Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-08-03

cratic party, which day VIII surrey
come but then you will see 1t plain
" enough. You will get all sor's
Of anonymous, villinous, cowardIy
letters charging you with all sor.s
of crimes, and heaping upon you ."
sorts of vile abuse.
THE REBEL ABUSE OF THE GENERAL
know the public charges maae
against Logan, and know personally
what atrocious lies many OF them
were. and ! could not conceive tha'
partisan malignity could go any
farther than 1t went in the coinage
OF them. But now do see. Ihesc
letters / have received charge me
with being robbcr, an incendiary'
and a murderer! These charges
they make to describ be my career
and record a. o soldier. Can l pe
blamed then, In view Of such abuse
as this, for departing from my re-
solved purpose OF privacy, and pup
licIy hurling back upon their authors
all such accusations. Whenever you
find one of these men charging me
with these things, scratch his skin'
and you will find q Rebel. ire
mendeous applause.
Let me refer to some Of these chai-
ges briefly. ] will not be long, az
though / find my time Is far 700
short for telling 1t all, and | do no.
want to weary you. They say !
stole cotton, and made money by y.
It's a lie. (Applause.I ! say IL
with that word because that Is the
word. [Great applause cap1u.-
ed but two lots OF Confederate cot
ton, as 1t was alled,-cotton belong
ing to the rebel government. !
turned 1t over, and took duplicate
receipts for tone of which ! sent
to the Secretary Of the Treasury
where Il now is, and the other | kept,
and now have 1t. never made
cent in cotton, and l never tried 10
do It. / make short work oil THESE
charges, because that Is all there ~
OF 1t.
THE yIcKsBURG SOLDIER GOLD
SPECULATION.
They say / speculated In gold'
while at tho head of my command.
It Is n fact. Laughter. The wan
street brokers were running up the
gold, specializing on the fast increas-
ing perIls Of the republic, saying
that Vicksburg could not be taken'
and that therefore the rebellion
would be victorious. They did not
scruple thus to speculate even II IL
was destroying the credit OF the
government, and helping the. Con-
federates. Wall Street and the reD-
els were together then-as they are
now Immense applausel, and they
bet against us. That WAS all there
was OF IL. We knew we could take
Vicksburg, and knew when 1t would
be taken before Wall Street did.
We knew the Mississippi would go
down, 30 we could land on the rebel
sido-(we had already landed on the
other side(-apd knew that when we
did land on their side there would
be no trouble. So In April we or
ganized together, a number Of our
officers, and formed club, laugh
ter, all drew our pay, and got all
the money we could. / put In this
all my money, and everything that
/ had, and borrowed every dollar
that / could.
We all put In this money, our
pay rs soldiers, and made n purse OF
IL, and sent q man TO Wall Street to
sell gold Short TAT sellers option on
ninety days, and put up our money
rs margins. 1t was simply a bet on
our part that we could take Vicks-
burg, and that we would do 1t, and
a bet on Wall streets part that we
couldn't and wouldn't. We staked
our lives, too, on top of the bet. We
did take Vicksburg. Great cheer
ing, frequent-repeated. The river
went down and we went In. Re-
newed cheers. We won our bet,
and Wall Street lost. Laughter.
/ am glad 1T. 1t served a good
purpose to the Union, too, as well as
TO our pockets. Ii was not known the
day our gold was sold whose 1t was.
But the next morning II was an
nounced in the New York press that
II was the money of the Union off,
GERS before Vicksburg. their bet vir-
tually, that they would take Vicks-
burg. In twenty-four hours gold
went down fifteen per cent. Cheers.
Some Of the noble men who fell in
the capture of Vicksburg were in
"the club" and their families to-day
are saved from poverty by the profit
OF this soldiers bet with Wall Street.
lSubdued applause. You may call
II a bet, and morally wrong, IL you
choose. l am willing to accept the
responsibility Of II as II Is. ZAP
plause. SO did speculate In gold,
while l was actually at the head OF
my division, and that one charge Is
true. Laughter.
THE BURNING OF RICH REBELS
HOUSES.
Another charge ia that am
house burner. The news that / have
left the Democratic party seems to
have got away down In the old rebel
and some one down on the
lower Mississippi writes to a st. Lou
Is paper, wondering II / am "the
Gen. futile whose troops, on the
march from Milliken's Bend to
Grand Gulf, burned 30 many fine
houses on Lake st. Joseph, among
he finest residence In all the
country. that Of COl. Rowte