The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-30
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How the Trouble Started-Old Times Com,
Again.

From the Inter Ocean.
Washington, April 25.-Everything
indicates that the good old times for
which the southern chivalry have been
longing have arrived with democratic
supremacy, and old customs are being
revived. Senator Logan to-day received
a challenge to fight a duel. He made a
speech in the Senate recently, in which
some illusions to- x-confederate suprem-
acy were noticeable. They were very
noticeable, and many rebel brigadiers
took offense. Lowe, of Alabama, an ex-
confederate colonel, who was elected to
congress on the ACCOMPLISHMENTS
~ic-greenback ticket in opposition to the
regular democratic nominee, was par
ticularly angry, and in the heat of his
passion at Logan's utterance, told to a
newspaper reporter, as news, the old,
often repeated and absurd story about
Logan having tried to false a regiment
for the confederate service before he
went into the Union army. In fact,
Lowe was so mad that he had Logan
raise three regiments, and send them
armed and equipped into the rebel army
instead of n regiment, as it has often
been charged, and so often proven false,
that he tried to raise. Lowe went fur
Their; he said he knew these regiments;
that he fought with them, that he talked
with the soldiers and that they
told him they were from Illinois, and
had enlisted at Logan's solicitation for
the rebel service, and that he had deser-
ted them, finally, and gone into the
Union army, instead.
General Logan has heard the charge
made again and again, that he wanted
to raise soldiers for the confederacy,
but this was the first time he had ever
known a responsible man to assert from
his own personal knowledge that he
had raised them, and although he had
denied it as a struggling yarn as many
times as he was months old, he never
had a chance to pin the lie on to a man
before, o The wrote a card for a news
paper here saying in just so many words
that If Colonel Lowe had made the
statement he was r~epresentedas making,
he was a shameful liar, and General
Logan expressed this opinion without
mental reservation or any attempt to
qualify.
Lowe is a southern gentleman, and
In the south a man who will allow him
self to be called a liar is a poltroon.
Lowe didn't want to be that, so he
wrote Logan a letter on Monday, de-
manding that the offensive words be
recalled. Logan took no notice of the
communication. Lowe waited a few
days, and wrote him another, intimat-
ing that unless a retraction was received
within a certain time General Logan
must take the consequence. 1t is need
less to say he ignored Lowe's note and
decided to take the consequences.
This morning General Logan was
waited upon at his lodgings by another
ex-confederate named Pelham, who
used to be a member of congress from
Alabama, who announced himself an
emissary from Colonel Lowe and had
| come to listen to an apology. General
Logan did not kickhim out Of his room,
| although he felt inclined to do so, but
told him very plainly that Colonel
Lowe was a liar, and that he would
have nothing to do with him. Pei
ham then pulled out a sealed note and
said that on the refusal of General
Logan to Withdraw the offensive Ian
guage he was directed to hand him that
communication, intimating that 1t was
Of a very serious character; Logan de-
clined to accept it, and told Pelham
in language that did not conceal its
meaning that he could go back and tell
Lowe that he was a liar and that he
would receive no communication from
him unless it came in the shape of an
abject apology.