The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-08-03
DEMOCRATIC BITTERNESS.

One thing have now come to, which is
painful to speak about, as it is lsrgely a
private matter. So far from being allow
ed to leave the Democracy in peace
had hoped and expected, with no noise
about it, you have seen, many of you here
what has been said and charged agains,
me in the Democratic press. But what
you have seen is nothing. In the last ten
days have received scores Of letters, the
most OF them anonymous, abusing me
without stint, and charging me with all
sorts of crimes. These things, which
would annoy any man who had feeling
have simply confirmed me in my estimate
of many members of the party have left
and have simply intensified my conviction
that my course was and is right. I can
see by these an explanation of one thing
that puzzled me in the career of my old
comrade in arms, Gen. John A. Logan
Logan and were together great deal in
the fore part of the war, and we talked
things over as fellow Democrats. and in
every respect nearly we agreed. After
the close of the war we met again. When
| had parted from him he was a Demo
crat; then he was Republican, and bit
terly anti-Democratic l said to him, 81
can understand your course in changing
parties, and l cannot blame you very
much. But what cannot understand is
what makes you so terribly bitter against
the Democrats" He replied. "You never
will fully understand it till you yourself
leave the Democratic party, which day
will surely come, but then you will see il
plainly enough. You viii get all sorts OF
anonymus, villianous, cewardly letters
charging you with all sorts of crimes, and
heaping upon you all sorts of abuse"
THE REBEL ABUSE OF THE GENERAL.
know the public charges made against
Logan, and know personally what afro
cious lies many of them were, and could
not conceive that partisan malignity could
60 any farther than it went in the coinage
Of them. But now / do see, These let
ters l have received charge NE with bein,
robber, an mcendiary, and murderer
These charges they make to describe m,
career and record as Il soldier. Can b,
blamed then, in view of such abuse as this
for departing from my resolved purpos,
of privacy, and publicly hurling back upor
their authors all such accusations. When
ever you find one of these men chargin,
me with these things, scratch his skin an,
you will find rebel. [Tremendou
applause.
Let me refer to some of these charges
briefly. l will not be long, although
find my time is far too short for telling il
all, and l do not want to weary you. The,
say stole cotton and made money by it
It's lie. lApplause.l 1 say it will
that word because that is the word. -
Great applause.] l captured but tw'
loads OF Confederate cotton, as it wa
called, cotton belonging to the rebel gov
eminent. l turned it over, and tool
duplicate receipts for it-one of which
sent to the secretary of the treasury
where it now is, and the other / kept, an,
INV nave H. never utuc u Ccut III COL
ton, and never tried to do it. 1 max
short work Of these charges because tha
is all there is of it.
THE vIcKsBURG SOLDIERS GOLD spEcU
LATION.
They say 1 speculated in gold while a
the head of my command. It is a faci
[Laughter.l The Wall street broker
| were running up the price of gold, specu
lating on the fast increasing perils of th
Republic, saying that Vicksburg could no
be taken, and that therefore the rebellio
would be victorious. They did not scrupl
thus to speculate even if it was destroyin
the credit Of the governmest, and helpinI
the Confederates. Wall street and th
rebels were together then-as they ar
now immense applausel, and they be
againstln us, That was ell there was of 4
Weknew we could take Yicksburg, an,
knew when it would be taken before Wa