He had sought favor at the South too long to regain mastery of the North, and he had been defeated in the Presidential struggle of 1860,--a struggle in which the ambition of his life had been centred.

But with danger to the Union his early affections and the associations of his young life had come back.

He remembered that he was a native of New England, that he had been reared in New York, that he had been crowned with honors by the generous and confiding people of Illinois.

He believed in the Union of the States, and he stood by his country with a fervor and energy of patriotism which enshrined his name in the history and in the hearts of the American people.

His death created the profoundest impression in the country, and the Administration felt that one of the mighty props of the Union had been torn away.
The rank of Mr.Douglas as a statesman is not equal to his rank as a parliamentary leader.