Speech of Hon. John a Logan, of Illinois, on the State of the Union
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John a Logan, of Illinois, on the State of the Union: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 5, 1861 What a sad change, Mr. Speaker, a few short weeks have wrought! Sir, to what are we to attribute all this? In order to deal properly with this subject, it is necessary for us to impure into the causes of this sad train of events, involving as they do the dismemberment of this, the best Government ever demised by man, and ascertain, if possible, whether or not there is any remedy that will stay the revolution and repair the disaster. Sir, what is the cause? It does seem to me that on argument is necessary before the honest and intelligent people of this country, to demonstrate the fact that the agitation of the slavery question, by fanatics and demagogues, North and South, in out of the halls of Congress, for years past, is the source of all our present troubles. The abolitionists of the North have constantly warred upon southern institutions by incessant abuse from the pulpit, from the press, on the stump, and in the halls of Congress, denouncing them as a sin against God and man; they have in many places, by mobs, resisted the execution of the fugitive slave law; they have in several of the northern States, by legislative enactment, made it a penitentiary offence for any one to assist in the arrest or rendition of a fugitive slave. By these denunciations and lawless acts on the part of abolition fanatics, such results have been produced as to drive the people of the southern States to a sleepless vigilance for the protection of their property, and preservation of their tights, whilst the abolitionists of the North have been engaged in their part of the work - poisoning the minds of northern people against southern institutions, and encouraging resistance to the due execution of the laws - ambitions, reckless, and seditious men at the South, of the Rhett and Yancy school of dis-unionists, have been no less industrious in creating a corresponding hatred to northern people and northern institutions, encouraging and inculcating a spirit of resistance to the authorities of the Government. They have seized upon every lawless act of the abolitionists of the North, and every denunciatory speech against southern institutions made by them in Congress or elsewhere, and presented them to the southern people in such a light as "to fire the southern heart" to such an extent that they were ready, upon the election of any man to the Presidency, who they believed sympathized in any degree whatever with the views, designs, or objects of the abolitionists, in reference to the institution of slavery, to be "precipitated into a revolution." The election of Mr. Lincoln was the golden opportunity presented to the unionists of the South - with whom there has been apparently concert of action on the part of the Garrisons, Wendell Phillips, Giddings, and Beecher school of politicians for years - for the overthrow of this Government. The opportunity was not allowed to pass. They seized upon the deep-seated feeling of ill-will that existed between a portion of the people of the two sections of the Union, and have the country now trembling on the verge of ruin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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