Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-10-01

that of tumbin your thoughts in wherever von
can get chance. ! hate To write on stills. Bnl
10 return, howcvcrto the "crown and Anchor"
Among the orators OF the meeting WAS a Mr. FuN,
an Unitarian clergyman, who began IN most
promising manner, but ended most brilliantly -
talking politics with freedom that would ruin an
American clergyman, rs we lie them up, (nnwisc-
" enough | think too) to theology only, thereby
making them know much of women aud Children
and chri>lcnines, and burials, but littlc of the
world they have 10 reform. This Mr. Fox spoke
in species ol theatrical chant, nov up and down
but he is Just the man Tor the multitude, aud they
cried out hear "hcar," "hear'' At every turn OF
his thick houghted periods, and now and then gave
him rounds of applause. The Duke OF Wellington
lac dashed numerically, and the audience bore him
out. Then we had Somc members of Parliament,
"A Mr.. Wakclv, whose GUN, THOUGH somcwha, mo-
torons here, would not be considered of mighty
cabrc with lis then Mr.. Grote member from
London, or Lonnon, as "Mv Lord Brougham
calls u,"-(you see what correct speakers even
English scholars always areD-hut Mr.. Grotc
would stand in our third OF fourth congressional
ticr.--An nd then Col DE Lacy Evans, who is ro-
Ing commander of the British recruits, 10 flight
Don Carlos gentleman better for lighting than
for speaking: md then DIR. Bowring,a leading
radical who talked >cnSlbv enough, but with
most nonsenSical rant OF manner, screaming
louder than Chiffon Of Kentucky can and no, half
so fluent
O'Connell, however, brought up the rear A
queer man he il, with funny social face, alive
with frolic, ready at any weapon too, ccpon
he calls it,-whothcr it be the keen piercing
shaft of vii, tho hcal'hicst aud mos, tasteful dec
hamilton, or the most outrageous AMI protuSr =
buSc, or the leavv-alcn holt of wrathiul sarcasm.
specimen of all this varied elopuenec he gave
Eta.
would have cost him his head lie was the only
orator who made me forget, by the freedom of his
sentiments, that he British orator for he a
lone advanced opinions as liberal as an American
orator would advocate lodging narrowly around
the throne itself, dcnouncing all that consider
abuses, advocating free suffrage and bouncing up
on the very principle of hereditary legislation
save, however, that great lottery, ms he called IT,
the kIng>hip. which he expects 10 keep hereditary
without an hereditary prop do not caro- much,
said he, that Lord should beget a Lord, but do
that Judge, should bfgct Jud 5c,--the
wig, the robe, the crmlc, and--thc all. What
should You think, he continued, Of 4 tailor, who
because he was tailor, should undertake to bcCot
a tailor too,-and yet how much easier is it To
bcgc, the hereditary makers Of onr coats than the
hereditary makers and Judges OF our lawl" The
loud response of the audience warmly approved
the sentiment.
When o. Cornell first came into the meeting,
he was most boistcrously chccrcd. When he
arose to speak, the noise was yet greater. The
multitude tried to make him mount in chair
thu he could be seen FAR and vide, bun ho held on
to the floor, oNclaming thai he liked that best, and
had no inclination To mount above the People,
whcrcupon there another roar, as
matter Of course. O 'Connel in person is very
large almost as large as MIR. Lewis VI. G. from
Alabama, but not 50 tall. lie has thick full
face, and laughing eye. Ills handkerchief hung
about his neck IN most slovenlr manner, and all
his garments seem to have tnmbcd upon him,
No better understands that most difficult Of all
undertakings, the art oiharangning masses fmcn.-
When arg ment became heavy, he fell upon n
mnScmcni. W hen ElDqucncc, beautiful and grand,
had been heard and felt lac made his audience feel
more the force OF the contrast by something OF
coarscness and perhaps vulgaritv Sarcasm was
tempered BY w.t. and sit was pointed by sarcasm.
O'Connell is undoubtedly now as an orator (only)
the greatest in Great Britain None Of our di,in-
cushcd speakers resemble him Grundy has
more wit, but not such cloqucnce aud chastc dec
lamaton.-Fofsyth has more bitterness but not
snch power.-Cay has far richorand swrctcr tone
of voice, and n much more natural manner which
in general would produce more effect but he has
such command of language, nothing like O.
power, and would elevate the sentiment of an au-
dicncc much higher, but ho cannot tickle the cars
of people as O. Council can. lie cannot thus play
upon the passions. Preston unitcs many Of o.
Conncll's gllts,-but Preston loves metaphors
more, and uses them not in 50 natural "A wav, and
therefore, by overStranng, loses O'ConncIs
power. O'Conncll hits the exact nail upon the
head, and fits his wares to his market. An Irish
Barri>tcr in Dublin told me that he had seen o.
Council 20 from the Inns Of the Court, where he
had been displaying IN beautiful language the high
est power OF intellect to public political meeting
and there haranguc an Irish mob in the most
BLACKBOARD slang. lie evidently has great know
ledge of all the springs that move men. Nrvcrthc-
less, he never inspire confidence. His face, his
AIR, is not an honest ono. II he says fine things
one can't help feeling as If he 10 ser a black
guard reading a homy in pulp Brougham,
now, is just the reverse in the impression he leaves
BY the way O'Conncll has a curious seal hcft-
ting his life, that Ola ship on roagh sea, under
strong wind-ihe hcln,Nm1n cryngout "ntT,"
'lut1" Immense service lac has done To ireland by a.
Weakening the attention Of the English people to TN,
most unhappy nation---and in the turn parties in
England must take by and by, shall not be
at all surprised in hearing that he i, E." Peer of
the realm
An American for the first time Witnessing
British popular assembly, has one cvcr-prcsent
thought with him, and that Is how far behind us this
great people arc, in the simplest political truth,
Here, in 1898, there is dispute about taking on'a
tax of 200 per cent. upon the vehicles Of all po-
ltcal intelligence for the tax is POO per cent. a
ncu uortl, t,,lr cputS ma ,iuht c,nt. IN,