Vindication of the President. Extract from the speech of Hon. John A. Logan, delivered in the Senate
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Speech of Major-General John A. Logan: On Return to Illinois, After Capture of Vicksburg (Classic Reprint)
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In view of the bravery in battle of the Soldiers of Illinois, and of the patriotism of the Union defenders of that State, we exclaim.
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Fitz-John Porter: Speech of Hon. John A. Logan, of Illinois, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, December 29, 1882, and Tuesday and Wednesday, ... Relief of Fitz-John Porter (Classic Reprint)
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Congress may by an act give the President of the United States author ity to nominate him again to a position in the Army.
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The Proposed Ohio Senatorial Investigation: Speech Of John A Logan (1886)
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The Volunteer Soldier of America (Classic Reprint)
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The defects and failures of the militia laws add to the growing sentiment in favor of a military school Ineffectual attempts through a series of years are made to give vitality to the militia laws A short sketch of the principal of these attempts General Knox once more appears upon the scene, and endeavors to save the situation by another appeal in behalf of establishing a militia system upon the principle of rotation Knox's ideal army of veterans spring ing from the walks Of civil life His last appeal and disappearance from a scene which he had adorned as a volunteer, as a distinguished soldier, an eminent statesman, and an estimable citizen Review of General Knox's plan of rotation as applied to the organization of the military resources The use of the principle of rotation applied to the advocacy of a military school Full text of the law of 1794, providing for the organization of a corps of artillerists and engineers This law becomes the initial movement even tuating in the establishment Of the military school at vest Point - Salient points of the law The grade of cadet established in the American service.
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The Great Speech of Hon. John A. Logan, at Cairo, Ill., June 30, 1866 (Classic Reprint)
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Union would have been destroyed and the independence of the South become a fixed fact? Is there a man in this country'so big a fool, so great an ass, as to assert before this country that those men ought to have been represented in our Congress during the time 01 this war? I presume not. 'yet if they had no r1ght there, the right am not come back to them, as they threw down their arms, and there must be some act on the part of the Government to' restore them before they could ever exercise it.
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Speech of Gen. John A. Logan, at Morris, Illinois, September 1st, 1868: The Charge of Republican Extravagance Refuted, Democratic Financiering, How ... Seymour Undo What Grant Has Accomplished? T
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Taking these facts and these figures, I ask you to tell me. Where there is a party, or set oi men, that. Can do more than has been done to release the people from their burthens, than has been done by the Republicans? great applause.
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Speech of the Hon. John A. Logan, of Illinois: In the Senate of the United States, Thursday, March 13, 1884 (Classic Reprint)
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Mr. President: In 1865, when war had ceased, when our citizens were no longer aroused by the distant rumbling of artillery, when blood had ceased to flow, and the good women of our country, as ministering angels, had ceased to smooth the brow of the weary and wounded sol dier, when all breathed freely once more, we then had reason to sup pose that all things necessarily connected with the prosecution of the war against rebellion would remain undisturbed; and that all proceed ings on the part of those in charge of national affairs which had been conducted in accordance with the laws and the Constitution were set tled forever upon principles of equity and justice.
In the prosecution of the war against treason they believed they were preserving to future generations a great government, and that all nations of the earth might receive beneficial lessons from the course pursued by those who had maintained the national unity and supremacy. We did not believe that the history as it was then honestly made would be reversed, that the judgment of courts fairly, legally, and honestly entered would in after years find a Congress that would set them aside and rewrite the history of the trial; not only rewrite it, but write it down against those who preserved the Government and in favor of those who failed at a perilous moment, that, too, at a time when all the power and the patriotism should have been combined for the purpose of producing one grand result for the benefit of mankind.
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Self Government In Louisiana: Speech Of John A. Logan, Of Illinois, In The Senate Of The United States, January 13-14, 1875 (1875)
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John Alexander Logan was an American soldier and politician.
Background
John Alexander Logan was born on a farm in Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois, United States. His father, Dr. John Logan, was of Scotch descent, an immigrant from the north of Ireland who settled first in Maryland, then in Missouri, and finally in Jackson County, Illinois, near the present Murphysboro. His second wife, Elizabeth Jenkins, also of Scotch ancestry, was the mother of his eleven children.
Education
John received a broken education which included some study of law.
Career
Logan served as a lieutenant in the Mexican War. Then he began law practice, served in local offices and in the Illinois legislature. In 1858 he was elected to Congress from the eleventh Illinois district, as an anti-Lecompton Democrat. Logan's spread-eagle oratory and contentious spirit, together with the abundant black hair that suggested Indian ancestry, made him a noticeable spokesman of the "Egyptian" counties constituting his district. He was sent to the Charleston convention of 1860 as a Douglas supporter, and was again elected to Congress that autumn. At intervals for the rest of his life he was forced to repel the calumny of having been at heart a Southern sympathizer; but he was able to bring to his vindication the testimony of Lucius Q. C. Lamar and the words of his numerous Union speeches in Congress. When his Democratic associates from the South went home in the winter of 1861, he repeatedly avowed his determination to stand by the Union. In the spring he seized a musket and marched with a Michigan regiment to the battle of Bull Run; and when the special war session came to an end he hurried back to "Egypt" and raised the 31st Illinois Regiment, of which he was at once made colonel.
His military career was distinguished. He took his regiment into early action, had a horse shot under him at Belmont, was twice wounded, was made a brigadier-general after Fort Donelson, and a major-general after Vicksburg. In the fighting around Atlanta he commanded the XV Corps of the Army of the Tennessee; and upon the death of McPherson, July 22, 1864, he took command of that army. It was a matter of deep chagrin to him, and to his Illinois supporters, that, upon the recommendation of Sherman, Lincoln relieved him of this command. Logan believed that the discrimination against him was due to the West Point prejudice against a volunteer; but the fact was that Sherman mistrusted Logan's active political interests, which often took him from the field, and furthermore, as he later explained, although he considered Logan "perfect in combat, " the latter "entertained and expressed a species of contempt" for the laborious preparations in logistics that a commander, to be successful, must carry on. Logan declined a permanent commission in the regular army and was discharged in 1865.
He helped organize the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was three times president; and he went back to Congress as a Republican, elected in 1866 as representative-at-large from Illinois. The Democratic counties of his old district now gave him a substantial majority as a Republican. He was reelected in 1868 and 1870, and in 1871 was chosen senator from Illinois. He lost this seat in 1877, because of a coalition of Democrats and independents that gave it to David Davis; but he obtained the other seat by ousting R. J. Oglesby in 1879; and was chosen for a third term after a prolonged deadlock in 1885.
In the Senate Logan was a stalwart Republican who associated himself with all matters of veteran relief. His dislike for West Point and its graduates was never far beneath the surface. He clung to his job, for he had no other means of support; and when his defeat in 1877 threw him into poverty his wife was bitter because President Hayes did not provide him with an appointment. He was naturally a worker for the nomination of Grant in 1880, making every effort to establish the right of the Illinois convention to name the district delegates and to bind them to the unit rule; but he accepted Garfield and organized the western canvass.
In 1884 he had some local support for the presidency, but was obliged to take the second place on the Republican ticket. He fought a vigorous campaign, knowing it to be a losing one, and in the outcome derived his mortification less from Cleveland's victory than from that of Hendricks, whom he believed to have been disloyal.
The last months of his life were devoted to the compilation of his war book, The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History (1886), which is unimportant save as an expression of his views, and to the preparation of a ponderous manuscript published after his death under the title: The Volunteer Soldier of America, With Memoir of the Author and Military Reminiscences from General Logan's Private Journal (1887). His last public utterance was a plea for every disabled "Union soldier who served in the army and has an honorable discharge" and for "Every Union soldier over sixty-two years old". He died in Washington, D. C.