Show SENATOR LoOAN has at last been forced into a denial of the charges that have been so freely laid against him during the past fifteen year that at the beginning of the war he was a rebel sympathizer In the Senate Sen-ate yestbrday the general made a denial that ought to be broad enough to satisfy everybody who believes be ia a truthful man Doubtless Logans loyalty has been too seveiely questioned ques-tioned He perhaps never contemplated contem-plated raising a company of soldiers in tho north to do duty on the side of the south as has been alleged and it is questionable if he ever contemplated contem-plated offering his personal services to the confederacy but it is a fact that at the beginning of the war he was a states rights democrat and suspicion sus-picion attached to him Hii conduct however was Ever that of a faithful ioyal citizen and soldier hence he should not be censured for what he may have thought concerning the right and wrongs of the opposing ections His denial on Thursday of the landers if they really were slanders slan-ders upon his character and integrity should now silence his enemies on the score of hid steady loyalty unless those enemies have something more than mere suspicions upon which to I base their charges |