Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-13

A TENNESSEE DEMosTHENRs Somebody has
sent US an "orstiOu, BY Edwin H. Tenuy, alter
ney at law, Nashville, on the Eighty Third Ami
versary OF American Independence, at Rome, Ten
nessee, July 4ih, 1882" OF all The spread eagles
that ever took fight from Fourth Of July rostrums
this one is the "spreadiest and Of all the nom
seasical rhetorical houtishes ever spoken or
written, this is decidedly and emphatically the
cream cheese" To prove this assertion read the
following short extracts from the 81 pages which
compose the pamphlet and the ''oration."
First, who, which, or what, do all the pronouns
in the following paragraph represent and what
grammar had the speaker siudiedl
I'VE refer to Isaac HRyne. Il was at Massachu-
setts in seventeen hundred and eighty.One that he
bade adieu 20 his family and one hundred slaves,
TO join the conflict. Victorious in defeat he started
for his home, but it was q ride to eternity. LOgy
was despair, for they bad skulked along the route
/ TO Waylay their enemy. Twitched from his sad
die, throttlcd and tied, he lay in s dungeon in a
British capital. He asked for a trial but to be
damned and denied him"
He concludes that he
- will not speak OF Daniel Taylor, Of his de-
lection aud stOmach-Of the emsiic aud bullet in
whose periphery lay his passage to another world,
yet the prodigalty Of opulenee looms big DER his
grave"
! But be wakes eloquent over the heroes OF the
Revolution after this astonishing manner. Read
and see what pedantic fool may write:
'Could we learn from Immortality their fame or
presage their memory, the priceless league-the
serried rank-the siren yell-tbe lemn march
the cracking boDe-the flying fesh-the clinic
Pang-the grilling Wail-the queuchless sigh and
the elatiering footsteps Of thar army welding sym
patty to ages and liberty to life. will float like the
. aNrHHa su.nF FNaH-~.
| talty, ana Whisting salvation along the whirlpool
OF nations, they enter like their fathers SEA Of
] bliss. We might pauperize our intellect, but we
cannot drRmatzs their valOr, We can historify
the scenes Of a Potomac or a Hudson, Of a Dea-
ware or an Atlantic, busbing and swelling with
their blood, but we cannot master q diction that
can garnish one diamond or sully one pearl in the
corOnated wreath Of their rubifc disdem. Awk-
ward as were their vicissitudes it did not furry
their serenity sable was their gloom it did not
warp their integrity-eurbess as was their zeal it
was bulimia for their liberty. Were their enter
prises heroic, 60 to TieOnd eroga. Was their
equanimity hedeviled, step to the plains Of Ben
nlngton."
He indulges in the following startling metaphor:
with their knees as their minaret, and Christ
as their Saviour, their deic peas stream along the
ja0ed lines, and tapping ems gus Of the army, and
touching the angelic voices with teegraphie fight,
they dart through the labyriuths Of other worlds
to be printed in Italics in The newspapers OF eter
nifty"
But as he warns up with bis subject no common
language will express bis emotion. He founders
through Webster and Walker as & novice does
through the ntricaces of the genuine Scotch Reel,
lodging hither and thither, catching and swinging
somebody, whether right or wrong, and finally
thanking his stars that be has got out but without
the slightest idea as 70 how be accomplished the
feat. Listen once more to his beautitudes:
as we think OF them headed with the feaih
cred ensign Of Americas pride streaming through
milky Wsys, and rainbow domes, for Jordan 8
banks, festive with eherubc songs and crowded
with the beats Of paradise, we would fancy parades
ano aerenades mid It's roral gales, iepd giens, snd
HuHaeeous charms, and all tiokeied for glory, and
enarterlng immortality's heetest steamer, they
muster the almy-theY unlonsgn the moOisDgs-
and pealing their last farewell from that hurricane
deck, they start for satan's landing, and hearing
from Fon dismal cell Arnold and bis traitorous gang
squiTming mid the Uises Of retriblaiOn, they foil
heits batteries ana scale IT'S parapets, and doxOlc-
gizing along the suburbs Of that arstocratic city
they join in the deputation from heavens artillery,
to be hailed by the mayor in the citadel''
VS. fancy that there are few passages in an The
works Of American statesmen or orators that car
compare with that Bat still further on be tells as
that If the monster Of ipgratiiude" viii "leavS
as"
IL "Then viii dIsunion quick resign her breath,
Aud kick hfs's bucket to the shades Of death"
But Of the rest OF the grandiloqusnt "blarney'
Of the speaker, hcW he pitches iBto the press 0
ne eountry-which. With an ObliyiOusness o
nets which Would make Munehausen himself
blush he states to be 25 900 600 dailies, 100000,
OoO Esekiies, and over 81 100000 mouthlies land
how he would root out dlsuuiOu, behold are the
no. to be found in the pamphlet form. price 2,
cents. Of which be says
"ShOuld it as much green a recollection, rp N
a pity OF fetch out a Sigh, one alch in the fol
viii brighten, one emotion Of tbsnkfuness vii
exhilasate, and one bud red with patriotism
bloom"