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Source citation
“Douglas Reception at Washington,” Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, January 11, 1859, p. 2.
Newspaper: Publication
Chicago Press and Tribune
Newspaper: Headline
Douglas Reception at Washington
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
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Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Douglas Reception at Washington.
A Washington letter writer says: Notwithstanding all the preparations to receive Senator Douglas, less than two hundred persons, and those mostly Irishmen, honored his arrival at home. He made a short speech from his doorsteps, the substance of which was his customary slang about sectionalism and fanaticism.
