Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-03-31
NO. 80.

f' u ueaiing IN generalites, puzzles his
friends how to defend him. They have
asked repeatedly what he has said or done
They (his enemies) have replied, that be
has Joined the Mazzini revolutionary psrtv
In New York. The Boston Pilot. his nost
bitter and unscrupulous defamer saws "h.
has not, after all the enquiry we have made
we find that statement incorrect" And
having found it SO, it yet halloos the bigots
onward. In the Pilot, dated March 10Th.
you will find him spoken of as some poor
devil would be who was about to make his
exit from this world with rope around his
neck. 1t says: Eve have received several
communications concerning this unhappy
person, but as We intimated in our last arti.
Gle on the subject, it will be as well to wait
IN silence for the certain result" Does he
mean the certain result that he will be
hanged, drawn, and quartered" for calling
him and the rest of the lieing crew "sanc-
timonious bigots. The regions of the damn
ed would be paradise now in his estims-
tlon for the young Ireland party. In 1s4S
he was like the person in a quandary-
How happy could / be with either
Were 'tother dear charmer away.
1t is by such means he has amassed a
fortune on the gullibility of Irishmen. L
trust some abler pen than mine will open
the eyes of my countrymen, and expose his
duphcity. Such fellows as have described
the editor of the Boston Pilot to be, are
Meagher's maligners. l assure you, sir,
that when Irishmen come to their senses,
the ''old fogies'' will be beaten to the wall.
They say, too, that he is not an orator
Will it be believed that the country which
has produced so many brilliant ones, could
make such mistake as to pronounce him
one of her greatest. Hear the evidence of
one who knew him well, and heard him
often:
Horace says, .tPoeta nascitur non fit"
He adds, that eloquence can be studied. /
think he is mistaken. The orator is born
as well as the poet A true orator is poet
in action. He must have voice, grace.
courage, power dignity, command His
conceptions must be at least equally noble,
and uttered in tones of adequate sublimity;
grandeur in his mind must be at the same
time plastic and immalleable. His inspira-
tion must grow into a passion, but must
also be held in perfect obedience to his
judgment. Of course, this inspiration is
different with different men With Mr..
Meagher it is in itself passion. Passion,
lighted up by truth, gushes at his bidding,
and energy is the characteristic of his utter
ance. Where these are aroused-where
they supply and guide the springs of his
eloquence, no man that ever lived could
obtain a more thorough command over his
audience. Borne away by an inspiration
they are unconscious of, they lose their own
identity-every external sence of theirs be-
comes wrapt and absorbed. l have often
seen vast assemblages of every age and
every condition swaying to and fro before
him, like trees in tempest; frenzied, as it
were, not by what they had heard, but
hanging on bis look as if they could gaze
down into his spirit, and see the thoughts
glowing there, already stamped with i'm
mortality, ere they reached his tongue"
FAIR PLAY.