The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-08-03

rltz Hugh, the Sergeantat-Arms OF the
Confederate Congress, as the doorkeepel
of the House, and the displacement oil
Union soldiers-many of them crippled
! In the WARMTH the ex-members of the
I rebel army. CGreat applause. He
wanted to know if they didn't have a
right to do this. | answered that they
had, but that also had a right to disap.
prove and denounce it. Another thing
didn't like was Ben Hills rebel speech
and it's bold utterance Of treason, and
didn't like the rebel yell in response to
it, all over the South, for had heard that
yell before, and knew what it meant.
[Great Cheers They tell me-the Dem
ocrats that am scared Of Ben Hill" /
don't think / am. / don't think was
scared Of any Of the Hills when met
them in the South; do not rem ember
that was. TGreat cheering. Then l
told my friend how worse than all of the
many bad and unblushing acts of the
Democratic House, esteemed as infa-
nous the act of appointing to the clerk
ship Of the leading committee of the
House, the man Hambleton, who named
his son John Wilks Booth. after the as
sassin of President Lincoln. Immense
cheering. This outrageous act, in truck
ling to the rebel element, the Northern
Democrats dare not disown, and for all
know this man is still the clerk Of that
committee. The little child so dishon-
ored by its name and the significance Of
it, had the good sense, thank God, to
die. Applause.
BEN HILLS SPEECH.
That speech of Ben. Hills, and the re-
cord that the Democratic party has made
in regard to it, would have been enough
of itself to send any man who cares for
his country out of all fellowship with il
and the party whose name and by one Of
whose leading members il was made.
Hill in that speech defended Anderson
vile and the atrocious treatment Of
Union prisoners in the Southern prison
hells. Could l indorse that, and still re-
my own comrades who suffered
in them more than death and hell7 Can
any party succeed which even tacitly in
dorses sentiments like these2 Hill also
said in that speech, I'VE went out Of the
Union hugging the Constitution, and we
came back into the Union hugging it.
What hugl [Great laughter. That
was what they went out for, not to be
rebels. but to hug the Constitution of
the Union they were trying so hard to
destroy. / have seen them when they
we're doing this "hugging" Applause
and laughter. / remember one morning
in April, 1862, the first day of the battle
Of Shiloh. as the rebel troops came bear
ing down upon US, that / ascended an
elevation to watch them through o field
glass as they came. 1t was a grand sight. I
A. they came in three columns with their
nuskets at right shoulder shift"-that
fr,v foh "a
md by which it always appears to have
.hree times its actual strength. There |
vas a blaze and shine Of glory on those |
ldvancing columns that took to be the |
ustre and shine of bayonets in the sun. |
But Judge now, since Hills speech, that /
I was not bayonets they were bearing. |
,ut Constitutions that they were carrying |
Ilong and hugging Vociferous cheer
ng. / saw them doing a good deal Of |
his hugging, these rebels who were not /
ebels, but simply "Constitution-huggers."
Renewed cheering" The boys Who wCre |
With me at Donelson, saw some of it |
here Laughter, and cries by soldiers, |
That's so. We saw them at it in good /
many battles" What patriots they were,
loing so much for "the Constitution of /
,ur common country
DEMOCRATIC BITTERNESS
One thing l have now come to, which /
s painful to speak about, as it is largely /
private matter So far from being al /
owed to leave the Democracy in peace,
IS had hoped and expected. with no
loise about it, you. have seen, many Of
-ou here, what has been said and charged
.gainst me in the Democratic press. But /
vhat you have seen is nothing In the
asst ten days / have received scores of
etters, the most of them anonymous
Ibusing me without stint, and charging
ne with all sorts of crimes. These things,
which wouof annoy any man who had
ceiling have simply confirmed me in my
stimate of many members of the party |
lave left, and have simply intensified my
that my course was and is
light. / can see by these an explanation
# one thing that puzzled me in the ca
eer of my old comrade in arms, Gen.
Tohn A. Logan Logan and / were to-
,ether a great deal in the fore part OF the
var, 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 /
lim he was a Democrat; then he was a
and bitterly ti-Democratic. /
said to him, II can understand your
course in changing parties, and | cannot
blame you very much. But what ! can /
lot understand is what makes you so
.errible bitter against the Democrats"
lie replied: "You never will fully under |
and it till you yourself leave the Dem. |
,cratic party, which day will surely come, |
put then you will see it plainly enough. |
Y ou will get all sorts Of anonymous, vii |
ainous, cowardly letters, charging you
with all sorts of crimes, and heaping
upon you all sorts of vile 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 i
could not conceive that partisan malig-
nifty could 90 any further than it went in
the coinage of them. But now / do see.
These letters / have received charge me
with being a robber, an incendiaTy, and a
murderer! These charges they make to
describe my career and record as a sol
der. Can / be blamed, then, in view Of
such abuse as this, for departing from my
resolved purpose Of privacy, and publicly
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 a
rebel Tremendous applause.
Let me refer to some Of these charges
briefly. / will not be long. although !
find my time is far too short Tor telling
it all, and do not want to weary you.
They say | stole cotton. and made money
by it. It's lie. Applause. say it
with that word because that is the word.
1Great applause / captured but two
lots of Confederate cotton, as il was call
ed-cotton belonging to the Rebel gov
ernment. l turned it over and took du-
plicate receipts for it-one of which /
sent to the Secretary OF the Treasury,
where it now is, and the other kept,