Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-09
Douglas and Lincoln at Ott0wa-PersOnal
"Reminiscences.

douglas ana Lincoln at OttoWa-Rer6Onal
"Reminiscences.
Douglas and Lincoln had grand tilt al
Ottowa. Illinois, recently. Douglas speech
contained this passage:
In the remarks which have made upon
this platform, and the position of Mr.. Lin.
coin upon 1t, mean nothing personal, disre.
spectful, or unkind to that gentleman. |
have known him for nearly twenty five
years We had many points of sympathy
when first got acquainted with him. We
were both comparatively boys-both strug-
ghng with poverty, in strange town, for our
support |, an humble teacher in the town
of Winchester-and he fourishing grocery
keeper in the town of Salem. laughter
He was more successful in his occupation tn
|, and hence became more fortunate in this
worlds goods. Mr.. Lincoln is one of those
peculiar kind of men that has performed
with admirable skill in every occupation {. 1t
he ever attempted. made as good a school
teacher as could, and when a cabinet ma
ker | made the best bedsteads and table, but
but my old boss said l succeeded better in
bureaus and secretaries than anything else.
Laughter But believe that Mr.. Lincoln
was more successful in his business than |
for his business soon carried him directly into
the Legislature. There | met him in n little
time, and had sympathy for him because
OF the uphill struggle we hadin life. TCheers
and laughter He was then as good at tell.
ing an anecdote as now. He could beat anv
OF the boys at wrestling-coud out run them
at foot race-beat them all at pitching
quoits and tossing copper, and could win
more liquor than all the boys put together
laughter and cheers and the dignity and
partiality with which he presided at a horse.
race or fist fight were the praise of every.
body that was present and participated.
Renewed laughter. Hence had sympa.
thy for him, for he was struggling with mis-
fortune and so was l.
Mr.. Lincoln served with me, or with him.
in the Legislature of 1886, when we parted
He subsided or submerged for some wears,
and lost sight of him In lS46 when VIII.
mot raised the Wilmot Proviso tornado, Mr..
Lincoln again turned up as a member of Con.
gress from Sangamon District. [, being in
the Senate of the United States, was called
to welcome him, then without friend or com.
panion. He then distinguished himself bv
his opposition to the Mexican war, taking the
side of the common enemy, in time of war.
against his own country. [Cheers and groans1
When he returned home from that Congress,
he found that the indignation of the people
followed him everywhere, until he again re
tired to private life, and was submerged un.
til he was again forgotten by his friends. He
came up again in 1854, in time to make the
Abolition Republican platform, in company
with Lovejoy, Giddings. Chase and Fred
Douglass for the Republican party to stand
upon. Trumbull, too, was one Of our own
contemporaries. He was born and raised in
old Connecticut. Bred a Federalist he re
moved to Georgia, and there turned a Nulli-
her, when Notification was popular But as
soon as he disposed of his clocks and wound
up his business he emigrated to Illinois
When he got here, having turned politician
and lawyer, he made his appearance in 1910
Al as member of the Legislature, and be-
came noted as the author of scheme to re.
pudiate large portion of the State debt of
Illinois, and thus bring infamy and disgrace
upon the fair escutcheon of our glorious
State. The odium attached to that measure
consigned him to oblivion for time. | walk
ed into the House of Representatives and re
piled to his reputation speeches until we
crrried resolutions over his head, denouncing
reputation, and asserting the moral and le-
gal obligation of Illinois to pay every dollar
OF debt owed-every bond bearing her sig
nature. .TrumbulPs malignity toward me
arises out of the fact that defeated his in
famous scheme to repudiate the State debt
and State bonds of Illinois.