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 GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN 
 
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 EEPUBLIC AN STAI^D AED -BEAEEE 
 
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THE DUTY OF THE HOUR, 
 
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 THE CERTAIN ROAD TO A VICTORY. 
 
 The Republican partj^ must not make anj- mistake in its outfit for tlie approacli- 
 ing Presidential campaio-n. The tight is to be fierce, bitter, and unconiproniising, 
 aiid though the Republican party lias su[)erioritj' of record, principle, and patri- 
 otism of ^position— it has a famished and unscrupulous adversary who will wage 
 war to tlie knife, and knife to the hilt. Tlie Cliicago convention therefore is loaded 
 with uiuisual responsibility in the discharge of its important duties. The Repub- 
 lican party has no great surplus of puwer over its adversary tliat will warrant it 
 in making any mistake or taking any evident risk in presenting a candidate for 
 popular support, it must scan the field carefully and present a standard-bearer 
 for the Republican party to follow and vote for, who stands as fair in tlie pm lie's 
 eye as the principles of the party he represents, so that no time, or ettbrt, or am- 
 munition from the Republican magazine will be required to defend the candidate, 
 and hence be lost to an aggressive warfare against the common enemy. If we 
 hope to win, this point must be carefully and wisely guarded by the nominating 
 convention. 
 
 The stock of candidates to the convention for nomination is sufficiently large in 
 number and varied in character to leave that body no excuse for making a fatal 
 mistake. Its duty is plain, and its resources for victory are abundant, and with- 
 out any regard to'the personal aspirations of the statesmen who think themselves 
 qualified to fill the presidential chair with honor and usefulness, the convention 
 must be guided by these considerations in selecting a candidate : Is he honest, is 
 he capable, and will he secure the full strength of the vote of his party through- 
 out the Union? These questions must be met squarely and weighed according to 
 their intrinsic merits. Nothing can be safely assumed, but every question must 
 be considered in the light of history, expeiience, and common sense, without 
 prejudice or partiality of a personal character, that the wisest and best choice 
 may be made for certain victory, and that triiunph may be assured in the stand- 
 ard-bearer of the party. 
 
 The best and soundest declaration of principles possible may be shipwrecked 
 in the ballot-box by an unwise and unpopular selection of a candidate. 
 
 It is not the purpose here to assail or disparage any one of the dis' inguished names 
 presented for consideration, but to express a preference, and to give good reasons 
 for having such preference. Of all the names yet presented, that of Gen. John A. 
 Logan, as the nominee, is to be preferred, because he possesses elements of popu- 
 larity that attach to no other name yet presented. 
 
 His record as a man, a statesman, a soldier, and a Republican, cannot be as- 
 sailed or impeached, and his popularity will enable him to carry any State that 
 any other Republican can carry, and several States which other aspirants proba- 
 bly could not. We must carry New York to win a victory, and there is no good 
 reason for believing otherwise than that Gen. Logan can command more than the 
 full strength of his paitv in that State. 
 
 He has never been identified witli factional struggles in that State In the National 
 con vention,New York will be about equally divided . Gen . Logan is free and clear of 
 danger from either, and will have at his back the surviving soldier element in the 
 State, which is an uuportant factor in the political power of that great empire. 
 
 Gen. Logan brings with him the great State of Illinois, with all its force in the 
 convention and at the ballot-box. He is stronger in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, 
 Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Colorado than almost any other man with 
 the mass of voters, and would secure a popular vote in all those States that wouW 
 outstrip the others when the struggle comes at the ballot-box. Should he be nomi- 
 nated he will swing the electoral vote of New England with as large majorities as 
 would attend any other man. 
 
Pfiui-iylvania. ilioiiirii u may not iiulicute a preference for Gen. TiOiifaii as a can- 
 diiliitf, will, jihouhl lie receive the nomination, roll n]) a majority for iiini gi-eater 
 tliaii oonl'l be secured fur an^' other name nientione(l in this connection, for the 
 soklier vote and that of other elements in that State would be secured for him be- 
 Vi'ud tile reach of every other name 
 
 New Jersey and Maryland are both within the range of Republican possibility 
 with Gel). Logan, and niore easily than with either of the other statesmen who 
 a>pire to the candidacy. All this is assured, as is his election if nominated, for 
 the reason that he is free and clear of all the incumbrances of an unfortunate re- 
 cord as a man. a statesman, and a soldier, and his name is w^ithout tiie taint of 
 faction and corruption in public or private life, and what is more and better, no 
 time or etlort will be required for his personal defense as a candi'late. All the 
 ammunition, lesuurces. and ettbrtsof the party under his leadership can be turned 
 against the coiinnon enemy. 
 
 FOR TKESIDEXT— COMRADE JNO. A. LOGAN. 
 
 CiiMKADKi?, A WOKD WITH YOU : 
 
 Twenty-three years ago to-day many of you were in the field for the Union, 
 anti every day thereafter new faces were turned to the front, where danger was 
 to be met. In four years you accom|)lished more for civilization and the preserva- 
 tion of tile riglits of humanity than had been in all the preceding ages. You up- 
 rooted an instituti'in, hoary with agi% frowning witii wrong, laden with sobs and 
 sorrows, and utterly ilestructive of individual and fam ly I'ights, wliieh had long 
 obstructeil i)n)gress. claiming divine sanction, and threatening to pollute the free 
 air of your country forever. You jierfected the Union of these States, and clothed 
 your nation with immortality. Tiiese wonderful results were achieved because 
 you marched elbow to elbow, with faces set, nerves steeled, and all determined to 
 reach one certain end. Had you been divided in purpose or action, you would 
 have failed, and anarchy and ruin would have held high carnival where now for- 
 ever remains active Christianity, constant progress, intelligence, peace, and pros- 
 perity. There can be no question that your heroism and iniseltish devotion secured 
 to the country, south as north, the hajipy ami jieaceful i)lentitnde which is now 
 prominent everywiiere. Not alone did you preserve the Union, freed from the 
 blighting I ur>c of slavery; not alone did you break the shackles from rive million 
 hiiinan liinlis ; but, more, you cr}^staHized the conviction in the minds of all intelli- 
 gent men tiial freedom is the better state, whether viewed morally, sociallj', politi- 
 cally, or linancially. 
 
 It i« impnssiblr togive you credit beyond your deserts for the results of the heroic 
 and liciciilean elVorts wlich ended nineteen years ago. But what have been your 
 rewards? Some of you, bruised and maimed in the long and trying conflict, have 
 had yifur names placed upon the pension rolls, and receive fmin the Government 
 un amount equal to .-iipplying your wounds with lint and bandages. Some of 
 your comrades, who went down into the valley never to return, whose life-blood 
 consecrated the llag you bore to victory, maj' take comfort in the realms of rest 
 from tin- fact that a generous Government, which would not have existed a day 
 but for their and your sacrifices, is yet doling out insignificant sums, and these 
 bcgrudgint;ly, to their widows and orphans. 
 
 < omradc*. who is to blame? Li nineteen years of peace you have done nothing 
 for yourselves compared with what you accomplished for God and civilization 
 diiriiigthe preceding four years of war. Why? I'.ecause you are no longer in line. 
 IJecaii.-e you walk, each his own way, with very littU; unanimity of purpose. Very 
 luany c)f us, who entered the ranks in our noondav piinie ; who laid aside arms 
 and uniform while yet in the full glory of perfect manhood, are to-daj' aged, white- 
 liain-il, :in<l Hearing the end. .\bsent<'es lieconie more numerous at each succeed- 
 ing annual roll call. We are forcibly reminded that if we purpose doing anything 
 for ourselves — any thing to make our children proud of being the descendants of vol- 
 iinieer soldier- — we must proceed at once. Is then; anything we can do before 
 "tatoo" is sounded? I think yes. 
 
 An honored comrade, wiio was with us from the beginning to the end of the war, 
 U a candirlate f..r the highest ollice on the globe— for I'resident of the States whose 
 iriKeparable Union your valor perfected. He stands squarely upon merit, with a 
 record as a citizen and .soldier .second to none other. A volunteer soldier him- 
 
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 self, who enlisted because brave men were a necessit.v. n(>xt to that triple-deservhig 
 hero. U S. Grant, he is in closest sjnnpathy with eacli man who volunteered from 
 countrj' lionie and peaceful and hanpy fireside to do or du* for rioht. In your 
 liearts you have already voiced the name of General Jolni A. Logan. You need 
 no long" storj- of liis life and sei'vices. For more than four years he was one of 
 the '' boj's in blue," and the "boys in blue" know all tiiat is contained in that 
 brief sentence. Not a few of you saw him, day and niglit, sharing your dangers 
 in the field, and all of j'ou know that he w^as there uninterruptedly from first to 
 last. Scarcely one of yon but knows tliat the only credential necessary to enlist 
 General Logan in your belialf is an honorable discharge from th'- army. Being an 
 earnest and conscientious Republican himself, desiring the fullest success to tlie 
 principles to tliat party. I have not a doubt General Logan would be pleased if 
 every Union soldier would now vote in the same direction he shot— vote for the 
 principles sanctified by the issues of war. But I know General Logan never hesi- 
 tated to serve a comrade because he was a Democrat in politics, and never asked 
 an old soldier wdiether he held any political preferences or no. To have been a 
 soldier, or to be a soldier's widow ororplian, is enough to secure the earnest and 
 untiring efl'orts of General Logan, as thousands of these honorable and deserving 
 classes can testify. 
 
 Therefore, comrades, it behooves us, regardless of party preferences, to earnestly 
 espouse and persistently promote the candidacy of General John A. Logan. We 
 must get in our work now. Certain election will follow his nomination at Chicago. 
 With Comrade Logan in the White House, brighter days will dawn for comrades 
 everywhere. Laws passed in their behalf, and which are now largely ignored, will 
 be enfoi-ced. He is one of us, prouder of that fact than of any other in his his- 
 tory, and his election will reflect honor upon every man who wore the blue. In 
 working for him we are working for all soldiers, living and dead— we are working for 
 ourselves and for each other. General Grant is in the van for Logan. Repeatedly 
 he has announced his preference, which is a clarion call of every soldier to his 
 duty. Is there a comrade who will refuse to hear his call into line? In this 
 direction lies honor to a comrade, honor to all comrades, and respectful considera- 
 tion. Comrades, we owe it to our own self-respect to earnestly and successfully 
 advocate the cause of the citizen-soldier, the untiring patriot, the tried comrade, 
 the able statesman, General John A. Logan. Let us determine that he shall be 
 nominated and elected President of the United States. Every man of you has 
 influence. Make it felt on your district delegates to Chicago Write them and 
 learn whether they are inclined to ignore the reasonable wishes of the men to whom 
 they owe evei-y blessing they possess. Work to-day by letter and petition— work 
 faithfully and fearlessly— and to-morrow you will have a glorious season of rejoic- 
 ing. 
 
 In charity, fidelity, and loyalty, 
 
 R. B. AVERY, 
 \lth Wisconsin Vol. Inf'y. 
 
 Most of the bovs who were at A^icksburg wdll remember the cane pole tent 
 which was built a "few feet from the heavy siege guns just back of the White House 
 on the Big Black road. It was used as a place for conferences between the prom- 
 inent generals during the seige, as it protected them from the intense rays of the 
 hot June sun. One day all were there— Grant, Logan, McPherson, Sherman, 
 and others. The confederates had a mortar half a mile away with which they 
 had been trying to dismount the sJege guns for a week. Most of their shots went 
 wild, but on this occasion a shell was planted plump through the tent. AH but 
 one of the oflicers hugged the earth as closely as if they liked it, until the shell, 
 which had penetrated the earth for several feet deep exploded, covering them all 
 with sand, but doing no other harm. Gen. Grant, as soon as he had brushed the 
 dust from his face, said, " Logan, why didn't you lay down? " , .,. ^ 
 
 "Because, General, there was no room, unless I laid on top of some of the rest 
 of you." 
 
From the lUino'S Echo. 
 
 GEX JOIIX A. LOGAX, UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS. 
 THE CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS. 
 
 Gen, Jolin A. Lo^raii is jrpnerally conceded to be the litrongesl and most avail- 
 able man the Republican party can place at tlie head of their ticket in the ap- 
 proaehinj; Presidential campaign. General Logan ha.< been in public life for the 
 past tlii'ty yfar>. during w hicli time he has bevn on I lie right side of every ques- 
 tion that lias agitated tiie eoimtry. He is noted for the simplicity of iiis manners, 
 and is possessed of those sterling attributes which illustrated the lives of Andi-e\v 
 Jackson, Zuch Taylor, and General (irant. He is poor in this world's goods, and 
 resi.h-s in a moilest Washington boarding house, while the most of his contempo- 
 raries live in splendor upon tiie immense fortunes which they have accumidated(?) 
 Innn $5,(>00 salaries. General T^ogan is a typical American, brave, allable and 
 generous; and if elevated to the Presidency he woidd see to it tliat the laws are 
 rigidly enforced ; and American citizens, legardless of color, will receive that pro- 
 tection for which they have long begged in vain. 
 
 iJeneral Logan's military career was at once dashing and brilliant, and stamps 
 him as having l»een one of the greatest -oldiersof modern times. At the breaking 
 out of the late war he raised the .'ilst Illinois Regiment, and hurried to the front, 
 whi-re he soon won imperishable renown. r^^ 
 
 His regihient was attached to General McClernand's l)rigade, and seven weeks *ii 
 later, at Belmont matle its lirst tight. Of that battle JeH'erson Davis has remark- M 
 ed, "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, vol. 1, p. 414:'" ''Though * 
 
 the forces engaged were comparatively small to those in subsequent battles of the 1'; 
 war. >ix hours of incessant combat, witli repeated bayonet charges, must place '[ 
 
 this in the rank of the most stubborn engagements, and the victors must accord ",j"' 
 to the vauqui-hed the meed of having fought like ,\mericans." Colonel Logan i'^ 
 
 commanded the leU of the Union line of battle in that engagement, and had a 1 
 horse shot under him, and his pistol at his side shattered by rebel bullets. He led !t\ 
 Jus regiment also at Fort Henry, and again at Fort Donelson, where he received >' ' 
 
 a severe woimd, which, aggravated bv exposure, disabled him for some time from 
 active .service. A^ 
 
 Reporting again for duty to Geiieral Grant at Pittsburg Landing, Colonel Lo- ;€ 
 gan \\a« shortly afterwards [March •"). lSfi"J] made brigadier-general of the volun- * 
 
 l<"er>. and took a distinguished pait in the movement against < orinth in May, and, 
 after the occupation of the place, guarded witii Ids bi'igade the i-ailroad communi- 
 cation with Jackson. Tenn., of winch place he was subsequently given command. ! 
 
 In the summer of 18(12 General Logan was warmly nrged by his numerous 
 frieuds and admirers to become a candidate again for Congress, but declined in a 
 letter g. owing with patriotic expressions, and, among them, the following: ''I 
 have entered the held to die, if need be, for this Government, and never expect to 
 return to peacefid pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has be- ' 
 
 come a fact established " ; 
 
 During General Grant's Northern Mississippi campaign of 1862-'3, General Lo- 
 gan leil his division, exhibiting great skill in handling troops, and was honored 
 with a promotion as major-general of volunteers, dating from November !), 1862. 
 lie was afterward a.ssigned to a command of the 3d division of the 17th army 
 corps, under (General McPhcrson, and bore a part in the nu)vement on Vicksburg, i 
 
 contributing to the victory at Port Gibson, and saving the day by his dispatch and \ 
 
 personal bravery on the loth of May. at the battle of Raymond, winch General 
 Grant designated as •* one of the hardest small battles of tin; wai." He partici- 
 I)ated in tin- defeat and rout of the rebels at Jackson, May 14th, and in the battle 
 of Champion Hills, .May Kith. 
 
 At the siege of Vicksburg, General Logan commanded McPherson's center, op- 
 posite Fort Hill, the key to the rebel works, and his men made the assault after 
 tlie explosion of the mine, June 25th. His column was the lirst to enter the sur- 
 rendered city July 4, 180.3, and he was made its nnlitary governor. His valor was 
 fittingly recognized in the presentation made to him by the board of honor of the 
 17th army i-orps of a gold medal, inscribed with the names of the nine battles in 
 which he had partici|)ated. 
 
 After thoroughly inaugurating his administration of affairs at Vicksbnrg, Gen- 
 eral Logan was called to the North, where he spent a portion of the summer of 
 
18(;3, freqnentl}^ addi-essing large assemblages of his fellow-eitjzens in speee'-ies of 
 glowing eloquence, burning with zeal and devotion to the cause of the Union. In 
 November, 1803, he succeeded General Sherman in the command of the loth army- 
 corps, and spent the following winter at Huntsville, Ala. In 'Slay, ISfU, General 
 Logan joined the grand military division of the Mississippi, which, under General 
 Sherman, was preparing for its march into Georgia. He led the advance of the 
 Army of the Tennessee in tlie movement at Resaca, taking part in the battle 
 which followed ; and still moving on tlie right, met and repulsed Hardee's veter- 
 ans at Dalton, May •2od, drove the enemy fi'om three lines of work at Kenesaw 
 Mountain, and on the '27th of June made a desperate assault against the impreg- 
 nable force of Little Kenesaw. On the 22d of July, at the terrible battle of Atlanta, 
 General Logan lighting atone moment on one side of ins works, and tlie next on the 
 other, was informed of tlie deatli, in anotlier part of tlie tield, of the beloved Gen- 
 eral McPherson. Assuming the temporary command, General Logan dastied im- 
 petuously from one end to the other of his hardiy pressed lines, shouting aloud 
 the name of McPherson. and calling on his troops to avenge his death. His emo- 
 tion communicated itself to his troops with the rapidity of lightning, and 8,000 
 rebels killed and wounded left upon the field at nightfall bore mute witness to 
 their love for their fallen chief and the daring bravery of his successor. 
 
 General Logan was again conspicuous at the obstinately- contested battle of 
 Ezra Chapel, July 2Sth, and with his troops co-operated in the subsequent battles 
 of the campaign until the fall of Atlanta, when they went into summer quarters. 
 
 After a few montiis spent in stumping the ^Vestern States, to make sure of the 
 re-election of Lincoln in the Presidential campaign of 1864. General Logan re- 
 joined his corps at Savannah, Ga., shared the fatigue and honors of Sherman's 
 march through the Caroiinas, lighting his corps against the troops of .Johnston at 
 Benton's cross-roads, and after .Johnston's sui'render. marched to Alexandria, and 
 with his brave veterans participated in the great review of the national armies at 
 Washington, May 23d. on which day Gen.eral Logan was advanced to the com- 
 mand of the Army of the Tennessee "to succeed General Howard. 
 
 In 18G5 General Logan was appointed Minister to Mexico, but declined appoint- 
 ment, and during the same year was elected to the 40th Congress as Congress- 
 man-ac-lai-ge from Illinois, as the Republican candidate, receiving 203,045 against 
 147,05^; votes given for his Democratic opponent. 
 
 In the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, Mr. Logan took a 
 prominent part as one of the Mouse of Representatives. He was re-elected by the 
 Republicans of Illinois as Congressman-at-large to the 41st and to the 42d Con- 
 gress, and in the winter of 1871 was chosen bj^ the Legislature of Illinois to suc- 
 ceed Richard Yates as U S- Senator from that State. Senator Logan is an inde- 
 fatigable worker. To his public duties as a representative of the people he sacri- 
 fices his rei^ose, his pleasure, and too frequently his health. 
 
 From the Chicago Journal. 
 LOGAN AND PORTER. 
 
 The House bill providing for the restoration of Fitz John Porter still hangs 
 fire. During two terms of Congress, (icneral Logan succeeded in organizing sitch 
 opposition to similar bills for the reinstatement of Porter as to secure their defeat. 
 Eloquent and unanswerable as were Logan's arguments in former debates against 
 Porter, there is a record of Logan's acts in the Union army which is more eloquent 
 than his or any other man's oratory. Hemembei-, Fitz .)ohn Porter had no fan- 
 cied or real grievance against General Pope, who had succeeded McClellan in 
 command of the Army of the Potomac. Porter was dissatisfied because of this 
 change of connnanders, and, in full hearing of the guns which told tlicir story of 
 the engagement and ultimate reverse of the Union army, deliberately disobeyed 
 repeated orders sent liini to advance. Contrast this insubordination, w liich caused 
 the needless death of thousands of Union soldiers at Bull Run, with the conduct 
 of General Logan in front of Atlanta. 
 
 On the 22d of -i nly, lSi34. General James B ilcPherson, commander of the 
 Army of the Tennessee, was killed about mid-day in the heat of battle, at Atlanta, 
 Ga. "The command fell upon General John A. "Lo^an. mitil then at the head of 
 the Fifteenth Army Corps as senior officer. He took up the direction of the bat- 
 
tK- wlu'iv tlif hrav." Mc-Pli.Tsoii had hud it down, :in<l witli Slifiinaii a dozen 
 mil*'* awav. won one of the ino^^t hrilliaiit victori(>s whieli liad been achieved by 
 Union amis. IJy ri^ht of seniority ami most sueeessfnl Icadcrsliip in battle, he 
 was clearly entitled to the eontin"n.'d cominand of the Anny of the Tennessee. 
 For reasons never satisfactorilv explained. General Sherman saw fit to transfer 
 General O. O Howard from the Army of the Cnniberland to the Army of the 
 Tennessee, llt're was the cause for dissatisfaction and discontent. All throno-h 
 the Army of the Tennessee imi)rccati<>ns, lond and dec]), were nttered aizainst 
 such apparent injustice to a connnandiT who iiad earned, bnt could not wear, his 
 lienors A word or look of cncouraircment from T.oo-an would iiave led to open 
 resistance to the new commander. That word or look of encouraoement to insub- 
 ordination never came. He coidd iiave asked to be relieved, or cotdd have resigned, 
 asdi<l .loe Hooker and. John M. Palmer. He did neitiier. He went back to the com- 
 mand of his olil corps, the Fifteenth, and. six days afterward, at the l)attle of Ezra 
 Church, on the •2Stli of July, gave such an exhibition of manly generosity and 
 military heroism as is rarely recorded in military annals On that day the Fif- 
 teentli Viiri>s was in reserve. It was a new position for conmiander and followers. 
 The arms of the troops were stacked in line of battle on the color line, with car- 
 trid"'e-b<>xes hanging on the bayonets. About noon the Confedei'ate army made 
 a sudden and vigorous charge "along tlu- entire front line opposite the Fifteenth 
 Corps, anil at the same time a strong column struck the extreme right of the front 
 line of tile L'nion army at right angles and in reverse. The charge was so sudden 
 and well sustained that tlu- Union line was doubled up and the defenses were 
 abandoned rapidly. Howard had only that day assumed command of the Army 
 of tiie Tennessee.' Had Logan waited for the word of command, as he could easily 
 and obediently have done, Howard would have been forever disgraced as a mili- 
 tary h'ader aiid Uogan would have been avenged. Hut at whose expense? At 
 that of thousands of l)rave soIcTum's, innocently slaughtered, and an incalculable 
 reverse t<> the l'nion cause. With the sound of rebel yells and rebel guns in front, 
 he did iir>t wait for orders, but mounted his horse, and without waiting even to 
 put on his coat, or to be accomi)anied by his stafl". he galloped down the line, 
 shouting " Fall inl" '"Forward!"' When the men answered. "Where is our regi- 
 ment":'' "Where are our officers?"' he uttered exi)letives not found in the Book of 
 Common Prayer, and repeated his connnands, '' Fall in!" " F'orward!" An Iowa 
 officer who took an honorable part in that battle said of it: 
 
 "The Confederates could not withstand this sudden, unex]iccted, resistless 
 charge of Logan; and, although they fought desperately to maintain the advantage 
 gained by their hard lighting, they were soon in confusion and swept from the 
 field Our lines were re-establislu-d and the dav was won. Twice did the enemy 
 re-form and come back to the attack, but were each time repulsed.'" 
 
 An Illinois officer in the Seventeenth Army Corps thus wrote of what he saw 
 after this battle of the 2Hth of .July, fought by Logan without ordei-s: 
 
 "1 went over the field to witness the etlects of the terrific musketry which we 
 heard from our jiosition on the left of Logan's command. I never saw the dead 
 lyin;C thicker on any hattle-lield. I remember w(dl tlie dead of the thirtieth Lou- 
 isiana regiment. The colonel, lieutenant-colonel, and major all lay about equal 
 distances apart, with .so many men lying between that the lines could be readily 
 traced, in this part of the field I saw where saplings two and three inches in 
 diamet<*r had been cut off' by musket balls. In a corn-field, about 200 yards in 
 front of Logan's line, the crop of growing corn had been mown by musket shots 
 as lliorou^jhly as if it had l)een cut by scythes. I was told at the time that this 
 porlion of the tield was in front of the Iowa brigade commanded by General 
 (;eor;;e A. Stone, and consisting of the fourth, ninth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, 
 thirtieth, and thirty-first regiments of Iowa infantry." 
 
 I his is ii brief statement of the conduct of General .lohn A. Logan under cir- 
 cumstanc«!S calculated to test his i)atriotisni. ltisfoi"him to cite this history by 
 way f)f com|»arison with the history of Fitz John Porter's conduct at Bull liun, 
 but there it is. more; elorpient as a stimulus to patriotism than anj^ words which 
 are likely to be spoken in Senatorial debate. 
 
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 From the Chicago Tribune. 
 
 JOHN A. LOGAN— HIS RECORD AS A SOLDIER BRIEFLY COM- 
 MENTED UPON— WH^T HE HAS DONE SINCE THE WAR IN 
 THE HALLS OF CONGRESS. 
 
 We are brought face to face with the one man remaining out of all those promi- 
 nently mentioned — John A. Logan. 
 
 Let us see how he fills the bill. 
 
 First. What can be said against him? That he was once a secession sympathizer! 
 The only man that ever dared insinuate tliat chai'ge to his face was Senator Ben 
 Hill, of Georgia, in the United States Senate chamber March 30. 1881, and Logan 
 at once replied : '"Any man wiio insinuates tliat I sjmipathized witli it at that time 
 ■ insinuates what is false," and Senator Hill at once retracted the calumny. Sub- 
 sequentlj\ April 19, 1881, a portion of the press having in the meantime insinuated 
 further doubts, Senator Logan proved by the record and by documentary evi- 
 dence the falsity of the aspersion. That record shows that .Tanuary 7, 1861, while 
 still a Douglas Democrat, before Lincoln's inauguration and before even the first 
 gun of the war was fired upon Fort Sumter, he declared in Congress, as he voted 
 for a resolution which approved the action taken by the President in support of 
 the laws and for the preservation of the Union, that the resolution received his 
 ■"■unqualified approbation. " Prior to that (December 17, I860.) he had voted 
 affirmatively on a i-esolution offered by Morris, of Illinois, which declared an '"im- 
 movable attachment" to '"our national Union," and '• that it is our patriotic duty 
 to stand by it, as our hope in peace and our defense in war." In a speech he 
 made February o, 1861, on the "Crittenden Compromise," he declared that "he 
 had always denied, and did yet deny, the right of secession." And when he con- 
 cluded his speech of vindication in the senate even the Bourbon Senator Brown, 
 of Georgia, declared it to be "full, complete and conclusive." In future, then, no 
 truthful man will dare to say that Logan was not true to the Union and opposed 
 to secession 'before the vvai-, at the beginning of the war, and all through the 
 war."' Why, in I860 and 1861 he was the mostpopnlar man in Southern Illinois, 
 and did more than any other man to create and foster the spirit of loyalty in what 
 had been called "Egypt." He threw himself heart and soul into the ranks of the 
 Union, and publicly declared that "if forcible resistance were made to the inaugu- 
 ration of President Lincoln he would shoulder his musket and aid in the consum- 
 mation of the people's will." The effect of his example at that critical time, as 
 well as afterwards, was felt not alone in his own State, but in Indiana and other 
 adjacent States. As has been well said: "His eloquence gave courage in the 
 hour of fear, and kindled fires of devout patriotism when the embers were grow- 
 ing weak and low." 
 
 What else is there against General Logan ? 
 
 I have heard but two other causes of complaint against him from Republican 
 lips. 
 
 One is the charge that he led the Illinois delegation at the convention of 1876 
 ior Blaine, thoiigii Blaine had straddled the Force bill. If Logan was wrong in 
 thus supporting him about half of the Repidjlican party shared in the wrong. He 
 and tliey probably thought that Blaine desired the nomination and would make a 
 good President. 
 
 THE GRANT EPISODE. 
 
 The other charge is that lie led a majority of the Illinois delegation at the con- 
 vention of 1880 for Grant. Here again, if this was not right, about half the Repub- 
 lican party was in accord with him. Besides, no one who has not been in the 
 army can imagine the strength of the tie that binds together those who have fought 
 a common enemv on the field of battle. Again, like many others, his action may 
 liave been grounded on " availat)ility "— on the assumption that no other man 
 save Grant could carrv certain Soutlieru States and thus avert a " Solid South " 
 and at the same time make the election sure. He may have had, like many others, 
 a personal preference for Blaine, while his conception of duty to his party called 
 npon him to vote for Grant I think an interview publislied May 17, 1880, in the 
 Chicago /Ja;7^ .V('^^.^■, will bear that interpretation. In that interview (General 
 Logan said : '' I am in favor of the nomination of General Grant for the Presi- 
 dency simply and only because he is the strongest and most available man in the 
 contest. I am not nuiking war upon any of the rival candidates. No man has 
 
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 lu'iiru im- -ay a ltik-I or uiijiistiliablc word about ^Ii'. lilaiui', Mv. SluTiuan. or 
 imlt-fil any of the ^rentleuu'ii wlios*' names liave been mentioned as candidates. 
 Tliat I am aj^ainst tliem is true, but only because 1 am for Grant "' Coidd any- 
 tliiiijj bf more frank, sincere and manly— yet in tlie spirit of cordial kindness to 
 all?" ^Vhy, he would have worked against "himself with as much earnestness and 
 sinceritv u.der such circumstances. Xay, more, he did so work. Do you not 
 remember the "Loi^an boom" that started early in 18S0, in consequence of his 
 memorabU- speech in the Fitz-John Porter case? Uell, some one intimated that 
 lie was trying "to play the part of "dark horsi'* in the contest." and he iiuuie<li- 
 ately wru'tc a letter for publication, in which lie said: " I never play 'hide and 
 seek' in polities. When I wish to be a candidate I .say .so, and make a .square and 
 honorable light for the prize. * * =i j never have second choices, the man that 
 I am for is my choice always, unless defeated^ then the choice made by my friends 
 becomes my choice," And conunenting on it the Chicago Jo»r««/ said : " He is 
 a stalwart Grant man, standing by his great commander now with the same 
 chivalric spirit which prevented him from assuming command of Thomas' aimy 
 on the eve of victory, as he could have done under his instiuctions." iiow nobly 
 herarn-douttheprumi.se of that letttjr When Garlield received a mnjority of 
 the vote« at the Chicago convention it was T^ogan who so warndy and fervently 
 seconded t!ie motion to make thi' vote for lilm unanimous, and who was tlie tir.st to 
 promi.se that he, with the Garlield men. woidd "go forward in the contest, not 
 with tied hands, not with sealed lips, not with bridled tongues, but to speak the 
 truth in favor of the grandest party that has ever l)een organized in this coinitry; 
 to maintain its principles, to maintain its powder, to preserve itsa.scendenc5^" He 
 wa.- the lir?t al.so of the stalwaiis to take the stump for (iartield. At the ratifi- 
 cation meeting .Tune Ui. issO. in Washington, it was Gai'lield's eye that saw Logan 
 in the enjwd.and GarfieUPs hand that beckoned him to come up, and Garfield's 
 voice that asked him to .say a woril on that occasion, and that exclaimed ''Thank 
 God. .lack's uj) !" when he stood up before the ujultitude. The VVashington Star 
 briefly tells what followed: "General Ijogan was here recognized, and for ten 
 minutes the applause was deafening. Wiien quiet had b(!en i)artially restored 
 General Logan said : ' H any one desircfl to know who his first and last choice 
 wa.s, he wouM answer: the nominee of the Republican party. The candidate that 
 now bore its banner was all that he or the people could desire. If the ])eople of 
 tliis country flesired a born leader they had it in the person of James A. (iarfield. 
 Xo matter who the first or .second choice had been, let the oidy clioice now be the 
 nominee. .MI soi-es should be healed, and there should be no f(;eling save one of 
 succe.«s; ami to his old comrades he would cay : Touch elbows on the march, and 
 press forward to certain victory.' General Logan retired amid loud ajiplause. and 
 the as<eml)lage dis|)ersed.'' And those who \vere on the spot will remember that 
 Gurtield was moved to tears as he thanked Logan for his hearty snj)port. In an 
 interview in the Xew York Trihunc of June 23, he again declared that he would 
 give Garfi(dd the heartiest supi)ort and that he would go on the stump for him. 
 Early in Jidy the Kepublican national committee placed him at the head of the 
 exeeutive eounnitte,' in charge of the lfepubli''an campaign in the West, and 
 within a week thereafter he ojjened the cami)aign in Illinois with a ringing two 
 hours' spet'cii at Murphysboro— a great speech, covering the records of i)()t!i par- 
 lies, elaborate, exhaustive, direct and convincing— before an audience larger than 
 liail ever Itefore been seen there at a political meeting. " Logan," .caid one who 
 knew. " was the man who drew Conkling and (Jran't to the support of Garfield 
 and arranged the Menttir meeting. He ni'lther sulked nor lamented. He was the 
 tir-t of the stalwarts to take otV his coat and mount the stump for Garfield. His 
 labors in this Statr- [Illin. is] were little short of herculean. He spoke night and 
 day. and his s|)eeehes— plain, practical, destitute of rhetorical fionrislies, and 
 dealing i:i the questions that were asked during the canvass -had an immense 
 eflect upon his auditors." From the beginning of the e:inipaign to its close in 
 NovendxT. besides his other labors, and in addition to indoor ad(Ir(>sses he made 
 mon- than sixty outdoor speeches, to audiences ranging from a few thou.sands up 
 to forty thou-and \ Oration .after oration signalized his appearance evervwhere. 
 Said a -pe<ial telegram from Pitt.sfield to the Inter-Ocean ol November" 1, after 
 alluding to his speech tlnTe the previous evening: "Thus ends one of the most 
 remaikabl.- personal campaigns ever made. Senator Logan has made over sixty 
 open-aii-speeehes. extending from M.iine to Illinois. He' spoke in hidiana nearly 
 a month almost every day, .m-l one dav made nole.ss than nine dillerent speeches.'"' 
 
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 True to Garfield, the Republican nominee, he was as true to Garfield the Repub- 
 lican President. After Garfield's inauo;uration, when trouble arose within the 
 party, Log-an supported the Administration cordially. As has been well said by 
 another, '• While not assailing his friend (yonkling, he yet gave liim no encourage- 
 ment in liis contest with the President. He rather assumed tlie attitude of a peace- 
 maker, and sought to heal all wounds and put an end to all dissensions in the 
 party."' 
 
 Instead of telling against him, I think it makes him the most eligible of all 
 names witliin tlie party, that on tlie one liaud he loyally stood by Grant until Gar- 
 field was nominated and tiien as loyally stood by Garfield until the end, and on 
 the otlier tliat witli equal loyaltj' he stood by Blaine. He is the soi't of man we 
 want at this juncture — a man wlaose every word and every act during the da5^s of 
 faction proved him to be entirely and sincerely above factionism, entirely and 
 sincerely a lover of his Aviiole party and his countrj'. 
 
 No one has ever dared to charge General Logan with corruption and dishonesty. 
 He lias absolutelj' clean hands. He rarel}^ makes a mistake. Witli liim as its 
 standard-barer the party would not be put upon the defensive. His public record 
 is consistent and unassailable. With him as its leader tlie party would be inspired 
 with that '• life, energy, dash and the instinct of victory" which have always 
 inspired his followers on the field of battle or that of politics. His personal mag- 
 netism is remarkable His candidacy would evoke an enthusiasm that would 
 remind old Republicans of the days wh^n Fremont ran. but was cheated out of 
 the Presidency to which he had been fairly elected. He would win, and, win- 
 ning would be inaugurated. His voice, like the bugle blast of Roderick Dim, 
 would call out all the clans. It would bi'ing back to the Republican fold hosts of 
 old Douglas War Democrats, who, like Daniel Sickles, could be attracted by no 
 other name. Knowing that he has Irish ])lood in his veins and has feh sympathy 
 for whatever of wrong has been done to that race, he would draw largely from 
 the Irish vote. His ettbrts to distribute the 860,000,000 of annual revenue to the 
 States and Territories in the ratio of their population in the cause of education 
 makes him strong with the laboring element which he desires to benefit and exalt. 
 No man stands better with the worknig classes than he. Says the St. Louis 
 MiniiKj Neivs : '' Senator Logan expended 850,000 in trying to develop coal in 
 Illinois Though the venture was nnsucccssful, the Senator did not mourn the 
 loss of the money, because the mining people got it He is the advocate of laws 
 for the protection of the lives of miners while underground; and he would receive 
 the miners' vote, which is a big thing in tiiis country." Says the Springfield (111.) 
 Momior, August, 18S1 : ''To see John A. Logan (at Carbondale) with a wide- 
 brimmed straw hat, blue woolen shirt, and butternut pants on, astride of his 
 favorite, 'Dolly,' going backward and forward to his wheat fields, and wliile there 
 taking a hand 'shocking' after his twine-binders, is a sight which every con- 
 stituency of Senators is not permitted to witness. After a hard day's work in the 
 field with the bovs, he lies on the grass with them in tiie evening, while lemonade 
 is freely passed around, and all hands join in discussing the news of the day. This 
 is John A. Logan at home, and vet .some people wonder why it is that he has such 
 a hold on the boys." A farmer himself, he knows what legislation the farmers 
 want, and does his best to secure it for them, whether through protection or other- 
 wise. Says the Jonesboro (111.) Gazeite : "He is in favor of improving the Mis- 
 sissippi aiid Ohio rivers, and making them the great thoroughfares by which our 
 grain can be sent to the European markets. He also favors a ship canal from 
 Chicago to the Mi.s.sissippi river." In consequence of ins attitude on these ques- 
 tions he would make a great i-un throughout the Mississippi Yally States. That 
 he would bring out the colored vote everywhere cannot be doubted. Evidences of 
 his broad views of those rights of' man which are at the very root of our liberties 
 are to be found evervwhere in his speeches and votes from that July day in 1865, 
 when at the couit-house of Louisville, Ky., he made an impassioned and eloquent 
 plea for the emancipation of the slaves and the consent of Kentucky to the con.sti- 
 tutional amendment prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude, down to the 
 present time. He has alwavs worked and spoken for civil rights and then- exer- 
 cise, and he believes in enforcing them. In one of his speeches at Indianapolis he 
 said : '■ Now, we have given these people all of these rights, if we do not intend 
 to protect them in the enjoyment of these rights we shoidd not have given them. 
 I say to you to-nioiit tluit'tiie Southern Democrats have got to quit murdering 
 Republicans, no n"atter wliether thev are white or black." In another of his utter- 
 
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 ances in 1S80, toiichiiiir tlif question ..f •' the rio-Jits of citizens to protection in tlie 
 exerei-:e of tlieir political rij?lits iincl.-i- our form of iiovernnient/' after quotiuir tile 
 fourteenth a>nen.lnient and siiowin.--- the fallacy of the reasoning? of tliose who hold 
 that the national Government liasaini)le power and would exercise it to the extent 
 of war, if need be, to protect the American citizen on foreign soil, but has no 
 power to protect the American citizen on our own soil, he says: "' It would be quite 
 as rea-onable tosav .vou cannot prot«'Ct your property on your own farm, but as 
 soon as it is safeiv "phiced on your neitrhbor's you may do so, even to the sheddina^ 
 of bloo.l ! I think the peopleof this or any other Government would prefer to have 
 protection at home rather than be compelled to jjo to foreign soil for it. I do not 
 agree to tliis latter iloctrine for a moment. The fabric of our Govermnent is not 
 so weak as this. It is a Government clothed by the people with sovereign pow- 
 ers, throuirh which justice can be administered, domestic tranquillity preserved, 
 the common defense provided for, the >?eneral welfare promoted, the blessings of 
 liberty secured to all and its citizens at home and abroad protected in all the 
 rights' pertaining to them as citizens of the republic; and utiless the authority shall 
 be asserted muler the Constitution and laws to do this, there is great danger 
 menacing the republic.*" The colored peojile know that T.ogan speaks as h'^ thinks 
 anil acts as he spe .ks; that with him in tlie Presidential chair Copiah assassina- 
 tions and Danville massacres would cease; tiiat he would find a way nn<ler the 
 Constitution as it is and the laws as they are to protect them in their political 
 rights, of which they have so long been defrauded by Southern Democrats. 
 
 THE SOLDIERS. 
 
 And then the soldier voie — that vote wdiich is cast not alone hy the soldiers 
 themselves, but by their relatives and all wlioin they can intlueuce as well— that 
 pr.idigious vote wliich safely goes into the millions — do we not know that it would 
 all be brought out and go solidly for Logan, the soldiers' friend }>ar excellence ? 
 How they would come out and work in a campaign with him for their leader! 
 Xot :i <onl of them will forget how he has worked year in and year out for them 
 in botli brandies of Congress in the matter of pensions, arrears of pi-nsions, and 
 equalization of bounties; nor hov.-, regardless of time, trouble and expense, he 
 has corresponded with them and urged their cases to prompt settlement ; nor how 
 no crippli'tl soldier nor soldier's widow nor orphan has ever appealed to him for 
 help, so far as it was possible for him to help, in vain. Letters hy the hundreds — 
 not from Illinois alone, but from all parts of the Union — come in his daily mail 
 from the soldier- or their survivors, and force him to keep several clerks to attend 
 to them These things will not be forgotten by the old .soldiers. They will 
 remember, if no one else does, how li<' fought in the Mexican war; Ikjw at the 
 beginning of the Rebellion he left bis seat of .safety in Congress, joined the troops 
 on their way to the first Bull Run as a private, and was among the last to leave 
 that disastrous lield ; how, as colonel of the Thirty-first Illinois, during a success- 
 fid bayonet charge on the Rebel position at Belmont, his horse was shot from 
 umler him ; how at Fort Doncdson, where he led the victorious charge — and out 
 of the tjuti men of his regiment who shared in it, but 303 answered to their names 
 the next uK>rning — he was sevendy wounded ; how, with woumls still unhealed, 
 having joined (ieiieral Grant at Vi(d<sburg Jjanding as a brigadif-r-general, he de- 
 clined a renomination for Congress in these memorable words: '' I have entered 
 tlie lield to die. if need be, for this Government, and never expec to return to 
 peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact 
 establi>hed;" how. in Grant's Northern Mississippi campaign, he commanded a 
 division of McIMierson's Seventeenth Army Corps with such conspicuous military 
 prowess and ability as to earn the stars of a major-general ; how his military 
 renown grew with each of the many marches, through scorciiing sun and over 
 burning sands, and each of the many bloody battles before Vick.sburg ; how in 
 till- lenible assaults upon tiiat ••(iji)iailar of the Mississippi'' — whose blurts were 
 "|-tudde(| with batterii-s and seame(l with rifie-pits " — his signal valor was known 
 to all ; and how it was Logan's colmnn that was the first to ent(>r that great con- 
 qnereil forlre.ss. The}- will remendjer his succeeding General jSherman in the 
 eomni.and of the Fifteenth Army Corps — the corps which Grant himself had com- 
 manded — the corps which by Logan's order adopted as their corp.s-badge a cai- 
 tridge.l)()x with the significant legend. "Forty Rounds;"' and how gallantly he 
 leil the advance of the Army of the Tennes.see at Hcsaca, repulsed Hardee at 
 Dallas, and di-ludged the onemv fi'om his fortifications at Kenesaw mountain. 
 
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 amid blood and sweat and slaughter, fie was no car pet -knight — no kniglit of the 
 white feather— but ever in the thickest of the fraj^ his victorious raven plume was 
 seen. Then came the battle of Atlanta, (or Peachtree creek.) the bloodiest fought 
 in the West, and one of the decisive battles of the war. Those of them who were 
 there will never forget it— nor Logan, their triumphant chieftain. It was the •22d 
 of July, 186-i. Hood had succeeded Johnston, and McPherson, finding himself 
 flanked, was riding to the left, when he met his death. The command of the 
 flanked Army of the Tennessee at once devolved on Lognn. Surgeon Welch, of 
 the Fifty-third Illinois, describes the panic which at once seized the Seventeentli 
 Army corps and continues: "General Logan, who then took command, on that 
 famous black stallion of his, became a tlame of fire and fury, yet keeping won- 
 drous method in his inspired madness. He was everywhere ; his horse covered 
 with foam, and himself hatless and begrimed with dirt ; perfectly comprehending 
 the position, giving sharp orders to officers as he met them, and planting himself 
 firmly in front of the fleeing cohnnns, with revolver in hand, threatening in tones 
 not to be mistaken to fire into the advance did they not instantly halt and form 
 in order of battle. • He spake, and it was done.' * * * The battle was resumed 
 in order and with fury— a tempest of thunder and fire— a hail-storm of shot and 
 shell. And when night closed down, the battle was ended and we w'ere masters 
 of the field." Some of the regiments that w^ent into that sanguinary contiict 
 strong, came out with but tinrty men. and another, which went in in the morning 
 ■with 200, came out witli but flifteen I But thousands of the enemy bit the dust 
 that day. and though compelled to fight in front and rear, our arms were crowned 
 with victory. Then came Jonesboro and complete rout for the enemy, the blow- 
 ing up of his magazines, and the evacuation of Atlanta, ''the last stronghold of 
 the West." His corps, also under Sherman, participated in the famous " March to 
 the sea." His military record would fill a volume. In all his brilliant career he 
 never suftered defeat. It has been well said of him that to hi.s soldiers he was 
 *■• an inspiration— a prophecy of success ; they believe him invincible." 
 
 SINCE THE WAR. 
 
 At the close of the war of the Rebellion, Logan was one of the group of great 
 military chieftains, headed by Grant, who received the welcome of Xew York at 
 the celebrated Cooper Union meeting, where Logan so successfully foiled the efforts 
 of the Democracy to win the Union generals to their fold under the pretext of 
 indorsing President Johnson. With the exception of a brief interval, General 
 Logan has been in Congress from the time he resigned his army commission until 
 now — his second term in the Senate expiring the od day of March next. His 
 career during tliat period has been most u.seful, and he has frequently distin- 
 guished himself as a sound lawyer and courageous state.-man as well as a fervid 
 orator. He was a prominent manager on the part of the House in the impeach- 
 ment trial of Andrew Johnson, who barely lacked conviction by a two-thirds ma- 
 jority. He secured the expulsion of Representative Whittemore, of South Caro- 
 lina, from the Hou.se for corrupt practices in relation to naval-cadet appointments. 
 He is not a frequent speaker, but when he does speak he speaks to some purpose 
 and eff'ect— and to an attentive chamber and crowded galleries. In his various 
 tilts with ''Copperheads" in the House or "Southern brigadiers" in the Senate, 
 he has always vanquished them. Several of his speeches at the time attracted 
 wide attention— such, for instance, as that in the House in 1867 on the supple- 
 mentary reconstruction bill, being a defense of the Republican party and its 
 policy in the South ; in 1869, on the civil-tenure office bill opposing ••all class leg- 
 islation in any form " and "all perpetuities of office in a land of liberty ; ' and in 
 1870, against bond subsidies for railroads. In the Senate his speeches have been 
 still more powerful. Xever did the Rebel brigadiers get more severe handhng 
 than in his great speech of two days in defense of President Grant's conduct of 
 att'airs in Louisiana and of General Sheridan, who had been savagely attacked for 
 calling the Rebel White-Leaguers of Louisiana— who had munlered 3,o00 men 
 for their political convictions— "banditti." His speech in 1872, in beha f of bills 
 for the relief of Chicago, then lying in ashes, was one of the most vivid descrip- 
 tions of calamity and one of the"most powerful appeals for assistance ever made 
 in a legislative body. Another remarkable speech, fairly bristling with com(.ara- 
 tive facts and statistics and trencliant deductions therefrom, on specie payments. 
 1879 Another, also, on the army appropriation bill, 1879, presents a singularly 
 clear analysis of the relations of thj army to the civil power of the Government. 
 
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 and a stroii;^ (leiuiiieiatioii of the iui.<cliievons, uiicoMstitiitional aiul revolutionary 
 nature of tlie Democratic attempt to conquer executive approval of obnoxious 
 "•riders" upon appropriation bill.< under tiie tlu-eat of otherwise \vltliholdin<? ap- 
 propriations. His more recent set speeches in the Senate, on education and tlie 
 Fitz-Jolm Porter case, were excee.iinj^jly able and exiiaustive. But the greatest 
 of all was tile four days' speech, :Marcli, 1880, on tlie bill to restore Fitz-John Por- 
 ter to tiif army and pay liim 8U0.t)(H) to boot, delivered l)efore a listeniiio- StMiate 
 and crowded C^alleiles tlH-ou,iiliont — with Blaine and Conl'Clino- and Gartield and 
 General Siicrman. and even Porter liimself, g-ivin<>; tiieir absolute attention to the 
 ■wonderful array of military law. learnino-, facts, argument, illustration, denunci- 
 ation, and appeal poured forth from the eloquent lips of tliis warrior statesman. 
 It was likened l)y the press to the greatest ell'ort of 'Vm Benton in leugtli and 
 force, and tiie New York Tribune said of it: "Probably never before within the 
 history of the Senate has a speech, 1-ssting througii tlie sessions of four days, been 
 listened to with such attention.'" And tiie result of that speech was no less ex- 
 traordinary ; for it absolutely led to tlie tabling of tlie l)ill liy the solid vote of its 
 Democratic friends I But if he speaks well, he aecompliilies even more by com- 
 mittee and other work. Said tlie Sonoma Imh'x, December 18, 1880, of him : 
 "He has more than once declined a foreign appointment, as also a < abinet port- 
 folio. Logan is one of the most useful men in the United States Senate ; he 
 makes few speeches, but is always working for his constituents. Not only his 
 own State, but the whole Mississippi valley, receives the benetit of his watchful 
 care ; he has secured more and larger appropriations for the entire region drained 
 by the Mississippi than have any half dozen other Senators combined. No man 
 understands mort- fully the condition of public aftairs. and none is more watchful 
 of the public welfare."' 
 
 Ilonept. able, courageous, sincere, magnetic— himself a born leader — with so 
 grand a record of public service as I iiave merelj' glanced at — who can doubt that 
 with John A. Logan as our candidate, the Republican part^v with even more tlian 
 tlie old-time enthusiasm, would sweep the lield? We might say to the world: 
 "Take him for all in all — ' match him. if j'ou can ' " 
 
 But. more than this even. Mrs. Logan is a worthy helpmate of sucli a man. 
 Self-.<aei-itieing and abso utely devoted to her husband's best interests, she is also 
 a most •(ral)le. chaiiniiig. Ijright and clear-heaied lady in societj^. Always at 
 ease herself, she sets all others in her presence at ease — at once a womanly 
 woman, yet with those vivid and just perceptions in and knowledge of public 
 atTairs which betit a statesman's wife, and she is better fitted to occupy the proud 
 eminence of "first lady in th'^ land" than any lady in the White House since the 
 days of Lady Washington, whom she somewhat resembles. 
 
 Fr»))i the New York Truth 
 
 LOGAN'S WASHINGTON HOMP:— OPEN TO EVERYBODY— A GENIAL 
 HOST AND A MAGNIFICENT HOSTESS. 
 
 I spent an evening recently with Senator Logan at his modest home in Washing- 
 ton, on Twelfth street He lives vluring the session in a boarding liouse of a plain 
 but comfortable kind, his sitting-room decorated with skins, bows and arrows and 
 other trai)pings suggestive of Indian lifeand Indian warfare. 
 
 Dui-ing the winter nights it was one of the pleasantess, cosiest of calls. The 
 Senatoi- is (piHiiit, atlable and full of dry humor, and his clever, handsome wife is 
 a charming ho-tess. He has a son at \Vest Point, and a daughter. Mrs. Tucker, 
 yi.siting through the season, whose husband is a paymaster in the army and stationed 
 in N'ew Mexico. Hut no description of the family would be comiilete without 
 Logan Tucker, the young .son of Mrs. Tucker. He is the pride and joy of the 
 entire famly, and his queer sayings cause infinite amusement. 
 
 A visitor from the country otrered j'oung Logan some money one evening, and 
 he turned his ey<'s longingly toward Ins niotheV for permission to accept it. She 
 shook her head. He appealed mutely to tlie head of the clan, who also shook his 
 head 
 
 •'///' (hjesn't want any office, grandpa," urged the youngster, to the confusion 
 and ilelight of his hearers. 
 
 Mr-. F.ogan is credited with great political ability, but although she is a delightful 
 conversationalist, she rarely utters opinions upon political matters in general com- 
 pany. She has evidently been a deeper reader than her Husband, but the loving 
 
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 loyalty with which she always keeps him in the foreground is eyideiit, although it 
 mky be quite unconscious on her part. If the fortunes of political life send the 
 Black Logan, as he is called on account of liis long raven black hair and equally 
 black mustache, to the Executive Mansion, the hospitalities would be more bril- 
 liant tlian those of any former lady of the White House. Indeed, with tlie excep- 
 tion of Mrs. Madison, the wives of the Presidents have not distinguished them- 
 selves, although Martha Washington will always be held in reverence. 
 
 From the Xew York Times. 
 JOHX A.LOGAN FILLS THE BILL. 
 
 All Repubiicans, and especially those in wiiose minds devotion to some favorite 
 candidate seems to have taken the place of sound political sense, will do well to 
 remember a few important facts and figures. 
 
 There will be in the electoral college 401 votes, and the successful Presidential 
 nominee must have at least 201 of tiieni. In its attack upon the party now in 
 power the Democratic party will be supported by 153 votes to be cast by the States 
 of the solid South. These votes that party relies upon. It must have 48 more, 
 and it will endeavor to secure them from two or three or four Northern States by 
 selecting a ticket that shall attract doubtful voters in those States, and by gaining 
 in those States the greatest possible advantage that can be derived from the possi- 
 ble blunders of the Republican National Convention. New York will cast 36 votes, 
 New .Jersey 9, Connecticut 6. Indiana 15, and Ohio 23. The votes of New York 
 and Indiana added to those of the solid South would turn the scale. N ew York, New 
 Jersey and Connecticut, without Indiana, would yield the number of votes required. 
 New York and Ohio would put a Democratic President in the White House and 
 leave a margin of eleven votes. 
 
 The Democrats must have New York or give up tlie fight. It ought to be plain 
 to sensible men, on the other hand, that the Republican party cannot hope to win 
 without New York's thirtv-six votes. New Jersey may be regarded as a Demo- 
 cratic State under ordinary circiunstances There is at least one very prominent 
 candidate whose nomination by the Republicans would probably give Ohio to the 
 Democrats in October, and New York and Ohio to them in November. The pre- 
 liminary skirmish will take place in Ohio, but New York will be the battle-ground. 
 The Democrats will strain every nerve to win this State, and tlie Republicans can- 
 not afford to lose it. 
 
 The result in New York will depend upon the action of a large body of Inde- 
 pendent voters. They cannot be bulldozed, cnjoled, or suppressed. They are not 
 demanding that the Republican party shall nominate any specified man. They 
 only ask that the nominee shall be an honest and able statesman. They will not 
 bel satisfied with a man who is honest now, after having been dishonest in the 
 past; they want a man wliose record is clear— a man who has not been the ally of 
 scheming scoundrels, the opponent of reform, or the advocate of bad legislation 
 and dangerous '' policies." So much for those who hold the balance of power in 
 New York. No Republican politician who retains his senses can disregard them. 
 
 COLORED MEN FOR LOGAN— WHAT; ONE OF THEIR ORGANS IN 
 NORTH CAROLINA SAYS OF THE GENERAL. 
 
 The Republican convention of the third Congressional district to appoint dele- 
 gates to Chicago is called to meet in Goldsboro on Thursday, April 24. The Bap- 
 tist Standard, the oi-gan of the colored Baptists of this State, in its last issue 
 declares for .John A. Logan for President, as follows : 
 
 "Judging from our exchanges and other sources. General John A. Logan is the 
 most prominent candidate for the next President of the United States. From all 
 sides we hear that the General's past political record makes him worthy of the 
 highest honors that can be conferred by the nation. As for us, we are for Logan 
 every time, so long as he remains a friend and advocate of popular education and 
 equal rights for ail American citizens, regardless of race, color or previous con- 
 dition of servitude. The people, and especially the colored race, should support 
 no person for office without a guarantee from him that he will advocate popular 
 education and equal rights before the law. We think the time is at hand when the 
 public offices should be filled with occupants who have the interests of the whole 
 people at heart, and not with a set of men who seem to be nothing more than so 
 
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 many pk-kets to giianl the interests of a certain party, or, in other words, filled with 
 politicians who are mere party tools. Give us men who love education and justice 
 and wlio will strive to benefit' their constituency, and our Government will cease 
 to be a farce." 
 
 There are more colored people members of the Baptist Church than of any other 
 denomination in this State, and their papers liave threat influence amongthe breth- 
 ren. Everv colored man selected as a deleji;ate will be for Gen. Logan, The 
 President will have votes from this State on the first ballot, but when the conven- 
 tion irets down to work the deleu^ation will be nearly solid for Logan. 
 
 Ix lStj.5 Gen. Logan was appointed Minister to Mexico, but declined the ap- 
 pointment, and during the same ye:ir was elected to the 40th ('ongress as Con- 
 gres>nian-at-large from Illinois as the Republican candidate, receiving 203,045 
 a'^'-ainst 147,().")8 votes given for his Democratic opponent. 
 '^In the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, Mr. Logan took a 
 prominent part as one of the niinagers on the part of the House of Kepresenta- 
 tives. He was re-elected bv the Kepublicans of Illinois as Congressman-at-large 
 to the 41st and 42(1 Congres's, and in the winter of 1871 was chosen by the Legis- 
 lature of Illinois to succeed Richard Yates as United States Senator from that 
 State. Senator Logan is an indefatigable worker. To his public duties as a rep- 
 resentative of the people he sacrifices his repose his pleasure, and too frequently 
 his health. 
 
 From the Chicago Tribune. 
 LOGAN AND THE IRISH. 
 
 Chicago. April 15. — In your issue of yesterday there appeared a letter from 
 Peoria, entitled "Logan and the Catholics," signed "E. P. B.," to which my at- 
 tention has been called by some friends who are admirers of Gen. Logan, and 
 who, though Democrats, are anxious for his nomination by the National Republi- 
 can Convention, so that they could manifest their appreciation of his character as 
 a citizen, soldier, statesmanlj and friend of the Irish race by voting for him. 
 
 In every statement made by your correspondent ''E. P. B.," in reference to the 
 many services rendered to Irishmen as member of Congress, politician and private 
 citizen, as well during the war as since, by Gen. Logan, I heartily concur and 
 would like very mueh to see my countrymen make some deuionstration of the 
 r«spect they entertain for and the love they have towards him, in order that his 
 standing in their estimation might be utilized towards influencing the action of the 
 convention when his name is submitted to it. 
 
 Allow me to assure "E. P. B." and the friends of Logan that the gentleman 
 has no more sincere admirers or warmer friends in the country than are to be found 
 among the Irish people. Nor are their numbers insignificant. Their name is 
 legion, and among tlu'in are men of every honest standing in business, in the pro- 
 fessions, and every walk of life, any of whom are the peers of any class in the land. 
 
 Hundreds still living in this city and State will remember how the Irish of Hli- 
 nois rallied to the snpi)ort of .lolin A. Logan in 18U6, when he was running for 
 Congress as a candidate-at-large. Yt)u will remember that Gen. Logan was 
 elected by over 45,000 majoiity, when the rest of the State ticket was elected by 
 but about 15.000. Over 30,000 Irish votes were cast for him that year which would 
 have been cast against anj' other candidate the party could have selected. I was 
 in this State at the time as an organizer of the Fenian Brotherhood, and remem- 
 ber well the enthusiasm manifested in his behalf b\' not only the leaders of that 
 organization but by the Irish soldiers who served under him or near him and the 
 masses of the Irish jn'ople. Instead of losing caste or character he has earned, 
 and will receive, not only the hearty support of those of them who still live, but 
 of thousands of others who are cognizant of the many generous and friendly 
 acts rendered to anil favors conferred on Irishmen of late years by him. One in- 
 stance among many will snflice — that is, securing the exalted and honorable posi- 
 tion of Uiuiet] States Marshal of New Mexico for A M. Morrison, of this city. 
 
 That Gen. Logan would carry, as "E-P. B." suggests, nearly all the large cities 
 in tlie country in which the Irish are numerous— yes, even New York — I am as 
 certain as 1 am that he would carry Chicago by 25.000 majority and the State by 
 50,000. It is my sincere hope, as it is the hope of those alluded to above, that the 
 
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 Kepublicaii convention may be so directed and inspired as to select Gen. Loo-aii 
 as its canditiate for President. If tliey do, tiiere is no man in tlie Republican 
 I>arty, at least none whose name has been mentioned so far, who can draw the 
 one-iinndredth part of the Irish f.iom the Democracj' tliat he can and will, except 
 a man of their own race, such as Gen. Sheridan, and no man living the Democ- 
 racy can nominate can defeat him. Xtra. 
 
 About every Grand Army man in the West is for Logan. In a quiet way aE 
 the boys believe in the old man. As a s<ildier lie was soldierly and brave. Asa 
 Senator he has been straiglitforward and honest. A finer specimen of American 
 pluck, energy, loyalty, and manhood cannot be found. Pretty nearly' every 
 Grand Army lodge is a Logan club. — Denver Tribune. 
 
 And it should have been added, true and loyal to his friends, and never goes 
 back on his word. — Tucson Citizen. 
 
 From the Rochester {X. Y,) Sunday Herald. 
 
 LOGAN'S BOOM. 
 
 The Logan boom is by no means a failure, vve hear little of it in this State, 
 other candidates being the first choice of all classes except the soldiers, who for 
 some reason do not seem to have been at all prominent in tlie conventions. But 
 out West Logan seems to be a prime favorite. In his own State it looks as though 
 the delegation would be almost solid for liim. At first, of the Illinois Republican 
 district conventions the delegation was instructed to vote for Logan so long as his 
 name should be before the national convention. Btit perhaps the strongest ele- 
 ment in Logan's favor is the united colored vote. If Mr. Fred. Douglass is to be 
 believed, the colored people will make a united eftort to secure his nomination. In 
 speaking of the prospective Republican candidates for the Presidency the other 
 day Mr. Douglass said : "John A. Logan is the first choice of the colored people. 
 They favor him because he has backbone. He is a brave man, and does not fear 
 to do right even though he is surrounded by the most overwhelming opposition. 
 He supported Piuchback in his fight for a seat in the LTnited States Senate He 
 opposed Fitz John Porter with the courage of a lion. In every campaign he has 
 held up a fresh bloody shirt to the discomfiture of the Democratic party." With 
 the soldiers for him, the colored element united and hearty in his support, and Il- 
 linois solid for him, Logan's candidacy is one that it will hardlj' do to laugh at. 
 
 From the Commercial Gazette. 
 A GOOD WORD FOR JOHN LOGAN. 
 
 Cambridge, O., Januaky 12. — As the time for the holding of the Republican 
 National Convention is rapidly approaching, is it not high time that the party 
 should be casting about to see where the available candidate is to be found ? — one 
 who can unite ail the discordant elements of the grand old part}' — unite the loyal 
 North so as to meet the solid sectional South, made solid by intimidation, shot 
 guns, bull whips and murder. The candidate selected must be one whom the 
 party can rally to and unite upon, and one who in writing Nation would employ 
 a big N — a man whom we can enter the contest with a.4sured of victory. 
 
 Now, of all the prominent and illustrious Republicans mentioned and discussed 
 for the position. General John A. Logan, U. S. Senator from Illinois, seems to be 
 the only man who can " fill the bill." The most humble and illiteral Republican 
 in the nation knows and respects Senator Logan. They ar^ perfectly familiar 
 with his brilliant and da,shing militarj- career — know and admire his Republican- 
 ism. 
 
 There is not an ex-Union soldier from the Atlantic to the Pacific who would not 
 rejoice to hear of the nomination of " Black Jack" bj' the Chicago convention. 
 
 Cato. 
 
 The timber for the next President is becoming tlie theme of conversation 
 among the voters of both political parties, and there seems to be an unseen cur- 
 rent floating through the air impregnating the minds with the name of General 
 
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 John A. Logan. The soldiers all agree that he has been weighed in the balance, 
 during and since the war, and never found wanting. As a general in the Union 
 army he was ever at liis post, never faltering and alwaj^s cheering on to victory 
 and since tlie war (in and out of Congress) lias been the friends to the rank and file 
 of the Union army wlio saved the nation one and inseparable, and every soldier 
 (regardless of party affiliations) that we have heard express himself declares in fa- 
 vor of General Logan for President, and when his name is floating upon the 
 wings of the wind, leaving its impression in the minds of evervtrne and loyal sol- 
 dier, it has no uncertain significance. Let the soldiers unite their power, and 
 they can and will elect their man. 
 
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