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Excerpt from Portraits and Sketches of John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane: Together With the National Democratic Platform, the Cincinnati Platform, and the Constitution of the United States
Young Lane soon became the man of the people among whom he had cast his lot. In 1822, then barely eligible, he was elected to the Indiana legislature, and took his seat, to the astonishment of many older worthies. Hon. Oliver H. Smith, a new member likewise, and since a United States Senator from 1837 to 1843, describes, in a work recently published, the appearance of Lane on the occasion. The roll-calling progressed as I stood by the side of the clerk. The county of Vanderburg and Warwick said the clerk. I saw advancing a slender, freckled-faced boy, in appearance eighteen or twenty years of age. I marked his. Step as he came up to my side, and have often noticed his air since: it was General J oseph Lane, of Mexican and Oregon fame in after years.
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