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 trust and power and duty upon men without experience? INDEX. Acquisition of the territory of Texas gave fresh consequence to slavery, Act for the admission of Maine was approved March 3, was passed for the admission of Missouri as a State of March 6, 1820, prohibited slavery in that part of the original territory of Louisiana north of approved March 2, 1861, increased the duties upon authorizing the issue of United States notes and of February 25, 1862, provisions of, relating to establishing a national bank currency was approved establishing national banks, its provisions, and the of February 25, 1862, does not permit the issue of to strengthen the public credit, approved March 18, approved March 18, 1869, provided for the pay to authorize the refunding of the national debt, Acts of March 2, 1861, August 5, 1861, July 14, 1862, and Page. 16 Acts of 1816, 1828, and 1842, gave temporary encouragement 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 95 as a measure of that of Mr. Lincoln, the national Africa, negroes found on slave-trading vessels after 1819 to the return to of captured negroes may have been Amalgamation, one of the fruits of slavery, Amendments to the Constitution were adopted by the Re- each of the three was opposed by the Democratic America, had only three cotton spinning mills in 1800, of Texas, Mr. Polk's election was considered an of Texas, Congress provided for by a joint resolu- by it the United States accepted the controversy 96. 11 6 15 15 15, 16 16 16 of Texas in 1845, was dictated by the Democratic 95 of Texas, has inured to the benefit of the country, 95 Arbitration, policy of, Arkansas, was admitted into the Union in 1836, 110 14 16 60 Army was only sufficient for protection against the Indi- could in 1862 be paid and kept in the field only ment, Bank, the sum in the United States Treasury January 1, Beauregard, attack by, on Fort Sumter, Bell, John, received thirty-nine electoral votes on a popu- Belmont, August, speech of, at Chicago in 1864, ern support, 15 Bigler, Governor, speech of, at Chicago in 1864, 58 65 for the abolition of the slave-trade in the District 18 for the surrender of fugitives from slavery, was 18 19 fugitive slave, was the most offensive of the com- Bills, it was claimed that those for the organization of Utah Bonds, eighteen million of those authorized by the act of 20 66 the act authorizing the issue of six per cent., for the 68 of the United States, in March, 1869, were sold at 71 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, 44 41 85 29 |