The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-06-27
LOGAN.

took a and in the business of ratifYing.
They did a good job. 1t could not well have
been more thorough and complete. The
column formed at city hail, and at 5 O'Clock
came marching up Pennsylvania avenue
preceded by the old Marine band and a
company of Washington's light infantry.
Along the entire line of march there was q
constant fusilade of Roman candles, while
along the side of the street passed q
cart freighted with red n blue fire
which was dumped at frequent intervals and
the match applied, the effect being pictur-
esque in the highest degree, In 'front.' and
LoGAN'S WORDS.
TIL text OF Sen Logan's speech is az
lows:
Comrades and fellow citizens; The warm ex-
pressions of confidence and congratulations
which you offer me through your chairman, i'm
press me with a deep sense OF gratitude, and /
beg to tender my sincerest thanks to all my par
ticipating friends for this demonstration OF
kindness and esteem. Your visit at this time,
gentlemen, Is Interesting TO me In a double as
pect. As citizens of our common country, ten
dertng tribute to me as a public man, / meet you
with genuine pleasure and grateful ackDowl-
edgement. Coming, however, as You do, in the
character of representatives of the soldiers and
sailors of our country your visit becomes a feature
insensibly leading to a train of most interesting
reflections. Your assemblage Is composed of
men who gave up the pursuits of peace, relin-
quished the comforts OF home, severed the
friendship and yielded the gentle and loving So
ciety of family to brave the dangers of the tented
field. or crested waves, to run the gauntlet OF
sickness in climates different from your own,
and probably to yield up life Itself in the service
OF your country: Twenty-three years ago, gen
tlemen, many of you were standing with one foot
upon the portal of manhood, eager for conflict
with a world which promised to bring you honor,
riches and friends, and a life of peace and ease,
but few of you had passed the period Of young
manhood, or advanced TO the opening scene or
middle life. At the call, however, of your en-
dangered country you did not hesitate to leave
anything for which we strove In this world, to
BECOME OF THE UNION
without the incentive which has inspired men Of
other nations TO adopt a military career as a
permanent occupation and as an outlet to am
bitton and assent 60 power. GCheersl The
safety OF our country having been assured and
It's territorial integrity preserved, YOU sheathed
the sword, unfixed the bayonet, laid away the
musket, housed the cannon, DOTTED your upi.
forms, donned the garments OF civil life, brried
hatred toward our brothers of the South, and
shook hands in testimony of q mutual resolve
to rehabilitate the waste places and cultivate the
arts of peace, until our reunited country should
be greater, prouder and grander than ever before.
Those years have glided into the retrearing per-
spectiye of the past since you responded to your
country's call, and mighty changes in the event.
full march of nations have taken place. This
passing time has made itself manifest upon the
kets before your first beard was grown. But
however lightly, or however heavily it has dealt
with you, your soldiers and sailors organiza-
lions that have been kept prove that the heart
has been untouched and that your love
for country has but been intensified.
saw the light of day under the name of Repub-
lican, its birth announced the conception Of q
higher, broader principle OF &aman government
than had been entertained ly our forefathers.
Part few of us, perhaps noneltook the full di-
mensions OF the coming fact at that early day:
1t broke upon as all gradually like the light of
the morning sun. At length it came in full blaze
and for the first time in the history
Of our republic we began to give genn-
inc vitality TO the declaration of 1776,
that AL men are created equally and entitled
to the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. The Republican party was
the unauestionable agency which bore these
gifts to the waiting age, and It was the Demo
cratic idea which disputed their status, first
upon the field of battle, and subsequently and
up TO this moment at the polls. The Repub
lican party, then, representa- thelatest fruition OF
governmental nrogress, and is destined to snr.
yiye upon the theory that the development OF
principles still more advanced shall cornpelft
to measure its step with the march
OF the age or go to the wall
an instrument which has fulfilled its
cling, either in open or covert manner, to the
traditions and policy belonging 10 the expired
era Of our development. just so long will the Re-
publican party be charged with the administra-
tion OF our government. In making this arraign-
ment OF the Democracy, my frienus, / appeal to
no passion nor reopen settled questions. | but
utter the calm, sober words Of truth. say, that
until every state In this broad and beneficial
Union shall give free recognition to the civil and
political rights Of the humblest OF its citizens,
whatever his color, until protection to American
citizens follows the flag at home and abroad; un-
I'll the admirable monetary system established
by the Republican party shall be placed beyond
the danger of subversion; until american labor
and industry shall be protected by wide and
equitable laws so as to give full scope to our inn
mense resources and place every man upon the
plane TO which he is entitled by reason OF his
capacity and worth. until education shall be az
general as our civilization; until we shall have
established
A WISE AMERICAN POLICY,
that viii not only preserve the place with other
nations. but will cause every American citizen to
honor his government atJhome, and every civil
lied nation to respect our flag; until the Amer
icai, people siiaif permanently establish q thor
oughly economic system upon an American ideal
which viii preserve and foster their interests,
uniniuenced by English theories or Golden
clubs, and, until 1t is conceded beyond sub
seQuent revocation that the government exists
upon the basis OF a self-sustaining, self-preserv-
Ing nation. and the fatal doctrine Of independent
state sovereignty, upon which the civil war was
out Of which continued revolution is born, and
wholly incompatible with the idea OF the repub-
lie, the Republican party will have much work
20 do and an unfulllled mission to perform.
The standard bearer party in the ensuing cam-
paign is Hon. James G.. Blaine, known through
OUT the land as one of its truest and ablest
representatives. He has been called to this
position by the voice Of the people in recogni-
ton OF his especial fitness Ter the trust and In
admiration of the surprising combination OF
Druliancy. courage, Ialtnfuiness,p ersistency and
research that has made him one Of the most re-
markable figures which have appeared upon the
forum Of statecraft in my period. That such a
man should have enemies and detractors
IS as natural as that our best fruits should
be infested with parasites, or that there
should exist small and enyious minds which seek
to belittle that which they can never hope TO
initiate or equal, and that he shall triumph over
these, and lead the Republican hosts to another
victory In November, Is as certain as the success
sion of the seasons or the rolling OF the spheres
In their courses. Gentlemen, again / thank
You for this visit Of congratulation. and extend
to you one and all my grateful acknowledge
ments.
The speakers who followed Gen. Logan
were heartily cheered. They included Sena-
tors Plumb and Harrison and Congressman
Cutcheon of Michigan, Goff Of West Virginia,
A. II. pettibone Of Tennessee and Bayne OF