The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-10-08
Gen. logan on the Political Situation
Extracts from a Speech Delivered at
Carbonate, Ill, Oct. 1st.

They ask me to vote for George B.
Mcclellan on such p platform as this
! say, / won't do it, Applause They
ask me to vote for George H. Pendle-
ton, and say would not vote for him
on that or any other platform, for Vice
( President, or any other office, If the
/ devil were q candidate against him.
/ Why do say so 2 / served with him
in Congress, and have been forced and
compelled to denounee him as trait
or and have a good right TO do so to-
Z day have heard from his lips, in the
halls Of Congress, before he was even
! thought of as q candidate, words of
Z treason and disloyalty TIE has de-
nounced this war from the time 1t com
menced. lie hasneyer voted a solitary
dollar, or a cent in favor representing
this war, no matter how the money was
TO be expended whether for grub for
: the soldiers, or anything else-not one
dollar has he voted that could be spent
in any way against the rebellion, and
I in favor of the Government defy his
friends to-day to point me TO one line,
or one syllable, ever written or uttered
toy him in favor Of restoring this Gov
eminent, by putting down the rebellion
not a word But if YOU will read
his speeches, you will find that he has
justified secession. You will find that
he has advocated State rights, and said
that he believed the people Of the South
had a right to secede, and the Govern
ment hal no right 20 coerce them back
into the Union. That il the doctrine
be has advocated, and upon THAR record
people ask me 70 vote for him again,
defy any man 10 show me bis letter
accepting the nomination on the Chi
cago platform. Where is it2 Why Is
it that no man can find it? he has
never accepted that nomination except
By simple acquiescence, and by his
being pat on the ticket Why il this,
I say Because the Chicago Convention
knew when they adopted that plat
, form that Mcclellan would write soft
letter, sort Of for war, saying that he
knew that the Convention was for the
war, but they forgot to say 80, and al
THAI kind OF thing Laughter They
have prevented George II Pendleton
from writing letter, and ! venture n
say that he will never write one. Be
cause If they wanted letter from him.
unless they wrote il themselves, be has
been 20 much in the habit Of speaking
treason, that he could not write any
thing else Il would damn him before
the country, snd they knew il
Read Andy Johuson's letter. II
broathes nothing bat true devotion 10
the Union He il a Tennesseean He
answers the party that nominated him
laying aside al political preiudices and
willing 70 do what be can % save his
country. Contrast him with George H.
PendletOn, who, as have said, has de
nouneed the war IN the Halls Of Con
gress, and voted against carrying il on
Today Mr. Pendleton stands hand 20
hand with Nallandighan, Wood, and
other Northern traitors. dencUncing
every man connected with the war,
and throwing every clog in the way Of
the advancement Of the armies he
has been living at home in the North,
doing his best 20 hinder the progress Of
the armies Of the United States. What
has sndrew Johnson been doing? He
lived IN Tennessee, aud was in the
United States Senate when that State
seeded What did he dof lie told
thesf traitors that the State might Sc
cede, bat Andrew johnson never. He
stood there and denounced them rs
trsitora--JeG Davis, Slidell, Mason,
Benjamin, and the whole crowd Said |