The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-11-07
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Thefollowing is an extract from the eloquent
speech of Gen. LOGAN, at Jersey City, on DC
| tober SOth. Read it, and hand It to your
neighbor 70 read; -1l
To-day, it is well to ask ourselves what are
they who call themselves the Democlanc
uarty? Point your finger to one man who
was leader in this rebellion against the life
| of this mighty nation, and will show you q
| man who was the representative Of the De-
mocracy lust before the rebellion. APP
pause Point me out to night, one man IN
| the little State of New Jersey that sympa-
thised with this rebellion during it, existence,
and will show you man who votes the So
| called Democratic ticket. Cheers They
| called the men who supported the country IN
its perilous hour Aboitionists and =" fan
atics." Yet this same party pretend to pc
the saviors of this republic. When they ask
me, "Why did you leave the Democratic
party and unite with different organiza-
tion?,i tell them that their associations are
bad daughter l want at least to be as
sociated with men who have not the faint OF
1 treason about them, whose hands are not
dripping with the blood of martyred Union
| lists. from one end of the South to the other.
| TGreat applause. When this rebellion arose,
It was supported by the men who were the
stand bys Of the then Democratic party. And
for what did they lead the rebellion? Was it
because the Government of the United States
had dealt unfairly with either of the States Of
the Union? 1t certainly was not. But it was
because of the fact that this Democratic party
itself, since the days of Calhoun, had based
its organization entirely upon slavery. They
believed that it was the very substratum of
this Governmen. itself. They became aristo-
Gratis, and favored the extension of this insti-
tuition all over the land, although they did not
say SO. While this great war was going on,
while we needed assistance on the part of the
| Government, it was not alone for putting
down jefferson Davis. II was for the purpose
of maintaining the liberties of the people,
which had been handed down to us by our
patriotic sires, in the best Government that
had ever been framed by man. When the
rebels drew their swords against it, they said
"We bid farewell to the rights and to the pro-
lection which the Constitution of the country
give US. We sever our relations with it, and
take up our swords. The only protection
which we have left now. is the power which
they give u.s. At that time they forfeited all
the rights they had under the Constitution,
| ana Wlcn tnl6 ItpclllOu WAS crushed, Ine Only
, rights that these gentlemen were entitled to-,
were such rights as they had won by the sword.
What had they won? daughter and APP
plause.l There is no unprejudiced lawyer OF
| responsibility who will not say that when a
man commits treason against his Government
he forfeits his rights and his claims to the
} protection of that Government. They have
, gained no rights by the sword and they stand
to-day before the American people a set OF
condemned traitors in the eyes of all the en-
Heightened world, entitled to nothing but that
which the will Of the people may give them.
: TGreat applause.1 If the people of the
United States desire to be magnanimous,
they have the right to be, but while they
have the right to be, these men must come
and say, - We do not claim it as q right.
but ask you to confer upon us right which
we have lost. 1t can be in nc other way.
I The people of the State Of New Jersey,
| or at least this Democratic portion of the
:, State, laughter. by their delegates in con.
u vention assembled, | believe, passed resolu.
ton that the States had lost none of their
rights and that Nil persons that were elected
o to Congress from any State in the Union mus,
q be admitted at once, If they we're elected ao
cording to the laws Of that State without ant
questions being asked and that they havt
the right to regulate their own domestic in
institutions without any interference on the
part of the government, as though they bad
lost no rights by their endeayors against tht
0 life of the Republic. Now this would havt
= been well enough before the rebellion. and
before people had forfeited their civil rights
but not to-day with loyal men. If Presideni
johnson sees fit TO issue proclamation re
ievng them all from the faint of treason to-
morrow. he can do So But either he or Con
gress must pardon them before these gentls
men can acquire any rights under the law
If it was left TO mel don't think should dt
/. it. Laughter and applause. Then would
like to ask these Democrats of the State o.
New Jersey what they mean by the resolution
in their platform that Congress should admit
such members are elected from any of the
States. so they are elected according to the
laws of the States. Suppose they were tc
elect JEFF Davis from the State of Mississippi
to Congress and he should come to Washing.
ton if he is turned out of prison, if he eve,
should be, daughter and cheers and ask u
be admitted, would this man Eunyon be will.
, ing to see Jefferson entering Congress? Nov
| do no. believe in any such thing. do mol
believe that the man who committed treason
= against this Government can be enfran.
+ chised so as to enter Congress unless Con.
gress itself Is willing that he shall be received
there. Hearty applause. Congress is the
Judge of the qualification Of its members: and
if i we're member of Congress when JEFF
Davis or Mr.. Slidell, or any other of these
infamous traitors, who led their hosts apains,
the government of the United States, and at
tempted to enter and deseorate its temple,
would say, " Depart from here, We cursed, ]
: know you not. Tremendous applause.
Let them learn that when they elect officers
to go there, they must elect men. at least who
have not been the leaders of their armies and
} the murderers Of loyal men, (Applause.
| suppose that at the next election Won have
in New Jersey, in their platform these Dem.
ocrats will resolve that there is no objection
to JEFF. Davis being President of the United
States. If the people have mind to that eff.
feet, they will then probably conclude that il
is proper to admit the United States into the
Confederacy. Laughter. The way to pre-.
vent things of that kind is to stop it before il
is done, to train the people against them. II
! you educate the children in New Jersey and
everywhere else, to hug treason to their bo.
SONS, then you will disregard its sting. But
if you educate them as they grow up to hate
treason as they would the bite of poisonous
serpent, there is no danger that they will ever
be guilty of associating with traitors or of
committing treason against their country.
Cheers. And yet New Jresey, believe, is
the only State in the Union where slavery
does not exist, that refused to pass the amend.
lment to the Constitution of the United States