St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1864-10-20
GEN. LOGAN's POslTlON-VNHY Nh
SUPPORTS MIR. LINCOLN. fs'fN

SUPPORTS MIR. LINCOLN. fs.fsh
The gallant aud successful soldier,
Major General John 4. Logan, who
has been claimed by the Democrats as
a supporter Of the Chicago platform and
the peace-.t-any price candidates, made
a grand Union speech at Carbondale,
Illinois, on the lst inst, in which he
slasLed the Coppcrheads With just sever
ity. We nuke the following eloquent
extract:
| l tell you, gentleman, wh:n you see
men coming home from the army, it
makes no difference what their politics
NAY have been, if they have been hon
est, true and faithful men, you find
that they would suffer their tongues to
be torn out by the roots before they
would lisp word in behalf Of that Chi
cago Platform, or the men who made it..
They cannot aud will not do it.
used to be follower of the illus.
trious Stephen A. Douglas. They call
ed me u Douglas worshipper. I be-
lieve many others thought as much Of
Douglas as l did. If that great and
20 d man were alive to-day, aud wish
he were, he would stand on this war
aud Union platform side by side with
me, and advocate the same measures
that l do. Listen to what he said in
the last letter he ever wrote 1t was a
letter to Virgil Rickon, Chairman of
the State Democratic Central Commit
tee. Virgil was looking around, not
knowing exactly what he ought to do.
Douglas wrote:
"All hope Of compromise with the
Cotton States was abandoned when they
assumed the position that the separation
OF Union was complete and final end
that they would never consent to a re-
construction in any contingency-not
even if We should furnish them with a
blank sheet Of paper and permit them
to i"scribe their own terms.
II know of no mode in which loyal
citizen may so we'll demonstrate his de-
votion to his country as by sustaining
the constitution, the f1ay and the Union,
under all circumstances and every Ad-
ministration regardless Of party poll
tics, against all assalants at home and
abroad"
That was the Douglas doctrine just
before he died. 1t would be his doc
triac today if he were alive 1t is nv
doctrine, and has been all along, and
intend to stand by it to the last. lAp-
plause
This, then, is all l care about saying
in reference to these platform, or in
reference to the candidates. So far as
Mr.. Lincoln is concerned l know this.
There was a great many people in this
country who opposed him four years
ago: l know l did it just as heartily
as any other man in the country. If
any man had told me four years ago,
that 1 would ever make speech in ta-
vor OF his election, I would have told
him it was not so, aud you could have
proved it.
Indignant Copperhead in the crowd
-"I think I could"
General Logan-But you couldn't
do it now. Laughter ] But when I
find the leaders Of the party 1 acted
with betraying the trust the people re-
posed in them; when 1 find them re.
pudiating the doctrine Of Jackson, who
was for hanging traitors to the highest
tree he could fiud, and for preserving
the Union at all hazards, either with
blood or without it; when I find then,
leaving behind them all the doctrines
OF the Democratic party, renouncing
their allegiance to their God, their
country, and our flag, am not com.
PEELED to follow you any further, I can.
not 60 with you into the precincts Of
treason and disloyalty. Mr.. Lincoln
stands, l say, upon the true Union
platform. and, therefore, I am for him.
1.believe he has endeavored to sustain
the Government honestly and faithful.
ly. Although he may not have acted
just to suit my views in some particu.
lars, that shall wake no difference
Andrew johnson I believe to be equal.
ly honest and faithful. have but one
choice to make between the Constitu.
tioh, the Union and its heroes, on one
side, and their defamers and s]anderers
on the other. I will act with no party