The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-06-08
DEATH OF JUDGE DOUGLAS.

All business plaCeS are CioScu, their pOf- /:
tails and windows draped in deep mourn !.
ing; even private dwellings are clothed in
solemn Grape, betolsenins the grief that
pervades all hearts
j STtrHEN a. DoUGLAs is dead Though /
. most of our readers are not unprepared |
for this announcement, it falls upon the
! ear with startling soiemnity. lie expired
at the fremont House III Chicago, lew !;
sminu,es rast nine o'clock on Monday
smo-ninc, surrounded by his family and
several Of his nearest relations.
j His last Illness dates from his return to
/ Chic 20 from Springfield, some four weeks
ago. His entrance into the city OH that
occasion was marked by an ovation such
as perhaps no mere civilian had ever re-
.ceived All party lines had been ob!ter-
!. ated, and the whole population Of Chicago
. and the country for many miles around
turned out in mass to welcome to his home
!, the tried and faithful public servant He
! addressed this immense THONG at National
1 Hall-and those who for the last time,
!. heard the full tones Of his voice were
thrilled by his noble, manly and patriotic
: exortation to stand by the flag of their,
], country in this hour of its greatest peril.
/ Even on that evening Judge D. admitted
: that his health was such that he ought
not to have spoken. Next day physician
( was called. 1t was soon known that he
s was ill-that his condition was serious
{ but not until about ten days before his
: death had his illness ISSUED that alarming
: type that cansed the most sanguine to
s despair Of his recovery.
q Ills primary attack was acute rheuma-
/ tism, which rapidly assumed a ~; hold
!. character, and continued from the first
4 very unyicidin-. After some ten or twelve
/! days, his malady was complicated by an
nlcerated sore throat, which soon yieide d.
]. Torpor Of the liver aud constipation OF
the bowels ensued, soon followed by a
Z iaundiced condition, accompanied 10y poi
sonin. of the blood, which Frustrated his
:. nervous system still more.
IA A wandering and delirious state &C :Or)-
y panied his illness more or less from It's in
ception TO its fatal close AT such times s
4 he was rational last week, he SCENE
e aware Of the grave fears entertained in
his behalf, and on one occasion said to
those about him, that lie knew his eonstl-
tuition much better than they did. lie
& felt confident he should recover from the
:sattack Doubtless his will and courage,
joined to his great physical powers, had
s,nuch TO DO with his 50 long continuing to
fsresi,t ,nA!&dy before which feebler men
awould have rapidly succumbei
AT an early hour Monday morning he
,Ahad an interval OF rallyiug, was rational
Hconyerscd briefly with those about him
+ and then sank gently and quietly unit
j.. y ten minutes past 4, y. when he breatheo
s his last quietly, and without struggle.
1 His devoted and loving wife remained
: with him to the last moment. ( Tribune
Fl Il is not our purpose at present to speal
Eof the personal character Of Judge Doug
: / las. His traits as a POLITICIAN and states
:. man, so lofty and commanding as to max,
: 4 his name familiar throughout the civilized
l. !, world, must be deliueated by an ADLER pei
e than ours That one who led so active
life in the varying scenes of our politica
: history could scarcely fail sometimes f
arouse feelings Of bitter partisan hostility
u s not wonderful, and Judge D. in Time
e had lis hosts of political enemies as wei
y as friends; but these evenescent hostiiitic
/! VIII not follow him unkindly to the grave
g and the nation with one accord is toda
I prepared to confess that in his dealt
there fell a GIAXr
d i Nor Is it necessary that we should O
5 this occasion rehearse the leading event
e OF his life, which Were so often and prom,
2 ) nently brought to the recollection OF on
'ss readers during the late presidential COZ
a test We shall close this brief notice b
H. Copying a paragraph from an article
n preference to the death Of Judge D. in I'll
lesSt Louis Repu5Hean. Coming from Sta
III SO peculiarly situated as Missouri is
10 present, it is almost a wall of despair
m .view of so great calamity
VA In the death of DoUCLAs tie countr
l sustains the loss OF great and good ma,
Ewho, whatever his errors, we believe wa
K actuateG 10y sincere and patriotic motive
s At this time, lis demise Is Il public caian
!" Ely lie, Of all the members OF the Senat
" : occupied position where he might pi
Esent himself as a Paciicator-as ma
y fwho, attached to neither of the section;
Epasts into which the country is now d
K viled--might yet bring forward some pls
(which would command the attention
~ the country and even OF the Congress
switch he was Il member " ( do not no
Eremeinber any man who is competent
,,H perform such part in that body. The
!" care. indeed, no statesmen left in it, and
&c will be evidence Of an everything Pro,
Edence if any man should rise up in ii
HSenate with sagacity aut. =, triotism enoug
nj. : to restore Peace to II laua. which is no
EsutiefiEg all the distress and horrors Inc
Z dent to civil war Nowhere do we s,
tany man looming up, either with the pre-
Etige OF 4 name, or thet heroism whit
|, looks to the settlement of great nation
e troubles 10y peaceful means rather til;
+ the arbitrament of arms. Verify. wo
cluster around us, and we erore in Il
f dark for solution of the difficult
Z which have brought the nation to Il
Il verge of ruin.
h Judge D. was buried at Chicago at
% clock yesterday. At first it was the wi
of his wife that his remains should be &C
veyed to Washingt on and placed by t
side of his former wife and child. But
this the citizens of Chicago and Hin,
& kindly but firmly demurred for obvio
reasons and Mrs. D. yielded
Il Judge d. was not connected public
Eswith any form of religious belief, thou
ed snever scofler or slSeptic. In the lat
ner fpart of his Hines lie acceeded to the "
, Fof his wife, and had several interviews W
co. stle Bishop of this diocese, Rev. Jan
on Duggan But obviously dying withour
,ar pale. the last rites of the Catholic Gnu
Isl. :appointed for the dying were not admit
,hn stered to him.
are i The funeral in Chicago yesterday ,
on probably the most imposing solemnity