Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-20
LOGAN'S BLAST,
WHICH CONSISTS OF SHORT SKETCH
or HIS LIFE.
He Believes Himself to Have Been Great
Soldisr-fair Warning Given That
No More lnsinuations Will be
Submitted 10.
A RADICAL RESOLUTION FOR AN
EXTRA SESSION.

A motion to go into executive session
was lost.
The petitions relative to the case oil
BOyYn was referred to the Committee
on Foreign Relations.
Mr.. Blair offered the following:
Resolved, That in the judgment OF the
Senate the public interests require that
Congress be convened in public session
Immediately.
Mr.. Blair, in support OF his resolr-
ton, read a letter asserting that recent
decision of the Supreme Court meant
ruin to the hosiery and knit goods in
dustry of New England, and suggesting
an extra session OF Congress as a relief.
He called the attention OF the chairman
of the Committee on Foreign Relations
to the fact that NJ. De Lesseps
was digging his canal to-day,
and il il were becoming vested right
there would be no remedy for this-if
immediate action were taken, unless 1t
be by war. There were other consider
atoms which made it imperative that
there should be an extra session and
that as soon as the House could be
called together the Senate would be
booked until December. The Senator'S
on the other side had taken their posi-
ton ard il would be cowardly for them
to retreat from it. The Republican Sen
tors had taken their position and it
would be cowardly for them to retreat.
He eofFered the resolution, without consul
tation, with his colleagues to let the
dead lock be broken in a way in which
the Democrats would consent to have
| il broken.
Mr.. Logan spoke in refutation OF the
charges made, and which he character
| lied az SANDERS that he at any time SYM
pathized with the Secessionists. tie read
| in support OF his denial OF the charges a
letter which he had received from Sena-
tors Lamar and Pugh who had served
with him in Congress at the outbreak,
and bearing testimony Of his loyalty to
the Union at that time. He also quoted
from q speech made by him to show his
opposition to the Secessionists, and
| challenged anybody to show any speech
| in which he had upheld the rebellion.
He denied explicitly the various charges
| that he had raised a company TO Join
the Rebels, and read a letter to prove
these charges absolutely false.
| He had always been a Union man
| and he who said to the contrary falsi1ed.
| The record of the Senator from Georgia
| Hill, who bad recently made some
/ allusiOus to charges against him, and
| had remarked that his speeches Lad been
quoted in the South, il the speech to
which he (I.og4n) had just alluded to
had been qouted in the South and its
| doctrines followed, there would not have
been IN rebellion or Secesslonlsts. lie
read a letter dated April IL, 1881, from
Senator's Lamar and Pugh, who had
served with him in Congress at the out
break Of the war, bearing testimony to
/ his loyalty to the Union at that period,
and stating they had never heard
| him utter one word OF sympathy
with the rebellion, but that
ON the contrary, he had vehemently OPP
posed il. In July, 1861. with a musket in
his hand, he had gone into the war at
Bull Run and shortly after had returned
home and raised q regiment, resigning
his seat in Congress. He had been i'll
as many battles during the war as any
man. At Fort Donaldson he had been
made a Brigadier General and shortly
afterwards made Major General. Why
/ he had been promoted TO those com.
mands be would leave for those he had
promoted him to say. He bore on his
person more than one honorable scar:
those wee some OF the certificates OF
ms LOYALTY given him by the
enem es Of his country. A. the close
OF the war be had resigne' Ais commits
sion, preferriDg not to receive pay from
/ the Government when he had no further
duty TO perform. At the breaking out
of the rebSllion he lived at Marion, Will
| hanson county, Illinois. The people
| OF that county were Democrats, most OF
them from the South. On the 18th OF
April, 1861, few Democrats had got
together in Marion and passed resolu-
/ tions in favor OF secession and rebellion.
In the MAY following some men IRON
Williamson county had been organized
into a company by Thorndyke Brooks,
a Marylander, and bad joined the South
ern Army. OF the resolutions or OF the
men leaving for the South he had no
knowledge, and the charge that he had
instigated that conduct was absolutely
false. He read large number Of letters
| from prominent citizens of Illinois, all
OF them. he stated, being Democrats, ,tes-
tiiying to the fact that he had always
been loyal to the Union aud contradict
ing all the charges which had been
made against him of sympathy with the
rebellion. He also read a letter from
ThOrndyke Brooks TO prove that he Lo-
gan had known nothing OF the depart
ure Of the men OF Williamson to join the
| rebellion.
In conclusion he said: put this tes-
| timony on record for this reason, that
my children alter me may not have
| these slanders thrown in their faces
without the power of repelling or
repudiating then. The reason is
sull further, put them
en- the record that they may endure in
this chamber so that they may be
a notice TO Senator'S OF all parties and
creeds that hereafter in this Senate no
insinuation of that kind will be SUBJ
mitted to by me. do for this purpose
give notice that insinuations shall not
be made hereafter on this floor in my
presence by any man, will not sub
nit to it any longer.
Mr.. Brown said he knew his colleague
wlo was absent, had no purpose in any
remark OF his to do injustice to the gen.
| tleman from Illinois. He Brown took
pleasure in saving he thought the Sena-
tors vindication was full, complete and
conclusive.
Mr. Beck said at the close OF the
war he had been kept out OF the
House by the Republicans for some time
through the efforts OF the gentleman
from Illinois lMr. Logsnl aud he had
collected some papers rejecting on that
gen.leman's action at the outbreak OF
the struggle. He had submitted many
OF those papers to Frank Blair, who had
said to him: "Mr. Beck, John Logan
was cne OF the best fighters In the war,
and when the men who are now trying
to whistle him down the wind were
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