Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-30
JOHN A. LOGAN.
The Radical Rabies of a Rene
gade Democrat.
A Burlesque on Political Dis.
cuSsiOn.

Raw Head and RlOOdy BOnes-Gfve
Me Negro Equality and Give Me
Death
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. Ex-senator John
A. Logan, of Illinois, addressed a large
audience at the Masonic Hall this evening,
being introduced by Gen. Ben. SpOOner,
the United States District Marshal. The
Senator said in substance: In a country
like ours, where the people govern, it is a
duty of all citizens at each receiving cleo
ton to canvass every pending question and
IFS causes. The best government is that
which bears most lightly and equally upon
all and protects all. Ours is such a one.
The Republican party is organized on
the one principle of universal liberty and
equality before the law and protection to
all. [Applause.l If liberty is good for
one man it is good thing for all Gods
creation. The theory of the Democratic
party is that men are in part free and part
not free, and it leads to the degradation Of
men.
The Civil Rights Bill Must and Shall
be Passed.
Democrats object to the Civil Rights
bill that it allows all an equal right to buri-
al, to go to the theaters, TO the schools, to
church, to the hotels. That bill does not
say that they must all go to the same school,
but gives each one equal rights to educa-
ton, and who so base as TO wish to keep
others in ignorance. Our government will
be destroyed, if it is ever destroyed, by ig-
nOranoe.
That bill was necessary, because the col
ored people were treated with every indig-
nifty by the Southern Democrats, kicked
from the cars and murdered like dogs when
freedomlhad been conferred upon them, and
denied privileges which had been allowed
when they were slaves. ] hope that bill
will be passed. If we do not intend to de-
fend the rights of the colored man, we
should not have given bin any rights. We
must do it.
What a WhOPPeri
In Texas, out of six hundred murders,
not one has been a Democrat, and no man
is punished. They have been accustomed
according to the Democratic theory Of physi-
cal force governing to regard the slaves life
as subject to the will of the master, and
they still regard the colored men in the
same way. When sixteen were wantonly
murdered in Tennessee the other day, and
the President proceeded against the muir
Gerers the Governor of Tennessee published
a protest. In Louisiana they have defended
instructions.
He Wants Penn Punished for Treason.
Mr.. Logan recited the facts in regard to
the Kellogg election, and the action of the
Senate when he thought there was no
election because of fraud; but II having
been settled by the State court and by Con-
gress and the President, that this was the
r@EV
sidered an attack upon it as an insurrection.
They have heard from the President, and
the only fault TO be found with his action
there is, that Penn was not arrested and
tried for treason,
The Grand Argument.
Shall not our sympathy be excited by
the sight of hundreds of our people muir
dered like dogs? Are these Democratic
murderers and insurgents fit TO govern our
Carpet-baggers Beatined-
Who are the carpet-baggers? They are
ex-soldier boys in blue who went South to
there. They are Yankees who went there
to aid in civilizing and restoring the South.
Comparative Corruption.
don't deny thele are corrupt men in the
Republican party. There was never an Or
ganization where corrupt men did not
creep in. Christ found a corrupt man
among his disciples, but could name two
dishonest officials in the Democratic party
to every one in the Republican party. /
could point out two frauds in Democratic
administration 70 every one in that of the
Republican party. He then alluded to
frauds under Buchanan's administration.