Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-03
Is JOHN LOGAN A COPrERHEAD9
An Emphatic Answer from an Old Sol
der.


BURT LAKE, 10th 1884,
Editor Northern Tribune.
NY attention was called to an article
in the C~heboygan Democrat of Feb. 81,
which is qnite flattering to Gen. Grant.
As to that part of the article l take no par
ticular exceptions, for 1 presume it is
the first kind wOrds-lets call it taffy-
that the Democrat has eyer bestowed
upon the soldier statesman, but in the
same article he calls Logan a copper
head. l would like to ask your cOtsm-
porary when Gen. Logan developed his
apprehension? VAST when he resigned
his seat in Congress in '61P Did Gov.
Yates make him Col. Of the 31st Illinois
Infantry because he was a copperhead?
Did he act like a copperhead at Bslmont2
was there any apprehension in him at
Fort Donaldson, at Shiloh, at YazoO
Bayo, at Jackson and Vicksburg? Per-
haps he didn't "catch it," until Chatta-
n0oga, or at Chickamauga, or Dalton, or
at Resica, or didn't he "get it" until he
commanded the Army of the Tennessee
at Atlanta, when ne hit the southern
Democracy so hard and so often, and so
many times in a place, that their cop
perhead allies at Chicago in convention
assembled, cried out for a cessation of
hOstilities. Perhaps it was in that little
tramp from Atlanta across, sometimes
1t is spoken of as Sherman's march to
the sea, when the hand of retributiYe JUS
tics fell so heavily upon those who now
control the lower house Of our national
Congress. Was he made q brigadier in
'62 and a major general in '63 by Con-
gress because he was a copperhead? Did
he act the part of a cOpperhead at Chica-
in 80. when he worked so hard and so
persistently to secure a third nomination
for his old commander, the man who
never received even the credit he de-
served at the hands of the Democratic
press until he esp0used the cause of Fitz
John Porter, and gave his Influence to
whitewash that traitor. l am aware
Logan was a Democrat before the war
but never since. Perhaps as your co.
temporary was quite young In those
times he don't know what a cOpperhead
was. Maybe 1 don't know, but 1 will
tell him what we think they were. They
were the men of the north, who, when
the south demanded the Missouri COM
promise gave 1t to them; when they de-
manded the fugitive slave law they gave
it to them; when they shouted, there
goes my niger, catch himpthey caught
him, and when the south had got dis
gusted and didn't want to stay in the
family with such company. and who
could blame them. Uncle Sam had to
say, "if you don't come back I'll wallop
you" They whined, "its demonstrations
al, you violate the constitution if you
coerce Them" These were the copper
heads in their primary condition; they
developed into regular thorough bred
butterRut stock. They opposed every
wal measure, did all they could to en-
barass the administration. to discourage
and demoralize the army, and give all
the aid and encouragement to the ene-
my. They SUNK off to Canada and
shouted the war is a failure. These are
the Shiny, sinking things we called cop
perheads. John A. Logan was not made
Of that kind Of stuff, never trained ia
that company, and when the C~heboygan
Democrat says he was, is or ever can be
a copperhead, it lies.
10 ARMY CORPS.