The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-06-15
DEATH OF SENATOR DOUGLAS.


Meeting mt Earlvlile.
At meeting of the citizens Of Earl.
vile, June 7th 1861, -HARRIsox BREEsE in
the chair and THos. McCLURR Secretary
the following resolutions were submitted
by j. w. BRowN, Esq, Chairman of COM
mittee on resolutions, and unanimously
adopted. Mr. B. accompanied their pre-
sentation with the following remarks:
Mr. Chairman Decent respect for
time honored custom requires that the
Chairman of your committee, on submit
ting these resolutions, should accompany
the submission with a few remarks. Your
committee are painfully oppressed with
the overruling calamity which is upon US.
as people. Silence would seem most be-
fitting the time and occasion. The heart
is too full for utterance The soul is too
sad for expressions of grief There is no
language for our deep grief but silence
and silence evinces the profoundest grief,
the deepest sorrow. The whole town is
shrouded III deep mourning The cabin
and the palace are alike draped in the in
sigma of sorrow. Men, women and child
rem go about the streets and along the
dusty thoroughfares weighed down with
deep and abiding sense of their great
calamity. The warm friend, the upright
citizen, the illustrious statesman, and the
distinguished American patriot, is no more.
STEPHEN A. DoUGLAs is deal! A nations
heart is throbbing at the portals of his
grave. Heaven gave him length of days.
and he filled them with deeds of great.
ness" During his professional career at
the bar of Illinois, be was courteous. astute,
aole. and without a superior of his age
On the bench he bore gracefully the judicial
ermine, and modestly put it off leaving no
man, lie had no superior, ana he died
without a peer, leaving no living man to
fill his place in the present juncture of
public affairs Loving Illinois with a
proud love akin to idolatry, he never lost
sight of the whole Union. Bold, fearless
and earnest i'm whatever he conceived 20
be for the glory and perpetuity of her
cherished institutions quailing before TO
dangers Sinking from no duty; manful-
ly meeting ard overcoming all unholy af
fections, simple or combined; sacrificing
all personal comfort and private ease:
loving with truly sublime loyalty and
heroic devotion, he loved labored and tri-
umphantly died in the service of his
country, his whole country, and nothing
but his country Some men are great in
a single State, at single time, on sin
gle occasion. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS was
great in all Safes, at ell times, and on all
occasions. His country's fame is his fame,
her history is his history-her honor is
his honor-his death is her loss. When
ever love of the old flag and loyalty TO
country begin tn fail Us, we will visit the
mausoleum OF STEPHEN A. DouGrls-the
Mecca of American patr:otism-and there
upon his grave, purified in heart and
strengthened in head by recollections Of
his love of flag and loyalty to country, we
will renew our VOWS of fidelity to the
American Union.
The resolutions were read as follows:
Resoired, Tha; the citizens Of Earl have
heard with profound regret and deep sor-
row, of the death of HoS STEPHEN A.
DoUGI.As, United States Senator from the
State of Illinois, which occurred on Mon
day, June Sd, A. b. 1851, at 9 o'clock A. NJ
at fremont House, in Chicago, Illinois.
Res2lyed, I hat the Citizens of Earl, in
common with the whole State of Illinois,
are fully conscious of the irreparable loss
sustained by them and the nation a. large,
by the death of their illustrious Senator,
statesman and patriot.
ReSotred, That the citizens of Earl can
character. and grea, public services of the
lamented DouGIAs, in the councils of the
State, al the bar, on the bench and as
Representative and Senator in the Con
gross of the nation.
Rss9ige.x. That the fame of JUpGE DoUG-
Las IS the fame of the Great West. whose
history has been ;llumined and whose des-
,iuy has been fashioned by the noble and
patriotic efforts of his great mind and
earnest heart
Rss9hci, That the citizens. il testimony
of their high regard for the memory OF
the deceased, will wear the usual badge of
mourning for thirty days
| Reso!rsd, That {. II. Sutphen, Town
! Cleri. of Earl. be- ordered to spread these
resolutions upon the records of the Town
! OF Earl, and pat copies of the same. tcgeth-
erwith address of J. W. Brown. submitted
/ on the occasion, be furnished to the county
| papers Tor publication.