The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-07-31

visible, there came to him an opportunity
which would have been 4 trial and tempta-
ton TO most men. But 1t was not to him.
Grant sent him to relieve Thomas and in
doing so, gave notice to all the world, that
Logan was fit for high inns 1t was
one of the picturesque situations of the
war. The Army Of the Potomac was hold
Ing the confederacy by the throat, while
SerInar. marching to the sea, was
outing All its veins and arteries. Mean
while, Thomas, with beleagured Nashville
at ms back, was making ready, slowly,
hut surrey, for the blow that should Kill
Sfaat, the imperturable, seeing the whole
hela. was. FOR once, impatie; I and could
wait no longer. He called for his Thun-
defooit, and sent Logan. who no one had
ever thought slow, TO make the fight. i
could name men, with stars on their sfioul-
tunity to hum,liate the man, whose lineage
ran from Nil! Spring, through Corinth.
tdurfresboro and Chickamauga to Attain
"a. re, IKE Logan. had become a type.
ne was the synonym for thai enduring
courage, which stays forever in its place.
But Logan, Fastening TO the field. where
THOMAS and Hood were preparing for
thelr last grapi'le. stopped at louisville,
not because it seemed best for his own
fortune, but because it was right. He,
VINO would have flown 10 any place where
DANGER lay. halted at that supreme mo-
inent. He ruled his own soul; and his
we read, in Sherman's Memoirs, that. all
ter the battle of Atlanta, Thomas-con-
sf,ehaiously. beyond any auestion-remon-
mand of the Army of Tennessee to Logan
The day Logan halted on his way 10 Nash.
vile, brought him the noblest revenge that
er. 1t reads like some story of some old
romance. IN his pocket was the order
.Wheh gave him the right to supercede
the general who had SAID he must not
command tho Army of the Tennessee.
Both now are gone Their armies will
never camp again, but the nation loves
ana henors the two men who We're thus
The word will never forget how LOGAN
stopped at Louisvtlle-as who else would
ilu iett 1honias TO go forward. in his own
way. 70 ma victory which was like
Cfomweli's' browning mercy.
This hour Is dedicated TO Logan. as n
soldier. He VOL it from the calendar and
MADE 1T ms own. But, in the midst of all
its p~ageantrE, We must not forget that he
was a statesman in the most trying times
OF all our history. 1t is not for me, at this
august moment, to discuss any question of
party opinion. Logan was a man of posi-
1--WE views; plain, direct and uncompromis-
ing. FOR what he believed to be right. he
would fight in the senate as undaintedly
as he fought on the field, He was for free
aoHi, ana Tor an those great amendments
OF the constitution, that made capital
freedom organic in this nation: he was for
equality before the law. lie was for the
common Innma, solder, who had felt as he had
best decoration: he was for the
national honor, on land or sea. for the
army and navy and Tor force, If need be,
to defend every right which ought to be
recognized without force.
He loved Illinois, and Illinois loved him
the son she had nurscd in her own cradle.
He was loyal to her and faithful to the ut
ernost but he believed. as this great
state has always believed, that "the soil
OF Illinois is the soil Of tho United States"
Inc republic is greater than any state.
1t is little to gay that he wa honest.
through all his great career he went mn
scathed, and no man ever dared to whis-
per in his ear a thought of personal gain.
If anyone had vantnred, he would have
seen, IN that flashing eye. such a warning