Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-10-26
LETTER FROM ARTEMus WARD, Jr
Interview with MIR. Douglas'-Grand Fur
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2hav gest maid too mi CRATE metropoliti
clan sho biznes, and DARN Slak rope
and GIN nastic Surkus. Last mite had !
an intervu with Stevun A. Duglas, the
renound politikal ambidixter and pro-
prietor and Cheef Kloun in the CRATE
popuier suverenty sho Mister Duglas
is generally kald the little giant from
his haven performed the CRATE feet Of
wakin the whole length of Mason and
Dixon close line with the dred skot
-dicisshun in one hand, and his whole
populcr suverenty sho in the uther; and
allso pulin up the mammuth ire kald
the, misoorie ,kompromlze, which was
first planted in 1877 by Thomas Geffer
son and others, and set out agin in 1920.
Mister Duglas puld up this tire and the
constitution with it and plast them un-
der his feat :
But I waz goin on to sa that he haz
bin travlin thru the estern and suthern
states performin his tricks and speakin
his pees. The wa he takes UNI in with
his popller suverenty game is not slo.
He holds out big bill to the people and
SEE, there's populer suverenty-theres
the gratest prinsipul. AT first tina think
| tha sea it; but when tina look a little
sharper it .Vanishes like a du on the
orientle kornstalk when the noonda son
irizes in the east on a thunderin hot day
in the middle of JUL; it kant be found
no. where. The folks sometimes get
mad and korner him in a tight plase, but
he is tarnal smaul and kin eraul thru a
mighty little hole. But tina sa he did
one CRATE trik-at won plase he ate an
/ OK and 20, 900 klams. G sssz as.
As soon as / herd of his arrive in
toun went to pa him visit. [ found
him in his sho room speakin his pees.
[ thowt wouldn't be very formal, and
sez I hav mt We got that pees larnt yet?
Sez he; yis-butthers sum of the dock
trim that the people don't beleey! and I
ha7 to alter it occasionally to suite the
plase. SezI, how doc you like the sho
bizness? Sez he, it don't pa. Sez l, mi
sshox is adoin !. stavin> bizness. He
groned and tere started in hiz i; and
sez he, | thowt I shood make a good
deal out of mi populer suverenty; but,
fsez he, it has split the hultsho; the peo-
pie begin too sea thru it, and, tina sa it
! is humbug. Sez he, as soon as | hav
yused up mi posters and adyertisemen nts,
[ shall throw it overheard. s. Ia
Sez ], Duglas whattle ye take for yer
i lpopuler suverenty? sez he lie sci it
Icheap. told him I dident know how
too manage his tricks but I wood go into
partnership with him in the sho biznes.
4 Sez he,its bargain. then axt whot
he thot of takin along some darkees to
i ]dans the. hornpipe Sez he, I Wunt hav
4 lenny thing to doc with the nigger biz
mes agin-it don't pa. He sed he went
Z into the niger bizness in 1854 and had
bin goin down hill ever sins; he sed it
had nurly rooined him. The little giant
then purformed on the slak rope, and
khmb up greet pole andsspoke his pees
on the top. One of Abe Lincoln S rales
was next browt in, and Duglas was set
on and rode out thru the back dore.-
4 Duglas is about 5 feet hi and thun-
derin CRATE man fer wun Of his size. L
maid a. .frenological examination of him.
lie is a man of tremendous pour. Hiz
kavs are huge. His bump of humbugg
ing is as big as goos eg. Conseenshus-
ness is kaved in. Heed make firstrate
criera in the sho .biznes3 his bump OF
tellin yarns amt smaul. -
:, Duglas and have kompleted our pro-
gram for our. nu sho., We call it the nu
! yunion sho, and greest pole surkus, to-
Egether with uther alarmin and DARN
feets. -
!, Duglas will purform the grand double
} and single handed game Of populer
suverenty. This game can be seen best
with the ,ize shet. But II must klose.-
I'VE are goin westward IN few daze
Yurs in hast,
4 1s77d Tae ti'-Efa ARTEMUs WARD, JR.
pee es Duglas sez give populer suver
enty good bio in thespaper-
HE DIED POOR
hs5sssIt was sad funeral to me, said thu
\ speaker; "the saddest | have attended fol
e years, G.
"That of Edmondson?"
T. ; ayes ca s91st 20 az7~-r'} 7,gs 81
e a., GLOW did he die?''' ~. -.--.a...........
/; 80 t" "Poor--poor as poverty; his life wa'
O1C Will GhC hOI1U,
every disadvantage. Fortune mockec
. him all the while with gilded promises
9 thatHere destined never to know fulfill
ment."
L ayes, he was patient and enduring,
remarked one Of the company. Z, -
4 Iaoi"Patient as Christian; enduring as
o martyr" was the answer. cssPoor man
> He was worthy of better fate. H,
) ought to have succeeded, for he deserved
e success" ~ ezar ~ .,. !
''Did he not succeed?" questioned tn
. Zone who had spoken Of his perse7erenc,
and endurance. S. s.
E sNo, sir; he died poor, as have jus
saidss Nothing that he put hisshands t.
. ever succeeded. A strange fatalit,
! seemed to attend every enterprise
! Al was with him in his last stmoments,
! said another, 'and thought he9died rich.
n 'fNo, he has left nothing behind" wa
= replied. 'tThe heirs will have no con
q Germ as to the administration of the, es
q tate"
fa HHe left a good name,' said one, FAM
d that is something. .''oaz1 10 5au51 . =
# sand a legacy of noble. deeds tina
Il were done in the name Of humanity,
C remarked another. zaoG5 tiUI elE3i5
T. 7@Aessons of patience in suffering, O
n hope in adversely, of heavenly conf
e1 denee when no sunbeams fell upon hi
e bewildering path" was the testimony G
e another.
ssAnd high trust, manly courage, he
IF roic fertitude.' - ''-1', ~ +
n a=.Fhen he died rich :" was the emphati