Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-09-09
DOUGLASS AT HOME.

On Friday Of last week after much preparation,
Senator Douglass appeared before the Chicago
audience for his vindication and to secure the en-
lorsomcnt of his p,rldy
The Mayor, Mr.. MILLIKEN, horc arose, and stat
ing that Senator DOUGLASS would now speak, hoped
that he would be heard in silence; aye aye was
the response, amid great cheering. 1t was what
the freeman Of Chicago desired. Senator Douglas
came forward and tCaS received wiM entire silence L!
not Il cheer, not a sound, was heard to welcome
him,
lie commenced by saying that he wished to elu-
cidate the principles of the Nebraska Bill. He
was satisfied that there was not one among his
audience who understood that Bill. Three hearty
and indisputable groans here greeted the orator.
The bill had never been published in any of our
city papers. TAT this most ridiculous and u%nfoun-
ded statement, the audience were convulsed with
laughter, and groans. 1t had however, been pub
lished that morning in one of our city papers, This
own organ and there it might be read. Here
the audience became ungovernable, and cries Of all
descriptions rent the air. Nobody reads that
paper" at would be of no use if they did -
Douglass thinks no one but himself knows any
thing?"-whicl subsidized for a few moments, only
to break out again at some fresh insult.
For three quarters of an hour he was listened to
with patience and forbearance: for his speech be-
sides being very ~braggart in tone, was insolent,
and interlarded with a course billingsgate and a
low vulgarity unbearable. Groans followed the
utterance of every pro-slavery sentiment: Kisses,
every insult! and when he claimed Chicago rs his
home. the crowd, as one, man, repudiated him, IN
one indignant cry, as a deceiver and a traitor! F.! All
this was done without violence, or show of anger,
but rs a manifestation of earnest men, resolved to
stand by the right, without regard to Senatorial
claims or DOUGLASS position.
Says the Tribune -
uIc.- l. Ii ,,oJon about ffoo, ,o;,,to,
mayor Milliken again arose and ordered the Police
who were scattered among the crowd, to Immediately
arrest any person who should throw any missiles
No missiles had been thrown, and the order was
generally supposed to only have been given in OF
der to intimidate the crowd from expressing theil
dissent from the pro-slavery sentiment of Douglas,
If that was the intention of the order, it certainly
failed of accomplishing its object.
After speaking for something more than an houI
and finding that the people regarded him very
much as the people of the Revolution would have
regarded Benedict Arnold, had he come among
them for the purpose of rindicating his treachery
and that thsy treated him in pretty much the same
way as Arnold would have been treated, Douglas
lost his temper, which up to this time he had pre-
served pretty we'll, and began to rave, and at the
end of another hour, his downfall was complete.
The entire crowd, with the exception of the Bod
Guard and the Irish hackers, who wereall present
but who were cowed by the immense numerical
superiority of their opponents, were against him
and received his insults, falsehoods and misrepre
sesentations with most terrific groans and Kisses
Douglas soon became perfectly transported Will
rage, and his face assumed that diabolical ant
sinister expression, so strongly suggestive of thu
feline face in anger, which is peculiar to hin
when irritated. lie began to denounce the assem-
blage as a mob, and declared that the tone Of i
was produced and regulated by the influence o
that organ of the Wing and Free Soil parties 0
the State, the Chicago Tribune. At this, three
hearty cheers were given for the Tribune, and thu
same number of groans for the Press and Times
all of which were afterwars frequently repeated.
Douglass now apparently lost all hopes o
modifying the assemblage and putting on his hat
faced the crowd, and attempted to tire and bull
them into silence. Leaning upon the top rail o
the platform, he assumed a B'hoy air, and attempt
cd every art within his scope to accomplish this
purpose, but in vain, Thomas Hoyne odyan