The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-28

Destroy the government Oy numbering at
the gates for four years, sramplng the
Constitution and laws under foot, violat-
ing their oaths as citizens, are to take
their places. Is that what you mean?
[ want to know 1t now if that is the
meaning OF the remarks of the Senator
from Delaware. Sir, it will be good
while in this country before q little in
discreet remark in dispatch that has no
force IN it, that cannot be executed IN
any way whatever. will cause the Amer
lean people to forget the gallantry OF q
man like Phil Sheridan. This country
will have 10 be subsoiled and plowed
over. and the benes of every soldier in
this land buried SO deep that you cannot
touch them, before such man will stand
in disgrace for an indiscreet remark IN a
dispatch. The gentleman who under
took to bury his patriotism, to destroy
his fair fame and his fir name by such
remarks in this chamber did not we'll
understand the hearts of the American
people.
Mr.. Bayard rose
The Presiding Officer (Mr. Ferry, Of
Michigan, in the chair Docs the Sena-
tor from Illinois yield to the Senator
from Delaware?
Mr.. Logan--Yes, sir.
Mr.. Logan--I am glad that gave the
Senator an opportunity to repeat what he
had said before. It only shows the feel
ing that there is in the heart. Sometimes
when we have said hard and harsh things
against fellow man, when we have
cooling time we retract. If, after we
have had cooling time, the bitterness of
our heart only impels us to repeat it
it again, it only shows that there ia a
deep-seated feeling the-e which cannot
be uprooted by time. 1 gave the oppor-
tunltY to the Senator to make his re-
nswed attack on Sheridan I will now
say what I did not say before. since he
has repeated the remark, that his attack
upon Sheridan and his declaration that
Sheridan is not fit to breathe the free air
of republic, is an invitation to the
White League to assaesinate him. If he
is not fit to breaths the free air, he is not
fit to live. It he Is not fit to live, he is
not fit to die. 1t is an invitation to them
to perpetrate murder upon him.
Now let'me go further. I announce
the fact here in this chamber to-day,
and l defy contradiction, that the De-
mocracy in this chamber have denounc-
ed Sheridan more since this dispatch
was published than they ever denounced
jeff Davis ard the whore rebellion dur
ing four years war against the CoGsti-
tuition of this country. | dislike much
to say these things but they are true,
and as truth ought not to hurt them l
will say them.
Now, Mr.. President, I want to ask
candid, honest, fair-minded men, after
reading this report of General Sheridan
showing the murder, not for gain, not
for plumber, but for political opinions
III the last few years Of $500 persons
in the State of Louisiana, all of them
Republicans, not one of them a Demo-
craft want to ask If they can stand
here before this country and defend the
Democratic party of Louisiana ? l put
this question to them for they have
been here for days crying against the
wrongs upon the Democracy of LOUIS
lana. want any one of them to tell
me if he is prepared to defend the D.
mocracy of Louisiana. What is your
Democracy of Louisiana You are
excited, your extreme wrath is aroused
at General Sheridan because he called
yodr White Leagues down there "ban-
ditti" I ask you if the murder Of $500
men in short time for political purpo-
ses by band of men banded together
for the purpose of murder does not
make them bandltti, what does it make
them ? Does 1t make them Democrats :?
1t certainly does not make them Repuh
licans. Does it make them honest
men ? 1t certainly does not. Does it
make them law-ablding men ? 1t GER
tainly does not Does it make them
peaceabc citizens? 1t certainly does
not. But what does it make? A band
of men banded together and perpetrating
murder in their own State? Webster
says bandit is "a lawless or desperate
fellow robber a brigand ;" and "ban-
Gitti" are mel barded together for
plumber and murder; and what are
your White Leagues banded together
for if the result proves that they are
banded together for murder for political
purposes?
Oh, what crime it was in Sheridan
to say that these men were bandltti
He is {. wretch. From the papers he
ought to be hanged to lamp-post
from the Senators he is not fit to breathe
the free air of heaven or of this free
republic; but your mnrderers of $500
people for political offenses are tit to-
breathe the air of this country and are
defended on this floor to-day, and they
are defended here by the Democratic
party, and you cannot avoid or escape
the proposition, You have denounced
for trying to keep the peace
ia Louisiana you have denounced the
for trying to suppress
bIoodshed in Louisiana you have des