. My day; reminiscences of a long life . toPetersburg, near his birthplace. As it was ab-solutely impossible for him to exist without occupa-tion, he purchased a newspaper, sallied forth onemorning to solicit subscribers for The South SideDemocrat, and before a weeks end was justified inbeginning its issue. This step determined his career in life. He didnot practise law until he came to New York in 1865. At the age of twenty-two he became an enthusi-astic editor. The little South Side Democrat soonevinced pluck and spirit. Its youthful editor sailedhis small craft right into the troubled sea o
. My day; reminiscences of a long life . toPetersburg, near his birthplace. As it was ab-solutely impossible for him to exist without occupa-tion, he purchased a newspaper, sallied forth onemorning to solicit subscribers for The South SideDemocrat, and before a weeks end was justified inbeginning its issue. This step determined his career in life. He didnot practise law until he came to New York in 1865. At the age of twenty-two he became an enthusi-astic editor. The little South Side Democrat soonevinced pluck and spirit. Its youthful editor sailedhis small craft right into the troubled sea of politics,local and national, to sink or swim according to itsmerits and the wisdom of its pilot. It was loved ofthe gods, with the inevitable result, — but not untilhe left it. I remember our first meeting with Stephen , so soon to become a conspicuous figure inour political history. He had just returned fromEurope, and was passing through Petersburg with 84 THE NEV/ YORK PUBLIC L13RARY ASTOR. ANDTILOEN Steihp:x a. Douglas. My Day 85 his first wife (Miss Martin of North Carolina), andof course glad to talk with the editor of a Democraticpaper, aspiring as he did to the highest office inthe country. He was thirty-nine years old, andbelow the average height. But the word insignificantcould never have been applied to him. There wassomething in his air, his carriage, that forbade massive head, his resolute face, more than com-pensated for his short stature. He has always been accused of rude, unconven-tional manners. He was enough of a courtier toinform me that I resembled the Empress Eugenie. To us he took the trouble to be charming, talkedof his European experience — of everything, in fact,except the perilous stuff burning in his own bosom,his hunger for the presidency. Like my editor, hehad been admitted to the bar before he had reachedhis majority. The parallel was to appear againlater. Mr. Douglas also had been a representativein Cong
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