St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-30
A PRIVATE VOLUNTEER
THE CHICAGO ME ETING.


THE CHICAGO ME ETING.
A Great Gathering of Citizens to
Honor the Memory of the Dis.
tInguished Dead.
CHICAGO, Dec. 29-Central Music hall,
more than once the scene of an ovation to
Gen. Logan, and often resounding to his
voice, was tonight filled with neighbors
and comrades of the dead senator, who had
come together for general service in his
honor. Over $500 people We're present.
There were many ladies in the audience,
and great outpouring OF army veterans.
Stage, boxes ard balconies were heavily
draped. A large painting of
GEN. LOGAN ON HORSEBACK
at the head of victorious column was
placed at the center of the stage On each
side of the picture were broad flags of the
Union. The front of the stage was filled
with rare plants, while large shield of
snowy cut flowers almost concealed the
spotless desk. Among those occupying
prominent chairs were Gen. [. n. Stiles,
NJ. r. NJ. Wallace, II. Ii. Thomas, r. w.
Smith and Martin BEEN, Judges S. Trum-
bull, Bradwell and Hawes. ex-Congress.
men Farwell, Finerty and Dunham, e. B.
Sherman and eX-Postmaster Frank W.
Palmer. In opening the meeting the chair
man, ex-Secretary of War Robert T. Lin
coin. said that for so long time had Gen.
Logan been the central figure of affairs in
Illinois that it was hard TO believe him
dead. Mr.. Lincoln sadly recalled the great
occasion when Gen. Logan had stood on
that platform but few years ago in the
VlgOr OF his prime to speak for his great
chieftain, Grant After a brief but teryent
tribute by Mr.. Lincoln to Logan as one of
the highest types of American citizenship,
the following resolutions were
ADOPTED BY A RISING VOTE:
Whereas, The Hon. John A Logan, men,
Der of the senate of the United States from
the State oe Illinois, died in the city of Wash
ington, on Sunday afternoon, Dec. &c, 1886;
and,
Whereas, The citizens of Chicago here as
Sembled, grateful for his distinguished public
service and proud that his home in the later
years of his life was in their midst, deem it a
mouruful privilege to give pubic expression
to their sorrow; therefore
Resolved, That in the military service from
the time of his enlistment as private soldier
in the Mexican war until the close of the war
of the rebellion, when he held the rank of
major general and was in command of the
army of the Tennessee, the largest body of
troops ever led by citizen soldier, he left a
record unsurpassed in brIlliancy by that of
any volunteer officer OF this or any other
country.
Resolved, That in thS.civi service of his
state and nation, from the-time he assumed
the duties of clerk of Jackson county until
his fall at the post of duty, in the third term
of his occupancy of the position of senator of
the United States, he furnished an example of
INDUSTRY, HONESTl FIDELITY,
bined in one representative in either branch
Of congress.
Resolved, That his character in private and
public life. free as it was from the suspicion
of dishonor, full of memories of brave words
and deeds in the face of danger, and also of
words and deeds of compassion inspired by
heart as tender as that of a woman, is a SUBJ
ject for pride to the people of this, his native
state; but while monuments will be erected
to his memory, he has left monument il the
record of his achievements which will endure
after granite and marble and brass shall have
become dust.
Resolved, That to his wife, the companion
of all his labors and his triumphs, and to his
children, we tender our coincidence in this
the hour of their deep aff1iction; to his sur
viving companions in arms, to whom his
presence was an inspiration, and who loved
him almost to idolatry, we extend our SYM
pathy.
Resolved. That while the place of his
sepulchre should be left TO the voluntary
choice of his kindred there would be to the
citizens of Illinois consolation in the no )e
that ultimately it might be within the bound
aries of the state, and that with his ashes and
those of Z. S. Grant, deposited like those of
Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln,
in the soil of their prairie homes, the full
measure OF patriotic citizenship in the state
would be realized, and to the iiberty-loving
pilgrim would be what Mecca is to the Orien-
| tai devotee.
After the chairman the principal speaker
was ex-senator
LYMAN TRUMBULL, WHO SAID:
On occasions like this, in the midst of be-
reavement, and when our sympathies are
aroused, we are apt to magnify the loss ana
search the language for phrases in which to
portray the virtues and eXtol the deeds of the
departed. 1t was the purpose of the speaker
to speak of Gen. Logan as he knew and ap-
preciated him. After sketching Gen. Logans
| career as that of q man who Notwithstanding
his lack of early opportunities tor education,
| had at all times and everywhere proved him.
| self equal to the occasion and the demands
made upon him. Judge Trumbul said: 'What
was the secret of his successe can only
| ascribe it to his native capacity, honesty,
resoute will, indomitable energy and perse-
! verance. Whatever he undertook he did
with all his might. He was not logican,
like Lincoln, nor did he possess all the arts of
oratory of Douglas. but all three OF thes g
men were natural born orators, and possessed
| to remarkable degree the power OF impart-
| ing 10 others their own thoughts and of NOV
| ing masses OF men by their words. Some
who knew Gen. Logan at an early day never
| ceased to impute to him ignorance and vul-
| garity, forgetting that man of his native
| talent, by ninglIngs for years in the best
| society and among the learned and best in-
| formed of men, necessarily became himself
AN EDUCATED MAN.
Whatever may be said of Logan's want of
| education or waywardness in early life, he
| became in after years n well-informed and
| Christian gentleman. Passages may be Sc
| Iected from his speeches not surpassed in
| eloQuence by anything said by any of his
| contemporaries Logan'S star, from the day
| he entered his cOuntrys service as q private
| soldier, was ever i'll the ascendant and
| whether. had ne lived 10 three score and ten,
/ it would have declined or gone on advancing
still higher and higher till it reached the zen
| ith of human ambition, is not given us to
know. With reputation untarnished, an
! integrity unimpeached, and in possession of
! the highest houorS his state could confer he
was cut off at the summit of his fame and
with Douglas, Lincoln and Grant now forms
| a galaxy of departed heroes, patriots and
| statesmen whose lives have cast uudyiug
| Iustre upon our country's history"
| Judge Trumbull was followed by MANY
others, including ex-Congressman Finerty
and Gen. Logan's pastor, Rev. Frank
| Bristol.
/ Didn't Want to Quit