At the first outbreak of war some of them joined the Southern army; many others were preparing to do so; others rode over the country at night denouncing the Union, and made it as necessary to guard railroad bridges over which National troops had to pass in southern Illinois, as it was in Kentucky or any of the border slave states.

Logan's popularity in this district was unbounded.

He knew almost enough of the people in it by their Christian names, to form an ordinary congressional district.

As he went in politics, so his district was sure to go.

The Republican papers had been demanding that he should announce where he stood on the questions which at that time engrossed the whole of public thought.