The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-10-02
GEN. LOGAN on THE STUMP.
The Truth Boldly Stated.

Inc 1olIoW1ng Is the report of the
Syracuse STANDARD of General John a.
Iogan's speech at Poughkeepsie, New
York, few days ago:
He began by saying that the political
questions of the day should be examin-
ed in the same practical way as other
questions. "The Democratic party
claims 1t is the party in this country
that obeys the Constitution. the only
one governed by proper motives and
obedience to justice and law. For al
most forty years the Democratic party
had control of this country If they
administered government so as to Sc
cure peace and understanding to
law, justice and the Constitution, then
perhaps there may be some ground for
their claim. Did the Democratic party
administer the law faithfully? Did it
preserve the Union and bind together
the people in love and amity? Did
they keep full treasury and give the
people everything to make them hap
ply? In 1850 the people got tired of
that party and gave it notice to quit.
What was the condition of the country
when they turned it over to Abraham
Lincoln, whose word snapped assunder
the chains of the slave and set four mil
lions of people free? When Lincoln
looked around and asked, Where is the
Treasury? not a dollar was to be
found. When he asked for the Navy,
not sail was to be seen. When he
turned to the Arsenals and said, where
are your arms = not musket was TO be
found. Floyd, Democrat, had robbed
the Arsenals. Cobb, a Democrat, had
robbed the Treasury. a Democrat
had sent the Navy to the four winds.
AT hand was an army marching against
the fTOVnPnmnnt Who ha6 Hnnn fh:a
The party that had been in power for
forty years-they that gave you
Treasury without dollar-a Union
rent in twain-a Navy dispersed
| through the earth-an army without
munitions. Instead of peace they gave
US war-instead of property, they gave
US blood-instead of happiness, they
filled the land with terror, tears and
death. Were they worthy of trust
then? What have they done that they
should be trusted now?
| Now what has been done by the Re
publican party? They organized an
army of a million men. They sent dis
may into the ranks of rebels, and put
down revolution such as has never
been suppressed before in history. They
have restored the Union. Not two
governments-two Constitutions and
| two flags, but united with one Consti-
tuition and one flag. These are the
crimes of this party They fought a
war that has no parallel. They saved a
country that has no peer They achiev-
ed victory that has no equal. They
upheld a flag that has no rival.
Now if they have violated the Con-
stitutiOn the rebels must have been
maintaining it. If we fought against
the Constitution, then the rebels must
have been the patriotic gentleman Cd
who fought to save it. Again they
say we are involving the nation in ire
trievable ruin and bankruptcy, and cite
us to the Freedmen's Bureau as case
of needless extravaganza. Let us see.
The Freedmen's Bureau up to the pres
ent time has cost seven millions of dol
lars, Il do not give the odd thousands }
but they do not give us the credit to
this account. The colored men of the
South who compose this Bureau are
the men who are now doing, as they, III
fact have always done, the labor. They
are the ones who raise the cotton, rice
and sugar. Upon cotton alone raised
by the Freedmen's Bureau we have
collected, up to the present time, sixty
six millions of dollars, leaving some
thing over fifty-nine millions clear gain
! to the government. Is this extrava-
gance? They talk about taxes. Well
we are levying some pretty heavy tax.
es. What for? To pay the national
debt. Who is responsible for it? Not
! a Republican ever fired against the flag
or split drop of loyal blood. Those
who caused the rebellion and those
who are now Democrats and sympa
thising with the Democratic party
Thus we are obliged to levy taxes t.
pay for their treason and disloyality tt
the American Government.
We have nominated mon Is candidate
. for office III this country of pure loyal
A ty, whose sole object is to uphold anC
maintain the integrity and liberty 9th,
g country. They say Grant is not states
man. How do they know he is not
statesman? If he has been tried il
hours of danger and stood the trial
+ he has proposed and carried out grea
: measures-if he has made no mistake
o done no foolish acts, spoken no ioolisl
i words, it seems to me he is toleIabl,
j safe man to put in power. We presen
TO the public two men who have neve
Teen suspected of dislOyalty-have new
: er made false move-upon whose rec
;. ord is not n shadow OF stain. Ca
Z they say as much of the two who ar
: against them!
Hora:io seymour said we couldn't co
exc. a state that it wasn't constitutional
sal Pose the constitutional way to sci
4 tie matters according TO Hefatlo WOuH
hay been to send a constable TO Charles
Z ton aud serve warrant on Mr.. p.
Beaureyard. and bring him before som
Justice OF the Peace on a charge of as
+. auit and battery on Fort Sumter.
: he Justice should decide he had no ju
u risiiction in the case, Mr.. BUur-yOul
gourd would go free. When under Sey
> ntour's administration blood was ruI
ming in tue streets of New York, an
= he was declaring the draft unconstitU
tional, Grant was giving the order, doul
BILE shot the guns" and from more tina
|. a hundred braZen mouths was saying 8,
IS constitutional to put down the rebe
hon." There they stand-the two me
,l-Grant who never made a mistake, an
Seymour who never did anything els
but make mistakes.
n Look at the convention which nom
mated Seymour and Blair-old copper
i heads, old Democrats and old-fashione
rebels, with blood of loyal men upo
their hands as they held them up.
There were eighty-two representative
from the South and only one loyal IN a
o. them-Joseph Williams, a black ma
All the rest were officers in the reb
army or rebel government. I suppo:
they brought Joseph along TO give II
spectability to the rest. They had Sc
eral candidates for the Presidency. III
man they nominated dida't srant at.
Then Preston, of Kentucky, arose an
] said Southern soldiers had confidence
= Frank p. Blair and nominated him fl
DOL Vice President Wade Hampton, wi
SO tied Union prisoners M to trees in Som