Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-09
(From the New York Tribune.>
THE RETURNED VETERAN.

returned he studied law, and at the age
of 25 he was elected congressman by a
vote almost unanimous. His district
included the whole of Southern Illiaois.
His home is in Carbondale, Jackson
county, He was the peoples idol. He
knew everybody, and everybody knew
him. He can make good speech, he is
a flrst-rate lawyer and Is one of the best
dancers In the country. 0, how he can
dance. He looked like girl, and yet,
with dark complexion, and the blacklist
hair, every one took him to be part Indi-
an. One reason why the people liked
him so well was because he was dem.
ocrat, and hated the abolitionists. He
used to give 1t to them hard. Once when
he spoke here on Popular Sovereignty,
asked him question or two such as
Lincoln asked Douglas at Freeport,
which cornered him but he called me
a Yankee abolition preacher, which made
the people laugh, and say it was good
enough for me. However, they all went
against Douglas, and that was bad for
Logan. Whenever he undertakes thing
he does his best. At this time he COM
his headquarters at Huntsville.
When the war broke out he figured
the matter to see how it was going, and
then went for the government with all
his might soul and strength. Thous-
ands deserted him, and called him
traitor other thousands stuck to him.
Some Of his relations fairly shine with
copper. He has younger brother,
good deal like him, who is true. He
raised one of the first regiments, and be-
came its colonel 1t is the 3lst Illinois
volunteers. Then he resigned his seat
in congress, and our beautiful friend j. G.
Allen took his place. ssa-"rs.Hssv
In those early days of the war John was
at Springfield when Mr.. Grant came
to him to tell his troubles. This Grant
was a tanner, and, having an idea he
could fight little, had raised regi-
ment and brought it to Springfield,
where it was in camp. But the men had
not been sworn in, and finding it a
harder business than they expected,
principally ON account of poor beds.
they were going to back out and go
home This was Mr. Grants trouble.
1t looked as though he would have to
go back to his tan yard, Perhaps Lo-
gan could help him. Cant you talk to
them ?'' said John. "No," says Grant.
can. Call them together"
They had all heard of him. He made
a speech two hours long He told them
all about our government, and how the
war commenced. The sweat rolled.
He jerked Off his coat and handkerchief.
You never saw man work harder in
your life He related stories which
made them laugh, and then he described
a soldiers life in such beautiful language
that one would think no other life has
SO many charms. When he got through
the men were impatient to be sworn in
for fear they might lose the chance
This was the way Mr.. Grant got start,
and he has done middling we'll since,
for now he commands all the armies of
the Great Republic.
A short time since, John Logan's old
regiment--the 31st-came home on a
furlough, to see the folks and to recruit.
One Of the companies was raised on
Rose Prairie. Here lives ESQ., Clifford
he is an old settler, has been Justice
many years, for he can read he has a
large farm well managed he is rich,
and his only son Andy is an officer in
the 3lst.
The old man sat in the porch smoking
his homemade tobacco waiting for the
wagon. Andy married a few months
before he went into the army, and his
wife also sat in the porch, while her
baby, nearly two years DID, ran from her
to its grandfather. Susan's father keeps
store in the village of Prairie Rose; he
is postmaster, and one of the head men.
She can read and write. Being brought
up quite a lady, she never works out
doors except to pick cotton and bind
after the cradles, and she holds up her
head, as she might, for she is real hand
some, and if any woman ever loved her
husband, it is She
{" don't know how Andy would like
that kind of talk" said she, " for he
writes in his letters altogether differ
ent.m
Don't you be troubled, GAL" said
Squire Clifford che writes so Jest to
please the officers, for they open all the
letters"
II hope they don't open any of mine,
though there's nothing bad in them"
"You jest wait and see how I'll talk
to him; I'll bring him around, sure"
The Squire was Peace Democrat
To tell the truth, he belonged to the
Knights of the Golden Circle, a lodge of
which was organized by the lawyers of
the county seat and being an inffuen-
tial man, he and few others had made
Rose Prairie hard place for Union men.
1t astonishes one to see how plain men,
honest in their dealings and good neigh
bors, but ignorant, are made intolerant
by the designing. When Slavery made
the people ignorant, a foundation was
laid for every species of intolerance
even of infamy and crime.
All at once the wagon came through
the yard with the horses trotting, which
they had seldom done before, and it was
filed with soldiers, who were the Rose
Prairie boys, and Andy among them
Almost in moment Andy had jumped
over the bars, and was near the porch,
when Susan gave spring around his
neck, and would have thrown him over
If he had not been tall and strong, and