Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-08-01

; his discriminating judgement, his phil o.
sophie foresight, and his courageous pat
rotsm. They only come to us in mem
ory and in mourning. His lips are seal.
ed, his eye is dim, his brain is shrouded
his heart is still and the nation stands
with the throbbing heart at his grave
His virtue is treasured in our hearts
his death in our despair" 1t is no mere
ceremonial, therefore, that tho national
Legislature, in whose concils he has ta-
ken 80 prominent a part, should pause,
even in extraordinary session, to bestow
that homage which friendship, intellect,
aud patriotism, ever offer to the true man,
the gifted soul, and the enlightened states
man.
Judge Douglas struggled into great
ness. lie haI no avenue to honor ex-
cept that which was open to all The
power and patronage which aided him,
he created f; and the wealth which he
made and spent SO freely, came from no
ancestral hand. Part teacher and part
cabinet maker, he left the East for the
ruder collisions Of border life. There he
grew up under the adversities which
strengthened him into vigorous and eat
ly maturity. His own manhood soon
made itself felt. He became the political
necessity Of his State. He filled many
of its most important Offices b, fore he be-
came nationally known. The Democrat.
ic people OF the Union were soon attract.
ed to him. As early as lS4S they began
to think Of him as their candidate for the
Presidency; while in 1852 the Democratic
Re0jew hailed him as the coming man ;
n man who had no grandfather or other
! incident Of Biographical puifery, as one
whose chronological tree had been sawed
up; as graduate from the university of
the lathe, as one with the materials, the
mind an energy, to shape, fashion and
make enduring, platform of his own.
No notice of Stephen A. Douglas is
complete which does not remark upon
the singular magnetism Of his personal
presence, the talsmanc touch Of his kind
ly hand, and the amenities of his Il mes
tic life, and the ineradicable clasp of his
friendships. 1t may not be improper to
refer to the fact that / was one among
the many young men Of the West who
were bound to him by tie of frien ship
"'''' " I'll VI tllluhNldHll NIlltu iculH
has no power to break. These are the
pearls beneath the rough shell of his po-
litiral life. There are many here who
will understand me, when | recall the
gentle tone and the cordial greeting with
which he used to WOO and win and hold
the young partizans of his faith, and the
warm promoters Of his success. Ever
ready with his counsel, his means, and
his energies, he led them as much by the
persuasivoness of his heart as the logic Of
his head. The same gentle demeanor
which fondIed his children and taught
them n beauty of manners beyond all
praise, the same pure respect and tender
ness with which he treated his noble wife
and companion, silvcrcd the cords of at
tachmcnt which bound his friends to him.
aud made his home at Washington and
his soiourns elsewhere recollections as
sweet as memory can embaIm.
While others bear testimony to his
moral hcroism, intellectual prowess. fix
elncss principle, and unstained patriot
ISM it seems that his spirit, if it hovers
over this scene of his obscquies, would
receive with purest delight these tributes
of friendly affection. recall in my own
experience, which runs with unbroken
association Of friendship with him from
the first year of my political life, many
OF his acts of unsellish devotion; many
words ont spoken to the public, which
the mere desi lning politician would not
have uttered many tenders of aid and
counsel, which were the moro grateful
because unsought, and the more servicca-
bio because they came from him. 1t is one
of tive icicities of my life that | have
been the recipient Of his Kindness and
+ confidence and the people whom rep
resent were cherished hy him, as he was
by them, with tho steadlastness of unal-
T loyed devotion.
1t was his pleasure very often to So
iourn in the capitol city of Ohio, whore
regardless of party, the people paid him
the respect due to his character and SER
vices. Among the last of the associa-
tions which he had with Ohio was his
address, II few weeks before his death, to
the people at its capitol, on the invita-
ton of the State Legislature. His stir.
/ ring tones still thrill on the air, protest.
ing Tor the right and might cf the Great
West to egress through our rivers and
highways to the sea against all hostile OBJ
structiun, and for the maintenance of the
Government, threatened by the great rev.
olution which yet surrounds us.
His last uttcrancc was the fit climax of
u life devoted to the study of this Govern
ment, aud of patriotism which never
swcrvcd from its love for the Union. 1t
was worth whole battalions ofarmed men
A word from him made calm from tenn
pest, and resolved doubt into duty. His
thought swayed the tides of public opin-
ion as vassalS to his will After his hot
contests in the Senate during the first
session of the last Congress after his
Harper essay in development of his polt-
ical theories after his heroic campaign
in the South, closing at Norfolk in his
courageous reply to the questions Of the
disunionists after his struggles of last
winter, when he strung his energies to
the utmost in pleading for peace and con-
ciliation after all had failed, aud anarchy
stalked with naughty head through the
land, aud even ieopardized this metropo-
/ lis of the nation. it was the conSummate
| glory Of his life to have given his most
emphatic ut;erance for the maintenance of