The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-08-29
RADICAL POW-WOW.
GENERA. 10 IN A. Logan SPEAKS.
"Thc Old story Seprated Oh.

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Wohrgrd Gen. Logun's Saturday nights |
pccch. One hondrod and twenty-five
Democrats, ono hundred and fifty white
Radical and two hundred and fifty black
Radicals hoard italso; and il in that very
considerable crowlthGrc was asinglc man,
black or white who was not compelled to
lowcr hi, estimate Of the Speakers ability
and newly proicssod honesty, We cannot
envy tha man his judgment or power OF
appreciation. A pithIcss introduction, in
which he assured "his countrymcn' that
he would plainly and cAndidly contrast
the merits and Vdcncrits Of
the two'' political parties pro-
| nouncel, ho proceeded to,,. what? To
| sing "that same old song'--to harp upon
the rcbellon--to tell how in SOL the dogs
of war were let loose and Row freemcn,
from Hill and dale and ssteyNshl noun-y
tain, rallied under tho hd fng' 10 crush
treason, mainiam the law aud preserve
the Union. "Tell me tonight demanded
the speaker, with much more fefvor than
| grammatical precisiop, ''what any Demo-
| crat done in those dark hours. what the
Democratic party doac to save the
country and perpctuats the Guniy
Of these States y 'DW'y Ave
short years has passed. continued the
| speaker, and all Of the eleven States that
eos in rebellion have been cemcn,ed again
to the Union, and every one of them haze
a Governor, General Assembly, u Su-
| prcnc Court aud all the machinery If
State government. All this tho Rcpubli.
can party did in five short years, aud the
Democratic party is mad about that. And
they kept on abusing u until we passed
the 18th amendment, declaring that all
men in this country whether black or
whitc-should be frecnicn; and the Demo
cratic party wa mad ut hdp 7hc1 OPP
posed everything. Their only platform
was "you shant;' but we went right ahead
AMI byD by We passed the Fourteenth
amendment, giving every man in this
land Mcir liberty, making Them as free as
you or n,c, whether white or hack
bluc-cyed or Gack-cycd and
the Democratic party was mad
about hat Not caring whether we pleased
them or not, We CONCLUDED we'd let every
body vote, just for the fan of the thing =
just to soe how il would go---and the Dem.
ocratc party was mad at M1ti We
passed the Fifteenth amendment. II was
drafted by three conierccs FROM tho House
and three from thu ; 'iu,te. drafted u
part .f II myself, and, cxccp, my mill.
tary record, It wa, the proudcst net ofmy
life .
"ln 1855, said thcspcakcr "the govern
ment was in deb, 81, 800 900, 900. The
Democrat, said the deb, could not be paid.
The Drmocrt, sa,d nosuch thing.t- You
were taxed on lo,O0l articles. Tho Re-
puhlicn' said the debt c,a'd he paid and
that Tia take, could be lcsscncd, aud what,
| the result The tax hn, boon removed
anda few othrr arti ele, and upon these
it l. being rapidly rcluccllr
From this point forth the discourse was
rambling and dsconnccted-t speaker
arowins purpose 80 investigate one sub.
ject, but passing Immediately To another
relating stale newspaper anecdotes
pioying slang term, and phrase. tha,
would better become "a pot.tousc pbli,irian
dealing In the most palpablc pcrvcr,iuu
of.wull known facts aud INDUCING in appeal.
to the prcjudiccs anl passions of the is-
nordnt Indeed, from the commencement,
to the close, hc exhibited more of the dcua.
gogucthan suited even his most ardent nd.
mircr..
The General reccn, congressional re-
cord, with the assurances we had received
that hc had experienced change Of
heart, led u 10 anticipate calm, digni.
fled and forciblc discussion,of living poli,i.
cal issues. We did not expect to hear "A
polished, scholarly effort for that /, not
the Generals "stylo = but We dd expect
t. hear candid presentation Of the lues.
tions now AZ issue between tho parties,
and, in HI, discussion Of them, ,omcthing
of that force and 'liruc,, tina, character
iscd hi late sprrohr, ia congress. But We
heard, instead, rrHk.r,. "ranl IA speech
devoid Of elegance caudor and even ordi-
nary ability. lli- charge that Col. Crcbs
voted against the -o-callcd Schcnrl bill,
aud thu, plucrl himself ON record
against material reduction of our
taxes, IN, uo foundation in fact n. is
clearly shown iu an arIicl, published ON
the second pag' 81 rhi. paper And
apiece with thi,, most likely, wa, III, refer
encc 10 the Humanitarian mattor-cin.
monty worthy Of nobody attention. o.
The colorci listener, were greatly on.
Unused, cNclaimiEg, now aud them "God
| bless dat mani bic'. him "or. Lord, etc,
and-so-torth; but among the intelligent
white listener, there were comparatively
few who were not willing to admit that the
entire speech, coming from John \. Logan,
WAS II surprisingly small affair