Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-05
REvIvING OLD ISLANDERS.

Some constituencies sheets, laboring I'M
der the false idea that campaign can only
be conducted upon the plane of scurrility,
personal assault and falsehood, are still en-
gagged in circulating the SANDER that Gen
eral John A. Logan was a secessionist.
Even the San Francisco Examiner, that
apes some degree of dignity, not long since
permitted itself to indulge il the libel.
General Logan himself threw this miser-
able Islander back into the teeth of its pro-
moters Standing in his place in Congress
he gave the story the lie direct, and ap
pealed to his fellow members to testify to
the truth or faIsity of the tale, and they
bore testimony to his loyalty. Even Sena-
tors Lamar and Pugh, Southern men, said
We never heard a word of sympathy
from your lips with secession, either in
theory or practice On the contrary, you
were vehement in your opposition to II.
In January, 1861, before a shot had been
fired, General Logan voted for the resolu-
ton approving the act of Major Anderson
in withdrawing the United States forces
from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter. That
resolution pledged Congress 10 support the
President in enforcing the laws and pre-
serving the Union. Pendleton, Vallandig-
ham and Niblack, Democrats from the
North voted against it, but General Logan
supported it in a ringing speech. That
same resolution was held by the rebels of
South Carolina to be cause for war, and to
justify the training Of rebel guns against
the flag that Aoated ever Sumter, thus set
ting afame the rebellion Of the slave
holding States On the 5th of February,
1861, in a notable speech, full of patriotic
feryor, General Logan said:
hare Gl,eGys G.d do ye deny the r.9a Of secs
SION. There is no warrant for IL in the COnstitu-
ton Il is wrong il is unlawful, uncOnstitu-
iiOnal and should be called by the right name
revolution. No good sir, can result from 1t, but
much mischief may. hold that all grievances
can be much easier rcdressed inside the Union
than out Of it. ] have been taught to believe
that the preservation of this glorious Union,
With It's broad flag waving over us ~ the shield
for our protection on land and on sea, is para
mount to all the parties and platforms that ever
have existed or ever can exist. would to-day,
If l had the power sink my own party and
every other party, with al their platforms, INTO
the vortex of ruin, without hcavlng sigh OF
shedding "a tear TO save the Union, or even stop
the revolution where II IS.
In the summer Of 1861 the Second Regi-
ment of Michigan Volunteers, commanded
by Colonel Israel b Richardson, marched
into Washington. Logan, who had not
borne arms since the campaign Of the Mex
lean war, in which he served As private,
left the special session OF Congress, enlisted
under Colonel Richardson. shouldered q
musket for the Union, and marched out TO !
and fought in the first battle of Bull Run |
Securing a discharge soon after, in order to |
raise regiment, he went at once TO Hi |
nois, and in two weeks time had mustered |
in and was at the head of the Thirty-frst !
Regiment Of Illinois Volunteers. He en-
tered the army private at Washington;
four years thereafter, almost to a day, he
returned TO that city, battle-scarred and |
grim with the smoke Of four years Of con-
hict, at the head of q victorious army and !
wearing a Major-GeneraIs shoulder-straps.
II certainly becomes cowardly rebel sympa-
thizing sheets that gnawed files while Gen
eral Logan was fighting the battles
Of the Union against the men of
the South, who had the courage
TO take up arms for their cause, to now de
nounce the veteran rs a sympathizer with
the heresy of secession and friend and
promoter of the rebel cause. In 1866 the
enemies OF Logan, in a Congressional cam
paign, assailed him with the same ISLANDERS
now reyamped. One of these was that he
aided party of men to leave Marion, Ill,
TO enter the Confederate service. The wit
ness presented was an ex-rebel soldier,
named Kelly, who ayerred that II. b. Gun
bingham had induced him 70 enter q COM
pany raised for the rebel army, on the
representation that Logan would join them
soon Thereupon Mr.. Cunningham came
out in a letter written from Sacoba, Miss.
and denounced the story as an infamous
lie. You never knew that had any inten-
lion of going South, nor did write until
about one hour before did so, and then /
went as a recruit in Captain Thorndike
Brooks company, and never recruited a
single man for the Southern army" A. H.
Morgan, who was in Captain Brooks CON- J