The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-12

To follow In hot chase was all they could
do but Mr.. Webster was on the watch, and
as the well-known group entered the fair
room by one door, he took the President
Union League, where the members, minus
the committee, were assembled to do honor
to the President
The committee, boiling over with wrath,
gave chase; vainly, for by this time the
streets were packed with dense crowd,
anxious for sight of Mr. Lincoln. 1t was
impossible to drive through the crowd, and
at Twelfth and Chestnut streets they were
obliged to get out and fight their way on
foot, inch 10y inch. Meantime, at the
Union League, everything was upset, for
lack Of Mr., McMichael and the eloquent
address too safely slowed away in his
pocket. Mr.. Dougherty was one of the
members anxiously watching for the com
mittee, which did not come. At last,
growing desperate, some one called him
aside and said: Dan, this won't do. Nc
Michael isn't here, and somebody must say
something. You're the only fellow that
can do it, and you must.n
In vain Mr.. Dougherty protested be was
totally unprepared, etc. etc. !" and begged
to be excused "Mr. McMichael was ex-
pected to speak and they ought to wait for
him" He was pushed to the front and
introduced with:
L
behalf Of the Union League, of Philadelphia,
by MIR. Daniel Dougherty."
Mr.. DoughertY was absolutely trembling
with stage fright, and his pallor was a sight
TO behold, but he made the speech, and
President Lincoln said afterward that he
had never before listened to such a torrent
OF brilliant Cratory. Carried away by the
occasion, the "silver tongued orator" forgot
himself, and poured out his whole soul,
nv In Ara ~ t-i0
IN speech that will never be forgotten by
any one who heard it.
Mr. Dougherty's wonderful gift of oratory
Is III part, no doubt, due to his Irish auces-
Try; bis father was a native of Ireland,
and from him he inherits his ready wit.
-, The story Of Mr.. Dougherty's boyhood is
IKE that Of many another famous man, the
SSIJory Of hand-to-hand fight with poverty.
MS mother died, when he was 10 years old
so that, unlike Lincoln and Garfield, he had
no one to urge him on, and his stubborn
struggle for an education is irrefragable
PROOF OF his lndomitable energy and perse-
Eerance. at IL he entered the law Office of
WIN. Badger, Philadelphia lawyer Of the
Viu school. de made rapid progress, and
may Z, IS49, was admitted to the bar. He
very soon distinguished himself by his CON
HucC OF homicide case, in which his burn
ing eloquence outweighed mass of conclu-
Eve evidence, and after trial of six days
'u9 Jury rendered a verdict of not guilty
ms ght or speech ma urally led him into
toLtlcs, and in conjunction with Galusha
a. Gfow, he took the stump for Gen Carr,
IaAlhg night after night, and winning
-auielS tor himself as well as votes for his
f1uuluAUe In 1852 he was invited to stand
~ ~ congress IN one of the Philadelphia dis
tllcls' out declined the nomination. Thence
d ,"uq until the outbreak OF the war he
sioa himself assiduously to his profess
. - uaklng only occasional excursions
nT ~ Pohtlcal and platform oraJory.
ne civil war brought him to the front
~. war democrat. aud throwing himself,
49, SOU. and silver TONGUE" into tho
conn,r ~ nrlng the patriotic zeal Of his
n So men, he became the most noted
'pIaAer IN the state Of Pennsylvania.
mays man Of strong conviction, the
81 la LHae devotion to the union which had
ior D R 70 oppose Breckenridge, and champ
& az al douglas led him later to be a stauuch
n h h. or Mr.. Lincoln when he came to
n Mo- ahulo date for the second time. The
viii ia ana fendleton ticket he opposed
n him ne az ms ms Vlgor and eloquence, and to
" was ~ 9s much as to any speaker in tue field,
4 rot. "t. Lincoln indebted for the elect orni
'Vse OF Pennsylvania.
asia we war, he again laid politics
a an o,.t oiCnough bis national reputation as
Fl until % do9r made him I'm great request Not
N once ,Iulu inclination and duty call him
a III more into the political arena. He
;;u.ew himself, with his old-time forvar
bodioC5n e democratic reform movement en-
presidaLh mr.. Illden's candidacy for the
n Ee 'tto oeI 1t was in this campaign that
IA know, up the cudRels against what was
"a Iancaa.u 40 the Cameron Dynasty and at
atiac cIster made one of the most scathing
n fstber On the powerful Pennsylvanians.
n Four and ana son, that had even been essayed.
"a ton - Us later he challenged the admra-
W noniua, Tue country in his famous speech
dencv a'iTyg Gen. Hancock for the presi-
rankj,o. mat speech has passed into history.
burg as little below Lincoln's at Gettys,
Out tba aaanasterplece Of oratorv Through
was hancock and Garfield campaign he
battle 60, conspicuous figure wherever the
. perb SS' ok the defeat Of Hancock the SUI
eight ve ear 70 heart, 1t was his privilege,
# nstioIya gaEs afterward, to appear in another
tue 'J sna. oenlooratic convention, and make
F'ssn oI the occasion. This was la