The daily Argus., 1875-09-21
The Long Lost Logan.
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A speech Of Logan is q joy forever. of
late Logan's speeches have been few and
far between. True, the echoes of his great
|oration last winter we for9et what it was
about-are still ringing in the deserted sem
ate chamber, and the most Injured pages,
doerkeepers and and clerks who we're then
unhappily present and awake have not yet
blotted from the book of affrighted memory
recollection of that fearful day when, ac-
cording to contemporary chronicle he rais-
ed his broad ak on high, and bringing down
the fiat side thereof on the English Ian
guage, mashed it beyond all recognition.
Since then nothing has been heard Of Lo-
gan. Like Pelleas in Mr.. Tennyson's poem,
he gave one yell in the hall and vanished.
We were sorry, because the financial ques-
ton was upon US, that financial question in
which Logan had foated his powerful mind
for two long weeks by Shrewsbury clock.
Logan. too, was credited with immortal
longings for the presidency on an initiation
basis. His colleague, Mr., Oglesby, was,
as one might say, cavorting through the
boundless west, declaring that even as the
government had gone into the mineral
kingdom and declared its gold and silver
money,so also might it press the vegetable
kingdom into its service and make its rag
fibres money. But Logan made no sign
The Bank of California collapsed, much as
Logan's Cook County National bank had
done FIVE months before, and we all listened
for, the words of Logan. but there was not
o1a. Called he that greenbacking of his
friends2 Mr.Allen, swallowing forty years
of bis record by way of bronchial troche,
gave his mighty voice for more currency,
But the Allen might boom or the loud
Carey rattle; Logan heard not, Logan
needed not. Now, however, a speech
comes from the Rocky Mountains, eyen
from far off Denver, and by the straw
berry marks of grammatical inaccuracyi on
Its left sentence we know it to be that of
our long-lost Logan. 1t is the same
old speech of the same old Logan,
dealing with Secession and the Eagle and
Slavery and the Flag-that speech which
a historical auditor at Carbondale once
declared in ecstasy to be better n fried
eggs" Logan, we observe. in reply to
''the assertion that the Republican party
WAS intolerant, spoke of the fact that sew
''enty-four men who wore rebel uniforms
''have been elected to congress. though
why the fact that seventy four Republican
candidates were rejected at the polls By
their constituents should prove that the
Republican party was not intolerant, we
fail utterly to perceive. But let US lister
to the words Of Logan on the currency
question. Says the report: ,'.trt
Upon the question Of finances the inconsisten
views OF the Democrats were spoken of, and th
senator spoke of the national banking system show
ing Its advantages In the revenue paid to the gov
eminent the character Of the currency as con
trasted with that OF the old stale banks The ide,
OF the Republican party Is that the bil-holder shal
be secure, the man that labors and gets his none
in his pocket if the bank breaks the government
: behinu 1t, and will redeem the bill
. That is very fine, though the printed
, words lack the viyifying charm lent to then
! by the orators voice. but we must saw
o with the gospel sharp who entered int
e conversation with Scotty Briggs concern
i ing the arrangements for Buck Fanshawe'
d funeral, that though we thought but
moment since that we apprehended hi
D meaning, now we grope. Is Logan goin
o back on imitation? Such suspense and in
/ ldehniteness are simply torturing. s
q thought his audience at Denver. for whe
Il General Cameron arose to make anothe
J. speech they rose in frenzy of uncontro
). liable emotion, turned off the gas-of a
e sorts-and tore up the seats. Logan mus
d not trihe with the public. And yet W
E. have our fears that the rumor which sal
3 that Logan's faith in the greenback wa
II waning is true. 1t must be true. Carr
d the news to the Inter Ocean. Logan
d all surrounded by himself.