Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-01-21
Gen. Logan on the Democratic
Rebellion.

Louisiana affairs in the Senate on the
18th. We make few extracts,
which have great pith and power;
He might be mistaken, but he
Thought this was the beginning of the
camnaipn of 1876. He proposed to
discuss the questions which should
be presented to the American peo-
Die, truly, and fairly, from an honest
and legal standpoint. He argued
that there was a government in
Louisiana. Whether it was gov
ernment of right or not, was not the
question. Could any Senator on this
floor to-day, stand up and deny the
fact that a government existed in
Louisiana? Whether they called it
a government de .jure or a govern
ment de facto, was another question.
1t would not do for 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 of 100 years hence.
If there was no Government in LOU
isiana, as had been argued by Sena-
tors on the other side, why did they
make all this noise and confusion
about overturning Legislature!
If there was no State Government
there was no Legislature. He did
not propose to evade the question in
that manner, however. There was
Government in that State, Govern
ment recognized by the courts, rec
ognized by a branch of Congress,
and recognized by majority of the
citizens of the State. The acts of the
Conservatives in the Louisiana Leg
islature 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
Louisiana, last fall, notices were post
ed upon the doors of white and col
ored Republicans, notifying them if
they voted the Republican ticket
their lives would be in danger.
He defended the action of Kellogg
in calling upon the military, and said
had the Democrats been in power,
and the Republicans had 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 the same city of New Orleans, ar
rested and imprisoned Judge Hall
for issuing writ of habeas corpus.
A few years afterward, the Demo
Gratis elected him President of the
United States. In 1854 there was a
runaway slave in Boston, and Frank
lin Pierce, Democratic President, au-
thorized the use of troops from the
Navy Yard and Fort Independence
to arrest this fugitive slave. When
the Republican party used the army
to enforce the law, the same Demo
Gratis howled as if set of pirates
were about to fire their houses.
In 1856, in Kansas, in the town of
Topeka, the free State Legislature
met. Franklin Pierce, Democratic
President, issued his proclamation
commanding that body to disperse,
and Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of
War, issued an order placing the
United States army under command
of the Governor of that State. Col.
Sumner, afterward a General, did dis
perse that Legislature. That act was
indorsed by the Democratic party all
over the country, but that same par
ty to-day denounce the Republicans
because Kellogg, without order of the
President, used the army to put out
men who were not members of the
Legislature.
Mr.. Logan then read from the or
der Of Gen. George B. Mcclellan to
Gen. Banks, directing the arrest of
the Maryland Legislature, the said
order being dated Sept. 12, 1861,
though the State of Maryland had
not been declared to be in secession
when that order was issued. The
Democrats ran him { Mcclellan for
President the first time they got q
chance. They had denounced Sheri-
dan in this debate. He would re-
mind them that history sometimes re-
peated itself. One man was made
President for making New Orleans
behave itself, and there might be a
second President from the same
cause. There were plenty of men in
Southern States who were ready
to rise up, seize and destroy the Coy
as was the case once be-
fore.
The Senator from Delaware bay
ard }, had said that Sheridan was not
fit to breathe the air of a republic.
If he was not, he (Logan) appealed
to heaven to name the man in this
land who was. If Sheridan, who did
as much as any man beneath the
shining sun to preserve the republic,
was not fit to breathe its air, who in
the name of heaven was? He { Lo-
gan could see in the canvass now
passing before the Senate what would
transpire when the Democrats should
obtain control of the country. Sheri-
dan would have to go out; then
Grant must pass away; all the men
who helped to save the republic would
have to go out, and the Democrats
would bow themselves in, bow
in their Earlys and their Breckin-
ridges, and such men, who had tried
to destroy the nation.
The Democrats of this chamber /
had denounced Sheridan more since
he wrote that dispatch than they ever
JEFF. Davis and the whole
rebellion during the four wears If Woo