Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-09-24
Senator Douglas, by an Op.
position Paper.


y. Douglas, by the editor of Republican
paper, the Newburyport (Mass.) Herald,
is graphic and amusing. According to our
policy of giving every shade of opinion a
fair hearing, we let this writer speak for
himself 1t appears that he was passen-
ger with Judge Dou glas on trip in the
cars from 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 Webster's, and
a quick, active eye, that rolls under the
heavy projecting brow, watching every
other man, and no; allowing moment to
escape him-with arms too short for his
body, which is full and round, as though
ii never lacked the juices that supply life:
and with small duck legs. which had they
grown rs thick as lis back bone and ;hey
woAld probably if Providence had not fore
seen that he wanted back bone more than
legs in the battle of lfe) would have made
him Of respectable stature; that little man
is nc 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 done more TO give direction
10 public affairs than even the President,
with million and II half voters at his back
anI the army. navy, and treasury Of North
America al his command. L. is the Lit
tie Giant Stephen A. Douglas, with
whom We parted at Vincennes, and who
has slowly come along. feeling the public
pulse to know the political pulse Of the
Suckers" up to Springfield, the capitol Of
he State.
The means Of success in Senator Doug
las are very apparent. First he IS really
and intellectually great man. Eastern
people who view hlm only as 4 low phi
elan, should disabuse their minds in re
laiion 10 one who IS . exercise a wide in
tluence in The al.ai Of the country, and
very probably-for he is yet young-to be-
tie head of the Republic. He is massiy"
in lis conceptions, broad aud comprehen-
sve in his views, and in good measure
is endowed with all those powers of mind
that make statesman.
But he is greater sill in energy If char
acter There are those who think tia u
defeat Of him next year would be hi- d"aih
in politics; but The men who sprung from
a cabinet makers shop in Vermont. aud
without father or friend worked his way 10
an honorable place upon the bench Of jul, =
e. who entered Illinois with less than fifty
cents in money aud not one cent in credit
and las acquired great wealth and the
highest station and influene, is not To be
easily whipped ont. But if he is grea, in
mind; aud greater in energy. he is greatest
in those winning manners from which the
world calls him demagoeue. Scarcely
"A man. woman, or child in the ears escaped
his attention, or was passed unspoken To.
At one moment he talks with the old, stern
yisaged politician who has been soured by
a thousand defeats and disappointments.
in the next. To that we'll formed and genial
kentuckitn, who has just sought a free
state; now he sits down with the ltIle girl
approaching her teens, and asks Of her
school studies; and be pats The little boy
on the head. AM in thu prrsenrc of his
fond mother and proud father. (whar "a
,her is no, pror I, see his boy noliced?) }
SAYS a word Of his mid eyes or glossy
locks.
Again the lady is approached with a fair
word and bland smile. AMI goes home
pleased to tell her husband or father how
he looks aud what he says, and then half a
dozen are about him. all together He can
talk religion with the priest As well as pol
i.ics with the statesman; he can congra'u u
haze the newly appoined Buchanan office
holder. who has supplan,ed his friend. tell
the displaced friend of the good lime
comm :. when his wing shall b, up; and ri
every station. more regularly than the con
duc;or. Mr.. Douglas is upon the pia,forn'
with goodbye to the leaving, and wei
come to the departing iraveler--a shahe
Of the hand with one man that stands nj
the depot aud u touch Of tn hat TO anoth
er He knows every body; can tell the
question that affects each locality, call the
name Of every f,rm owner on the way; tel
all travellers something of the homes they
left that they never knew themselves. and
suggest what they are adapted for in this
life. and what place they Ieserve in heaven
Now such man rs that, in contact will
every body. knowing every body. and ca
pabe Of pleasing every body. and at the