The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-04-06
LOGAN ON HIS FEET.
Pen Picture Of the Fierce Illipoisan
Slaughter Of Grammar and
Rhetoric.

New YORK Tribune, SOME Years 'S"
Pranced there in upon the arena
Of the great debate, like trick
mule in circus, or u spawned nigh
mare upon the track Of 4 beautiful
dream Logan Of Illinois. There
was vision Of moustaches. eyebrows
and hair piled ON each other in arches;
II large brandishiny If arms, Il pose
and u stri,lulOus war-whUop and much
~ though a picture Of the Deertield
massacre had stepped out from the
pages of our early history. Logan
took the American senate by It's large.
capacious ear. And then he went Tor
his mother tongue lie sm",e 1t
right AMI left. hip and thigh. and
showed NO mercy. Swinging the
great broa,l-axe ri his logic high IN
air, he turned II ere !, fell, and with
the hammer side struck the language
Of 60, OOO, 900 Of people fairly in the
face, AMI mashed it beyond rec"gni-
ton. Under his stroke the fio"r OF
the American senate was spatter-
ell with the remnants of once proud
vocabulary. and messengers. door
keepers and pages were covered from
heal tn fool with the spray. In the
fearful two hours which followed the
first roar Of his Grafton. all the parts
of sDeech were routed and pat to
flight. There were orphaned aiiee-
tives and widowed nouns. bachelor
verbs driven to polygamy and poly
gamous verbs left lonely. conJunc-
tions discovered. propositions scatter
ed, aiverbs dishevelled and distorted
and syn,ax flung into wild disorder.
1t was great ,.ay for Logan.
He set his teeth into the language
as the uutamel tiger of the jnngl"
takes between his mouth AMI paw the
wesring apparel Ut the waytarer, ami
the ripping of it was heard through
all the forest depths. 1t reve,berated
to tine other end of the capitol. ami
sluggish representatives hit d mp their
ears and listened To the roar with
terrified awe. Some started tor the
, scene but upon being told the
. cause Of the disturbance in the hriet
! communication. .'l.ogans up. turned
back, with full assurance that thev
u could hear from that end of the
, tcapitul all that WAS worth heariI z.
: 50 through txo hours Logan swung
, his beautiful arms over the heads 1T
! the senate like the booms of II govern
r ment derrick, while his chin churned
n the language like pile-,lriver in II
" heavy sea, aud the batiled reporters
, made wild plunges with their pencils
to gather up his regurgitations Tor
the printer. And he talked we'll. lie
began by saying that he considered
it his duty To stand by the ship,
o figure of speech which made Howe Of
Wisconsin prick up his ears. for that
statesman had invented it on the
" previous dav and claimed it rs his
own. Logan also proposed to stand
IN by the ship. His strong point Is
,r standing BY the ship. lie did in
December, 1859, when he said ON
nj the tior .. the house Of representa-
or tives, II came here as II Democrat,
and expect to support Democrat.
!. I may have differed with gentlemen
upon this side Of the house IN refer
- - ence to issues that are past. but G"i
knows that I have differed from the
y, other side from childhood. and with
that side will never affiliate 81 long
!e As l have breath in my body" This.
with change of the name of the
pc partv, is in effect what he sail on
" "Wednesday. And he spike very
re loud both times. and he means what
" he SAYS. every word IT it. lie did
%. in 1859. He is very earnest states
r. man.
in Logan argued that there was s
IT. government in Louisiana. And when
ny We saw argued, We mean that he
:, talked about il. and said there was q
government. AMI asked anybody Il
Nv DENY it anil read from Shreveport
To- paper. A to the military interfer
ence, president Grant hal nothing
'G1s to do with it. Sheridan hal nothing
:. to do with it. and the senate ha'
nothing to do with it, IL any
a body was responsible it was Kellogg
" All that the Democrats wanted VII
Pr tO raise clamor in the Country, an
~ he believed ''that this raid made ia
the senate, in the New York press
a. a.. and bv the New York meeting
at showed that there was some kind "
-, understanding that this revolution
81 was to he made in Louisiana for thu
u" purpose If overturning the Legislature
IN Of that state" Logan is one OF thu
=, most consistent men in the world
He discovered jus, such conspiracy
N, on the part If the republicans IL
st January, 1860. and announced it 81
the floor of the house. His remedy
,rs then was the enactment of Law
d. which should open the doors "f tn
IA penitentiary to the Aboliiionists. lii
Re. he also approves the use Of the military
irh to control a state legislature because
it was done in 1856. by order o
. =" franklin Pierce. at Topeka. kansas
ST., st. Nothing could he more consistent thai
this. He approved Of Pierces az
IN. ministra.ion. aud he approves Grants
Ger He supported Pierce in dispensing
nth Free State legislature in Kansas ii
nall 1856. and he supports Grant j
T. :: dispensing a Conservative legislator
sas in Louisiana in 1874.
All! Logan Is great man D;
MA statesman. When he throws hi
ne ~ intellect into q question, whether
is Of finance or self-government. q
sns Of sticking to the ship. somethin
,nd has ct to come. And you ma
., % always know where tO find him
to wit, where he has always been
o., drawing pay from government II
M some capacity. He lacks only fiftee
> ar twenty thip!,s of being an orator