Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1875 — SENATOR LOGAN'S DEFENSE OF THE ADMINISTRATION. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR LOGAN'S DEFENSE OF THE ADMINISTRATION.

The following fe thc-teiegraphic synopsis dAift kent great speech delivered in the? Clrifcd ‘StatedSenate’- br Gelt Logan in defense of the cowwe of the Adminißtration in the tJonth, but wore ship in the midst of a great storm, and &enattttaOuMiwetoeof tire dhmnber had been Md that a great storm of indignation was gathering In fins land which would certainly wreck the Republican craft. The Republican party had been characterized as tyrannical and opDre&aive Anri, the course of the party anri thy brtte® d ei n s£r^ y fi party. What was the cause of «U this ? He might be mistaken, buLhe thought this wks should be breaented to the American people t eminent in Louisian*; whether It was a gtreeffln&am rtgM> or not was Waquasin Louisiana f Whether they called it a government dey»re-or.a government de-facto waa another question. Itjwoplfinotdgfor the fekS no X Of the Legislature OU the ’dbb iiwt, thaojtiie election of a hundred years hence. IF there was no government in Louisiana, as had bbten" argued by tire Senators' <m the other side, why did they make nil this noise and eon1 <Md not propose to evade' tire question in thatmaaner. However, there W 4 government in that State, a.gbvernment recognized by the courts, and recognized by branches Of Congress'and by a majority of the citizens of; that State. The acta’of the Conservatives in the Louisiana Legislature on the 4th ’ taat were acta of treason against the State, for which they should fa«ws-. been punished. It had been On the night before tlfo election in Louisiana last fall notices were, posted upon the •ddors of white and colored Republicans notifying them that if they voted the Republican ticket for safe teweltntereiglveh to colored men who to lta “ ' Dbgdn i rend drib of these

passes as follows: - -—— •m.l. voteddor the Democratic candidates. that the Democrats wanted no favors or concessions from KeL lo**.I o **. or Packard, and that the Returning tion they shfiuM forfeit thefr livis. There should be a concert pf action throughout the State, and such action should bp prompt and emphatic-. Resuming his aneutnent, he said the Senator from Georgia (Gordon) -was in, the habit of bringing in Georgia at all times when. an. intimation was spoken of to show that that State Was peaceful. He (togah) would apeak on that point before be concluded. _ Senatoi Gordon had yesterday, askted where the judlcifh officers of Lottisr-

ana wvje< #hy they did not arrestanApun,|sh the perpetrators of crlma in ; Red River pdrish? He (Logan) WnP Where ■they.were. The'AttorneV Was ffitirdered by the some banditti which murdered the toen at Coushatta. '1» «t* jj and said the aete Of WUtx iii the Legislature were the acta of a revolutionary body,. Gov. Kellogg took no action whatever. The Legislature had been taken possession of»by a' inob. As Governor at 4ae State it was his dutyto-doatiin his Txjwer to preserve peaceand order. It was Kellogg himself who took the responsibility of calling upon the troops. Presideut-G rant had, nothing to do with itj, Sheridan had nothing to do with. it, and the. Senate had nothing to do with it. Therefore the denunciation heaped upon President Grant by. the Democrats for using the army went for naught, fofche knew no more about it than the Democrats did until he saw it in print. The Democrats could not wait to hear all the facte about Louisiana. They .wanted to have a clamor raised before the epuntry for political purposes and for nothing else. The Democratic part& had indorsed resolutions ten times as strong as this complained of in /few Orleans. He (Logfin) believed that this raid made on the Senate in the <Nsw York that this revolutton was to be made in Loutsiana for the purpose of ever turning the Legislature of that State. He did nbtsay the'understanding was among the Democrats of the Senate, hut it was somewhete. He defended - the action of Kellogg in calling upon the military ana said had the Democrats been in power and the Republicanstriqd to overthrow them as the Democrats tried to overthrow the Republican Government in New Orleans, the Democrats would have acted just as Kellogg.4id. The , Democratic party had frequently indorsed the use pt military lorce. Gen. Jackson, when in thtsbame eity-(New Orleans), arrested and imprisoned Judge Ifull for issuing a writ of habeas co/pus. After Ward the Democrats elected him President of the United States. anthortebd the>uße as the trpops from the navy-yard and Fort Independence to arrest this slaVei When the Republican! party used the army to enforce the law these, same Demidcrats howled as if a set of wolves were about to devour them and their homes. In 1856, in Kansas, in the town of Topeka, a free State Legislature met. Franklin Pierce, a Democratic President, Issued hU proclamation commanding that body to disperse* and Jefferson Dakin, then Secretary of War, issued an order placing the United States army under edmrnwid of the Governor of that State* Col. Sumner, afterward a General, did disperse that legislature. That act was indorsed by thd Democratic party all over the country, But tiHrteame party to-day denounce the Republicans because Gov. Kellogg, without an order of the President’s, used the army to put duttoMMHibwere not members ot the Legis-

Big the arrest of the Legislature of Maryland, to be in secession when that order was issued, had denounced Sheridan in this debate; he formaking New Orleans behave ittelf, “nd there might be a second President from the Up, Mira and destroy tite-Gover unseat as was toe before. sent to the Clerk’s desk and naa read the resolutions introduced hi the Virginia Legislature a few teytogo, fiMtoteh resffiutfons breatited a. spirit ofcreThe Senator from Delaware (Bayard) had satd-that Sheridan was not flt to breathe the air of the Republic. He X Logan) appealed to neath the sMn tog sun to preserve tiie Republic, w w.not fit to teeathe its air He (Logan) could see ih the canvass now passing before the Senate tfraiispire when the

indiscreet remark in thedispateh.would cause took to destroy his fair Bafflettyjuch language as has boemused here did not understand the to efoSP da« wasmrt fit to breath* Ate air of tire Republic” was an invitation to the White League to assassinate him. M he were not fit to iwe in S' more since he wrote that dispatch than they ever denounced Jeff. Davis and the whole rebeHion during the four years tt Was’ thunderonly reason rriiy peace was there to-day was

KHSiSa ifeident Grant told the people of that State that they must stop their outrages or he would make them, and they had to stop Armagh of the&mate:te investigate the Southern outrageg. He did wot, know if it Were the same John B. Gordon jiow in the Senate. That gentleman could answer for himself-be--1 forte that committee. Gordon testified in reference to the Ku-Klux having been spoken of in that State and that tile position of chief of that order wm offered him, bat the organ- ’ izaUon, never was perfected add •<» -■ •» todesk and. had read, a letter signed to Jack Republican proclivities to sentiments could hold any social position in that State, and •further complained Democrate, who sere, toe d nomtaati s os tor^ „ tara ..or Georgia, ar d-sald that in the Fourth District there were, bat eighteen Rapublicau,votes out that threats made toward-the colored people made them afraid to exercise the rights given and had read an editorial from a pwper pufo llshed in Atlanta, Ga.,. commenting.ou tlje telegrams of Sheridan In regard Id Nfew Orieane/andwayfogttW'toptt&fole that, foolMS'Lmarsa.; srss people of New Orleans to .begin fighting, -tut the time had come for them to strike.

Mr. Loganjsajd he had no doubt there were many Democrats in the South who would like to see Sheridan hung- to a lamp-post. He cared a«t whether the editor of the paper reflected the sentiment of the people of Georgia or not. Such -language had its effect upon the people of lgmisiana, who were easily excited. He next referred to Alabama, and had read a letter of Judgfe' Kleis in reference to the shooting of his. asa. He (Mr. Logan) admitted there were murders in that section within the past-two or three era wcre hungWr seat to fitats prison,-wkde Sdicted. son • was mur*' -dered white'in company with ite fatbor, who was guarding Ite balloLbox- .Jpiery were no such murders as these m the North. There might be fraud there, but men were never murdered fore political opinions, lie next toad Item an A&bama paper to the . summoned to Mobile as a witness in a case. ‘ drawn by them, and he had to take refuge in the Court-House for safety. He then spoke of outrages In the South st some length, and said the stench of outrage, • urardefi and pii" Clerk’s desk and had read the report of Gen. Sheridan, to the Secretary of, War. dated Jan. 10, 1875, stating that 3,500 persons had been murdered in Louisiana since IWW, and argued that these murders were committed by men banded together for thia purfitlse, ana they ware'banditti. .

Mr. Logan said the Democratic Stenafors on this floor had said to Republicans: Withdraw your, troops if you want peace. H« (Mr. Logan) had heard ft said once Withdraw your troops from Kort Sumter if S and with treason all over the land. The Republican party had. teen accused of being oppressive. In what did its oppression consist? Instead of leaving the Southern States as Territories,; where it could hgvahgd. jurisdiction over them sos the .next twenty years, what did the party do? lfr bßOrga&iz«d them aa States, and admitted as representatives on this floor men who had thundered against the gates of liberty. There was not a man asking for pardon who did not get it. Was that oppression?' What was to be seen to-day? The the Government—twenty-seven in. the otter branch of Congress ana three In this. The Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy held a seat in the other house of Congress by .The Democratic party had covered! this whole lahd with mourning and given UrUie country a pension-roll as.long as the land, but for dll these things they had teen pardoned. > * ; The President had been denounced hteeas a tyrant wte oppressed the Southern people. How did he oppress them? When tne KuKlux were tried and convicted he pardoned them. Some of the men who fpught against the Government he sent abroad on foreign missions: others he put In the departments here. He did all he could to reconcile them. For these acts he was arraigned here as a Caesar, aa a tyrant, as an oppressor. President Grant did not desire that the White League South should quit their every-day chivalric sports of gunning M negroes and Repabltcans. It was in the power of the Democratic party to-day to speak in tones of majesty in favor of human life, and then all the Ku-Klux business would atop. But the Democratic party would not do that, and that is the reafion these outrages have not stopped; Some men would say it was strange to see Strange. He might disagree with the President when he believed him to be wrong; but when such charges are made against him aa had teen made here he weuld stand here from the rising of the sun in the morning until its setting in the eveifing to defend every act ‘ He' YMr' struction of these Boutnern States. He (Mr. Logan) would appeal to every honorable man who fought against the countiy, if there was honor in doing it, to verify what he said in defense of President Graton He had built no priaon-pen for Southern soldiers, nor pfovided any dead-line upon which to shoot them down... Whffli he captured the whole Democratic party of the South at Appomattox he turned them loose with their arms and horses, and gave them provisions. When Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, and etitera fflte Democratic party wte dead and rotten in its £SS3:iSE-" 'Stgaggry texture of the

State bad reobgflfred lt; ! 'ihe’Bnpretob s Cohrt of the State and one house of Congress had - recognized it Now the dwtoto the Rcpublielected at SflWbr, Some people would say that this was a strange position for him (Mr. LpjrenL to lake; but above at the helm she would not He (Mr. Logan) could lotrtf over the broad oeeau- as ceeamtoiem, to-day and see that the herself at the shores reserved for her—the shores of honesty and justice—and there rest iJ®': of applause in the gallery, but the VicePresident announced tisat«*he-rule would be enfflrOed,-auA erder wan restored.