The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-04-25

1IR. EyERETr AT ST. LoUIs.-Mr. Everett
met with most enthusiastic reception at st.
Louis, and his Grafton assembled the largest
auditory ever gathered in the city; and not
half who came could gain admttancc. 1t was
almost the first time that the people on the
western shores OF the Mississippi had listen i
to a representative of the highest New Eng
laad scholarship and eloquence. To many ii
was = new school of intellectual culture and
refinement, and was as novel and interesting
as u restoration and re-embodiment of speci-
linens OF the purest Grecian rhetoric and
eloquence. The Grafton was twice repeated.
! The News says:
Mr.. Everett is the type Of the cultivated
/ New Highlander. Portly, without being heavy,
digniiied without stiffness, genial, rather than
commanding, easy and graceful, rather than
lc.reless aud lmpusive, he is just the man 10 de-
liver an elaborate finished grafton. Lacking the
passion which, IN the west, Is regarded as the
soul Of eloquence, and the possession Of which
III SO eminent degree, made Henry Clay so
great an of1tor--hc yet possesses that pure
sentiment. refined taste, delicate perception,
and atound.ns knowledge Of our language,
which makes the accomplished rhetorician--
II would be unjust, however, to call him a
mere Thetorcian or scholar. He is n true
Statesman, and devoted patriot, as his whole
brilliant political and diplomatic lie attests.-
Dir. Everett is apparently near sixty years oil
age, and quite gray, but not bald. tie stood
on the low platform in front of the desk while
delivering his grafton, occasionally walking to
and .ro.
The Grafton was one of the finest efforts OF
oTatory Nc ever listened to--of kind with
those gems of eioquence which bespangle MIR
EyeGett's pas, public pathway, and which VIZ
remember, used ever 10 form The brilliant IL
1 the Friday's defamation at our VILLAGE school
: Not grand nor majestic. but elaborate rather
and ornate--chasJc, symmetrical, harmOniou,
as a GIecian temple, or rs the character il
described, We think it viii ever stand in oui
= literature as a model Grafton.
= Before commencing It, Mr.. Everett taste
3. fully alluded 10 the progress of the country
, declaring that, If he had been told when
child, that the little trading village 0. st. Lou
It on the banks Of The Mississippi, would exyau,
/ to It's present size; that he would one ia,
II reach il by travelling through towns ana elite
and cultivated fields, in strange new carriages
" propelled by steam; that he would tni S,
y Louis a centre Of trade, commerce and - eacC
with accommodations equal. il not superior, t
:, those OF an Atlantic city; and that at It's whal
, he would see miles OF ships, built IN a strang,
new GshlOn--il all tAlS had been whispere
u ia his ear when an infant, he would have tho
l. it a dream. Yet the dream is u sober fact,
IS thing Of reality.
Il Ia speaking Of Washington, the orator di
not 50 much sketch has history as paint hi
~ Misunderstanding the idea that the lack ,
D. genius was fatal TO Washingten's claim {
ii greatness--placing him, as great and 200
10 man. above Peter the Great, Frederick In
49, Great, and Napoleon, neither OF whom pos
isessed that symmetrical combination Of III
y regal virtues OF justice, truth, honor, commo
e, sense, prudence and morality, of which Wasl
n. ington was tue embodiment. lis charactt
al was like q circle, having no points nor salier
angles, bat with every part equi distant lrol
~ the centre. \ passing word OF praise W.
he gwen To Kane. who barred his bosom 10 the ic
of hngs OF the North; to Florence Nightingal
-. the yestal Of humanity. who made her hon
amidst peStilenee AMI disease for the love
~ her kind; and to Mary ratten, the lion hear
rs ell little woman, who carried her husband
by Ship from the Atlantic through the perls of Il
r. Horn passage, safe into the harbOr OF 81
Francisco. The speaker was frequently i
terrupted by applause. and the universal il
teTchanee Of expressions OF delight at Il
close the oration, proved how successful
Sc mad Iccn in touching the hearts OF the aul
ay enCe.