The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-28
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OF murder, of rebellion, and Of treason
In that State.
Mr.. Logan, resuming. said the Democrat
&c senators on this floor had said TO Rcpuh
llcans : withdraw your troops If you want
peace. He Logan) had heard it said once
before {: Withdraw your troops from Fort
Sumpter II you want peace. The Democrats
had control of this country once, and left il
In bankruptcy and with trason all over the
land. The Republican party had been &C.
cused OF being oppressive. In what did It's
oppression consist Instead of leaving the
Southern States as Territories, where 1t could
have had jurisdiction over them for the nexh
twenty years, what did the party do? II
reorganized thsm as States, and admitted
as representatives on this floor men who
had thundered against the gates of liberty.
There was not a man asking for pardon
who did not getit. Was that oppression
What was to be seen to-day? The Repuh.
lican party had admitted to Congress men
WHO took aims in their hands against the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in the other
branch of Congress and three in this. The
Vice President Of the Southern Confederacv
held seat in the other House of Congress
by the clemency of the Repub licans, vet She
Republican party was told this was oppreE
sion. The Democratic party has covered
this whole land with mourning, and given
to the country pension roll as long as she
land but for all these things they had been
pardoned. The President had been denoune
ed here as etyrant, who oppressed the
Southern people. How did he Cypress
them When the Ku-Klux were tried and
convicted lie pardoEed them. Some of the
men who fought against the Government
he sent abroad on foreign missions: others
he put In the departments here. He did all
he could to reconcile them. For these acts
he was arranged here as Caesar, as tyrant
as an oppreseor. President Grant did desire
that the White Leagne at the South should
quit their every day chivalrc sports of gun
ming for negroes and Republicans. 1t was
In the power of the Democratic party to-day,
to speak in tones of majesty In favor OF
human life, and then all the Ku-Klux bust
ness would stop. But the Democratic party
would not do that, and that is the reason
these outrages have not stopped. Some
men would say it was strange to see him
Logan) defending the President of the
United States. He Uogan) did not think it
strange. He might disagree with the Pres
ident when he believed him to be wong.
but when such charges are made against
him as had been made here, he would stand
here from the rising of the sun in the morn
ing until it's setting in the evening to defend
every act of the President in connection
with the reconstruction Of these Southern
States. He Logan) would appeal to every
honorable man who fought against his coun-
try, if there was honor in doing it, TO verify
what he said in defense of President Grant.
He had built no prison-pen fer Southern
soldiers. nor provided any dead-line upon
WEIGH to shoot them down. When he cap
tured the whole Democratic party of the
South at Appomattox he turned them loose
with their arms and horses. and gave them
provisions. When Grant, Sherman, Sheri-
dan, and Others like them, should be forgot
ten in this country, there would be no coun-
try left. When the Democratic party was
dead and rotten in It's grave, the msmery
of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan would
shine in the hearts of the American pt0pYs
Ike the MONDAY sun.