-", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "118 TWENTIETH CENTUEY CLASSICS\\ntated him. He sought new alliances. He electrified a\\nFree-State audience in Lawrence bj announcing that he\\nwould speak the next evening on the political issues of the\\nday, championing the Free-State cause. The crowd was\\nimmense. They came from their cabins on the prairies\\n(now palaces), from the valleys and the hills. They\\nwanted to know from his own mouth the Grim Chief-\\ntain s position on political questions. The hour came and\\nthe people to hear. Lane was in his best mood. He\\nwas prepared for a vituperative, sarcastic, ironical and\\nintensely personal speech. Such the crowd usually likes,\\nor used to in the early days, when men were walking\\narsenals and crept over volcanoes. Such an analysis of\\ncharacter was never heard before or since in Kansas.\\nIt was equal to John Randolph s best effort in that line.\\nHis late Democratic associates were denounced, bur-\\nlesqued, ridiculed and pilloried in a hysteria of laughter\\nby an excited, cyclonic crowd. No one ever afterward\\ndoubted where Lane stood. He crossed with a leap the\\nRubicon of radical politics and burned all his bridges\\nbehind him. He was not baptized, he was immersed in\\nthe foaming floods of radicalism. As the whitecaps rose\\nliigher on the stormy and tumultuous political sea, Lane\\ncontended the stronger and baffled them. Robinson, the\\nsafe and conservative leader, slowly but gradually faded\\nfrom public view, and finally was distanced and downed\\nby this erratic son of destiny, ^but not until the victories\\nwere won and all had been achieved that was meant by\\nthe Kansas idea, at least so far as Kansas was concerned\\nand in the great future it matters little whether Caesar has\\nhis party, and Anthony has his party, and Pomeroy has his", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE lli\\nparty, if so he the Commonwealth has a party. Lane s\\nservices for the Free-State cause are imperishable. They\\ncannot be overestimated by his nearest partisans and\\nfriends. Prof. Spring, in his book on Kansas, in tlic\\nCommonwealth Series, belittles Lane and does him rank\\ninjustice. He canie to Kansas fifteen years or more after\\nLane was the great leader, after he and Robinson had\\ndone so much for the Free-State cause. lie does well to\\nexalt Robinson, but the attempt to belittle Lane, to dis-\\nparage his services and underestimate his talents, is rank\\ninjustice and manifestly absurd. The mere statement of\\nProf. Spring s attempt to prove Lane a coward by quoting\\nQuantrell as authority, is a sufficient refutation of all\\nthat the Professor says and wants to say of Lane s work\\nin Kansas. He was erratic, eccentric, at times extravagant\\nand unreliable in statement, but his personal courage is\\nas well established as any other fact in Kansas history.\\nKansas being admitted a free State, Lane at once went\\nfor what he came for a United States Senatorship. He\\nwas poor. Lie had nothing but promises to offer. He\\ncould not pay his board bill at Topeka during his Sen-\\natorial canvass. He was owing his butcher at Lawrence.\\nJust at that time he had no visible means of meeting\\ncurrent family expenses on the smallest scale. But his\\nmagnetism rarely failed him. He never failed with a\\ncrowd. He was as personally magnetic and successful\\nwith a budding statesman in the Legislature as Douglas\\nor Blaine or Henry Clay. He was elected. The con-\\nsummation of liis life s work and ambition was realized.\\nLie was United States Senator. He drew the short term,\\nending in 1865. In the Senate he soon noquired a ])rom-", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "120 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\ninence and distinction. General Lane, United States\\nSenator-elect from Kansas, was not an inconspicuous fig-\\nure in the country in those exciting days of 1861. He\\ngot such a mastery over Mr. Lincoln, and such influence\\nwith Stanton in spite of his cold-blooded and tyrannical\\ndisposition, that he fairly usurped the rightful power of\\nthe State s Executive in military matters. He organized\\nregiments, among them Governor Crawford s First Kan-\\nsas Colored, and had almost unlimited political influence\\nwith Kansas soldiers. It was an easy matter to throw the\\nsoldier vote for Governor to the gallant Colonel of the\\nFirst Kansas Colored, Samuel A. Crawford. Lane was\\nas radical as Zach. Chandler, but more practical in pro-\\nposing definite plans and purposes to secure direct and\\ndesired ends. The utilization of the colored brother to\\nstop the bullets of the enemy was a Lane idea. The emanci-\\npation plan generated in the fecund and fertile brain of\\nLane long before Mr. Lincoln formulated his proclamation\\nof combined threat and promise in this direction to the\\nend that the Union might be preserved and peace restored.\\nA year before Mr, Lincoln by steady and gradual pro-\\ncesses came to the proclamation of freedom as a war\\nnecessity, Jim Lane had thundered from Missouri s prin-\\ncipal southwestern cit}^, Springfield, these words:\\nLet us all be bold inscribe Freedom to all upon our\\nbanners, and appear just what we are the opponents to\\nslavery. It is certain as if written in the book of fate, that\\nthis point must be reached before the war is over. Take the\\nstand and enthusiasm will be inspired in the ranks. In\\nsteadiness of purpose and courage each soldier will be a", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 121\\nSpartan hero. The spirit of the Crusader will be united\\nwith the iron will of the Roman, and an army of snch\\nsoldiers is invincible.\\nLane s efforts in the Senate were not confined to a dis-\\ncussion of war themes. He turned frequently to indus-\\ntrial affairs that should build up his State and add to his\\nown depleted finances. He had eaten of the bitter bread\\nof poverty. When upbraided for a declared purpose to\\nappoint a man to office who was denouncing him, he re-\\nplied: Well, he has a right to. He favored me when I\\nwas in adversity and was so poor that I couldn t buy a\\nloaf of bread, and I have neglected him in his poverty.\\nHe made many similar appointments, proofs of the high-\\nest eccentricity, most politicians would say. He paid his\\ndebts when he could remember them, but was almost as\\nforgetful of money matters as Daniel Webster. Walking\\nthe streets of St. Louis arm-in-arm with General Haider-\\nman, shortly after his election he never hugged men, but\\nfrequently clutched them and brought them near to his\\nheart he said Were I General Halderman and you\\nSenator Lane of Kansas, I would not see my Senator walk\\nthe streets in those slovenly shoes. The first boot-and-shoe\\nstore reached, the Senator wore a $20 pair of boots.\\nWhen I came to Lawrence Lane* was owing my brother,\\namong other things, some choice lots. He could never\\nthink to make out the deeds. Upon my arrival my brother\\nsaid to him Lane, my brother has come out here, a young\\nnewspaper man, from Detroit. I think it would be good\\npolicy for you to make out a deed to at least 100 feet\\nfront of your best lots to him before the sun goes dov^Ti,", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nand ni credit the same to our lot trade. Certainly,\\nreplied Lane; it will afford me the supremest pleasure.\\nHe came around in his carriage, the lots were selected, and\\nthe house I then built I now live in. The ground was a part\\nof the famous quarter-section that Lane pre-empted, but a\\nshort distance from the well where he killed Gains Jenkins,\\nthe land being a claim contest between Lane and Jenkins.\\nPublic sentiment at the time was divided. Lane was\\nacquitted before a local court, and obtained the land. Both\\nwere occupying the quarter-section peaceably. Jenkins\\nwas warned not to come to Lane s well. He should have\\nstayed away. It was a piece of foolhardy recklessness,\\nand he suffered the consequence.\\nThe railroad question Lane devoted much attention to.\\nIt is doubtful whether Kansas would have gotten the\\nPacific Kailroad at all but for him and it is certain that\\nhe was the chief instrumentality in booming the Leaven-\\nworth, Lawrence Galveston road, now the Kansas South-\\nern. Lawrence, it is very certain, but for Lane, would\\nnot have gotten the Kansas Pacific road. He forced Hallet\\nunder threats and coercion to bring the road, and spurned\\nand defied their attempts to blackmail the county out of\\n$300,000 to come there.\\nlane s suicide.\\nOn this subject Mr. Blaine in his second volume uses\\nthe following language\\nThe defection of Senator Lane of Kansas from the\\nranks of the most radical Republicanism caused great\\nsurprise to the country. He had been so closely identified\\nwith all the tragic events in the prolonged trouble to keep", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 123\\nslavery out of Kansas, that he was considered to be an\\nirreconcilable foe to the party that tolerated or in any way\\napologized for its existence. The position he had taken in\\nvoting against the Civil Rights bill worried and fretted\\nhim. He keenly felt his separation from the sympathy of\\nsuch men as Sumner, Chandler, Wade, and the whole host\\nwho had nobly fought the battle of Kansas in the halls of\\nCongress. He felt still more keenly the general and some-\\nwhat indignant disapproval of his action freely expressed\\nby the great mass of his constituents. One of his intimate\\nfriends said that on the very day of his vote he received a\\ntelegram warning him that if he voted against the bill it\\nwould be the mistake of his life. The telegram reached\\nhim after the roll had been called. He said excitedly:\\nThe mistake has been made. I would give all I possess\\nif it were undone. He was still further disturbed by\\nimputations upon his integrity in connection with some\\ntransactions with the Indian Bureau; imputations which\\nwere pronounced baseless by the two Senators from In-\\ndiana Thomas A. Hendricks and Henry S. Lane, one a\\npolitical opponent and the other a political friend, who\\nhad impartially examined all the facts. But under the\\nmortification caused by parting with old political asso-\\nciates and the humiliation to which he was subjected by\\ngroundless imputations upon his character, his mind gave\\nway, and on July 11, 18G6, he committed suicide.\\nThe above is a fair but friendly presentation of the\\nfacts. It was on July 1, 1866, that General Lane shot\\nhimself, at the Government farm at Fort Leavenworth.\\nHe was stopping with his brother-in-law, Captain McCall.\\nOn that morning, in company with Captain McCall and", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nColonel Adams, lie rode out, and coming to one of the gates\\nof the farm, he jumped out, apparently to open the gate,\\nand putting a pistol to his mouth, fired, saying, Good-\\nbye, gentlemen/ He had for several days shown unmis-\\ntakable signs of mental aberration. The immediate cause\\nof this was undoubtedly the intense political excitement\\nof the time, and overwork. It was not remorse at voting\\nto sustain Johnson. Trumbull and Fessenden and Grimes\\nwere doing the same thing. It was an open question\\nwhether Mr. Lincoln s policy would not have been identi-\\ncal with that of Mr. Johnson, but his methods of securing\\nits adoption would of course have been different. Lane\\nwas bitterly piqued by the reception given him when he\\ncame home. Hon. Sidney Clarke, a political child of\\nLane, had quarreled with his master. He was a rising\\nyoung statesman of great promise. It was natural, living\\nin the same town, to see in the downfall of Lane the up-\\nrising of another political star. Clarke, upon his return\\nfrom Washington, was received with banners and the band.\\nMusic welcomed him, and the plaudits of the people indi-\\ncated that he had struck a strong popular chord. Lane,\\nthe Grim Chieftain, came back to the scene of his\\nformer triumphs and victories and was received with\\ncold and clammy indifference. No music welcomed him.\\nFawning sycophancy uttered not a word of praise. No\\ncrowds escorted him to his home. Old friends rather\\navoided him. They spoke hurriedly, and hastened on to\\ntheir business. A sensitive soul would naturally shrink\\nfrom such treatment. It consumed the very vitals of Lane,\\nand chilled his heart s blood. It set his brain on fire.\\nA naturally unequally poised intellect trembled in the", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "JAMES HENRY LANE 125\\nbalance. It was unfortiinate it was foolish for a man\\nwho knew so well the varying moods of the fickle populace\\nto be thus moved. But the eccentricities of great men it is\\nas difficult to account for as the loves of woman. Thus\\nLane fell, and it was as if Lucifer, child of the morning,\\nhad fallen.\\nIf thou beest he but O how fall ii how changed\\nFrom him, who, in the happy realms of light\\nClothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine\\nMyriads, though bright\\nSo much of personal history and characteristics of the\\nSunflower statesman have been woven in this sketch, that\\nlittle remains to be said on this score. He has been now\\ntwenty years dead next July, and his memory is as fresh\\nin the minds of Kansans as ever. Indeed, there was so\\nmuch of mystery about him; he was so individualized,\\nunique, and peculiar, that curiosity will rather increase\\nthan diminish as the years come and go, to know more of\\nthe character of Lane. Born of good parentage, he might\\nhave been educated, but men he always preferred to study\\nrather than books so that his education was limited, and\\nhis reading miscellaneous, general and superficial. He\\nhad an ideal and poetic nature, and his imagination did\\nfor him splendid service. He was a gallant soldier in the\\nMexican War, and in the late war if he had seriously en-\\ntered upon military duty as a fact of science, he might\\nhave achieved the highest distinction. He had a stronger\\npersonal party than any man in Kansas ever had. Indeed,\\npolitics were divided on the issue of Lane and anti-Lane.\\nLane had two sons, James H. jr. and Thomas, and two\\ndaughters, Ella and Anna, the former the wife of Col.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126 TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS\\nAdams and the latter Mrs. A. D. Johnson, of Kansas City.\\nMrs. Adams is dead. The girls were highly accomplished\\nand refined. The boys will never equal their distinguished\\nfather. Mrs. Lane died about three years ago. She was a\\nvery remarkable woman as well as a very accomplished\\nlady. She was a born politician. They were divorced and\\nremarried. Poverty the most abject, the highest summit\\nof personal distinction; misery complete, happiness su-\\npreme, this noble woman saw and witnessed; and shared\\nin the varied fortunes of her waysvard, eccentric, but in\\nmany respects truly great husband the ideal Kansan\\nJames H. Lane. -r^ -d\\nKicking Bird.", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "A REQUEST.\\nIt is our design to prepare a complete biography of\\nGeneral James H. Lane. All persons possessing it are\\nrequested to write out at length any and all information\\nabout him, his family, his life, his military operations,\\nhis political campaigns, his addresses and speeches. His\\nold associates In politics and military service are particu-\\nlarly requested to write out their recollections of him\\nall kinds of incidents and reminiscences. Due credit will\\nbe given for all information received. We ask this for\\nthe purpose of preserving many facts which can be thus\\nsaved to history. Send all information to the author, at\\nTopeka, Kansas.", "height": "3591", "width": "2228", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3498", "width": "2254", "jp2-path": "jameshenrylanegr00conn_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "SOME DESIRABLE BOOKS.\\nAdmire s Political and Legislative Handbook for Kansas with Maps.\\nW. W. Admire. 1 vol., 820 pages. Full cloth St\\nA Pioneer from Kentucky. Col. Henry Inman. Full cloth 75\\nAmerican and British Authors, (a Text-book on Literature.) Frank V. Irish.\\n344 pagea. Cloth i 35\\nA Primer of Memory Gems. George Washington Hoes, A. M,, LL. D. Full cloth 15\\nBuffalo Jones s Forty Years of Adventure. Compiled by Colonel Henry Inman. Full\\ncloth a 00\\nFundamentals of the English Language, or Orthography and Orthoepy.\\nFrank V. Irish. Cloth 50\\nGreat Salt Lake Trail. Col. Henry Inman 3 50\\nHoenshel s Language Lessons and Elementary Grammar. J. Hoenshel, A. M. 30\\nHoenshel s English Grammar. Prof. E. J. Hoenshel 50\\nKey and Manual to Hoenshel s Grammar. Prof. E. J. Hoenshel 50\\nHistory of the Birds of Kansas. Col. N. S. Goss. Large octavo, 692 pages, 100 full-\\npage illustrations. Full cloth, $5. Full Morocco 6 00\\nHistory of Kansas. Clara H. Hazelrigg. 298 pages. Full cloth 100\\nKansas Methodist Pulpit. J. W. D. Anderson. 1 vol., 297 pages. Full cloth i 00\\nNature Study a Reader. Mrs. Lucy Langdon Wilson, Ph. D 35\\nNature Study in Elementary Schools a Manual for Teachers. Mrs. Lucy Lang-\\ndon Wil3on, Ph. D 90\\nNormal Institute Reader. Wasson and Ramsey. Paper, 25c. Cloth 40\\nOld Santa Fe Trail. Col. Henry Inman 3 50\\nOutlines of Logic. Jacob Westlund, Cloth 50\\nRailroads Their Construction, Cost, Operation, and Control. Jesse Hardesty.\\nPaper 50\\nReference Manual and Outlines of United States History. Ell G. Foster. Paper,\\n30c Full cloth 40\\nRhymes of Ironquill. Eugene F. Ware. 324 pages. Full cloth x 00\\nSchool Supervision and Maintenance. H. C. Fellow. Full cloth i 00\\nStepping Stone to Singing. Containing E. M. Foote s novel method of Writing,\\nAnalyzing and Reading Music. E. M. Foote and J. S. SUe 40\\nStudent s Standard Dictionary 2 50\\nStudent s Standard Dictionary, with Dennison s Index 300\\nSupplemental Methods. Belle Varvel Houston. Full cloth 75\\nTales of the Trail. Col. Henry Inman, 1 vol., 288 pages. Full cloth 100\\nTeachers and Students Manual of Arithmetic. J. A. Ferrell, B. S., C. E. Cloth 50\\nThe Civil War by Campaigns. Eli G. Foster i.oo\\nThe Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Coo-\\nstitation of the State of Kansas 25\\nThe Delahoydes, or Boy-Life on the Old Santa Fe Trail. Full cloth i 00\\nThe Story of Human Progress a Brief History of Civilization. Frank W.\\nBlackmar, Ph. D. 375 pages. Full cloth X 00\\nTreasured Thoughts Gleaned from the Fields of Literature. Frank V. Irish.\\nCloth 50\\nThe Wooster Primer. Lizzie E. Wooster 25\\nTopeka Pen and Camera Sketches. Mary E. Jackson. 1 vol., 200 pages. Full cloth, too\\nTopical Outline of Civil Government. W. D. Kuhn. Paper, 25c. Cloth 40\\nWinning Orations. A collection of the Winning Orations of the Inter-state Oratorical\\nContests, and the biographies of contestants. C. E. Prather. 242 pages. 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