tumult, the abridgment of rights, and the destruction of great and fundamental principles. The nullification and disobedience of law, is one of the first steps in the direction of disintegration and dissolution.

Such legislation is calculated to bring our country and our laws into disrepute, and make us a laughing-stock in the eyes of the civilized nations of the earth.

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I do not know whether this bill is to become a law or not. If so, can only characterize it as surpassing all attempts that have yet been made by any Congress since this Government was formed, to show an utter determination to defy the laws-to nullify them by legislation. In other words, it is a rebellious spirit and act against the enforcement of the laws. That is the least you can make out of it.

I tell Senators that this legislation will come home to plague the inventors very soon. You may imagine that in your wisdom in these halls, where statesmanship ought to dwell, you have managed and manipulated so that the country will sustain you in that which you have done; but I tell you, when the people understand that you have torn down every guarantee to the protection of their rights at the ballot-box; that you have disarmed the President of the United States, and destroyed a portion of his power; that you have refused appropriations to exercise that authority for the purpose of protecting the peace of the people at the polls; and then, by a second law, you have demanded that no civil officer shall enforce the laws under the mandates of the courts or under the orders of the Executive of the United States for the purpose of keeping the peace in this country-when they understand that, you will find, even among the hot-bloods in this country, even among the people who think they ought to be exasperated on account of some imaginary offense perpetrated against them, even among the people who may think they are maltreated and much abused in every respect, and that their rights are trampled under foot,-even among this class of unthinking people, in their sober moments, they will never agree to any such proposition as this; but they will say to you, "The theory of our Government is that the Constitution shall be obeyed; that the laws made in pursuance thereof shall be executed; that if the laws are bad laws they shall be repealed; but, until they are repealed, no party has a right to nullify them and deny their enforcement."

Sir, the idea that American citizens shall deny any authority for the enforcement of the laws, is a theory never taught by the statesmen of this land, before. It has never been taught by your Clays, your Websters, and your leading men. Revolution may have been taught,

but there is a difference between revolution, and nullifying a law. Where people may believe that oppression is bearing them down, and they undertake to throw off the yoke or throw off the laws by revolution, it is very different from denying the power of the Government to enforce the laws that they themselves enact, and are required to observe. The very laws that you yourselves have taken an oath to support, the very laws that you are bound to aid the Executive in enforcing, are the very laws that you tell the citizen shall not be obeyed.

If the law in reference to protecting the citizens by a marshal on the day of an election shall not be enforced, although it remains upon the statute-book, I want you to tell me why the law against murder shall be enforced, and why a citizen should be subject to the law? Why shall the law against larceny be enforced? Why shall the law against arson be enforced? Why shall the law against robbing the Treasury be enforced? Why shall the law against defrauding the revenues be enforced? Why shall the law against perjury be enforced? Why shall the law against any of the offences known in the catalogue of crime be enforced? You have as much right to deny the enforcement of the law against any crime, as you have to deny the enforcement of the laws for the preservation of the peace at the polls. The man who teaches the doctrine, to-day, that the citizen shall not obey the law, but it shall be nullified by withholding appropriations and by making it a penal offence to execute the law, teaches a doctrine that finally will become revolutionary, and will produce the same treasonable course that we have heretofore witnessed, for it leads to that. It leads to refusing to obey any law unless you yourselves have written it, unless you yourselves have enacted it. It leads to disobedience of the power and supremacy of the Government; and finally it will find its results in disobedience to all laws, and the citizens, taught to take the power in their own hands, will execute that which serves their purpose, and disobey that which does not serve their purpose. In that way we are taught the lessons of Mexico, we are taught the lessons of the South American republics-the lesson of revolution, riot, and bloodshed, against the peace and stability of our country.

Mr. President, in my judgment there will be a still small voice that will come up from the midst of the people of this country, ere long, that will be a warning to some of our friends in the future. The whisperings of that voice will be, that the teaching of the good men, the honest men, and patriots, has been, and is, obedience to the laws and the Constitution of their country. Men who teach otherwise than this, are bad teachers for a community, are false teachers for a rising generation, and are sowing the seeds of destruction in their own government.

ON THE STUMP

AGAIN THE GREAT DEMAND FOR LOGANCHARACTERISTIC INCIDENTS TOUCHING THE OLD SOLDIERS.

At the close of this exciting session, which had been full of arduous labors for him, General Logan returned to his home, at Chicago, to rest and to prepare for entering actively into the fall campaign in Ohio and Iowa. The great demand for General Logan's services on the stump is shown in the following, from the Freeport Journal of July 16, 1879:

Speaking of the Ohio campaign, the Cincinnati Commercial says of our Senator, Logan :

"There is astonishing information from Columbus about the application made for speakers. John A. Logan is wanted in the most places. He will be a promising candidate for the Presidency presently. Next to Logan comes Garfield, and next to Garfield, Blaine. We are surprised to hear that old Zach Chandler does not come first."

When President Hayes ran for Governor of Ohio the last time, General Logan stumped the State at his urgent request, and Mr. Hayes assured him, after election, that his speeches had elected him. John A. has always been a power wherever we have put him, and should he be named for the Presidency would get as many votes as any one that could be nominated, would be elected by a rousing majority, and would fill the office as he has all the other high and responsible offices he has been called to fill, acceptably and well. No mistake would be made in heading our national ticket at the next election with the name of John A. Logan.

It was about this time that the Chicago Evening Journal published the special despatch which is given below to show that General Logan's sympathy for the worn-out and helpless soldier was manifested in deeds, as well as words:

GALESBURG, ILL., July 12th.-Colonel L. Potter, late of the 33d Infantry, who has been in ill-health for years, died this morning. Post No. 45. G. A. R., has provided for him and family since the organization of the Post. Colonel Potter was a gallant soldier, while in the service receiv ing wounds which have made him helpless. He never applied for a pension until a few weeks ago, when the Post sent to General Logan, who secured a pension, in advance of thousands of applicants, of $32

per month, and $3,500 back pension. This act of General Logan's will never be forgotten by the afflicted family of the deceased, nor by the entire community.

At the soldiers' reunion at Aurora, in August of this same year, General Logan was a participant. The Tribune of August 23d, after referring to the fact that the General partook of a little lunch in one of the headquarter tents, in company with others, said:

His seat was near the entrance, and it was amusing to see the warworn veterans coming to him with an apology for intruding, but expressing a strong desire to shake him by the hand. Old soldiers hobbled up on wooden legs, with one coat-sleeve empty, and under various similar circumstances, and, proudly pointing to their infirmities, would say, "I got that fighting in your division, General," or would name the battle that crippled them for life. And General Logan would shake them heartily by the hand and appear glad to see them. This reunion of soldiers has called up many reminiscences of the great struggle extending over the period of nearly five years, and the old soldiers have spun many yarns since they have been here, and the remembrance of Camp Dick Yates will linger lovingly in their hearts for years to come. It is a question whether it will not have a better effect in rekindling the loyalty of the people in this section of the country than all the essays, sermons, and political speeches which have been delivered in the past five

years.

The soldiers appear to be fonder of relating the scrapes and awkward positions they got into during their terms of service, than any of the more pleasant and less exciting episodes. Captain Collins, an old resident of Aurora, was introduced to General Logan to-day. He was the commander of a company in the Fourth Illinois Cavalry, and he tried to make General Logan remember him, without success for a time. Finally a gleam of joy overshadowed his face as he renewed the attack.

General," said he, "do you remember the circumstance of a cavalry captain brought before you, at one time, on the charge of stealing horses? I told you that cavalrymen were poor walkers, and their own horses were played out; and you said, 'By captain, I don't blame you a bit!' and dismissed me with a compliment, while you sent the owners of the horses back to my quarters to get whatever horses the company could not use and had to spare."

The General then remembered the captain well, and shook him by the hand more warmly than ever.

LOGAN'S CANVASS OF OHIO IN 1879-AT DAYTON, SPRINGFIELD, VAN WERT, BELLEFONTAINE, AND ELSEWHERE-OVATIONS EVERYWHERE.

General Logan's canvass of Ohio was a triumphant one. "No man," said the Inter-Ocean, "has been received with more favor by the people of Ohio than General John A. Logan. He meets with ovations everywhere he goes. No one has been more persistently vilified and lied about, and such receptions from the loyal masses in Ohio cannot be other than gratifying to him, as they are to his hosts of friends in Illinois." At Dayton he was met at the depot by a large committee of veterans, and great numbers of other veterans called on him. "No celebrated personage ever visited us,' said a Dayton special of September 4th to the Cincinnati Gazette, I who attracted more attention or who was more cordially received than General Logan; and we have had a look at all our eminent personages. 'You see,' remarked an old battle-scarred veteran, 'the General takes right hold of a fellow, and sorter shakes him up!' All the old army boys have faith in General Logan, and we heard quite a number swear by him." The same account continues :

The gathering of the masses at the court-house was a sight worth witnessing, and was an inspiration to the illustrious speaker. It was altogether the largest meeting of the sovereign people we have seen here since the papers have taken to publishing, the morning after their delivery, the speeches of illustrious men. It was an outpouring of the masses, and the enthusiasm of the crowd was quite up to the measure of the great occasion. The appearance of the speaker on the stand was the signal for an outburst of applause such as is seldom heard; it was such a greeting as any man might be proud of.

In the course of his speech there, as reported by the above paper, General Logan said:

"The Constitution makes every man born in the United States, or naturalized, a citizen of the United States, as well as of the State in