Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-08-04
SPEECH OF GENERAL LOGAN.


SPEECH OF GENERAL LOGAN.
Negro slavery-Free Labor-~Curss sfsIaSeFy.
MajOr-Ge John A. Logan delivered a
telling speech at Louisville Ky, on Friday last,
in which he gave the Keutuckians some sound
counsel, and urged them TO adopt the Constitu-
tional Amendment From report of this
speech in the Cincinnati Commercial we take
the following:
EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH.
We look in vain through the southern states
for public schools. Ignorance sits enthroned
where flowers bloom in midwiRteT.. and waste.
their fragrance upon the desert air Why is
TINS soT The riddle is easily read. The edu-
Gated man will think, and if his heart is educat-
ed, he VIII feel, and "Out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaketh." Surely. then
that same policy that made it LEGAL crime 10
educate a slave, must in the inexorabIe spirit of
IFS theory, oppose the education Of any and ev-
cry body who, per possibility, may become the
friend of the slave; the people of the South
have resolved to perpetually persist in holding
on to this institution, pursued polite plan
TO prevent the spread of popular education. Can
any man fail to see, or fail to feel that any in
stitutioB, the interest of which must make such
exactiOBs, is bound to be a countrys curse
Lycurgus, who was great and good Grecian
lawgiver in his day and generation, insisted
that children are the property of the State
There is but one use TO which the state can put
children, that is to educate them. IntelIigepce
is heavens rarest gift to earth it is the attribute
that gives man claim to an affinity with an
gels, and that state is false 70 her most sacred
trust, well as to her most vital interest,". that
fails to develop all her moral resources. Had
wise system of popular education been adopted
at the South at the same time that it was at the
North, that section might not be to-day, as it
verify is, without the light of single great
mind to guide it through the dark wilderness OF
its troubles. Attribute If you please the deO
relation in which are found buried the south
ern mind, either to jealousy of education or
the selfshness Ofaf8ueDce, and still it is the in
stitution of slavery that causes it.
NEGRO EQUALITY.
see it is asserted by those hostile IN the
proposed amendment that the second section
gives Congress power to- legislate ON the ques-
tion of negro suffrage IN the states. This I do
most emphatioally deny. The second section
is simply designed to make the first section ef-
fective-in other words, to practically execute it.
The Constitution of the United States has al
ready distinctly committed 10 the keeping of
each state the regulatiouOf the suffrage ones-
ton. have have frequently felt emotions Of
amazemeDt and amusement at the holy horror
with which some stump orators of quOndam
slave states dePrecate what they effect to be-
lieve are the intentions of Congress. should this
amendment be adopted, in regard to one ques-
tiou over which it does occur to me, every man
with thimbIe-full Of brains in his head ought
to know Congress can never have jurisdiction
| allude, of course to the delicate question Of
social equality and intercourse How car Con-
gress pass law to make any one white man say
that any other white man or black man shall be
his guest aud companion? Social intercourse
will regulate itself and at the same time it will
regulate all questions of quality and equality
belonging to the private walks of social life
To these gentlemen | will say | was born and
reared on free soil, and that there never saw
black man with white wife, or a white man
with black wife. There white people are white
people, and black people black people,
whereas find throughout the South 'kinky-
heads" almost as white as any body. 1t is an
unfortunate thing for the negroes of the South
that they take their status from their mothers
iffrOm their fathers, they would be almost as
universally free as, under the existing rule, they
are slaves The truth is that the practical
amalgamatiOnists are the southern people.
AN ANECDoTE IN PART,
Twas told an amusing story last winter while
in Savannah, to this effect: There was before
the legislature of Georgia bill to expatrate all
the free negroes in the state. Against this bar
bsrous measure the citizens of Savannah enter
ed most pathetic protest. A remonstrance
went up from the goodly city to the legislature,
signed by almost everybody. The reason for
this remoustrsnce, it was said by the friends Of
the measure, was that all the folks in Savannah
we're skin"
THE LABOR QUESTION.
There is another objection urged to the eman-
cipatiOn of the slaves in Kentucky. It is said
that If the Slaypa ra1ada
be without labor. This is great mistake. If
made free the probabilities are that they will
remain, and, for wages, labor with much more
energy than heretofore. If not made free with
no laws to protect the institution, surrounded
| as you are by free states offering to them an
asylum and wages for their labor. they will de-
sert their masters and find for themselves
home in a foreign state where the spirit of free
dom is universal, and the curse of slavery driv-
en- from the land lis natural that they should
do So aud no man but crazy man could cal
culate otherwise. And would it not be better
for Kentucky to show her magnsnimnity, her
patriotism, her desire for a lasting peace and
the return of fraternal feelings by at once doing
that which, if she does not do, will soon do it.
self Think of the great desire on the part of
the civilized world that the chains of Slavery.
still clanking IN your state, should be stricken
from the limbs of the black man by the geBer-
OSlty ana Ohrlstian splflt OF your own people.
Let your cloud-kissiBg hills, and smiling val
leys once test the energies Of free labor and ere
long the number you are behind your sister
states in population you will gather, the def
cheney in wealth you will accumulate Enter
prise, capital, intelligence and Christianity viii
leap for Joy over the new and bright prospects
before them. Kentucky will then take the DO
sition she ought to occupy among her sister
states and claim rank and respectability second
to none,
WHAT SLAVERY HAS DONE.
Our land is swarmng with thousands
of cripples; some have lost legs and others arms;
why do not these men gOabrOad among the peO-
pie and hold up their shattered limbs and tell
the STAKEHOLDER, This is what your Institution
has cost me While you were basking in the
sunshine of safety at home, | was at the front.
When slavery took the form of armed rebellion,
and soldiers were called into the field to put it
down, you found irresistible fascinatioDs in the
attractions of home. | did my duty. return
now to my home to drag out through few lin
gering years miserable life; but mock me not
do, in Heavens name implOre You to stop this
eternal parade before my aching eyes Of this
most Odious institution" !" o, that l had the
power tonight to bring together all the slave
holders of this land and have them look on in