The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-12-06
For the Democrat.
Ano Tiesloent Eject Sas Mode Speech
and given Reception.

)" hat magnigeent chapter will Mr.
Lineoin's recent pilgrimage from Spring
held to Mecca--;he Chicago Wirwam--
furnish the future historian Of our conn
Ivy! That 10. a word act or look Of the
mighty Statesman might be los. to the
world ne Was attended in his Hlgyra by g
CROWD OF Reporters and photographers,
and even the subtle Lightning Of heaven is
made subservient in heraldinc to an ADM
ring world his forensic effort at Blooming
ton. A speech which for brilliant dis
play of statemar.sbip and political wisdom
logic and eloquence is without rival
l cannot forbear quoting il in full quote
tFom TIE NJ. e. Republican, of course it is
pare coming from so pure source.
fello~ Citizens Of Bloomi;nqton and W..
Lean Coanty:--I am glad to meet Won At
ter longer separation han has been com.
mon between you and me- | thank you
Tor the good report You made of the elsc.
t"n In old Mclean. The people Of The
country have again fixed up their affairs
Tor constitutional period of time. By the
way; think very much of the people as
an old friend sail he thought of woman
lie SAID wheh he lost his frs: wife. who
had been grea: help to hira in his busi-
ness. he thought he vas rninel. that he
could never find another to Eli her place.
y. iehg,h' however, he married another.
who he found did quite SIS well as the first
ana that h's opinion uow was that any wo.
man would 10 well who was well done bv
30 think OF the whole people of this ma.
ton: they will do ever so vel If we'll done
by We viii try to do we'll by them in all
parts Of the country, North and South.
with entire confidence that al will be well
with all Of US.
The above Grafton may be divided rhe-
torcaily into four parts, the Exordum, the
Proposition. the Conception and Tho Pero-
ration.
l: will DC seen at once that the Exordi-
um terminates with the word "McLean. ,"
and l cannot pas 1t by without directing
attention to the elegant and graceful die
ton and The delicate and unique manner
with which Mr.. Lincoln pays his auditors
handsome compliment, and at the same
time treats them to very little bit of flat
terry. The idea in the exordium, reduced
TO simple language, would read about in
this wsy. Il am glad to see you, Old Nc
Lean. Ny Good Fellow. you know VIC have
always been intimate friends"
The proposition. or second division %
this Grafton concludes with TIE word "iime"
To say this is naultuaa i,s 5,arro, wouldsbe
an insult to lis great originator. 1t is that
remarkable condensation Of language by
which realm of thought has been reGu-
ced to the limits Of simple, logical prop
osliIon. The most common observer can.
not fail to see that whole volumes might
be written on what is in those three lines
The truth Of The proposition. however, is
not quite SO apparent TO the writer, Tor in
his humble opinion The peoples affairs. in
stead Of being fixed up" seem rather
unfxed; but this is a matter Of opinion
merely.
1t is indeed with doubtful and treu,blin =
steps. press the threshold Of the third
division of this Grafton.
Sublimity OF conception has in all ages
been deemed the attribute OF the gods, but
sometimes though rarely delegated to posts
of the highest gifts. Homer is wont to
be called poet of exalted conceptions,
VirgiIs imaginings are chasie and elegant,
and Dr. Blair has said that some of Os-
SLAMS conceptions are sublime. In later
days we find Shakespeare pouring ont the
strong and vivid figures of his exuberant
fancy.
Even in the school Of oratory we can
sometimes discover the tracery of this rare
power Of genius. One cannot read De
mosthenes de Corona without being i'm
pressed with a sense of the sublime; and
III lHt UIdtiOUS NHdtHfHi, NiIldDctu
and even our own Webster, we occasional
]y meet with conceptions that would do
honor to the highest fight ofpoetic genius;
but of all things written or unwriiten, said
or unsaid, nothing approaches the sublim-
ity of conception in Mr.. Lineoln's Bloom
inphn speech. After ages and ages have
circled away. after future republics and
dynas,ies shall have arisen and crumbled
to dust, and the name Of the American
Republic perhaps swept from the memory
of man. that Of Lincoln will be fresh on the
tongues Of all, not as President OF an an
Gent republic. but as the author Of tie
sublime conceptions Of the man who had