The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-08-02
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, LOYALTY AND TREASON
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Gen. John 4. Logan spoke to an I'M
mense collection of people at Salem, III.
OH the Fourth of July. and, AS might be
expected of one who had fought against the
rebellion, lie, referred to the condition of
matters growing out of the war HeIsaid !:
FelloW-citizens, there are questions tobe
decided by the people of this country that
have grown out of this rebellion. and there
is no better day, to talk about these .ques-
tions than the day on which we celebrate
our National Independence r,.f,rT F.....
When we We're prosecuting this war
against tire traitors of this land. think it
was said then by loyal men everywhere
that treason must be made odious and trail
tors punished. ICheersl 1 believe it was
said by all loyal men that traitors proper
ty must be conhscated that they might
learn the measure of theii. crimes be
lieve it was said that traitors had forfeited
all their rights, civil and political, that
they had acquired under the Constitution
of tile United States and that those rights
could never be enjoyed by them until the
people of the United Statca should restore
them to those privileges. rights and I'M
munitics that they had lost by reason OF
their treason. If am correct in this, then
see no reason for us to change our posi-
ton now. l see nc reason why treason
should not be as odious in our eyes to-day
as it was three or tiye years ago.sI4E{
Fellow citizens. there is at this time ah
| attempt to press traitors forward, and to
make treason respectable. IN fact it seems
to me that an attempt is being made not
only to make. treason respectable. but to
place the reins ofGovcrnment in the hands
of traitors, and to induce men who have
fought under the flag of this country to
uphold our Government, to apologize to
traitors wherever they meet them for hay
ing shouldered a inusket in defense of the
Government Of the United States. Well. ]
for one, have iio apologies to make for the
part that took. Loud cheers.] Perhaps
it may be thought that atti eStravagaht
in my assertions, but let liie ask you what
| Legislative act has been performed ON the
part of the people of our Government that
has restored these men who have commit
ted treason to the rights which they enjoy
ed prior to their violation of The laws oi
the land. I should like to see any such
Legislative act. -r.z fff" Il
/ q ain one who believes that treason for
feits not only human life Under our Con-
stitution, but. all rights, civil and political
| [Cleers.] If that be the case, then traitors
have not only forfeited their fight to life
but the right to their property. We may
not take either unless we desire so to do.
Perhape it would be best not to do SO. ]
will not say as to that; but SO far as The
law is concerned, we have the right legally
to do it. [Cheers.] What else did they for
felt? They forfeited their right to holt
office, their. right to representation il
Congress-. These are rights that belong
to the people, and when q majority of thu
people of the rebellibus States committed
treason they forfeited the right of repre-
sentation in Congress as well as all others
And until that right is restored they have
no right to representation. care not VIII,
the man is that takes the contrary position
or what position he may occupy in til,
Government. [Cheers.1 t......
Would you have believed two years ago
when man declared that treason must b,
made odlUtis and traitors punisned-tha
they must be impoverished and their prop
erty distributed amohg the loyal people
could you have believed that that man, un
der that declaration,th then thought that the,
were entitled to representation in Con
gress? If he did, he had very strang
way of expressing himself. Laughter an,
great cheering.] i-I.t.5f 40 uaa.s5.s %
Fellow citizens, the restoration of thi
country is the work f.loyal men, and no
the work of traitors. And while the loya
men are engaged in performing this wufl,
they must say to those traitors, swe inten,
to confer these rights onyou again whel
we choose to do SO. [Great chearing. !
: 1T is not for you to specify the time, bu
it is for us. We have the right, and yo1
have no choice in the natter Lou,
cheers. . E%-
But it is said inasmuch as these State
have been recognized, and some of then
have acted on certain subjects that the.
are fully restored. Fellow citizens. that
very great mistake. They are restore'
so far as the act that they performed is re
cognized and no further. They have per
formed no act under their organization
that has been recognized by our Govern
ment as lawful; whether it was lawful a
the inception or not, by the recoghitio
we make it lawful. Hence the only act
they can perform are such acts as we re
cognize and render lawful by our recog
milton.
But some of the oposition say, why
you do not allow these people to be repre-
r sented one-half of the union is unrepre
sehted, and the laws that you pass in Con
gress are unconstitutional. Laughter. /
Well, presume upon the same hypothesi
, al the laws that we passed during the wa
were Unconstitutional because LEFT Day.