The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-12-30
LOGAN DEAD F.!
THE OLD HERO AT LAST GIVES UP
LIFEs BATTLE!

Gen. John Alexander Logan died at
his home in Washington City, on last
Sunday afternoon, at o'clock. His
ailment was rheumatic fever. He was
nearly sixty-one years of age, having
been born February 9th, 1926. He
was SON of DIR. John Logan, native
of Ireland. Gen. Logan had been
confined to his room for some time
with his old ailment, rheumatism, to
which he had been subject for years.
He had been gradually growing worse
for some days, but his friends hoped
that he might yet recover, until last
Sunday afternoon, when it was EVIL
dent that the end was at hand. Ia the
presence of the faithful wife who had
been his able assistant and counsellor
all through his public career, and the
other members of his family, with a
number of public men-lncludlug
Gen. Phil. Sheridan-he passed away,
without recognizing even the faithful
wife. We may publish hereafter an
extended sketch Of the life and services
of this great man, but have not the
space in this issue. Besides those ser
vices are fresh in the minds of our
people. Those old soldiers in Jackson
County who served in the campaigns
with Grant and Sherman, have known
Logan at his best as a soldier. None
will ever forget how erandly he filled
McPherson's place on that terrible 22d
of July, 1864, when the latter was
killed in battle. As a statesman he
was universally right, and always
fearless.
With the death of John A. Logan
goes out one Of the grandest lives this
country has ever known. A man who
always had very decided convictions of
right, and the courage to stand by
them in the face of any opposition, he
held the admiration of brave and noble
men everywhere. The only man who
saw nothing to admire In John A.
Logan, was the coward-the coyote of
the social and political worldwide
had not the courage to make bold,
manly stand upon any question. No
braver man lived than Logan. During
the war he was the typical American
volunteer, the ideal soldier. He asked
no man to 60 where he dared not go.
He never resorted to the tortures in
camp that were so freely used as pun
ishments by the regular officers. He |
was to his men kind-hearted. but |
firm, commander, as kind as he was
bold, and as sympathetic as he was
fearless. He was the friend Of the |
sol1fer, and there will be many sad |
heart over the fact THAT he has eope
from his place in the Senate.
During the last few months of his
life, Gen. Logan had been the object
Of the most disgusting and scoundrelly
abuse by hired blackguards who pre-
tended to belong to his own party,
which abuse some Of the petty and
contemplate characters who disgrace
journalism in Ohio repeated, week
after week. But the grand character
Of the man and the soldier shone out
all the clearer and brighter from the
filth the blackguards sought to place
about it. The name of Logan will be
honored by the American people long
after the knowledge that his traducers
ever lived shall have ceased to exist.
His is one of the names that must
ever be a prominent feature of the
history Of his time. A name that is
interviewer grandly, indestructibly,
with the history Of great Nation.
Wherever heroes are admired, the
name Of Logan will find warm place
in the affections Of men. Wherever
The glory of the free manhood Of
America shines out, and fills the heart
with noble impulses, there will the
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name Of Logan be known. If there
we're faults in that life-and none are
entirely faultless-we have naught to
10 with them. The noble qualities are {