The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-10-31
NUMBER %
Letter From Artemus Ward, Jr.-In-
terView with HEF. DOugias-Grand
Fusion show.
CLEVELAND, Sept. %, 1860.


MISTER EDETun: sez my quill too inform the
publik thru the medeum of your kolumns of
the grand addishun have jest maid too my
CRATE metropolitan sho biznes, and DARN Slab
rope and GIN nastic Surkus. Last mite had
an intervu with Steyun A. Duglas, the renOund
polittikal ambidxter and Cheef Kloun in the
CRATE popler suverenty sho. Mister Duglas ia
generally kald the little giant from his haven
performd the CRATE feet of wakin the whole
length of Mason and Dixon close line with tho
dred skot dscisshun in one hand, and his whole
popsr suyorenty sho in the uther; and also
pullin up the mammuth tire kald the missooris.
kompromize, which was first planted in 1887 by
Tomas Jefferson and uthers and set out agin in
1920. Mister Duglas puld up this tire and tho
constitushun with it and plast them under his
feat
But waz gon on to sa that he haz been
traylin thru the estern and suthen States per-
formn his triks and speekn his pees. The wa
he takes en- in with his popler soverunty game
is not slo. lie holds out big bill to the peple
and sez, there's poplar suverenty-there's the
CRATE prinspul At first tha think tina sea it;
but when tha look little sharpe it vanishes
like du on the orente kornstalk when the
noonda son rizes in the este on thunderin hot
da in the middel of JUL it kant be found no
where. The foxes sometimes git mad and kor-
ner him in tite plase, but he is tarnal smaul and
can kraul thru a nifty little hole But tha sa
he did one CRATE trik-at one plasc he ct an OK
and 10000 klams.
As soon as herd of his arrived in toun, went
to pa him Witt. | found him in his sho room
spealn his pees. thowt l wouldn't be very
formal, and sez ], haven't ye got that PEGS larnt
YETI Scz he, yes--but Tiers sum of the dok-
trim that the peple don't beleev and have TO
alter it occashunally 70 suite the plase Sez I,
how doc you like the sho bizness Sez he, it
don't pa. Sez !, my sho is doin stavin biznes.
He groned and tero started in his / I; and sez
he, | thowt shood make a good deal out of my
popler suvcrenty; but scz he it has split tho
hull sho the pepe begin to sea thru it and tha
sa it is humbug. SEE I, what are you going
to do with il? Sez he as soon as have used
mp my posters and advertisements shal thro it
overheard.
Sez |, Duglas, whatte yc take for yer popler
suycrenty? Sez he lie sell it chcep. l told
him diddcnt no how to manage his triks, but
| wood 60 into partnership with him in the sho
bznes. SEE he, its bargen. | thtn axt him
what he thowt of takn along sum darkecs to
sing songs and dams the hornpipe. Sez he,
wunt hev emmy thing to doc with the nigger
biznes agin---it don't pa. lie sed he went into
the niggcr biznes in 1854 and had bin goin down
hill ever sins he sed it had merely rooined him.
The little giant thon performed on the slak rope
and klimbd mp greest pole and spoke his pees
on the top One Of Abe Lncoln's rales was
next browt in and Duglas was SET on and rode
thru the back dorc Duglas is about 5 feet hi
and a thunderin crate man for wun of his size.
| maid frenological examination of him. lie
is man Of tremendous pour. His kavs are
huge His bump of humbugging is as big as
COOS cg. Conseenshusness is kaved in. Heed
make a first rate cricr in the sho bizncs; his
bump of tellin yarns aint smaul..
Duglas and have komplctcd 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 & sin
gle handed game Of pepler suverenty. This
game kan be seen best with the ize shet But
must kloze. We are goin westward ho in a
few daze. Yurs in hast
ARTEMTS WARD JR
pee cs Duglas sez Civ poplcr s6verenty
good bio in the paper. -