The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-15
GENERAL ACCOUNT.
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judge Douglas.

The following appeared on the 18th ult., in
the Chicago Democrat edited by the Hon.
John Wentworth, veteran member Of the
Democratic party:
The Washington correspondent Of the New
York Herald has the following:
Judge Douglas friends here contradict in
dignantly the story that he is sick with daliri-
um tremens. They say that for the last two
years he has been temperance man."
There are many reasons why the above can
not be true.
LIST. Judge Douglas has long since refused
to board at any of the first-class hotels in our
city, because they kept liquor, and has made
his home at Isaac Cooks Temperance Saloon.
When in this city, he can always be found
with such Sons of Temperance as Isaac Cook
at his temperance headquarters.
I'd. When the celebration was got up in our
city over the defeat of the Maine law, Judge
Douglas declined to address those celebrating,
and remained quietly at Cooks all day.
Sd. Judge Douglas has had two attacks, one
here and one-at Terre Haute and the Doctor
says If he has another, it will certainly kill
him. So his disease cannot be delirium ire
mems, as men ont West are known to have it
until they die, and it does not injure them in
the least
Our opinion is that Judge Douglas will no
more die of the delirium tremens than Isaac
Cook or any other of that kind of temperance
men.
An old personal regard for Judge Douglas
makes us little reluctant to republish from
the Cleveland Leader the following explana-
ton of the Hon. John Weutworth's remarks.
1t is great pity that man possessing the
extraordinary endowments of Judge Douglas,
should abandon himself to disgraceful personal
habits, and a still greater pity that he should
give himsnlfup to the promotion of objects at
war with the national welfare:
There are so many good points in the above
that we cannot forbear publishing it. But as
not many of our readers are familiar with So
ciety in Chicago, we shall give few explana-
tons. 1t is well known in Chicago that Doug
las is a drunken little BLACKBOARD. We use
those terms because no one objects to apply
ing them to poor men who act as he does; and
we do not believe that Mr.. Stephen Arnold
Douglas, is any better than a man who earns
his bread by the sweat of his brow. Cooks
Temperance Saloon" the headquarters of Mr..
Douglas, is owned by Mr.. Isaac Cook, post
master of Chicago, who is one of the hardest
drinkers in the city. 1t is called the Young
America Saloon, and is one of the vilest and
most infamous dens in the world. In no
single place on the continent is more liquor
drunk, more oaths sworn. more obscene lang
uage used. 1t is the general resort of gamblers,
thimble-riggers, libertines, damagogues, horse
racers, fancy men and pickpockets, and such
men as Mr.. Stephen Arnold Douglas. Here
he spends his leisure hour, tells obscene stories
to rowdy boys, laughs with idiotic and drunken
rapture at the nasty jests of his associates,
swears, swaggers, drinks and is not ashamed.
Let the reader again peruse the extract and
he will more clearly see the quiet but scorch-
ing irony of the writer, and he will also see
the man Stephen Arnold Douglas in all his
glory Lon. Jour.