Note 121 — UNCLE SAM. BY ALBERT MATTHEWS.
Reading edition
An article headed "The D.D.'s," which was printed in the Kansas Herald of Freedom of August 25, 1855, begins as follows: "The Missouri Democrat has a very fine article under this head. It says the politicians have lately taken upon themselves the liberty of conferring the degree of D.D. upon its voters with a most promiscuous irreverence" (p. 2-3). It states that Thomas H. Benton was responsible for the nicknames applied to Petitt and Douglas.