The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-07
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JuuSc Douglas, IN his late ottawa speech,
gives the following laconic biographical
sketches of Lincoln and Trumbul:
In the remarks which have made upon
this platform, and the position of Mr.. Lin
coin upon it, mean nothing personal, dis
respectful, or unkind to that gentleman.
have known him for nearly twenty-years.-
We had many points of sympathy when
first got acquainted with him. We were
both comparatively boys-both struggling
with poverty in strange town for our sup
port. | an humble school-tcachcr in the
town of Winchester, and he nouriShiug
grocery keeper in the town nf salem =
FI---.-I.s>.1. IL ss,o-ss successful IN MS
occupation than !, and hence became more
fortunate in this worlds goods. iIr. Lin
coin is one of those peculiar men that has
performed with admirable skill in every oc-
cupation that he ever attempted | made
as gooI school-tcachcr rs | could, and
when a cahinet-makcr | made the best bed
steads and tables, hut my old boss said
succeeded better in bureaus and secretaries
than anything else. Laughter. But
believe that Mr.. Lincoln was more success
ft in hi business than |, for his business
soon carried him directly to the Legislature
F There met him in a little time, and had
a sympathy for him, because of the uphill
struggle we had in life. Cheers and laugh
teri lie was then aS good at telling an
aucclotc rs now. He could beat any of the
BOYS Mt wreStling-c0uld out run them at d
foot racc-beat them pitching quoits and
tossing a copper, and could win more liquor
than all the boys together; laughter anC
cheers and the dignity and impartiaiity
with which he presided at a horse race or d
fist fight were the praise of everybody thai
was present and participated. lRenewet
laughtcrl. Hence had sympathy for him
because he was struggling with misfortun,
and so was |.
Mr. Lincoln served with me, or | Will
him. in the Legislature of 1896, when W,
parted He subsidized or submerged for SOM
years, and lost sight of him. In 1916
when Wilmot raised the Wilmot Provis'
tornado, Mr.. Lincoln again turned up rs
member OF Congress from Sangamon Dis
triCt l. being in the Senate of the Unite'
States, was called TO welcome him, thei
without friend and companion. He thei
distinguished himself by his opposition t
the Mexican War, taking the side of tn
common enemy, in time OF war. against hi
own country. ICheers and groanSl Whe
: he returned home from that Congress, u
, found that the Indignation of the people fol
! lowed him everywhere until he again re
l tired to private life, and was submerged I'm
til he was forgotten again by his friends
lie came up again in 1854, in time TO max
: the Abolition Black Republican platform. i
company with Lovejoy, Giddings, Chas'
and Frederick Douglass, for the Republica
party to- stand upon. Trumbull, too, wa
: one of our own cotenporarieS. He wa
: one born and raised in old Connecticut
bred Federalist, he removed to Georgii
~ aud there turned Nulliier, when Nullifc;
: ton was popular. But as soon as he di
: posed of his clocks and wound up his bus
ness, he emigrated to Illinois. When
: got here, having turned politician and law
: yer, he made his appearance in lS40-4l :
,. member Of the Legislature, and becan
noted as the author OF a scheme to repud
! ate large portion of the State debt of Ill
:, nois, and thus bring infamy and disgra
upon the fair escutcheon of our glorior
State. The odium attached to that measu
consigned him TO oblivion for time.
,. walked into the House of Representativ
Il and replied to his reputation speeches uni
n we carried resolutions over his head,
u nouncing population, and asserting {
L' moral and ,cSal obligation of Illinois to p
il every dollar of debt she Owed-cvery boz
bearing her signature. Trumbulrs mali
r., nifty toward me arises ont of the fact tha
defeated his infamous scheme to repudi;
- the State debt and State bonds of lllinC