The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-09
LOGAN.

The General Summing Up the Issues
In recent speech, in Illinois, General Logan
closed as follows:-
Now, my fellow-citizens, I desire to read for
my conclusion some extracts / have prepared
which, think, sums up this whole question in
q nutshell:-
why the Democratic party should not be
trusted
First The Democratic party forces upon the
country and the Republican administration the
expenditure Of more than $4,000, ,O0O,0 900 from
the Treasury.
Second. That the rebellion was begun for the
express purpose of overthrowing Republican
institutions and establishing upon their ruins q
slaveholdipg oligarchy, and that all the bur-
dens of taxation, past, present and prospective,
are the necessary consequence OF Democratic
rebellion.
Third. The vast sacrifice of life on the battle
field, and in the hospitals and prisons, is Justly
due to the reasonable action and purposes of
the Democratic leaders.
Fourth That in the preparation of this Re-
bellion the whole power of the last Democratic
administration was exhausted, the public
treasury piundered, the navy scattered or dis
mantled, the army placed under the command
of traitors and carried beyond the reach OF the
incoming administration, and within the bor-
ders OF the contemplated revolutionary govern
ment.
Fifth. That all these acts were done In obe-
dience to the orders OF the Democratic conspira-
tors, and by the advice and with the approval
of the Democratic leaders, in every section OF
the country.
Sixth. There same leaders controlled the De.
mocratc Nominating Con vention, dictated its
platform, and designated its candidates.
Seventh. That these same leaders, by their
public orators and press, declare it to be their
settled policy that Democratic success shall
restore 10 the late Democrats and rebels in arms
supremacy in the Government of the nation,
and that all that was lost by rebel defeat on the
battlefield shall be regained by the election of
the Democratic candidates.
Eighth. That they, the Democratic rebel
leaders, affirm only, as the consequence OF their
triumph the renewal of the war; the destruc-
throw of the Republican representative branch
of the Government, and It's subsection to Execu-
tive will and dlctation.
Next, why should the Republican party be
trusted?
First. That of all its millions of men not one,
during the war, was traitor. Every man stood
firmly by, liberty, by the Constitution, by the
flag, and the Union.
Second. That its civil administration of the
Government, Notwithstanding the exigencies of
the war has saved the people, as compared with
Democratic rule, $50 000, 900 within the last
eight years. being an average of over $lO 900
per annum.
Third. That it has actually paid and cancelled
nearly 81, 200, 600 of the liabilities incurred
during the war, and since the close of the war,
while steadily reducing the public taxes, it has
reduced the public debt from So, ,757, ,699 $50 43
to So $40, 245, ,86674, making payment OF the
debt of $247, ,443, ,694'69
articles, the two last Congresses the Thirty
ninth and Fortieth-to $4,000 0O0
Fifth. That but for the o6stinacy OF the
Democrats in Congress and of their plant tool,
Andrew johnson, reduction of the interest
upon the public debt amounting to at least
$40, ,000, 600 per annum, would have been pro-
vided for by the Funding bill.
Sixth. That the Republican party, by it's
candidates and platform, is irrevocably pledged
| to economy, to the maintenance of the public
faith, the preservation of the peace and the
unity of the States, the liberty and prosperity of
! the people, aud that all its pledges in the past
have been redeemed, offering the best guarantee
of the value of these pledges to the people in
the future.