The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-06-14

The mournfnl news spread rapidly through
the city. extras and bulletins from the news
paper officers were eagerly sought. The
Court House bell was tolled for one hour.
Never did o great city put on more rapidly
and thoroughly the symbols of grief, and
never was grief more frank and thorough.
Itpervaded all classes and visited all sections
of the city. Along the business fronts Of Lake
and other principal streets, the brick and
marble donned the emblems of mourning.
Festoons, wreaths, and pendants in black
and white intertwined, American flags at
half mast and heavily draped, in many in
stances bordered with black-all told OF q
city in mourning for her illustrious dead.
Many of these mourning symbols in style
and character deserve especial notice, which
our limits deny. None to US, however,
were more touching than where, passing
from more pretentious streets, and nantes
tations among the Weather citizens, the
eye noted the humble token of real and un-
affected grief fluttering upon the lowly
homes and places of business of the poorer
classes of our Irish population in sections
of the city exclusively occupied by them.
These made the loss personal one and took
the grief home to their hearts in a manner
characteristic of the Irish heart. The many
laborers at work upon the fremont House
improvement, to man, asked to be released
from their days work, one stout bod carrier
protesting with a broken voice that he
"could not work the day, for Douglas is
dead"
This notice of these humble but sincere
mourners is deserved, and will be again de-
manded by the inevitable features of the OBJ
sequies to follow. 1t was the characteristic
of Senator Douglas that these attachments
were so strong between him and those who
would 60 miles to catch the tone of his voice,
or look of his eye, and be made long hap
Ply by the shake of his hand. The banks
posted notices announcing that they should
close at / P. NJ. for the day. j. III. McVick.
er, ESQ.,, upon hearing of the death of Senator
Douglas, gave orders to close the doors of
the theatre during the time that the body
remained unburied.
From another article in the same paper,
which has been one of the most conspicu-
Gus opponents of the deceased Senator, we
quote the following:
In his last days, be gave those who stood
near to minister to his wants, the most
convincing assurances of the depth and
earnestness of the lively love of country
that filled his heart. In his waking hours,
lence of his disease unseated his great in.
tellect, he was busy with national events,
and the conflict that is now upon US. 1t
was his last wish that the work which will
regenerate the country while rescuing it
from his enemies, should go rapidly on. TO
one, in wandering moment, be said, l
station you at the Relay House. Move onv'
Of another he asked, Why do we stand
still let US press on! Let US to Alex
andria quick!' To still another he said
telegraph to the President, and let the
column move on p And so, throughout the
progress of the disease, which struck him
down-he was thinking of his country and
her peril. At Washington, in his imagin-
had fitted him, and which would have been
bestowed had be lived, he seemed to direct
events and dictate victory. And when the
lucid intervals came, he was, if not so en-
phatic, not less sincere. The salvation of
the Republic was uppermost in his thoughts
by day and by night. His own condition,
the imminent peril of death, his complicated
affairs gave him no concern. Almost his
last coherent words, were an ardent wish for
the honor and prosperity of the Republic,
by the defeat and dispersion of her enem es.
The country, regardless of party distinct
tions, wherever the love of the stars and
stripes is not repressed by the terrorism
which he knew and hated, will treasure up
his dying prayer and make his hopes and
aspirations the rule of patriotic endeavor.
We need say nothing of the personal
characteristics of Stephen A. Douglas
There is no cabin in America to which his
name has not gone. There is no man how
ever humble or unfit, who from the praise of
his friends, often indiscreet, or the abuse of
his enemies, more frequently undeserved,
has not made up an estimate of the man.
Hewas undeniably great. He had great
brain in which size did not repress activity.
He had will which was as inhexible as
iron. He had a courage which bordered
at times upon audacity. He had great af-
fctions and by consequence great passions
he could hate as we'll as love. He had
great vlgOr OF constitution and, all men said
firm hold upon the strings of life. He
had the power of drawing men to him with
the grasp and vigor Of giant. No one
since Henry Clay has had such hosts of
friends who would do his will or die in the
attempt. He had great ambition, which he
sought to crafty by great events. Hence
he was an orator and politician and in
both he greatly excelled. Nature fitted him
to make mark in the world and he could
not have been placed where be would not
have craven his name.
He has gone from us at moment when
his loss will most be felt. In the vigor of
early manhood, without having yet at.
taiued the full maturity of his powers as an
orator or thinker but of ripened exper-
fence and broad culture, he has fallen. An
other decade, when the voice of war is for.
gotten, would have witnessed the gratifca-
ton of the object of his later strifes. His
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