Excerpt from Address on the Life and Services of General James H. Lane It is the dictate of reason as well as of affection which prompts the devoted daughters of General Lane to present to this Camp the portrait of their accomplished father, to speak from your walls, already illumined by portraits of many illus trions and patriotic soldiers and statesmen, his and our com patriots; representatives of that Southland which gave to our country Washington, Jefferson, Marshall, Jackson, Calhoun, Clay and, later still, Davis, Lee, Jackson and others, whose deeds and fame mark the brightest pages in history - all fit examples of that heroic and dominant Anglo - Saxon race which, even prior to the days of Runnymede, when it wrested the great Hit: of Right from a tyrannical king, has been a devoted lover of liberty, and which race has found in America its purest type in the South, both before and since the Wlar Between the States. Man is not an isolated being and lives not for himself alone, for the history of the great and good are incentives to the emulation of their achievements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.