The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-08-08

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cracy after went into the war. ZAP
plsuse.l Quite excitedly he wanted ts
know IL if was true, the report that
had really left the Democratic party.
1 answered, 1T il q fact" He asked
me the reasons for ID. Itsld him they
were quito plenty and sufficient. and
as we had p,enty OF time I noild tell
him some Of them. Something Of
what ] have already stated hero was
first said, and thea said that the first
thing I didn't like In the Democratic
Honse was the appointment OF Fitx
Hugh, tho Sergeant-at-Ar'ns OF the
Confederate Congress, as the doorkeep-
er of the House. and the displacement
of Union soldiers --many of them Grip
pied in the wsr-with the ex-members
Of the rebel army. (Great applause. ]
He wanted TO know IL they didn't have
a right to do this. I answered they
had, but that also had right to dis
approve and denounce il. Another
thing I didn't like was Ben Hill's rebel
speech and its bold utterauce OF trea-
| son, and I didn't like the rebel yell In
response To it, all over the South. for
had heard that yell before, aud knew
what il meant. lGreat ehcers. They
| tell me-the Democrats-that 1 am
"scared Of Ben. Hill" I don't think
i am. don't think was scared Of
any Of the Hills when 1 met them IN
the South. do not remember that
WA. [Grcut c,seering. Theu told
my friends how worse than all Of The
many bad and unblnshing acts of app
! pointing to the clerkship OF the leading
] 40. ~ he. ia II.
bleton, who named his son, John
President Lincoln. Immense cheer.
ing. This outrageous act. in truckl-
/ ing To tho rebel element, the Northern
Democrats dare not disown, and for all
I know this man is still the clerk Of
that committee. The little child 40
dishonorej by its name and the signiG-
canoe Of il had the good sense. thank
God, to die. lApphuse.l
DEs. HILLS SPEECH.
] That speech OF Ben Hills, and the
record that the Democratic party has
made in regard to il, would have been
enough Of itself to send any man who
cares for the country ont OF all fellow
ship with il and the party whose name
and by one Of whose leading members
it was made. Hill in that speech de-
feuded Audersonville and the atrociOus
treatment OF Union prisoners In the
prison bells. Could indorse that and
still remember my own comrades who
suffered in them more than death aud
help Can any party succeed which
even tacitly indorses sentiments like
these7 Hill slso said in that speech,
ave went out Of the Union hugging
the Constitution, and we came back in
to the Union hnggiDg 1t. What .
hugi [Great laughter. That was
what they went out for, not 10 be rob-
els, but 10 ''hng the Constitution''--of
the Union they were trying 40 hard to
destroy. / have seen them when they
we're doing this ''hugging." Applause
and laughter. remember one morn
ing in April, 1852, the first day of the
battle Of Shiloh, ss the rebel troops
came bearing down upon as, that L as-
csnded an elevation to watch them
through feld-glass ss they came. Ii
was grand sight, N they came march
+! ing in three colnmns with their musk
eta at fright shoulder shift, that
form in which an army looks its grand.
est, and by which IL always appears 10
have three times its actual strength.
There was a blaze and shine of glory
on those advancing columns that look
to be the luster aud shine Of bayonets
in the sun. but I judge now. siuce
Hills speech, that II was not bsyonets
they were carrying. but Constitutions
that they we're carrying along and hug
ginR. yociferous cheering I saw
them doing a good deal of this hug
] =. a A l.. 4.
but simply "Constitution-hugger
Renewed cheering The boys who
are here before me, who were with me
at Donelson, saw some Of 10 there.
! (Laughter aud cries by soldiers,
That's SO. What patriots they were
doing so much for "the Constitution
OF our common couBtryr
DEMOCRATIC BITTERNESS.
One thing have now come TO, which
! is painful TO speak about. as it is large
/ ly private matter. 80 far from being
allowed to leave the Democracy In
peace, as had hoped and expected,
with no noise about II, yon have seen,
many OF you here, what has been said
and charged against me in the Demo-
/ cratic press But what you have seen
il nothing. Iu the last ten days i
/ have received scores Of lettars, the
without stint, and charging me with all
sorts Of crimes. These things, which
would annoy any man who bad feeling.
have simply confirmed me in my csti-
mate Of many members oi the Party I
have left, and have simply ibt' nsified
my conviction that my conrse wss and
is right. can see by these an expla.
nation OF one thing that puzzled me in
I the career of nv old comrsde in arms,
Gen. John A. Logan. Logan and l
were together grea. deal in the fore
part 81 the war, aud We talked things
over as fellow Democrats, and in every
respect nearly we agreed. !.s,er the
( close of the war we met again. When
had parted from him he Was q Dem
ocrat; then he was Republican. and
J bitterly anti-Democratic. / said 10
him, 'fI can understand your course in
changing parties, aud I cannot blame
you very much. But what casnot
/ understand is what makes you 81 terri.
bly, bitter against the Democrats. He
replied: "You never will fully under.
stand 10 till you yourself leave the
/ Democratic party, which day will snre-
| by come, but then YOU will zee IL plain
" enough. You will get all sorts of
anonymous, villianons, cowsrlly let
tcrs, charging you with all sorts of
crimes, and heaping upon you all sorts
Of vile abuse.
rHy KRBKL AsrsR oP TIE orSKRAt.
know the public charges made
against Logan, and know personally
what atrocious lies many of them were,
and could not conceive that party ma
hgoity could 60 any further than il
vent in the coinage OF them. Bat nov
do see These lettcrs that have re-
ceiyed charge me with bsing a robbes,
an incendiary. and n murderer These
charges they make 10 describe my ca
/ reer aud record as a soldier. Can be
/ blamed, then. in view Of such abuse ss
this, for departing from my resolved
/ purpose Of privacy. and publicly burl-
ing back upon their authors all such
accusations. Whenever you find ooe
Of these men charging me- with these
things. scratch has skin, and you will
find = rebel. Tremendous applause. ]
Let me refer "a some Of these cbarR-
IS briefly. Twill not be long, although
I find my time is FAR too abort for tell
ing IL all. and do not want 10 weary
you. They say i stole cotton, and
made money by IL. It's o Me-. ZAP
plaase,l say IL with that word be-
cause that is the word, l0reat ap-
I plausc Il captured bnt two lots of