Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. John A. Logan, of Illinois: In the Senate of the United States, Thursday, March 13, 1884
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 ?ow, 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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