New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-16

he il all that can ne ueelieu ioi Ppi0 SPo"noi' "
paience in the study of facts and his weight in stating
them are valuable points in popular oratory where in
strucon il as much contemplated persuasion. Burke
and Cicero have been the models of his taste and of his
culture-he has done them honor. But certain cor
dial sincerity which makes iteef felt in all his perform
ances H. after ALL bis strongest weapon and his best
gift This gives thrill 10 his voice and light 20 his
contenance that electric In large assemblies, carry
ing Joy and comfort to hs friends wrath and dsmay to
his opponents. If you want TO say thing greatly, be
sure that you greatly believe it. This Sumner does,
and this weight of conviction is the strongest point in
his eoquence il goes far beyond his gaces Of dicon,
considerable they orsittoo much praise him
TO say that bis great gerings have not soured his tenn
per and that his great honors have not inflated his
pride His look and smile are now clear, bright,
and n0ire in the days Of his youth and be wears the
crown of his martyrdon-a crown rarely worn In has
world-wih simple and noble Inconsistencies, going
on only from one faithful service 10 another and es-
teeming his work far above his wages
Now if the artist has little charge en- beau this
portraiture is only with the involuntary exaggera
ton Of good will and il is better to give the good ideal
than the bad ideal of character. No man is stereo
typed, he ALWAYS hangs between the two. We have
drawn Sumner AZ we think he ought 10 be Judged But
this brings us to speak of who il very apt to give
the bad ideal of the person he handles and who must
be deslt with all the more because for the time, his
penus makes us the involuntary accompices OF his in
justice.
O, Wendell! Philippe, fiery WENDELL We were in
ali our election Joy The triumph of Lincoln was new,
and too good to be true We went about, as do the
Russians at Easter who say TO every they meet,
"a m T II ;. This and tho
cesses in Italy, made US feel that, while the bride
groom had tsrried we had all been sleeping, and our
waking ewes were vet dim with the mists of our
belief We had Governor, too, after our own heart
and when we went TO fremont Temple to hear you
lecture on the election, went a. if TO give God
thanks for its result expecting you to aid us
in doing the same. But you, Wendell, never give God
thanks for ANYTHING You cannot ray grace at dinner,
without especially vfying the butcher who provided
the meat and the cook who prepared it. Nay did
one hand you hosptable cup of tea, you would be
sure to ray, It's pity it il better" And 20, at
the Fraternity lecture, when the organ had finished
PLAYING all sorts of ubilant marches Buchanans Re
treat, Lincolns Quickstep," and God Save the
Governor; and when the eyes of all men were
fastened upon you you pitched into everybody and
everything, made our great victory contemplate,
knocked over Gov. Banks, held Gov. Andrew aoft, to
his great discomfort, pummeled the dgniiied Seward,
and in a moment of returning calmness, enumerated
yOur solemn and invarable propositions In the be-
ginning Garrison created the heavens and the earth,
and said to Garrison, let us make man in our own
" image which we have ever since wen trying 10 ac-
complish."
But I cannot draw your portrait in wrath. SYM
pathize TOO much with the old lady from the country,
who took up one of Theodore Parker's best mornings
in her anxiety TO have ii proved that You were child
of grace. Theodore satisfied her at last but unhappy
he has not bequeathed to us the process by which he
did il. heard you, however, at the Music Hall, when
you spoke of him to his afflicted congregation when
sweet words and pathetic tones showed me deep vein
Of tenderness in you, and gave ME a new criterion
whereby 10 Judge you. Now, as l know not more
over by what unkind usage the fine gold of your ma
ture has been freted and twisted into 20 crooked
pattern to dsentsnge the real tissue from It's
adventurous complications, and to give, If can, the
good ideal of your oft-mistaken character Whoever
reads speech of Mr.. Phillips lie wounded, perhaps
angered by injustice done to some one. Somebody's
conduct sure 10 be stated according TO the worst
sruction that unchariy can put upon ii, with an in
genuity Of malice and kcenness OF rdcule which 20
far to make the speaker the first satiris Of day.
But Mr. Phillips in his desires Is something than
this. He wishes to be a reformer, philanthropist
and always his ptcss weapon on the side Of hui
mainly, virtually or suppostiously assaled. But he
forges the humanity Of those whom he, in turn as.
sajls-forges even his human limitations and in
rmities. So, his Christian intentions Christian
in their expression, and the deep music within him
oftenest does not waken the music Of other hearts
waking but a sharp echo from the angle of the wall
that lies nearest. This, however is the result of
poetic power Of abstraction common 10 all powerful
magnatiOns He imperonstes the evil that he pur-
sues and from those who seem TO uphold it he for the
time strips of their personality, that like great gen.
eral, he may smite his enemies like pawns, nue-pns
eabbagebeads and make death aud carnage themselves
objects Of art. This lie simply manifestation Of
great an admirable power and the expression of such
moods and moments must not he construed with cold
and mean literaty. When Wendell casSes as all IN
leap, TO use ARENAS Wards happy expression, why
then Wendell is poetical and goes little beyond what
is allowable say Of fellow creatures. But You
cannot have the power without having sometimes its
abuse. The natural forces, which are the winged mes
sengers of heaven, sometimes overeap their mark;
and freshets and thunderbos do not make atheists of
u.s. When there IL real vital force feel that it is
on the whole more helpful than hurful; we wish it
moderated, not destroyed.
But whoever hears Mr.. Phillips, believes for the
time as he the orator. plesses, and however unwill
ingy, is swept Off his feet and carried along upon a
burning stream of words and figures 10 be landed,
at the orators convenience, in some new region Of
thought far from the household gods Of his familiar opn-
ions. This tyrannous genius sweeps All assembly like
lightning-ebuse, derision aye even uniarness grow
for the time admirable in his hands Mr.. Sumner
slow speaker and his baaons of thought long in
a. ,,on.rvera INT Mr. Phllips fancies Are Zonaves