Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-22
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JOHN BRIGHT, NJ. "a CFGpIttcs zen tH0F.
trdit-The other morning we gave part of /,
speech, recently delivered by that celebrated :
English reformer, John Bright, member Of
Parliament for Birmingham. To-day we sui s
join graphic sketch of him from the ever ready
pen of DIR. Mackenzie. 1t is one of the best
things of its kind that we have read for a long
time.
Born in 1911, at Rochdale near Manchester,
and son of small cotton.spinner there, one of
the Society of Friends, John Bright got good,
plain education, and derived from his mother
how very much all of US owe to our motherS
"a taste for English poetry. You see, intthes
language of his speeches, sometimes so graphic
IN their harmonious utterance and simple purity
OF language, how thoroughly his mind is inn
bued with poetry. Every now and then, in the
midst of his ,nostfyiolent harangncs, Nr. Bright
scars aoft into the region of poetic thought, and
brings vivid pictures of natural beauty before
his hearers. In this he resembles Cobbett, that
most perfect master of the Anglo. Saxon tongue,
whose episodes about rural life, interjected into
the middle of his most vehement political dis
questions, look like green spots upon those arid
wastes.
In due time, paternal Bright surrendered his
business to John Bright and other sons It
continues to be prosperously carried on intheir
name, but Mr.. Bright has acquired property
eSses.
Mr.. Bright lisa manHof small personal expen.
diture-books and good pictures causing his
chief extraordinary outlay. But he has no fan
cy for expensive couriOsities Of literature, and
his pictures are those painted by native artists.
The good, sound, common sense of his. Quaker
education and principles thus runs into his
intellectual enjoyments. He IS Quaker to
this hour, and attired in moderated Quaker cos.
tune
A good looking, well built man, with good
nature as well as firmness in his face Clear
blue eyes, brown hair in gentle waves, broad
chest, erect body-altogether personable, not
to say prepossessing. Rather gay than grave
in conversation. Gives and takes a quip.-
Listens with pleased attention TO a good story,
and barters back another, quite us good inire-
turn. Social, and fond of discussion, vet does
not seek to monopolize the talk. capital
man to sit opposite TO in railway carriage,
from London to Manchester, with his remarks
on men and thlngs-as Charles Grugan has ex-
perienced, we dare say. Has Travelled largely
over Europe, and can well describe what he
closely observed. Has hand open as melt
ing charity. Speaks better of his political op-
poncnts than, on the average, they deserve.
Has no faith in the Liberalism of Palmerston,
and never believed in the pseudo-patriotism
of Lord John Russell, whom he believes to
be artstocratical to degree, with all his.
barney about popular rights. Respects the
memory, and Iaments the death of Sir Robert
Peel, just at the time when he had learned the
lcsson-by statesmen slowly taken to heart
that an honest purpose evident to the People,
will always be sustained by popular support.
Thinks that Bulwer would be better in his IL
brary, writing novels, than in Downing street,
governing colonies. Looks upon Lord Derby
as breakwater, to prevent the overflow Of.
Palmerston and Russell into Office. Regards
Lord Stanley as the most rising young politician
in England, and despairs not of seeing him the
most liberal unpopular Prime Minister Eng
land ever knew. Would probably consent to
sit in the Cabinet under him, and would most
certainly become great failure if he did-for
he would quarrel with all his colleagues, onerby
one, in the course of the first fortnight. Drinks
nothing but cold water, yet is SO beligerent on
that pure clement, that his friend, Golden, one
day said, half jest and half earnest, thatif John
Bright had not been born and bred a Quaker, it
was evident that Nature had cut him out to be
a prize-fghter. And, indeed, as he stands in
the House of Commons political lshnael,
with his hand against all parties, and most of
them against him, John Bright Involuntary
reminds one Of an intellectual gladiator.
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cheerful to read now that tho cold weather has
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