Litchfield enquirer., 1853-09-29

| night. Like we'll bred man cnee 1n his feet, there was Gn utter absence alike of bashfulness and impudeDce.
 The address was entirely without pf- lder ofany sort; nay. for this the assem- bly, was prepared at the outset. bf tlIe intimation that he had never written and never premeditated a speech in his life. Last night. the address was d succession of pictures, delivered in a manhef the most natural, and heOce, at one time. feeling was in the ascendsncy, and at another, power. His gifts of minSicFy seemed great this perilous. though vat aakle faculty. however. was but spariag> ly exercised. II $ only as the lightniBe. in 6 single flask. iIluminAtiag III, and gone. making way for the rolling peal and falling torrent. ThroggHout the whole of last night he addressed hinsel to the fancy. and 10 the heart. We can. not doubt, however. that Mr. Cough is, in very high degree capable of dealing with principles. and grappling with an adversary by way of argument !; but he adopted a different, and. as we think, . much wiser course for first appearance.
 The mode of address is ono of which mankind will never tire, till human na- ture becomes divessed of it's inherent properties. He recited series of stri> kingly pertinent facts. all of which heset in beautiful pictures. Nothing could ex- ceed .he. .sni,y of the impression. while nothing could be more multifarious than the means employed to effect 1t. It was aspecies of naoftar firing. in which old nails, broken bottles. chips of iron, and bits of metal, together with ball of lead-anylling, every thing partaking of the nature of Il missill-was available.-- The compound mass was showeredI forth with restless might and powerful execu- ton. The great. idea which was upper most all this. evening. was the evils Of d,inking; and under the conviction of that truth. every man must have left the assembly.
 The conclusion to which we have come then, is that the merits of Mr. Cough have been by no means ove,fated. In England, he would stand quite as high as he does in tine United States. There is DO hazard now i, saying that there will be no disappointment. He will nowhere fail to equal, if not to surpass expecta>. tion 1; and this triumph will among Eng. lishmen. be all the. more complete. from the utter absence of all pre,en,ions, His air makes promise of nothing: and'hence all that is given is SO much above the contract. It is impossible to conceive. of anything more entirely free from, ems piricism. Fiom first to last it is nature acting in enc of her favorite sons. Or atorically considered. he is never at faah. While the vocabIe pronunciation. with scarcely an exception. is perfect. the elo- cutionary element is every way worthy oft. He is wholly free. on the one hand. from heavy monoiony. and on the other, f'om ranting Reclamation, prope,ly ly so called. There is no mouthipg--no suited shouting. His whole speaking was eminently true there is nothing false either in tone or reflection; and the same remark applies to emphasis. All istEaih
 -the result is underwriting pleasure, and irresistible impression. His air is that of man who never thought five minutes on the subject of public speaking. but who surrendered himself to the guidance of his genius. while he ofstimes snatch es grace beyond the reach of art