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Show GENERAL. FOltTY-TlilKl) CONGRKSS.. SENATE W.ihhingtou, 13. The president's fpeei.il nice-sage was received and . read, n::d with the accompanying documents was ordered to he printed u:;d laid Oil the table. The cutiniJenition of Schwa resolution reso-lution in regard to Louisiana being j ui, finished busitie-s, was then re- unnd. Ljgan made a long Fpccch. He faid ho would stand by the republican . parly in tho gre.it storm tiiey were weathering. Tne general dcuuncta lions of that party were, lie bchevud, i lie beginning of tho campaign ot '76. llu argued there was a government govern-ment in Louisiana; whether :!: lltdo or d-: jure it mattered not now. If there was none why had tho senators made such a nuise and confusion about ovo-turning the legislature. The courts recognized that government, govern-ment, as did congress and the majority major-ity of citizens. Tne acts of tho con servatives in the Louisiana legislature legisla-ture on the 4th wens acts of treason. Logan denied the assertion that there w:ts no inlimid.itiim, and produced documents and letters to fortify his position. He arnigned the senator from Georgia, Uordon, (or railing against the use of tho army and de-! de-! uuuucing the republican party and j 1 the government. i Gordon denied that he had de-1 uounced the government. Logan continued reviewing the cir-1 cir-1 eumataucea of the 4th inst. in New ' Orleans. He said the attompted or- gaui.:uion of the legislature by Wiltz I was a revolutionary proceeding. It I was Kellogg who called out the troops and nut the president. Kellogg only did his duty. Sheridan had nothing ; to do with it. The democrats would not wait for the facts; they must raise a clamor in tho country tor political purposes. Tho democratic party had endorsed usurpation ten t times its strong as this complained com-plained of in Now Orleans. He (LoL'anl believed this raid, made-on the senate in the New York press and by tho New Y"ork meeting, show cd that there was eomo kind oi understanding under-standing that this revolution was to he made in Louisiana, tor tho purpose pur-pose of overturning the legislature- ot that state. He cited cases where democratic presidents had used military mili-tary force ou occasions less pressing than was this, and then he said the democrats never thought of complaining; com-plaining; yet now they denounce the president because Kellogg used the army to put out men not membars of the legislature. Ho had the clerk read the resolutions introduced in the Virginia legislature recently, calling tor a conierenco of state legislatures to consider the Louisiana outrages. Ho said these resolutions betrayed a spirit of rebellion. Ho challenged the statement of Bayard that Sheriden was not fit to breathe the air of the republic, and asked who then was ? He (.Logan) could see in the canvass now pausing in the senate what would transpire when the democrats demo-crats should obtain control of tho country. Sheridan would have to go out then; Grant must pass away; all the men who helped to save tho republic re-public would have to go, and the B reckon rid ges would come in. Buj-iirtl atlirmea his right to criticize criti-cize an officer of the army, and reiterated reit-erated hi3 previous remarks, which Logan said invited tho white league to assassinate him. The democrats in this chamber had denounced Sheridan more since he wrote that dispatch than they ever denounced Jeff Davis and the whole rebellion. Logan then read from the tejtimony of John B. Gordon, of Georgia, before the senate committee to investigate thesoutheru outrages. He did not know whether this was tho same John B. Gordou, now senator Gordon, who testified to the existence of the white league, and that he had been otl'ered tho position of chief of the order in the state, but the organization was never perfected, and he heard no more of it. Before Logan concluded his argument, argu-ment, a motion was made for an ex- ecutive session, and the seuate soon after adjourned. |