Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-08-07
What a Genuine War Democrat
Saws.

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Eloqhent speech OF Major-Gen. Logan.
On his unexpected arrival at Cairo, the other
day from Vicksburg, Major Gen. Logan address,
ed circle of welcoming friends in substance as
follows:
1t makes no difference whether you call me
| Democrat Republican or Abolnionist--as some
have of late named me. II does not change my
feelings--does not alter my action. am for my
country cvery time--for my country first last
and always--and am fighting for the right of that
| country to be numbered among the hOnored ma
tions of the earth. Until that is brought about,
and this rebellion crushed out, am but an Amer
ican citizen. When that right shall have been
asserted, then, should we find that there is some
thing wrong in the fabric that our fathers reared,
something we desire to change, it will be time
enough to come up and demand the change.
Now we have this accursed rebellion to root out
II must be rooted out l am for using every
means, and ALL means for putting it to an end
| IL the people of the North would use the same
force that JEFF. Davis and his mnions use-and
were as unanimous as they are-for in the South
| force of arms eompeSs every man to act though
he sanctioned the rebellion whether,he feels in
clined not--this iCould Be sWceestf fully ter
minated in less than sir months. .....f
Every mothers son who is opposed to the war
should be compelled either to take up afhs for
or against us. Then there would be no sAlk of
peace here in the North, no talk of resistance,
no such VdQdndighdn, no such coI0drds
as those Who support all such men, and say these
things
Vallandigham SAYS he has travelled over the
Contederdcy-using the term 'Confederacy
the phrase so-called- Confederacy, (for do not
acknowledge the existence of any authority or
Government in America aside from that of the
United States land has not met man, women or
child who does not sustain the war, and who is
not determined to fight it out to the death of the
| hittar eDH UoVon11ioI0y,a bsrs her Ha
tells what is not true, and he knows it. Vallan-
digham, aside from the leading men-Jef Davis,
| Toombs and Stephens-did not, l venture to say,
speak with dozen persons while taking his in
voluntary trip through Dixie. Had he done so,
his report would have been of differentcolor.
The people who are fighting against the Govern
ment-the poor whites comprising the rank and
file of the rebellion-nine-tenths Of them do not
know what they fighting for, do not know
what they are fighting against. A majority of
them do not know anything-and hundreds OF
them never saw the American flag in their lives
. until they saw it march into Vicksburg in tri-
: umph. They do not know the Fourth of July
> or anything else that isgood. But poor and ig-
norant as they are let them express their own
free minds, and they will, almost to man, de-
mand speedy termination of this war-would
submit to almost anything rather than fight one
day longer as they have been fighting. II Is
only by ae force of bGyoets hat their army IS kept
together. Even that cannot prevent their deser-
ters from focking into jackson, by hundreds to
take the oath of allegiance or to join the Union
ranks. And tell you what know when say
that it will not be many days ere the entire State
of Mississippi and Tennessee will be knocking
loudly for re admission to Union which not
long since they thought their puny efforts could
quickly dissolve. They are taking of it even
now.
Speaking of being united, tell you, by the
Eternal God, there was never a more truthful
sentence than that of Douglass "Those who are
not tcM us are against us and reterate 1t, and
add that those who are not with US should bo
hung should be iOith theirSouthern brettrenf fight
ing NTH them.
Let them either aid the Government, or go
where they can bolster up the tottering fortunes
of rebeldom. Better have dozen foes in the
field than one fighting behind our backs.
To all Copperheads, peace men, agitators an :
ti-war men-be they Republicans or Democrats
for we have them, here, pretending TO be both
Il have word to say on behalf of our brave
soldiers. You have undoubtedly been told that
the war has opposers in the ranks of the Union
; army. tits an accursed and foul aspersion upon
the fair fame of men who are willing to spill
, their blood and give their lives for the country
q a They are for our Union. They fight for the peo
i Pile and their country--for the suppression o
the rebellion. Let me say TO all oppOsers of th'
. war: The time WW come when men composing
! ! this great army will come to their homes.-
They have watched the progress of events with
interest They have had their eyes upon these
unmitigated towards, these opponents of the
country and the Administration (and the Ad-
mnistration, contend, Il the country, and
when they return, it will do the soul Of every
truly loyal man good to see the summary man :
ner in which they ciA cause these sneGks and peace
dgitdtors 20 seek their holes.
You will excuse me, gentlemen, if, in saying
what have said, have been rather profuse and
: heavy in the way of emphasis Twoyears away
e from civilization with my men, has made me
rather emphatic in all my thoughts and words
in regard to certain things. I speak emphati
cally, because ! emphatically feel that which
my tongue finds to say.