view of life and laudably increased ambition, and began the study of law in the office of his uncle-Hon. A. M. Jenkins-and in 1849 was elected clerk of the county court of his native county; served as such about one year, then resigned and attended the law school of Louisville University, and graduated therefrom in 1851.

Returning home he entered upon the practice of law with his uncle and was elected to the legislature of Illinois in 1852, 53,'56, and '57, and to the office of prosecuting attorney for the third judicial district in 1853.

In 1855 he was married to Miss Mary Cunningham, a most happy and fortunate union. In 1856 he was Presidential elector, and cast his vote for Buchanan and Breckinridge. In 1858 he was elected a Representative in the Thirty-sixth Congress, and in 1860 was reelected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, and served his term in the Thirty-sixth Congress from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1861, and entered upon his term in the Thirty-seventh Congress, and attended the called session in 1861. While attending that session he shouldered his musket as a private soldier in the Second Michigan Volunteers, and marched to and participated in the battle of Bull Run. He then resigned his seat in the Thirty-seventh Congress, entered the Union Army, raised and was appointed colonel of the Thirtyfirst Regiment Illinois Infantry August 16, 1861, marched to the front in the field, and there continued.

He was promoted to be brigadier-general in March, 1862, and then major-general, and commanded successively a regiment, brigade, division, an army corps, and the Army of the Tennessee. On August 17, 1865, after full four years' service, he resigned his commission as major-general, and was honorably mustered out. He was then appointed by President Johnson minister to Mexico, and resigned.

Returning to the walks of civil life he resumed the practice of law in his native Illinois. In 1866 he was elected a Representative at large from Illinois to the Fortieth Congress, and re-elected to the Forty-first Congress, serving from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1871, and was elected to the Senate of the United States for the term beginning March 4, 1871; and was again elected to the Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1879, and re-elected for the succeeding term from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1891.

In 1884 he was the nominee of the National Republican party for Vice-President.

This bird's-eye view of his life-record and services is just sufficiently distinct and full to enable us to form correct impressions of this great man-our lamented colleague in this Chamber. In all these varied positions of trust and honor he was, and proved himself to be, honest, determined, self-reliant, faithful, and efficient, and the worthy recipient of the friendship and confidence of the people. For the length of time devoted to his profession he was a good lawyer.

Among all the many, great, and distinguished volunteer officers during the late war, it is no disparagement of any of them to say that General LOGAN was the greatest and most distinguished. Courageous, fearless, energetic, untiring, generous, and dashing, he was the beau ideal of the American volunteer soldiery. For four long, weary years, during the greatest military conflict the world has ever beheld, General LOGAN, as a private soldier, a commander of a regiment, then of a brigade, then of a division, then of an army corps, and then of an army, met and satisfied the highest expectations and demands of the administration, the country, and the people. No man could do more. As a Representative and Senator in the Congress of the United States he was incorruptible, faithful, diligent, and laborious, and was earnest in his convictions and forcible and aggressive in their advocacy.

His repeated re-elections to both the House and Senate by the same constituency attested their continued friendship and confidence, and their approbation of his character and services. In his personal intercourse he was manly, generous, candid, and sincere.

As a husband and father he was devoted, faithful, tender, loving, and warmly appreciative of the boundless love and undying devotion of his noble wife and dutiful children. As a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church he was "not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth."

The name, the fame, the life, and the illustrious and successful achievements of General LOGAN are now the common heritage of our great country and people, and will be cherished and remembered by the present and coming generations.

Many poor, worthy, and honorably ambitious young men, just en

tering the arena of active life, faint, weary, and despondent, will remember the great disadvantages surrounding General LOGAN when at their age, and then his subsequent illustrious and successful life, attained by his honesty, perseverance, and self-reliance, and made possible to all by our unequaled systems of government-the best ever yet devised by the wisdom of sages or attained by the blood of heroes-and will take fresh courage and worthily imitate the illustrious pattern, and make themselves a blessing and honor to country and people.

The life and achievements of LOGAN, cast upon the bosom of the public life in the United States, have started waves of influence and power for good which will widen and extend until they break against the shores of eternity in the resurrection morning.

Address of Mr. FRYE, of Maine.

Mr. PRESIDENT: Senators have brought to-day, and will bring, garlands and wreaths with which to decorate the grave of our dead soldier and Senator. I shall content myself with offering a single flower.

LOGAN was an honest man. I do not mean by that simply that he would not steal, that he would not bear false witness, that he had not an itching palm for a bribe. If this were all, he would not be unlike every man I have been associated with in both Houses of Congress during a sixteen years' service, nor essentially different, in my opinion, from a large majority of his fellow-citizens.

Sir, the press, very generally and occasionally an eulogist to-day, in assigning to General LOGAN this admirable quality of character, have contracted and dwarfed it, have seemed to make money its measure, by producing as evidence in its support the fact that he had served long in public life and died poor. The Senator from Missouri has just said that he was poor, that he was incorruptible. I trust, sir, that the same honesty and incorruptibility may truthfully be ascribed to every Senator within the sound of my voice, to every member of the two Houses. Is there any necessary connection between honesty and poverty? Is the one the logical sequence of the other? Are dishonesty and wealth in copartnership? I have

been taught to believe, and do believe, that honesty is the broadest,

safest, and surest pathway to prosperity.

of this great man to say that he I do not cripple my declaration

I do not regard it as eulogistic was honest in that narrow sense. by any such limitation, nor sustain it by any such questionable testimony. I mean that General LOGAN had an honest mind, an honest purpose, an honest habit of thinking. I mean that he never played tricks with his mental machinery to serve his own ends and his own purposes. I mean that he never attempted jugglery with it. I mean that he permitted it, in spite of his ambitions, his prejudices, his jealousies, and his passions, to move straight forward in its operations; and that the legitimate results were convictions-convictions followed always by earnest, determined, intense action. opinion that largely constituted General LOGAN'S strength in the Senate, in the Army, and with the people.

In my

Let me illustrate by a few brief incidents of his life. He was living in Southern Illinois, where there was little if any anti-slavery sentiment, at a time when slavery was never more firmly established by enactment of law and judicial decision, at the time when it was arrogant and aggressive in its demands. Yet LOGAN stemmed the current, disregarded his own apparent self-interest, and resisted the demands. He was associated with a party whose shibboleth was State rights, whose overshadowing fear was centralization of power in the National Government; and when that doctrine culminated in secession he dropped it at once forever and tendered his sword to the threatened and imperiled Republic.

War came on. He believed that war was a serious fact; that it was to be waged for the suppression of rebellion and the restoration of the Union. Hence in every council of war his voice was always for battle, and in every battle he was ever at the front.

Some of the prominent officers were for temporizing, were studying political enigmas, were nursing Presidential aspirations, were casting obstacles in the way of supposed rivals. LOGAN never swerved to the right nor to the left, but pressed ever straight forward to the goal of ultimate victory.

When in the midst of the war preferment was offered him, aye, more, urged upon him by his friends, he did not hesitate a moment, but with emphasis declared to them that he had enlisted for the war, and that, God helping him, he would fight it out on that line to the

end. When he was superseded, as he believed unjustly, as has been well said to-day, he did not sulk in his tent a single hour, but marched straight forward in the line of duty.

When the war was over, the Union was restored and peace was enthroned, and a grateful people showered upon him public honors he exhibited everywhere the same characteristics. Take the case which has been alluded to here to-day of General Porter. LOGAN believed, whether justly or unjustly is not for me now to say, that this man was jealous of his superiors, that criticisms and complaints subversive of discipline were made by him, that he neglected plain and open duty, that he refused to obey peremptory orders, and that his punishment was just. In this Chamber we listened to his matchless, marvelous, powerful, convincing speech against his restoration; and when his great captain, with a voice infinitely more powerful with this soldier hero than the glittering bribes of gold or of fame, called him to a halt he did not hesitate a moment, but with renewed vigor, with redoubled power, urged his convictions upon the Senate. We all remember perfectly well that LOGAN knew his comrades saved the Republic, and in season and, as many thought, out of season, he was ready to propose and to advocate any measure for their relief that commended itself to his judgment, not taking for a moment into account any public sentiment that might be hostile.

When his great commander was for a third time urged by his friends for the candidacy by the Republican party for the office of President, and it was apparent to all thinking men that it was to be a struggle fierce, full of intense bitterness, LOGAN went to the front in that fight utterly regardless of any effect that it might have upon his own political fortunes.

I have seen within a few days an item floating in the press that in that ever to be remembered convention, when it was apparent that Mr. Blaine could not be nominated, Senators Hale and Frye visited General LOGAN and tendered to him the support of their friends for the nomination if he would accept the candidacy. Of course it was a myth. Senators Hale and Frye both knew JOHN A. LOGAN, and had known him for years, and even if they had been vested with the authority, which they were not, they never would have dreamed of undertaking to bribe him from his allegiance. They knew that no gratification of personal ambition (and it is the greatest temptation to a man on earth) would move him from his allegiance to