National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-02-20
TIE CHEAT Conspiracy.
Extracts From Gen. Logan's Forthcom-
ing HistoricaI Work.

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DAVIS AND LINCOLN CoNTRAsTED.
Meanwhile the seeding states OF the
south were strengthening their attitude by
confederation. On Feb 4, 1861, the con
vention Of the seeding states, called by
the South Carolina convention, at the time
OF her secession, met, In pursuance of that
call, at Montgomery, Ala, and on the 9th
adopted provisional constitution and or
ganized a provisional government by the
election Of Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi,
Gs president and Alexander ii. stephens, OF
Georgia, us vice president, to serve until
presidential election could be held by the
people Of the cOnfedoracy. Mr.. Davis al
most at once left jackson, Miss, for Mont
gomery, where he arrived and delivered his
inaugural Feb. II, having received on his
road thither Il succession OF ovations from
the enthusiastic rebels, to which he had re-
spondcd with no less than twenty-five
speeches, very similar in tone to those
made In the United States Senate by Mr..
Wigfall and Others Of that ilk-breathing Mt
once defiance and hopefulness, while adj
hitting the difficulties in the way of the
new confederacy.
at may be.n said he, at jackson, "that
we will be confronted by war; that the at
tempt VIII be made to blockade our ports, to
starye us out; but they (the Union men Of
the nortb) know little Of the southern heart;
Of southern endurance. No amount of prl-
Vaton could force us to remain In Union
on unequal terms. England and France
would not allow our great staple to be
damned up within our present limits; the
starving thousands In their midst would not
hnun tgsn nj
from blockade. But If they attempt inva-
sion by land, we must take the war out of
our territory. IL war must come, II must
be upon northern and not upon southern
soil In the meantime, If they were pre-
pared TO grant us peace, to recognize our
equality, all Is we'll"
And, in his speech at Stevenson, Ala,
said he: "Your border states will gladly
come into the southern confederacy within
sixty days, as we will he their only friends.
England will recognize us and Il glorious
future is before us. The grass will grow in
the northern cities, where the pavcments
have been worn of by the tread of com
merce. We will carry war where II Is easy
TO udvance--wheie food for the sword and
torch await our armies In the densely popu.
lated cities; and, though they may come
and spoil our crops, we can raise them as
before, while they cannot rear the cities
which took years Of industry and millions
Of money TO build.n
Very different in tone to these were the
kindly and sensible utterances OF Mr.. Lin.
coin on his journey from Springfield to
Washington about the same time for inaug-
nration as President of the United States.
Leaving Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. IL, he had
pathetically said:
my friends: No one, not in my position,
can realize the sadness / feel at this parting,
To this people / owe all that am Here
have lived more than quarter of century.
Here my children were born, and here one
them lies buried. know not how soon
shall see you again. go to assume task
more difficult than that which has devolved
upon any other man since the days of Wash
ington. He never would have succeeded
except for the aid Of Divine Providence,
upon which he at all times relied. | feel
that cannot succeed without the Divine
blessing which sustained him and on the
same Almighty Being l place my reliance
for support. And l hope you, my friends,
will all pray that may receive that Divine
assistance, without which cannot succeed,
but with which success is certain. Again
bid you an affcctionate FAREWELL
As he progressed on that memorable
Journey from his home in Illinois, through
indianapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Pitts
burg, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, Albany,
New York, Trenton, Newark, Philadelphia,
and Interchangeable the prayers and
blessings and acclamations Of an enthusi-
astic and patriotic people-he uttered words
Sde Sss the high unc2ons an
tremendous responsibilities to which the
voice Of that liberty-and- Union-loving peo-
pie had called him, and this, too, with a
full knowledge, when he made the Philadel-
phia speech, that the enemies Of the repub-
lie had already planned to assassinate him
before he could reach Washington.
LINcoLN's INAUGURATION.
A few hours later, under the shadow of
the great eastern portico Of the capitol at
Washington, with the retiring President
and Cabinet, the Supreme Court justices,
the foreign diplomatic corps, and hundreds
Of senators, representatives, and other dis
tinguished persons filling the great plat
form on either side and behind them, Abra-
ham Lincoln stood bareheaded before fully
10000 people, upon whose unified faces
the unveiled glory Of the mild spring sun
now shone, stood reverently before that far
greater and mightier presence termed by
himself, "My rlghtful masters, the Ameri-
can people, and pleaded in manly, ear
nest, and affectionate strain with "such as
were dissatisfied" to listen to the 'better
angels' of their nature.
Temperate, reasonable, kindly, persuasive
it seems strange that Mr.. Lincoln's in
augural address did not disarm at least the
him, and sufficiently strengthen Union. low
ing people there, against the red-hot seces-
sionists, to put the "brakes" down on re-
bellion.
Strange indeed must have been the
thoughts that crowded through the brain
and oppressed the heart Of Abraham Lin
coin that night--his first at the white house
The city OF Washington swarmed with
rebels and rebel sympatizers and all the
departments Of government were honey
combed with treason and Swallowed with
treachery and espionage. Every step pro-
posed or contemplated by the government
would be known to the so-called govern
ment Of the confederates states almost as
soon as thought Of. All means to thwart
and delay the carrying out Of the govern
ment's purposes that the excuses of routine
and red tape admitted Of would be used by
the traitors within the camp to aid the
traitors without.
No one knew all this better than Mr..
Lincoln. With no army, no navy, not even
a revenue cutter left; with forts and arsen-
ais, ammunition and arms In possession of
the rebels; with no money In the national
treasury and the national credit blasted
the position must even to his hopeful ma
ture, have seemed at this time desperate.
To be sure, despite threats, neither few nor
secret, which had been made that he should
not live to be inaugurated, he had passed
the first critical point-had taken the inau-
gural oath-and was now duly installed in
the white house. That was something, of
course, to be profoundly thankful for. But
the matter regarded by him of larger mo-
ment, the safety of the Union, how about
that?
How that great, and just, and kindly
brain, in the dim shadows OF that awful
first night at the white house, must have
searched up and down and along the laby-
Tinths Of history and corridors OF time''
everywhere In the past for any analogy or
excuse for the madness of this secession
unconventional searched in vain.
THE FIRING ON FORT sUMTER-ITs EFFECT
AT THE SOUTH,
During all this thirty-four hours of bonn