He was not gifted with the fire that burned through Clay's impulsive speech.

But as a ready, comprehensive speaker, armed at all points and using his weapons with deadliest effect, he was the equal of either.

In the rapidity with which he marshaled the facts favorable to his position, in the consummate skill with which he presented his argument, in the dashing and daring manner by which he overcame an opponent more strongly intrenched than himself, Mr.Douglas is entitled to rank with the most eminent of parliamentary debaters.
ADDITIONS TO THE CONFEDERACY.
The effect of Major Anderson's surrender of Sumter and of the President's call for troops proved prejudicial to the Union sentiment in the slave States which had not yet seceded.

It would be more correct, perhaps, to say that Mr.Lincoln's Proclamation was a test of loyalty which revealed the actual character of public sentiment in those States, till then not known in the North.

Mr.Lincoln had done every thing in his power to conciliate them, and to hold them fast in their loyalty to the Union.