The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-10-31
Earnest words.

We clip the following eloquent and
truthful passage from a recent speech by
| General John Logan:
"Now I have something to say to the
| soldiers, then / am done. l want to talk
to them earnestly. You will remember
the times We were called on to go against
the rebel bayonets; you remember the
many battles through which you have
passed, and you ought to remember, in my
judgment, who your friends were while
passing through those many scenes; you
| ought TO remember the men at home who
were your friends, and the men at home
who were your enemies you ought to re-
member the men at the South who were
your friends and the men at the South
who were your enemies. Now, | appeal
to you as honest men TO tell me if you
ever saw black man South who was not
loyal to the government? Aud if you
saw few white men South who were loyal
to the government If this be true, re-
member your friends and the men a: home
who were your enemies. And remember
too, that during the whole struggle the
friends you had by your side fell fighting
for the preservation of your liberties.
And as you saw the boys when they were
drawn up in line of battle, and bayonets
br!stling, and heard the cannons roaring,
and the musketry rattling, when tie bat
tie ragged and the havoc of war was about
you, and carnage spreading about right
and left--as you passed through these
scenes of blood, with your comrades fall
ing on the right and left, front and rear,
[ ask the soldier here to-day to tell me,
,yhile stOrming the heights of Vicksburg,
Kenescw, or Gettysburg, or around the
works of atlanta, where you lost scores
of vour comrao-- --s-tell if there was one
of you then that would have voted :or
Coppe-head? If you you'd not have
done it then, tell me what you nave done
since then to cause you to love them, put
hate those that loved you at that time
Let me say to you, if the time ever comes
when the true and patriotic soldier can
vote the ticket against which he fought,
or the ticket that denied him the princi-
Piles he was fighting for during the war,
that man, before God and his country, for
gets his manhood and his duty in years
gone by. l can say as a soldier, the time
never will come when [ shall! forget my
duty to the living, and especially my duty
so as to allow the power to go into hands
which would refuse the mother the right
to kneel at the grave of her son, and pray
for him that was lost in battle, or allow
sister to scatter flowers on the graves OF
those she loved. never can do that, and
[ tell you, soldiers, to-day, the voice OF
the dead, the yoice that is in each one
armed soldier, the voice that is In each
black dress, each baby's mouth that lost
its father in battle, is enough to appeal to
you as thunder cloud, to break open
your ears and tell you yoI knew your duty
and did it not if you fail to vote for Union
men. Let us as Christian people and pa
t-iots, let us enter a VOW, and let it be en-
rolled in heaven, that the time never shall
come when we shall forget the wrongs
that were done to onr couStry by rebels,
or their sympathizing friends at the North.
Keep this country, State and nation, in the
hands uf loyal army ard true patriots.
If you will do. that, you will have pro-
gress you will have a development of
your country in all its rich resources and
progress in civilization, the arts and
sciences, such as will make this country
the garden spot of the world to all man
kind of every nation, kindred and tongue,
and whose temple of liberty will stand so
high that every man may view its gran
deur, and receive the smiles Of heaven
and the blessings of Sod"
We commend these earnest words to the
soldier boys of our own State.