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 to be the special
friend and champion of the colored peo.
Pile, and the Memphis appeal has taken
the trouble to hunt up his record. The
result will be somewhat surprising to the
colored voters that be now courts and
flatters, and the colored man who studies
it will be apt to hesitate before giving
this arch demagogue and time server his
support.
Logan voted in 1913 for constitution.
al provision prohibiting any negro or
mulatto from settling in the State of Illi
nois. He also voted in favor of a con-
stitutional provision to exclude negroes
from the right of suffrage or the right to
hold Office. But this is not all. Logan
was member of the Illinois legislature
in 1858, and as a member of the judica-
ry committee, be reported the following
bill:
IF negro or mulatto, bond or free,
shall hereafter come into this State and
remain ten days with the evident inten-
tion of residing in the same every such
negro or mulatto shall be deemed guilty
of high misdemeanor, and for the first
offense shall be fined the sum of $50. If
such negro or mulatto shall be found
guilty, and the fine assessed be not paid
forthwith to 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; and said
Justice shall forthwith advertise said
negro or mulatto, and on the day and at
the time and place mentioned in said ad-
vertisement the said justice shall, at pub
lie auction, proceed to sell said negro or
mulatto to any person or persons, who
will pay such fine and costs for the short
est time and said purchaser shall have
The right to compel said negro or mulat'
to to work for and serve out said time.
If said negro or mulatto shall not within
ten days after the expiration of his, her
or their time of service, as aforesaid,
leave the State, he, she or they shall be
liable to second prosecution, in which
the penalty to be inflicted shall be 500,
and so on for every subsequent oftense
the penalty shall be increased $50 over
and above the last penalty.
He drew up this bill; he reported it to
the house, and he advocated it on the
floor. 1t was his bill, and 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.
If colored man came into the free State
of Illinois.he wanted him sold into sla..
very if he could not pay series OF
heavy fines. The most cruel and arbitra.
ry measures were the measures he pre-
ferred in the cases of 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 is, he is the same Logan at heart
that he was in 1853, 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.