Year: 1865




Major General Logan, in q speech at Lou
isgille, urging the constitutional amendment
abollshing slavery, argued thus:


1t is SAID If the slaves are made free, Ken
tucky viii be without labor This is great


mistake. If made free, the probabilities


are that they viii remain, and for wages la


Dor with much more energy than heretofore.


II not made free, with no laws to protect


the institution, surrounded AS you are bY free


states, Offering to them an asylum and wa


ges TOR their labor, they win desert their
masters and ind for themselves home in a


foreign state, where the spirit of freedom il


universal. And would it not be better for
Kentucky to show her magnanimity, her
patriotism, her desire for a lasting peace and
the return Of fraternal feelings Dy at opcx
doing that which, If she does not do viii


soon do itself? Think of the great desire on


the part of the civilized world that the chains
of slavery, still clanking IN your State,


should be stricken from the limbs of the


black man by the generosity and Christian


spirit OF your own people. Let your cloud
kissing hills and smiling valleys once test


the energies of free labor, and ere long the
number you are behind your sister states in
population you will gather, the deficiency in


wealth you will accumulate Enterprise,
capital, intelligence, and Christianity viii
leap for JOY over the new and bright pros
poets before them. Kentucky will then take
the petition she ought to occupy among her
sister States, and claim rank and respecta-
billty second to none


Our land is swarming With thousands of
cripples; some have lost legs and others
arms: why do not these men 90 abroad
among the people and hold up their shatter-
ed limbs and tell ths stakeholder, This 10
what your institution has cost me- While
you were basking in the sunshine of
safety at home [ was at the front.
| return now to my home to drag out,
through q few lingering years, a miserable
life. Oh, that had the power tonight
to bring together all the shareholders of this
land, and have them look on in solemn ST.
lence, while the crippled, the widows and
orphans that have been made by this war,
could pass before them in grand review and
tell their tales Of misery and woe that slave
ry has brought upon them; were their hearts
net made of stone, they would melt while
gazing on such scene, and with one voice
let the land be at once rid of the curse that
has caused such dreadful scene Let US
cast our eye down along the banks of the
mighty father of waters, and then returning
start again at Perryville, and glance along
that broad and deep channel over which the
red tide Of battle rolled through the gorges
of the Cumberland and down along the plains
of Georgia on to the sea. Then pursue it
around through the Carolinas, to Raleigh,
and all over the crimsoned soil of Virginia,
and as you.count the almost countless graves
that lie along the banks of that river of
blood, thick as autumn leaves in Fallam-
brosa, pause for one moment to contem-
plate the seas of tears, the p0roEyerns of
unutterable agony, all these must have cost
when somebody darling" had to fall at
every blow, and then tell me, if you can,
when you know that slavery caused it all,
can you still cling to it2 1t has filed all the
land with mourning 1t has deluged your
y III e-~4-r--i~LI--1 u
Iana Win Iratcrtai uIuUu. It mas snapped
in twain the tenderest ties Of social society.
1t has caused desolation to reign in princely
palaces, where happiness had always held
It's revelS 1t has smitten with want and
woe millions who were born in the lap of
luxury.


How can any mortal man desire to see
sucha cause of sorrow and suffering, injury
and infamy, hypocrisy and hate, perpetual
ted among the institutions of his country?
In heaven name | implore you, strike at
once and deal it death-blow. Let it be
proclaimed to the ends of the earth. that we
live in land of universal liberty, where the
fires of patriotism, being rekindled, viii
glow on as brightly as ever, in Union that
has battered down the walls of treason.