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Show General Logam THE CURRENT McCl tire's has an article on monuments, and gives many pictures of them. There is old Peter Cooper, with his great head and his unkempt beard; there are some monuments of revolutionary soldiers, and there is Logan's monument in Chicago. And that reminds us that General John Logan was one of the most marvelous men of his age. He was not brilliant; he never could use good English; Eng-lish; he was rude and uncouth, at least before the war, and as an old time fighting Democrat, was ready at any time to express his disdain of Mr. Lincoln and all men who believed politically as he did. But when the war came on he shook off that copperheadism, which, belpnged especially espe-cially to southern Illinois, and in his heroic soul he took on the idea that the country must be saved and that the lives of citizens did not count until that was accomplished. So he went into the war, he had no military education, but he was a fighter, and he soon asserted himself. On one occasion he rode down In front of his line, which was under fire by the enemy,' to the admiration ad-miration of all who saw him. They expected every moment that he would be killed, but he went through the ordeal unscathed, and then, in his own sententious way, explained afterwaid that he knew that was the safest thing he could do, that If he was killed then it would be by a stray bullet, whereas if he h,ad Wheeled his horse and rode straight to the rear, the enemy would have concentrated their shots and some of them would have been sure to hit him. He was vory like Andrew Jackson in some respects, and, we think, had he lived eight years more, he would have been elected president and would have made a Jacksonian president, often wrong, but still to be foi'glven because the. whole country coun-try would have seen that he possessed two attributes at-tributes which all men bow down before, one a sense of justice as strong as his life, and the other was a courage which counted danger as nothing in the pursuit of duty. And we may add a patriotism which was all-embracing. |