Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-07-24
n Soldiers Tribute 10 logan

At a Blaine and Logan ratification
meeting held at Titusville, Penn, j. H.
COgswell who served during the war as
Lieutenant Colonel Of the 150th New
York Regiment, Twentieth Army Corps,
made an address from which the follow
ing is taken;
Who is this General John A. Logan?
l see before me good many soldiers
bullet-stOppers and shell arresters from
1861 to 1865. don't need to tell them
anything about the old Black Eagle of
Illinois, who commanded the Fifteenth
Corps. Is there man in my hearing
who wore the corps badge. the scar
fridge box and forty rounds" he would
say, "yOu can't tell me anything about
General Logan that / don't know bet
ter than you'll" see other mon here who
know Of Logan. They remember how
their hearts were lightened up during
the war as they read of his successes Mt
Belmont. Fort Henry, Fort DOnslson,
VIcksburg. Port Gibson, Mission Ridge,
Resaca, Dalles. Kenesaw, Peach Tree
Creek and Atlanta. He was In Congress
in 1861, and when a Michigan Regiment
came through Washington he enlisted
In its ranks as private soldier and
bore his part in the first Bull Run bat
tie, being one Of the last to leave the
field. You remember the poets express
sion. "the bravest are the gentlest!
will change the sentiment even at the
expense Of poetry and add, "the bravest
are most magnanimOus" and as proof
will cite you the conduct Of general Lo-
gan when sent to Nashville in December
army from old Pap Thomas, whose men,
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every member of the Army of the Cum
berland, but every true man in the
country. Logan had but to take ono
simple sheet of paper from his pocket
on which WAS written an order from
Stanton h0w it to general Thomas,
and the credit of that overwhelming
and crushing victory. the battle of Nash |
vile would have BEEN his and General |
Thomas would have been in disgrace. |
Did he do it? Perish the thought He |
saw why Thomas had been "slOw," and |
he further saw that he was sure" He |
waited to see the victory GENE that |
Thomas had organized, and then hast
eDed back to Washington, then to Sava-
nah to meet his own corps, the 18th,
which had been marching through |
Georgia" Since the war nearly all of
his time has been spent in Congress,
and how spent? To ask how gOOdly
part of it had been spent. ask the man
who has an empty sleeve, the flesh bone
and muscles that should fill it being
buried with scores Of others at the foot
OF some amputating table in one of the
field hospitals at Gettysburg or tho will
dernessl Ask the men you see every
day in our streets who try'to make two
sticks take the place of the leg lost at
Cold Ilarbor or Fort HE'LL Ask the wild
Ow who regularly receives her quarterly
allowance from the most benehcent gov
eminent the world ever saw in its treat
ment of its unfortunate defenders. Ask
the soldier who, by the mercy Of God,
lived throug Andersenville and still has
his reason left! Yes, ask any of those
what Logan has done in Congress, and
they will all with one accord invoke the
blessings of heaven upon John A. Logan
for the efforts he has put forth, and is
still putting forth in their behalf. Ask
tho million c0lOrsd voters Of the South,
who, remembering the political rights
accorded them by the constitution and
laws, cry out in their anguish, "We ask.
ed of you bread, and you have given us
a stone" You promised us the ballot,
but Danville and Hamburg reply with a
bullet" They remember that LOgan's
voice has failed them not whenever he
could champion their cause. Have l
answered who General John A. Logan Is?
Fit comrade for our Plumsd knight!
our Henry of Navarro! our James G.
Blaine. Let them be associated. The
statesman-schOlar, and the soldier
statesman Blaine and Logan!
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