Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-02-15
LOGAN on LOUISIANA AZ
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not do TO stop these gentlemen in their daily sports
and in their lively recreations. They are White
Leagues they are banded together as gentlemen snn,S
ern stock; they are the chivalry Of days gone, by
they are knights of the bloody shield; and the
shield must not be taken from them. Srs, their
shield will be taken from them; this country Will
be aroused to its danger; this country will be
aroused to do justice to its citizens and when II
does, the perpetrators Of crime may fear and trem
BILE. Tyranny and oppression A people VINO
without one word Of oppression allows men VINO
have been the enemies of a government to come
into these legislative Halls and make laws tor that
government 70 be told that they are opPress1ry
a monstrosity in defamation and assertion. VINO
ever heard of such thing before whoever De,
licved that such men could make such charges
Yet VIC are tyrauts!
mfr. Logan here gave way to allow message
to be received from the House CT Representatives,
which announced the passage Of a bill removing
the political disabilities of John winners, Joseph
F. Minter, and William Kearney.
Mr.. Logan. Mr.. President, the reading Of the
title of that bill from the House only reminds me
Of more acts Of tyranny and oppression OF the re-
publican party, and there is continuation OF the
same great otfenses constantly going on IN this
Chamber. But some may say 'It Is strange to
see Logan defending the President of the United
States" 1t is not strange to me. l. can disagree
with the President when think he is wrong; and
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when these attacks are made, coming from where
they do, am ready to stand from the rising sun in
the morning to the setting sun at evening to de-
fend every act of his in connection with this mat
ter before u.s.
may have disagreed with President Grant in
many things but was calling attention to the
men who have been accusing him here, on this
floor, on the stump, and in the other House; the
kind of men who do it, the manner of its doing,
the sharpness of the shafts that are sent at him,
the poisonous barbs that they bear with them and
from these men who at his hands, have received
more clemency than any man ever received at the
hands of any President or any man who governed
a country. Why, sir, will appeal to the soldiers
Of the rebel army to testify in behalf of what say
in defense of President Grant--the honorable men
who fought against the country, if there was hon
or in doing it. What will be their testimony 1t
will be that he captured your armed democracy Of
the South, he treated them kindly, turned them
loose with their horses, with their wagons, with
their provisions treated them as men, and not as
pirates. Grant built no prison-pens for the south
ern soldiers; Grant provided no starvation for
southern men /; Grant provided no "dead-lines" up
on which to shoot southern soldiers if they crossed
them Grant provided no outrageous punishment
against these people that now call him tyrant.
Generous to fault in all his actions toward the
men who were fighting his country and destroy.
ing the Constitution, that man to-day is denounced
az a very Cesar!