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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], The last hours of Hon. S. A. Douglas . (search)
The last hours of Hon. S. A. Douglas.
--The Chicago Journal, of the 3d instant, in recording the decease of Judge Douglas, thus refers to his condition during the closing hours of his existence.
For a week past the lamented deceased has be as the melting away of a summer cloud at evening, and the mourning watchers were alone with all that was earthly of Stephen A. Douglas.
The Chicago Post says:
Judge Douglas returned home quite unwell, and called his medical attendant on ThJudge Douglas returned home quite unwell, and called his medical attendant on Thursday, May 2. His primary attack was acute rheumatism, which rapidly assumed a typhoid character, and continued from the first very unyielding.
After some ten or twelve days his attack was complicated by an ulcerated sore throat, which soon yielde ill he died.
His utterances, though broken, gave evidence that he was conscious of his approaching dissolution.
Judge Douglas was to have been buried on Friday last, on the lake shore, at College Grove, near Chicago.
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