Year: 1872

virtue made by Democratic Senators, or


their anxiety to adjourn now, after tn
] Senate has listened to a deliberate, ma
| lignant and cruel attack, put forth IN thei
| interest and the benefit of which they
expect to receive. Well may the Senators
on that side be satisfied with what has
| been done. Well may they say that they
desire to cease the public business and re-
turn home, now that this attack has been
prepared and put forth for their benefit
better prepared, better delivered and put


before the country in better shape than


either one of them, in my judgment, is


has been made, gentlemen, and made by


Senators claiming to be on this side of the


Chamber.


I came here this morning determined to


defend, in my feeble way, an old soldier


with whom | was in camp for years; but


[ saw that the pressure of public business


was such that if | attempted to do so I


would be accused of interfering with it


and making a called session necessary ::


and, therefore, refrained. And now,


say, that if the adjournment must take


place on Monday, and if called session


is to result, it can not be laid at the door of


the friends of the Administration, it can


not be laid at the door of the true Repub-


llCailS III Ul1lS CudluUGI, IL Cdu uOU Dc Idlu


at the door of the men who are deSirOuS of


performing their duties here without vast


ing time in political discussions but it


can be laid at the door of the two Sena-


tors who, night after night, have been


studiOusly preparing attacks upon the Ad


miniStratiOn and upon one Of the organ


lied committees of this body.


1t is no harm, however, if the result be


that called session shall be brought


about by their action. [ presume they


are responsible at this time to nobody,


and hence no one is affected by it. They


can take the responsibility, and l am


willing that they shall take it. But if the


session should be extended, | will, at the


proper time, in my feeble way, attempt
a defense against one Of the most malig-


nant assaults ever made against an honest
man-the assault made here yesterday
against the President of the United States.


[Applause in the galleries.


Such an assault was fitted, not for the
Senate Chamber, nor for the lower branch
of Congress it was fitted for no deliber-
ative body on earth it was fit only for
the hustings, and should have been ut
tered only from the lips Of some stump Or
atOr, who knew not the cOurtesieS or de-
cencies of the Senate Chamber An at
tack so brutal, so vile so malignant, could
never have been made except after cool,
calm preparation, and then only by a man
calculated to make such an attack. [ in
tend to defend the President of the United
States against it. / may be forced to do it
on the stump; but | assure you, sir, that |
will do it; and I will defend him, not be-
cause l indorse everything that has been
done by this Administration, but because
| believe an attack of this kind is intend
ed to destroy him with the people of this
country, whose liberties have been saved
by his own strong arm, which, in the
van of the loyalists of the land, severed
the chains of slavery and preserved the
UniOn-a thing that all the silvery words
ever uttered by the tongue of the Senator
from Massachusetts, (Nr. Sumner) never
and never could effect. This at
tack has been made upon man to whom
the country is more indebted than to any
other. He has his shortcomings, per-
haps, like other men, but he is entitled to
much. He is entitled to the gratitude of
this people; he is entitled to be defended
at their hands; he is entitled to be iusti-
fed in all things that are right; he is
entitled to be secure from aspersiOn, from
from Justification and frsm
SANDER. Subdued applause in the gale
ries.


And tell the Senator from Massachu-
setts now that he will find a response to
that malignant speech of his in every crutch
that aids wounded soldier to wend his
way through the world, in every wooden
arm, in the grieved heart of every widow |
ed mother mourning for her patriot SON
in these, and the hearts of all the loyal peo- |
pie of this country, he will find response
that will overwhelm him and all his ora
tory. All these will speak in thunder tones !
in defense of one of the most gallant sol !
diers that ever lived in any nation on earth |
Loud applause in the galleries, which !
was with difficulty suppressed. This is |
all I shall say now on this subject, because |
[ did not intend to occupy much Of the |
time of the Senate on this occasion. But |
let me say further to the Senator from
that when he prepares a
speech and delivers it here only twenty |
four hours before the expiration of the ses-
sion, if he is not afraid to have it answer |
ed he ought to let it appear in the Globe |
the next morning. [ looked in the Globe |
this morning for the Senator's speech, in |
order that might to-day reply to it para !
graph by paragraph, but it was not there. |


Mr.. Sumner. The Senate knows | am
not responsible for that. My desire was to |
have 1T appear.


Mr.. Logan am sorry that your desire |
was not accommodated / am only stating |

the fact. The same is true of the speech of |
the Senator from Missouri (Ir. SchurZ) |
last evening attacking the arms commit |
tee. 1t is not published this morning. so
that the committee have no record of it |
upon which they can rely. And now we
are told that the needs of the country are
such as to demand an adjournment at the |
earliest moment. Be it so. If the cause of
those Senators is so weak to-day before the |
people that when they vOmit forth their
venom upon the head of as good man as
either of them, they can not afford to give
an opportunity for reply, be it so. The
will understand it. The honest
hearted men and women and children o.
this land will read the purpose of these
gentlemen as plainly as you and can read
it. The people of this country have be-
come too intelligent to be deceived by any
man. 1t is an impossibility. They under
stand the whole programme. They know
that the road out of the Philadelphia Con.
vention is the road right into the arms OF
the Democratic party and they under
stand that speech making an attack upon
I fIo yoTNi Io., To ha