Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-11-27

vet Mr. Rice may be man OF l i asa,or md NO.
~ III s,ybut am sure he is no orator, an" Nc
thF Ely Sir Robert Peel had given HIN tough
W ,n than he prepared to gna;'-ana oil lie ou'
sned to do, to growl over IL III furious zones:
d. yLeu Mr. Rice sat d"wn out came another yen OF
,b .bear hear, thu wings evidently trying TO scream
" lond as the tories did when Peel sat dpwn-anu were
called upon to give opinion, should say they had
The nser voices. if not the us;ier leader Mr. kcc
would be fifth orator in the American Senate, 10
whom nobody would listen, except .in very dry iimc
After the leaders Of the two sides had concluded le!'
addresses, MIR. LIE Troy, the teaibsr from DGon Oh
versity Tory Of course. began aaransne-out Suc'
houting ard yelling there, that if had been uspoSr"
could not have heard one word IN twenty: hut t"e
louder the ycs-and the cry vi hear, near, " Gt,"
his voice-and the cry Of 'dvi', ana "qurst"h' t'2
the calmcr Mr.. LIE Froy lie deiFeFea MS sp:teH
as cooy as if he had been III an IceErrshS chic ann
sceinr to be- to d!sel.bo5ue II INTO the lines. All Or
der was Now over BeiscroGS laughs were heafo ii""
every s:dr-and then hooting and ti!tn yt!i'!'g,
which, If we Republicans had made Tie d "ouiu i'aEe
been to nav One, lwn three, or tour other speakers
succcedct ore with success, and The DINERS WIN
none at ALL Sir Rocrt lng's then got the 'ioor ana os
gan To speak good sense IN rather proSy way Dut
neither Srs nor l0rdS protect man rom cutlery he:e.
The atcr il brcane and it was past ~ thu louder
were the wells and the drowning cry OF "hear, 'heN:
thus overwhelming miserable man III the very tempest
ofapprobaton Sir Il. Ings looked prayer, and begged
an ear but all in vainanG really piled the poor man IL
such turmoil At last, Capt. Forester, think that
was his mare cried out aloud against one Of . C"nne
sons-(and Conncll, by the way, has three sons anu
one nephew in the Iousc)a as lklng an INDECENT noise
that he could no onger bear OConual clv!iy told INN
that was-not fact. Here chance for row ana
duel. pricked up my ears-Sr Robert lag'is stop
ped Ha!flhc House rushed to the scene OF action he
Speaker got up from his seat and waved ms hand fer
ty voices were ringing Oh ii was as delightful
a row as ever saw Young OCunneii danced about
like skipping rocket. The Captain Forester looked
things of terrible wrath AT last the Speaker gotta hear
ing and Gained The Storm and young Council, at the
Speakers request being sorry for what he had said and
Captain FORESTER, at !le like request taking back what
he said, toG-Sir Robert lnglls again began, ana the
hooting began too. Al last, at 2 ciock a. NJ tie
House adjourned, and yet question was taken AN
cui,e sure such HE would soon kill me. dont won
der that Goblet died. for he not brought up IN this
way
seen the House of Commons | going 10 express
some opinions. never saw, even in our House OF Re
representatives., in the CHEST political times, such scene
as the House of Commons presented this nigt-aHd by
a report in the Times, see that like acted
again the night after II such gentlemen have Of
the gentleman about them than in our Congress,
the is the pity for The sad use they make oft They
pay more attention 10 their personal appearance,
own. Thcy may ook better; but that they behare bet
Ter, utterly deny saw them sprawng on the seats,
wherever they could, and sleeping too. Indeed, the
doorkcepeE had 10 give one punch to wake him up to
90 home, when the House adj"urncd Did Tucquevle
this, that he has written he has OF us do
justify the vu!g ary of manner that is visible in
House, the disorder often di>graceiuly prevalent,
but say such things also esewhere-not among
who properly value themselves, To be only
70 say that England las backguards in Parlia
meat, well as the United Slucs-and there gen.
tenen in Congress, too, as well as III the House OF COM
mons
am reioiccd that have had the opportunity, both
here anu often in the United States the best
OF the two countries for long have wished TO make
comparison with intellect tE:iS displayed III the old aud
new world. | now know that such men as Clay, and
Webster, and Calhoun, would make figure here. and
much brilliant than any Of the speakers OF the
present day, for there none 10 match them in extern
poranrous speaking, Conn" and Bruug ham exempted.
The English would laugh Clay 5 msp.onunciatio!s;
but then he wGud make tie House OF Commons quake.
Ills magnificent voice, swelling N It's ioer notes, would
be such burst OF eioquchcc us they have not heard since
Chalhams days Pces struts, and Peels airs, would
dwindie to nothing before This orator whom Nature
made. O. what would have given 10 Webster in
Spring Rccs place. tOing The sophistry Of Peel =
and unfolding the great political truths of No Is
tub!jshcd Church., no thrs, that we'll under
stand! The cheers Z" his Whg friends would have thea
been given to man treating the subject 80 as To nr,
them. We have in Senate, vii! not say ten Of
better intellect but ten better speakers than Sir Robert
Peel There he would he compelled to struggle hard
be u second late Sprasue is better speaker SO
is FrelinghuySen, is Southland Rves. Leigh. Never
did body need more ofnew eaven i'll it than rar lament
or Parliament men. Brnughau has way Of hts own,
and so has 0 Conncll-bu: all the others whom have
heard have studied in school. and pipe tune
Sir Robert Peel is now the last med el In the cenny
to come every professor Of 0ratory from Lands End
John Greats house, will tell his boys ''to speak like
.-Sir Robert Peel"
| not only know now that we bear the palm from the
British in the claim Of eloquent men, bul think we
for years and years and years 10 coir, from the
very OF institutions, Tie schools IN which
young men arc trancd ana the Iods they have before
them. Eoqucnce is the r.ust powerful weapon Aa.e
can can WELD and he who Use tile tongue to talk,
and the pen 10 writc government popular ours,
must be man OF power, BE- he IN whatsoever situation
he may. We nave Thousand fields, too, for Tic display
of e!vquence and Tie English have bat Their
of law too, much rigid than in the trans
action OF business, checking every thing like display and
fastening as IN our ghrst court at Washington every
man d"wn 10 matter of fact. We have the caucus,
the convention, the stump the numerous assemblies of
the people. then the many courts OF law, then cur State
Legislatures with their excellent prcpa atio before
s,,ra%crs tread the Congressional b,urds.
Every man with us seems In have The impudencc to
believe that hr is burn orator. and it years often
to convince him TO the contrary. There is way Of
putting him down, tilt h" puts himself down nj last Few
afraid speak somewhere other, in the town .rrt
my II not away from huHic-upon acwlvcs anC salmon
If not upon the Constitution ard the currency The
gift Of the gab it is often called, universal cit; in
The United States Not here. Potta nascitsr, Oraior
it, is the doctrine prevailing here. very miserable
speaker is hooed at. and yelled down. Even American
brass could not face House OF Commons YELL The
war-whoop is but trtlc It, Upon my word, should
have taken them all fer North American savages Il had
not seen the men. Hundreds, therefore. are afraid TO
speak, who speak They have no little forums, in
which l." iutcr their WINS and try their strength and
orutory, like other trades: requires practice to make the
tongue go well.
The consequence OF all this difference is that as our
field is greater, and competition closer too we have bet
ter speakers and speakers also than the English
have. We have more clcqnencc, and far bombAsl
too. In m"naer we arc better eli than hcy-n mucT,
often the worst Their speeches closer than
The ran, Of cur CoasrsSsionn!s would oiten make the
Commons Adjec;ives here must be few and sparse;
facts thlckly Crowded together. But they seldom
yer make the blood run quicker They seldom touch the
heart. They Mryer niurlae popular audience Pres
ton Their taste may be better than ours, but
insist upon it coqucncr better than theirs There
nj b,rc
to-, in State Legislatures who far better speakers
than Sir Robert Peel. Stanley Il have not heard him)