Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-12

Maj-Gen. John A. Logan, formerly demo-
cratic member of congress, and now with
Gen. Grants army, arrived at Cairo last
week. He made some interesting remarks to
Il circle of friends, from the report of which
we extract the following:
at makes no difference whether you call
me democrat, republican. or aboLitioniSt-
as some hare OF late named me. 1t does not
change my feelngs-doeS not alter my ac-
ton. | am for my country eregy time-tor
my country first, last and always-and for
fighting for the right of that country to be
numbered among the hOnored nations OF the
earth. Until that is brought about, and this
rebellion is crushed out, | am but an Amer-
can citizen. When that right shall have been
asserted, then, should we find that there is
something wrong in the fabric that our faith
ers reared, something we desire to change, it
will be time enough to come up and demand
the change. Now we have this accursed re-
bellion to root ont. 1t must be rooted out. l
am for using eUe1y means and ALL means for
putting it to an end. If the people at the
north would use the same force that JEFF. Da-
Wis and Jhs minions use, and were unani-
nous as they are, for in the south force of
arms competS every man to act as though he
sanctioned the rebellion, whether he feels in
cllned or not-ths ICaT should be successfully
Terminated IN less than si1 months.
Every mothers son who is opposed to the
war should be compelled either to take up
arms against us or for us. Then there would
be no talk of peace here in the north, no talk
OF resistance, no such men as FaUGndiqham,
no such cow0rdS as those 1cho support such
men, and sag these things
Vallandigham says he has travelled over
the coWederacy-using the term 'confedera-
cy,-not the phrase SO called confederacy,'
(tor do not acknowledge the existence of
any authority Of government in America
aside from that of the United States)-aEd
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 or the bitter end.
Vattandtgham here simply lies. He tells
what is not true and he knows it, Vallaudig-
ham, aside from the leading men-Jeff Da-
Wis, ToombS and Stephens-did not, venture
to say, speak with dozen persons while tax
ing his involuntary trip through Dixie.-IIad
he done so his report would have been of a
different color.
The people who are fighting against this
government poor ,~i.itso so-.r.:-:-.s. A.
rank and file of the rebellion-nine -tcnths of
them do not know what they are fighting for,
do not know what they are fighting against
majority of them do not know anything
and hundreds of them never saw the Ameri-
can flag in their lives until they saw it march
into Vicksburg in triumph. They do not
know the Fourth of July, or anything else
that is good. But poor and ignorant as they
are, let them express their own free minds,
and 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. II is only
by the force Of bayonetS that their army IS
kept together. Even that cannot prevent their
deSerters from tiocking into jackson by hun
dreds to take the oath of allegiance or to join
the Enion ranks.
And tell you what know when say that
it will not be many days ere the entire states
of Mississippi and Tennessee will be knock
ing loudly for readmission to a Union which
not long since they thought their puny efforts
could quickly dissolve. They are talking of
it even now. Let me say to all opposers of
this war The time wiH come when men
composing this great army will come to their
homes. They have watched 4he progress of
events with interest. They have had their
eyes upon these unmitigated towards, these
opponents of the country and the adminstra-
tion-and the administration l contend is the
country-and when they return it will do the
soul of every loyal man good to see the sum-
mary manner IN which they 1ctU cause these
SneokS and peace agitatorS to seek their holes