Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-06-27
LOgan a. . Democrat.

The New \ 0rk Herald having un-
successfully attempted to break down
Mr.. Blaine, has turned its attention to
Mr.. Logan, and hunting up the parti-
San speeches he made as Democrat
before the war, is attempting to create
in that way disgust of the people
against the Republican candidates.
This attempt, however, will have
about the same effect az the attack on
Blaine had-it will make the Republi.
can candidates still more popular with
the people. 1t is well known that Mr..
Logan before the war was, a Democrat,
and occupied seat in Congress AZ a
Democrat
While he was a Democrat the people
knew where he was and they know
now that he was just as honest and
sincere a Democrat, rs he is now
an honest and sincere Republican. The
extracts from Logan's speeches he made
while Democrat, and which the Her
aid publishes, will not mislead anybody.
Here is one that is intended to be a
smasher, but it is not so bad that we
dare not publish it in a Republican pa
DIR 1t is from speech delivered in
the House of Representatives., Deem
her 8, 1859, the year before Lincoln was
elected President
the laws7 D0sG it yield 'o The con titutiou
OF the county? ray does hi. | say T.
you, gentlemeL Of TIE S Nth. he YOU need
not think that the Repub 'can larty Of l IL.
no s-where ! reside htd Of which l AN
proud 10 sa, am natigo--re for the con-
stitution. They are not and rev have been
its fiends They are not law soiGfng PEG 10,
and never have been. They are h, constl'u-
tion loving people, ard tIeey never hav:
The north ern portion OF hat beautiful state
fs now blighted by the concentrating touch
Ofatoliti0ni IN 80 tn 1t slmot refuses to
produce uits. In IN
nois, in tn. State from which come, In Chi
Gao, there was q sympsthizlng meeting
hid In favor Of John Brown, an1 ministers
ofH0d, or pretended mil tste 8 Of 3D. ut
tended the meeting nd passed resolutions
of sympathy with that traitor, tn ef and
scOundrel.
This speech was delivered about the
same time that Lincoln and Douglass
were holding joint discussions through
Illinois in a contest tor the United
States Senatorship from that State,
D'uy glass carrying Off the prize,at time
when very many Of the best members
of the Republican party were Democrats
and entertained the same views that
Logan then did.
The Herald in looking back over
LOgan's Democratic speeches has also
found the following paragraph in which
he aired himself on Stewards "irre-
pressible conflict" doctrines
In the Republican rt'on OF Illinois they
fdvOcate The sane ucrine that sc ard ad.
vrat'd. 'rmham Lin O'r.wh" anornne-
S n,te T he ni,'d 8 0t :, declared that
tbs mon could MOI erlst half slave and
halt free ut that the confli would 20 on
until tn country was composed Of all free
or all Save atet la l. must become the
one or the other.
There is no denial that Logan made
use of this language because this was
the kind OF language all full tiedged
Democrats Of that day used. There
were no halfway measures about
Logan when he was "a Democrat, no
more than there is now when he is a
Republican.
But then here is something more
horrible still. The Herald has found
that on January "a, 1860, the same
year Abraham Lincoln was elected
President, Logan made speech in fa-
vOr OF the passage Of law,b Congress,
TO make the advocacy of this doctrine a
penittntiary otfense, and send Seward
and Abraham Lincoln to prison. He
said
Let me tell you that this law. If 1. Is
passed, WA put IN the fententiary your IF.
repress bic cCntlIc,n men. " hu ha We engaged,
II no, irectly, indirectly, In murder and ev-
erythiDg that is d'srcputahl". disnnrt rable,
dlsgrac.iul and shocking to humanity
This is just the way Democrats at
that time talked, especially those OF
l.ogan's warm temperament. One
thing Is certain, he don't talk so now,
and ii strikes us that very great changes
have taken place in this country since
1860, and there are very few who lived
then and who live now, who have not
changed their minds considerably. 1t
is to the credit of Logan that be has
undergone radical change.
But horror Of horrors, Mr.. Logan ad.
vocated slave catching, and here ia what
he said on that subject
Every fugitive that has been arrested In
II inGis 0 In any Of the Western States-auu
call III in0is estern state, for sm
ashap oil ioneer to ca II Nor hprn State
iemoctats hive all hat work to co You
call 1t the dirty work f the en- ocratlc party
~ catch fugitive slaves :or the Southern peo
pc. Weare Wiling to Icrto'm that work
40 not cider i Gisuracs full 10 perform
any ~rk, irty or not dirty, which is In 40
torconce with h await the lard and tho
con- titnt or I N. c,unrv"
This is more Democracy. When Mr..
Logan was Democrat he spoke as a
Demo r', lie thought a. a Democrat,
aud he acted as a Democrat, hut now
that he is a Republican he has put
away Democratic thing. Nobody de-
MES that Mr.. Logan was a Democrat
even up to the frs stfot on Fort Sum
ter That shot struck not only Fort
Sumer, hut it struck Logan's Demo.
cradle heart, and changed it as sudden.
ly to "A Republican heart ~ Saul'S heart
was changed on Tia" way to Damascus
Logan WAS in Congress at that time, but
he made no more Democratic speeches
His heart was filed with intense hatred
to the rebellion, and when q Michigan
regiment, the first he had seen from the
West, marched through Washington tc
the battle Of Bull Run, Logan left his
seat in Congress, and joining the regi
ment he was in the battle and made
hims If conspicuous for his bravery in
facing the enemy, and for his humanity
in be,ring wounded soldiers from the
field
There was an emil 10 John A. Logan't
Democracy. He showed his faith by