"I was ever a fighter, so—one fight more,
 The best and the last!
 I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore,
 And bade me creep past.
 No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers
 The heroes of old,
 Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
 Of pain, darkness and cold."

With almost royal pomp, the earthly remains of Stephen Arnold Douglas were buried beside the inland sea that washes the shores of the home of his adoption. It is a fitting resting place. The tempestuous waters of the great lake reflect his own stormy career. Yet they have their milder moods. There are hours when sunlight falls aslant the subdued surface and irradiates the depths.




FOOTNOTES:


[979] Holland, Life of Lincoln, p. 301.

[980] Ibid., p. 302.

[981] Arnold, Lincoln, pp. 200-201. The date of this dispatch should be April 14, and not April 18.

[982] Forney, Anecdotes, I, p. 224.

[983] New York Tribune, April 18.

[984] Forney, Anecdotes, I, p. 225.

[985] Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, p. 249 note; Forney, Anecdotes, I, p. 225.

[986] Many friends of Douglas have assured me of their unshaken belief in this story.

[987] Forney, Anecdotes, I, pp. 121, 226.

[988] Philadelphia Press, April 26, 1861.

[989] Philadelphia Press, April 26, 1861.

[990] The Philadelphia Press, April 26, 1861, reprinted the speech from the Wheeling Intelligencer of April 21, 1861.

[991] J.D. Cox, Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, I, pp. 5-6.

[992] Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, pp. 126-127.

[993] Senator Cullom of Illinois, quoted in Arnold, Lincoln, p. 201, note.

[994] Mr. Horace White in Herndon-Weik, Lincoln, II, pp. 126-127.

[995] Arnold, Lincoln, p. 201, note.

[996] The speech was printed in full in the New York Tribune, May 1, 1861.

[997] The New York Tribune, June 13th, and the Philadelphia Press, June 14th, published this speech in full.

[998] Arnold, Lincoln, p. 193. See also his remarks in the Senate, January 3, 1861.






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