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The Daily Dispatch: October 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
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and selling them to the Quartermaster of the army, &c., &c. If denouncing such conduct, or the men who permit it, is treason, then I shall always be a traitor. Severe, however, as my denunciations have been, they have not equalled those of Hon. M. J. Parrott, Lane's Adjutant, who denounced, in my presence, Gen. Lane and his force as highway robbers deserving of death, and urged me to prefer charges against them to Gen. Fremont, that they might be put down. I, however, respectfully declined to d "to play General all over and pretty big, betting high on small cards," than all the other expenses of the war would amount to. All this he has been able to accomplish in his private capacity, for he says he is not General, but is simply, as Mr. Parrott said, an irresponsible freebooter. What could he not do as Major-General of a division? But he says "he knows President Lincoln, and he knows Old Abe will say, well done thou good and faithful servant." There is too much reason to fear that