The North-Carolina standard., 1843-11-22
RALEIGH N. c, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, IsA3.

Idont yon 90 home and attend to your own affairs2
/ told him would when the people said so. Well,
Lit seems the people, concluded had better do it,
Iso acquiesed Cheering and laughter.) The
people of my county wanted me to go to the Lee
gislature but told them no. / wanted to visit
the East and once more near the Marathon of A
lmerica-once more to Bunker HILL Ger
lmantown sBrandywine, and particularly Trenton
1t was at Princeton, Monmouth, and Trenton that
the leaden hand of tyranny was divested of its
power, and Washington "cheered his men ~by
saying" never mind, boys never despair, our suf
ferings only foretaste of our future liberty.
| am proud that such fields of glory exist in
New Jersey, I wish they were in NKentucky-I-
would go every year to see them if they were
hundred miles eff We now enjoy the blessings Of
a free government Sometimes we have storms
and the ship does not make exactly right; butthe
people soon rightit when they say the word
however wrong the course may be; she is soon
made to take the back track. am no speaker, 1
can fight better than can speak, and if | had
thousand Jersey Blues6etween me and the enemy,
1 would have no fears. / used always to tell my
boys never fire until you are near enough to the
enemy to grapple him by the throat and then if
you let him whip you, it is your own fault That
is the way we Kenuckians fght-you must let
as brag little, never shed bloed until we come
to the grapple-then let the enemy whip us if they
can. l never knew any thing of tactics. fighting
boys to make 700 British succumb to 500
And now want to wind up with an anecdote
ofthe battle ofthe Thames, about Baptist preach
er, for was brought up 10 love preaching-aad l
always go to meeting when can get near on
Sunday-and although it don't do me as much
good as it ought yet l hope come home better
man. Well this Sucket, he had his meetings. |
went privately to hear him; and before he conclud
ed he used to say, now let me tell you you can't die
- .
morrow and a cannon ball comes straight towards
you yet it wont kiIlyou nor hurt you, if your
time hasn't come. And if your time has come
you'll DIE whether You are iR the battle or net.
Well says l, the next morning, Sueket Eli try
ysu, and put you at the head of cofumae-for
you can't die till your time comes. Well, after
we had charged, ,Sucket he kept ON till they got
fright on the British when his .E.en 6fed and 20
balls killed 40 or So Of them, aad he said aftcr-
wards it must have been becat.se their tnre had
come.
< Colonel johnson then concluded with an ex-
preston OF. the thanks of his oxerAowihg heart
amid loud and repeated cheers Hervas intro
duced to the National Guards and citizens, and
then conducted TO Howslps hotel to dine.
A Frenchsnan's aecOunt of O'COhneH.
! i, Fhe following sketches of OConneIl, BY vi
comte de Cormenin are extracted from two works,
publisAed-the one-in 1889, the other in 1874
under the assumed name of Tinon. CornfeniR
commenced by writing Odes on Napoleon Hnv-
ing made of his opportunities, he became
auditor to the council of state aad a baron.
He also served the Emperor during the hun
dred days. He was employedas a crown law
yer by The Bourbons, in advocating before the
4CharhBcr grant of nilliard Of ivres for
the emigrants, and obtained, through Peyroa-
i net majorat, with the title Of Viscount He
took nevertheless, an active part in'the ta king
department Of the Revolution of 1890; since then
| he has been a contributor to the Ndf5onGE while
Armad Carrel edited ia famPhtteer (haVing
defeated, by his letters S~r la Liste Civile, the at
tempt to pension the heir of France)-a member
of the Chamber of Depulies-ana, lastly author
of the two works here quoted E4d seems to have
some knowledge of the world. His clever and
snowy style means less than it PEeteAds to- He
has great seadiness at forming systems and opin-
ions, but they not of equal merit, being Of
ten spoiled by affectation and impertinence. On
the whole, he is pleasant gossiping sketcher.-
The Quarterly Revieo0, to WHICH we owe the ac
count of his life, says he has "a low brow and a
sharp nose;" and therefore, though probably a
good hater, ''cannot hate with nagnanimity "a
subtle conclusion, which we leave our readers to
deal with: |
ORATORY OUT OF DOORS.
. Oratory in the Open Air does not suit all places
and all seasons Not all places-for though in
America, Ireland, or Germany, meeting OF
100, 600 men will listen to an orator calmly; yet
n Italy, Spain, or France you'd hear cry "to
arms, f" and musket shots in ten minutes. Nor al
all seasons-for It's rather comfortless to listen to
an orator under an umbrella or parasol, while |
the audience have the wind on their noses, their
feet in the mud, or the on their head but one
must submit to sucl1Nthngs.
Yet the goddess of eloquencei IS no stiff dame
she can bend to circumstances. Sometimes she
jumps up on understanding she shows her
self to the public through the garret window Of
tavern-sometimes hoists herself over the hind
wheels of a hackney y-eoach-she daubs herself
with wine4ees-scaIes the hustingsto the accom-
paniment of. rattIing keys, cabbage turnips, and
rotten apples-she tucks up her sleeves to the
shoulder; and, drunk with believing, and blows
and strong beer she only gets out of the fray with
her apron torn to tatters her ribs bruised and her
nose bloody That certainly is not the handsome
fside of the business
But if aeloqaence out Of doors has her Saturna-
lian she has also great and noble festivals. Then
comes she on like O queen, preceded by flags,
where her name is blazoned in azure and gold
she is borne In chariot, drawn by four mighty
steeds, and she divides the waves of tire adoring
multitude, who strew flowers and incense in her
path, and make the heavens to echo back their
thousand shouts. 'a' -'32f g "a
IT'S with M slender -voiee and chicken breast