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

cratic party, Which u0y
come. but then you will see It PLAIN.
" enough. You will get all sor's
Of anonymous, villisous, cowardly
letters. charging you with oil sorts
Of crimes. and heaping upon you a''
sorts of vile abuse.
THE REBEL ABUSE OF THE GENEhnD
know the public charges maui
against Logan, and know personany
what atrocious lies many OF tnen
were, and could not conceive Una.
partisan malignity could go any
farther than it went in the colnaso
OF them. But now ! do see. Ineso
letters I have received charge me
with being a robber, an incendiary,
and a murderer! These charge7
they make to describe my career
and record ~ soldier. Can DO
blamed then, In view Of such abuse
a. this, for departing from my re-
solved purpose Of privacy, ana pun
lIcly 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. liie
mendeous applause.
Let me refer to some OF these ciia,
ges briefly. / will not be long, a'
though I find my time Is far 100
short for telling 1t all, and 40 no.
want to weary you. They say :
stole cotton, and made money by IL.
It's a lie. fApplause.l ! say ~
with that word because that is the
word. Great applause.l ! captul-
ed but two lots OF Confederate cot
ton, as 1t was called,-cotton belong
ing to the rebel government. !
turned 1t over, and took duplicate
receipts for it-one OF which l sent
to the Secretary OF the Treasury
where 1t now IL, and the other l KEPT
and now have 1t. l never made q
cent In cotton, and / never tried 10
do IL. make short work OF these
charges. because that Is all there Is
oft
THE yIcKsBURG SOLDIERS GOLD
SPECULATION.
They say speculated In gold'
while at the head Of my command.
1t isn fact. Laughter. The wall
street brokers were running up the
gold, specializing on the fast increas-
Ing periIs 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 reb'
els were together then-as they are
now Immense applausel, and they
bet against us. That WAS all there
was oft. We knew we could take
Vicksburg, and knew when 1t would
be taken before Wall Street did.
We knew the Mississippi would go
down, 80 we could land on the rebel
side-(we had already landed on the
other side)--and knew that when we
did land on their side there would
be no trouble. So In April we or
ganized together, 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 a purse OF
it, and sent q man TO Wall Street to
sell gold short TAT sellers option on
ninety days, and put up our money
as margins. 1t was simply 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.
1 am glad of 1t. 1t served good
purpose to the Union, too, as well as
to our pockets. 1t was not known the
day our gold was sold whose IL was.
But the next morning IL was an
nounced In the New York press that
1t was the money OF the Union off,
GERS before Vicksburg. their bet vir-
tually, that they would take Vicks-
burg. In twenty-f0ur 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.
ISubdued applause. You may call
t bet, and morally wrong, II you
choose. / am willing to accept the
Of 1t as 1t Is. Jap
olause. So ! did speculate In gold,
While l was actually at tho head OF
ny division, and that one charge Is
rue. Laughter.
TIE BURNING OF RICH REBELS
HOUSES.
Another charge Ia that am
louse burner. The news that I have
eft the Democratic party seems to
ave got away down In the old robel
ountry, and some one down on the
over Mississippi writes to a st. LOU
; paper, wondering II I am "the
len. futile whose troops, on the
march from Milliken's Bend to
brand Gulf, burned so many fine
ouses on Lake st. Joseph, among
he finest residence In all the
outhern country, that OF Col. Bowie,