Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-07-18


was necessary to produce the results in
view. 1t did produce the result and
/, now, ladies, YOU see your young friends
returned to YOU, wives see their husbands,
and all are reunited here in this hand
some grove in Illinois, and God knows
hope you may never 90 forth again but
if you are called forth know you will
respond quicker than you did before, il
possible. Cheers.
FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE NATION.
As to the future, assure you l have
been all over that part of the country
which is assigned to me, and | have new
er yet during any part of my history seen
the country looking so prosperous, the
grain growing so luxuriantly, and the
people so well contented and happy, the
table so bountifully spread and all this,
too, out on the plains of Kansas where,
six years ago, it required an escort of three
hundred men to guard an officer sent to
pay off a garrison. Now l can go, and
anybody can 60 with a single horse away
out to the limits of Kansas, or even to
Colorado, without an escort, and that,
too, at the close of long and terrible
war. So that l say that we are progress
sing to the end we have in view, and that
whether the politicians, whether the
statesmen, | will call them, the judges
and lawyers, will adopt a policy to pro-
duce the desired result, don't know and
don't much care, because it will be done
anyhow. Laughter and cheers. say
if the farmers, mechanics and business
men will go on and attend to their own
business; the people of Missouri will do
the same, Iowa the same, and so it will
be all over the Western and Northern
country, and the politicians will be COM
PEELED to adopt their policy to this end,
and that is the true end, namely, the
great prosperity of our country.
Therefore, it is unnecessary to even al
lude TO the position in which the national
affairs are placed, for | do not pretend to
comprehend or understand them. 1t is
not my task but it is my task to see
that the forces placed at my disposal to
put down opposition to the laws quickly
and forever, do their duty. Cheers. I :
comes to me and tells me that his power
is resisted, and he has not sufficient civil
force to execute the laws, if I have SOL
diers will go to his assistance and see
that the laws are enforced. And my
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land-if the laws of Congress are to be
enforced wherever this flag hoats-then
in truth are we a nation TO all intents and
purposes, at home and abroad.
have also had occasion to meet with
a great many foreigners of late. and l tell
you they have a great deal of respect for
us-far more than they did five years
ago; and they have reason to. At the
fin1n I halTatra thn Y,olfo,r fIcE
eral Washington laid down is the true
one-not to interfere with other people.
We have plenty to do ourselves at home.
We have land enough in all conscience
good land, and bad land too, level land
mountain land, prairie land and timber
land we have everything, in Gods name,
that three hundred millions of people
ought to be allowed 10 have-all the rich
es of the earth. And. therefore, hope
we will never be coYetous of our neigh
bors' prosperity, and that our people will
not become involved with any foreign
nations But when 1t hanana-nanessarv
to assert our authority with foreign ma
tions, let Congress and the Executive do
it by due course of law, and then it be-
comes our right, and not before. Cheersl.
Now, fellow soldiers, l have spoken lon
ger than l could wish, but l beg you
would consider it as measure of my love
for the old army. l do not believe you
realize or understand the feelings which
had for you, as you left all behind you
and followed me blindly not knowing
what was transpiring in my mind, follow
ed me in my long and devious career
without asking any questions-cheerfully
and well. l thank you from the bottom
IF haarf hanarea ha,
wing your country. You realize it now
SURVIVE the war, but l have survived it,
and you have survived, and now from the
bottom of my heart thank you for that
cheerful performance of your duty-that
noble and manly endurance which at
last caused the clouds of war to vanish,
and enabled our flag to float triumphant !
ly over our whole land
And now, here we are in peace and |
quiet at home, in the midst of plenty, |
prosperity and kind friends, and l trust |
these old flags may remain with you for |
ever, and that brighter and newer ones |
Will never be tarnished by those who
come after US. Loud cheers.
General LOgan's Speech.
Gen. Logan began his remarks by dis. |
cribing the condition of affairs in I776. /
when our forefathers declared themselves !
Independent, and traced the history of /
the republic, which they founded, down |
to the day when traitors attempted to
destroy it. He then continued as follows:
NALIGNlTY OF THE REBELS.
These men plotted treason against this
Government. They were then in high
positions politically, and enjoyed all the
rights, civil and religious. that any other
citizen of the United States enjoyed
There was equal protection to every one
throughout the length and breadth of
the land, and yet these men in high pla-
ces concocted treason against this Gov
ernment. They did so without cause,
without justification and without excuse.
Treason comprises within itself all the
crimes known in the catalogue of
crimes-al wrongs; and when these men
associated together and concocted trea-
son against this Government-embrac
murder, larceny, robbery, arson and
everything else-they then stole the
means of warfare belonging to the Gov
ernment of the United States, and erec-
ted, or pretended to erect, a different
form of Government for themselves, made
Tor themselves a different national flag
and different national airs. They waved
definitely in our faces the flag of treason,
-rampled and spit on the Constitution
which the fathers of the Government
framed for them and for the protection {
Of citizens of future generations, defied
'ur power, and said by their acts, eve s
ire guilty of treason; we loathe and {
nate and despise the Constitution of the
United States. 1t is not suited to our {
condition and we will establish one for
ourselves; and the corner stone of this ]
Government that we will establish for l
ourselves, shall be slavery, in contrast 6
With the corner stone established by the I
athers when they fought the revolution |
Igainst the tyranny of Great Britain, q
which was liberty" (Cheers.) c
This was their proposition. The gaunt-
ct was thrown down, and we then said c
o them, as the people of the United +
states of America, you have, by your '
cts, played the same game, or attempt /
ID to do so, in reference to this Govern t
nent that Benedict Arnold did WhaD {