The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-05-03
DULLES NEVER FIGHT.

Il DULLES NEVER FIGHT.
i One day last week William Manning Lowe
la grecnback member of congress from Ala
bama, told reporter of the PittsbrrG PcS'
that he knew personally that Their were three
companies of Illinois men ia the confederate
army who had been enlisted by John a. l.o
gan To this Logan published reply in the
Washington Republic, in which he used this
language:
"The statement brand rs false and SANDER
Gus, and Col. Lowe and the reporter can settle
the question between themselves as to which
one has been guilty of pcrpctrating this vii
famous falschood,"
Logan also says that when the war broke out
his "sympathIes were with the South; but
when he discovered the reasonable designs and
purposes of the South to destroy the govern
ment, he cast his lot with the Union, and from
that time no one has dared to question his 10y.
atty"
Col Lowe being thus accused of talsehood
sent a note to Logan asking HIM to retract
apologize or-do the other thing. Logan treat
ed the note with contempt; and then Col
Lowe sent him a challenge, OF which also Lo-
gan took no notice. and then Col Lowe ended
the correspondence by publishing in Wash.
ington paper the following:
II will not brand John A. Logan AS liar,
flor he is a Senator OF the United States. Will
not post him as scoundrel and potroon, for
THAT would lie in violation of local statutes
lbut do publish him as one who knows how
H. hn,, 10 Cati lft n
and invoke upon him the judgment OF hon
orablc men of the community
Few people at the North, at least, will re-
gard Logan as evcrastingly disgraccd, or even
Icensurable, for refusing to fight duel. Duel
ling has gone out Of fashion in this country
and men are rather to be commended than
rldiculed or found fault with for treating the
barbarous code with contempt But Logan
will not be able to establish his innocence
of the grave charge made against him by sim.
ply insulting the man who repeats it and then
bravely refusing to fight him. 1t will take a
good deal more than bullying to free John a.
Logan's skirts of the charge of having enlisted
l-or the same as enisted-men from Illinois
to fight IN the rebel army. While the state
ment of Col. Lowe himself on that point is
worth as much at least ~ Logan's denial, un-
happily for the latter, Col loves statement is
|corroborated by other testimony so as to place
the fact beyond reasonable doubt. While Col.
Walace's regiment, one of the first enlisted
for three months at the outbreak of the rebel
lion, was posted at Villa Ridge, in Union coun-
ty, so many reports were brought to them that
Logan was enlisting men for the rebel army
that information of the fact was communicated
to Gen Ben. NJ. Prentlss at Cairo, and but for
his hasty flight, Logan would probably have
been arrested at the time. 1t IS notorious that
I,ogan's own brother-inlaw and other relatives
with many others went over to the rebels from
his district and whether he enlisted them per
sonally or not, they were his disciples when
his sympathy was with the south" and he
was as nuch responsible tor their action as if
they had been mustered INTO the confederate
service under his own supervisor,
Gen Logan Is also palpably untruthful
when he says that rs soon as he discovered
the reasonable designs and purposes of the
South to destroy the government he cast his
f lot with the Union" Sumter was fired upon
, in April. Congress met in extra session in
, July, but Logan, although member elect
from the loyal state of Illinois, refused to take
, his seat in congress Tor several weeks after II
, met VIGOROUSLY on account of his sympathy
with the South" Was that casting his 10,
with the Union las soon" as he discovered the
reasonable purposes of the South-over three
months after Sumter was fired upon and but d
, few weeks before the battle of Bull Run?
The truth San the whole world knows it
logan was literally bought up by Lincoln
with a coonels commission as late as July
1861, at the same time that Lincoln gave com
f missions to four others with Logan to raise five
. new Illinois regiments of which John a. Nc
3 Learned was commissioned brigadcr. The
E story of how Logan, through the influence o.
r Sam Casey was induced to see and have a tal
4 with Douglas at Springfield, and how he was
Y then persuaded to 30 to Washington, and how
. Col Richardson and others dragged HIM up t
the White House. and how Lincoln ther
bought him up, &c, &c, has been so often told
and is so well known that Logan is buttinl
! his head against stcreotyped history in his bul
! lying attempts with Col. Lowe. His recorC
i during the earlier stages of the rebellion is st
:. dark and disgracetul, that instead of putting
r on big airs and playing the bully it would have
: become Logan great deal better to have
v treated Col. Lowe like gentleman and no
!. like ruflian and blackguard,
/ For some years past the |. 3 Senate had {
rule that the clerk door. keeper and other prin