During his service in the Senate he was for many years a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and also a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.

THE PUBLIC LANDS.

Mr. Douglas, as has been shown, successfully supported the act making the great donation of public land to Illinois for rail road purposes, and has supported acts making like grants to other states.

He has always supported a liberal policy in the administration of the public lands—a policy looking always to their occupancy and cultivation by actual settlers. He has reported and defended those provisions in the Oregon, Washington and other territoritorial acts granting lands to actual settlers on condition of occupancy, &c.

In 1850 he introduced into the Senate a proposition having for its effect a liberal donation to the head of every family, male or female of the public land on the condition of settlement and cultivation. The principle involved in his proposisition was something similar to that embraced in the "Homestead bill" so long pending in Congress, and of which Mr. Douglas is an earnest supporter.

He has always as a legislator, as a judge, and as a statesman been a firm friend and maintainer of the rights and interests of the agriculturists of the country. Hence it is that he has always opposed the extension and renewal by Congress for extraordinary periods the patents of inventors for agricultural implements, an opposition which has provoked a hostility that is as unjust as it is selfish.

On the 18th of September, 1851, he delivered by invitation an address at Rochester, New York, before the New York Agricultural Society, an address abounding in lofty sentiment and practical teaching. A copy of that address is published in the annual reports of the proceedings of the society.

CONCLUSION.

In the foregoing pages have been crowded brief statements of some of the leading incidents of the marked career of Mr. Douglas. His history is a voluminous one, and to do full justice to it would require four times the space that has been taken in this work. At some future time, some of the events

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At this day he occupies the most extraordinary position of being the only man in his own party whose nomination for the Presidency is deemed equivalent to an election. Friends of other statesmen claim that other men, if nominated, may be elected-a claim that admits of strong and well supported controversy; but friend and foe-all Democrats, unite in the opinion that Douglas' nomination will place success beyond all doubt.

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