The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-05-09
LOWE AND LOGAN.
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lst. Louis Republican,
As duellipR has gone out OF fashion
In this country, Senator Logan cannon
be severely blamed for declining Co!.
loves invitation to settle their dispute
according to the provisions OF "the |
CODE" No one, however, will regret
that the bullying propensities of the |
from Illinois have been ap- |
handled by the gentleman
from Alabama. Meanwhile the ques-
ton at issue between them is of much
more interest and importance to the
general public than the personal quar-
rel 1t has produced. Logan declares,
in substance, "that when the war broke
out hissympathiesw were with the South;
but when he discovered the treasona-
BILE designs and purposes of the south
to destroy the government, he cast his
lot with the Union, and from that
time no one has dared to question his
loyalty" He denies emphatically that
he had anything to do with senolng
recruits from Illinois to the Confeder-
ate army. Lowe declares sthat there
were two or three companies from
that he had a talk with one of the
officers and some of the men, and was
told by them that they were enlisted
to constitute a part of Gen. Logan's
command in the Confederate army"
It may be difficult, If not impossible,
at this late day to prove that Logan
actually enlisted men to serve In the
South; but that he was the means OF
securing their enlistment, there is no
sort of doubt. His "sympathy" took
such an exceedingly active shape that
he was, it is said, threatened with ar
rest by General B. M. Prentiss, then
commandant at Cairo. He is charged
with having endeavored to provoke
armed resistance to the passage OF
troops from springfield to Cairo. Up
to the very moment of his conversion
by DOuglas-the circumstances OfWhich
have more than once been given In
these columns-he was universally re-
garded in Illinois as the strongest adj
vocate and ally of secession In that
State. Instead of "casting his lot with
the Union as soon as he discovered
the meaning and the object of the Sc
cession movement, he labOred openly
and zealously in its behalf until almost
dragged to Springfield to meet his old
leader and be turned from the error OF
his ways by the promise of political
reward. If we are not mistaken the late
Samuel X. Casey was the mutual friend
who brought Logan and Douglas to-
gether, and there are scores OF promi-
nent Democrats in Illinois who are
perfectly familiar with Logan's views |
and actions previous to the interview,
and with the trouble Mr.. Casey had in |
getting him to the capital. That he
was ssloyal'' enough after he got what |
he called ethe Lincoln collar around |
his neck, nobody denies; but his blat- |
ant disloyalty until that addition was
made to his wardrobe, is indisPutable.
If, as Col. Lowe declares, "there
were two or three companies from 1ni-
nois in the Confederate SERVICE" they
were made up of Logan's disciples,
when he was preaching sssympathy
with the South'' among his constitu-
ents in Southern Illinois. They never
would have enlisted but for him. He
was their favorite teacher and leader in
those days. They believed in him with
implicit faith, and he is as much re-
sponsible for their action as if they had
been mustered into the Confederate
service under his personal supervision.
The officer and men with whom Col.
Lowe conversed were justified in think
ing they would "constitute a part of
Gen. Logan's command in the Confed-
crate army" and in our opinion MOTH
ing prevented that contamination but
the brilliant promises made by Doug
las to Logan few weeks before the
death of the former. Now that this
bit of unwritten history has been so
vigorously revived, those who can
throw any new light upon it should do
80. There is plenty of reliable infor
nation, hitherto unpublished, if it can
only be drawn out.