The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-25

Hot Shot from GEN. logan.


Gen. Logan made a speech In Con-
gress a short time since In reply to a
fulsome eulogy OF copperheads and
rebels by a Mr.. Robinson, Democratic
member from Brooklyn. The WASH
ington correspondent OF The Worcester,
Mass, Spy describes 1t as an tmpassion-
ed defamation and defense of the ma
iority of Congress, which set the blood
dancing as one listened and made the
pulses ring to wild music, and every
We append the opening paragraphs
which expose the Democratic party In
their present deep humiliation:
Mr.. Speaker-It was not my intan-
tion to have taken any part in this de-
bate, but cannot get my own consent
to sit and listen quietly any longer to
such extraordinary speeches as have
again and again been pronounced on
this floor within the last few days: II
the wisdom OF the policy OF excluding
from a representation in this Hail the
South, had ever cost me doubt, 1t
could never again cost me another.
More earnest advocates of their poliu-
cal theories, and more eloquent apolo-
gies for their darkest crimes. traitors
have not in the South or elsewhere than
they have here. A resolution blotttng
out the Constitution of the United
States and of the respective States Is
recommended by one gentleman, VINO
evidently means thereby to intimate
that in his opinion, at least, this has
already destroyed everything like fun
damental law in the land, and trampled
ruthlessly in the dust the liberties OF the
people. sa4
Mr.. Eldridge-That is what 1 thought
and what 1 meant.
Mr.. Logan-I SO understood the gen
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at the time, sir, that II was strange IN
deed passing strange, that the gentle
man did not discover during these four
years of blood and carnage through
which tine true friends of humanity,
liberty, the Constitution and the Union
had to pass to deliver them from I'M
pending destruction, who 1t was assail-
Ing them then. Why did it not occur
to the gentlemen, when mighty armies
of brave men commanded by skillful
generals, were lowering In menacing
attitude around this devoted city, ,spurn-
ing our country's flag, mocking our
patriotic professions. Insulting loyal
citizens, ignoring private rights, and
perpetrating public outrages, that the
Constitution, the Union, and liberty
were in danger then2 Why does the
gentleman wait until the war is over,
the Constitution is no longer in peril and
those who stood fast and firm near 1t and
in the breeze of battle, are attempting
to devise the most practicable and po-
little means to restore, at the earliest
possible moment to this whole land,
permanent and healthful tranquility
and prosperity? Why does he wait for
such moment to announce the start
ling discovery that our Constitution Is
threatened and liberty is in peril
Is it not strange, / repeat, that the
same gentlemen who are SO easily
alarmed now about the perils that COM
pass about the Constitution of the coun-
try and the liberties of the people, while
peace is benignly smiling upon us, saw
no terror nor threat in the glitter OF
bayonets or the frown of batteries when
our beloved land was swarming with
millions of open enemies and the earth
was trembling under the martial tread
of serried hosts and the loud roar OF
angry artillerSR Then when there was
war-was no peace-they could raise
the cry of "peace, peace;" and when
peace has at last come, they aver 1t has
not come, but that we are still in the
midst of bloody war, a war upon the
Constitution we fought to save, war
upon the liberties we bled to preserve.
''Treat your Southern brethren kindly,
win them by Affection" !" Is the cry of the
Democracy. "Rather," said one of
them, "that JEFF. Davis and his coadju-
tators had succeeded than that the
President of the United States should
be Impeached." Such language is wor-
thy only of representative of South
Carolina, or some other rebel whose
hands are red with loyal blood. No
wonder that in a party boasting of such
types of patriotism there should be
many, very many enthusiastic follow
ers, who saw nothing reprehensihle In
the conduct of the open, avowed, def
ant and belligerent enemies of the Re-
hIfN hnf ~ 6n fl nd mnnh tn npnInTR
and denounce in the adhesion now to
principle of those who stood like wall
of adamant around our flag when the
mad waves of secession threatened to
deluge with blood the eternal rock upon
which our fathers and their fathers had
planted it. Our dead, L suppose, are to
sleep in forgotten graves, while the
rebel slain must be apotheoized, and we
who fought with and survive the brave
boys in blue ..r
"who fighting fell, and falling fought"
are to be stigmatized with opprobrious
epithets, while the traitors who thirsted
for our blood are to be meekly and
sweetly called "our brethren" ...
GROUND OF CHARGES AGAINST THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY. ...
What am anxious to learn, Mr..
Speaker, Is, upon what foundation
rests this flippant and gratuitous
SAal
publican party on this floor, to the eff
fect that we are trampling liberty un-
der foot and destroying the rights and
privileges of a portion of the American
peoplef Wherein have we violated the
Constitution Was it in crushing the
rebellion2 have no doubt every Cop
perhead in the North would say yes.
We did carry the emblem Of our ma
tional glory and greatness from the
rivers and lakes ofthe West to the bays
and gulfs of the South, where it waves
to-day, and will wave forever; but in
doing so we innocently thought, hoped
and believed we were erecting around
the Constitution impregnable bulwarks,
and laying for liberty a deeper and
broader foundation in the gratitude,
confidence, and affection of our people.
We never dreampt that for every rebel
we killed in the South we were to make
an eternal enemy in the North; and we
do think 1t amounts to a riddle beyond
the comprehension of human wits how
1t is that very many brave men who
fought us, and whom we had to)literal
ly overwhelm before we could convuer,
pet now that they are conquered are
much more ready to ask forgive
ness and forget the past and be friends,
as we all ought to be again,
than are their allies, who, how
ever deep their sympathies with them
may have, been while the war was rag.
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