Year: 1867

NAi. LoGAN. OO lslf DIS AIN concern
ed should have obeyed orders, no
matter what thought. But the gen
gleman certainly ought not to be as
tonished at dodge ofthis kind. Those
people did that upon the same principle
that the Northern Copperheads lodged
the draft. Laughter and applause in
the galleries.


Mr.. BOYER. Mr.. Chairman, the gen.
tleman has lodged my question.
Laughter. He has failed to answer
1t, but replies evasively that he should
have obeyed orders. I would not have
supposed a gentleman so opposed to
dodging would have set us such an ex-
ample at this time. Laughter


Mr.. LOGAN. Well, SO far as nv
qualificatins for lodging are concerned,
the gentleman will probably learn some
thing more about them at some future
time, when he gets better acquainted;
with me. Laughter 1 have no dis
position to dodge anything. I only
assert facts; the gentleman can draw
his own differences from them. And 1
assert that the same thing will occur
again; not with the colored people any
more than with any other class. But I
tell the gel tleman now that l hear no
appeal coming from the starving peo-
pie of Missouri, although that State
suffered almost as much as any other on
account Of war. But because it is a
loyal State, because the loyal portion
of the people got control and held it
firmly in the Union, we are not called
upon to appropriate money o feed them.


Mr.. BOYER. 1 ask the gentleman
whether Missouri is not included in the
provisions of this resolution, whether,
it is not an appropriation for the South
and Southwest?


MI. LOGAN. do not understand it
as applying to Missouri. do not I'M
derstand that there is any report EN-
bracing any portion of Missouri in this
condition; or claiming that any States
are except those which have been i'll
insurrection against the Government


Mr.. BLAINE. Missouri is not en-
braced within the scope of this resolu-
tion at all.


Mr.. LOGAN. say to the gentleman
that we do not come here from Missouri
or Illinois, or from any of the northern
or northwestern States asking aims
from this Congress.


Although there are many poor peo-
pie IN the Northwest, we do not under
stand that we have 4 right to come to
Congress to be fed. We have all suf-
fered during the war and have many
people left penniless. There was suffer-
ing before the war, and starving people
all over the country, and who ever
thought of asking Congress to be the
dispenser of charities to class of peo-
pie who would not help themselves ?
But an age of treason has taught us
strange things; punish nobody, com
promise with traitors, and then feed
them whenever some one suggests it..
All this is done for States that rebelled,
but in the loyal States the voice appeal
ing in widows weeds for help must be
provided for in some other way, and our
anxiety, our charity, our sympathy,
turned in southerly direction.


Oh, We poor of the North, how un-
fortunate you were, if you ask aims of
the Congress of the United States, that
you had not lived in the land of trea-
son! Now, sir, although I entertain
so much respect for the Superintendent
of the Freedman's Bureau, yet if you
appropriate all the money for all the
charitable purposes for which he may
be inclined to ask, you may appropriate
millions on millions for all classes of
poor people South and may also feed
the people of Washington city so long
as it remains the capital of the nation.
And all this will be done with the best
intentions on his and your part. have
no doubt much money is being used to-
day by this Government for the sup
port, unwittingly, of families who foster
ed and nourishsd the late rebellion
Ay, sir, and families, too, who before
this rebellion never wore a garment
except at Government expense; who
never had a spear Of grass to grow in
their yards or a flower to spring up in
their gardens that was not watered by
the drippings of the Treasury of the
United States of America.


Sir, you will see by this resolution
that those who should be considered
the favored children of this land will
not be included among the starving
people now to be relieved atthe hands
of Congress; and appeal to honorable
members of Congress to say if charities
are to be dispensed by Congress. 1t
shall not be dispensed to one portion of
the country more than another. Put
not your hands into the Treasury of the
United States for the purpose of fat
tening and fostering treason again in
the land that gave it birth and where
it grew into manhood. The gentleman
from Pennsylvania Mr.. Boyer1 said he
was willing to open his great heart to
these suffering people. So am willing
to do so in aproper manner when much
deserving. But. sir, whence comes this
suffering2 1t was not by our act, not
by the act of the people North; it was
not in accordance with our wishes or
desires, but by their own act, their own
crime against their country. The gen.
tleman from Minnesota Mr.. Donnelly |
says we should do this act to encourage
the people and show them our affection
for them, or words to that effect. 1t
seems to me that we have shown our
forbearance toward this people. We
have offered them everything that they
could ask. Proposition after propo-
sition has been rendered them only to
be spurned with scorn and contempt.