Litchfield enquirer., 1830-03-18

lamation. He still reasons closely and logically, but it is with crowd of illustra- ton, a rude and graphic truth, and Occa- siOnally a rich and daring poetry Ot lail- guage, which, to the excited and over whelmed mind of lhe nearer, is irresisti- ble as a tornado. His figures come to him like revelation. It is like the rushing out of apparitions from the wind. When your own mind is fatigued with anticipation, and your fancy exhausted aud distanced by his exuberance, he still multiplies metaphor upon metaphor, each bolder and apter than the last, till it seems to you as if every thing in nature attcsted the truth ofbis pc sition. All this time, if you went with a design of noting his peculiaritics. you have forgotten your object, and tine preacher has gained his. Your mind is engrossed with his subject, and you leave the house impressed and thoughtful.
 Dr.. Beecher is no rlIetorician. Nature has evidently been his only master in eD- oquence. The order of his subject is To- gical, because it is the character of his mind, and the logician's rules are based upon nature but beyond the simple ar- engagement of his topics, he is guided who'll ly by impulse. His illustrations particu- larly have all the startling freshness of im- provisation. The dignity of his theme seems to lift him into the region of Poetry
 unaware, and he gathers the rich maleri- al about him and weaves it into language, apparently with d total unconsciousness of it's splendor. His gestures violate every precept of the schools. They are angular and awkward in the highest degree but we doubt if the grace of Everett was ever balf 60 expressive. They are not, as in common oratory, mere vents ofexcitement. It is not the common action of enthusiasm upon drilled muscles, producing, whatever the sentiment, the same succession of movements. He suits in a manner neV- CT dreamed of by Hamlet, |" the action to tho word" If you did not hear a sylla- ble, you would know by his gesture the l character of his remark. It is an art of his own, adding to the stores of eloquence, ! with fruitfuness of device beyond the seaside practice of Demosthenes, the training of the limbs to laDguage-thc graphic pantomime of the deaf and dumb to the common medium of articulation. The two great characteristics of Dr. l Beecher's mind-two that are not often found in any striking degree .ogether-are if we have not mistaken his character, d fearless and confident strength united with
 a most shrewd and plausible acuteness.- No one can doubt the power of his elo-
 quence, and the rank he holds as the most eminent orthodox divine of controversial New England is a sufficient evidence of
 his soundness and the resolute zeal of his duties. At the same time 1t is evident to any person who has looked narrowly into his writings or listened critically t" his ar-
 guments in the desk, that he has one of
 those sharp and slender heads made to
 creep into crevices." With all the frank openness of his manner, he is master of every snbrle.y of the schools, and knows and practices like an adept the windngs of labyrintI,ine sophism. in him these weapons are particularly effective, for tho bold intrcpidity of his manner, and lan- guage, would never have led the nearer to suspect them Tn those extremes, there- fore, to winch Genius is ever liable, and from which, of course, he may not be, and
 fin our humble opinion, though we believe him right in the main) is not exempt, he is likelicr than any other man we know to give excess the color of reason, and attach character of fauaticism and extravagance to the elevated principles of his sect. His, it is true, are not the vulgar etxravagancies of Barebone and his brethren. No one can deny to Dr.. Beecher the credit of ration- al Iiberalily upon all points of personal re- ligon. He has no cant, however the en- emies of his sect may have fastened the name upon him. But it can as little be denied that on doctrinal grounds, (if we may be permitted to express an opinion sanctioned by better judgments than our own,) his strong mind has oversho, itself. Like the champions of every sect since the world began, the momentum of his own genius has forced him into extremes but for ourselves, we confess that we look more upon the fault as trace of his genius than with any disposition to condemn, far less with the despicable malice of controversy, to scorn or deride Wiilis's Nag.
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