The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-08-06
LOGAN SELLING
FREE NEGROES INTO SLAV-
ERY AT AUCTION.
From the Memphis Appeal.

nominee for Vice President. H(
has pursued this unfortunate race
with beastly ferOcity. In other
days, when the negro was in slav-
cry and needed sympathy, Logan
regarded the soil of Illinois as too
sacred to be polluted by his cen-
taminating tread. If there is a col
ored man in the South so lost to
self lf-respect as to vote for John A.
Logan after reading the exposure
we intend to make in this article,
then he is SO debased and degraded
as to vote for the most cruel slave
driver that ever welded the lash.
Ignorant of the past record of Lo-
gan-hIs atrocious cruelty to the
race when he proposed to hunt
them down as wild bcasts-the ne>
groes are hswling fer his election.
Can it be possible that this is the
same John A. Logan who, in the
Illineis Legislature, secured the
passage of bill selling intS slavery,
at public auction, all free negroes in
the State? When the constitution
of Illinois was framed in 1S48, there
were two provisions in it which
were separately submitted to the
people for their adoption or rejec-
ton. One was that NO negro or
mulatto shall be permitted to mi
CRATE or settle in the State. On
this the vote was I'll 1896 to II ,3O6,
being n majority of 100,59 for the
provision against the admission of
negroes or Inulattoes into Illinois.
John A. Logan voted with the ma
jority to exclude the negroes from
the State. The other constitutional
provision submitted to the people
was that the negroes should not
hold Office or have the right of suf-
frags On this question the vote
stood 211 $40 to 35, ,649, being a ma
jority of 1921 against allowing
negroes or mulattoes to hold Office
or to vote in Illinois. John A. LO-
gan vsted with the majority against
the negroes. To carry these pro-
visions into effect, John A. Logan,
who was O member of the Legisla-
turs and of the Judiciary Commit
tee, reported to the Legislature Of
1853 and secured the passage of the
following bill:
IF A NEGRO OR MULATTO,
BOND OR FREE, SHALL HERE
AFTER COME INTO THIS
STATE AND REM AIN TEN
DAYS WITH THE EVIDENT IN
TENTION OF RESIDING IN
THE SAME, EVERY SUCH NE
GRO OR MULATTO SHALL BE
DEEMED GUILTY OF A 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 t H E PRO
CEEDINGS WERE HAD, 1T
SHALL BE THE DUTY OF
SAID JUSTICE TO COMMIT
SAID NEGRO OR MULATTO TO
THE CUSTODY OF THE SHER-
IFF, OR OTHERWISE KEEP
HIM, HER OR THEM IN GUS
TODY; AND SAID JUSTICE
SHALL FORTHWITH ADVER-
TISE SAID NEGRO OR MULAT-
TO, AND ON THE DAY AND
AT THE TIME AND PLACE
MENTIONED IN SAID ADVER-
TISEMENT THE SAID JUSTICE
SHALL, AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
PROCEED TO SELL SAID Ne
GRO OR MULATTO TO ANY
PERSON, OR PERSONS, WHO
WILL PAY SUCH FINE AND
COSTS EOR THE SHORTEST
TIME; AND SAID PURCHASER
SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO
COMPEL SAID NEGRO OR MU-
LATTO TO WORK FOR, AND
SERVE OUT SAID TIME. IF
SAID NEGRO OR MULATTO
SHALL NOT WITHIN TEN
DAYS AFTER THE EXPIRA-
TION OF HIS, HER OR THEIR
TIME OF SERVICE, AS AFORE-
SAID, LEAVE THE STATE, HE,
SHE, OR THEY SHALL BE IL
! ABLE TO A SECOND PROSE-
CUTION, IN WHICH THE PEN
Atty TO BE INFLICTED
SHALL BE 800, AND SO
ON FOR EVERY SUBSEQUENT
OFFENSE THE PEN ALT Y
SHALL BE INCREASED $50
| OVER AND ABOVE THE LAST
| PENALTY.
! John A. Logan was the author
and champion of this bill, which
was not repealed until 1865. He
drafted it, and the records of the
Illinois Legislature show that he
carefully guarded its severe and
cruel provisions against all amend.
ments. The slave code was called