Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-05
4allg 9atlonal Ilrmotrat.
For the National Democrat.
ON SPEAKING.


True speaking must with calmness be expressed.
For he who plaiuly speaks, will speak the best;
Dlstort not your features, nor let your language
roar,
Be always easy, unless, you'll prove bore.
leaehers, there were who always taught their
To practice long, and oft, before glass.
80 that they'd see each awkward gesture made,
And learn to centnre and with grace persuade,
But, should a modern his horrid vsage see.
The glass would break, and so would he
The fright he'd get from his distorted frame
Would surely make him die with shame.
Some have heard-0 Lord forbid again.
Unless you wish, that should suffer pain.
Thunder and ranting would rather hear,
Than have screeking voice too near.
Some, with reckless motion, distort their frame,
While others InotiOns, always are the same.
Some are in dread and never dare to move,
For fear some critic, will their style reprove;
These you will find, but shallow-pated fools,
Ia constant dread oforatoric rules.
They never will, nor never can maintain
Tis of themselves they think and are in pain.
Some with fearful strokes, the air will beat,
just like the Others, "ior extremes will meet"
Should the question be, point in law,
They'll rant, like mad men, to pick some flaw.
Some preachers, too to prove, that God is love,
Tear down the very plasering from above
Descend unto the deepest pits hell
Bring up black DEVILS to create a spell.
To tell their trembling flock that Christ is good,
They roar, much louder, than Achilles would.
Though breathing war, and Trojan blood"
Some to show their careless ease and grace,
Like puppets, show no expression in their face,
1t makes no difference on what side they are,
If right or wrong, they do not care.
These are not orators, they feel not what they say,
They speak as though, they only spoke for pay.
1t is with ease, we judge and criticise,
But, we at loss when we advise,
For it is by nature we thus can tell
When one is writing or is speaking we'll;
But, to advise, we can but seldom do,
For nature dOubly acts through few
Here let me say, Cts always sure to prove),
True orators are those who move
Not he who moves his body and his mind
But he who will listening audience bind.
Here are the rules; (take them, if you pleasc,)
First true orator will rise with ease,
Come forward and with manly face
Make his exordium with becoming grace;
Then, will expose the subject of debate
In the clearest tones, yet he'll be sedate.
The subject, next he wisely shows in parts,
(CouceaIs not his method,) and from the simplest
starts.
This finished, then he, with superior art,
Narrates his cause, aud dwells on every part.
The next, invention now must burn like fire,
And each succeeding thought rise higher
Search the whole world for thonghts to bear
Upon the cause, yet search with care;
Confuse not the hearers, but be concise and clear.
And make convictions in his very looks appear.
tue IlAli, iluol NcutIleuCe IeluA uRulu
To let soft Pathos, with milder strain,
Move to fearful sorrow and to pain.
Now, he's to examine his subject close,
To see If PathOs will be verbose
For, no good speaker can the passions sway,
Unless the cause demands that he should play
,Tis the height of folly, TO attemptto cry,
If his heart is cold and his eyes are dry.
His language, too, must be of simplest kind,
To express with ease his actions and his mind
Tell not his hearers that they ought to weep,
When all the time they fain would sleep,
But weep himself and let his actions prove
That their friends were wronged-the friends they
love-
Show that theysuffered, and never got relief
Then he will move them, and move with grief
Now must he bring his subject TO a close
With ease and grace, SOS not to lose
The impression made, Gf made it was)
And withdraw successful from his weighty cause.
ITUs.
Marysville, JAN sth, 1859.