The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-06-26
The two LOgans.

John a. Logan, candidate for Vice.
President, processes 10 be the special
! friend and champion Of the colored peO.
pie, and the Memphis AWca! has taken
| the trouble 10 hunt up his record. The
| result will be somewhat surprising TO the
colored voters that be now courts aud
| hattcrs, and the cOlored man who studies
| il will be apt to hesitate before giving
this arch demagogue and time server his
support.
Logan voted in 1874, for constitution.
| al provision prohibiting any negro or
| mulatto from settling in the State Of liii-
D0i-. He also voted in favor Of a con
s,i,utiOnal provision 10 exclude negroes
| from the right Of suffrage or the right 10
hold Office. But this is not all Logan
was q member Of the Illinois legislature
| in 1913, and as a member Of the judica-
rs committee, he reported the following
bill
If negro or muatto, bond or free,
shall hereafter come into this State and
remain ten days with the evident inten-
| ton Of residing in the same every such
| negro or mulatto shall be deemed guilty
| Of high misdemeanor, and for the first
ofiense shall be fined the sum Of $50. If
| such negro or mulatto shall be found
guilty, and the line assessed be not paid
forthwith 10 the justice of the peace
before whom the proceedings were had, !,
it shall be the duty of said justice to
| commit said negro or mulatto to the
| custody Of the sheriff, or otherwise keep
him, her or them in custody; aud said
justice shall forthwith advertise said
negro Or mulatto, and on the day and at
the lime and place mentioned in said ad-
vertiseinent the saiI. justice shall, at pub
| lie auction, proceed TO sell said negro or
muat,o TO any person or persons, who
will pay such fine and costs for the short
| est time and said purchaser shalt have
the right to compel said negro or mulat-
to 10 work for and serve out said time.
| If said negro nr nulatto .hall not within
ten days after the expiration Of his, her
or their time of service, "a aforesaid,
leave the State, he, she or they shall be
| liable TO 4 second prosecution, in which
and SO on for every subsequent ofense
the penalty shall be increased $50 over
and above the last penalty.
lie drew up this bill ne reported il 10
the house, and he advocated it on the
| floor. 1t was his bill, aHd it became a
law, and remained a law until 1865.
The records of the Illinois legislature
establish all we have stated. 1t is there
in printed that Logan was before the war
the most bitter and unscrupulous enemy
of the colored race that could be found
| in the country. He hesitated at nothing.
| IL colored man came into the free State
Of 1llinoisehe wanted him sold into sla-
very if he could not pay a series Of
| heavy fines. The most cruel and arbitra-
ry measures were the measures he pre-
ferred in the cases oe negroes or mulat-
toes found in the State. And this man
is John A. Logan. 1t is the same man
that is now seeking the votes Of colored
men, on the ground that he has been
their best and truest friend. The bare
! truth il, he is the same Logan at heart
that he WAS in 1858, and if he was in
earnest then he is a hypocrite now. The
printed records of the illinois legislature
| leave no doubt Of his desire at that time
TO persecute any colored man that came
within the bounds of the State.