Some were very bitter in their denunciations of his silence.

Logan was not a man to be coerced into an utterance by threats.

He did, however, come out in a speech before the adjournment of the special session of Congress which was convened by the President soon after his inauguration, and announced his undying loyalty and devotion to the Union.

But I had not happened to see that speech, so that when I first met Logan my impressions were those formed from reading denunciations of him.
McClernand, on the other hand, had early taken strong grounds for the maintenance of the Union and had been praised accordingly by the Republican papers.

The gentlemen who presented these two members of Congress asked me if I would have any objections to their addressing my regiment.