Identifier: stephenadouglasm00inmars (find matches)
Title: Stephen A. Douglas : a memorial
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Marsh, Edward S. (Edward Sprague), b. 1857
Subjects: Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861
Publisher: Brandon, Vt. : Priv. print. for the Committee of Arrangements
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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r him.He was still more winning in private intercourse. There was not theleast taint of snobbishness about him; he was utterly devoid of preten-tiousness. He never put on what vain and self-conscious Senatorsimagine to be airs of Senatorial dignity. His dignity was of thatsolid, genuine, American sort which can unconsciously take care ofitself without airs of any kind.—Oliver Duer: Great Senators of theUnited States. Mr. Douglas today, in a clear, emphatic, and, I fear, propheticvoice, painted the horrors of a war we are bringing on ourselves,and was equally severe on the radicals of both sides. There is some-thing very impressive about him, and I felt as if I were listening tothe plain, unvarnished truth. Mrs. Douglas was in the gallery ofthe Senate looking the pride and confidence she felt in her husbandstalents, though there is a modesty in her manner in charming contrastwith her truly magnificent appearance.—Diary of Mrs. EugeneMcLean, in Harpers Magazine for January, 1914. 74
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STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. A FEW WORDS IN CONCLUSION. Stephen A. Douglas was one of the greatest men of his time inthe United States, and in some respects the greatest. As a Democraticstatesman and leader he was without a rival. The great issue in the years when Douglas flourished was the slavery question. All others paled into insignificance before it. On this question he was not a dodger or trimmer. He took his position and maintained it bravely and consistently to the end. What that position was may best be known from his own statement of it, as it appears in his suggested editorial for the Illinois State Register, as printed for the first time in his own words in this volume, and as he put it in the first of the debates with Lincoln at Ottawa, 111., August 21, 1858: I do not hold that because the negro is our inferior, therefore heought to be a slave. On the contrary, I hold that humanity andChristianity both require that the negro shall have and enjoy everyright, every privilege and eve

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