The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-10-10

Douglas In o DIN culfN dole.
j Madison Cuts has written. and had
published ia book form, Ia .bfief tredtise
upon constitutional and marty ouestiops
and the history Of p~cliticai nartiesNsas he
received ii from the late Senator Stephen
al Douglas.
The author describes the following
scenes at Chicago, which is oharaoteristie
of the late distinguished Senator. Thel
I~renort is given as related by Dourlas him.
self;
When / returned to Chicago I was met
at Buffalo by q friend. who brought let
tors from other friends az CHICAGO. prosI
testing against my return, ana warning
me that 1 would be inevitably killed if
did 50. i arrived there in the morning
and after d few days, three or four, issued
anotiee Of d speech 10 be made BY me ia
Elront Of North Market Hall. All the
newspapers in tho city denounced me, and
published daily articles encouraging per.
sonal violence, reminding the people that
lilo 1850, on the passage Of fhe Comprom.
ise Measures, I had returned and succeed.
ed in quelling an outbreak against those
measures, and that this thing could not
be done d second iime.t Know Nothing.
ism, had pending the Nebraska bill, been
organized in the United States for the
first time. and in Ghicago the anti ,Nebras-
ka men had organized into Know Nothing
lodges, and probably Included within
those lodges nine.tenths Of all the men
in the city. It was ascertainei that they
secretly determined and bound themselves
by their oaths not to allow met speak
and 1t is known that one Of these thirty
or forty lodges ordered by telegraph and
received by express from New York, the
might before Twas to speak, two hundred
and Fifty Of Colts revolyers
When the day arrived the Gags we're
ldhung at half mast on the shipping 10 the
harbor, and for several ho1rs beiofesthe
time appointed all the church bells inthe
city were tolled, at which signal the mob
, assembled in foree-of about tben thou.
saud. I bad forty or fifty men who pre-,
tended to be With-me privately, but not
half dozen were so openly they were
all afraid. At the appointed hour | re.
! paired to the meeting and went upon the.
| stand, aud was greeted by that unearth,y
! yell taught aud practioed in the Know.
/, Nothing lodses-4a howl no man can ini,
!, tate.
stood and lookeasat the m, b until the
{ bowling ceased When they ceased, j
o commenced by saving that ii appear be-.
tfore YOU to night for the purpose OF vim.
dicafing the Kansas Nebraska act" Be.
y fore the sentence was ended the howl
commenced again. As Il. ceased would
o begin, and as Soon as Iscdmmenced ii
! was renswed. AT times I appealed to
their pride, as the champion Of free speech
T or q hearing the bowling was renewed ;
at other times I denounce them as a set
Of towards who came armed with bowie.
!. knives and pistolsto put down one unarm.
= ed man--airaid. to hear the truth spoken,
n lest there might be some honest man
among them who would be convinced.
al AT one time / got a hearing for ten OF
!: fifteen minutes, and was evidently making
an impression upon the crowd, when there
marched from the outside a body of three
re or four hundred men, with red shirts,
!, dressed as sailors, and thoroughly armed,
who moved through the crowd immedi.
y ately in front, and peremptorily ordered
me to leave. l stood and looked at them
d until they ceased yelling, and the dsnoun'
ced them and put them at defiance, and
dared them to shoot an unarmed man.
The pistols began to fire all around out
Ie side Of the crowd, evidently into the air.
70 eggs and stones were thrown at the stand
+, several Of them hitting men who wert
near me, and for several hours this wilt
confusion and fury continued. The won
der is, amid that vast excited crowd NJ
one was so far excited or maddened as t
fire q ball at me, The stand was crowded
with my enemies, reporters and peWspa
l. per men, and this was undoubtedly m,
u best protection, h M (
.Ilstood upon the front of the stand, il
midst Of that confusion, from eight o'clocl
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