The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-28
GEN. LOGAN INHIs TRAVELS.

GEN. LOGAN INHIs TRAVELS.
John A. Logan Is stumping this state, as
the radical disuuion candidate at large, for
congress, and he meets with poor reception
wherever he goes. He was at Monmouth on
Thursday, at Galesburg on Friday, and at
Princeton on Saturday. We arrived at Mon
mouth about the time the people were leav-
ing. The crowd was small and the enthusl-
asm uery weak. In the evening band of
music paraded the streets, drumming up
crowd which brought up in front of the Bay
State House, where we were stopping. The
crowd was small-not enough to fill a rail-
road car, including the band. Some four or
five persons made speeches. Col. Marsh was
called for but he was absent. Some one
from Hancock county answered for him, and
promised that, notwithstanding they had not
succeeded in nominating Colonel Marsh, they
would do the best they could for Harding and
that he would not run very much behind his
ticket in that county! This was not very
encouraging talk, and there was no applause.
Several other speeches were made, the bur
den of all was that their great, leading, able
men would not endorse the disun;on schemes
of Stevens, Sumner & Co., and were leaving
the radicals TO perish for want of support
The speakers all paid high compliments to
the ability, craftsmanship and fame of Mes
sers VIM. H. Seward, Henry j. Raymond,
Thurlow Weed, o. FL. Browning, Thomas j.
Turner, Edgar Cowan Senator Doolittle,
Gov. Randall, Judge Curtis, Robert C. Win
throp. Thomas Ewing, and others, and then
told the little crowd that these men had left
them. This was another wet blanket, and
no applause followed. We felt very much
like applauding some of the speakers for tell
ing the republicans their party was tum bling
to pieces, but as it was not our funeral we con
tented oursef with putting cigar and laugh
ing in our sleeve. The little crowd fzzled
and dwiud!ed and scattered away very early
and Monmouth, at O'Clock in the evening,
WAS till Sunday. We thought "If
Poor Tom Harding can't raise any more en-
thusiasm than this, in Monmouth, he must
be dead duck"
AT Galesburg Gen. Logan and Gen. Prem
.iss came on the train ION which we were re-
turning) for Princeton. Logan takes Prem
tiss along with him to prove that he, Prem
tiss) when in command, at Cairo, in 1861,
did not arrest him for encouraging enlist
ments in the rebel army. This is nice
dodge, getting up testimony to rstute a charge
which is not made. But it is charged that
Prentiss sent for him to come to his quarters
and there intimsted to him that he had en-
couraged such enlistments and that he was
in danger of being arrested for it,-and that
Logan, to save himself from any such un.
pleasant consequences, then started in and
raised soldiers for the federal army, to shoot
those who had gone into the rebel army by
his encouragement This is not denied by
any one who knows the fact.
We understand that the crowd was very
dull and slim at Galesburg, also.
On the way rp to Princeton, dozen or
fifteen people, at some station below Galva,
gathered at the depot and called Logan out
the platform and gave him few very
faint cheers; 8 few more of the same sort at
Galva, and large crowd, under the lead Of
Gen. Howe, did the same thing at Kewanee.
We took particular notice of Logan, at
these places. He would talk very low, This
voice is failing fast) to two or three, about
him, for few minutes, and then Prentiss
would come out for his cheers. II was the
same at each of these three stations. No
demonstration was made at any other station
on the route to Wyanat, OF at Wyapet. The
train consisted of seven coaches; three of the
cars were locked and empty, all the way, and
the other four did not contain enough people
to fill two, and not one-fourth of these were
going to the Princeton meeting. In fact YOU
could scarcely notice, outside of the five or
six who carried the bottle and the cigar-box
for Logan, that there was anything out of
the usual daily course of travel.
Logan's voice is nearly used up, and he
presents the appearance of care-worn, dis
appointed and dissatisfied man.
We have no word of censure of him as
soldier. After ne quit encouraging men to
join the rebels, he showed himself TO be
brave and daring soldier He failed in dis.
cipline, simply because he Is dsmaoooue
and wished to court popularity from .o,d;s,s
who violate the rules of camp; but as a brave
and daring soldier, there is no fault to \.
found with him; nor can scarcely ANYTHING
good be said of him, besides that, either as to
morals, intelligence or stability.
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