Yours truly,
"'L. Q. C. LAMAR

"'Hon. JOHN A. LOGAN.
"United States Senate, Washington, D. C.'

"Senate Chamber, April 14, 1881.

"'Having read the above statement of Senator Lamar, I fully concur
with him in my recollection of your expressions and action in
opposition to Secession.
Truly yours, J. L. PUGH.'

"At the conclusion of Senator Logan's speech of refutation, Senator
Brown of Georgia (Democrat) said:

"'Our newspapers may have misrepresented his position. I am now
satisfied they did. I have heard the Senator's statement with
great interest, and I take pleasure in saying--for I had some idea
before that there was some shadow of truth in this report--that I
think his vindication' is full, complete, and conclusive.'

"'I recollect very well during the war, when I was Governor of my
State and the Federal army was invading it, to have had a large
force of militia aiding the Confederate army, and that Gen. Logan
was considered by us as one of the ablest, most gallant, and
skillful leaders of the Federal army. We had occasion to feel his
power, and we learned to respect him.'

"Senator Beck, of Kentucky (Democrat), referring to the fact that
he was kept out of the House at one time, and a great many
suggestions had been made to him as to General Logan, continued:

"'As I said the other day, I never proposed to go into such things,
and never have done so; but at that time General Frank Blair was
here, and I submitted many of the papers I received to him,--I
never thought of using any of them,--and I remember the remark that
he made to me: Beck, John Logan was one of the hardest fighters of
the war; and when many men who were seeking to whistle him down the
wind because of his politics when the war began, were snugly fixed
in safe places, he was taking his life in his hand wherever the
danger was greatest--and I tore up every paper I got, and burnt it
in the fire before his eyes.'

"Senator Dawes of Massachusetts (Republican), also took occasion to
say:

"Mr. President, I do not know that anything which can be said on
this side would be of any consequence to the Senator from Illinois
in this matter. But I came in