The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-09-17
coansdills Dailg sournal.
Senator Douglas-.A Portrait.

SendtOT DOuS iosesA HOiuoAe
The editor Of the Newburyport,
Mass Herald, draws the following por-
trait of Senator Douglas, whom be rode
with in the cars from St. Louis to Chi
cago. 1t is curious as revealing the Sc.
cret of politicians success and rs such
We publish it:
That little man. with q big, round
head, a brow almost as broad as Web
ster's, and quick active eye that rolls
under the heavy projecting brow, watch
ing every other man and not allowing q
motion to escape him-with arms 100
short for his body, which is full and
round as though it never lacked the Jul.
ces that supply life and with small duck
legs, which had they grown as fast as
bis back bone-(and they would, proba-
bly,. if Providence had not foreseen that
he would want back bone more than
legs in his battle of life)-would have
male him Of respectable stature that
little man is no less than the great poll
tician of the West, who has attracted
more attention in the last four years than
any other man Of the nation. and done
more to give direction to public affairs
than even the President, with m.illion
and half voters at his back, and the
army, navy and treasury of North Amer.
lea at his command. 1t is the "little
giant" Stephen A. Douglas, with whom
We parted company ut Vincennes, and
who has slowly come along. feeling the
public pulse to learn the political health
of the Suckers up to Springfield, the
capital Of the State.
The means of success in Senator Doug.
las are very apparent. First he is real
ly and intellectually great man. East
ern people who view him only asa low
politician-and there is no question he is
all of that-should dlsabuse their rlnds
in relation to one who Is 70 exercise q
wide influence in the affairs Of the coun-
try, and very probably. for be is yet
young, to be the head Of the Republic.
He is massive in his conceptions, broad
and comprehensive in his views, and in
2 good measure is endowed with all the
powers of mind that make q statesman.
But he is greater still in energy Of
character. There are those that think
deieat Of him next year, would he his
death in politics but the man who
sprung from q cabinet makers shop in
Vermont, AMI without father or friend
worked his way to an honorable place
upon the bench of Judges, who entered
illinois with less than fifty cents IN
and no. one cent in credit, and
has acquired great wealth and the highest
station and influence, is not easily to be
wiped out. But if he is great in mind,
and greater in energy, he is greatest IN
those winning manners from which tae
world calls him demagogue. Scarcely |
a man, woman or child in the cars es- |
capped his attention or was passed by un-
spoken to. At one moment he talks to |
the old stern visaged politician, who has
been soured by thousand defeats and |
in the next to that we'll |
formed and genial Kentuckian, who has
Just sought a free State now he sits
down with the little girl approaching her
teens, and asks of her school studies.
and he pats the little boy on the head.
md ia presence Of his fond mother and
proud father (what father Is DoA proud to
'es his BOY noticed p says word of his
mild eyes or glossy locks Again the la
ly is approached with fair word and q
bland smile. and goes home pleased to
ell her husband or father how he looks
Ind what he says; and then hall dog
IN are about h,m all standing together.
tie can talk religion with the priest, as
veil as politics with the statesman ne
AN congratulate the newly appointed
Buchanan office holder. who has sup
planted his friend, tell the disappointed
riend of the good time coming" when
lis wing shall be up and at every sta.
ion, more regularly than the conductor,
dr. Douglas is upon the platform with
Goodbye to the leaving, and q welcome
o the departing Travellers shake Of
he hand with one man that stands at the
lepot, and touch of the hat to another
lie knows everybody; can tell the ques-
ion that affects each locality; call the
Iame of every farm owner on the road
ell all the travellers something Of tie
ZONES they left that they never knew
themselves, and suggest what they arc
dapted for in this life, and what place
hey deserve in heaven. Now such a
nan as that, in contact with everybody,
moving everybody and capable Of pleas
ng everybody, and at the bottom
trapped up with the one idea Of prefer
aent. power and dominion among men,
not easily to be put down; and his !
pponents might as we'll believe at once, :
nat when they fight him they fight a
trong man-a little giant indeed. He ,
Tould be popular in Boston or any where q
Iss, and half the (" 100000 clergymcn"
e denounced, would have their hearts :
.olen, If he could speak to them half