Show Tney Honor Logan Washington 21The exsoldiers and sailors resident In Washington serenaded General Logan this evenIng even-ing They Fssernbled at the hall and forming in platoons of twelve marched headed by he I Marine band to the Generals house on Tenth street where a crowd of two or three thousand citizens had already al-ready assembled The procession was liberally aupp ied with banners ban-ners rockets Roman candles and noise making devices The banner of the Army of Tennessee was displayed dis-played from the upper window of i Gen Logans house Gen Logan I appearance wa greeteJ with a storm of cheers Wnen the applause subsided he was introduced in a brief speech by General Green B Raum General Logan then addressed ad-dressed the assemblage as follows I Comrades and fellow citizens The warm expression of confidence and congratulations which you offer through yor chairman impresses im-presses me with a dtp tensu or gratitude and I beg to teaser my sincere thanks to each and all IJf my friends for this demonstrj tiya or kindness and esteem Your visit at this time gentlenen ia interesting to me in a double aspect as citizens of our common country tenderina a tribute to me as a public man I meet you with pleasure and acknowledgment coming however i as you do in the character cf representatives repre-sentatives of soldiers and sailors of our country your visit possesses a feature insensibly leading to a train of moat interesting reflections Applause Ap-plause Your assemblage Is composed com-posed of men who gave up the pursuits pur-suits of peace relinquished the comforts com-forts of home severed the ties of friendship and yielded the gentle and loving society father mother sister brother and in many Instances In-stances wife and many little ones to brave the tented field orithe crested wave to run the gauntlet of sickness In a climate different from your own or possibly or even probably to yield up life itself in the service of your country Twenty three years ago gentlemen when dread war raised his wrinkled front throughout the land many of you were standing with one foot on the portal of manhood eager for the conflict with the world which promised to bring you honor riches friends and a life of peace and ease in the society of your own family but few of you had passed the period of young manhood or advanced to the opening scene of middle life at the call however of your endangered endan-gered country you did not hesi ate to leave everything for whic t we strive in this world to become defenders M fenders of the Union without the incentive which has inspired m m of other nations to adopt the raili mary career as a permanent ccuoa lon and aa the outlet to am itioi and the ascent to power Ghers The safety of our coun try having been assured and its Territorial integrity pre3erved you sheathed your sword unfixed your bayonet laid away the musket mus-ket housed the cannon doffd you luniforms 1 uniforms donned the garment of civil We ouried the uacied toward our bothers of the south and hook hands in testimony of a mutual tual resolve to rebabitate the waste and cultivae the arts of pease until our reunited country should be greater anti prouder and grander hen ever beforo gfeat cheers Those years have glided ino re treating perspective of the past since you responded to your countrye call and mighty changes in the eventful march of nations have taken place this passing time has laid its gentle lines upon tie heads or many of you who have shoul dered ynur muskets before the first beard was grown but however lightly or however heavily it has dealt with you your soldier and sailor organizations that have kept up prove that the heart has been untouched and thst your love of the country has but intensified with advancing years Cheers Your arms have been as strong and your voices as clear in the rromotion of peace as when lent to the science of war and the interest which you take In national affaire proves that you are patrotic really determined to maintain what you fought for and that whteh oar loss comrades gave up their livts to secure the benefit to their survivors Applause Ap-plause long continued During the last few years in which we have been blessed with peace the I Republican party has been continued con-tinued in the administration of the government The great question of preserving giving up the union of states was presented to us It was the republican party which affirmed its perpetuity 1 open no wounds nor do I resurrect any bad memories in stating this as an indelible inde-lible fact when you and I my riends and that vast body of men who having declared in favor of preserving tho Union were compelled com-pelled to resort to the last dread meaure the arbtrament of war we did so under a call of th republican repub-lican party many of us bad been educated oy our fathers Jn the democratic demo-cratic schol of polItIc and many of ua were acting with that party at the time the issue of war was presented pre-sented to us For year3 the democratic demo-cratic party had wielded the destinies desti-nies of our government and had served its purpose under the narrower nar-rower views of an ideal republic I which then existed but the matrix of time has developed a new chile of progress which saw the light of day under the name of the republican republi-can party Its birth announced the conception of higher broader orinciples of human government than had been entertained by our forefathers but few of us perhaps none tooK in the full dimensions the coming fact at that early day It broke upon us gradually like the light of the morniner sun as he rises in the misty dawn above a sic epy mountain top At length it came In full blaze and for the first time in the history of our republicwe began to give a genuine vitality to the declaration of 1776 that all men are created equal and are entitled to the inalienable rights of life liberty lib-erty and the pursuit of happiness cheers The Republican party was unquestionably the agency which bore this gift to a waiting age and it was the Democratic idea which disputed their value first upon the field of battle and subsequently and up to this moment at the polling places of the country The Republican Repub-lican party then represents the latest fruitian of governmental progress I pro-gress and Is destined to survive on the theory that the strong outlive the weak till the development of principles still more advanced shaH compel it to measure its step with the march If the age or go to the wall as an instrument which has fulfiled its destiny So long as the Democratic party shall cling either in open or In coi VHt to the traditions and policy be Jongng to an expired era of our de elo ment just so long will the republican party be charged with the administration of our government govern-ment In making this arraignment of the democracy my friends I appeal to no passion nor reopen no settled questions I but utter the calm sober words of truth I say that until every state in this broad and beneficient union shall give free recognation to the civil and political rights of the humblest of its citi zens whatever his color until pro tection to American citizens follows the flag at home and abroad until the admirable monetary system established by the republican party shall be placed beyond the danger of subversion until American labor and industry shall be protected by wide and equitable laws so aa to give full scope to our immense resources re-sources and place every man on the plane to which he is entitled by reason of his capacity and worth cheers until education shall baas i ba-as general as our civilization until we shall have established a wise American policy that will not only preserve peace with other nat ons mt will cause every American citizen citi-zen to honor his government at home and every civilized nation to respect our flag reneweJ cheering until the American people shall permanently establish a thorough economic system upon an American Ameri-can ideal which will preserve and oster their own interests unin > i flaenced by English theories or Cobden Clubs and until it is conceded con-ceded beyond subsequ ant revocation hat this government exists upon a ptis self sustaining and self preserving pre-serving and the fatal doctrine of independent sovereignty upon wiiicu the civil war was founded hall be stamped as a political heresy out of whicti continued revolutions revolution-s orn ind wholly incompatible with the idea of a republic The KepuDiican party will have much work to do and an arduous mission to perform At thia point the speaker was interrupted for some tIme by cheers and applause The standardbearer in the I ensuing campaign paign is Hon James G Blaine Great cheering known throughout through-out the land as one of its truest and ablest representatives He has been called to this position by the voice of the people in recognition of his especial fitness for the trust and in admiration 01 the surprising com sinatlon of brilliancy courage faithfulness persistency and research re-search that nad made him one of the most remarkable figures whch has appeared upon the forum of statecraft in any period ot this country That such a man should have enemies and detractors is as natural as that our best fruits should be infested with parasites or that there should exist small and nvous mlndi which seek to belittle hat which they can never hope to I imitate or equal and that he shall triumph ove these and lead the Republican party to another victory J i November ia as certain as the succession of the seasons or the 11 rolling of the spheres in their courses Gentlemen again I thank 11 you for this visit of congratulation and extend to yon one and all my grateful Acknowledgements I Cheere I Speechmaking was continued till a late hour Among the orators II who were all exsoldiers were Senators Sen-ators Plumb and Harrison General Cutchcon of Michigan General Katban Goff J West Virginia Hon A H Pettibone of Tenuess e and General 1 M Bayne of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania |