Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-10-31
Senator Douglas.

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and amusing. Aecordiug to our policy of
giving every shado.of opinion fair hear
ing, VIC let this writer sRealefor himself.
1t appears that he wossa passenger: With
Judge Douglas on a trip ip the cars from
st. Louis to Chicago, at the close of the
celebration of'the opening. of.tlle Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad, in June last.
That little man, with a big, round head
brow almost like Wobstcr's, and a quick
active eye, that rolls under the heavy pro,
Jecting brow, watching every other man,
and not allowing a melton to escape him
with arms too short for his body, which is
full and round as though it mover lacked
the juices that supply life; and with small
duck legs, which, had they grown as thick
as his backbone, (and they would proba-
bly,, II Providence had not forsecn that he
would want backbone moro than legs in
his battle of life, would have made him of
respectable stature that little man is no
less than the great politician of the West,
who has attracted more attention in the
last four years than any other man of the
nation, and has done more to give direction
to public affairs than even the President.
with million aud half of voters at his
back, and the army, navy and treasury of
North America at his command Ills tho
Little Giant" Stephen A DOUGLAS with.
whom we parted company at Vinccnnns,
and who has slowly come alono. feclinc tho
public pulse 10 learn The pUlricul neali5ait ur
the Suckers" up to Springfield, the
Capital of the State.
The means of success in Senator Doug
las are very apparent. First, he is really
and intellectually a great man. Eastern
people who view him only as low politi-
clan, should disabusc their miods in rela-
ton to one who is TO exercise wide inhu-
ence in tho affairs of the country, and very
probab!y-for he is yet young-to be the
head OF the Republic. He is massive in
his conceptions, broad and comprehensive
in his views, and ina good measure IS en-
dowed with all those powers of nina that
make statesman
But he is creator still in energy of char
actcr. There are those who think that a
defeat of him next year would he his death
in politics; but the man that sprung from
cabinet-maker's shop in Vermont, and
without father or friend, worked his way to
an honorable place upon the bench of iudc-
rs, who entered Illinois with less than fifty
cents in money aud not one cent in credit,
and has acquired great wealth, and the
highest station and influence, is not easily
to be whipped out But if he is great I'M
mind, and greater in energy, he is greatest
iii those winning manners for which the
world calls him demagogue. Scarcely d
man, woman or child, in the cars escaped
his attention, or was passed by unspokeu
to. At one moment he talks with the old,
stern-visaged politician, who has been soured
by thousand defeats and disappointmcnts !;
in the next to that we'll formed and genial
Kentuckin, who has just sought u free
Statcj now he sits down with the little
glri approaching her teens. and asks of her
school studies and he pats the little boy
on the head, and IN the presence OF his
iond mother aud proud father Swhat father
lsnot proud to see h,s boy noticcd } says
"a word about his mild eyes, or glossy locks
Again, tho lady Is approached with affair
word and q bland smile, and goes home
pleased TO tel her husband or father how
ne looks ana what he says, and then half a
dozen are about him' all standing together
Tie can taiK reig'on with the priest as well
as polieics with the statesman he can con-
graduate the newly appointed Buchanan
'oiIeo-hoiaof VINO mas s9ppsanted his TREND,
com;n@ +. Whom b;s wina sbaIl 49, 90 I anJ
af eynT5 SJAa an Non more seo,I"rIy ~ H., T" h"
conductor NJ Do,oIos is1,y,o1 tbe Efst
form VIII = good.byS fo III loav;no, amd
n welcome to tho 1cnortino tro1eiIe,,ta
shake of theb hand with ono man. thot .tonds
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