The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-07-03
(From the Crawford Co. Forum.)
Was John "A. Logan a Re-
bel?

(From the Crawford Co. Forum)
Was John "A. Logan a Re.
bel?
SULPHUR SPRINGS O., /
June 19, 1884
To the Editor of the Forum:
am a seeker for information
upon a point of vital interest t.
myself and thousands of others
Did or did not John A. Logan. tn
present Republican candidate fo
Vice President, recruit soldiers 6'
the army! I want proof, not op-
iBions. AN OLD SOLDIER.
The inquiry of our correspond
ent is pertinent, especially wher
Logan is put forth as the candidate
of the soldiers. Under such cir
cumssances it is meet that all pos
sible light shall be thrown upou
the question of his loyalty at the
outbreak of the war. With this
end in view, We shall first present
the positive evidence. supplement
ing it with carroborative cir:um-
stantial evidences.
Nearly a month before the as
sembling of the recent Republican
National Conv ention, when an effort
was being made to create a senti-
mate favorable to Logan's nomln-
alton for FIRST place On the ticket,
the Chicago Newsa . paper Of m
questionable Rspublicanism, con-
tained the following:
"But Logan did not confine his
hatred to the North to more words,
as the following from an affidavit
sworn before John G. Harmon,
clerk of the circuit court Of Alex
ander county, Illinois, September
80. 1876, will show:
l. John Wheatrev, q resident Of
the city, county and State afore-
said, do solemnly swear that on the
2St., day of May, 1861, l went from
Williamson county to join Captain
j. B. Cunningham's company co.
Of the Fifteenth Regiment of Tenn
esse Volunteers; that Major Gener-
RI John A. Logan, !now a candidate
for Congress at-large, and who rep
resented this(thirteenth) Congres-
sional District, was the chief per-
son who raised said compaoy and
persuaded me to join the same; that
Logan accompanied us(about sew
enty..in number) in the night part |
of the way from williamson county |
to Paducah, according to John A.
Logan's instructions, to evade
Union troops, which he stated were |
stationed at Cairo"
My son, r. L. Wheatrev, Thom-
pson Coder, Harry Hayes, William
rinkee, jackson Brown, Jackson
Law, George Law, Joshua Law,
and others; all except the FIRST,
now residing, when l last heard
from them, in Marion, Williamson
Illinois, members of said
will attest the truth Of
his statement.
From the tenor. of this affidavit
our correspondent can draw his
,wD conclusions.
Fortunately the clrcumstantial
'vidence that at the outbreak of the
var, and for nearly three months
Logan was a sympathiz-
+ with the South, is abundant.
At that time he was q member of
Congress from the Egypt" dis
rlct in Southern Illinois, firm be-
lever in the :diyine institution"
i: slavery, and very active in the
enforcement Of the fugitive slave
aw. He was a leading man in
hat sectioh of the State, to him
be benigbted people Of that prim-
tive region looked for guidance
nd ::advice. Among these people
he sympathy for the cause of the {
'outh was undisguised. During J
be winter of 1860 81, and through j
he following spring and summer, t
and subsequent to the be-
inning of tho war, when patriotic q
oicss and hands were raised in de- |
snse of the Union. John A. Logan 4
emained at bis home IN Carbon
ale, and gave no sign Of patriotic.
rdor that is said to agitate
is soul and thrill his manly bosom. l
a tho meantime many of his il
eighbors, misguided young men, 4
no worshipcd Logan as their po-
tical deity, were enlisting in the :,
bel army. John Logan's infu .
ice with these men was unbound =
|, yet we do not find that he pro. .
sted against their enlistments.
he did not, as asserted in the
'ove affidavit, encourage thom "
ere is no word of his record to Al
ow that he advised them against 81
9 step. On the fifteenth day of ~; "
me, just two months after the "a
esident's first call for troops, the at
.rbondale Times, printed IN Lo- al
MS own town, declared that the q !,
ntiment. of the people of William Fl Fl
n county was largely favorable to sc
. South. Against this Logan, al be
ough his influence in the county ~
Is almost boundless, did not pro- ~
Il honf fha sama tina tho