The daily gazette., 1875-01-16
LOGAN ON HL8 EE1IlT.,
From tho Neac York Tribune, of Fritia,

a great debate, like q trick mule in a
circus, or spawned nightmare upon
the tracks of n beautiful dream-Lo-
gan, of Illinois. There was a vision of
monstaches, eyebrows, and hair, piled
on each other in arches; q large
Drandlsliing of arms, pose, and
strldulons war-whoop; and much as
though a picture of the Dcefield mas
sacrc had stepped out from the pages
OF out carly history, Logan took the
American Senate by its large, capac-
ious ear, And then he went for his
mother tongue. He smotc it right and
left, hip and thigh, and showed no
mercy. Swinging the grcrt broad-axe
OF his logic high in air, he turned it
ere it fell, and with the hammer side
struck the language of sixty millions
of people fairly in the face, and mash
ed it beyond recognition. Under his
stroke the floor of the American Sen
ate was spattcrcd with the remnants
of once proud vocabulary, and mes
sengers, doorkeepcrs, and pages We're
covered from head to foot with the
spray. In the fearful two hours which
followed the first roar of his oration,
all the parts of speech were routed and
put to flight. There were orphaned
adjectives and widowed nouns, bache-
lor verbs driven TO polygamy, and
polygamy verbs left lonely, conjunc-
tions discovered, propositions scatter
ed, adverbs dishevelled and distorted,
and syntaX flung into wild disorder. 1t
was great day for Logan.
| He set his teeth into the language
rs the untamed tiger of the jungles
takes between his mouth and paw the
wearing apparel of the wayfarer, and
the ripping of it was heard through all
the forest depths. 1t reverberated to
the other end of the Capital, and slug
gish Representatives lifted up their
ears and listened to the roar with ter
riied awe. Some started for the scene,
but upon being told the cause of the
disturbance in the brief communica-
tion, "Logan's up, turned back, with
full assurance that they could hear
from that end of the Capitol all that
was worth hearing. SO through two
hours Logan swung his beautiful arms
over the heads of the Senate like the
booms of Governmcn tderrick while
his chin churned the language like
pile driver in heavy sea, and the ba-
flied reporters made wild plunges with
their pencils to gather up his regurgi-
tations for the printer. And he talked
well.
He began by saying that he consider
ed it his duty to stand by the shipi a
figure of speech which made Howe oi
Wisconsin prick up his ears, foT that
statesman had invented it on the pre-
vious day and claimed it as his own
Logan also proposed to stand by the
ship, He did in December 1853, when
he said on the floor of the House ofRe-
presentatives, Il came here as n De
mocrat and expect to support aDemo.
. crat. may have differed with gentle
men upon this side of the House in re
: ference to issues that are passed, but
God knows that have differed from
the other side from my childhood, and
with that side will never affiliate so
long as have breath in my body -
This. with n change of the name OF
the party, is in effect what he said on
Wednesday. And he spoke very loud
both times, and he means what he says
every word of it. lie did it in lSo9.
He is a very earnest statesmen.
. Logan argued that there was gov
; ernmcnt in Louisiana. And when we
saw argued, we mean that he talked
l about it, and said there was govern
ment, and asked anybody to deny II,
, and read from a Shreveport paper, As
: to the military interference, "Presl-
| dent Grant had nothing to do with IT,
Sheridan had nothing to do with IT.
e If ANYBODY was responsible it waskel-
. logg. Ali that the Democrats wanted
was to raise a clamor in the country, "
he believed "that this raid made IN me
New York press and by the New ork
meeting showed that there was some
| kind of understanding this revolution
: was to be made in Louisiana lot the
! ! purpose of overturning the Legislature
of that State" Logan is one OF ,he
most consistant men in the world
= He discovered Just such q conspiracy
a ON the part of the Republicans inJanu-
l ary, 1860, and announced IL on lhe
t floor of the House. Ills remedy then
? was the enactment OF law Wnich
: should 'open the doors OF the peniten-
|, tiary" to "thc Abolitionists. lie al
q so approves the use of the military 10
= control State Legislature because II
!. was done in 1856 by order OF Frank I'm
e Pierce, at Topeka, Kansas. Nothlng
I could be more consisistant than tins.
v Uc onnroyed of Pierce's administration
i and he opproycs of Grants. He sup
8 ported Pierce in dispensing a Free
: State Legislature in Kansas in 1896,
!, and he supports Grant in dispensing. n
y Conservaie Legislature inhouislana IN
1 1874. .,a-.
: All Logan is great man; a states
e man. When he throws his intellect
t into question, whether it is OF finance
. or self-g government, or of the sticking
:. to the ship, something has got to com
/ And you may always know where To
E find him-to wit, where he has alway..
u been; drawing pay from Government
: in some capacity. He lacks only III
; teen or twenty things of being an ora
~ tor. He has lungs. ..f.
d The suggestion that in declaring thai
Sheridan was not fit to breathe the an
Is | q ~ rnn,lhlic Mr RaYaru had lnYIteN