The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-19
From the N, z. Tribune.
Logan ON his Feet.

Pranced there in upon the arena OF tue
great debate, like trick mule in circus,
or a spawned nightmare upon the track OF
a beautiful dream-Logan OF Ailnols.-
There was vision Of mustaches, eyebrows,
and hair, piled on each other in arches; a
large brandishing of arms, pose, and o
stridulous war .whoop as much as though
a picture of the Deerfeld massacre had
stepped out from the pages 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 left, hip and thigh, and showed
no mercy. Swinging the great broad-ax OF
his logic high in air, he turned it ere 1t
fell, and with the hammer side struck the
language of sixty millions of people fairly
in the face, and mashed it beyond recognl-
ton. Under his stroke the floor OF the
American senate was spattered with the
remnants of a once proud vocabulary, and
messengers, doorkeepers, and pages were
covered from head to foot with the spray.
In the fearful two hours that followed the
first roar of his grafton, all the parts OF
speech were routed and put to flight
There were orphaned adjectives and wild
owed nouns, bachelor verbs driven to poly
gamy, and polygamous verbs left lonely,
conjunctions discovered, propositions scat,
tered, adverbs disheveled and distorted, and
syntax flung into wild disorder. 1t was q
great day for Logan. sl-. u
He set his teeth into the language as
the untamed tiger Of the jungles takes be,
tween his mouth and paw the wearing ap.
parel of the wayfarer, and the ripping OF
it was heard through all the forest depths.
It reverberated 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 the dis
turbance in the brief communication, 10.
gan's up." turned back, with full assur-
ance that they could hear from that end Of
the capitol all that was worth hearing. Sc
through two hours Logan swung his beau
tiful arms over the heads OF the senate
like the boom of government derrick
while his chin churned the language like
pile-dr in a heavy sea, and the baf1et
reporters made wild plunges with thei
pencils to gather up his regurgitations TO
the printer. And he talked well. ID
began by saying he considered it his dut
to stand by the ship, figure
speech which made Howe of WIS
consin prick up his ears, for tina
stateman had invented it on tn
previous day and claimed it as b
own. Logan also proposed to stand by tn
ship. His strong point Is standing by th
ship. He did in December, 1859, whe
he said on the floor of the house of repr'
''sentatives | came here as Democra
land / expect to support Democrat.
may have differed with gentlemen upe
''this side of the house in reference to i
'sues that are passed, but God know
that have differed from the other sit
''from my childhood, and with that SIC
81 will never affiliate so long as | hay
''breath in my body" This, with achans
of the name of the party. is in effect VIII
Sa so;d on Wednesday. And he spo
no loud both times, and he means VIII
he says. every word of it, He did in Is;
He is very earnest statesman.
Logan argued that there was COVER
ment in Louisiana And when we say {
gued, we mean that he talked about
and said there was government, a
asked anybody to deny it, and read from
Shreveport paper. As to the military
reference, president Grant had not
ling to do with it, Sheridan had MOTH
ITO do with it, and the senate had nothi
Ito do with it." If anybody was respe
sible it was Kellogg. All that the Den
Gratis wanted was to raise clamor in
country, and he believed that this r,
made in the senate, IN the NewYc
press, and by the New-York meet
showed that there was some kind of |
"derstanding that this revolution was
"be made in Louisiana for the purpose
'overturning the legislature of that stat
Logan is one of the most consistent men
the world, He discovered Just such @
spiracy on the part of the Republicans
January, 1860 and announced it on
floor of the house. His remedy then Y
the enactment of law which should or
''the doors of the Penitentiary," to
''Abolitionists He also approves 1
use of the military to control state les
lature, because it was done in 1856 by
der of Franklin Pierce, at Topeka, Kans
Nothing could be more consistent tt
this2 He approved of Pierce's admin
tration, and he approves Grants.
supported Pierce in.dispersing Free st
legislature in Kansas in 1856, and he s,
ports Grant in dispensing Conservat
legislature in Louisiana in 1874.
All! Logan is a great man; a stat
man. When he throws his intellect int
question, whether it is of finance, or S,
government, or of stickingilto the sh
something has got to come. And J
may always know where to find him
wit, where he has always been draw
pay from government in some capaci
He lacks only fifteen or twenty things
being an orator. He has lungs.