The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-08-02

themselves. 1t was said the President
was followingooin the footsteps otssPresl.
dent jackson, but if he [Logan] read his
tory right, Jackson always fought ms en-
emies and his friends always stood oy
him. He had also heard that JACKSON
died, and he had heard of no other JACK
son since who had been President OF the
United States. Patriotism and loyalty
were ureed on from Maine to the golden
sands of California against treason and
traitors There should be a deep, broad
line drawn between the leading traitor
and the leading loyal man, so that all iu-
t,re ~ generations could we'll make the dis
t;notion. He did not believe that Mr.
Davis or Mr. Stephens, after four years OF
crime. and after having assisted in all the
ills of this country, had as good right as
loval man to position in this country.
Was there to be no difference, no distinc-
tion to be drawn between the rebel and
the loyal man. BE [Logan] was Tor
making that distinction so broad and so
wide that each and every man and wo-
man and child in the land could see its
mark. There should be no objection to
this constitutional amendment. 1t was
Just and right, and no man, no cabinet,
should be opposed to it. The man that
said that "treason should be made odious
and traitors should be punished" doubt
less now thought that the best way to
make the leading traitors odious was to
put them in office, as that was probably.
in the mind of the President, the best
way to disgrace man. General Logan
could not understand such line of poll
cy, unless it was for the purpose of max
ing loyalty in the land disgraceful, and to
make treason respectable. But the con-
stitutional amendment would be adopted,
and, unless the Southern States adopted
it, the footsteps of their representatives
should never enter the Threshold OF Con-
gress, and if they wished to stay out IN
the cold, so far as representation is con-
cerned, SO they might; we could get on
without them, as we did for tour years
There was to be great assemblage in
Philadelphia very soon, for the purpose
of-what? Nothing more nor less than
the destruction of the Union organization
of this country, and putting traitors into
power in this land. There would be sol
diers there and copperheads, but he Lo-
ganl would say that the soldier who
would Join with such party politically,
after having seen his brothers shot down
-by rebels and traitors, would lose his
manhood, never again to be re-clothed
with it in the eyes Of the good and loyal
people Of this country.
He then went on to say that the Phlia-
delphia Convention of copperheads and
traitors looked like a scheme for the
Presidents reelection, and that the men
who would go there would go, not as 10y
al citizens of the Government, but as
loyal only to one man and if the over
turning of the Government we're again
attempted, it would bring about a revolu-
ton that would not commence like the
last, by gentlemen telling what they were
going to do, but it would commence by
the uprising of the whole American peo-
ple, whose voice would be heard, and
whose hands wotld be felt. Phen every
man who would put out his hand to rot
the pillars of the Government, that hand
would be withered, that head would come
off, and "treason then would be made
odious and traitors then would be pun
ished." After few further observations
in the same strain, General Logan con-
cluded, amid applause.
The chairman having requested the au-
dience not 10 attend nor in any way to
give countenance to the Philadelphia
Convention, declared the meeting ad-
journed.