. Harper's weekly. It will not be forgotten that at the Inaugura-tion ball Mr. Douglas entered with Mrs. Lin-coln upon his arm, and remained near her and:he President during the evening. Indeed theconduct of Mr. Douglas at that time, and untillis death, showed his sincerity in the followingremark, which Mr. Arnold reports:. UNDER WHICH 1i day of March i , Mi-. doubt that they Elijah P. Lovejot—as much a martyr to lib-erty as Nathan Hale—and for his own bravewords and unspotted life, will be always notedin our history. The laborers are called away,hut the work goes on. Devotion to the Demo-crat
. Harper's weekly. It will not be forgotten that at the Inaugura-tion ball Mr. Douglas entered with Mrs. Lin-coln upon his arm, and remained near her and:he President during the evening. Indeed theconduct of Mr. Douglas at that time, and untillis death, showed his sincerity in the followingremark, which Mr. Arnold reports:. UNDER WHICH 1i day of March i , Mi-. doubt that they Elijah P. Lovejot—as much a martyr to lib-erty as Nathan Hale—and for his own bravewords and unspotted life, will be always notedin our history. The laborers are called away,hut the work goes on. Devotion to the Demo-cratic principle of equal liberty before the lawsmust be its own reward. With Owen Love-joy it was so. His steady soul pursues its ca-reer ? but wherever it may be, its faith in theI,,,.. ,,, <;,„( miuI the ii 1 oi men ? - no surer than when his visible life illustrated it. Bryant, a Democratic member of the New YorkLegislature, supported in an able speech dial n abolishing slavery would be the truest concili-ation, securing a peaceful and perpetual Alvord, one of the most faithful Demo-crats in the country, followed him, declaring thatthis atrocious rebellion of Aristocracy againstthe Democracy can be radically suppressed onlyby destroying slavery, and that Free Labor is
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