Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-12-17
KossUTH's PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
Inc New York Evening Post gives the following

kOSSuFH's PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
Inc New York Evening Post gives the following
sketch Ut kossuths bearing and personal appeannce:
He looked worn and pale, and woald doubtless
much rather have been at home than in ,hss cold air
enthusiastic and well-meant as his reception was.
He is thinner than would infer from the portraits
but with .well-formed and even handsome features.
His dress was the ordinary Hungarian black velvet
tight coat with loose sleeves buttoned and ffogged
to the neck. He also were loose overcoat, which
he threw off in the course of his remarks. ....
kossuth's face expresses great sagscity and pene
tense earnesness and power of endurance. There is
less OF the scholar in his looks than we had suppos-
ee; and more of the man Of business. He seems ca.
Pdo'e o' most protracted work. In repose there s
touch OF melancholy about the lips which you see
in the portraits, but when he s animated there i. an
unusual hefceness in the eye. His voice is full and
flexible, with most decided FOREIGN accent and vet
with eleaI and dissinct English pronunciation. It
is rarely that forszner' after ten years. sojou
mong ns, speaks our tongue with more correctness
and fuency. Sometimes he stops for second or two
to call the word and when he does is invaris.
bly, the right word. But the main eharns Of his ora.
tory is not the language nor the thought 80 mneh
the MANNER which is union Of grace with dig
nifty. He stands in an erect position. with 40 much
6rmness as Webster, scarcely moving the body,
while there is incessant and graceful play Of she
arms and head. His gestures, always easy and ap-
propriate, are very varied, and show natural gut
for that mode of physical expression. :,
He was not at all boistrous, or even impassioned,
yesterday but simple, plain, direct and quietly in
earnest: Many Of his remarks were i" tho familiar
style of conversation, though there was the constant
oratorica tendency, when his thought OF sentiment
in dignity value, TO vvaeious and even vehe-
ment uterance. His least tones are strongly sympa-
thetic and we can well conceive his power over an
audience when some great theme has excited speak
er and hearer alike into magnetic unison.
There is in his look, tone, bearing and whole ap-
pearance the consciousness of power beyond any dis
play 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 vast
reservoir of strength This, we should say. was one
of his principal characteristics. Orators are often
super fetal sort of men, like the Italian tmprovisa-
ores with exhausess fertility Of useranee but with
out profound reflection and feeling. kossath does
not appear, from first sight of him, to be- of this
sort. His auency comes from the fulIness. rather
than the shallowness, of his mind. Yet. in the Ne
feetve and logical faculties, should not compare
him with Webster. as an English writer has done.
He is not ponderous as Webster, and resembles.
in facility and ease Of manner, the more spontaneous
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