earnest
in his friendship for me on that account. When I was a candidate
for the nomination for Governor I had a pretty stiff fight for the
first term. There were rumors that men were going to attack my
personal character. I did not know about the judge's action in
the premises, but when the convention met, Judge Logan went to it
as a private citizen and crowded himself into the hall, remaining
here until I was nominated. Then he went home. I was told afterwards
that he had gone there for the purpose of defending me in case of
an attack against my personal character.

Of course, I could not but greatly appreciate a friendship so
manifest.

He had a son, David Logan, who went to Oregon as a young lawyer,
and became very eminent there. In later years the judge wrote to
him, proposing that if he would come back home he would take him
into partnership. To this the father received a reply from David,
proposing that if he would come out there a partnership with the
son was subject to his acceptance or refusal. The judge died after
attaining full four-score years, and the son at an age less
advanced.

I think Judge Logan also felt a bit sour toward Mr. Lincoln because
the latter, he thought, ought to have been more helpful than he
was to his son in his effort to be elected to the United States
Senate from Oregon, at the time Baker was elected.

Speaking of Judges Logan and Davis, I am reminded of the exceptionally
high character of the lawyers of Illinois of that day, and more
especially of Springfield. I think there has never been a time
when it had another such splendid bar. It must be that high personal
character in leaders has a direct and marked influence in elevating
the general characters of the followers. The young lawyers,
especially, are impelled by a force implanted by nature to admire
and to strive to imitate or attain to the great qualities manifested
in life of those to whom leadership is conceded by common consent.

Colonel E. D. Baker was a very good lawyer. Also Orville H.
Browning, of Quincy, who was in Springfield attending the various
courts whose sittings were at the State capital much of the time.
Then there was Archibald Williams; and Stephen A. Douglas, a great
man in every way, was on the bench a part of the time. Abraham
Lincoln was, of course, the equal of any man, on the bench or off
of it. Such men prominently in the lead as lawyers, and as men
among men, could not but stimul