The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-10-01

or within day or two at farthest:
BLACK LAWS.
The following is part of the famous black
laws of Illinois. John A. Logan, Republican
candidate for the Vice Presidency is the
author: "H a negro or mulatto, bound or
free, shall hereafter come into this State and
remain ten days. with the evident intention
of residing in the same, every such negro or
mulatto shall be deemed guilty OF q high
misdemeanor, and for the first offense shall
be fined the sum of $50. III such negro or
mulatto shall be found guilty, and the fine
assessed be not paid forthwith to The Justice
OF the Peace, the said, Justice shall, at public
auction, proceed to sell such negro or mu-
latto,"
LoGAN's ENsLAvEMENT ACT.
New York Weekly News.l
Rev. VIM. B. Derrick, the colored Blaine
elector-at-large from this State, has recently
returned from an interview with Brother
Blaine loaded up with ammunition for
the war. After appealing to his colored
friends not to vote the Democratic ticket, he
says:
1--WE can not safely leave the Republican
party and scatter our votes till the German
and Irish element-particularly the Irish
element-learns to respect our rights. Ire
land is clamoring Tor liberty at home, and
still she is unwilling to accord the same
rights to US. The Irish have been our bitter
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| cast as people have been cast to enslave
u.s."
This Mr.. Derrick should know that slavery
| existed here as colonial institution under
the laws of England, and it has been abol-
| ished chiefly under Democratic administra-
| Democratic Governor Daniel d. TompkinsD
who recommended and finally signed the
bill which abolished it.
If Mr.. Derrick had asked Brother Blaine"
for a copy of the Illinois Enslavement act of
| February II, 1858, entitled IAN act to pre-
vent the immigration of free negroes into
this State" he would have found Just one
act for the enslavement of his people, and
| the only act of the kind that ever became q
law in this country. 1t was introduced into
| the Illinois Legislature and became q law
mainly through the efforts of John A.
| Logan, the very man whom the reverend
gentleman expects to vote for as Vice Pres-
dent on the same ticket as Brother Blaine"
PRIME READING FOR THE CoLoRED VOTER.
There was law once in force in Illinois
to the effect that any person caught in the
| act OF giving aid or assistance to any colored
man, woman or child should be arrested,
and, upon proof OF the charge. should be put
| in prison for two years. 1 was practicing law
at that time in an Illinois town, where lit
tie colored lad came to my house and said:
Please, mister, won't you give me something
4
| days | called my wife aud told her bo get
the boy big slice of bread aud butter it all
| over and get some meat. Would it not be
BETTER she said, to have the boy come in the
house, as everybody seems to be watching
us" / said, NO, want this people to see
that l am not afraid to give and sustain any
| of Gods Door unfortunates.' The Grand
Jury was in session at the time, and an in-
dictment was soon found against me for Civ
| ing sustenance to negro. / was accordingly
arrested and brought before the court, and
pleaded guilty to the charge, and stated in
| open court that | would do so again, and
whenever l found the laws of man interfer-
ing with the laws of God l would violate the
human law every time. The testimony
given had the desired effect, and the Court
announced to the packed Courthouse that
be found the prisoner at the bar mot guilty
of the charge and was set free. The man
who was the prime mover and factor in this
bill was none other than John A: Logan, the
nominee for Vice President of the Republi-
can party."-Governor st. Johns recent
| speech.
AN INQUIRY ABOUT LOGAN.
To the Editor OF the Sentinel:
| SIR-WiIl you please answer through the col
umDs of the Sentinel the following question? Did
John A. Logan ever recruit soldiers for the rebel
| army? and oblige
SENTINEL READER.
| We have only Republican information on
the question raised by our correspondent.
! When some of Mr.. Logan's friends were
urging him for the first place on the Repub.
lican ticket, the Chicago News, a Republican
paper, on the 11th day of May said:
But Logan did not cenflne his hatred to
the North to mere words as the following
excerpt from an affidavit sworn to before
John Q. Harmon, Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Alexander County, Illinois, September 80,
1868, will show:
Il, John G. Wheatly. a resident of the
city. county and State aforesaid, do solemnly
swear that on the 2Sth day of Nav, 1861,
went from Williamson County to join Cap
tain ]. b. CuHnlngham's company (G) of the
Fifteenth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers;
that Major General John A. Logan, now q
candidate for Congress -at-large, and who
then represented this (the Thirteenth
Congressional District was the
and persuaded me to join the same; that
said Logan accompanied Us (about seventy
in number) in the night part of the way
from Williamson County to Paducah, the
place designated for Us to cross the Ohio
River. We crossed at Paducsh, according
Union troops, which hestated were stationed
at Cairo. ; = My son,
r. L. wheatly. Thompson Coder,
Harry Hayes, William Tinker, Jackson
Brown, Jackson Law, George Law, Joshua
Law, Fleming Ghent, Martin Williams and
others, all except the first, now residing, OF
were when / first heard from them, in
Marion, Williamson County Illinois, were
members of said company, and will attest
the truth of this statement.
sit is fact that up to July s, 1861, al
though repeatedly urged to abandon his
reasonable attitude. Logan never by voice
or act gave in his adherance to the Union.
On that date the Chicago Tribune received
the following ia its dispatch from Wash.
ington:
John Logan falls in, quits his dirty
work, and even wants regiment
If we had not seen this in a Republican
paper we might have promptly concluded
that it was Democratic lie;" but finding
it in one of the great moral engines of 1.-THE
grand old party" there is something stsgger
| ing about its information.