The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-22

yention Of 1884 that Ohio should spssl
early and cordially for the nomination o
Logan to the Vice.P Presidency, supported
him vigilantly and with energy througl
the critical methods Of the con
test that ended In his re
election to the Senate, congratulatel
him upon that election, and quoted 1t will
praise and celebration aH an inspiring pre-
Cedent for the Republicans Of Ohio; re
viewed respectfully his book on "ThC
Great Conspiracy" and commended 1t To-
the strength there Is in it. whill
others who saw its weak points at
tempted to osaye him from thi
blunder in the Payne case by conveying
to him the inward truths Of 1t telsgrapheC
from New York, when he had bluudereC
on an editorial that was studiously CON
struCted to give him another chance and
that took the place Of one that was ial
more severe in It's terms,
This, with some kindly meant obserya
Eions about the rhetoric OF Logan, with q
view to bringing him to know that the
voice of extravaganza is not eloquence,
is the record that the Senator fluids SO
hostile and offensive. The only way
to mend 1t Is 10 speak OF him
with less consideration, but this
natural tendency will be restrained even
when the eXuberance OF his vanity and
the fury OF his tember are most manifested,
by the remembrance that he was a gal
liant soldier, the representative leader oi
the young men OF the West who swore
the Mississippi river should run free
under the old flag to the sea, and
have kept their oath, The Senator thought
1t becoming yesterday TO read from the
Commercial GGEetie and To hold up to the
admiration OF Senator'S and CALLER
les and mankind one Of Mr., Phyater's
cartoons and to have read Mr.. Hal
stead's letter to Governor Chase,
thus stimulating, we trust, the evolution
Of the truth Of his story, Whether the
Senator ever wrote any private letters
that would make mighty interesting
reading we do not know; probably
he did not. But II he had been at
home waiting and writing instead Of
at the front fighting during the war he
might have broken the accustomed re.
strRint OF his severe style Of expression
long enough to have produced something
picturesque.
1t is to be said OF the Chase letter that
1t was written on one Of the gloomiest
days Of the war In the belief that the army
Of the Mississippi was wasting away
in the swamps under an inCom.
petent leadership, and with it
would fail sthe cause Of the country, and
in the hope that Secretary Chase would be
startled to do something that might help
thoHO that were ready to perish
the writer Of that letter does not plead
youth or ignorance In in its produc.
ton, but 1t was not as many
years before Its date as Logan
Is older than the writer that
the sCintlllating liberality Of the states.
man OF Illinois flashed In the defense OF
the fugitive slave law and declarations OF
personal willingness to aid in the en-.
lolcenent Of its provisions, called
before the country on this theme. Mr..
Hastead has now to say that few were
slower than he to know the saving value
Of the services Of Lincoln and
Grant, and no one Is more grateful
for them, but he believes in the people
above all Presidents, the army rather
than the Generals, the greatness and
glory Of the many rather than the few.
Signed II. II,