Year: 1867

and if it can survive the admiration and
friendship OF home-bSdnd sympathizers
with the precious southren brethren, at
whose ignominious expense he won his
laurels, then, indeed, may his true and
real friends rejoice in the conclusion that
it is beyond lingering shadow of doubt
more than indestructible. Paradoxes
do not amount to phenomena, but new
ertheless they rarely pass away unno-
ticed, and the paradoxical proposition
OF finding in the selfsame member of
this House the friend alike of General
Grant and JEFF. Davis cannot do So 1t
is at least worth a passing comment.
There is not one single passing shadow
OF resemblance between the histories,
achievements, principles, sentiments, or
purposes Of the arbitrator and loyal
general. The one is small, in all things
small; the other is great in virtues and
talents that rank greatest The name
of the one will 60 down to posterity
byword Of scorn and reproach, while
the name of the other will live to be
given at the baptismal font to thousands
Of infant patriots yet to be born; and
to me it is riddle utterly incompre-
hensible that one and the same man can
be at one and the same time alike the
friend Of JEFF the traitor aud Grant the
patriot.


Mr.. ROBINSON How about Hor-
ace Greeleyi


Mr.. LOGAN. Greeley, indeed!
That he Is. .Jeffs friend you may prove,
but where is the evidence shat he is
Grantsi


WHAT he UNDERSTANDS gY FoRGIvNEss.
/ | trust that the apparent egotism Of
an allusion now that is somewhat nee
essary to myself will be pardoned |
am branded by political aud sectional
partisans with such epithets as "blood-
thirsty" "unforgiving," 'unrelentiug,"
&c, &c. How this has been ascer-
tanned is inexplicable to me. Who has
sought my forgiveness that have re-
fused to forgiye7 Forgiveness is taught
in the Lords Prayer, but we are not
therein instructed to thrust forgiveness
upon the unrepentant and defiant.
Forgiveness is not SO cheap virtue
that it may be prodigally wasted un-
asked upon the idle and Indifferent.
The forgiveness that anticipates repent
ance will multiply crimes faster than it
will reform criminals. When the rebels
of the South begin properly to repent
and tind moral courage enough to make
before the world manly acknowledge
ment Of it, then, and not until then,
will take into consideration the ques-
ton Of their forgiveness at all. have
no premium to offer in the shape of for
giveness to the insOlence of an obStinaey
that deigns not TO ask for that forgive
ness / would open a gulf between
treason and loyalty wide enough to make
the dwellers on its opposite shores
strangers, and deep enough to swallow
legiOns in arms. would fill it with
waves Of fire, through which no unre-
pentant living thing could swim, and
over which no soaring philanthropy
could fly and survive. Sickly senti-
mentalism is a great crime-breeder
lmpunity for one crime prOvokes the
preparation of many. l am not one
Of those who would hesitate to try,
convict, condemn and execute traitor
for treason.


Mr.. NIBLACK. l would ask the
gentleman whether, in the summer of
1861, after the war broke out, if he did
not vote, as memper of this House,
against the expulsion of General Johu
B. Clarke, of Missouri, who had Joined
the rebellion7


Mr.. LOGAN. The journals of this
House show all my votes, and the gen
tleman might have found all the infor-
nation l can give him there. l am
not in the habit Of voting in this House
to make unsupported rumors history.
A charge may have been filed here
against Gen. Clarke, and when the tes-
timony to sustain it was adduced, it may
have utterly failed, as in this case, ac-
cording to my recollection, it did. The
disposition, however, to make a verdict
thus conscientiously rendered by me, in
defense of an absent and unconvicted
member of their own party, rebound
now to my prejudice, furnishes another
beautiful illustration of Democratic
magnanimity and justice When I cast
that vote l voted with the Democratic
party; now it is thrown into my teeth
by member of that party as reproach.
1t may have been a reckless thing in me
then to doubt the natural strong proba-
bility that a Democrat was a rebel, and
for it, perhaps, deserve to be publicly
twitted and sharply rebuked; but l will
endeavor to see to it for the future that
| shall merit never another such Just j.
reprimand for such graceless reason
from such an ungrateful source. Laugh
ter.


WHY DEMOCRATS HATE HIM.


The unrelenting war waged against
me by the Democracy is liable to be
misunderstood if looked at superfciaHy.
1t is not because, as has been suspected.
by soule, was Democrat and am one
no longer. Dying out as it has been,
slowly but painfully, for the last eight
years with the dry rot, that party have
become too much accustomed to see
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