Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-12-12

bBrThe New York Evening Post gives the fol-
lowing description of the personal appearance and
manners OF the distinguished Hungarian. It seems
to be faithfully written and will be read with inter
est:
APPEARANCE AND MANNER OF THE ORATOR. -When
Kossuth rose, he was greeted by three tremendous
cheers which were instantly followed by the pro-
foupdest silence. He looked worn and pale, and
would doubtless much rather have been at home
than in that cold air, enhusiasticand we'll meant as
his reception He is thinner than we would in
fer from the portraits, but with well formed and
even handsome features. His dress was the ordina-
ry Hungarian black-vevet tight coat with loose
sleeves, buttoned and frogged to the neck. He also
wore loose overcoat, which he threw off in the
course of his remarks.
kossuths face expresses great sagacity and pene-
tration, while his temperament indicates the most
intense earnestness and power of endurance There
is less the scholar in his look than had supposed
and more of the man of business He seems capable
of the most protracted work. In repose there is the
touch of melancholy about the lips which you in
the portraits but when he is animated there is
sual herceness in the eye His voice is full and fex
ibe. with most decided foreign accent and yet with
a clear and distinct English pronunciation 1t is
rarely that foreigner after ten years soourn among
US speaks tongue with more correctness and flu
ency. Sometimes he stops for second two 10
call the word, and when he does So it is invariably
the right word. But the main charm of his oratory
Is not the language nor the thouSht SO much as the
manner, which is a rare union of grace with
dignity. He stands in an erect position, with as
much frmness as Webster, scarcely moving the
body, while there is an incessant and graceful play
of the arms and head. His gestures always easy
and appropriate. very varied, and show natu-
raj gift for that mode of physical expression.
He was not at all boisterous even impassioned
yesterday, but simple, plain. direct and quietly in
earnest Many of his remarks in the familiar
style of conversation though there the constant
oratorical tendency when his thought sentiment
rose in dignity value to yivacious and vehement
utterance His least tones strongly sympathetic
and we well conceive his power over an audi
| ence when some great theme has excited speaker
and nearer alike into magnetic unison.
There is in his look, tone, bearing and whole ap-
pearance, the consciousness of power beyond any
display that he is making at the time. One feels
that single effort gives out the whole of him. but
that back of all the external manifestations there is
a vast reservoir of strength. This should say,
was one of his principal characteristics. Orators
are often superficial sort of men, like the Italian
improvistores with exhaustess fertility of utter
ance, but without profound feeling or reflection
Kossuth does not appear. from first sight of him,
to be of this sort His fuency comes from the full
| ness, rather than the shalowness, of his mind
Yet in the reflective and logical faculties we should
not compare him with Webster as an English wri-
ter has done. He is not so ponderous Webster,
and resembles. in facility and ease of manner, the
more spontaneous Clay