Canton Weekly Register

Interview with Mr. Douglas—Grand Fusion Show.
CLEVELAND, Sept. 22, 1860.
Mister Editor: I seez mity kil too inforn
the publik thru the medeum of your kolom
of the grand addishun I hav gest maid to
mi grate metropoliticinn sho biznee. and
darin Slak rope and gim nastie Surkus.—
Last nite I had an intervu with Stevun A
Douglas, the rencund politrikal ambidexter
and proprieter and Cheef Kloun in the grat.
populer suverenty sho. Mister Douglas is
generaly kald the luttle giant from his havin
performed the grate feet of wakin the whol.
length of Magon and Dixons close line with
the dred skot deisshun in one hand, and his
whole popular suverenty sho in the other:
and allso pullin up the mammuth tre kalc
the missoorie kompromiza, which was firs
planted in 1787 by Tomas Jefferson ant
others, and set out agin in 1820. Mister
Douglas puld up this tre and the constitution
with it and plast them under his feet
But I waz a going on to sa that he haz
bin travelin thru the eesstern apd suthern
statee performin his triks nnd speakin his
pees. The way he takes um in with his
popler suverenty game is not slo. He holds
out a big bil to the peple and sez, there's
popler suverenty—theres the grate prinsi-
pul. At first they think they sea it; but
when they look a little sharper it vanishez
like a du on the orientlo kornstalk when
the noonda sun rizes in the east on a thun-
derin hot da in the middel of Juli; it kant
be found no where. The folks sometimes
get mad and korner him in a tite plaee, but
he is tarnal emaul and can krawl thru a
mighty little hole. But they sa he did one
grate trik—at wudplase be ate an ox and
20,000 klams.
As soon as I herd of his arrivel in toup I
went to pa him a vizit. I found him in his
sho room speakin his pees. I thowt I
wouldn't be verry formal; and sez I, hav-
en't ye got that pees larnt yet? Sez he,
yes—but thers sum of the doktrin that the
peple dont bleev, nnd I hav too aiter it oc-
casbunally to sute the plase. Sez I, how
doo you like the sho bizness? Sez he, it
dont pa. Sez I, mi sho is dooin a stavin
biznee. He groaned and a tere started in
hiz i; and sez he, I thowt I abood make a
good deal out of my popler suverenty; but
sez he, it has spilt the bull sho; the peple
begin to sea thru it, and they sa it is a hum-
bog. Sez I, wbat are you going to do with
it? Sez he, as soon ae I hav vused up mi
posters and advertisements I ahal thro it
overboard.
Sez I, Duglas what'll ye take for yer
popler suverenty? Sez he ile gel it cheep
I told him I diddent no bow too manage his
triks, but I wood go into partnership with
him in the sho business. Sez he, it's a bar-
gain. I then axt him whot he thowt of
taking along eum darkies to sing songe and
dane tbe hornpipe. Sez he. I wunt hav
enny thing to doo with the nigger bienes
agin—it don't pa, He snid be went into
the nigger biznes in 1854 and had bin goin
down hil ever sins; he sed it had nerly
rooind him. The little giant then purformd
on the siak rope, and klimd up a greeet
pole and apoke his peca on the top. One
of Abe Lipcoln's rales was next browt in
and Duglas wae set on and rode out thru
the back dore. Duglas is about 5 feet hi
and a thunderin grate mon for wun of his
size. I maid a frenological examination of
him. Hee is a man of tremendus pour.—
Hiz kavs are hugo. His bump of humbug-
ging is as big ns a goon eg. Copseenshus
pees is kaved in. Heed mnke a first rate
crier in the sho biznee; hiz bump ot tellin
yarns aint small.
Duglas and I have kompleted our pro-
gram for our nu sho. We call it the nu
yunion sbow, and greest pole eurkns, to-
gether with utber alarmin and darin feets.
Duglas will perform the grand dubble &
single handed game of popler suverenty.—
This game can be seen best with the ize
shet. But I must klose. We are goin
westward ho in a few daze.
Yurs in hast, Artemus Ward, Jr.
P. S. Duglas sez give popler suverenty
a good blo in tbe paper.