The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-29


Stanley is not the Lord Derby who appears on
the musings Of the present day. Who - he
A free trader in the towns--a protectlonist III
the counties pro Maynooih in lfeland--anti-
Mayn 9TH in Englsud and Scotland laying one
thing one day, retraciing ii the next, repeating
it the third, equivrcaling about 1t the fourth
cheers political jockey hear, hear, riding
alo.ipg horse, hoping TO via by cross hear
and laugh thimble rigger, gammoning
clowns mud chawing bacons with the pea OF pro
tee ion, which will never be found under any
one of his thimble', hear, hear,] aruckler to
the bigoiry which ne intends to betray; the
leader Of men who have no convictions, whose
only rule of political morality Is success the
end and aim of whose existence IL the gratltca'
ton OF personal ambition men long eager Tor
power surprised ut obtaining it, INSCRIPTIONS as
to the means ofretaining IT, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
dishonest free traders, hiding insncerty under
the mask OF intolerance, too puslanmous to
stick by their coors and not courageous enough
to take up new posi- ion. Loud cheer'ngI
This beats Banagher" they say in the
sister kingdom. The American stump cannot
surpass it; but the Characterization is probably
correct.
From sketch of D'IsRAELI, in an English
periodical, We take the following interesting
passages. Alter repeated failures to obtain a
seat in Parliament, the writer goes on to say
"He certainly succeeded in reducing himself
to the lowest possible plight as public man.
But he had genius in him, and resolution; and
he worked his way upward again, as we shall
see.
"IIe began to recover himself through meanS
Of the press-aways his great power. lie
wrote very clever. brilliant, and admirable
Essay. entitled A Vindication Of The English
Constitution; and about the same time he edited
a morning newspaper called The Representative,
published by John Murray, which turned out
faure. But soon after, he appeared in the
Times newspaper, in a series of very clever let
tera, afterwards published in volume, entitled
Letters Of Runnymede. They were racy, brilli-
ant, satircal, ard well-informed though occa-
sionslly rather insolent in their smartness. 1t
is also supposed that, about the same time, and
even down to a recent date, Mr.. Dlsraeli con-
tributed frequent to the leading columns OF
The Thuaderer.
AT length, Mr.. Dsreali succeeded in obtain
ing adm sson TOP lament, as one Of the men,
bers for the Borough of Maidstone. This was
at the general election in 1887. No great ex.
pectations were formed of him, ard yet there
was come curiosity excited respecting his debut
as an orator. He had delivered some blazing
philippics againt. the Wings out of doors, and
uttered sundry mystic speeches crammed with
classics. The gentlemen of the House Of Com.
mons expected that he would make fool OF
and he did not disappoint them His
first eff rt was ludicrous failure--his maiden
speech was received with cloud bursts of laugh.
ter" The newspapers said of him that he
went up like n rocket, and came down like its
stick. You may conceive the chagrin Of the
Y oung egslator-whose speech bad been COM
posed 10 the grandest and most ambitious strain
of eoquence, but was received as il every period
pun or flash of wit. 1t was as if
Hamlet had been played as comedy. But
towards the conclusion, he threw in sentence
worthy of being quoted, for it was true
prophecy. Writing under the shouts of laugh
ter which had drowned so much of his studied
eloquenee, he exclaimed in an almost savage
voice: 81 have began several times many
things, and have often succeeded at Last. | shall
sit down now, but the time will come when
you WILL HEAR MEL" The time did come
for Djsraeli now stands there in his place the
greatest orator within the walls of the British
Parliament.
The subsequent career OF Disraeli furnishes
an admirable lesson to all men; it shows what
determination and energy will DO. For he has
owed all his success to hard work and patient
industry. He began carefully to uncarn his
faults to study the character of his audience, TO
cultivate the arts Of parliamentary knowledge.
He soon felt that success in orntory was not
to be obtained in bound, but had to be work
cd patiently for His triumph did come, but it
came slow, and by degrees"
His peculiarites of mind and person are thus
dc cribed:
"With the features and general poriraiture
of Disraeii the reader of Punch is already
familiar indeed That useful periodical may be
regarded as gallery of the portraits of living
men of lnnrk. His external appearance ia very
characteristic. A flee of ashy raeness, large
dark eyes, curling black hair, STOPPING gait
an absorbed look, a shutting walk,--these ore
his external marks; and once seen, you will
remember Disrael again. There is something
unusual, something quite foreign, in his up
perrance; and you could not by any possibility
mistake him tor Saxon. Notwith landing his
position, he is an exceedingly isolated beirg.
He makes no intimltes,-has few or no per-
sonal friends ---he seems TO be lonely and self
absorbed He has no confidential acquaintance;
living in his own world, and feeding upon his
own lHouHHis.
AS an orator, Mr.. D.raeli is entitled to very
high rank,-perhaps the highest in the present
House of Commons. But it must be confessed
that his oratory is entirely intellectual. He
never touches the heart: bis greatest Efforts have
been sa'rica,-of the scathing, blighing, and
destroying kind his best speeches have been
eminenlly ola destructive character Yet their
finish has been perfect,-perfect as a product of
the mere intellect. He never carries away his
auditors in fit of enthusiasm as O'Connell and
Shiel could do. I1D feeling he leaves with you
ia that of high admiration of his intellectual
you cannot help saying, "Whst a
clever orator Disrseli is ~ Though
usually ungainly and someu hat supercilous in
his action, no speaker can be more Effective than
he il, in making his "points." His by-play, as
actors call it, is perfect; and to his sneers and
sarcasms he gives the fullest force by the most
subtle moduations of his voice, by transient ex-
pressions of the features, and by the always in
imitabe shrug; and, while the house is con.
vused by the laughter which he has raised at an
adversary's expense, he himself usually remains
az apparently unmoved and impassive us il he