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


gan, of Illinois, during the discussion |
upon the Louisiana question in the
Senate. 1t was most opportunc for |
the country, and following as it did the
message of the President on the same
day, hurled back the old rebel Demo
cratic howl that had been sung in the
Senate by thee Confederate General Cor.
don, Senator Bayard, of Delaware,
and Thurman. of Ohio.
Rcsuming his argument, Mr.. Logan
said the Senator from Georgia (Gor-
dom had yesterday asked where the
judicial officers of Louisiana were |:
why they did not arrest and punish
the perpetrators of crime In Red River
Parish. He (Logan) would tell them
where they were. The Attorney was
murdered by the same banditti who
murdered the men at Coushatta.
Mr.. Gordon asked: Where was the
Enforcement act? Where was the
army of the United States?
Mr.. Logan said: Great heavens |!
did the Senator want the army? He
thought he had been railing against
the use Of the army. Laught.l
The gentleman says all IL peace in
Georgia. There are NO Kuklux, no
White Leaguers there. There is no
Democratic State government, and all
| is peace. Let us see. / hold in my
| hand a volume of Kluklux reports
signed by Mr. Bayard, the Democratic
Senator from Delaware. In it 1 find
that one John B. Gordon, of Atlanta,
being sworn, said he knew of such an
! organization for defensive purposes as
the Kuklux ; had been solicited to act
90 Its chief In Georgia; and had replied
that he was ready to be called on for
anything in that line. I don't know
that this refers to the Senator on this
floor, but as the name is the same, the
inference is plain. i'll am mistaken,
the gentleman is at liberty to correct
me.
The effect was electrical. Gordon
hadn't word to say. He was COM
pletely bottled and made no attempt
to answer.
Mr. Logan reviewed the circum-
stances which took place in New Or
leans on the 4th inst, and said the acts
of the Wilt Legislature were acts of a
revolutionary body. Gov. Kellogg
took NO action whatever until the Leg
islature had been taken possession Of
by mob. As Governor of the State,
it was his duty to do go; to do all In
his power to preserve peace and order
1t was Kellogg himself who took the
responsibility OF calling upon the
troops. President Grant had nothing
to do with it, Sheridan had nothing TO
do with it, and the Senate had nothing
to do with it. Therefore, the denun-
citation heaped upon President Grant
by the Democratic, for using the army,
went for naught: For he knew no
more about it than Democrat did
until he saw it in print. The Demo-
Gratis could not wait to hear all the
facts about Louisiana. They wanted
to have q clamor raised before the
country for political purposes, and for
nothing else. The Democratic party
had Endorsed usurpation ten times 40
strong rs this complained of in New
Orleans. He Logan) believed that
this raid made on the Senate in
the New York press and by the New
York meeting showed that there was
some kind of understanding that this
revolution was to be made in LOUISE
ana for the purpose of overthrowing
the Legislature of that State. He de.
Tended the action of Kellogg in calling
upon the military, and said had the
Democrats been in power and the Re-
publicans had tried to overthrow them
IS the Democrats tried to overthrow
the Republican Government in New
Orleans, the Democrats would have
acted just "a Kellogg did. The Dem
ocratic party had frequently Endorsed
the use of military force. Gen. Jack.
son, when in this same city, New Or
leans, arrested and imprisoned Judge
Hall for issuing writ of habeas cor
pus. Afterwards the Democrats elect.
ed him President Of the United States.
In 1854 there was runaway slave in
Boston, and Franklin Pierce, q Demo.
cratic President, authorized 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 Democrats howled az if q 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. . Devnoe-.As.
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 tho com.
mand of the Governor of that State.
Col. Sumner, afterwards q General,
did dispense that Legislature. That
act was endorsed by the Democratic
party all over the country. But that
same party to-day denounce the Re.
publicans because Kellogg, without
the order of the President, used the
army to put out men who were not
members of the Legislature.
Mr.. Logan then read from the order
of Gen. George B. Mcclellan to Gen. |
Banks, directing the arrest of the
MARYLAND Legislature, said order be-
ing dated Sept. IL, 1861, though the
State of Maryland had not been declar-
ed to be in secession when that order
was issued. And the Democrats ran
Gen. cClellan for President the first /
time they got a chance. They had |
denounced Sheridan in this debate.
He would remind them that history l
sometimes repeated itself. One man
was made President for making New
Orleans behave itself, and there might |
be second President for the same
cause. There were plenty Of men in
the southern States who were ready to
rise up, seize and destroy the govern
ment, as was the case once before.
The Senator from Delaware (Bsy-
ard) had said that Sheridan was not
fit to breathe the air Of a Republic. I'll
nc was not, he lLoganl appealed to
heaven to name in this land who was.
IT Sheridan, who did 40 much as any
man beneath the shining sun to pre-
serve the Republic, was not fit to
breathe its air, who in the name of
heaven was? He Logsn) could see
in the canvass now passing before the
Senate what would transpire when the
Democrats should obtain control of
the country. Sheridan would have to
go out then Grant must pass away;
q mi m,k,n hAlr = A. a. n