Illinois, historical and statistical, comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and stateDerived from the most authentic sources, including original documents and papersTogether with carefully prepared statistical tables . ocrats, Stephen A. Douglas being their almost unanimouschoice. No man had ever grown so fast into popular favor inthis State as he. Thirteen years before this he had come toIllinois, a beardless boy, without friends, fortune, or profes-sion. But he possessed what was more valuable than these,a mental and physical constitution
Illinois, historical and statistical, comprising the essential facts of its planting and growth as a province, county, territory, and stateDerived from the most authentic sources, including original documents and papersTogether with carefully prepared statistical tables . ocrats, Stephen A. Douglas being their almost unanimouschoice. No man had ever grown so fast into popular favor inthis State as he. Thirteen years before this he had come toIllinois, a beardless boy, without friends, fortune, or profes-sion. But he possessed what was more valuable than these,a mental and physical constitution of the highest order. Heread law, with a natural taste for it, was quickly admitted tothe bar, and in less than two years was elected by the legisla-ture prosecuting-attorney of Morgan County, over John J,Hardin. At Vandalia, where the contest took place, his com-prehensive mind took in the objective political situation atonce. He perceived that the democratic party, with which hecast his fortunes, lacked not only a leader, but also thatessential pre-requisite to success—organization. To perfectthis he bent his best energies. Taking into his counselsEbenezer Peck and a few others, he soon brought orderout of confusion, and thenceforth, under the convention sys-. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. 509 tem adopted, there was no longer danger of losing an elec-tion by dissipating the party strength upon different can-didates. He was under the average size, being only five feetfour inches in height—just a foot shorter than Lincoln —but was compactly built and gracefully formed, with a finelydeveloped head — larger than the average — covered with athick growth of black hair. A never-failing flow of animalspirits imparted to manners naturally polite and winning afeature of whole - heartedness which made them reared in the cold latitude of New England hetook kindly to the easy ways of his adopted western faculty of adapting himself to his surroundings, and h
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