Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-10-25
EARNEST WORDS FROM GENERAL
LOGAN.

We clip the following eloquent and truth.
full passage from a recent speech by Generai
John Logan.
Now / have something 10 say to the sol
diers, then am done. | want to talk 70
them earnestly You will remember the
times we wero called on to go against the
rebel bayonets: YOU remember the many
battles through which sou have passed, and
you ought To remember, in my Judgment,
who your friends where while passing
through those many scenes; you ought to
remember the men al home who we're your
friends. and the men at home who were
your enemies you ought 10 remember the
men at the South who we're your friends
and the men at the South who we're your
enemies. Now, / appeal to you as honest
men to tell me If you ever saw black man
South who was not loyal 10 the govern
ment? ARd if you saw few white men
South who were loyal to the government;
Ii this be true, remember your irlends ana
the men at home who were yom enemies.
And remember too, that during the whole
struggle the friends you had by your SIDE
fell lighting for the preservation OF your
liberties. And as you saw the boys when
they were drawn up 10 line OIL Dattle, ana
bayenets bristling, and hear the cannons
roaring, and the musketry fattlng, when
the battle ragged and the havoc of war was
about you, and carnage was spreading about
right and left-as YOU passed through these
scenes Of blood with your comrades falling
an the right and the left, front and rear, j
ask the soldier here to-day to tell me, while
storming the heights of Vicksburg, kene-
saw, or Gettysburg, or around the works of
Atlanta, where you lost scores of your COM
rades-tell me if there was one Of you then
that would have voted for a Copperhead?
If You would not have done it then, tell me
what you have done snce then to cause you
70 love them, but hate those that loved you
at that time2 Let me say TO you, if the
time ever comes when any true and patriotic
soldier can vote the ticket against which he
fought, or the ticket that denied him the
principles he was fighting for during the
war, that man, before God and his country,
forgets his manhood and his duty in years
gone by. / can say as a soldier, the time
never will come when shall forget my duty
to the living, and especially my duty to the
dead never will forget myself so as to
allow the power TO 90 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
voice that is in each one-ar.aed 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 you knew your
duty and did it not if you fail to vote for
Union men. Let US as Christian people and
patriots, let us enter 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 our country by rebels, or their
sympathizing friends at the North. Keep
this country, State and nation in the hands
of loyal army and true patriots. If you
viii do that, you will have progress; you
viii have a development Of your country in
all its rich resources anil progress in Civili-
zation, the arts and sciences, such as viii
make this country the garden spot Of the
world to all mankind of every patton, kind
red and tongue, and whose temple of liberty
win stand so high that every man may view
its grandeur, and receive the smiles Of
heaven aud the blessings Of God.
We commend these earnest words to the
soldier boys of our own State.