Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — LOGAN SLOGAN. [ARTICLE]

LOGAN SLOGAN.

When some of Mr Logan’s friends were urging him for the first place on the Republican ticket, the Chicago News, a Republican paper, on the Uth day of May said: “But Logan did not confine “his hatred to the North to “mere words, as the following “from an affidavit sworn to be“fore John Q. Harmon, Clerk “of the Circuit Court of Alex “ander County, Illinois Sep“tember 80,1868, will show: “I John G. Wheatly, a resident of the city, county and “State aforesaid, do solemnly “swear that on the 28th day of “May 1861,1 went to Williamson County to join Captain ‘J. B. Cunningham’s company ‘(G) of the Fifteenth Regiment ‘Tennessee Volunteers; that “Major General John A. Lo“gan, now candidate for Con-gress-at-large, and who then “represented this (the Thirteenth) Congressional District, was the chief person “who raised said company, and ‘persuaded me to join the “same; that said Logan accom“panied us (about seventy in “number) in the night part of' ‘the way from Williamson ‘County to Paducah, the place “designated for us to cross the “Ohio River. We crossed at ‘Paducah, according to John “A. Logan’s instructions, to ‘evade Union troops, which he “stated were stationed at Cai! “ro * * * My son, R. L. Wheatly, Thompson Coder, ‘Harry Hayes, vViiliam Tinkler, Jackson Brown, Jackson Law, George Law, Joshua ’Law, Fleming Ghent; Martin ‘Williams, and others, all ex‘cept the first, now residing, or were when I first heard “from them, in Marion, Wib ‘hamson county, Illinois, were ‘members of said company, ‘and will attest the truth of “this statement. “It is a fact that up to July “8, 1861, although repeatedly “urged to abandon his treasonable attitude, Logan never by voice or act give in his adherence to the Union. On “that date the Chicago Tribune received the following in its dispatch from Washington: “John Logan falls in, quits ‘his dirty work, and even “wants a regiment.’ ” “Dear, dear, where have you been girls? 4 ’ said a Boston mother to her daughters, who had returned late from an entertainment. “ u e’ve been carmining the municipality,”* giggled the eldest. “And observing the pachyderm,”t laughed the second. “And vociferating the female to an extraordinary elevation,”t chimed in the third. “Dear, dear, dear!” exclaimed the mother, in expostulatory tones here’s no harm done, mamma,” pouted the fourth, “everything is amiable, and the fowl whose cackling was the salvation of Rome is suspend ed at an altitude hitherto un known in our experience.”§ Explanatory chart: ♦Painting the town red. fSeeing the elephant, - tWhooping her up. §Everything is lovely uuil the goose huogs high.” —Somerville Joun a’!