Polynesian., 1851-04-12

you have heard so much, is, after all, onl
saying Just about what you would have said
and just about as it might be supposed an
Y, one would say it. Still, to an interested OBJ
server, 1t is Palpable that the speaker is gra
), duaiiy strengthening the thread which bind
If the eye and the heart Of each individual t
s himsel The sllken web, which first hoate,
J carelessly, has attached ITSELF and he know
\ II, but does not betray the fact to his au
dience. They are very complacent in th
idea that as yet, at least, he has made n,
peculiar impression on them. Now a pleas
n ant sImile; now pointed joke; now pleas
. ing description Of some family scene; ant
now warm gushing expression of generou:
pity, or calm reprobation, which every one
recognizes as his own, long before he heard
Cough. The dexterous speaker has us now
in his power He gathers up the threads
which connect each one of US with himself
into one strong chain Of commanding inf1u-
ence. He now says nothing but what is
responded to by every ones feelings. And
now, though unnoticed by the audience, he
begins to exercise his power of control. The
consciousness of his own power is whispered
to him by his guardian spirit, and a change
creeps over him. His muscles are more
rigid, and his movements more decisive
His finger is pointed with more stiffness, and
his arm is more frequently thrown to its ut
most extent His pronunciation is more
emphatic. His adjectiyes multiply. His
thoughts and words come faster and faster,
yet all distinct and clear Now his tones
run high in the scale; and now they descend
There's not pause-not break. On he
careers in his floods of words and superflui-
ties of thought and sentiment There's no
thing incoherent, nothing forced Now you
are smiling, and now you are blanched; now
you litter, and now you shudder. You are
calm during one sentence-you are thrilled
during the next. 1t is no time now to try to
think what the general train of his remarks
is; but, if able, you will find, though digres-
sing, and here bringing in an incidental
thought, and there an Illustrative aneedote,
with an anecdote appended illustrative of the
first, he is still enforcing his first position,
and is one by one meeting the arguments and
objections of the dissipated young Now
sympathizing, but employing that very sym
Pathy for his own ends now provoking a
STERN of mirth, but permitting it only to tell
towards the corroboration of his principles;
and now filming your eye with moisture, but
at the same time nerving you to combat
against the perilous habit. He evidently
intends more than the present thrill of emo
tion. He has a moral end and the effects
are accordant. His words have become red
hot. We would not lose one of them We
are in the land ofpoetry. Everything is rides
cent, or all is cnshrouded in thunder-cloud;
and yet the practical effect is, to prepare for
more ready and correct action in every day
life. We are now sweeping, in imagination,
with the drunkard, at the will Of the speaker, |
adown Niagara's flood, slowly, pleasantly, |
faster and faster To our own
friendly, from the neighboring shore. we
heed it net, and ring out the merry ''ha ha. -
Incidents thicken. The boat hurries on and
on until we become dizzy The warning
calls come louder and louder. The boatmen
they go. We hear the thunders nearer and
The last shout is terrific, and now
the horrid anguish of the inebriated boatmen
is lost in one paralysing shrek over the
abyss; and this-says Cough, in clear un-
hurried tone, in the same breath-is the
danger of every young man who delays abb
stinence until he sees it is doing him harm.
The effect is admirable on US all, but our
speaker, without hesitation, and without an
apparent transition of thought, goes straight
On with some further aspect of the subject,
and ere we are aware, we are circulating
through the clouds on sentences Of unparal-
eled eloquence and imagination, and soon
hereafter are laughing convulsively, or are
with interest," some plain unem-
,ellished statement of fact. And now be
brings his watch from his pocket, informs US |,
hat he has kept us longer than he ought
,ut five minutes short of two hours!-thanks /
Is. and takes his seat The spell is broken, u
,ut we are 10th to leave. Still, when fully
ssured that two hours have actually elapsed, Q
he audience slowly dispense.
Coughs power resides, first, in the unusual o
igor and rapidity of his mind; and, secondly e
n his admirable limitations. That he has .
unusual vigor, is demonstrated by his speak '
ng so frequently and so long, and never :
With an interruption of thought, or loss Of the
ull wrought attention of his audience. The i
ddress was one complete sentence, and
carcely seemed more. All his narrations
nd descriptions are accompanied with most
dmirabe limitations of actions and tones of
oice. | can hardly conceive them sur
assed. AN HAWAIIAN. 10
idifor Of the Poiynes'an: y
My DEAR SIR,-This morning found me at v
Jiupalakua, under the hosptable roof of l.. b
:. Torbert, Esq. came down from Kiokea, o
n Kula, where had worshipPed with large i
ongreg cation, and whom l addressed from r
he brief but thrilling history of the deliver In
nee which God vouchsafed to his people. as a
ecorded in the book of Esther. In the even a
ng l addressed the men, women, and chill e
ren, who are in the employment of Mr.. T. b
The morning dawned upon US pleasantly, Il
he anniversary Of his Hawaiian Majestys a
firth; and while the foreigners. with few q
# the natives, were busily employed IN
cattle, swine, sheep, turkeys,
owls, &c., preparatory to feast, to which IS
every body belonging to the land was invited, r