His name was on every one's tongue.

He had lauded President Jackson and his policies with as much fervor as he had with virulence and vehemence denounced the humbugging Whigs, as he had characterized them.

The village paper, a Whig publication, had sat upon him.

It had dubbed him a turkey gobbler, a little giant, a Yankee fire-eater.

But Douglas gave no quarter to any one.