The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-28
Logan Serenaded.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June %.
The ex-soldiers and sailors resident in
Washington serenaded General Logan Sat
urday evening. They assembled at the City
Hall, and forming in platoons of twelve
marched, headed by the Marine Band, to
the Generals residence on Twelfth ST.,
where crowd of 1000 or 5000 citizens
were already assembled. The procession
was literally supplied with banners, rock
cts, Roman candles and noise-making
devices. The banner of the Army of the
Tennessee was displayed from the upper
window of General Logan's house. Gen.
eral Logan's appearance was greeted with
storm of cheers. When the applause
subsidized he was introduced in a brief
speech by General Green b. Raum.
General Logan then addressed the as
semblage as follows:
COMRADES AND ELLow-CIrIZENs-Th
warm expressions of confidence and con-
gratulations VIII Oh you offer me through
your chairman impress me with a deep
sense of gratitude. l beg to tender my
sincerest thanks to one and all of my
participating friends for this demonstra-
ton of kindness and esteem. Your visit
at this time, gentlemen, Is interesting to
me, in double aspect. AS citizens of
our common country, rendering tributes
to me as public man, meet
you with genuine pleasure
and grateful acknowledgment.
Coming, however, as you do, in the char
acter of representatives of the soldiers
and sailors of our country, your visit pos
| sesses a feature insensibly leading to
train of most interesting reflections. APP
plause.l Your assemblage is composed
of men who gave up the pursuits of peace,
1 ral nich hn mr. Of
cred the ties of friendship and yielded
the gentle and loving society of father,
mother, sister, brother and in many in
stances wife aud little ones, to brave the
dangers of the tented field or crested
wave to run the gauntlet of sickness
in climates different from your own,
and possibly, or even probably, to
| yield up life itself in the serv-
| Ice OF your country. Twenty
| years ago, gentlemen, when dread war
raised its 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 promised to bring you honors,
riches, friends ard life of 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 OPEN
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 in
centive which has inspired men of other
nations to adopt military career as
permanent occupation and as
an outlet to ambition and ascent to
power GCheers. The safety of our
country having been assured and its ter
ritorial integrity preserved, you sheathed
the sword, unfixed the bayonet, laidaway
the musket, housed the cannon, DOTTED
your uniforms, donned the garments of
civil life, buried hatred toward our
brothers of the South and shook hands
in testimony of mutual resolve to re-
habllltate the waste places and cultivate
the arts of peace until our reunited conn-
| try should be greater, prouder and grander
than ever before. Great cheers. Those
years have glided into the retreating per-
spective of the past, since you responded
to your country's call, and mighty
changes in the eventful march of ma
lions have taken place. This passing
time has laid its gentle lines up
on the heads of many OF you who shout
dered your muskets before the first beard
was grown. But however lightly, OF
however heavily, it has dealt with you,
your soldiers and sailors organizations
that have been kept up prove that the
heart has been untouched. and that vouI