Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-08-20

means. And want this man Stercv-he new
erspoke TO nae, if he didIdo not know tiff
he did am sorry for it-Iwant him to tell me
shosit is that told him this, IF he does not
he is a coward, sneak, POI DON, and d trait
or TO hisceuntry v hat he5says Further as to
what Gen. Logan said at Cagbondale is false
HeIGen. Logan )said further at Carbondale
III was President would haze no rnobs. The
first man that raised his Esnd to resist the law
would hang TO the first tree or lamp post. I don't
blame the President tor being nlore lehe2t onIv
say what 1 would do
So help me God, if / taGS President. would
hang every man that led him up to resist the
laws while the government was in these straits.
If this gentleman caused anything to be pup
lished in opposition to the law, 1 would serve
him the same way. Prolonged cheers I r
Now | wish to read the last paragraph from
this etoreE.e-zzs-s-szs-asssaz
The reader will understand this frantic violence
of a new convert, when we tell him that this same
John A. Logan, at the beginning OF the war, pen
~ ged recruiting i'll SO tlern Illinois for
Uiyes entered the rebel service on his advice that
he grossly inslIted stephen A. Douglas in the
streets OF Springfield Tor TIE stand that patriot had
tahen concerning the war, and that he openly in st-
gated the people of Southern Illinois to resist the
passage south OF Federal troops their soil - Is
Well, that is pretty tolerably clear indict-
ment. Make him take it back. Now, as
for any regard for the Southern army. that
thing is so Infamous and dampable that don't
care for noticing anything about it. I know
no man believes it. He knows it to be lie.
He knows he is "a slanderer, "a defamer and a
liar and tie truth is not in him when he as
seIts it. lie says that I induced some of my
relations to Join the Southern army l have
had the exquisite pleasure of taking three or
f0Ilr 0f C-nDtlarlpT an Tll,iSOrlarS
Storey says, | have grossly inSulted Senator
Douglas in Springfield, for taking the stand he
did III favor OF this var. Ny God Is he not
pretty man TO call another man Il traitor and
insult a man for taking part in this war !:
Douglas and myself were friends at lis last
days l attended him on his last Journey to
Chicago; and this animal, this wretch, this
vile crawling creature, says Iinsu1tedhimin
the street for taking stand in favor of his
country. ,-.+ aE T-e II. -s 3 1875
UNGoNsTIrUTIeN AtiTY.n & al.
Gen. LOGAN paid his. respects. to the re8olu-
lions passed by a so-called Democratic convcn-
ton at Springfield, Illinois, on the 18th OF
June, to the effect that the further prosecution
Of the war was nconstitutiohal--the same
doctrine which was promulgated at the Demo
cratic convention here last wcek-in this
style: @@s IS EE F5
According to this resolution and to the doc
trine adopted by these. men, we must have
stopped the war at this time II We naC
stopped then, on the 18th of June, what kline
Of condition would we have been III Ii they
had ceased on that day, | suppose Gen. Lee
would have travelled just where he pleased
and that, Ireckon, would have been consti
tutonal act. Button the 4thl of July Gen
Meade drove Gen. Lee out Of PENNSYLVANIA
asd that, | suppose was an unconstitutional act
All of his acts, of course, tend to anarchy anC
misrule, because he drove Gen: Lee out O
PENNSYLVANIA. E.
If we had stopped there we should not have
taken Vicksburg.
Well, Gen. Macarthur addressing himl yor
and do not believe we violated the Constitu
| ton, when we marched down the streets o.
Vicksburg, and played Yankee Doodle aud hat
the Stars and Stripes waving over US Great
| cheers. -
| If we had stopped then, Port Hudson would
| not have been taken; if we had stopped then
! en-. Prentis3 would not have whipped Gen
! Price down at Helena # we had stopped thcI
| the Mississippi would have been bIockaded by
| their cannon and bristling batteries.
| But then, according to these resolutions, We
must stop at that time, and all our acts are I'M
| constitutional. Then according to this doc
trine, the opening of the Mississippi river is 8
| violation of the Constitution and of the law
all act for which we are all responsible an act
| for which you and !, and each and every one Of
US ought to be tried for treason! ICheers. /
| Now, this is the condition in which these mel
have placed US It is not the. Democracy
| have known. 1t is not the good old sort. d.
THE ''UNI0N AS IT WAS -Et. III
This resolution further says: eve are il
favor Of peace upon the basis of the rest0ra
ton of the Union" The " Union as it was.
| They are in favor Of National Convention
| Would they have a Convention at which dele
| gates should assemble from. North Carolina
| Texas and Florida and all those places tha
are now in rebellion If so, want the gen
tleman who introduced the resolution, and the
men that passed it, to tell me how long i
would take to get South Carolina to send del
Eegates to any Convention How would yot
I notify them Of it? How would you induce
them to send their representatives? Would
a member Of Congress, elected in one Of those
States, attend any such Convention? No suel
thing. They knew it well That phrase wa!
introduced for the purpose of misguiding anC
misleading the people 80 ca
Now, my fellow-citizens, want to read the
| latter clause of it, and show what a strange
piece OF composition it is You know yor
find a great many people who say that the,
prefer the Constitution as it is, and the
Union as it was" ~
They ask for Convention which shall de
eide upon the terms Of peace, and settle upo1
the Constitution, with such amendments as Jus
tice demands. Thus, gentlemen at one min
ute they want the Constitution itself, and yet il
the next breath they say they are in favor O
making such amendments as shall secure Slhcj
rights as these people are entitled to- Yet these
men proclaim that they are for the Union anC
the Constitution, for the C constitution as it is
and the Union as it was. - zE ski. q 81
THE " CONSTITUTION AS IT IS"
! l think the men who are in favor of thi
war are for the Constitution as it is l dom
care what party they are Of I do not think
have found a man who supported this war
who is not lover of the Constitution as it is
These gentlemen say they are for the Consti
tuition as it is, and yet they pass resolution
| which says they are for it as it is not Anl
vet they are for the. Constitution as it was
| Well, | am for it as it was. I am for havin!
South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia AM
Florida, and every other State brought bacI
into the Union. am for it in that way
| These gentlemen want the Union restored Jus
as it was. If they are in favor of 'restorin!
this Government for the purpose of enablin:
Jeff. Davis and Toombs, and all those crowd
Of traitors to sit in Congress, I am not for. j
1" as it was.n. am for restoring every foot 0
territory that belonged to the Union, AM
bringing it back to the Union. Then am TO
their.having such rights as may enable then
I to reconstruct State governments and pas
such laws as may be for heir best interests
" am for that, buti am not for allowing Jeff