Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John A. Logan, of Illinois Be the Senate of the United States: January 13 and 14, 1875

States, on the soil occupied by the United States custom-house, where the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States Government extends, for the purpose of protecting his own life.

This then was a revolution; this then was a rebellion; this then was treason against the State, for which these men should have been arrested, tried, and punished. Let gentlemen dodge the question as they may; it may be well for some men there who engaged in this treasonable act against the Government that they had Mr. Kellogg for governor. It might not have been so well for them, perhaps, had there been some other man in his place. I tell the Senator from Maryland if any crowd of armed men should undertake to disperse the government of the State of Illinois, drive its governor from the executive chamber, enter into his private drawers, take his private letters, and publish them, and act as those men did, some of them would pay the penalty either in the penitentiary or by dancing at the end of a rope.

But when this rebellion was going 011 against that State, these gentlemen say it was a State affair; the Government of the United States has nothing to do with it! That is the old-fashioned seces sion doctrine again. The Government of the United States has noth ing to do with it! This National Government is made up of States, and each, State is a part of the Government, each is a part of its life, of its body. It takes them 'all to make up the whole; and treason against any part of it is treason against the whole of it, and it became the duty of the President to put it down, as he did do and, in putting down that treason against the Kellogg government, the whole country almost responded favorably to his action.

But our friend from Maryland, not in his seat now, [mr. Hamilton] said that that was part of the cause of the elections going as they did. In other words, my friend from Maryland undertook in a round about way to endorse the Penn rebellion, and claim that people of the country did the same thing against the government of the State of Louisiana, and on this floor since this discussion has been going on, net Senator on that side of the chamber has lisped one word against the rebellion against the government of the State of Louisiana, and all who have Spoken of it have passed it by in silence so as to indicate clearly that they endorse it, and I believe they do.

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