The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-30
ANOLD SOLDIERS TALK
ON THE NECESSITY FoR WARS.
Good Result. obtained by the Lat. R.s.llIon-
Services over the Remains Of the Late Post
master General Hows-ssareh for the Dead
In BraldWood Mines about given Up.

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A. Logan addressing Burnside Post G. AR,
Of this city, on the Atlanta campaign
spoke as follows: II am very glad indeed
to meet you here tonight and nothing
would give me more pleasure than to dis
cuss some matter in connection with the
last speaker were it not for the fact that
you have listened to very interesting
detailed statement Of the campaigns con-
nected with the fall Of Atlanta. Itwould
not be very proper to detain you at this
time in giving you details Of battles or cam
paigns There is one thing that will say
in reference TO all the wars. Men who are
in the battle engaged know more about
1t than those who are not. Applausel.
Therefore the soldiers OF this or any other
war when say Soldier" mean the SOL
dier, the common soldier; can give better
account OF the battle than any men that
run [applausel. And those who know the
most about the war are those who were
engaged In the war. The men that know
the least OF war are those who read the
history Of war [applausel.
WHO WILL MAKE HISTORY.
The men who have no interest to exag.
gerate are those men Of truth who sat by
their camp fires at night and talked over
what had been done during the day where
their division fought, and that regiment
advanced, aud where this command was
and that one was, those men who came
together and compared accounts OF the
days fights and the morrow's probabilities.
The organizations OF which your are
one are important in this particular, for
the truth will be finally obtained through
them. 1t will not be known until after we
are dead and gone, perhaps, but the histo.
rian who gathers up the books that are
written by private soldiers, the histories OF
regiments, the histories OF companies, the
histories OF campaigns and the little Incl.
dents that occur will give as faithful an
account as can be made ofthe war. There
are great many people. christian people,
whodeprecate war Veal do, but there are
times in every country when war is an alb.
solute necessity. Since man has been
known war has been made and battles have
been fought.
The march Of civilization in rapid
pace has always followed great war, and
l believe that the results OF the two great
battles OF Marathon aud Salamis were the
turning points In the Christian civilization
Of mankind. Applause. My honest con-
viction is that they turned the tide and
gave the world Christianity and civil.
zation, that il the tide had turned the other
way would have been different to-day.
TIE USES OF WAR.
Now the war that was waged between
the Union people and those in rebellion
against them, however much we may de-
precate 1t, and we all do, was fight be-
tween Americans, between kindred who
should have had different feeling from
the one that produced bloedshed. Yet that
war, in my judgment-no matter how many
tears have been shed and how much this
country has been draped in mourning for
the men who gave up their lives for 1t will
be beneficial to the country in the fu.
ture, and it has taught the world two
things, first, that slavery cannot exist
among intelligent people, and second, that
a Republican form OF Government Is the
strongest that can be made by man. ZAP.
plause.1 The stability OF the Government
Is based upon the affections Of the people,
and though political fate may decree that
its officers may be changed from one class
Of thinkers to those OF an opposite class, it
moves and will ever move smoothly along.
The people feel that a Republican form OF
Government guarantees 10 themselves and
their posterity the privileges and benefits OF
everlasting freedom. The Government has
grown steadily in the affections Of the peo.
pie since the rebellion was subdued, and 1t
will grow and grow until no power on
earth can overthrow 1t except the people
themselves. [Great applause. No one de.
precated the war more than myself, yet
know It will serve as lesson to mankind.
It has given the other peoples Of the world
food for thought and reflection in refer.
ence to that which Is best for themselves 80
far as the great idea of liberty is isconcerned.
The time will come when the people ofthe
countries that to-day give power, not as II
flows upward from the people, but the
power given from the head down to the
people, will shake off the shackles. The
chains are being loosened every day, and
probably before you and pass away we
shall see some OF these people strike for
liberty and independence" [Thunderous