Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-27
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rival candidates for the o. S. Senatorship from
Illinois, were to meet at Ottawa, face to face,
and discuss the issue between them. They had
spoken and been speaking for some weeks back
in different parts ofthe State, separates and apart
from each other. But at Ottawa they were to
close in with death holds upon each other
The event was looked to with great interest,
and seems to have been the topic of prominent
interest with about every man, woman and
child in the Sucker State.'' Well, to ottowa,
at last, they came, on this day one week ago
armed and equipped to the teeth with all the
old musty records, speeches, &C., &C., which
each other had done and said since they step.
ped out oftheir swaddling clothes The people
tlocked in herds and crowds to the hastings
the reporters from Chicago came down like
wolves on the fold, with their stencils and pen
ellis sharpened to their keenest edge to report
the arguments, personalities, daughter, 'tgreat
Laughter" "cheers, I" ''immense applauses," &c.
which might be launched forth on the momen-
tous occasion. And SO indeed they did. The
Knights of the quill let themselves out
in the most approved laxative style: to such an
extent, we are sorry to say, as to preclude the
! slightest attempt on our part to publish 1.-THE
of what their respective champions said on the
occasion. We have read and looked over these
speeches from one end to the other, which was
no small effort, and we have come to the con-
clusion that the following summary, from one
of our Cincinnati exchanges, will do just about
as we'll as anything else, short of the speeches
themselves.
Save 4,o Ciro;Dpo+; Flo,,,.,, ,s..:,7. s.ru
Each champion succeeded very well in expos.
| ing the bad antecedents of the other. Lincoln
personally had the advantage of Douglas in
preserving his temper. But the Lincoln organs
are more radically out of good humor than
Douglas himself Douglas said that when he
was school teacher, Lincoln was grocery
keeper. Lincoln, however, said that he never
kept grocery, but did once give his atten-
ton to little stllhouse up at the head of a
hollow. To the surprise of the spectators,
the honorable gentlemen got along without
calling each other liars aud getting into a
scratch fight on the stand, but Douglas did nod
hts head when Lincoln asked him if he made
a question of veracity between them. The Lin
coin papers say that Douglas was overwhelmed
The Douglas papers say that Lincoln was so
used up that his mouth hung open and he could
not speak. On tho one hand it is asserted that
Lincoln's knees failed him so that he could not
walk-on the other hand, that he was borne in
triumph from the stage by party who held
him upon their shoulders. Douglas opened
and closed. The Chicago Press and Tribune
says that after Lincoln's speech, Douglas was
turlous-"We have never seen human face so
distorted with rage. He resembled wild beast
in looks and gesture, and maniac in language
and argument" That Douglns is formidable in
debate is well known. His reply to Lincoln,
when he poured out his concentrated rage in a
speech limited to half nm hour, was certainly hot
and heavy. The Chicago Times says that Lin
coin several times attempted to interrupt Dou-
glas, but was pulled down by the coat-tail by
his friends
THERE'S one thing, however, that we especial
ly observed all through the encounter between
these two able rivals, and that was, that between
them there is all the difference that usual
ly separates a gentleman from a yulgarian. A
person would like to sympathize as much as
possible with man as sorely pressed as Doug
las is-but the thorough conviction that will
force itself upon the mind, is that besides being
man of extraordinary powers, he is alvulgari.-
an of the first water. He is rough and uncouth,
insulting and oyerbearing ad mauseam: SO much
SO as to destroy almost all good feeling on his
behalf On the other hand, Lincoln is gen.
tleman. The sheen Of his spear is as bright
as Douglas great broad sword Yet, while he
imPales Douglas at every thrust, through and
through, he does it with all the even aow of
genial tone that marks the best specimens of
classic oratory.
The man who goes out of his way to. give the.
lie to as polite an autagonist-to as perfect a
gentleman as Lincoln has demonstrated himself
to be all through the campaign, evidences
both that his cause is bad and that he himself
is radically bad style of man.
THr --LATEST "Lrvna BuLI-72s Most .stupeu-
dOus Joke Of the Seasoa.-We take the fol.
lowing from the. N. Y Post;
Can any one give US the name ofthe Irisbman
Who does the bulls" for the Washington Uaioni
Here, for example, is one that ought to be faith.
cred without delay. The President is the only
lrishlnan that we know ofon the paper at pres
ent; if no one else claims its paternity soon in
the language of our. worthy mayor, Ito him be
ascribed all the praise"
there is person In the public service yo does mot
Totuntny contribute the least Of two ollars
and hair from each thousand dollars os salary 10 SIM.
port the c9nse OF the DemsCracY, he should be dismissed at
once ana AS kGcefe by 3ro Is patriotic dd l5.
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