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Source citation
“The Douglas and Fitch Row in Congress,” San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, February 18, 1859, p. 2: 3.
Newspaper: Publication
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin
Newspaper: Headline
The Douglas and Fitch Row in Congress
Newspaper: Page(s)
2
Newspaper: Column
3
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.
The Douglas and Fitch Row in Congress.
EDITOR BULLETIN: - The disturbance between Douglas and Fitch, in the U. S. Senate, was most natural. Throughout the late Illinois campaign, Senator Douglas was terribly gored by the “Philistines,” appointed to office by the President. Among them was a youthful son of Senator Fitch, who is U. S. District Attorney. This young man published a tremendous [phillipic?] against Douglas, which hurt. Many thought the father looked over that speech. When Douglas denounced all the Buchanan office-holders in Illinois as “incompetent and corrupt,” he personally insulted Senator Fitch.
SUCKER.
