Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-13

b time, from its deserved rerributiou at th
' hands of the free
: General Logan on the Term "ABOIl
q IlOnistS."
D General John A. Logan, on arriving q
Duquoin, ILL.,, from General Grants army
delivered long and interesting speech t
his constituents, from which we make tn
following extracts. Gen. Logan is Dem
Ocrat of the Stephen A. Douglas school
and his remarks On the term abolition
i5is," applied so often, to all our soldiers
will be read with interest.
ABOUT ABoLITIoEIsTs.
There is one other thing l want to SAY
to you. II is this: want TO give the folk.
OF this county an idea about it. They say
Johu Logan, Billy, Jack, Bob, Tom, ans
all Us chaps down in the army, are AboIi.
tiOnists, regular straight-outs. Why are
We AbOlitiOnists? want them to tell me
how they know l sm an AbOIiiionist ]
have never made a speech until yesterday,
since the war commenced, except onoo,
when | spoke Il short time to get some re-
cruits.
never made speech since have been
in the army, of any kind, that could be
called a political speech. How do they
know we are all Abblitiouists? Did we tell
them so? Did We say so? Why is ii that
they consider us all AboIitionistsT Why,
L will tell yOu the reason. 1t is because
we are in the army and Abraham Lincoln
is President. That is the reason. These
men don't know enough, or don't want To
know, that Abraham Lincoln, because he
is President, don't own the Government
This Is our Government. The war amt
fighting for Sir. Lincoln. 1t is fighting for
the Union, for the Government. I sup
pose tRsi when a man went to Mexico as a
United States soldier it didn't make him
an Abolitionist.
II fighting under Abe Lincoln makes
every one an Abolitionist, suppose that
lighting under Polk made every one
Democrat. That may be true, but when
they came home, If you recOIIect, they
elected General Taylor, who was Whig
| don't care IA cen; whSt they call.me. All
| have TO say to any man who calls me an
AbolitiOnist is, that "a rose by any other
name would smell as sweet" and that they
can call me any name they please. III
fighting for the union OF these states, with
the Old.tiag over my head, fighting for our
Government against rebels and traitors
if that makes me an AbolitiOnist, all right.
/ only wish there was Il million more of
makes Il man an AbolIIionist, let me warn
these gentlemen that there will be great
many OF them. II loving the Government
of our fathers, revering the Constitution,
fighting for the same Government and the
same cause, is sufficient to these men TO
call such names, let them DO il. We have
no objection. We don't care. We laugh
tit. Il is only fun for Us to be called
such names. We care nothing about it
We know that the country knows what we
are doing, and God in Heaven, who views
the hearts of all men, knows We are in
earnest and true to our country. Would
TO God these gentlemen could say the
same. Applause. Nc, my friends, it
makes a. man patriot, nothing more,
nothing less-tO fight for his country. II
does not make him Democrat; nor Re
publican, nor an AbOliiionist. Whenever |
this war is over, this is a free country. If
we want politics then, We will have them, |
that's all. II we don't, nobody need get |
mad about it.
They had better let US alone and not call |
US uicknames before we get home. Let US |
alone until we get hack, gentlemen, ii you |
please. We will be the most peseeabIe
and quiet men in she world. We will be
perfectly well educated in all the fine arls,
and sciences and good manners. We will |
and if we get little mad about aGythiOg |
we will just settle it right there. Laugh |
ter. But suppose folks are jskiug who |
say these things They don't intend any
thing wrong. do ask them to just let the |
boys alone aud let the people alone.
If they don't want to be for the Govern
menr, let people alone who are for it. If
they do that, there will be peace at home. |
We don't think it makes us Abohtionists !
to fight for our country. We don't think |
it makes US Abolitionists because niggers |
run away. Just here let me tell these gen |
tlemeu, who talk 90 much about Abolition |
lists and nigger stealing, that all the pray |
ers that eau be sent up IL makes no differ |
euce, outside Of proclamation or anything
else that machine is gone up, played out.
It will never do days good again. Ap
plause.1 There is no doubt of that, and
the people of the North are not responsible
The Southern gentleman have done il
themselves. Nobody is responsible but
themselves for the loss of their slaves.
Let me say to these men now, who have
such great sympathy for the people of the
South, and are crying out against soldiers
Il tell them that these men in the South
lost more niggers in thirty days after the
rebellion commenced than they would have
lost in many years by all the AboIitionists
10 the United States. / told you that the
army which was in front OF US stole every
thing they could lay their hands on. The
rebels steal every niger they see and take
them to some State where they think we
are not likely to go. They are afraid the
Yankees will steal them. These are posi-
tive facts. The rebel sOldiers-men who
never owaed nigger ia their lives, steal
them and run them of, and sell them for
two or three hundred dollars apiece. They
say that the institution is gone. aud they
don't think it will ever amount to anything
again. They just want to be independent
of us; that's all they are shting for.
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