The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-06-26
LOGAN TO THE BOYS.
His Speech in Response to Soldiers and Sailors
Serenade.


The ex-soldiers aud sailors resident in Wash
ington serenaded General Logan on Saturday
evening. They assembled at the City Hill and.
forming in platoons of twelve marched, headed
by the Marine Band, TO the generals residence,
on Twelfth street, where a crowd of two or
three thousand citizens had already assembled.
The procession was literally supplied with
banners, rockets, Roman candles and noise
making devices. The banner of the Army of
the Tennessee was displayed from an upper
window of General Logans house. General
Logan's appearance was greeted with a storm
of cheers. When the applause had subsidized
he was introduced in a brief speech by General
Green b. Raum. General Logan then address
ed the assenblage as follows:
GENERAL LoGANs SPEECH.
COMRADES AND FELLOW CITIZENS: The warm
expressions of confidence and congratulations
which you offer me through your chairman inn
press me with deep sense of gratitude, and beg
to tender my sincercst thanks to and ali of my
participating friends for this demonstration of
kindness and esteem. Your visit this time, gen
tlemen, is interesting to me in double aspect As
citizens of our common country, rendering trib-
ute to me public man, / meet you with gcnu-
inc pleasure and grateful acknowledgment. Com
ing. however. you do in the character OF repre-
sentatives of the soldiers and sailors of country
your visit possesses feature insensibly leading
TO train of most interesting reflections. Your
semblage is composed of men who gave up the
pursuits of peace, relinquished the comforts OF
home, severed the ties of friendship and yielded
the gentle and loving society OF father, mother,
sister, brother, and, in many instances, wife and
little ones to brave the dangers Of the tented field
the crested wave to the gauntlet of sickness
in climates different from your own. and possibly.
probably, to yield up life itself in the
ice of your country.
SUMMONED TO BATTLE
Twenty-three years ago gentlemen when dread
war raised his 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 honor,
riches and 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 adj
vanced to the opening scene of middle life. At the
call however, of your endangered country you
did not hesitate TO leave everything for which
/ strive IN this world to become defenders OF the
Union, without the incentive which has inspired
men OF other nations to adopt military
a permanent occupation and as an outlet to ambi-
ton and an ascent to power.
The safety of our country having been assured
and its territorial integrity preserved you sheathed
the sword, unfixed. the bayonet, laid away the
nusket, housed the cannon, DOTTED your uniforms,
donned the garments OF civil life, buried hatred
towards our brothers OF the South and shook hands
/ in testimony OF mutual resolve to rehabilitate
the waste places and cultivate the arts of peace,
until our reunited country should be greater
prounder and grander than ever
Those years have giided into the retreating per-
spective OF the past since you responded to your
countrys call and mighty changes in the eventful
march of nations have taken place.
! This passing time has laid its gentle lines upon
/ the heads OF many OF you who shouldered your
muskets before the first beard was grown. But
| however lightly or however heavily it has dealt
with you your soldiers and sailors organizations
| that have been kept up prove that the heart has
1 been untouched and that your love of country
has been but intensified with the advancing years
I Your arms have been as strong and your voices
clear in the promotion of peace when lent the
science of war and the interest which you take in
national affairs proves that you periodically
/ determined to maintain what you fought for and
that which lost comrades gave up their lives to
secure for the benefit Of those who survived them.