Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-02-05
Logan on his Feet.

Pranced there in upon the arena of
the great debate, like trick mule in q
circus, or a spawned nightmare upon the
track Of beautiful Logan, of
Illinois. There was vision of nous
taches. eyebrows and hair, piled on each
other in arches; largo brandishing of
arms, pose and astridulous war-whoop
and much as though 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 aud thigh, and showed no
mercy. Swinging the great broad-axe
OF his logic high in the air, he turned it
ere it fell, aud with the hammer side
struck the language of sixty millions Of
people fairly in the face, and mashed it
beyond recognition. Under his stroke
the floor of the American Senate was
spattered with the remnants of onse
proud vocabulary, and messengers. door
keepers and pages We're covered from hend
to foot with the spray La 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 adiectives and widowed
nouns, bachelor verbs driven to polyga-
my, and polygamous verbs left lonely,
conjunctons discovered propositions scat
tered, adverbs disheyclod and distorted,
and syntax flung into wild disorder. 1t
was a great day for Logan.
He set his teeth into the language as
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 Capitol, and sluggish Representa-
tives 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 disturbance in the brief COM
muuication, "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 Il
government derrick while bis chin churn-
ed the language like pic-driger in
heavy sea. and the bafiled reporters
made wild pluuges with their pencils to
gathe. up his regnrgitations for the prin-
ter. And he talked we'll He began by
saying that he considered it his duty to
stand BY the ship, figure Of speech
which made Howe, Of Wisconsin, prick
up his ears, for that statesman had in
vented it on the previous day and claimed
it as his own Logan also proposed to
stand by the ship. His strong point is
standing by the ship. He did in Docem-
Der. 1859, whom he said on the floor of
the House of Representatives, Il came
here as Democrat, and expect to sup
port u Democrat. | may have differed
with gentlemen upon this side of the
House in reference TO issues that are
passed, and God knows that | have diff
fcred from the other side from my child
hood, and with that side | will never uf-
iilate so long as | have breath in my
body This, with a change of the name
Of the party, is 10 effect what lie said on
Wednesday. Aud he spoke very loud
both times. and he means what he says,
every word Of it, He did in 1859. He
is very earnest statesman NeW Yorje
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