Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-11-05
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SENATOR DOUGLAS.
BY AN OPPOSITION PAPER.

The following sketch of Hon. Stephen A.
Douglas, by the editor of paper, the New
.berryport Massachusetts, Herald, is graph
ic and amusing. According to our policy of
giving every shade of opinion q fair hearing,
we let this writer speak for himself, It ap-
pears that he was passenger with Judge
Douglas on trip in the carsfrom St. Louis
to Chicago, at the close of the celebration of
the opening of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad, in June last.
That little man, with big, round head,
brow almost as broad as Websters, and q
quick, active eye, that rolls under the heavy
projecting brow, watching every other man,
and not allowing motion to escape him
with arms too short for his body, which is
full and round as though it never lacked the
juices that supply life; and with small duck
legs, which, had they grown as thick as his
ck-bone, (and they would, probablys if
Providence had not foreseeu that he would
want back bone more than legs in his bat
tie of life, } would have made him of respec-
table stature that little man is no less than
the great politician ofthe West, who has at
tracted 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 and
a half of voters at his back, and the army,
navy and treasury Of North America at his
command. tbs the "Little Giant" Steph-
en- A. Douglas, with whom We parted COM
pany at 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. S.
The means of success in Senator Douglas
are very apparent. First, he was really and
intellectually great man. Eastern people
who view him only as low politician,
should disabuse their minds in relation to
one whois to exercise wide influence in
tee affairs Of the country, and very probably
for he is yet young-to be the head of
the Republic. He is massive in his concep-
tions, broad and comprehensive in hisviews,
and in good measure is endowed with all
those powers of mind that make states.
man. &
But he is greater still in energy Of charac-
ter. There are those who think that a de-
feat of him next year would be his death in
politics but the man that sprung from a
-cabinet-maker'ss shop in Vermont, and, with
out father or friend, worked his way to an
honorable place upon the bench Of Judges;
who entered. Illinois with less than fifty
cents in money and 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 in
mind, and greater in energy, he is greatest
in those winning manners for which the
world calls him dcmagogue. Scarcely a
man, woman or child, in the cars, escaped
his attention, or was passed by unspoken to.
At one moment he talks with the old, stern
visaged politician, who has been soured by
thousand defeats and disappointments; in
the next, to that well formed and genial
Kentuckian, who has just sought free
State; now he sits down with the little girl
approaching her teens, and asksof her school
studies; and he pats the little boy on the
head, and, in the presence of his fond moth
er and proud father, (what father is not
proud to see his boy noticed y says world
about m mild eyes or glossy locks. Again,
the lady is approached. with fair word and
a bland smile, and goes home pleasedto tell
her husband or father how he looks and
what he says, and then half dozen are
about him, all standing together. He can
talk religion with the priest as well as poll
ties with the statesman he can congratulate
the newly appointed Bschanan ofice-holder,
who has supplanted his friend, tell the dis.
placed friend of the "good time coming" !"
when his wing shall be up; and at every
station, more regularly than the conductor,
Nh. Douglas is upsu the platform, with q
goodbye to the leaving, and a1welcome to
the departing traveler-a shake Of the hand
with one man that stands at the depot, and
a touch of the hat to another. He knows
everybody !; can tell the question that effects
each locality; call the name Of every farmer .
on the way tell all travellers something Of
the homes they left That they never .I knew y.
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