The weekly Butte record., 1858-10-16
Eloquence Extraordinary.

In an address lately delivered before the
Young Menss Association, in Great Bend
Tennessee and published by request of the as
soeiation, we find the following elegant. elo-
quent and perspicous passages. The grafton
opens thus:
"To chide the reprehensible is an impulse of
humanity but to impersonate the transrressor
is to surrender in guilt This surrender CON
eedes an implication absolute as it is universal
of maD's relationship as transgressor, and of
his involvement IN the imitless expansion Of
exeeptionable undertakings The extension of
this involvement varies like its magnitude in
the ratio OF its intensity-in the i, dulgnent
OF It's participants in the complexity of
its aspirations,
That's so. If anybody contradicts that
statement, it must be because be don: under
stand it-or is wifully captious and wrong
headed. Hear the orator again: This subject
is the Romance of Reforms
Romance of reform lies not in glitterng
phantasms, dazzling the impetuous with blazes
of excellence--not III vague sentmaism reproa-
ching the langonr of sudden vicissitude-not
in national celebrations from party cmineDce
or halcyOn repose-not in ratting thunders of
boiling eloquence, or in patriots zeal for his
country's good-but it lies in substituting the
y
of intensity and purturbation."
"ImpetuOus blazes Of excellence" is good;
but it don't come up to "rattling tnunders OF
boiling eoquence." But fine as the language
Is, the thought is the thing How clear and
precise! how original, and yet how obvious
But hear him again:
'Some of our ladies find this romance mid
founccs and ostentation-mld luxury and eX-
pense-mid smatterers Of French peppered
with Iatin-ot Latin saltcd with Greek-or
Of Greek hashed with German. 70 petrify
their brains with problems or dishes would be
blowing up the ramparts of beauty and for
tuue-piliaging the flower pots of geranium
magnfcence and insulting the bounties of a
benevolent God. The ho;-aired furnace-the
attenuated visage-the wasted fnger--the
powdered varnish-the wasp like waist-are
to them sublinlated attainments, stercotyped as
as the magnets to 4 paup rized neglect"
What will some OF oar ladies' say to that?
What does he mean by blowing up the ram
parts Of peau'v?' The obscurty cant be in
the writer, and must therefore lie in our igno-
rance. Still we ask-what are the ramparts
OF beauty? Echo only answers beauty -
which throws no light On the subject, and is
probably intended rs a simple note Of admira-
tion at the orators style. What does he mean
by blowing up the ramparts,7 &c. a thought
strikes us!-it's the swell of crinoinei iloopsl
by all that's extravigant! Hoops!-whoops,-
hdsra. But mark the orators felicity of die
ton in the passage about "plllaging the flower
pots Of geranium magnifcence is there any
thing finer than that in Carlyle or Emerson?-
Hear him once more
"Such theme needs no eptasis. It needs
no ampjtheatre with its Ignatius irritating the
ons to accelerate his glory. 1t needs not the
intellect of an Orgen-the infexiblliiy of a
Lamentius-or the suavity Of Pionius for its
apodosis
Clear as mudl conspicuous rs Brahan Let
us pause for a while 10 ponder these maxims
ol wisdom. 1t is enough for one day.-Boston
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