He returned blow for blow.

He had become a terror.

He must be subdued.
John J.Wyatt, a man of ready speech, in the full maturity of his powers, a debater and campaigner, a soldier in the War of 1812, and a respected character, was to lay the adventurer, the interloper, low! He was elected to the task.

Was Douglas a youth?
No.

He was a monstrosity.
He had always been a man.