The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-02-04
LOGAN ON HIS HIND-LDGS.

LOGAN ON HIS HIND-LDGS.
Terrific Scene in the United States Senate
The following is the New York
1ribune's criticism on the speech of
ohm A. Logan, Sen ator from Illinois,
OIL the Louisiana question:
Pranced there in upon the arena of
the great debate, like trick mule in q
circus, or a spawned night mare upon
the track Of beautiful dream-Logan,
| of Illinois, There was vision OF
mustaches, eyebrows, and hair piled
on each other in arches; large brand
! ishing of arms, pose. and a strldulous
war-whOop and much as though .
| picture Of Deerfield massacre had
stepped out from the page of our early
history. Logan took the American
senate by its large, capacious ear.
And then he went for his mother
| tongue. He smote it right and lett,
! hip and thigh, and showed no mercy.
Swinging the great broad-axe high in
air, he turned it ere it tell, and with
the hammer side struck the language
of sixty millions OF people fairly in
the face, and mashed it beyond recog-
milton. Under his strokethe floor of
the American senate was spattered
with the remnants of . once proud
vocabulary, and messengers, door,
keepers, and pages were covered from
head TO foot with the spray. In the
fearful two hours which followed the
! first roar of his Grafton all the parts of
speech were routed and put to fight.
There were orphaned adjectives and
w lido ed nouns, bachelor verbs driven
to polygamy and pOIygamous verbs
left lonely, conjunctions discovered,
propositions scattered, adverbs dis
cheveled, and distorted, and syntax
flung into wild disorder. 1t was a
great day for Logan. oi -"2e..'-'
He set his teeth into the language a.
the untamsdGtiger of the jungle takes
between his mouth and paw the wear
ing apparel of the wayfarer, and the
ripping of it was heard through all the
forest depths. 1t rcverberated to the
other end of the capitol, and sluggish
representatives lifted up their ears and
listened TO the roar with terrified awe.
Some started for the scene; but upon
being told the cause OF thedisturbrnce
in the brief communication, !"Logan's 8
up, turned back, with full assurance
tlldt tuCy .COulu iIStu llldI 0Eu vi
the capitol all that was worth hearing.
So through two hours Logan swung
his beautiful arms over tho heads of
the senate like the booms of govern
ment derrick, willie his chin churned
heavy sea, and baffled reporters made
wild plunges with their pencils to
gather up his regurgitations for the
printer. And he talked we'll. He be-
gan by saying that he considered it
his duty to stand by his ship, figure
Of speech that made Howe, of Wiscon-
sin, prick up his ears, for that n sstatcs-
man had invented it on the previous
day and claimed it as his own. Logan
also proposed to stand oy the ship. His
strong point is standlnsrby the ship.
He did in December, 1853, whehi he
said on tho, floor of the house of repre-
sentatives, 81 came here as a Dem ocrat.
and expect to support democrat. l
may have differed with gentlemen
upon this side of the house in refer
ence to issues that are passed, but God
kno VS. that have differed from the
ether side from my childhood, and
with that side will never . fiiliate SO
long as L have breath in my body
This, with 3 change o, tie name of the
party. is i'm effect what he said on
Wednesday, And he spoke very loud
both times, and he means what he
says,-every word ofit. lie is q very
earnest statesman.
Logan argued that there was gov
ernment in Louisiana. And when VIC
say argued, we mean that he talked
about it, and. said that there, was a
deny it, and read from Shreveport
paper. AS to the military interfer-
eHcs, "President Grant had nothing to
do with it. Sheridan had nothing 10
do with it," If anybody was respOn-
sible it was Kellogg. All that the
democrats wanted was to raise clam
'.that this raid made Oh the senate in
the New York press, and by the New
i ork meeting showed there was some
kind of understanding that this revo-
luton was to be made in Louisiana
for the purpose of oyerturning the
legislature of that state" Logan is
one of the most consistent men in the
world. He discovered just such a
conspiracy on the part of the repub!i-
cans in January, 1860, aud announced
it on the floor of the house. His
remedy then was the enactment OF a
law which should "opcn the doors of
the pcnite.itiaryp to the 'sabolitionists."
He also approves the use of the mill
tary to control a state. legislature, be-
cause it was done in 1856 by order Of
Franklin Pierce, at Topeka, Kan.
Nothing conid be more consistent
lhan thisl He approved of Pierce ad-
ministration, and he approves Grants.
He supported Pierce in dispensing
free state legislature in Kansas in 1856,
and he supports Grant in dispensing a
conservative legislature i'll. Louisiana
in 1874. ,,..o...t I..o ....i.,t .. f.,.s.t
All! Logan is great mana states
man ! When he throws his intellect in
to a question, whether it is of finance
or self-governtnent,. or, of sticking to
the ship, something has got to come.
And YOU may always Know where to
find him-to' wit, where he always
has been-drawing pay from the gov-
ernment in some capacity. He lacks
only fifteen or twenty things of being
an orator. He has lungs. ......7.....f
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..L 80. Frop, President to King. .,a
.a The country has gone. Oh, now so long
without any attempt by an occupant
of the office of President TO assume 4