and bound, under the direction of such person as the Speaker shall designate, for the use of Congress. Since then, as is well known, Decoration Day has been observed as a National Holiday nearly everywhere in the United States. PASSAGES FROM ONE OF HIS MEMORIAL-DAY ORATIONS-A THRILLING WAR-PICTURE. The objects of the "Grand Army" were further set forth by Commander-in-Chief Logan, in a Decoration-day oration, at Du Quoin, Ill., May 30, 1869, as follows: The Grand Army of the Republic has been organized on nearly the same basis as "The Cincinnati," and for nearly the same object. It is a secret society, taken from the order of our forefathers, and here are the first-fruits of that society. It was not organized for the purpose of raising any one man or set of men, or party, to position or power, but for the purpose of preserving the names and memories of those heroes who have fallen in the contest for their country's life, and for protecting their widows and orphans. And from that society proceeds this idea of strewing their comrades' graves with flowers. From it, the order was issued for the purpose of keeping their memories ever green in the minds of the living, and to perpetuate in the hearts of the people of this country the principle that lives in this Government, and for which our comrades died-the great principle of liberty, the idea of freedom and universal equality in our Government under the laws, so far as individual rights are concerned. The great and glorious objects for which these men poured out their blood and forfeited their lives should be kept alive in each heart. This is the grand idea we have in view. Believing that they were right, and that their cause was a holy one, we have gathered around these sacred mounds to-day for the purpose of solemnly pledging ourselves that this noble purpose shall be carried out by us while we live; and that we will teach it to our children, so that when we too are numbered with the dead, those who remain may catch up the refrain of liberty and inspire every bosom with zeal to emulate the deeds of those who sleep before us. For this purpose, and with this noble object in view, we mutually pledge ourselves, one to another. In all of General Logan's speeches, whether orations or otherwise, there run veins of true eloquence. In the oration already referred to, occurs this thrilling picture of the patriotism enkindled by the War of the Rebellion: At a time when a dark and threatening cloud rolled up from our Southern horizon, and the muttering of the distant thunder-roar was heard, and fierce lightning shot from behind the murky folds—a time when the angry growl of war reverberated across the land in deep and threatening tones,-then it was that each patriot looked the coming storm in the face; it was then, when our beloved country was trembling in the balance of fate, that these noble-hearted heroes embarked in the cause of liberty. And when the first fire of the enemy's guns leaped forth, it kindled a patriotic blaze in the heart of each man and woman in the land who loved our flag, the glorious Stars and Stripes. And this fire, once kindled, glowed and burned until it swelled to one mighty blaze of patriotism that swept across the continent as the fiery sheet drives along the dry prairie, and twenty millions of Columbia's sons and daughters wheeled into the ranks of loyalty and patriotism-a mighty host, evincing their devotion to their flag and country, swearing before God and men that the precious liberties purchased by the blood of their forefathers should never be sacrificed to the arm of treason or to foreign foe. There was a grand gathering then. It was the gathering of patriotic hosts— In arms the huts and hamlets rose ; Prompt at the signal of alarms Each son of freedom rushed to arms! From city and country, from hill and valley, mountain and plain, at freedom's call the bands of patriots came. Like a whirlwind the flame rushed over the land from side to side, and the universal watchword was, "This country shall be free." Such was the deep determination of every true heart. Then you could see the great moving mass going forward, not like the dark and stealthy mist creeping up from the murky swamps, but like the bright aurora rising and spreading his beams of azure light. Then it was that freemen united for the purpose of wiping out, with a strong and mighty arm, the dark stain that had gathered on the bright escutcheon of our liberty. What a scene was then presented! See the long line of patriots as they come down the valley and over the mountains! Hear the clash of arms, and the deep boom of the cannon! Bugle notes in the morning summoned men to take the flag of our country in hand, and carry it everywhere throughout the Nation, and thus show to the world that our Republican form of government is a thing worth preserving, worth even dying for. This was an exhibition of patriotic devotion worthy of imitation by all those who may come after them. And further on, in the same oration, looking at the war with the eyes of Christian patriotism and a wide, far-seeing statesmanship, Logan continued: I have said, on former occasions, that these men who died for their country, did not die alone that our flag should wave over the land; that there was more in the contest than this. Civilization was at stake, Christianity was at stake, and liberty most certainly hung upon the result of the contest. I have said that, through the death of these men, not only was the flag of the Republic-that emblem of our liberty-preserved, but that Christianity achieved a victory. For just below the sacred cross waves the flag of freedom, the former forever overlooking the latter. And I say it for the reason that, as far back as the history of the world reaches, we find, whenever the sword has entered any free and enlightened nation to destroy it, as the nation suffered so has its civilization and Christianity suffered. Turn your eyes to the history of the Old World, and glance over its pages, and there you will find this truth verified, that wherever rebellion has destroyed governments liberal in their forms, their civil and religious progress has been blighted. Once the honor most esteemed by enlightened and brave men was to be called a Roman citizen. Rome was the mistress of nations, and for a time a mighty republic, the home of freedom, civilization, and culture. But what is it now? A pile of majestic ruins-records of its departed greatness. And so with other nations. Italy, once a proud and independent people, now a nation of organ-grinders and pedlers. Athens, once the seat of learning, now lives only in its ruins and history. Jerusalem, the Holy City and seat of the Christian religion, now in the hards of Oriental bigots. The verdict of history is that, where liberty is destroyed, Christianity sinks into darkness. Hence, I say, that those men fought not only for the protection of our flag, but also for the preservation of Christianity in this land; for Christianity cannot long flourish where liberty is destroyed. If one dies, the other fades away. Civilization follows the Bible. Liberty and Christianity go together. If one dies the other dies also. And so it was in this land-the preservation of our flag and the free institutions of this country, was the preservation of the Christian religion as much as it was of the liberties of the people. And if we ask ourselves whether we believe this, I think our response must be, We do. Then we say, These men have not died in vain. They perished in a righteous cause. And every man and woman in the country should honor their names, and hold their memory sacred, so long as the flag of Christian freedom floats above the waves of superstition and anarchy. IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON-LOGAN PART OF THE HOUSE-HIS ONE OF THE MANAGERS ON THE GREAT EFFORT BEFORE THE COURT OF IMPEACHMENT-WHAT SUMNER, AND OTHERS, THOUGHT OF IT. It was on February 24, 1868, that the House of Representatives decided to impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors. On the 2d of March following, eleven articles of impeachment were agreed upon by the House, and on the 4th were duly presented to the Senate sitting as a High Court of Impeachment, by the managers on the part of the House, who were accompanied by the House, the Grand Inquest of the Nation, as a Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. Representative Logan was one of the managers. The trial commenced on March 13th, and continued until May 26th, when the Senate sitting as such court adjourned sine die. Conviction could only be had on any of the articles by a two-thirds vote of the fifty-four votes then in the Senate; or, in other words, by a vote of 36 "guilty" to 18 "not guilty." The result of the trial was non-conviction, although the fact that three several articles of impeachment secured a vote of 35 "guilty" to 19 not guilty" sufficiently attested the slenderness of the thread by which the Damoclesian sword hung above Andrew Johnson's guilty head. One result of the trial was that he was convicted in the minds of the people, and his great power for harm rendered innocuous. The argument of Manager Logan in this case, covering eighteen pages of the Congressional Globe, was a legal masterpiece, the opening being especially fine. In that opening, after modestly referring to the reluctance with which he |