There are those who denounce us openly to their own friends, and yet whisper us softly that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object.

But whatever their relationship, and the evolutionary forces that have acted upon them, the Douglas is now the larger and more beautiful animal.

In January, 1854, a bill to organize this great piece of country and call it the territory of Nebraska was reported to the Senate by the Committee on Territories, of which Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was chairman.

Douglas, she had heard, was an immensely wealthy man; possibly the junior partner was wealthy, too; and if so, the parlor chamber to which she had at first objected was none too good for his aristocratic bones.

For our own part, if Mr. Douglas be the best tactician, the best master of political combination, we are willing to forget all past differences and serve under him cheerfully, rather than lose the battle under a general who has agreed with us all his life.

This feat could not be done, and in attempting it Betsy Jane upset Maggie's tea upon her handsome traveling dress, eliciting from her mother the exclamation, "Betsy Jane Douglas, you allus was the blunderin'est girl!"

Stephen A. Douglas was a candidate for reelection to the Senate, and he found it necessary to defend himself before the people of his state for the part he had taken in repealing the Missouri Compromise.

Julius told me that Mrs. Douglas had been his mother's dearest friend, and that this Archie had been brought up with them, but he did not say any more.

Douglas was a genuinely popular leader.

Lady Jane Douglas was not his mother.'

DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD, an American statesman, born in Brandon, Vermont; a lawyer by profession, and a judge; a member of Congress and the Senate; was a Democrat; stood for the Presidency when Lincoln was elected; was a leader in the Western States; a splendid monument is erected to his memory in Chicago (1813-1861).

" "Mr. Douglas is a gentleman, Marian:

He felt that Douglas was a trimmer, and he believed that the issue had now been brought to a point at which the trimmer could not hold support on both sides of Mason and Dixon's Line.

'Good-bye, Mr. C. Young Douglas from the corner grocery is waitin' for me with a shay down the avenue.'

He said Douglas was a better play than Shakespeare could have written.

Near Douglas, where the monarch stood, His bitter speech he thus pursued: 'Lord Marmion, since these letters say That in the North you needs must stay While slightest hopes of peace remain, Uncourteous speech it were, and stern, To sayReturn to Lindisfarne Then rest you in Tantallon Hold; Your host shall be the Douglas bold, A chief unlike his sires of old.

Douglas was a little overfond of life, though, and Philip here hasn't found out yet what it means.

Douglas is brother to Lord Queensbury.

d. Was Douglas a patriot?

" "Douglas was the pivot individual of the Charleston Convention," wrote an observant journalist; "every delegate was for or against him; every motion meant to nominate or not nominate him; every parliamentary war was pro or con Douglas."

Young Douglas was a witness to this brutal treatment of his mother and he at that moment made up his mind to kill his mistress.

Mr. Marshall stepped to the front of the sidewalk and held up his hand and said: "Do you think Douglas will ever be president?

After the adjournment of Congress, delegations from many of the States were sent to a monster Jackson Convention held at Nashville, and Mr. Douglas was a member of the Illinois Committee.

C.N. Douglas, the son of Napoleon Douglas, was my teacher.

Douglas, on the east of the island, is the chief town.