The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-11
SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOWE
LOGAN AFFAIR.

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may eat pies with his soup In "cuiehoieu
Bahston" with perfect impunity and % genera ~
appearance Of elegance, but such pfoceea-
Ing would be looked upon with horror am
rapartad ma nm irrefragble and conclusive
proof nr n totally depraved moral nature
hv tbo nost sunnrnumerary garcoh OF n New
OrIaana restaurant IT we are To expect
xvandarInp 3ostonlans To respect our finer
.ansibIttaa In the matter of pies and soup,
Eoufhern people soj0urning In their midst,
ar IN communities where their peculiar civil
zation prevails. should defer TO the social
notions and customs Of those communities by
rsIjnauishing FOR tho time being, such
dlosyncrases az may be regarded as offensive
To the prevailing sense Of propriety.
These observations are provoked by the
recent Lowell Logan imbroglio. Col Lowe did
precisely what he should have done, and
what any Southern gentleman would have
been expected To do, In any Southern or other
civilized community, where any sense OF per
sonal responsibility attaches for insult offered
and dishonor done by one gentleman to
another His mistake lay In not remember
Ing that such responsibility Is not aeknowl-
edged by the society Of which Logan is m In
teger. and that Logan would receive nothing
but COMMUNICATION for shielding himself and
his brutality behind the protecting H1gis Of
prevailing public sentiment. HaBhould have
answered the Illinois blackgnard after the
manner which prevails among his people, by
proving the truth Of what he charged, which
1t appears he could Easily enough have done.
az will appear .sffom the following affidavit
published lnf'the Democrat, Of Columbus,
Ohio:
eounlf aforesaid do solemnly swear that on
the ywenty-eighth day of May, 1861, went from
e9yn i h to 4
aTenneasee Volunteers: that Major Gen. John
Logan. who then represented the district ~
Congress, was the chief person who raised said
army and persuaded me TO join the same: that
said Logan accompanied up tabout seventy IN
numberl in the night, part of the way from Will
mated for ia ID cross the river. We crossed at
Paduenh. according to John A. Logan's instrue-
tions, to evade Union troops. which. he stated.
were stationed M Cairo.
When Logan left he agreed to mest us as
soon as possible, and assigned as q reason for
not accompanying us then that he wanted to
troops. Logan. when he left. promised faith
fully to join us soon and command our reg I.
time we met him was at Belmont. Ia The Fed
eral service and In the fight Capt cunningham
n nnd d n nm e a
his horse. and delivered 1t to Gen. Pillow OF the
Confederate army.
above s, date until July 20, 1904 il Gapt, Cunning;
It Tup sH Miss Mss NY MY SON. IWbeatlT Thomas
Brown. Jackson Love- Flering ghent Martin
Williams. and others. all except the first now
resding, or or when last heard from them In
beers of said company and will attest the truth
81 lie statement. JOHN q. WHEATLY.,
daa 81 september sM sss o JOHN ~ H i
Clerk Of Circuit Court. Alexander County. Ills.
Logan's fierce assault on Col. Lowe has
only served to provoke similar statements,
and not less explicit, from 50 many reliable
sources that there can no longer exist any
doubt Of the truth Of what Col. Lowe merely
stated that he had heard from certain citi-
zens of Illinois In the Confederate army. 1T
appears, then, that 1t Ia Logan who has told
the infamous falsehood" which he sneaked
out Of locating on any particular individual,
and that Logan, after doing all he could to
induce his friends to enter the Confederate
service, deserted them at the last moment
and went into the Union army 10 shoot them
down, because the pay was better on that
side,
But these are mere matters Of Gircum-
stance. There appears to us to be something
In all this worthier OF consideration than the
particular facts Of this case. We believe that
the public sentiment oi the North La totally
wrong In regard to the personal responsibility
and the right to amend In such cases as this
While we Infinitely prefer and entirely ap.
prove the peculiar customs of tho South In
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dice or an abusive spirit In what we have tx
say Or Northern sentiment upon this
subject We can very readily under
stand how the course pursued by Mr.
Lowe In this instance might incur the repro
baton Of brave and high minded men whe
are so constituted by nature as to feel til,
sting and gnominy Of IN insult. But We are
utterly unable u sec how. under any imagina
bic conditions of virtuous or honorable
thought or feeling, the actions Of Logan car
be regarded rs anything else than low, mean
and despicable, much less admirable. Yet
the public opinion under which Logan lives
Is more responsible for his course thar
he IL himself, for he has the reputation 81
being, at least, brave enough To fight
DUEL as Rulwer makes one of his charao-
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the natural outgrowth Of the public sentiment
that endeavors to appraise In the coin and
currency OF the market all the hurts that
honor feels" the peace and virtue OF families
the honor and repute Of men and women and
the deep wounds and sufferings that Islander
and outrage can intlict on noblo and sensitive
natures. Such a public sentiment Is neces-
sarily debasing, because It is utterly I'M
practicable. There is no possible relation be-
tween the wrong and the compensation, and
there can never be except with the meanest
and most grovelling natures. The practical
result is to make SANDER hlaekguardism and
social wrong irresponsible, and to give them
comparative immunity from punishment.
The duello need not necessarily be recog-
nized 'as social institution TO avoid this de-
basng condition of affairs. In the South,
as In France and other Southern countries
where men have hastier tempers and more
reckless tongues, the code subserves an ad-