Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of John Alexander Logan, (a Senator From Illinois)
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Excerpt from Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of John Alexander Logan, (a Senator From Illinois): Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Forty-Ninth Congress, Second Session, February 9, 1887 Mr. Cullom. Mr. President, for the third time within a year we are called upon to raise our voices reverently in speaking of our dead. For the third time within a year death has laid his icy fingeron a brother Senator and beckoned him to the unknown realms of eternity. To-day we lay our tribute of love upon the tomb of Logan. Suffering from a sense of personal loss too deep to find expression, I despair of being able to render adequate praise to his memory. But yesterday, as it seems, he stood among us here in the full flush of robust manhood. A giant in strength and endurance, with a will of iron, and a constitution tough as the sturdy oak, he seemed to hold within his grasp more than the threescore years and ten alloted to man. No one thought in the same moment of Logan and death - two conquerors who should come face to face, and the weaker yield to the stronger. It seemed as if Logan could not die. Yet, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, as it were, "God´s linger touched him, and he slept." Almost without warning he passed from strength to weakness; to death and decay, from life pulsating with vigor to dare and to do. The physicians skill, the loving, agonized, devotion of those most dear, his own invincible will, were alike powerless to resist the approach of the grim destroyer who stole upon him "as a thief in the night," and has given us another striking warning of the fact that "No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour." John Alexander Logan was born on a farm located in what is now, the town of Murphysboro, in Jackson County, Illinois, on February 9, 1826.Had he lived until to-day, sixty-one years - eventful, glorious years - would have rested their burden as a crown upon his head. Life is a crucible into which we are thrown to be tried. How many but prove the presence of alloy so base that refining "seven times" can not purify. But here was a life generous and noble, an open book from which friend and foe alike might read the character of the man. General Logan was the eldest of a family of eleven children. His father. Dr. John Logan, was born in the north of Ireland of Scotch ancestry, and came to this country early in this century. He first settled in Maryland and then in Missouri, afterward moving to Illinois and locating in Jackson County. There he met and married Miss Elizabeth Jenkins, who was a native of North Carolina, but came of a Scotch family. Dr. Logan was a man of marked characteristics, and a physician and surgeon of unusual skill. He was noted for his integrity, his sturdy independence of character, his devotion to his friends, and his recognition of the equality of all men who were hone.st and upright, without regard to their social position. His wife was a woman of determined courage, strong in her prejudices, who never swerved from the path she had once marked out for herself. The characteristics of the father and mother were conspicuously combined in the son, who owed his success in life largely to the possession of the traits most prominent in the character of both his father and his mother. The professional services of Dr. Logan were in such demand that he had little time to devote to the care of his farm or the education of his children, but he was an educated and studious man, and gave his children the best educational facilities he could command. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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