The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-08-06
A FIGHTING DEMOCRAT ON
THE WAR AND THE COP
PERHEADS.

matters and Thiugs--The Lie Di-
rect to Vallandigham--His Views
Of the People of the South,
Gen. John A. Logan, a well-known
Illinois Democrat, connected with the
army Of Gen. Grant, is homo on a short
visit to his friends. In passing thro'
Cairo the people gathered around him,
and he made few important remarks,
which we give below. Gen Logan; it
will be remembered, was strongly oppos-
ed to coercion. After the attack upon
Sumpter, and when there was hope
that the difficulty might be settled by
compromise, he went to Richmond to
talk to the leading politicians there on
the subject. He was told that if the
Administration would give them a sheet
Of white paper, and allow them to mako
their own terms, they would not accept
the offer short of dissolution of the
Union. Logan then made up his mind
that the Union could only be saved by
war; he abandoned his anti-coercion
ideas, came homo and girded on the
sword. He has since been serving his
country in the army. This is the man
who speaks as follows:
ut makes no difference whether you
call me Democrat, Republican, or AJo-
titionist-as some haze of late named
me. 1t does not change my feelings
does not alter my action. 1 am for my
country every time-for my country first
last and always; and am fighting for the
right of that country to be numbered
among the honorod nations of the earth.
Until that is brought about, and this re-
bellion crushed. out, I am but an Amer
lean citizen. When that right shall
have been asserted, then should We
find that there is ething wrong in the
fabric that our fathers reared, something
wo desire to change, it will be time
enough to come up and demand the
change. Nou we have this aceursed
rebellion to root out. 1t must be root
cd out. l am for using every means
and all means for putting it to an end
IF the people at the North would use
the same force JEFF. Davis and his min
ions use-and were as unanimous as
they are-for in the South force OF
arms cOnlpeh every man to act as tho
he sanctioned the rebellion, whether he
feels inclined or not-this Dar ,oould
be successfully terminated in less than
sic months.
Every mothers son who is opposed
to the war should be compelled either
to take up arms against US or for u.s.
Then there would be no talk of peace
here in the North, no talk of reSistan nee,
no such men as ValldndiyLdm, no such
co'0drdS as those '0hO support all such
men, as say these things.
Vallandigham says he has travelled
over the COnfedcracy--using the term
'Confederacy"-not the phrase SO call.
ed Confederacy (for I do not acknowl. 9.
edge the existence of any authority or
government in America aside from that
of the United States)--and has not met
man, woman or child who does not sus-
tain the war, and who is not determin
ed to fight it out to the death or the
bitter end. VdlIdndigham here simply
lies. He tells what is not true, and ho
knows it, Vallandigham, aside from
the leading meu-Jetf. Davis, Toombs
and Stephens-dio not, venture to say.
speak with dozen persons while tax. .
ing his involuntary trip through Dixie
Had he done 30, his report would have
been Of q different color. The people
who are lighting against this Govern
ment--tho poor whites comprising tn Q
ranks Of tho rebellion-nine.tenths of
them do not know what thOy are fight
ing for; do not know what thcy 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 il march into
Vicksburg in triumph. They do not
know the Fourth of July, or anything
else thatis good. But poor and igno.
rant as they are, let them express their
own free minds, aud they will, almost
to man, demand speedy termination
of this war-would submit to almost
anything rather than fight one day
longer as they have been fighting. Il
is only by force Of boyOnsts that their ar
my is kept together. Even that cannot
prevent their doserters from fockint
into Jackson by hundreds, to take the
oath of allegiance or join the Unior
ranks. And ! tell you what I know
whcn l say that it will not bo many day
ere the entire States of Mississippi an,