Year: 1867




rarely has anything to say, and when he
does speak it is generally directly to the
point, and from that fact the inference is
fair that he will be found more than
equal to any occasion that may call on
him TO take care of the true, interests of
his fame and fortunes whenever and
wherever they may be directly or indi-
rectly threatened But were IsGeneral
Grant and really. aspiring to the presi-
dency I would give the gentleman not
ice that if he wanted an Office from me
his claims to consideration would not de
pend upon how much, but how little he
had to say in my behalf. Laughter
Presidents rarely owe their success to
their enemies. General Grant may learn
a wholesome lesson from the South about
the consequences of falling into bad
company bunting for friends. .HoTa


General Grant is eertainlya q great and
good man. He deserves and enjoys the
affection and confidence of this nation
His personal popularity is universal. His
military fame has spread. s ssr
"From earth's remotest bound to oceans loneliest
1t rests upon the adamantine pedestal Of
success and rises above mortal criticism
and if it can survive the admiration and
friendship Of home bound sympathizers
with the precious southern brethren, at
whose ignominious expense he won his
laurels, then, indeed, may his true and
real friends rejoice in the conclusion
thatit is beyond lingering shadow of
doubt more than indestructible. Para
doxes do not amount to pnenomenas,
but nevertheless, they rarely pass away
unnoticed, and the paradoxical proposi-
ton of finding in the self member
of this House the friend alike of Gen
eral Grant and JEFF. Davis cannot do so.
1t is at least worth passing comment
There is not one single passing shadow
Of resemblance between the histories,
achievements, principles, sentiments, or
purposes of the arch traitor and the 10y
al 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 go down to posterity by
word of scorn and reproach, while the
name of the other will live to be given
at the baptismal font to thousands of in
FAINT patriots yet to be born and to me
it is riddle utterly incomprehensibl
that one and the same man can be at one
and the same time alike the friend of
jeff. the traitor and Grant the patriot.


Mr. Robinson. How about Horace
Greeley


Mr. Logan. Greeley, indeed That
he is jeff S friend you may prove, but
where is the evidence he is Grants?


I trust that the apparent egotism of
an allusion now that is som what eces-
sarv to myself will be pardoned. / am
branded by political and sectional parti-
sans with such epithets as sbloodthirsty,'
..unforgiving,' s'unrelenting," &c, dc
How this has been ascertained is mex
plicahle to me- Who has sought my
forgiveness that have refused to for
give? Forgiveness is taught in the Lords
prayer, but we are not therein instructed
to thurst forgiveness upon the unrepent
ant and the defiant. Forgiveness is not
so cheap virture that it may be prodi-
galIy wasted unasked upon the idle and
indifferent. The forgiveness that antic-
ipates repentance will multiply crimes
faster than it will reform criminals
When the rebels of the South begin
properly to repent and find moral cOur-
age enough to make before the world a
manly acknowledgment of it, then and
not until then will take into considera
ton the question of their forgiveness at
all. have no premium to offer in the
shape of forgiveness to the insolence OF
an obstinacy that deigns not to ask for
that forgiveness. l would open u 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 ur
repentant living thing could swim, and
over which no soaring philanthropy
could fly and survive. Sickly sentimen
talism is great crime breeder. Impun
ity for one crime provokes the perpetra-
tion of many. Men are but grown-up
children. and when you spare the rod
you will spoil the child, whether the
child be young child or an old child. l
am not one Of those who would hesitate
to try, convict. condemn, and execute a
traitor for treason.


Mr.. Niblack. viii the gentleman al
low me to ask him question.


Mr.. Logan, Yes, if it is not very
long one.


Mr.. Niblack. I would ask the gentle
man whether in the summer of 1861,
after the war broke out, he did not vote
as member of this House against the
expulsion of General John b. Clark, of
Missouri, who had joined the rebellion?


Mr. Logan. The Journals OF this
House show ali my votes, and the gen
t]eman might have found all the infor-
nation I can give him there. / am not
in the habit of voting in this House to
make unsupported rumors history. A
charge may have been fled here against
@ eneral Clarke, and when the testimony
to sustain it was adduced it may have
utterly failed, as in his case, according
TO my recoll ction, it did. The dispo-
sition, however, to make a verdict thus
conscientiously rendered by me in de-
fensc of an absent and unconvicted
member Of their own party rebound
now to my prejudice furnishes another
beautiful lustration of Democratic mag
and justice. When / cast that
vote voted with the Democratic party;
now it is thrown into my teeth by