The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-06-22
Logging FOR LOGAN.
UNION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
A Political Episode that smacks ut the
shop-Hiark jacks Biusicr No. Dead
Issues Galvanized - Miscei-
ianeous Political Events.


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and sailors resident In Washington
scrcnadcd General Logan this even
ing. They assembled ut the city
hall and forming In platoon'
of twelve marched, headed by
tho Marine band TO the Generals resi-
dcncc, on Twelfth street, whore crowd
of 1000 or 5000 citizens was
already assembled The procession
was literally supplied with banners
rockets, Roman candles and noise
making devices. The banner OF the
Army of Tennessee was displayed
from the upper windows of Gen.
Logan's house. Ten. Logan's appearance
was greeted with II storm of cheers
when the applause subsidized, he was
introduced In brief speech by Gen.
Green u. RauIn. Gen. Logan then adj
dressed the asscmblage as follows:
Comrades and Fellow Citizens!
| The warm expression ofconiidencc ana
congratulations which you offer me
through your Chairman impress me
with a deep sense of gratitude. hereby
tender my sincere thanks to one and all
nay participating friends, for this demon
stration of your esteem ana Kind
gentlemen, Is interesting to me
In II double aspect. AS citizens
of our common country rendering
tribute to me as n public man, | meet
YOU with genuine pleasure ana grnteiul
acknowledgements; coming ns you 90 III
the character of representative soldiers
and sailors of your country, your
visit presents n feature leading
td train of the most inter
csting reflections. APPLAUSE. Your
asscmblagc IL composed of men who
gave up the pursuits of peace, relin-
pushed the comforts of home
severed the ,,,o, ties on, 2, i gSniic
and loving society of father, mother,
sister and brother and in many instances
wife and little ones, to brave the dangers
of the tented field or crested wave,
to run the gauntlet of sickness in eli
mates different from your own, ana pos
siblc, or even probably, to yield mp life
itself in the service of your country.
Twenty-three years ago, gentlemen,
when dread war raised its wrinkled
front throughout the land, many of you
were standing with one foot upon inc
portal of manhood, eager for the conflict
with world which promised TO bring
YOU honors, friends, and riches, and life,
peace and ease, in the society of your
own family; but few of you. had
passed the period of young manhood,
or advanced to the opening scenes OF
middle life. At the call, however, OF your
endangered country, you did not hest
tate to leave everything for which we
strive I'm this world to be defenders OF
the Union, without the incentive which
has inspired men in other
nations t. a military career as
n permanent occupation, and as
and sublct of ambition and an ascent to
power. [Checrs. Tho safety of our
country having been assured and
it's territorial integrity preserved;
| N ~
the bayonet, laid away the muskett,
housed the cannon, DOTTED your uni.
forms, donncd the garments of civil
life, buried hatred toward our brothers
of the South, and shook hands in
testimony of the mutual resolve TO re-
habitate the waste places and cultivate
the arts of peace, until our reunited
country should be greeted, prouder
and grander than eyer before;
Great cheers.l Those years have glided
into the perspective of the past.
Since you responded to your
sountrH's call Sno,,, mighty march G''"nse OF
nations have taken place. This passing
time has laid its gentle lines upon the
heads of many of You VINO
shouldered your muskets before
the first beard was grown;
but however lightly or however heavily
| il has dealt with you, your
soldiers and sailors organizations that
have been kept up prove that
the heart has been untouched and that
your love of country has been intensiheu
with advancing years. Cheers.l
| Yours arms have been as
strong and your voice ms
clear in the proclamation of peace ms
when lent to the science of war, and the
interest which YOU take in national
affairs, proves that you are patriotically
determined to maintain what you
fought for and that for which our lost
comrades gave up their lives to secure FOR
the benefit of those who survived them
| lCeeers, long continued. During, the
last twenty years, in when we naNe
been blessed with peace, the Repub..
lican party has been continued
i'm the administration of the gov
eminent. When the great question
of preserving or giving up the Union OF
States was presented 10 US, j,
was the Republican party who affirmed
its perPetd@tion'r o,, open, no on wour SnJ
memories Ia stating this as an undcnia
bic fact. Whom you and ], my friends
and that vast body of men who, having
declared in favor of preserving the
Union, were compelled to resort to
the last dread measure, t TN,
arbitrament OF war we ana so "naor .n ~,
call of the Republican party. Many OF
MS have been educated by our fathers III
the Democratic school of politics
with that party at the tim,
the issue of war was presented to US. Fol
years the Democratic party had wieldeo
the destinies Of our govern,
purpose under narrower views Q
I'm ideal Republic that then existed
The matrix OF time has developed new
child of progress, which saw the ligh
of day under the name OF TN
Republican party. Its birth an
nounccd the conception oil nigher
broader principle of human government
tban had been entertained by our fore
took in the full Dimension
of the coming fact Mt tina
early day. 1t broke upol
: us gradually, like the morning sun, n
he rises in the misty dawn above IN,
mountain-top; at length II came in ful
blaze, and for the first time in tn
history of our Republic we began u
give genuine vitality to the declaration
of l716: "That all men are created equ'
: and entitled to the alienable right OF lib
, erty in pursuit of happiness" Cheers.
The Republican party was the the. nn ra;!.h,
, to the waiting age, and 1t was
Democratic idea which disputes
their value, first upon the fiel'
Of battle and subsequently AM
up to this moment at the polling place
OF the country. The Republical
party, then, represents the lates
junction of governmental progress
and il is destined TO surviv
upon the theory that the strong outlive
f; he weak, until the deyclopement {
principles still more advanced sha
Come, shall compel il to measure II
, step with the march of the age Q
i 60 to the wall as an instrumen
! which has fulfilled its destiny. so lon