Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-30

ment. That witnessing it from the Capital of
his State rs his highest and best position, he
had sent forth a war cry worthy of that Doug
las who, as ancient legends tell, with the
welcome of the knightly Andalusian King
was told:
"Take the leading ofthe van,
And charge the Moors amaiu:
There is not such lance as thine
In all the hosts ofSpain."
Those trumpet notes, with continuous
swell, are sounding still throughout all the
borders of our land. heard them upon the
mountaips and in the valleys of the far State
from which | came. They have commuiiea
ted faith and strength to millions. lie lived
to witness his great appeal to a nation Of
freemen answered by uEuumberel legicns Of
patriotic men, TO feel and understand with a
confident assurance that the mad assault made
by misguided men npon the integrity Of our
Union, instead OF resulting iu disunon and
anarchy, would establish our institutions up
on deeper and frmer foundations and leave
certain guarantee of peace, liberty and
unity to our children to remote generations.
He lived to have, by the majesty and power
Of his last great effort, risen al owe the reach
Of malice or detracticn, and TO have secured
for his memory the love and admiration Of
all men who love freedom here everywhere,
and forever. | ceased to gfieve for Douglas
The last voice Of the dead Douglas felt to
be stronger than the voices of multitudcs Of
living men. While paying the tribute of my
respect to the memory OF Mr. Douglas, pre-
fer speaking simply of the man as | knew
him. The record of his public life is part
of the written history of our country. 1t is
now twenty-four years since ! first met Mr..
Douglas, he then young lawyer Oh estab
lished reputation Cor ability, | about attempts
ing success in the same profession. OF the
same political opinions, engaged IN the same
pursuits from the first, We became friends
1t is to me matter of sincere satisfaction to
reflect that that friendship continued without
a single interruption for nearly quarter ola
century, and until the Great Ruler ended it.,
to be renewed trust in the land Of spirits
Mr. McDougail then briefly referred to
Mr. Douglas public life.
His enemies have charged him with amLi-
tion-with excess of ambition. lie was am
bilious, but it was a great and just ambi-
ton. lie was ambitions, that he loved to
engage in and achieve great enterprises. IF
he aspired to places of power, the position of
power was never the goal with him. He
sought power that he might accomplish great
things for his country and his age. The
architect of his own fortunes, as well as the
architect of his own opinions, the surround
ngs and discipline of his early life. together
with his naturally bold and seIf-reliant char
acter, gave to him progressive rather than
conservative proclvities. and led him from
the oustart of lie to cepouse the opinions
and policies Of that great democratic party,
in the councils and movements of which he
ever afterward acted so large a part. His
promptness in judgment, and boldness and
in o,nlu.t ,v,,,ll hnv mad,
leader of men in any age or nation and while
he possessed the courage and promptitudc of
"A great leader, he united with it a capacity
for counsel equal to his capacity for actor.
Considered opinion viii, | have no doubt
yield to him Q place second 20 that of no man
of his immediate tine. The next feature of
the public policies Of Douglas is to be found
in his devotion to the organization and de-
velopment of the States aad Territories of the
W West-that great country which by its mar
velous progress has given the best assurance
of the VitRl poWer of our Republic. Indeed,
from the period when as youth, he stood
on the green iills of his native Vermont, it
would seem as if obelieNtto some rudimental
law, related IL the motion Of the sun in the
heavens, in the earth upon its axis, his look
was westward and although lie knew moth
ing Of the fabled islands of the W est which
ancient songs and golden sunsets gilded, he
saw in the new land yet unconqucred from
the wilderness, the thcator in which to
realize his young hopes, and to indulge the
aspirations of his young ambition. During
all his life his earnest eye was on the great
West, while Others of her statesmen knew
more Of the intrigues of the Courts of Europe
than of the important interests springing up
beyond the Alleoharies to those interests he
loNp+ a1 him eolf ,tit,
were his labors and interests confined by the
valley of the Illinois, or the great basin Of the
Mississippi. | have known no man in public
or private life who was so thoroughly con-
versant with, or who interested himself so
much in onr possessions on the Pacific lie
was the first person, within ,lJ knowledge
to earnestly advocate the construction of a
railway from the Mississippi to the bay of
San FranciscC. This was a favorite enter
prise with him years before we had acquired
California. But the relations Of Douglas TO
the States and Territories Of the West, his
labors for their material and political inter-
ests, are part of the history of the country.
On the shores of the Pacific, the intelligence
of his decease will put whole people in
mourning Douglas was in Congress mag
unanimous. true, and great man. | loved and
honored him while living. | love to honor
his memory-dead.
CONDITION OF Mrs. BoIcu Mrs Boyec,
who was shot by her husband, at The st.
Nicholas Hotel, on Saturday was yesterday
somewhat improved, and her physician, DR..
Lasvignes, thought she would recover. Her
little boy is entirely olt Of danger.
RECORDERS CoURT-July seth, Gotlieb