Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-10-22


nsncerity Of mind for several generations you viii
certainly find the talker established IN the place o.
honor, and the doer hidden in the obscure crowd,
with activity lameds or working sorrowluliy lorWa.u
on paths unworthy of him All men are devoutIy
PROSTATE syorshpping the eloquent talker; and no
man knows what q scandalous idol he is. Out OF
whom in the midest manner like comfortable, nat
ural rest comes mere aSphyxia and death eVerlast-
moi Probably there is not in Nature a more dis
traeted phantom than your, commonplace eloquent
speaker he is found on platforms, IN parhaments'
on Kentucky stumps, at taVern-dlnners, IN Wnoy,
empty insincere times like The excellent
stump orator" as admiring Yankee friends de-
fine hmhe who in any occurrent set OF clrcumstan-
ces can start forth, mount upon his stump, MS
rostrum, tribune place in Parliament, or other ready
elevation and pour forth from his appropriate, ex-
celent speech his Interpretation of the said crcum-
stances, in such manner as poor windy mortals
round him shall cry bravo to-he is not the artist
can much admire matters go! Alas, he is In gen
eral the windest mortal of them all and is admired
for being so, into the bargain A mouth-plece OF
Chaos to poor benghted mortas lend ear to him
as voice from Cosmos this excellent stump orator
fills me with amazement Not empty, these musical
wnd-utterances of his! they big with prophecy;
they announce audibly to that the end OF ma
ny things is drawing nigh!
He who well considers will find this same art of
speech as we moderns have it, to be truly aston
ishing product of the Ages and the longer he con-
siders it the astonishing and alarming reck-
on it the saddcst of all the that now lie heavy
on US. Words will not express what mischief the
heavy-laden generations.
Do you want man not to- practice what he be-
lieves-then encourage him to keep often speaking
it in words Every time he speaks it the tendency
to do it will grow less His empty speech of what
he believes will be WEAKNESS and an atHlctlon to
the wise man. But do you want his empty speech
of what he believes to become further lnSlncere
speech of what he does not believe Celebrate to
him his gift of speech; assure him that he shall rise
in Parliament by means of it, and achieve great
things without any performances that eloquent speech
whether performed or not, is admirable. My friends
eloquent unperformed speech in Parliament or else
where is horriblei The eloquent that delivers
in Parliament elsewhere, a beautiful speech, and
will perform nothing of it, but leaves it as if already
performed-what can you make of that man? be
has enrolled himself among the igniS tdtuE and
Children of the Wind; means to serve, as beauti-
fully illuminated Chinese lantern in corps hence
forth. think the most serviceable thing you could
do that man, if permissible, would be severe one
To clip off bit of his eloquent tongue, by way OF
penance and warming; another bit, if he again spoke
without performing; and again, till you had cipt
the whole tongue away from him. and were delivered,
you ard he, from at least one miserable mockery:
There, eloquent friend see now in silence If there
be any redeeming deed in thee; of blasphemous
wind-eloquencc, at least we shall have no more"
No grand doer in this world can be copious speak
er about his doings. William the Silent spoke him
self best in country liberated; Oliver Cromwell
did not shinein rhetoric; Goethe when he had buta
book in view, found that he must say nothing even
OF CnaC, ii IL was 10 SuCceeu Will Ill.,
And would you learn how to get mendacious
thought there is recipe than carrying loose
tongue. Thelying thought-you already either have
it, or will soon get it by that method He who lies
with his very tongue, he clearly enough has ceased
to think truly in his mind. How the thought of
such man-what he calls thought-be other than
false?
Alas the palpable liar with his tongue does at
least know that he is lying and has, might have,
some faint vestigc of and chance of amend
ment; but the impalpabe liar, whose tongue articu
lates mere accepted commonplace, cants, and bah
Element, which mean only, Admire me, call me an
excellent stump orator rof him what hope is there?
His thought-what thought he had-lies dormant,
inspired only invent vocabes and Probabilities;
while the tongue goes so glib the thought is absent
gone wool-gathering, getting itself drugged with
the applause HearI hear !"-what will become
of such man? His idle thought has all to seed,
and grown false and the gver of faistes to the in
ner light of his mind is gone out; all his light is
mere putridity and phospherscence henceforth. Who
is in quest of rIin let him, with assurance,
follow that man he is one, is on the right road
to it.
Be not public orator, thou brave young British
man; thou art now growing to be something-nota
stump orator, if thou canst help it. There where
thou art, work, work; whatsoever thy hand findeth
to do, do it-with the hand of man, not of phan-
tasm be that thy unnotced blessedness and exceed
well order I'd. Love silence rather than speech in
these tragic days. when for very speaking, the voice
of has fallen inarticuate to man, and hearts, in
this loud babblng, sit dark and dumb toward one
another.
The old arc what they are, and will not alter;
hope is in you-Engand's hope, and the worlds, is
that there may more be millions such, instead
of units as now. Nacte: Itauste pede. And many
future generations, acquainted again with the sien
ces, and once more cognizant of what is noble and
faithful and divine, look back us with pity and
incredulous astoniShment.