The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16
SENATOR LOGAN.

eussion Of the Leading Questions 10
fore the Country-A Comparison OF Re
publican with Democratic Admtnis-
trations.
Hon. John A. Logan recently adj
dressed an immense audience at Masonic
Hall, indianapolis. on the political
issues of the day. The Senator said, in
substance, that in a country like ours,
where the people govern, it is duty of
all citizens, at each recurring election,
to canvass every pending question and
its causes. The best government is that
which bears the most lightly and equal
ly upon all and protects all. Ours is
such one. It is founded upon just
and free principles !; was born in revo-
luton against oppression, and will last
while these principles are maintained.
To maintain it those who administer
it must sincerely believe in these prln-
ciples. A free people are always divided
into two great parties, and these based
upon contrary theories. The Repub-
lican party is organized on the princi-
pies of universal liberty and equality
before the law, and the protection
of all. Applause If liberty is good
for one man, it is good thing for all
Gods creation. The Republican party
is the vindicator of equal political
rights to all persons. Its members are
not so selfish as to denyto others rights
they claim for themselves. Every OBJ
lection to this is based on prejudice.
To-day the American flag covers only
free men, and this is the beneficent
work of the Republican party. Its
theory leads to good government and
the happiness of mankind. The theory
of the Democratic party is that
men are in part free and part
not free, and it leads right to
the degradation of men. It's power
was exerted for long period for the
maintenance and extension of slavery,
and since slavery was swept away the
Democratic party, preserving its old
spirit, and going as far as the Consti-
tuition will allow, would deny to millions
of citizens the right to equal protec-
ton, the right to education, worship,
travel, burial, even to be protected from
murder. It's theory and spirit are the
same still, and can only be carried out
by physical force. and lead to
revolutions. Republicanism is lib
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fact that the Democratic theory has
not been successful does not change the
fact that this is its nature. The re-
suit has always been the same, and its
last result is violence, murder, insur-
rection, and the overthrowing of State
governments. They claim the right to
limit the laws of others; but if men
may deny to five citizens the right to
vote, why not to fifty, and then why not
to all others than them selves? The
Democrats object to the Civil Rights
bill that it allows all an equal right to
burial, to go to theaters, to schools, to
church, and to hotels. That bill does
not say that they must all go to the
same schools, but gives each one our
equal rights to education, and who is
SO base as to wish to keep others in
ignorance Our government will be
destroyed, if it is ever destroyed, by
ignorance. If the people are educated,
the government will stand mistaken
through every trial. Men who would
violate the rights of man can only be
restrained by the strong arm of the law.
That bill was necessary because the
colored people were treated with every
indignity by the Southern Democrats,
kicked from the cars and murdered like
dogs when freedom had been conferred
upon them, and denied the privileges
which had been allowed when
they were slaves. L hope that
bill will be passed. If we do not
intend to defend the rights of the col
ored mann, we should not have given
him any rights. We must do it. In
Texas, out of 600 murders, not one has
been a Democrat, and no man is pun
ished There they have been accus-
toned, according to the DEM
ocratic theory of physical power
for 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 merdered in
Tennessee the other day, and the
President proceeded against the muir
derers, the Governor of Tennessee pub
lished a protest. In Louisiana they
have defeated instructions.
Mr.. Logan recited the fact in regard
to the Kellogg election and the action
of the Senate, when he thought that
there was no election because of fraud,
but it having been settled by the State
court and Congress and the President
that this was the existing government
of Louisiana, he considered an attack
upon it as instruction. 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. Shall not our sympathy
be excited by the sight of hundreds of
our people murdered like dogs? Are
these Democratic murderers and in
surgents fit to govern our country ?
No when their theory is wrong
and their action is rebellious and
murderous. The Southern States are
said to bein bad condition. Who is re-
sponsible? They say the cause of this
is the carpet .baggers." No; it was
the Democratic rebellion. Who are
carpet baggers? They are ex-soldier
boys in blue, who went South to fight,
and, liking the country. remained there.
They are Yankees, who went their to aid
in civilizing and restoring the South.
Southerners call them thieves, Lincoln's
hirelings, and cut-throats. They have
fondness for such names and mean as
little when applied to these men as they
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