The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-07-27

nots, rho drGsr 10 political fenssfGsr.s
fssn Senator Dsagias, hare been SELECT
q - espsess their hearty spprohssios sad
s4resyresee 10 aii the Lososs whice can Ge
peid 20 bis memory.
The people Of nIsnsis, State vhieh
has been the theatre Of hrs serefss poliiscsl
eoasests, gathered With eonEcn feeling
az sorroa arosnd bis too early grave. is-
deed. The sscs.nsers II desp regret caused
~ bis death pervas.es all classes and part
;es ani divisions CT oar ecuntry, ani Ends
"a sxeer.ion only among the traitors sha
are IN arms against car lag.
On farming back few pages OF the ma
sios's h.siorr, xe End recorded the death
ss mary Of hsr distinguished statesmen.
MANY in this hail Will wildly remember the
death % John Quincy Adams, Of Henry
Cs.r, 81 Thsmas II. Benton, and sslas
Wright. Ys; taink The popular heart ha.
ysspondsd xi.h feeling az profoani. and
4. universal, ct The death Of Douglss, Is
Of either of these Distinguished msu.
He ~asa bold and se!frelyiny ma,,-a
Iexdsr by nature; and has alsays been,
fsom the camrs aueemsn. Of his career, the
prominent figure 10 Illinois politics. HIS
death has removed from the political hori.
zaa br,slian. star from = singular coaste.-
iaiioa OF prominen. men.
About twenty years ago there pfacsiced
a, the same bar, in the small town OF
Springfield, Illinois, very renarkabis com
bina,ion OF men. Among them, Abraham
Lincoln, President OF the United States
Sserhsn A. DougIas-not less distinguish
81. Lyman Tramba'I, the eminent colleague
Of Douglas, James Shields, who won ahigh
reputation 90 the battle fields Of McKee,,
and IN this Capitol; T.. ID. B,keF, Senator
from Oregon John j. Hardin, who fell
upon the bIoods Geld of Baena Vista; James
a. MsDoagal, Senator from California ;
u. IL. Bgaxnlus. ( he successor o I
Judge Douglas. Best les these, there is
ihe late Governor BlsseI, whose eloqaence
in vindieati IN Of the bravery of the Illinois
volunteers against the aspersions Of the
traitor Davis. is still remembered in this
House: and there Was also Richard Yates,
the present Governor OF Illinois, and my
distinguished friends and colleagues, Co.'s
Richardson and M3CleIand. Lincoln,
Douglas. Shields, Baker, Bisssl, Hardin,
IrumbulI, Browning, Med add others.
oil contemporaries, from combination not
Otto seeea around the piae table OF atroas-
Ter court house. Among them are names
winch will brighten Der history. These IN IN,
however they may hage differed in the past,
vii! be found ,o.day-ihoss Of them who
surviss-raliyiug like band Of brothers to
sustain their country IN this its hour Of
peril.
Among the many incidents in the life of
Douglas, upon which the people will l:nger
with pleasure, are the relations between
him and the President Of the United States.
Those relations were, in my opinion, alike
honorable to the departed Senator and the
living President.
; Tue country knows they had long been
rivals. and Acknowledged leaders OF their
respective parties. They passed through
the Senatorial contest Of 1858 "a contest
which was really a battle Of giants1, with
their personal relations cordial and friend
iy.
Tho great Presidential contest of 1860,
In which victory changed from Douglas to
Lincoln, left them still friends. You, Mr..
Speaker and most OF the members Of the
House, were witnesses Of the graceful
caurtesjes extended BY the distinguished
Senator to the President elect on his arrival
hsre, in February last. The conduct and
bearing of Douglas were certainly in tho
highest degree graceful and magnanlmoas.
None who witnessed il can ever forget the
scene on the eastern portico OF this Capitol,
when Mr. Lincoln, in the presence Of the
Representatives Of the people, assumed the
sublime prerogative of Government, and
sxore bg the eternal God that he would
support the Constitution and enforce the
laws Of bis country. Douglas, not by ae-
cfient, stood By his side and, in the midS.
OF seowling traitors, whispered in the ear Of
the President that, Como what might in the
dark and cloudy future darksnins before
him, he would stand By the Government
and strengthen its arm to crush treason and
rebellion.
Nobly has the departed Senator redeemed
that pledge. lie returned to Illinois, aud
a. Springfield and Chicago, in his own bold
and direct language, declared that there
could be but two parties now, the patriots
who stand by their coun;ry and its flag, and
the traitors who were seeking to destroy it.
And /, was for this, and because he rose
from party to patriotism, that all the peo.
pie gathered around his grave, and to-day
mingle their regrets utterly forgetful Of
former party divisions.
or 'thssersirss he rendered to his coun-
try, forbear TO speak. History will do
him Justice. But there are two institutions
of my own State with vhich his name will
be forever associated. ! refer 10 the Iii.
nois Central railroad AMI tho Chicago Uni
versity. rs Representative Of Illinois, |
desirs 60 express her grateful recognition
of h,s most important aid rendered TO those
great aui beueheieHt Institutions: they
will remain N ,namen,s to his memory more
enduring than marble or brass.
lie loved Illinois, and WA filled with a
generous ambition 10 advance her interests,
lie had clear and strong appreciation OF
the necessity; to sscure her future greatness.
Living near the great rorts-e which divides
the waters which law into tee Atlantic
from those which, lowing west ani south.
Snd their outlet in the Ga'f, he saw that
the m.ti,eos Of fresmsn af the great North.
vest could never psvmis themselves to ba
cut OF either from the Eas, or the South.
lie we'll knew that Illinois, the fourth
State IN raak in the Union. the Empire State
OF the Northwest. The Young State that
looks hack On old Virginia, with her black
borden. tagging far behind hsr--she State
thai treads hard upon the heels OF Ohio and
psrnssissnis. and that in the future chal-
l.ng~s New York to generous and friend
iy rivalry fer imperial position he knew
and fsls and expressed Der settled pnrpose
never TO permit foreign nation 30 intes-
fess between her and the auth Of tbs great
r,ssr which washes her western boundary.
For ,hi. Illin,is will cherish his memory 81
loar - Lake Michigan shall roll der blue
wave. aran the shore where sleep bis re-
mains.
nauslas did At moment When be had
the ability asd The dixrnssssen TO have rsn-
jsrsi the greatest services 30 bic eauatvv.
IL died on the eve uf this grapels between
government and snssshv; between las and
lswlsssnas.: between liberty mad slavery;
between CIVILIZATION ani harharism TOE
result Of which is TO saara the destiny Of
tals e9stiRent.
Had he Tired b. wenli have led this grand.
sabIiust, arrisin- Of the pscvle-,h1s IA
jsssae ropalss saaysrasns u9w sweeping ca
ward ilka thu sfse~ zyyi re<fssis<s volume Of