The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-05-11
GEN LOGAN'S ANTE.WAR RECORD.

The Tazewell dis Republican. of
late date. says
The Cairo Bulletin is ever anxious fol
notoriety. no matter at whose expense
For the hundredth tine. perhaps, tho
story set ailoat some years ago by the po
litical enemies of Gen. Logan. that he
had, 40 the outset Of the rebellion. re-
cruitcd company Tor the rebel army.
has been successfully denied. Recently
il was revived by the New York UOrid.
and this time rebel colonel who went
Out with that company gave ii a positive
and indisputable denial which was
promptly endorsed by the Cairo Bulletin.
but in the same connection that paper
says that Gen. Logan raised a
company 10 burn the bridge over the Big
Muddy 10 prevent I. ;. troops from 20
ing to the South. which is a. brazen 4
Islander as the first. Gen. Logan was in
Congress at the time il is charged that
This company or mob was raised. a. half
the people OF Williamson and Jackson
counties will attest.
II the enemies OF Gen. Logan wish to
inJure hi fair name with the LOYAL mil
hons OF the United Statcs. they must look
70 other means than truInping M old
stories like the ones here referred TO. As
The Bal!etH was one of the first Demo-
crstlc journals that advocated complete
amnesty Tor the past, Is il not high time
ttiai II ceases 10 reiterate a story about
Zen. Logan which it, editor knows to be
iNs- Ill every particular:
The Republican does II. injustice. We
dii not say nor intimate that Gen. Logan
raised company 10 burn the bridge over
Dig Muddy 10 prevent United State,
troops from going South. and the R,D,.J.
Tea" must have been aware OF the fac,
"heh u made the assertion. We did not.
IN The article referred to by the R,puJl.oa4
the article in which we endorsed tho de.
Nal that Gen. Logan had recruited a
company lot tic Southern arlny-use
any language That could by any pcs.ibili-
" nave been construed INTO the CHARGE 4,
Is said we made against Gen, Logan. We
10 not believe that Gen. Logan enlisted
men 10 go South, or that he raised n com.
pany to burn any bridge to prevent the
southwark passage Of Union troops. Bu,
this we do know. aud Til, we
say, that just before the beginning a
the war OF the rebellion, Mr.. Logan. il
common with the great majority O
Northern Democrats, deprecated IN
threatened conflict. aud believed viii
Douglas, that war would inevitably resul
In disunion. This doctrine Mr. Iny,,
preached, and preached it too in very Vic
orous language. He damned Tie AboIi
fionlsts as the cause of all our trouble.
and was firm believer in slavery. TIN
cannot be denied by either Gen. Loga
or his friends.
Probably the bridge hobby now belu
straddled by the Republican grew out q
this tact. In denying that men Ind bee,
enlisted for the Southern army by MI
Logan, we stated that. in spccc
made by him a, CarOondaI
After the war, he had admitted, that !,
o'o get together, after Cairo had been 90
cupied by troops, company OF men n
Marion, In Williamson county. for ia
purpose Of resisting the arbitrary arres
OF his Ieiiow-citizens. lie not onl,
made this admission, but he justified In
oct and said he would do the same thin,
again under the same circumstances
Thie company be marched, as we recol
jsc1 The airy, 4 Grab Orchard b,;do.
end these went Into camp with II on,
AshA Ths next day 1t was disbandsd
With nobody hurt.