The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-06-26
Senator Logan Speaks.

The eX-soldierS and sailors resident in
Washington serenaded Gen. Logan Satur-
day night last at his residence, on Twelfth
street, where a crowd of two or three thou
sand citizens had already assembled. Gen.
L0gan'S appearance was greeted with a
storm of cheers. He was introduced by
Gen. Green b. Raum
''TWenty-three years ago, gentlemen, y
GenAdIOgan began, ''when dread war
raised his wrinkled front throughout the
land many of you were standing with one
foot upon the portal of manhood, eager for
the conflict with the world. which prom
ised to bring you honor, riches and friends
and life of peace and ease in the society
of your own family. At the call, however.
OF your endangered country you did not
hesitate to leave everything for which we
strive in this world to become defenders Of
the Union, without the incentive which
has inspired men of other nations to adopt
q military career as q permanent occupa-
ascent to power. asFE sufsftAs
1.-The safety of our country having been
assured and its territorial integrity pre-
served you sheathed the sword, unfixed the
bayonet, laid away the musket, housed the
cannon, DOTTED your uniforms. donned the
garments of civil life. buried hatred to-
wards our brothers of the South and shook
hands in testimony of mutual resolve to
rehabllitate the waste places and cultivate
the arts OF peace.
when you and /, my friends, and that
vast body OF men who, having declared in
favor of preserving the Union were com
PEELED to resort to the last dread measure
the arbitrament OF war--we did so under
the call of the republican party. Forge
the democratic party had Welded the des-
t1nlQG ut OAVprnma amt p6 ho6
its.purpOse under the narrower views of
an ideal republic Which then existed. But
the matrix of time has developed a new
child Of progress, which saw the glory OF
day under the name of the republican
party. Its birth announced the concep-
tlon OF a higher, broader principle of hui
man government than had been enter
tanned by our fOrefathers. fi3 M IS .f
The republican party represents the
latest fruition OF governmental progress,
and is destined to survive upon the theory
that the strong outliyes the weak, until
the deyelopement of principles still more
advanced shall compel it to measure it's
step with the march of the age or go to
the wall as an instrument which has full
filled its Destiny. So long as the demo-
cratic party shall cling, either in an open.l
or covert manner, to the traditions and
policy belonging to an expired era of our
development, just so long will.the republic
can party be charged with the administra- |
tion OF government.
until every State in this broad and !
beneficent Union shall give free recogni- |
ton to the civil and political rights of the !
humblest OF its citizens, whatever his
color until protection to American citi-
Zens follows the flag at home Md abroad
until the admirable monetary system es- /
tobIrchnA bxJ tho Nnrty cba11 1c.I
placed beyond danger of subversion; until
American labor and industry shall be pro-
tected by wise and equitable laws, so rs to
give full scope to our immense resources
and place every man upon the plane to
which he is entitled by reason OF his Ca
pacity and worth until education shall be
as general as our civilization; until we
shall have established a wise American
policy that will not only preserve peace
with other nations, but will cause every
American citizen to honor his government |
1T home and every civilized nation to re-
spect our flag until the American people
shall permanently establish thorough
economic system upon the American idea
which will preserve and foster their own
interests. uninfiuenced by English theories
or Golden clubs, and until it is conceded
beyond subsequent revocation that this
government exists upon the basis Of SELF
self-preserying nation, and the /
atal doctrine Of Independent States SOW
,reignty. upon which the civil war was
,ounded, shall be stamped as a political
leresy, out of which continual revolution !
8 born and wholly Incompatible with that
dea of a republic. the republican party
viii have much work to do and an unfullilled
mission to perform" Senator Logan h
Mr., Blaine and predicted re-
publican victory. f i'ss