The sun., 1879-05-03
Logan and Lowe.

United States Mr.. LOGAN OF Illinois has
never been an object OF patriotic admira-
tion. Nobody that we know Of points TO
him with pride or fingers around the Senate
gallery to hear him speak. lie is swarthy,
hcavy-whi-kcrc black-cycd. staggering
chap, with the general air Of Next
can bandit. lie has the lungs. however,
and his wife is said to have the brains;
but this family division OF the Senatorial
qualifications sometimes works appalling
mschcf to the public business. IL is
said that when Mr.. LOGAN is hauled up
in the Senate by some unexpected cxi-
gcncy Of business or debate, when the
circumstances admit Of no consultation
with his better half, the exhibition is really
alarming. He chcws tho English language
into ounrecogn1ablc shapes, and spits it right
and left, or he thrashcs the innocent air
with his arms, and delivers series Of pro-
longcd and terrible howls under the inn
precision that they constitute n speech
These performances are ear-splttiny and
painful, beyond anything In the history of
Congress of which the oldest inhabitant has
any recollection, and they invariably drive
away both Senators and audience in utter
Consideration, and ~ course terminate the
business Of the day. ZAcH CHANDLER some
times remains and shouts with mad kind
Of joy, while hc kicks the desks and
nourshcs the knutty stick with which he
pursucs DION HaTr between sessions.
But no one else was ever known TO hear
LOGAN out; natural tenderness for our
mother tongue makes the thing impossible.
But while IL would have been bless
ing II the hiyh-toncd Legislature of Illinois
had never sent Mr. LOGAS to the Sen
ate. It does not follow that his removal
! By assassination would be at all proper.
Yet this is IRA method of his taking on
which is gravcly proposed by a marty from
Alabama Of the name of LOWE. This party
we have mover had the pleasure Of seeing
nor do the photographers appear to have
seen their account in the publication Of his
pictures; but We imagine from his eantanl-
erous behavior that ne is another of these
hairy and sanguncous incn. He was caught
| by the sreouhsck tidal IN the swamps of
! Alabama and nputod into Washington along
with the other duftwuod. Bat finding the
political society Of Father WRIGHT and the
clerical DE Ia MArYR not particularly
/ lively, aud the opportunities for distinction
ON the huor uf the House not quite $50 per-
/ feet as hc had supposed in the Wild free
/ dom Of his native woods. he evidently be-
| thought him that 80 woull bc n good move
| to shoot somebody. What more natural
under the circumstances than 90 shoot Lo-
! GAN Had hc not fought on tine Yankee
side Had he not chased Lowe and tue
rest of them around the country in man
ncr that was perfectly hcartloss? For,
Whatever else may bc said OF LoGAS. he was
/ .,.t, ftt, It,ul.f a
/ LOWE good cause 20 remember him.
But lowe having no particular excuse for
shootin. LOGAN, any moro than hc had for
discriminating the northern Democratic
lricudicrs ON his own side II the House,
proceeded to make an excuse according To-
the cude as it Is understood and Iracti-od
"out back in Alabama. He volunteered
20 reporter the statement that LOGAN had
raised three companies Of troops for the
! Confederate service, and then hascly de-
serted them, and sold himself for better
commission in the Union army. This Mr..
LOGAN denounced as an Infamous falschOod,
aud then Mr. Lowe had him whore he
wanted aim, or, at all events tina, would
have hocn the case If he had only had him
in the more bcnightcl parts Of Alabama.
He accordingly went through ali the for
mulitir- of challenging Mr. LoGAS To NOR
tai combat, employing friend several days
IN running on crraud- with his mi7slvcs IN
the most approved style, and was then COM
plctely surprised to find that LoGAN took
no more account Of either Of them than Of
a pair OF grub worms There WAS nothing
left for him, then, but to post" LOGAN,
which was done. and the ridiculous affair
was over, unless the thick-hcadcd Mr.. LowI
shall develop sufficient capacity to comprc-
hcud these somewhat ominOua words which
Mr. LoGAS is reported to have used: " II hc
wants satisfaction, he knows wherc to find
me and how to get it, But this was not
the feast to which the bloodthirsty Green
bacicr had invited himself, and we shal
probably hear no more Of him until he rises
to ask for new issue Of hundred million.
Of Treasury notes for the Improvement %
the Suvanoe River.
E But how about The subject matter Of thu
dispute? Did LoGAN raise troops for The
Confederate army, send them across The
line, and then turn his own sword agaus
them? Although Lowe has made the i-su'
without the slightest T'.~.".' prov0catlon
/ and has behaved throughout like an as
with very small piroeot a lions skinabou
, him. it is not impossible that he told tn
. truth LOGAN Is too open-mouthcl an'
/ furious on the side he serves now to be ci
n tirely sincere. Lowe says he fought sid
a bv side with the men enlisted by LuGAN
u but still more important testimony thHnan
n that he has offered appcats In the iu'luWlu
affidavit. published in the DlmOcrW q
v Columbus, OHIO:
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