The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-03
PLAIN TALK.
Senator Logan Reads the South
ern Brigadiers a Sound
Lecture,
And Points Out to Them How They
Can Bring Peace to the
Country.

closing part of which we print below. It will
well repay perusal
| Now, Mr.. President, have said on this sub
| Ject nearly all that care to say But there is
| one thing l want to call the attention of the
| Senate and my democratic friends to, and that
ls that their whole attempt at legislation during
this session of Congress has been with kind
OF brayado toward the Executive, kind of
defiant attitude determined to coerce hum into
signing some law or other that shall to certain
extent abridge his powers and cut off his au-
thoritty; not that they believed the army will
ever be used for the purpose of preventing any
citizen OF their States from properly exercising
his rights under the law, but for the purpose of
driving the Republican party, as an attempt
was made years ago to drive everybody before
them, and make the President with all others,
DOW to their behests and become willing tools
or suDservlent instruments in their hands.
You denounce the President of the United
States for first signing laws and then for re-
fuslng to sign laws; you denounce the Repnb-
hcan party; you almost declared you
would tear down the temple of liberty rather
than submit unless certain things were done;
you were going to repeal all of these laws.
Why? Not because they were oppressive, but
because they were passed during q time when
you cid not exercise your power and authority
here as party, and that, merely because you
had no part or lot in the enactment of these
laws, you wanted to obliterate them; and it
seemed that you were determined that our stat
ute-oooks should hold naught except that which
was IN accordance with your theories and your
views and placed there by yourselves
Why, Mr.. President, from that side of the
Chamber the Republican party Ihas been de-
nOunced in all the various forms that the En-
glish language is capable of. We have been
told that our time had come, that we were OPP
pressive. The year 1862 has been cited, the
&l,n I..sa
now in his seat, from Indiana [Mr. Voorhees1
detained loudly abort the loyalty Of the State
OF Indiana. Of course majority of the people
of Indiana were loyal; many good soldiers
from that State did their duty; but want to
say to him that while he was attempting to
make it appear that, some of our Senators had
insinuated want of vaIor in the troops of In
diana during the war with Mexico, he knows
well that there was in that State during the
late war an organization in sympathy with the
rebellion for the purpose of overturning the
authorities of the State, and for the purpose of
setting fire in the rear" if may SO speak,
at least such has been the belief of the country
founded on seeming good authority I ask in
all conscience and in all kindness, with what
kind of taste, with what kind of grace does it
come from the lips of Senators on this floor to
denounce the Republican party for their con-
duct during this war, to denounce the Republi-
can party for the use of troops in 1864, to de-
nOunce the Republican party as it was this
morning denounced by the Senator from Missouri
[Mr. Vestl about the Freedman's Bank That
was put in operation here during the war, or
shortly after. All these little taunts are thrust
at us. Why, sir, many of the very men who do
1t went forth themselves and made the earth
resound with the hoof of war in an attempt to
destroy this Government, and with 8 flaming
sword in one hand and q torch in the other
they went forth trying to fire the temple of lib
a1,tJy op6 vat aAxy o.o1 4o1! - D.
publicans about what they did in 1864, what
they did alta time when l 900, O00of men were in
arms against the Government. when everything
was to be done and every power was to be ex-
orted for the purpose of protecting the country
and preserving it against men who attempted
to destroy it: and yet we are to be told day by
day about the wrongs that were committed by
the Republican party during this time.
These very men are every few days talking to
us about stirring up strife. They say the Re-
publican party is trying to arouse the North
against the South. If Republican happens to
allude to the Rebellion if Senator happens to
speak of some battle, or happens tospeak of the
army In rebellion crossing the Potomac some
where. or invading State, we are told we are
trying to arouse Northern feeling against South
ern men. We dare mention no wrong that was
done by the party that stood against us without
being called to account; but you gentlemen can
staud up here and denounce the Repub-
lican party from one day to another and it IS all
right Now say to you that this must stop, or
else you will hear the history of this country
every day in this Chamber, and your own his
torres as we'll. say this in no offensive sense.
but it had as well be understood by all. Imean
by that that as long as you continue your de-
nunciation of men that stood by this country
while you were trying to destroy it, just so long
we viii defy you and we will denounce your at
tempt against civil liberty and against this Gov
eminent.
Our friend, the distinguished 'Ambassadorn
from Georgia (Mr. HilD, believe he recognizes
himself only as an Ambassador" here. and
therefore will not object to the title he gives to
himself as well as to all others on this floor
said
."Oh but you say the South is solid That is
true. And you intimate to the North that we
are solid against the Union. That is not true
There is not word of truth in it. We are
solid. Solid how? Solid against whom? Solid
against the Republican party. Why should we
not be? Do you wonder? The past is enough
to make us solid. But lot that CO."
"The past" What "past" is it that is enough
to make the South solid? You have been solid,
you were solid during the war, you are solid
now. You are solid against the Republican
party, just as solid against the party that saved
this country as you were against the Govern
ment, and just as determined to destroy the
party that saved the country as you were to
uoStioy Tie country Wnen you were making war
against the liberties of this people, And the
distinguished Ambassador from Georgia the
other day said to the Senate that he did not say
that the Democratic party saved the country,
that he only said it helped to save it. Now I
wish to read word or two from his speech, in
which | think he will find that he did not in
terpret it correctly in his explanation. Hear
HIM:
''No, my good Northern Democratic brethren,
you saved the country at last; you saved the
Union in the hour of It's peril; not the Repub-
hcan party. You who had showed devotion to
your. flag saved the Union, and now it is for
you to go before your people and tell them that
the solid North must never become fact
against the solid South. If so, disunion will be
accomplished"
If the North ever becomes solid, says the
distinguished Ambassador" disunion will be
accomplished; yet at the same time he ac-
knowledges that the South is solid, and yet that
does not accomplish disunion. The South was
solid and did not accomplish disunion; the South
is ~elid and it does not accomplish disunion;
but, ii the North ever becomes solid, then dis
union is accomplished! That may be logical,
but cannot understand it. That is the logic
of an Ambassador" however. The distin-
guished ga AMBASSADOR" from Georgia says the
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