The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-06-29

Immediately preceding its delivery, with
out time to remedy its imperfections or
improve it's tone.
If, however, you think its perusal will
bring consolation to a single heart il j.
gratefully at your service
! ours truly,
ARTHUR LocswooD.
"a spirit has just passed away that in
its form of flesh did never wear a crown,
It's hand 10 sceptre erasped; it wore no
robe OF royalty, aud yet its coiiined dust
slow moving on it, pathway to the tenb Is
watered by the tears of millions who can
not bs made to bend the knee to any
living king.
SILPHLX A. DOUGLAS is dead!
When l,raels King arose and with
voice OF quick. uncertain utteranca, asked,
Is the child dead? Tney answered, " lie
Is dead
Bu, when they locked see him f.H again
Upon lis face. and rend himself aEd weep
For, whi!e lie shld .icA, nj. agony
wSud bear no comferters. a'd ihey h.d though.
Bvi.s-d! lbs lace rr,- calm, aad, si.h n. robe
CAT .:es g-tAer Ike Eis kingiy ssl.t,
lie sitsH.y "eAi N.
And David cane,
Robe AID sno.I'ei, ferik, and t. III house
OF God UtH;up tnprry. Aud hc r.;Uraed,
And wren tty r.aTve.ls,l h- SD " weretore morn?
Iue child - dead. aaa shall 90 20 lila
bu; lie s,li .ot fvtufh 70 nc.
I Born when our country was wet with
the blood Of martyrs in oar second war
with tue mother country. he caught his
inspiration from the patriots of that day
ana his who!s hfe Is Il living witness that
the great doctrines, not only ofs,he cspa
Gig Of man for sell government, but
that they would submit 10 no foreign in
teTler"uce IL our domestic affairs, found
ia nIn not only one Of the fiImsst tie
Levers. bat one of the ablest advocates
that our countr-; among all our great
men, L-s ever produced The corncr
stone of MS political life WAS firm and
unwAvering belief In the CAPACITY Of the
American people for self government
! / 9 doubts which surrounded the trainers
, oi the constitution on tdis subject were
rejected from his rs,>t book, and he grasp
esg tine -ua..vct wish ms giant Intellect, and.
/ the cobweUs whvh ensaroItled tie mist
/ which onseloped H. vanished at kis tot.ch
I be uuwrappeSi fold after field of the poli;i-
, ca. soyiIisJry IN which intriguing men had
/ bound 1t, and laid it bare before the
! American people in all its beautiful pro
F.. portions. as God designed and executed
It, Following the teachings CT the Con
sEitut.0n he e!ucidated them with the
( le-4I acuuen OF Madison and Marshall
! the Fathers OF the Judiciary, and strength
en:ag himself wish the swell injunction
Of ,ne Father Of his country, lie allow ed
10 sectional line to divide his affections
Z 10 selfish interest to silence his sloqucnce
which he poured or ;he devoted heads?o
traitors whose course he knew would briu,
. Is
loved so well
You have come hero to-day on
sad but aiiectionate errand. You have
come with music, but the strAin
| were n3ougnful, aud the airs weIs the re
! QUEEN for the dead You have borne il
your midst the emLlems Of your country
glory, bat they are diaped in mournin.
1ue hand which would have borne then
into the Imminent and deadly breach
is palsieti in death II is eminently lit, o,
an occasion like this, to review the lie
such a man Born in peuury he purchas
ed learning with the labor of his hasd;
and abandoning the home of his youth
bidding farewell to friends and kindred
he sought the vast prairies Of Illinois tha
! his gigantic mind uncribbsd by the cor
ventionaiities Of apath etc ideas, light OK
pand to their fullest maturity, in IAN
where nature and natures God ruled 81
. preme Thus early in life he gave indie:
! tions of that stern, unbending adamantin
courage which enabled him to trump
over all opposition, deserving and recei'
ing alike the praises of friend and foe.
He WAS born at Brandon, in Vernon
during the war which forever establishe
our equality on the seas with our mos
powerful rival. Descended from direc
| al, l.
, first settlement of the country, he Just,
: inherited that indomitable energy whic
20 often sustained him in the many trial
of life. Fstheress at two months OF az,
with less than usual Of the vigor of chill
hood, he l..bored on a farm until the az
> of fourteen During this time the tlcsii
for knowledge bad been growing With
him he yearned for the advent;tous al
of college life and, unable to secure i
while his daily necessities and depens
, ant mother and sister demanded unremi
ting toll, he entered upon the trade of
, cabinet maker in the hope to find moi
time to devote to mental culture At tn
4 point We first learn that he excelled, unit
puRy physical constitution compelle
y him to quit the work bench and seek
! ether channels food for both body an
mind. Here, perhaps, some good fortun
stepped in, for We find him at an academ
in central New York supported by a-stel
father, and pursuing also course of la
:. reading. Even then at the age of twent
he entered ardently into politics. and po
| sessing natural gifts OF oratoiy, stimulate
= by constant practice, he became lead,
among his associates and a political chan
pion of note. But it was not there ami
). the prejudices of medieval politics that
$ was content to await his destiny. II
: knew that he who would win greatnes
ID must needs have an empire for his bait
ground, and foes worthy of his steel.
Do you not think, through all these DO
hood years, with his insatiste craving Fl
books, his untring devotion to study,
inerdiuate longing for knowledge, that
a: vista of time was lifted from his visid
"a and he saw in the not far distant futu
a. the clusters of diamonds glitterng with
his reach, and which as birthright
nature were destined to his inheritanc,
If the spirits OF the departed ever reyi,
IL the scenes of their mortality. to whisp
?, pc good coausels in the ears Of those tn
s. love, do you not believe that the spirits
mt the fathers of the revolution descend
~ from their celestial abode and gather,
around the form Of him, whose spirit !,
= trust, has now Joined them on tho
ok ok shining coasts, whis pered words oil wisdo
and bore him safely on, over every unse
VI obstacle, and that now, as the soler