Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-29
LOWE AND LOGAN.
The War-Ilke Illinois Senator Not to be
Reached by a Challenge.

Special to Courier-Journal.1
WASHINGTON, April 25.-There is
a promise of either considerable
amusement or bloodshed growing out
of the political debate in congress,
Jack Logan is happy tonight because
he has, so to speak, received a chal
lenge from Colonel Lowe, the Green
back congressman from Alabama. A
few days ago there was published in a
Boston paper an interview with Col.
Lowe, in which he was reported as
saying that he fought on the Confed-
crate side with three regiments OF
troups raised in Illinois, and that per-
sons in the regiments assured him
that their regiments were raised by
John A. Logan.
In Monday edition of the Repub-
lican, of this city, Logan published a
card denying the statement as being
maliciously false. He related the
story in brief as follows: That in 1861
Thorndyke Brooks, living at Marion,
Williamson county, ILL.,, with eighteen
or twenty young men, crossed the
river near Paducah, KY, and became
attached to the Thirteenth Tennessee
regiment, of which Brooks afterward
became the lieutenant colonel. After
the war, Logan proceeded to say, a
man named Wheatley, confined in the
poor-house at Cairo, made an affidavit,
charging that he (Logan) raised and
recruited seventy men in. Williamson
county, Wheatley being one of them ;
that he took them across the Ohio
river and then deserted them; that
Wheatley afterward admitted that he
was paid to commit the perjury, as the
affidavit was wanted to defeat Logan
in his candidacy at that time for con
gress, and that in 1875 the affidavit
was published in the New York
World, at which time Colonel Brooks
wrote a letter giving the lie direct to
the story.
In closing his card, Logan says that
he brands the statement as a lie, and
Lowe and the correspondent can set
tie between themselves. Since the
publication of his card, Lowe has
been consulting with his near friends,
and to-day sent by one of them, a Mr..
Pelham, of North Carolina, formerly
a member of congress, a letter to
Logan. Logan says that when Pelham
presented the letter, he stated that he
came on a delicate mission. and init
mating that if an amicable adjustment
could not be made, the letter was to
be understood as demanding a retrac-
ton in the use of the words ''lie" and
liars" in the card in the Republican
At this, General Logan says, that he
declined to receive the letter. and sent
Pelham back with it to Colonel Lowe,
with a message more emphatic than
polite. Colonel Lowe states that he is
Of the impression that he told the
interviewer three companies, and not
three regiments, and that in so stating
he was repeating what he had been
informed by Illinois men.
Tonight his friends state that, as
Logan has not replied to the first let
ter, a second one will be dispatched to
him in the morning that Lowe is a
cool-headed and careful, yet deter
mined man, and, while he will not be
rash, yet he will not be triAed with.
General Logan says, as he told Pelham
to-day, he will not have any commu-
nication with Lowe until he makes a
retraction Of the charge as public as
the statement, and, if there is a dis
crepancy in the interviews as pub
lished, Colonel Lowe must settle with
the interviewer.