Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-01-27

fit to live in Republic he should die.
The Democrats in this chamber had
denounced Sheridan more since he
wrote that dispatch than they ever de-
nounced JEFF Davis and the whole re.
beilion during the four years it was
laundering at tho Constitution of the
country.
He next referred to the speech of
tho Senator from North Carolina
(Merrimon) as to peace existing in
that State and said the only reason why
peace existed there to-day was because
the Government tried the Kuklux and
sent them to the pcnitcntiary. The
President told the people of the State
they must stop their outrages or he
would make them, and they had to
stop thro' fear,
The Republican party had been &C.
cneed of being oppressive. In what
did its oppression consist? Instead OF
leaving the Southern States as Terri
tories, where it could have had iuris-
diction over them for The next twenty
years, what did the party do? 1t re-
organized them as States, and admit.
ted to this floor men who had thun-
dered against the gates Of liberty.
There was not man asking for par
don who did not get it. Was that op-
pressionl What was to be seen to.
day? The Republican party had ad-
mitted 10 Congress men who took
arms in their hands against the Gov.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in the other
branch of Congress and three in this
The Vice President of the Southern
Confcdcracy held q seat in the other
house Of Congress by the clemency OF
the Republicans-yet the Republican
party was told this was oppression.
Tho Democratic party had covered
this whole land with mourning, and
given to the country . pension roll as
long as the land; but for all these
things they had been pardoncd. The
President had been denounced here as
. tyrant, who oppressed the Southern
people. How did he Cypress them ?
When tho kuklux were tried and con-
victei, he pardOned them. Some of
the men who fought against the Gov.
ernment he had sent abroad on foreign
missions; others he put in the depart
ments here. He did all he could to
reconcile them. For these acts he was
arraigned here as Cesar, q tyrant, an
0ppressOr. President Grant did desire
the White League at the South should
quit their everyday chivalric sports
OF cunning for negroes and Republic
cans. 1t was in the power of the Dem.
ocratic party to-day TO speak In tones
Of majesty in favor Of human life, and
then all the Knklux business would
stop. But the Democratic party would
not do that, aud 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 (Logan) did
not think it strange He might disa-
gree with the President when he be-
lieved him to be wrong, 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
morning until it's setting in the even.
ing, to defend every act of the Presi-
dent in connection with the recon-
struction of these Southern States. He
Nogan) would appeal to every honor
able man who fought against his coun-
try, II there was honor in doing it, to
verify what he said in defense of
President Grant. He had built no
prison pens for Southern soldiers, nor
provided no dcad-line upon which to
shoot them down. When he captur-
ed 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, Sheridan, and others like
them. should be forgotten in this coun-
try, there would be no country left.
When the Democratic party was dead
and rotten in its grave, the memory of
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan would
shine in the hearts of the American
people like the MONDAY sun.