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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Jim Lane performing in New York. (search)
applause. When our parsons turn politicians, they may be known by the free and easy way with which they treat the name of God and dispense his providence; but General Jim--who thinks little of God, and is "not a believer in special providence," hopes to die, and expresses great willingness to encounter that event, in case he can, by that means, inculcate in the city of New York "a fair and candid spirit concerning the institution of slavery." General Jim's speech is, as may have been expected, abolition in the extreme. He believes that a white man is almost as good as a negro. He boasts tremendously of his exploits in Kansas, and, if he is to be belle attend on such occasions to be amused; and as when they witness the feats of a juggler or a mountebank, the more extravagant the tricks the better they are satisfied. They pay their twenty-five cents, and expect to get the value in fun; and for this purpose, in the absence of a monkey, General Jim is the man for their money.