The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-12-08
Eloquence Extraordinary.


In an address lately delivered before
the Young Mems Association, in Great
Bend, Tennessee, and published by re-
quest of the association, we find the
following elegant, eloquent and psrspic
GUS passages. The oration opens thus:
TO chide the reprehensible is An ind:
pulse Of humanity, but to impersonate
the transgressor, is to surrender in guilt.
This surrender comedies an implication
absolute as it is universal of mans rela-
tionship, as transgressor, and Of his in.
volvement in the limitless expansion Of
exceptionable undertakings. The ex-
tension of this involvement varies like
its magnitude in the ratio of its intensi.
ty-in the indulgment of it's participants
and in the complexity of it's aspira-
TONS
That's so! If anybody contradicts
that statement, it must be because he
don't understand it-or is wilfully cap.
tious and wrong.headed. Hear tile ora.
tor again (his subject is the Romancs
of Reform .... a. a.s..e
Romance of reform lies not in gilt.
tering phantasms, dazzling the impetu-
Gus with blazes of excellence-not in
vague sentimalism reproaching the Ian.
gour of sudden vicissitude-not in ma
tional celebrations from party eminence
or halcyon repose-notin rattling thun.
ders ofboiling eloquence, or in patriots
zeal for his country's good-but it lies
in substituting the calm repose of reg
ularity to the wild madness of intensity
and perturbation
'1mpetuous blazes of excellence is
good but it don't come up to 'rattling
thunders of boiling eloquence.' But
fine as the language is, the thought is
the thing. How clear and precise how
original, md yet how obvious But
hear him again +:
Some of our ladies find this romance
mid f1ounces and ostentation-mid lux
ury and expense-mid smatterers of
French peppered with Latin-of Latin
salted with Greek-or of Greek hashed
with German. To petrify their brains
with problems or dishes would be blow
ing up the ramparts of beauty and for
tune--pillaging the flower pots of ge-
ranium magnifcenee and insulting the
bounties ofa benevolent God. The hot
aired furnace--the attenuated visage--
the wasted fnger--the powdered var.
nish-the wasp like waist--are to them
sublimated attainments, stereotypod as
the magnets ofa pauperized neglect
What will some of our ladies' say to
that? What does he mean by blowing
up the ramparts of beauty p The ob-
security cant be in the writer, and must
therefore lie in our ignorance. Still we
ask-what are the ramparts of beauty
Echo only answers beauty which
throws no light on the subject, and is
probably intended as simple note Of
admiration at the orators style. What
does he mean by blowing up the ram
parts,' &c. A thought strikes us its
the swell of crinoline! Hoops, by all
that's extravagant Hoops !-whoops {!
-hurra But mark the orators fell
city of diction in the passage about pill
Laying the flower pots of geranium mag
nificence'-is there anything finer than
that in Carlyle or Emerson? Hear
him once more
Such theme needs no epitasis. It
needs no ampitheatre with its Ignatius
irritating the loins to accelerate his glo-
ry. 1t needs not the intellect of an
Origen-the infexibility of Lamentius
-or the suavity of Pionius for ito
apodosis.' .....
Clear as mnd conspicuous. as 'Brakma!'
Let us pause for while to ponner these
maxims Of wisdom. 1t is enough 70,
one dav.-Bost0n Post.