Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-28
SENATOR LOGAN'S DEFENSE OF
THE ADMINISTRATION.

in the United States Senate by Gen.
Logan in defense OF the course OF the
Administration in the South, but more
especially in louisiana
Senator Logan said he believed it was con-
sidered the duty Of sailor 10 stand by his
ship in the midst OF a great storm, and Sena-
tors on his side Of the chamber had been told
that great storm OF indignation was gather
ing in this land which would certainly wreck
the Republican craft The Republican party
had been characterized as tyrannical and OPP
pressive, and the course Of the party and the
Executive had been denounced even by the
men who had received clemency from that
party. What was the cause of all this? He
might be mistaken, but he thought this was
the beginning Of the campaign OF 1876. lie
proposed TO discuss the questions which
should be presented TO the American people
truly and fairly from an honest and legal
standpoint. He argued that there was gov
eminent in Louisiana; whether it was
government Of right or not was not ques-
ton Could any Senator on this floor to-day
stand up and deny the fact that a government
existed in lOuisianag Whether they called 1t
a government de jlye or government nc tdcto
was another question. ltwould not do for the
Senators to talk about the election OF 1872.
That had no more to do with the organization
Of the Legislature on the 4th inst. than the
election ola hundred years hence. If there
was no government in Louisiana, as had been
argued by the Senators on the other side,
why did they make all this noise and con
fusion about turning out Legislature? If
there is no State Government there Is no
Legislature. He did not propose to evade
the question in that manner. However, there
was a government in that State, govern
inent recognized by the courts, and recog-
nizcd by both branches Of Congress and by
~ n In r hat taf hn
acts of the Conservatives IN the Louisiana
Legislature on the 4th inst. were acts OF
treason against the State, for which they
should have been punished 1t had been
said here that there was no intimidation in
the South He denied that such was the fact.
On the night before the election in Louisi-
ana last fall notices were posted upon the
doors OF white and colored Republicans mott
flying them that If they voted the Republican
ticket their lives would be in danger. Passes
for safe travel were given to colored men who
voted the Democratic ticket to protect them
against the White Leaguers.
Senator Logan read from one of these
passes rs follows:
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. as, 1874
This Is 10 certify that - barber by occu-
patton IL member of the First Ward Demo
cratic Club and ut the late election worked aud
voted tor the Democratic candidates.
Senator Logan next read from a Shrcve-
port paper To the effect that the Democrats
wanted no fayors or concessions from kel.
logg or Packard, and that the Returning
Board should understand that unless 1t made
returns Of votes as given on the day Of elec-
tion they should forfeit their lives There
should be concert Of action throughout the
State, and such action should be prompt and
emphatic. Resuming his argument, he said
the Senator from Georgia tGordon) was in
the habit OF bringing in Georgia ut all times
when an intimation was spoken of to show
that that State was peaceful. He (Logan)
would speak on that point before he con
cluded, Senator Gordon had yesterday
asked where the judicial officers OF Iouis-
ana were; why they did not arrest and pun
isb the perpetrators OF crime in Red River
parshY He logan would tell him where
they were. The Attorney was murdered by
the same banditti which murdered the men
at Coushatta.
He then reviewed the circumstances which
took place in New Orleans on the 4th inst,
and said the acts OF Wilt in the Legislature
were the acts of n revolutionary body. GOV,
Kellogg took no action whatever The Leg
lslaturc had been taken possession of by
mob. As Governor of the State it was his
duty To do all in his power to preserve peace
and order. II was Kellogg himself who took
the responsibility OF calling upon the troops.
President Grant had nothing 10 do with IL;
Sheridan had nothing to do with it, and the
Senate had nothing 10 do with 1t. Therefore
the donunciation hcaped upon President
Grant by the Democrats for using the army
went for uaught, for he knew no more about
II than the Democrats did until he saw 1t in
print, The Democrats could not wait to hear
all the facts about Louisiana. They wanted to
have clamor raised before the country for
political purposes and for nothing else. The
Democratic party had Endorsed resolutions
ten times as strong as this complained OF in
New Orleans. He (Logan) believed that this
raid made on the Senate in the New York
press and by the New York meeting showed
that there was some kind OF an understanding
that this revolution was to he made In Louis
lana for the purpose OF oyerturning the legis-
lature OF that State. He did not say the uu-
Outstanding was among the Democrats of
the Senate, but it was somewhere. He
defended the action of Kellogg in
calling upon the military and said
had the Democrats been Ia power and the Re.
publieans tried to overthrow them As the
Democrats tried To overthrow the Republican
Government In New Orleans, the Democrats
would have acted just as Kellogg did The
Democratic party had frequently Endorsed the
use OF military force. Gen. jackson, when in
this same city (Ncw Orleans), arrested aud
imprisoned Judge Hrii for issuing writ Of
hahcds corpus Aftorward the Democrats
elected him President of the United States.
In 1881 there WAS a runaway slave in Boston,
and Franklin Pierce, Democratic President
authorized the use OF the troops from the
hayward and Fort Independence 10 arrest
this slave When the Republican party used
the army 10 enforce the law these same Dem
ocrats howled AS II a set Of wolves were about
~ deyour them and their homes In 1896, In
Kansas, in the town of Topeka, free State
Legislature met. Franklin Pierce, Demo
cratic President, issued his proclamation com
nandlng that body to disrcrse, and Jefferson
Davis, then Secretary of War, issued an osder
mand of the Governor OF that State Col
sumner, aftcrwsrd q General, did dispense
that Legislature. That act WAS Endorsed NV
The Democratic party all over the country
hul that same party to-day denouuce the Re
publlcanS because GOV. Kellogg, without an
NfANr NJ Iht.