St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-10

c0nfederacy. In THESE regions nOurlshed the
rebel organizations known as the s'Sons of
Liberty the ''Knights of the Golden Cir
cle,n and the Ike. Here lived John A. Lo-
gan, and partook of the general rebel senti
ment of his disloyal surroundings. He
leaned to the rebel side of the conflict, and
it is charged, that he enlisted company of
rebel soldiers in southern Illinois, and sent
them South If this charge is not true the
vice presidential Republican candidate must
disprove it. If the charge is true, the proof
of its truth will be brought out during the
campaign
Logan was Douglas Democrat, and such
was his attachment to his great and loyal
leader, that he was saved from entering the
rebel service, and joined the Union army.
The people of southern Illinois, and south
ern Indiana remained intensely disloyal in
sentiment to the end of the war; Logan was
not the only Union soldier that leaned to the
rebel side at the outbreak of the rebellion. 1t
is well known that Gen. Sherman, when the
flag of secession was raised was at the head
of military school in New Orleans, and
wayered for some time in his decision which
side to espouse, the rebel cause, or the cause
OF the Union. This has been repeatedly
charged and never denied.
He was educated at West Point, and it is
a well know fact that all West Pointers were
imbued with pro-slavery and rebel senti-
ments, and all who remained as officers in
the Union army, at the breaking ont of the
rebellion were only feebly loyal. All the
chief officers of the rebel forces have been
educated at West Point, from Gen. Lee down
ward. Thus the government has fostered
a nest of traitors who sought its overthrow.
Even Grant, himself, educated at West
Point. was suspected of leaning to the rebel
side during the early stages of the secession
movement. He had reached the position of
Captain i'll the regular army, but had left
the army in disgrace owing to personal
habits.
AT the breaking out of the rebellion, he
was clumsily running leather store, as
agent for his father, who was a tanner, in
Galena, yielding to after dinner somno-
lence, stretched upon the counter with role
OF leather for his pillow.
Gov. Dick Yates, Governor of Illinois, a
bon giUait of immense capacity for fluid alb
sorption, sought Grant out, offered him the
colonelcy of regiment and thus started him
on his soldier career. More by good luck
and fortuitous circumstances, than anything
else he gained some success in the early sta
ges Of the rebellion, and amid so many de-
feats and disasters in the Union cause, when
all looked gloomy and forbidding, these sue
cesses gave Grant much eclat.
But his old habits remained and it was al
legged that he was drunk at Shiloh, and it is
charged and believed, that had not the reb-
ell. General johnson, fallen, being shot from
his horse at critical mnment of the action.
Grants whole army would have been cap
tured. But the result was claimed as a vic
tory to the Union arms, rather barren one
it is true.
1t was whispered in the ears of the Presi-
dent, that Grant drank too much whisky.
The President, depressed and disheartened
at the i'll success of most of the Union com.
manders, quantity replied that he wished
some of Grants whisky might be sent to the
other Generals.
Grant is rated asa great soldier. He has
been vastly overrated History will show an
average shrinkage in his military reputation.
There were greater soldiers than Grant on
the Union side in the war of the rebellion,
and on the rebel side Gen. Lee, if not others,
was greatly his superior. But he was in at the
death of the rebellion at Appomattox and
this gave him an apothesis. Mcclellan and
Hancock are the two greatest soldiers, pro-
duced by the war of the rebellion, and had
either, happened, as did Grant, to be in at the
close of the rebellion, and to have received
the sword of captulation from the great Gen
ralissimo of the rebellion, he would have re-
ceiyed like apothesis
The Republicans, by nominating Logan,
invoke the aid of the soldier element to Sc
cure his election. But unfortunately for
them, his military record is not without
neutral faint. They have always invoked
the soldier element. Hayes and Garfield,
were good but not great soldiers, and yet
were equal in all respects if not superior to
Logan, and were without any faint of dis
loyalty. Having exhausted their reputable
military roll, they are compelled to fall back
upon Logan, the early Southern Illinois en-
lister of rebel troops. The Republicans pre-
sumo too much upon the dd capatGnduna
dodge to carry their elections, and hence the
necessity of exposing their tactics.
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