General Logan was elected to the House of Representatives of the fortieth and forty-first Congresses. He took part in the most important debates, having rank always with the leading members of the House. He was one of the managers in the impeachment of President Johnson. In all cases he sustained the policy of the Republican party in the work of reconstruction.

After four years of faithful and honorable service in the House he was elected to the Senate. He took his seat at the opening of the forty-second Congress. With the interruption of a term of two years he has continued a member of the Senate to the present time.

General Logan has been distinguished especially, both in the House and in the Senate, as the soldiers' friend. He was a witness of the hardships and sufferings met and endured by the armies of the Union; he was a sharer in the dangers of the war, and he feels, naturally, that the gratitude of the country cannot exceed the value of the services rendered by those who stood in the hot fire of battle for its defense.

His argument in the Fitz-John Porter case must be accepted as an exhaustive array of facts, and a clear presentation of the law. Its delivery occupied three whole days. It was not only listened to by a full Senate and crowded galleries, but the impression was so strong that the bill for the relief of General Porter was abandoned for the session.

There may be differences of opinion as to the merits of the appeal made to the country by Fitz-John Porter; but there can be none as to the merits of the argument of General Logan in support of the decision rendered more than twenty years ago by a competent military tribunal whose action was approved by President Lincoln.

The candidates of the Republican party represent the principles of the party, and they represent the military spirit of the country. Not the spirit of war. There is neither the wish nor the purpose to engage in new military undertakings; but there is in the Republican party an earnest wish and a fixed purpose to guard, protect and support in comfort the survivors of the armies by whose valor and sacrifices the Union was restored. There is neither arrogance nor injustice in the claim that the Republican party is the safer custodian of that duty.

The candidates of the Republican party are men of large experience in the affairs of the government. In the subordinate places of duty and trust the claim is made, and with good reasons, that experienced men should be preferred. Can it then be wise to bestow the chief posts of trusts and power and duty upon men without experience?

INDEX.

Acquisition of the territory of Texas gave fresh conse-
quence to slavery,

Act for the admission of Maine was approved March 3,
1820,

was passed for the admission of Missouri as a State
March 6, 1820,

of March 6, 1820, prohibited slavery in that part
of the original territory of Louisiana north of
parallel 36° 30', excepting in the State of Missouri,
approved February 8, 1861, authorized a loan of
twenty-five million dollars,

approved March 2, 1861, increased the duties upon
many articles of merchandise,

authorizing the issue of United States notes and
for funding the public debt, was approved Feb-
ruary 25, 1862,

of February 25, 1862, provisions of, relating to
United States notes, issue of bonds, sinking
fund, etc.,

establishing a national bank currency was approved
February 25, 1863, .

establishing national banks, its provisions, and the
advantages derived therefrom,

of February 25, 1862, does not permit the issue of
United States notes except upon the pledge of
redemption in coin,

to strengthen the public credit, approved March 18,
1869, was the first legislative act of the Forty-
first Congress,

Page.

16

14

14

14

65, 66

67

68

68

69

69

70

71

pay-

approved March 18, 1869, provided for the
ment in coin of all obligations, unless it was
otherwise provided in said obligations,

to authorize the refunding of the national debt,
was approved July 14, 1870,

Acts of March 2, 1861, August 5, 1861, July 14, 1862, and
June 30, 1864, were for providing revenues upon
a war basis, and for protection,

71

72

67, 68

Acts of 1816, 1828, and 1842, gave temporary encour-
agement to manufacturing industries,

Abolition views of President Lincoln in 1862,
Administration of Government, injustice still exists in the,
of President Pierce, and the country were involved
in the horrors of civil war in Kansas,

of Mr. Tyler was controlled by the leaders of the
Democratic party, in a large degree,

as a measure of that of Mr. Lincoln, the national
bank system was adopted, but it was opposed by
the Democratic members of both houses of Con-
gress,
Africa, negroes found on slave-trading vessels after 1819 to
be returned to,

the return to of captured negroes may have been
just, but it was politic for the border Slave States,
Virginia and other border Slave States were willing
that negroes found on slave-trading vessels should
be returned to,

Agricultural Colleges, veto of grant to,

grants of lands to,

Allegiance, choice of,

Amalgamation, one of the fruits of slavery,

Amendments to the Constitution were adopted by the Re-
publican party,

each of the three was opposed by the Democratic
party, but it has been compelled to accept and
endorse them,

America, had only three cotton spinning mills in 1800,
Annexation of Texas inured to the advantage of freedom,
of Texas was the policy of Southern statesmen,
of Texas was opposed by the Whig party of the
North,

of Texas, Mr. Polk's election was considered an
endorsement of the scheme for,

of Texas, Congress provided for by a joint resolu-
tion approved March 1, 1845,

by it the United States accepted the controversy
and the war then existing between Texas and
Mexico,

16

of Texas in 1845, was dictated by the Democratic
leaders of the South,

95

Arbitration, policy of,

Arkansas, was admitted into the Union in 1836,

Army, of Gen. Taylor was first termed, of observation,
then of occupation, and finally of invasion,
of the United States, condition of in 1864, .

of Texas, has inured to the benefit of the country,
but the scheme was designed for the advantage
of slavery,

95

110

14

16

60

64

70

45

Army was only sufficient for protection against the Indi-
ans, when the Republican party came to power
in March, 1861,

could in 1862 be paid and kept in the field only
by means of the United States notes,
Ashley, J. M., motion by in regard to thirteenth amend-

ment,
Antagonism between slavery and freedom had not taken
form in the colonial period or in the years of
confederation,

Bank, the sum in the United States Treasury January 1,
1861, was inadequate for the safe management

of a,

Beauregard, attack by, on Fort Sumter,

Bell, John, received thirty-nine electoral votes on a popu-
lar vote of less than six hundred thousand, in
1860,

Belmont, August, speech of, at Chicago in 1864,
Bidders, the Whig and Democratic parties were, for south-
ern support,

Bigler, Governor, speech of, at Chicago in 1864,
Bill authorizing the issue of treasury notes to the amount
of ten million dollars, was approved December
17, 1860,

for the abolition of the slave-trade in the District

for the surrender of fugitives from slavery, was
carried under the lead of Mr. Clay,

of Columbia was carried under the lead of Mr.
Clay,

18

18

fugitive slave, was the most offensive of the com-
promise measures of 1850,

19

Bills, it was claimed that those for the organization of Utah
and New Mexico were an abandonment of the
principles of the Missouri compromise,

Bonds, eighteen million of those authorized by the act of
February 8, 1861, were sold at an average price
of 89.03 per cent., .

the act authorizing the issue of six per cent., for the
issue of United States notes, and for a sinking
fund, was approved February 25, 1862,

of the United States, in March, 1869, were sold at
eighty-three cents on the dollar, in gold,

Border States, influence of Confederacy in,.

struggle for supremacy in,.

Bounty, of land to soldiers and sailors,

Breckinridge, J. C., was the Democratic condidate of the
South, in 1860,

20

66

68

71

44

41

85

29