St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-11-01
Letter from Artemus Ward, J1
lntervie.o soith Mr.. Douglas-Gra,sd
. w.. =. Fusion, S)to,o. .. ii: J., e..
CLEVELAND, Sept. 22, 1860.

AAS1Ea LOt11hj - SeeA NY 4uA tOO
inform the publik thru the medeum of
yur kolums Of the grand addishun I hav
gest maid too, mi CRATE metropolitician sho
biznes, and DARN Sak rope and GIN nastic
Surkus. Last mite had an interpu with
Stevun. A.: Duglas, the renound politikal
ambidxter and proprietor and Cheef Kloun
in the crate pcpuler suvcrenty sho. Mister
:Duslas is generally kald the little giant
from his hayin performed the crate feet of
walkin the whole length of Mason and
Dixon close line with: the "dred skot dicis-
shun in one hand, and his whole populer
suverenty sho in the uther: and also pull
lin up the mammuth tire kald the missoorie
kompromize, which was first planted in
1881 by Tomus Jeffsrsun and iuthers, and
set out again in 1920. Mister Duglas ;puld
up this tire and the constitution with it and
blast. them under his feat i '.''1 ,..."
But waz a goins on to sa that he haz
bin travlin thru the estern and suthern
states performin his triks and speakin his
pees. The wa he takes um in with his
populcr suverenty game is not slo. He
holds out a big bill to the peple and sez,
there's popler suverenty-there's the crate
prinsipul. At first tha think tha sea it ;
but when tha look little sharper it van
ishes like the du on the orientle kornstalk
when the noonda sun rizes in the eas on a
thundcrin hot da in the middel of JUL; it
kant be found no where. The folks some.
times get mad and korner him in a tite
plasc, but he is tarnel smaul and can kraul
thru a mighty little hole. But they sa he
did one CRATE trik-at wun plase he ate an
OK and 10000 klams:
As soon as I herd of his arrive in toun
I went to pa him Witt. found him in
his sho room speakin his PEGS. I thowt ]
wouldn't be very formal; and sez ], haven't
ye got that pees larnt yet? Sez he, yis-
but theirs sum of the doktrin that the pc.
pie don't bleev! and have to alter it occa.
shunally to suite the plase. Sez l, how doc
you like the sho biznes? Sez he, it don't
pa. Sez I, mi sho is doin stavin biznes
He groned and a 1tere started in his j; and
sez he, I thowt I shood make good deal
out of mi poplcr suverenty, but sez he, il
has split the hull sho; the peple begin t.
sea thru it, ard tha sa it is humbng.-
Sez I, what are. you goin to do with it !
Sez he, as soon as hav used up mi post.
ers and advertisements I shall thro it. over,
board. ...>..sss l., .<....-: .5,..; il Hs.$,}
Sez I, Doug las whattle ye take for ye.
popler suverenty ?. Sez he lie sci it cheep
told him I diddent no how to manage
his triks; but I would go into partnership
with him in the sho biznes. Sez he, its a
bargain. I then axt him whot he thowt
of takin along sum; darkees to sing songs
and dams the hornpipe.. Sez he wunt
hav emmy thing to doc with the niger biz.
nes a2ain-it don't pa. He scd he went
into the nigger bizues in 1854 and had bin
goin down hill. cversins; he said it had
nurly rooined him. The little giant then
performed on the slak rope and klimed up
a greest pole and spoke his pees on the top.
One of Abe Lincoln's rales was next browt
in, and Douglas was set on and rode out
! thru the back; dore. Douglas is. about )
feet hi and thunderin great man for wun
Of his size. T. made q frenological exami-
nation of him. -Hee is man of tremen.
dus pour His kavs are huge. His bump
Of humbugging is as pig as COOS eg.-
Conseenshusness is kaved In -4a]H Heed make
frst-rate crier in the sho biznes; biz
bump Of tellin yarns amt snaul.'
~Duglas and T have kompfcted our pro:
gram for our nu sho. We call it the nu
+ yunion sho, and greest pole surkus, togeth-
| er with luther alarmin and daring feets. IL
! rDuglas will parform the grand, duhble
[&singel handed game Of popler suveernty'
This game Kan he seen best with the ize
|shet. But I must kloze. We are going
westward ho u a few daze. Yurs in hast
i se+s a. ARTEMus: Ward, JRsrs
| pee es Du@las SEE give poplar suvercnty
good bio in the paper.