The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
LOGAN AND HIS WIFE.

Washington Letter to Philadelphia Record.
AS matter of fact, Logan himself is
generally moderated. 1t has become so
popular to -idicule his bad grammar and
cloud" style of Oratory, that his good
parts are almost entirely overlooked.
Logan is not a deeply learned man as
Summer was learned, nor is he great
man as Morton was great, but he is
strong man politically, and naturally
much ADLER man than half his colleagues
in the senate. He is man of undoubted
courage, of positive convictions and a
large generous nature. / have wintered
and summered with him, and know that
inside his sombre exterior are many as
noble qualities as ever adorned any man.
1t is almost impossible to think of him
without thinking of his wife, and it is
quite impossible for one who knows them
both to believe that man who has such
a high appreciation of and so loyal de-
votion to such a woman can be altogeth-
er or overmuch bad. In fact, Logan is
not bad man, either at heart or out
outwardly, and is by no means pigmy
in intellect. His oratory is of the loud
western style of twenty years ago, and
his sentences are involved, turgid and
not seldom ungrammatical, but there are
senators on both sides of the chamber
who can more than equal him in all three
points, and discount him in general illit-
eracy. Logan was always one of the
marked men of the senate. His huge,
brigandish, black moustache and long
black hair make him always conspicuous,
and in addition to these points, he is
more swarthy than the lamented Doug
las, and almost as short; for, while his
body and head are above medium size,
his legs are so short that he is below me
dunn stature His oratory is of the
stump" order, loud and vigorous, but
he is never prosy like Christiancy, nor
tiresome like Howe. His temperament
is bilious, and that often makes him
moody and "blue," but otherwise he is
companionable man and an entertaining
conversationalist. He is hard worker,
and an extensive if not a profound reader.
Mrs. Logan is almost the model of an
American woman. She is not at all such
woman as one would naturally sup
pose from reading of the powerful factor
she has been in her husbands successes.
There is nothing of the "strong minded"
woman about her, in the ordinary accep-
tation of that term. She is the embodi
ment of dignity, and one of the most
quiet, womanly, wifely woman magma
bic. Not pretty, but fine-looking; tall
and shapely, with a perfectly moulded
head; dark brown hair; with just a few
1
| intellectual brow, and a mouth that ex-
pressed more than all the rest of the face
| together; a mouth that can be tremulous
with love or firm with duty, as occasion
may desire. Her. voice is soft and low,
| as woman's should be, her manner gra-
cious and dignified, and also her move
ments quiet and ladylike. Her admira-
| ton of and devotion to her husband
borders on the sublime. To her he is
| evidently the one great man in all the
4 earth. Every thought is for him and their
children. Every look and gesture emo
bles him. They have two children-a
daughter, Just on the verge of woman
hood, who was married year or two
ago. and son in his early teens. Both
/ children are unusually bright, intelli-
/ gent and fine-looklng. The daughter has
been the mothers help-meet in matters
| political and social for years, and the
boy is as thorough-going a specimen of
4 that genius as could be found in a days
march. He already shows the audacity
i and daring of his father combined with
the tenderer and more refined graces of
his mother. When at home, in Chicago,
they live in good style in fine mansion.
Here they have customarily lived COM
fortahly in genteel clearinghouse, the
general and his wife occupying a suit Of
parlors and the children separate rooms,
and whatever may be said of the senator
elect as public man, it must be said TO
his credit that no man in public life Is
happier in his family relations, or more
|, often to be found inside the charmed
border Of his family circle.