Huntsville gazette., 1884-06-28
Logan Serenaded.
WASHINGTON. d. G.. J


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
Hail, and forming in platoons of twelve
marched, headed by the Marine Band, to
the Generals residence on Twelfth ST.,
where crowd of 1900 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 brief
speech by General Green B. Raum.
General Logan then addressed the as
semblage as follows:
COMRADES AND FELLOW -CITIZENs-The
warm expressions of confidence and con-
gratulations which you offer me through
your chairman impress me with deep
sense of gratitude. l beg to tender my
participating friends for this demonstra-
tion 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
you with genuine pleasure
and grateful acknowledgment
Coming, however, as you do, in the char
nf rap nf tho CnlIiarc
and sailors of our country, your visit pos
sesses a feature ipsensibly leading to q
train of most interesting reflections. ZAP
plause. Your assemblage is composed
of men who gave up the pursuits of peace,
relinquished the comforts of home, sew
cred the ties of friendship and yielded
the gentle and loving society of father,
mother, sister, brother and in many in
stances wife and 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-three
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 and 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
ing scene of middle life. 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 in
centive which has inspired men of other
nations to adopt military career as
q permanent occupation and as
an outlet to ambition and ascent to
power. Cheers. The safety of our
country having been assured and its ter
ritorial integrity preserved, you sheathed
the sword, unfixed the bayonet, laid away
the musket, housed the cannon, doffed
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-
habilitate the waste places and cultivate
the arts of peace until our reunited coun-
try should be greater, prouder and grander
than ever before. TGreat 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
tions have taken place. This passing
time has laid its gentle lines up
on the heads of many of you who shoul-
dered your muskets before the first beard
was grown. But however lightly, or
however heavily, 1t 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 but been intensified
with advancing years. Cheers.1 Your
arms have been as strong and your voices
as clean In the promotion of peace as
when lent to the defense In war, and the
interest which you take In National affairs
proves that you are patriotically deter
mined to maintain what you fought for
and that which our lost comrades gave
up their lives to secure for the benefit of
those who survived them. Applause
long continued.
During the last twenty years, in
which we have been blessed with peace,
the Republican party has been continued
in administration of the Government.
When the great question Of preserving or
giving up the Union of States was pre-
sented to us it was the Republican party,
which affirmed its perpetuation. l open
no wounds, nor do l resurrect any bad
memories in stating this as an undeniaDle
fact. When you and /, my friends, and
that vast body of men, who, having de-
clared in favor of preserving the Union,
were compelled to resort to the last
dread measure, the arbitrament of war,
we did so under the call of che Republi-
can party. Many of US had been
educated by our fathers in the Democra-
tic schools of politics, and many of us
were acting with that party at the time
the issue of the war was presented to US.
For years the Democratic party had
welded the destinies of our government,
and had served its purpose under mar