The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-02-23
III. slephens of Georgla

This gentleman, daring his shoft Congress
sional career, has acquired reputation which
very few have achieved in a long life times
His political and personal friends have watch
ed his prosperous career with interest and
heartfelt pride. He is bold, fearless advocate
of truth, and one of the highest Ornam enls
in our national councils. The following in
teresting lsk etch Of his appearance and speech
on an occasion that recently occurred, we copy
from a correspondent of the Journal of Com
merce.
sIt was the annual meeting for the benefit
of the Orphan Asylum and Free School OF
Alexandra. Hon. r. P, Thompson, Of Ind
ana, A IL. Stephens, Of Georgia, had engaged
to address the meeting. Circumstances pre-
venting the former from attending the field was
left open chiefly for the latter.
He is a man Of delicate frame. pale coun-
%tenance, and very SERIOUS tir, sufficiently so
for a preacher. His person Is small but evil
IDENTIFY animated by a mind of spirit and en-.
ergy, Wears on his right banda white glove,
being able, only to use his left hand to shake
hands with his friends, the other hand and arm
indeed, seeming to be dreadfully mutilated
by Judg e., who assaulted him duringthe
eIectioneoring campaign.
In his manner Of speech there is an air of
great sincerity. He advocated the cause Of
the orphans with deep feeling and earnest
ness; he drew pictures OF domestic comfort
happiness and abundance, with a skillful and
glowing hand, rendering the impression more
strong 10 the minds eye by the contrasts Of
the wandering, hom less, child, thrown out
on the cold charities of the world. He now
proceeded to individualize, stating some deep
" interestingI facts that came within his own
knowledge, Of poor boy, who, in a cold June
night, with no home roof to shelter his head,
no %paternal or maternal guardian or guide to
protect and direct him, in his wanderings
reached at nightfall the house ola wealthy plan
ter, who kindly took him in, fed, lodged, and
sent bin on his way with his blessing. Those
little kind attentions cheered his heart, and
inspired him with fresh courage to battle with
the ills and Obstacles Of life. Years rolled
round; Providence led him along, he had reach
ed the legal profession; his hospitable host had
died, The cormorants that prey upon the sub
stance # man, had formed a conspiracy to
get away from the widow her estates. She
sent for the nearest counsel to commit her
cause TO him. and that counsel proved to be the
orphan boy, years before welcomed and enter
tanned by hel and her husband. The stimu-
lus Of a warm and tenacious. gratitude was
now added that of the ordinary motives ofthe
profession. He undertook the cause with a
will not easily to be resisted he gained it;thc
Widows estates were secured to her in perpe'
tuity; and Mr.. Stephens added, with an EN-.
phasis of emotion, that sent its electric thrill
throughout the house +" that Orphan boy stand
before you!!' That kind of eloquence which il
a natural and striking way takes hold Of III
present, the visible, the tangible, falls with III,
greatest power on The human mind. A burs
ofapplause followed this announcement, WhicI
probably look most Of the audience by sur
prise, through there were some who'couId mo-
help anticipating the very conclusion to which
he came, And This man is sednously endeov
oring to avert threatened d~isunion, to preserve
the golden band Of this cunfederacYIrom the
assaults Of those who would dissolve it, scat
tcring its gloomy fragments through the
f length and breadth Of the land"