As governor he refused two years later to sign the ordinance of secession and was deposed from office by force.

He died before the end of the war which so signally vindicated his wisdom and verified his forecast.
III Stephen Arnold Douglas was the Charles James Fox of American politics.
He was not a gambler as Fox was.

But he went the other gaits and was possessed of a sweetness of disposition which made him, like Fox, loved where he was personally known.

No one could resist the _bonhomie_ of Douglas.
They are not all Puritans in New England.

Catch a Yankee off his base, quite away from home, and he can be as gay as anybody.