The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-04-24
SENATOR LOGAN.
He Arraigns the Democratic
Party for Being Re sponsible
for Whatever Discord
Now Exists. a
And Charges 1t with Tamper-
Ing with the Best Interests
Of the Country. .s,

Gen. John A. Logan made powerful speech
plying the floor over two hours The galleries
were crowded, and the area behind the Sena-
tors desks was filled with members of the
House and other distinguished visitors 1t
was a discussion of the legal points involved in
the question under discussion and most of the
speech was devoted to q studied an
aiysis of the relation of the army to
the civil power of the Government and
to the extent which the civil power could carry
the army in enforcing it's processes. He went
into history, and related at length the prece.
dents established by Dem ocratic Presidents in
using the army as civil weapon, which the
Democrats in Congress were now denying
that they had right to do. One of the strongest
points Logan made was by showing Democratic
inconsistency by picturing their position on this
question in slave times and their position now.
He had read President Fillmores proclamation
in 1851, calling for the restoration of fugitive
slave, and then cited the celebrated Burns fugi-
tive case, and asked where the doctrine of State
rights had been in the days when slaves were
pursued by the forces of the General Govern
ment into States where citizens wished to pro-
tect them from degrading bondage The same
black man, once hunted down, asked protection
IN the rights guaranteed him by the law, but
State rights now were set up to take away his
protection in the exercise of his privilege.
After discussing at length the legal questions
involved, the relations of Congress and the
Executive, the question of forcing legislation
upon the President by making supplies for the
Government dependent upon it, Senator Logan
closed with the following eloquent peroration
Il stand here to warn the men who are
tempted to destroy this Government that in
tampering with it they must not go too far.
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endured and the sacrifices they made to save
the country and protect free citizens. They
are slow to believe what they do not wish to be-
ieve. but if the Democrats force the issue on the
country the people will be compelled to rise and
save their rights from destruction There will
be no halfway work then. A spirit of kindness
is passing into another feeling. tell them
they are going too far, and are troubling the
people. The sore once occasioned will be re-
moved only by radical means. 1t will be cut
beyond the wound to make the cure complete
In common with thousands of others, sincere
ly hoped and expected that the Democracy Of
both North and South would interpret the de-
sire of the country for peace, but to day must
confess that have been mistaken The ex-
IRENE Cancellation extended to them has not
been met in a similar spirit, but with aggress-
iveness which fills the country with alarm
and apprehension. Duty demands that we
should speak plainly. I make open charges
that the Democrats are tampering with the
interests of the country, and to this the people
are awake. [ charge the Democratic party,
while expressing desire for peace and har-
mony, with making attacks on the principles
purchased with blood and treasure. They are
not sincere in their professions Of protecting
the constitution. while they are engaged in it's
destruction. I make charge that eulogies are
pronounced here upon the arch traitor Davis
as q patriot, in the presence of the repre-
sentatives Of the American people and the
Government ne undertook to destroy,
charge that the debt resting upon the coun-
try, growing out of the late war, is chargeable
to the Democratic party. [ arraign the Demo-
cratic party as responsible for whatever dis
cord may exist The Republican party wants
peace, and have always desired it. They not
only desired peace, but have shown it by every
concession which honor and dignity would per-
NIT, and they would still make sacrifices to Sc
well learn now as later that the Republicans
will do nothing to give peace that is dishon-
Orable to them or to the country. They
will not beg on their knees for reconciliation.
They will not relinquish the principles which
Injured to the people, gained by the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the
constitution They will not permit modifca-
ton of the rights of 1000, 900 of people OF the
South who have been liberated from slavery
and admitted to the rights of citizenship They
shall not be remanded to the condition of serf-
dom or peonage. Let invite them to peace
which is honorable, and which will make us
model for all people for centuries to come-a
peace which must be built in the high re-
spect Of citizens of a common country. 1t must
rest on concession of equal rights to all citizens
of the republic, black or white, native or for
eign born; a peace that knows no State lines
for abrogating the rights of American citizens;
a peace which would enable all people to cluster
around the American flag as an emblem of their
sovereignty, patriotism and virtue; people
strong enough to defy the power Of the world,
and who will protect citizens in all their eonsti-
tutional rights on land and sea, at home and
abroad, elevating the great future of our
country clear and full in the blazing sunlight
of our love-"