Life Of Gen James H Lane The Liberator Fo Kansas With Corroborative Incidents Of Pioneer History PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... INTERFERENCE WANTED. sonal quarrel, it is private property. You require rest and peace, and I respectfully demand that there may be no interference on the part of my friends. He has assaulted me, not for individual action, for I have never seen him, but for official action, and as a representative elect of that great and noble party whom he and his masters have sought to enslave, and in the spirit of that party, as an humble member of it, I hurl back his allegations, and bid him and his masters defiance. J. H. Lank. The report of the military board referred to is signed: J. H. Lane, President; A. D. Richardson, Assistant Adjutant General; J. G. Cleveland, Samuel Jameson, Geo. S. Hillyer, Samuel Walker, Brigadier Generals; J. Fin Hill, Inspector General; Hiram Housel, Com. General; and S. B. Prentiss, Surgeon General. We do not propose to go into an investigation of the allegations of Lane as to the homicide with which he charges him; but if Lane was mistaken in his characteristics, James Buchanan and Jefferson Davis were also mistaken in the selection of the man for their purposes. If Lane was guilty of any conduct in his official position unwarranted by the organic act, Denver had ready access to a willing court, for a writ of quo warranto, and had no excuse for infringing upon judicial powers. The President knew that he had the reputation of a fighting man, and "acknowledged the code," and selected him for these qualities. The legislature which selected Lane knew alike the caliber of their man, and the man he had to confront. It was war, not peace; and had been war from the very outset of the attempt to force acts of usurpation upon the people. CHAPTER XIII. THE LEAVENWORTH CONSTITUTION. The situation in Kansas when Gov. John...