Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1857-10-10
Senator Douglas, by Oh Oppo-
i ..a.'.'" sition Paper.

A. Douglas, By the editor Of Republican
paper, the Nowburyport (Masa.) Herald, is
graphic and amusing. It appears that ho
was passenger with Judge Douglas on q
trip in the cars from St. Louis to Chicago,
at the close of the celebration of the open.
ing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
in june last. ...
The little man, with big, round head
brow almost as broad as Welster's, and
a quick, active eye, that rolls under the
heavy, projecting brow, watching every
other man, and not allowing q 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 back bone (and they
would probably, if Providence had not
foreseen that he would want hack bone
more than legs in his battle Of life y would
have mado him of respectable stature; that
little man is no less than the great politician
OF the West, who h2s attracted more atten-
tion in the last four years than any other
man of the nation, and done moro to give
direction to public affairs than even the
President, with million and q half OF
voters at his back, and the army, navy,
and treasury of North America at his
command. 1t is the Little Giant" Ste
phen A. Douglas, with whom VIC parted
company at Vincennos, and who has slowly
come along, feeling the public pulse, to
learn tho political health Of the "suckors, +"
up to Springfield, The capital of tho State
The means of success in Senator Douglas
are very apparent. First he is really and
Intellectually a great man. Eastern people
who view him only as a low politician,
should disabuse their minds in relation to
one who is to exercise q vide influence in
the affairs of the country, and very proba-
bly--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 in a good measure is en-
dowed with all those powers Of mind that
make a atosman.
But he is greater still in energy OF char
actcr. There are those who think that a
defeat of him next year would be his death
in poll les; but the man who sprung from
cabinet makers shop in Vermont, and
without father or friend worked his way
to an honorable place upon tho bench of
Judges, who entered Illinois with less than
fifteen cents in money and no3 one cent in
credit, and has acquired great wealth end
the highest station aud influence, is not
easily to be whipped cut. But il he is
great in mind, and great in energy, he is
greatest in these winning manners from
which the world calls him "a dcmag -
Scarcely q man, woman, or child in the
cars escaped his attention, or was passed
by uuspokon to. At one moment he talks
with the old, stern1visaged politician, who
has been sourod by thousand defeats and
disappointments, in the next to that well
formed and genial Kontuckian, who has
just sought free State; now he sits down
with the little girl approaching her teens
and talks of her school studios; and he
pats the little boy on the head, and in tho
presence Of his fond mother and proud
father what father is not proud to see hi
boy noticed y says word of his mild eye
or glossy locks.
Again the ladyis approached with fai
word and bland smile, and goes hom
pleased to tell her husband or father hoy
he looks and what ne says, and then half
dozen are about him, all standing together
Hc can talk religion with the priest as vel
as politics with the statesman ; he can con
gratulate the newly appointed Office holder
who has supplantcd his friend, tell the dis
placed friend of the "good time coming,
when his wing shall be up; and at ever
station, moro regularly than the conductor
Mr.. Douglas is upon the platform, with
good bye to the leaving, and welcome t
the departing travoler- ashake of the han
with one man that stands at the depo
and the touch of hat to another. Ii
knows OyorybOdyj can tell the qucstio
which affects each locality call the nam
Of every farm owner on the way; tell a
travellers something of the homes they lie
that they never knew themselves, an
suggests what they are adapted for
, this life, and what place they deserve
heaven.
Now such man as that, in conta
t with everybody, knowing everybody Gr
capable of pleasing every, and at the botto
wrapped up with the one idea of pfofe