Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-03-15
HE FOUGHT WITH LOGAN.

] MaTrn Jin appears an tAlia'l 'oh'ii
/ from the Vidette and your just and
pertinent remarks thereon. This
old lie i'm regard to Logan is an
excrescence which rotted more than
/ twenty years ago, but seems still to
retain putridity which is exceed
/ ingly sweet to the perverted taste OF
the editor Of the Vidette. The facts
are these. At the breaking out Of
/ the war Logan was member OF
. Congress from Southern Illinois.
lust before the first battle Of Bull
Run he made a speech there which
was a mastery defense Of the gov
crnmcnt and bitter denunciatiOn
Of the traitors and their northern
allies. On the morning Of the battle
many Congressman in their car.
riagcs followed the army to witness
the battle. Not so Logan. On foot
with musket In his hands, on that
fatal morning ne joined the ranks
Of the 2nd Michigan Infantry and
through that long and terrible day
stood with the soldiers Of that regi-
ment, which had the honor, with
the 3rd Michigan, Of covering the
retreat Of the army from that dis
astrous field A few days after the
battle, Governor Yates arrived i'm
Washington. He met Logan, who,
in the very first words he addressed
10 him, asked for "A commission to
raise regiment Of volunteers from
his own district. The request was
instantly granted. Resigning his |
seat in Congress he hurried home. |
He then lived In Marion, small .
town in Southern Illinois and dis
tHnt some twenty-five miles from
the nearest railway station. His
wife procured u horse and buggy
and drove to the station to meet
him. He did not come and she
returned to Marion. The town was
full Of rebel sympathizers and cop
pcrhcad-, Of whom the editor Of the
Vidctte is II degenented specimen.
They had read Logan's recent
speech in Congress and had heard
If his conduct ut Bull Run, and now
hey openly threatened her life and
hat of her husband should he dare
,ay word for the Union cause on
lis arrival with great anxiety the
noble woman turned around and
'etraced her steps to the station.
late that night Logan came, Leav-
ny their tired horse they procured
mother and set out for Marion,
yherc they arrived little after
unrlse.
The mob was still there and i'm
nediately surrounded their carriage.
iut Logan did not faltor. Standing
up in the buggy with matchlcss elo-
ucncc he pleaded the cause of the
'nion, and called upon loyal men
D come forward and enlist in It's de-
'nse. And there, without leaving =
ic carriage and his wife by his side, Z
e. began the enrolment of that K
plcndid regiment the 3lst Ill.,, at
hc head of which hc soon after )
archcd away for the scene Of con-
let These mcts were known and
rr remembered by hundreds living
1 llliuoi, to-day. Now | ann aware
lut the man who vomits his bile I
lrough the columns Of the Nidctte
Ignorant and liable 10 hc imposed
pom, and led 10 publish Glsehoods
his paper through excessive igno-
,ucv, hut iu this instance | believe
b knew all the facts iu the case and
new when he wrote and published \
he article IL was AN iutmou, false !
nod, and hc did it to insult the Hv-
.g and diNhonor the memory of the
lhlv dcad. lie Wrotc it with malice
rrpyu~c. with studied maliguity
nat damnuhlc purpo~c While there
aN hc mo- law to punish this ma
suvr at the dead soldier and states :
uu, Yeti believe there is "a senti- .
cntm this country which will rc- =
'rt him as the vile dcmmvr that he .
and viii hold him up To the pub
svuu and cNccr,tion
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