The Cairo daily bulletin., 1872-09-04
FROM CARBONDALE.
TELLING SPEECH BY HON. w. j
ALLEN.
LOGAN AND ALLEN CON-
TRASTED.
CARBoNDALE, Aug. 81, 1872.

inenthtiNebuu iHteiiIBouI . spoeCu ueilNereO
by Hon. Josh Allen, of your city, under
the auspices of the Greeley and Brown
club Of Carbondale. Notwithstanding
the fact that the irrepressibe John II. Bar
ton had escorted two car loads Of the sup.
porters of corruption and national fraud
to Murphysboro, to listen to the vapor-
ings of = pseudo radical, former democrat
and third-rate lawyer, named Judge
Parkes, Josh drew to Chapman Hall
many radicals who are ION the fence and
who, after hearing the interesting and
brilliant periods from the lips OF Southern
Illinois favorite orator, declared them
selves done with an administration so
grossly corrupt an Administration bearing
upon its face so many fagrsnt violations
Of the constitution and laws of the land.
In Mr.. Aliens speech he argued all the
points that have marked the Administra.
t;on as unlawful, shameful and criminal,
and did no, appeal TO the prejudices of the
people. He gave bis reasons for supporting
Horace Greeley; reviewed the cabine, ap-
poiniees and dwelt upon their antece-
dents; thoroughly traced up the geneal-
ogy Of the Grant family, and showed tha.
they were carefully provided for from
Maine 10 the Mexican borders, and from
Key West Florida, to the port Of San
Francisco-and across the broad Atlantic
TO the Baltic; dwelt with effect upon the
threatening attitude Of our navy, by order
Of Grant, upon San Domingo, q weak na.
,ion at peace with the government Of the
United States gave TO his hearers points
Of law in the jefferson Davis case. showing
tina. individual 10 have been KEEP; two
years in q military prison wi;hog,
shadow Of justice, when the rneknesi erin
inal Of the land could have exbc.sd tri.l
from the civil tribunal unde, The ju.is5ie-
tion Of which he was restrxinea t,orn II.
enjoyment Of his liberty-And showed The
moral courage Of the brosd.brovsd philos-
Opher who came forward Is citizen q
the nation and signed the ''illustrious
prisoners bail bond, thereby relieving
the government Of an elephant Of rnks.s-
donic proportions. He then electrified bis
auditors with the assertion tha. the radical
party were afraid to try Jefferson Davis,
the head and front of the people 10 whom
the government had accorded belligeren,
rights, but that they put upon trial a de-
fenseless woman, whom they executed 10
allay the passions of fanatics, without q
shadow of law or evidence to warrant it
an act that would forever stain the records
OF the nation as crime without parallel.
He closed with an appeal to the charities
and noble feelings of American citizens,
and pointed to the Southern people who
have, since the war, been crushed with a
heel as despotic as that which has marked
in blood the history of ireland under the
iron rule of relentless England.
What a contrast between John A. Lo.
gan and Josh. Allen One, full of argu-
ment, qualifying all statements to the sat-
isfaction of listeners, showing the corrup.
tons and enervating effects of the illegal
and unconstitutional acts of the admins
tration; the other speaking by note that
which report says was written by de.
partment clerk in Washington, sandwich
ing between its broad statements original
enigmas that would not arise to the dig
nifty Of Ethiopian conuudrums
In Logan's late speech here he justified
Grants suspension of the habeas corpus in
the south by referring to Andrew jackson
in New Orleans during the war of 1912.
How insulting to men ofintelligence; Jack
son declared martial law in New Orleans
when the enemys bayonets were gleam-
ing from the morasses of Louisiana, and
the ships of England resting in the mouth
of the Mississippi; Grant suspended the
habeas corpus in the South in a time of
profound peace land national prosperity
as Logan says and dragged from peace
full homes innocent men on doubtful evil
dence, tried, convicted and sentenced
! them, and confined them in Northern
prisons, where they::now languish. jack
son, after peace was declared was fined
by Judge Hall 81, 900 for interfering with
the functions of his court. jackson re-
spected the sentence Of the court and paid
the fine. The people Of New Orleans
were about to use up and set aside the
judgment of the court, whom Jackson
told them that the same arm that defended
New Orleans from the Britons would be
raised in defense of the court and the law
that environed it with sacred protection.
Who would dare arraign Grant Fanati-
cism would raise its hooded hoad in anger
against the one that would attempt it.
Among other things he stated that CAL
houn, Crawford and other political revo-
lutionists-like Schurz, Sumner and Trum-
bull-slandered jackson as Sumner and
Schurz will now slander Grant--and even
DETAINED Jackson's wife. Jackson's wife
was quietly sleeping her last sleep at the
Hermitage in good old Tennessee before
the old hero entered the White House in
his official capacity for the first term
The campaign alluded to by Logan was
at least three years after the death of Mrs.
Jackson. In connection with the lone
term" clause In the Cincinnati platform,
he again referred TO Jackson claiming that
his enemies brought this to bear against