New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-01

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him IN opinion Montague Zoo, most acute ob-
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that thoy Who IL make IL their business to dc
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nduetaio aud corrupt the very essences OF things
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mn of The most rssful rhetoric does ltiie more
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an Illusion even while ho speaks are on our guard
against him aud when h speech is over the impression
oi is thaccd. He gains hearing even. only because
Of hr pwor TO excite and 10 and when that power
IL lost his magic amounts 10 nothing The most nlshed
rhetoric gains ground with against their preludces
against her special rtertss against their most scioas
ngnnst their favorie schemes against their pet
IDEAS IhCe all hardened against the most fasci
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most yical This the whether the rneto
rc is honest or dishonest or all men, with ever 50 inucn
grace Of language that which they do not care to hear
or tia: which they do not want TO follow and you have
about much effect them the wind OF the desert has
the face Of The sIhynx Tho scphstry which acts on
try which convinces that which found them ready
for conviction The word which nils the ear is the word
which shapes the idea ii il not the worker Of corruption
but the counter part Of ii i docs not originate the cor
rupicn bot defines il ii the shadow of that which wa in
he mind eye, It is the sound OF that which was in the
mind ear The hays upon the heath did not betOul the
spnit Of Macbeth they only saw into IL 0uness and
when his ambitious wife whispered murder him in the
deadly counsel Of the night the crime already in his
soul /, Is in Of what call the practical affairs
Of the world. Evil advisers but evil desires made
icuGte and though the crimes OF people and OF govern
mons may 10 follow the corrupt speeches and the
rupt deliberations Of orators and legislatures the crime had
been ripened and maured in previously existing dp)s
tios Tie worst re su therefore, Is that Is
art ch be easily used By the unprncped take tho
all the higher art OF speech, and implies covert odium
against elcqUence elf which is one of the divinest emo
tions Of the human spirit Mere rhetoric not to be con
founded with dogmas or the cunning traieer OF phrases
The keen manager Of popular emotions or the hsrionc
toI hist may be eoquen the successful deelamer huent
In words barren in heart and unroubed about truth or
faehood may BE- eloquent but such are not eloquent
Let them in manner be effective in language ever
20 ready; Let them move what numbers they may and
make 81 uences and mouth them they may be admired
for their making and their mounting bat they are not elo
quen for eoquence is not in force of mind ITSELF nor in
briaIcy gnationnor in glory OF from
the everlasting dictates of justice and the everlasting hu
mainly of the heart True eoquence srhat order of speech
which the wisdom of ages does not renounce nor the gen
erous sentiments of advancing men ever repudiae
pel because true eoquence always faithful to the high
est ideas and TO the highest instincts. VIII any wisdom
Dives and Lazarus VIII any liberality OF soul
shrink the spirit illustrated in the story of the good
Samaritan True eoquence is, therefore, that order OF
speech which, with lie, and power and beauty, accords
with the enduring moral harmony of the inellect-the
onscience aud the aeo;ioGs il that order OF speech
which enghens, enarges, eeyates, inSpires-and such
.peecb wien united with adequate strength aud genius,
continues forever be alyng voice among the nations