Life of Gen James H Lane, "the liberator of Kansas"; with corroborative incidents of pioneer history . Washington. As he started to the capital, with his commission asSenator, and a very small amount ofmoney, which he had borrowed, se-curing its payment by an insuranceJ^y y»on his life, and an order in advance: (â on the Sargeant-at-Arms for his sal-. ary as Senator, he remarked, Now,i^S we will see what a live man can do ;THE cauix. aucl Ms power with the President andin all the departments was soon painfully apparent toliis antagonists, and it became a stock phrase with them,that
Life of Gen James H Lane, "the liberator of Kansas"; with corroborative incidents of pioneer history . Washington. As he started to the capital, with his commission asSenator, and a very small amount ofmoney, which he had borrowed, se-curing its payment by an insuranceJ^y y»on his life, and an order in advance: (â on the Sargeant-at-Arms for his sal-. ary as Senator, he remarked, Now,i^S we will see what a live man can do ;THE cauix. aucl Ms power with the President andin all the departments was soon painfully apparent toliis antagonists, and it became a stock phrase with them,that it was strange and unaccountable that he shouldhave such power with such a man as Lincoln. Going to Washington at the most critical period inAmerican history, when, if the enemy had known theweakness of the city, the capital and all its archivesand all its treasures, with the captivity of the Pi-esidenthimself, would have been an easier conquest than wdienthe British captured it under President Madison, we willsee what he did to secure the gratitude and everlastingadmiration of .Abraham CHAPTER XVII. BIVOUAC IN THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION. Just before President Lincoln started to Washingtonto assume the Presidential chair, Gen. Lane tenderedhim a body guard of Kansas men, to be led by himself,to escort the President to the national capital, which thegood man, conscious of his own patriotism and human-ity, politely declined to accept, expressing his firm beliefin the loyalty of the American people. The result wastliat he narrowly escaped assassination at Baltimore, andwas submitted to the humiliation of traveling in dis-guise. What the result might have been, had the Presidentaccepted this proposition, no man can conjecture. Theopponents of Lane, or many of them, have labored tol)rove him a reckless man, devoid of all prudence. Neverwas there a more mistaken idea of any man. That wasnot a characteristic of him in the Mexican war when hewas a young man ; and he had grea
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