Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-07-25
John n. Logan.

John n. logan.
The Valley Spirit says: "Ncxt TO
Ben. Butler, the meanest specimen of
renegade that we know of in the
United States is John A. Logan, of H.
linois. Logan, like Butler, is a politi-
clan for pay. He makes politics a
trade, and the party that pays him
best gets his services. Principle new
er enters into the account. Before
the war he was rampant, fro-oating
Democrat. No man in the country
INDUCED in iiercer invoctivcs against
the Republiean party-its aims and
purposes, and leading mcmillan he.
After the war broke out, in tho spring
Of 1861, he was accused of being in
conspiracy TO take the Southern part
Of the State Of Illinois out Of the Union
and join il in the Southern Coniedera-
cy, and the charge was published in
the Republican newspapers all over the
country. We remember well that the
Harrisburg Telegraph, and kindred
sheets, called upon the authorities TO
have him arrested on the charge Of
treason when he should arrive at
Washington to takehis scat as men,
Der Of Congress, in the special session
called by President Lincoln to con
venc on the 4th Of July, Of that year
He was charged in the same conncc-
ton with recruiting men in Southern
Illinois for the rebel armies. So no.
torious were these allegations against
his loyalty, that he found it necessary
to vindicate himself in q letter, pub
lished in the St. Louis Republican, in
which he denied the charges preferred
against him by the Republican press
Of the country, but admitted that he
was in favorof an amicablo settlement
of the difficulties between the sections
and opposed 10 coercion. He also de-
nounced the late Senator Douglas for
his war speech at Springfield, made
after the surrender of Fort Sumter,
and alleged that Douglas in that
speech had stultified himself and aban-
doned the principles of his party, and
that he, for one, refused to follow him.
Such is the record of the man who is
now bowling for vengeance against the
people whom he seemed so anxious to
befriend in the spring of 1861 and
this is the man who had the audacity
to move TO exclude the whole Ken
lucky delegation from their seats in
Congress, basing his motion on a vague
and indefinite charge of disloyalty
against the Kentucky members.
1t is true that Logan subsequently,
purged himself of alleged disloyalty
by going into the Federal army, but
this he only did after he found that
that was likely to be the eonquering
side, and would pay Whether he
was guilty Of the charges alleged
against him, we do not pretend to say,
but this we do say, that it does not
become John A. Logan to lead vim
dictive partisan warfare upon men
whose record for loyalty will, at least,
compare favorably with hisUwn. The
charges against those men are vague
indeed, compared with these against
himself in the spring of 1861 Mod
esty, il nothing else, should have in
duced him TO keep silent on this quos.
tion. We arc glad to notice that some
of the Democratic members are rub.
bing him up on his record. We hope
they will keep pouring tho hot shot
into the "dlrty dog" until he cries
"enough." Such arrant hypocrites
and mercenary scoundrels are deserv-
ing of no sympathy or quarter"
The Augusta Georgia. Sentinel in
referring to Logan, Say S "The revo-
lutionary conclavo, now in session in
the Federal Capitol, refused admission
to their seats TO the members elect
from kentucky, upon the motion of
John A. Logan, Of Illinois, who, at
the commencement Of the war declar.
ed that the South was right in resist
ing with arms the aggressions of the
Northern Abolitionists, and that Fed.
eral recruits from Illinois should march
over his dead body before they enter
ed upon Southern soil. lie, also, in
the spring Of 1861, cndeavored to
raise a regiment in Southern Illinois
to march South and tender its services
to the Confederate Government.
This man now opposes the admis.
sion of the Kentucky representatives
because he says he has been informed
that they sympdthi-ci with the South
ern cause during the war, and were
elected to their seats mainly by the
votes of returned rebels" and upon
his motion they werc refused admis-
sion and their cases referred TO a COM
mittoo for special investigation
OfLogan's conduct before the war,
there can be but one opinion. He was
an avowed disunionist, and is so still !;
and only lett the Democratic party TO
Join the Radicals, who are all disunion-
lists, for tho express purpose of COM
plotting his work, and with the aid of
Stevens a Co he is likely to succeed,
unless the white people drive them
from place and power