Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-06-27
gulhm..
The Man WHO Would Slay the
Republican Party.

The Man WHO Would Slay tn
Republican Party. -
From Logan's Speech on Sumner. 'sit
Being at the birth of the Republical
party, the Senator said that he did no
desire to follow its hearse. Let me s..
tohim, or to his friends, he not beinl
present, that.if to-day he is following
the hearse of the Republican party, b
is following that hearse, because h
himself, with his own hand, drew th'
dagger which struck it in its vital parts
If the power is in him, he has wounded
Lit. If the power is in him, he has des
tfoyed it. II the power Is in , him, NJ
has become its slayer. But, sir, tht
power is not in him to perform thi'
work, to wit: the assassination of the
party, whichlhe says he organized. Nc
sir; strong men and honest ones by the
many thousands stand BY it, and va
ward off the blows aimed atait by the
powerful Senator and his alliesS and,
sir, it will pass through this ordeal un.
scathed, and shine forth brighter and
more powerful than ever. Il al : slipg3 /
Mr.. President, we did go forth and
fight the olig@rchyi Of slavery b The
Senator fought it here in the Senate
Chamber. Time and again hapeI been
filed with pride, and have / been made
to respect, and honor, and love the SEN
ator from Massachusetts, as saw him
engaged in, the severe and fierce battles
which he fought against the i0ligsnehy
Ofislaveryg sIlhave seer, him when he
fought it face to face, sofar as iahgna ge
and oratory were concerned. But 81
let me reply to him, slavery wasidnot
destroyed hyzhis speeches; slavery was.
not destroyed by his oratory; slavery
was not destroyed ByI his elo5qtn,slnle;es;
slavery was not destroyed by his pow
er; slavery was not destroyed by his.
efforts but by war-rbyB the sword in
the hands of Grant, and the bayonets
that wefe held by his followers, the
chains Of slavery fell, and the manacles
dropped from the limbs of the slaves!
1t was not done by the Senator alone,
but by the exertions of the army. led
on by this mani against whom the Sen,
ator has made the most vile assault that
has ever been made in this or any other
deliberative body. & .l-'9IF1fa9 i
Mr., President, at the close, of the war
in 1866, on the 22d day of May, when
the armies were marshaled here in the
streets Of Washington, as we passed BY
this Senate Chamber and marchedI
down Pennsylvania avenue with the
officers at the head of their columns, Z
remember to have read on, the outer
walls this motto: There is one debt
this country can never repay, and that
is the debt of gratitude if owes to the
soldiers who have preserved the Union"
Little did l think, then, sir, that with
in seven years afterward I should hear
an assault like this upon the leader OF
that army within these very wallis
Mr. PRESIDENT, Is that debt OF gratitude
so soon forgotten? Shall the fair fame
and reputation of the man who led
those armies be trampled in the dust
by one man, who claims so egotistical-
ly here that he organized the party
which made the war against the eoli-
garchy of slavery? But, sir, that at
tempt has been witnessed here to our
great sorrow. The eloquence, the pow
er, the education, all that belonged to,
the Senator from Massachusetts has
been brought to bear, not in consonance
with that motto, not in keeping alive
in the bosoms Of the people of the
United States that feeling of gratituded
to the men who saved the country, but.
Of ingratitude; and worse, Of want Of |
decent respect which should be shown |
either for the memory of the dead or
for the character OF the fIiving..9 1oA Il