Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-08-22
GEN. LOGAN AT CHICAGO.
HOW A UNION SOLDIER TALKS.
Loyal Men better thanTraitors
PLAIN TALK GENERALLY.
"MOsss" Has Missed the Road.

"Moses" Has Missed the Road.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
CHICAGO, Aug. IA.
General Logan had magnifcentrecep-
ton tonight. The Opera House was
filed to overhowing, and thousands were
unable to obtain admission. The audi
ence were very enthusiastic. Cheer upon
cheer greeted the General as he appeared
before the audience. Col. r. NJ. Hough
presided, and introduced General Logan
with few well chosen remarks. Gener-
al Logan spoke for three hours. Thefol-
lowing are tie leading points in his
speech: r-H -.aE
General Logan briefly and modestly
acknowledged the compliment paid to
him, attributing it to the love of the
people for the principles which he rep
resented. There never has been a time
when the questions before the people could
be more easily understood. Thequsstion
is now the same that we have been bat
tling over for FIVE years. 1t is the ques-
ton of the rights of loyal men, and of
the forfeiture of the rights of traitors
These issues have heretofore been presen-
ted by men in arms, who sought TO des-
troy the Union. They are now again
presented for decision at the polls. We
have fought to show that the majesty of
the law and the Willof the Republic
be respected. The men who fought
against US have forfeited all their rights
as people, and are entitled to none but
such as may be granted them by the
magnanimity of the Government. Ire
mendous applause. The men who have
planted the flag on every foot of our soil
have the right, and they only have the
right to decide who shall participate IN
administering the affairs of the Govern
ment. Loud cheers.
By the hand of treason and the bullet
of the assassin an accidental President,
an apostate, has been placed in the Presi-
dental chair. He has again presented
this issue for US to settle, and by thesane
power and the same will which settled it
before we will settle it now. s.-.
President Johnson's promise to be the
Moses of the colored people was quoted.
He assumed to lead them from bopdage,
and it seems that he has missed his road,
and is to-day found at the head of the
rebel cohorts.
Gen. Logan then paid an eloquent tri-
OdbC w JIO VI 4IC6A0CAG LAAOOAGt
which awakened great applause. When
Andrew johnson took the oath of office,
he said treason must be made odious.-
We cannot tell what he meant. We
would make it odious by marking traitors
for the condemnation of all mankind, we
would punish traitors by iuhicting the
penalty of the law-death. Applause.
He has punished traitors by raising them
up higher, and by pushing loyal men
down lower than we have put traitors
He has punished treason by pardoning
c. G. Clay, Alex. H. Stephens, and other
leading traitors. Mr.. Johnson's conduct
has been such that treason was at a pre-
MUM, and loyalty at a discount. When
Lee and Johson surrendered, and
the rebellion was crushed, Gen. Sher-
mans agreement with johnson was sent
to the President and his Cabinet, and
they rejected it because it seemed to
make traitors respectable. A few weeks
later Mr.. johnson permits the same trai-
tors to be elected to Office. We find
hIm going on in the same line until he
presents to the people of the United
States the proposition that the Southern
rebels are entitled to the same rights that
We are, and they must be represented in
Congress, yet they send no representa-
tives who have not been in full sympathy
with the rebellion. We take direct issue
with Mr.. johnson on this question:
The loyal people have something to say
in its settlement, and they will do it in
their own way. Applause.1 Those peo-
pie withdrew their Representatives with
out our consent, and when they come
back it shall be with our consent, and
not till then. Loud and long continu-
ed applause. They have forfeited their
rights and they will remain forfeited till
the people see fit to restore them They
are not entitled to restoration at all till
we give them permission. A curious
mixture is now gotten together in Phila-
delphia similar to the happy family in
the museum. When we ask why they
don't fight among themselves the ring
master says he arranges that. Governor
Orr and such loyal men say they have
gone to the Philadelphia Convention to
aid the loyal men of the North to make
laws for the benefit of the whole people.
They come from therebel Congress or the
rebel army and attempt TO enter the
Congress of the United States. We got
along without Mr.. 0rr's help for four
years, and when we want it we will give
him due notice. Cheers.1 We say to
Lee, Beauregard, and others of the old
army officers that they were educated at
the Governments charity school, and took
an oath of allegiance, and yet fought
against US and in defense of treason, ego
now, and every child in the country
shall point to you as branded as God
branded Cain for the murder of his own
brother" Applause. We present the
issue in the form of an amendment to
the Constitution, which, when adopted,
cannot be repealed by a mere majority
of Congress or vetoed by the President.
The amendment declares that all per-
sons born here, except Indians not taxed, 4
shall be citizens of the country. No
man who loves his country can deny the
justice of this provision. The man who
would deny to a colored man who fought
for the country the right to life, liberty
and the protection of property, is fit for
association with traitors, with Andrew
johnson at the head. Applsuse.l
The next proposition is to equalize the
representation Of the States. 4 parallel
was drawn between South Carolina and
Illinois, showing the injustice of the pres
ent basis of representation. If the DEM
ocracy say it takes three Democrats to
make one rebel, we say that all the reb-
els IN South Carolina are not as good as
one loyal man. There is no fairness in
the representation "a IL novU avicte and