The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-10-25
Letter from Artemas Ward, sr.-
Interview with NIr. Douglas
Grand Fusion Show
CLEyELANn. Sent %

Grand FUsIOn snow.
CLEVELAND, Sept %, 1860
MISTER EpETER:-I seez mi quill to inform
the publik thru the medeum of your kol.
umns of the grand addsun have just maid
too mi CRATE metropolitician sho biznes, and
DARN 'Slal; rope and GIN nastic Surkus.
Last mite had an intervu with Stevun A.
Duglas, the renound politikal ambidixter
and proprietor and Cheef Kloun in the crate
populer soverenty sho. Mister DugIas is
generally kald the little giant from bis haven
performed the CRATE feet of wakin the whole
length oil Mason and Dixon close line with
the dred skot dicisshun in one hand, and
his whole popular suvrenty sho in the other:
and also pulln up the mammuth tire kald
the missoori kompromise, which was first
planted in 1887 by Tomas Gefferscn and
uthers, and set out again in 1920. Mister
Duglas puld up this ire and the constitution
with it and plast them under his feat.
But was going on to sa that he haz bin
travein thru the estern and suthern states
performing his triks and speaking his pees-
The wa he takes um in with his populer SOW
erenty game is not so slo. He holds out a
big bill to the people and seq, there's populer
suverenty-theres the CRATE prinsipul
At first they think they sea it; but when
tha look a little sharper it vanishes like q
du on the orientic kornstalk when the noon
di soE iizes in the east on a thunderin hot
da in the middel of JUL; it kant be found no
where. The folks sometimes get mad and
korner him in tite plase, but he is tarnal
small and kan kraul thru mighty little hole
But they sa he did one CRATE trik-at wun
plase he ate an OK and 10000 klams.
AS soon as herd of lis arrive in toun
went to pa him Witt. found him in his
sho room speaking his pees; thowt wodn't
be very formal: and sez I, haven't We
got that pees larnt yet? Sez he, yis-- but
there's sum Of the doktrin that the peple don't
beleev, and hav too alter it occashunaliy
to suite the plase. Sez |, how doc you like
the sho, is it doin a staving biznes He
groned and tere stated in hiz i (; and sez
he, thowt shood make a good deal out of
my populer suyerenty; but SCI he it has
split the hull sho: the peple begin too sea
thru it, an tina sa it is a humbug. Sez l.,
what are you going to do with it? Sez he,
as soon as lav yused up mi posters adver-
,tr V.l,o ,b .
Sez |, Duglas, whattle We take for yer
populer suverenty? Sez be, lie sci it cheep
told him didn't no how too manage his
triks, wood go into partnership with him in
| the she bizues. Sez he, its bargain. /
then axt him whot he thowt of taking along
sum darkies to sing songs and dams the horn
pipe. Sez he, wunt hav emmy thing too
doc with the nigger biznes agin--it don't pa
He said he went into the niger bizncs in
1854 and had bin goin down bill ever sins :;
he sed it had nurly rooined him. The little
giant then performed on the slak rope, and
klimed up a greest pole ard 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 Dulas is about
5 feet hi and thunderin CRATE man for one
of his size. made trenological examina-
ton of him. Hee is man Of tremendous
pour. His kavs are huge His bump of
humbugging is as big as COOS eg. Con-
seenshusness is kaved in. Heed make a
first rate crier in the sho biznes; his bump of
tellin yarns aint small.
Duglas and have completed our program
for our nu sho. We call it the nu yunion
sho, and greest pole surkus, together with
| other alarmin and DARN feets.
Duglas will perform the grand, bubble &
single handed game of popler suverenty.--
this game can be seen best with the ize shet.
But must klose. We are goin westward
! no in few daze
Yours in haste,
ARTEMUS WARD JR.
Plees Duglas sez give popler suverenty a
| i,,t tha