Weekly national intelligencer., 1845-11-22
WESTERN ELoQUENcE.

PROM ruE NEWARK (s. - ADVERTISER.
The following sketch Of the oratory Of the
Hon. Thomas CoRwIN, late Governor Of Ohio
and now United States Senator is from an article
on Western Eloquence in the Biblical Reposi-
tory, by the Rev. JOSEPH TuTTLE,. formerly OF
New Jersey. The writer thinks that Gov. G.
combines more Of the faults and cxcellencies ol
Western speaking than any other man and there.
lore selects him as sample. He makes the fol
lowing just remarks on the difficulties and advan-
tages with which Western speakers have to contend
The heterogeneous character Of Western audiences OPP
ordinary barrier 10 the highest in eIoquence
and results in two marked characteristics caution
in audng to any thing calculated excite prejudice in
mixed Multitude and the Of appeals founded principles
50 broad and nconoyerble be universally admitted
Whether these favorable the growth Of eloquence
let others decide and yet cs stand prominently show
ing that vast Of the en the West have been moved
by such when tempest rushes over the calm ocean,
stirring its lowest depths, and marshang the world Of
into conending waves"
The remarkable orstory of Gov. CoRwIN is strik-
ingly illustrated in the following incident:
perhaps nothing contributes the effect of his
wel-chosen words than his face which is altogether
such That swarhy face noble one, and there pas
sion OF feeling in his heart but is proclaimed by his coune
nance before words can utter it, 1t is magic mirror, reflect
ing upon his auditors wrath, contempt patriotism pity rd
hizing with him emotions yet arcuaed Those WHO
witnesses will forget the indescrbable droery Of
his tones, gestures and physioenpy ls4O Columbus
whilst answering the objections ma-oEsraw antago
nlst Mr. G. had the day Previous addressed multitude Of
forty fifty thousand, and address great multitude
the succeeding day. The citizens of Franklin county way
laid him. and compelled him. although greatly exhausted to
speak His strain Of remark uncommonly brilliant,
seeming to transcend his usual efforts He supposed hon
est inquirer and opponent be proposing questions in refer
ence to the cry that times are killing hard Why, my
dear sir says the opponent, how it be possible that
have elected to Office and in whom have unshaken conf
be mistaken, oIicehoders would speak Mr.. C.s
eounenance the very mpersonaon of the seo comico
gravity whilst stating this objection Then began that dro
working OF his features at the very sight of which, before he
had said worJ hundreds found it impossible not to laugh
outright 'Feow-ctizens, said he, in deliberate tones,
aude to the Holy Scriptures with the deepest
ence, and occasions like the present but seldom, but
that venerable patriarch, Job, has completely unavel
led the difficulty Of my honest opponent that must tres
pass TO quote his words Doth ,cid beast bray ,ohi
he hath grass, h,ceh the his fodder By this
time his form bent down towards his hearers, his fun
speaking eye glancing from another
and his whole face radiant with nmabe queeness Who
could resist Sedate old men held their sides the
younger portion stamped and screamed with laughter till the
started Peas of laughter succeeded peal rapidly and
boisteouy to preclude the possibility of speaking for
minutes. Had some old Roman pantomime witnessed the
swarthy face Of tom, the Wagonboy, his constituents
sometimes aft cionaey him. eectng such prodiges he
would have died of sheer envy ="