New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-19
INDIANA.
DOUGLAS At HIS OLD HOME.

Correspondence Of The n. Y. Tribune.
QUINCY Ill, Monday, Oct. Q, 1854.
On Saturday lest we were favored With the pres
encs and sneecb Of the Little Giant" His coming
had been beralded through the country, aud hls
friends had been very industrious. Large posters
with large capitals, both in German and Eng
lish, had been pasted up on every corner,
and at every turn of the road through the cum
try. commanding the "fai,hful" TO be on hand on
that day. Urgent appeals were sent to his sympa-
thisers in Missouri, to attend and do honor to the
peculiar champion Of their peculiar institution"
A programme Of bands Of music, military companies,
fire company &c, &c, was published and circulated.
hand Of music was sent thirty miles into the interior
to wake up the sleepy suckers and draw them by the
magic of music TO the Douglas Gathering AMI every
device that ingenious but dropping L" Locofocoism
could invent, put into operation TO gather an i-
meDse crowd to greet their muon lo'eu anu mu0n-
abused Douglas.
Here tros the home of Douglas before he married
and went Soutb-bere he made his successful entree
in the field of politics This is the dst,t that once
and again by large aiOrites sent Stephen to atteod
TO their interests in Congress, and here came Sephen
after his late rebuffs and lukewarm greetings Of the
North Expecting that here, on his old stumping-
ground the scene OF his earlier trumphs, the reeep-
ton would be warm and enthusiastic as his great
ness seemed 10 demand.
But alas " How are the mighty fallenV What
pity! We had no circus in our town on that day.
free beer of few Office holders the twas to bel great
procession was formed and, az The Patriot says, no
man in all this stronghold of Douglsslsm was found
mean enough TO " blow a note or sport feather IN
such cause. The whole procession numbered one
hundred and trenty.siz men and boys-and this IN
CITY of twelve thousand. There is hardly day that
we do not have funeral procession oil twice us SIZE
But Douglas was t. speak; go we went 10 me
stand 10 hear what could DO said in vlndc alton OF his
course There were not to exceed thousand men
there at any time; and when he mounted the plat
form no token Of welcome or giadness greeted his
ears, but an ominous silence that must have been
paipful TO him. BY his side stood Richardson, look
inc inteptly into the faces OF the assembly; and
knowing the men he did It's no wonder that bis
extended visage denoted that he had seen "tho
writing on the wall.
The barangue of Douglas was listened to atten-
tiyelv and silently except occasional grosn, but
not interrupted by a single "cheer." He gave US
re.hash of his Chicago, Rock Island and Geneva
speeches-not a word for haTbor aud river improve
ments and barely touching the all-absorbing ques-
tion-the Kansas-Nebraska bill know-Nothngs
seemed TO trouble him like nightmare, and mig
"ger," "abolitionist," +" Black Republican,
know .Nothinge" came from his mouth with a
and bitterness that told the desperation OF his
case. -,
and after all bis violent gesculation and base appeal
70 the baser passions and preJudlces oil human nuure
he sat down amid the united and loud cali for s Iure
Jonas firm and unfnching Anti Nebr ssks wing,
who mounted the stand amid cheers that made " Neb-
rsscals" trembe, and offered series oil resolutions
condemnatory of the Nebraska bill and OF the course
of Douglas and Richardson and after some pertinent
remarks they were put vote and passed by at least
four to one, and then the crowd gave three times
three cheers-good lusty ones-for Richarisohs com
petitor for " that seat in Congress Williams
who, by.tbe-way, rM be elected from this district
next month in spite Of that corruption iund al
Washington.
ON the whole the demonstration, was sad one
10 Douglas and his friends, and made the heart glad
oT tbn ho n
Look out for US on the 9TH Of November.
AVN W. A LOOKER-OS.