The evening Argus., 1866-07-13
From the st. Louis Republican, July Z.
Gen. John A. Logan.

dressed the people, recognized the Ptopfleues
of tba occasion. and found snougn OF inspira-
tion in the historic assosiasions ol sae oay
and in the manifold .igns ol .ne Prospe.y
isnd Tnstesd Or haranguing the miscella-
na.u. .sssmblJ upon the political questions
,,soa which democrats and republicans. and
az ubl;c.ns among themselves, are at war, he
fsi. taat Upon such day such discussion
ab,uld be omitted, and said, referring to the
varying policies proposed by politicians and
statesmen, and judges and lawyers 1T Is
unnecessary to even allude to the position IN
which our national affairs are placed 1t IS
to be regretted that his subordinats, denerai
Logan, did not have the good judgement and
good taste TO initiate the example OF his chief
in the speech which he delivered. Instead OF
this he perverted his opportunity, and abused |
the courtesy to which he was indebted for the |
privilege of addressing American citizens 'r |
respective Of party, by q stump speech sup |
porting, in a thoroughly partisan spirit, the |
reconstruction policy of the radical party In
congress.
Patriotic recollections of the past and gen
erous hopes for the future all yield to the
narrow minded, vindictive passions OF the
sectional demagogue who cries for vengeance
| and shouts, Bring forth the ecafold." This
truculent general, unlike most of our brave
| officers who have won undyiug fame by their
| heroism in leading our armies, does not ap-
| pear to have acquired the virtues OF the true
| soldier--generoeity and magnanimlty-dur,
| his brief military career. He would still
pursue his venquished foe, and deliver over
| to the hangman those who. IN brave eonhlcti
| lost all upon the battle field. Ropes and glib.
bets and seaffolds dance before the vision OF
| this Illinois chieftain, and, IN the spirit OF
malignant revenge, he says:
| s.There ought to be an example made IN TINS
land for future generations, of JEFF. DAVIS ana
many others who were associated Win nun III
the organization of treason. They ought to be
tried, convicted and hung"
Il In the audience who listened TO this lnvec-
tsve against the supporters of the southern
revolution that had laid down their
arms, were many who remembered that In
the year 1861 the speaker, John A. Logan
was q confederate of these same revolution
lists, and was charged with treason by every
republican paper from Chicago TO Caro-
} They remembered that General Prentiss, the n
, in command in Cairo, compelled the attend
anoe of this malignant orator at his head
quarters at Cairo, under suspicion OF conplio-
ity with those who were plotting to send re-
Inducements to the southern army. They
remem bered that John A. Logan was respon
sible. more than any other man in Southern
Illinois, for kindling spirit of opposition tC
; the war, aud for discouraglng snlistments IN
| the federal army. They knew that, to this
: hour, it was charged by many young mer
. | who were inclined TO unite their fortunes
with the south that John a. Logan was ths
. | instIg gator OF their eoure. They remembered
that the Cairo corresp pondent of the New ork
!. Herald in the month of June, 1861, charged
/. Logan with a conspiracy to separate South
= ern Illinois from the remainder OF the state
and unite the seoeding district to Missouri OF
! ia statp DOV N
:, ment, to be confederate with the slave hold
s ing states. He and his fathsr-in-iaw anC
brother-in-law were charged by near neigh
bors with this nefarious scheme OF treason
q AT the samektime IL was remembered that 81
t the republican papers OF the state were acon
,aulating against him ths accusations 0
IA treason to the government. The loyal OF
CARNATIONS of home guards" In hl
own district met and passed resolutions dc
8, nouncing his treason, and demanding his IL
ssantaneous resi- gnation of his office as repre-
70 sentative to congress. When James D. Pal
- ley, in June, 1851, was arrested by Geners
- Prentiss and sent to Springfield. Illinois, IN
der q charge of treason, to be tried there b.
the supreme court John A. Logan went u
rs as his friend and sympathizsr. bale ther
80 the Illinois Journal, the organ of Preslder
IN Lincoln, violently sssailed Logan as tralto
. and SO alarmed him that, under date OF Jun
II
On be published in this paper, the object
se which was to convince the public that he WI
at not traitor after oil.
of Intimidsted by the clamor of disloy ali
raised against him, which became so multi
III tudinous and threatening that he tremb BILE
cd lest he, too, should be snapped up, tried, CO
he voted and punished, he wrote a letter to Il
I'm Rep ubican repelling the charge of treaso
nd and especially that of oonspiring 10 inaugu
re- ate the secession OF Southern Illinois fro
We the northern section.
les At that time not a republican or abolition
,n- st in Illinois trusted him, or believed him
,se be anything else but traitor. He was col
"a. missioned with Colonel Kinks and othe
ar who had often been heard 10 say,"No 1llinC
as soldier shall march south to coeroe the soui
ky without first marching over the bodies
ise Egyptian democrats"
to In his letter, replying to the numero
cir charges against him, he says:
po- Since returning from Washington, ,last Marc
rs. have made three or four speeches while atten
In ing the courts in the ninth congressional distri
ds In those peeches very candidly deprecat
ry- the causes OF our present troubles, and point
to what appeared to me to be the concerted
tion between abolitionists in the north and I
secessonists of the south to effect dissOuti
-. | of the Union / said without disguise, S
iIA n0E that the impertinent and lntermeddh
'' spirit of the anti-slavery party OF the north "
ler ynaalg chasdsabLe for the state OF feeling in
al, south which prompted the unconstitutional a
ess revolutionary action of the states now consti
ting the southern confederacy. l did also
press the opinion, a0htch stiH entertain, that
i'd, proper spirit of compromise manifested by I
zen republican party its leaders in January a
in | February last, would have been adequate to
er adjustment of national troubles without
resortst2 the arbitrament of the sword F"
He is his own witness that he was pepp'
h ed and '.traduced by nAmeless foes, and
an- every little penny-whlstle paper in the sta
that joined in the chorus cry of treas
the against John A. Logan" Yet this man
ent original secessionist and traitor, in the OPT
hey ion oi every republican in the state OF Ii
'fd- nois, in the month of June, 1o6l-a N
I'm ~ who unquestionably did more than any ott
,sd in southern Illinois to klndle the spirit
! to rebellion there, and to encourage the sou
TO believe that IN Illinois they had ma
am. thousands of allies-has the shamelessn,
en- and the infamy to pervertithe Fourth of Jr
nf- to the purpose of kindling fresh amimosit
uld Against tnose with whom he was confeder'
in in 1861.
ks hVen Ia tue estimate OF circuit attorne