Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-06-13
LOGAN'S LOYALTY.

LUGAN'S LOIALIIs
With that fine discrimination OF taste
for which democratic journals are not
noted they are now reviving the old
threadbare, doubly-refuted slander that
Logan was, while representing the dem
ocracy of southern Illinois IN congress, q
secession sympathizer. This is decidedly
bad taste on the part of those journals,
for even admitting the charge to be true
it reflects fully as much upon the dem
ocratic party as upon him. The infer
ence is that If he had continued IN this
work of dlsloyalty these party organs
would have no accusations to bring
against him. With them the sin Of
Logan seems to consist IN leaving of the
dlsloyalty with which they charge him
and not in entertaining it. They even
assert that at the breaking cut OF the re-
belllon Logan recruited for the rebel
army and was only induced to espouse
the union cause himself by the offer Of
the colonelcy Of regiment. That such
statements are published with apparent
endorsement of their truth by the editors
of rural patent in ards democratic educa.
tors Of public sentiment is burlesque
upon respectable journalism and stand
sublime stupidity and colossal ignorance
of such political writers, whom God in
His omniscient wisdom and for some in
scrutable purpose permits to turn the
editorial crank and transfer to campaign
literature the gossip of the pothouse
politician.
1t is true that John A. Logan was a
democratic member of congress at the
time Of the breaking out of the war Of
the rebellion and had been member Of
the previous session, but the charge that
he ever in word or deed gave countenance
or sympathy to secession is absolutely and
UNANIMOUSLY false. In the Congressional
Record, senate proceedings of April 20,
1881, will be found spread upon the
records Logan's personal refutation of
the charge in which he is corroborated
by the voluntary declarations of senators
of both parties.
Before the first gun of the rebellion was
fred, as early as Jan. Z, 1861, Logan
voted for resolution endorsing the "bold
and patriotic act of Maj, Anderson IN
Withdrawing from Fort Moultrie to Fort
Sumter, and Of the determination of the
president to maintain him IN that posi-
t,on," and pledglng congress to ''support
the president in all constitutional meas
ures to enforce the laws and preserve the
unlon,' revolution against which every
southern member and Pendleton and
Vallsndighsm, OF Ohio, voted.
About month later, Feb. 5, 1861,
when the Crlttsnden compromise was
under discussion Logan addressed the
house upon the subject from which the
following IS an extract in his own words:
81 have always and do yet deny the
right of secession. There Is no warrant
for it in the constitution. 1t Is wrong,
it Is unlawful, unconstitutional, and
should be called by the right name
revolution. No good, sir, can result from
it, but much mischief may. 1t IS no
remedy for any grievance. hold that
all grievances can be much easier re-
dressed inside the union than out of it.
have been taught to believe that the
preservation Of this glorious union, with
its broad flag waving over US as the
shield for our protection on land and sea,
is paramount to all the parties and plat
forms that ever existed or ever can exist.
I would to-day, il had the power, sink
my own party and every other one with
all their platforms into the vortex of ruin
without heavlng sigh or shedding
tear, to save the union, or even to stop
the revolution where 1t is"
The sentiments of the above uttered at
the time by Hon. John A. Logan, to-
gether with his votes, which stand upon
the official records of the house are an
overwhelming refutatlon of the charges
Of disloyalty made against HIM by the
ignorant portion OF the democratic press
and party.