The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-10-04
GEN. SPEECH.

portion of the able and eloquent
speech of that noble soldier, Gen.
Jno. A Logan. That is his appeal
to the soldiers--to the men with
whom he fought-those who had,
with him, braved death upon the
bloody battle fields of the South.
During its delivery many q brave
soldier, and the friends, wives, broth
ers and sisters of soldiers who lost
their lives in the cause of freedom
and Union, shed tears like rain.
Now / have something to say to
the soldiers and then I am done. /
want to talk to them earnestly. You
will remember the times we were
called on TO go against the rebel bay
onets; you remember the many bat
ties through which you have passed,
and you ought to remember, in my
Judgment, who your friends were
while passing through those many
scenes; you ought to remember the
men at home who were your friends.
and the men at home who were your
enemies; you ought to remember the
men at the South that were your
friends, and the men at the South
that were your enemies. Now, | ap-
peal to you as honest men. to tell me
if ever you saw black man South
who was not loyal to the Govern
And if you saw few white men
South who were disloyal to the Gov
ernment. If this be true, remember
your friends and the men at home
who were your enemies. And re
member, too, that during this whole
struggle the friends you had by your
side fell fighting for the preserva
ton of your liberties. And as you
see the boys when they were drawn
up in line of battle, and bayonets
bristling, and hear the cannons roar
ing and musketry rattling. when the
battle ragged, and the havoc of war
was about you, and carnage was
spreading about you right and left
as you passed through these scenes
of blood, with your comrades falling
on the right and left, front and rear,
l ask the soldier here to day to tell
me, while storming the nights of
Vicksburg, Kenessw or Gettysburg,
or around the works of Atlanta,
where you lost scores of your COM
rades--tell me if there was one of
you then that would have voted for
a Copperhead; Voices. "Never."
Never" If you would not do it
then, tell me what you have done
since then to cause you to love them,
but hate those that loved you at that
time? i
Let me say to you if the time ever
comes when any true and patriotic
soldier can vote the ticket against
which he fought, or the ticket that
denied him the principles he was
fighting for during the war, that man,
before God and his country, forgets
his manhood and his duty ip years
gone by. l can say, as soldier, the
time never will come when / shall
forget duty to the living, and espec-
tally my duty to the dead. never
will forget myself as to allow tle
power to go into HANDS which would
refuse the mother the right to kneel
at the grave OF her son, and pray TO;
him who was lost in battle, or allow q
sister to SCATTER lowers on the graves
of those they loved. I never can do
that, and ] toll you, soldiers, to-day,
the voice of the dead, the voice that
is in each ons-armed soldier, the
voice that Is in each black dress, the
mouth of each baby that lost its faith
er in the battle field, are enough to
appeal to you as a thunder cloud to
break opsn your ears and tell you
you knew your duty and did it not,
liz you fail to vote for Union men
against eppperheads in this land.
Let us all, then, do our duty, both
men and women. Let us as Christian
people, as patriots; let us enter a
VOW, and let it be recorded in Heaven,
that the time never shall come when
we shall forget the wrongs that were
done to our country by rebels, or
their sympathising friends in the
North. Keepthis country, State and
nation in the hands Of loyal army
and true patriots. II you will do
that you will have progress you will
have q development OF your country
IN all its rich resources and progress
i in civilization, the arts and sciences,
such as will make this country the
garden spot Of tie tie world to all man,
kind of every nation, kindred aud
tongue, and whose temple OF liberty
will stand so high that every man
may view its grandeur, and receive
the smiles OF heaven and the bless-
ings of God.