Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-01-31
Letter from Artemus Ward, Jr.

Interoiew vith Mr. Douglas- Grand Fusion .Sho,c.
 CLEVELAND, Sept 22.-Mister Editur: I seez my quil to inform the publk thru the medeum of your lolumns of the grand addisun have gest maid too mi grate me- tropoltician sho buznes and darin Slak roap and gymnastic Surkus. Last nite I had an intervu with Stevun A Duglas, the renound politikal ambidixter and propire- tor and Cheef Kloun in the grate populer suverenty sho. Mister Duglas is generli kald the little giant from his having per formed the grate feet of walkin the hole length of Mason and Dixon close line with the dred skot discisshun in one hand, and his hole populer suverenty sho in the uther; and also pullin up the memuth tree kald the Missoorie kompromise, which was first planted in l7S7 by Tomus Getfersun and uthers and set out agin in 1920. Mister Duglas puld up this tree and the konstitu- shun with it and blast them under his feet.
 But was going on too sa that he has been travelin thru the estern and suthern states performn his trks and speakin his pees. The wa he takes um in with his pop Ter suverenty game is not slo. He holds big bil to the people and sez, there's popler soverenty-there the grate prinsipul. At first tha think tha sea it; but when tha look little sharper it vanishes like du on the orientel korn-stork when the noonda son rizes in the east on thunderin hot da in the middel of Juli; it kant be found no where. The fokes sometimes get mad and korner him in a tite place, but he is tarnel | Il nH 1-r ,1 f loJ. Aut tha sa he did one grnte trik-at wun phase he ate an OK and 10000 klams. AS soon as herd of his arrival in toun I went to pa him visit. found him in his sho room speakin his pees. I thowt wouldn't be very formel; and sez I havn't ye got that pees larn't yet? Sez he, yis- put there's some of the doktrin that the people don't bleev, and hay too alter it occashunly to sute the phase. Sez how doc yu like the sho bizness? Sez he it don't pa. Sez mi sho is dooin a stavin buzness. He groned and tere started to hiz and sez he, thowt 1 should make a good deal out of my poplur suverenty; but sez he 1t has split the hole sho; the people begin to see thro it, and tha sa it is a hum bug. Sez l, what are you going to do with it? Sez he, as soon as hay yused up mi posters and advertisements I shall thro if overheard.
 Sez l, Duglas whattle yu take for yc, popler suverenty? Sez he, ile sel cheep l told him diddent no how to manipe his tricks but would go into partnership with him in the biznes. Sez he it's a bargin l then axt him whot he thowt of taxi, along sum darkess to sing songs and dan, the honpipi. Sez he, wunt hay enn, thing to doc with the nigger bizness agir it don't pa. He sed he went into tb, nigGer bizness in 1854 and had been goine down hill ever sine; he sed it had narly rooined him. The little giant then perform ed on the slack rope, an klimd up grees pole and spoke his pees on the ton. On, of old Abe Linkon's rales was next browI in and Duglas was set on and rode ont tbr, the back dore. Duglas is about feet h and thunderin grate man for wun of hi, size. l made frenological examination of him. Hee is man of tremendus pour His kavs are huge. His bump hombuggir IS as big as zoos eg. Conseenshusness i, kaved in. Heeed make a firstkrier in th, show bizness; his bump of tellin yarns aint smaul
 Duglas and have kompleted our pro. gram for our nu sho. We call it the vun-