Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-10-10
For the Newsdealer.
MIR. EvERETT'S RHETORIC.

Mr. EDITOR Il am not able to say
which is the most to be admired the con-
Guiding paragraphs of Mr.. Everett's agri-
cultural address, or the eulogistic editori-
al on Mr.. E.'s paragraphs, written by one
of the editors of the Vermont Chronicle.
Each is a harmonious combination of
words embodying rich thoughts, beauti-
full, logical, and strongly presented to the
reader, as may be seen by reading the
following quotation. j. W. L.
Mr.. Everett concludes an agricultural
address delivered few days ago with the
following paragraphs -
"We have all looked with interest and
pleasure on some noble factory, filled
with ingenious machinery, constructed of
metal, wood, and leather; wheels, and
ratchets, and cams; motions direct, recip-
rocating, and eccentric; cylinders, and
spindles, and looms, with all their springs
and screws, and bolts skilfully fitted, and
polished, and oiled, and geared above and
below, from the foundation to the roof; !;
the inpatient stream idly breaking on the
mighty turbine, all waiting for the con-
trolling hand of man to move the lever,
bid the great water-wheel commence its
round, and start the entire system into
life and action.
So, and with admiration increased by
all the superiority of the works of God
over the works of man, when we look on
the wondrous and beautiful earth, with all
its capacities for the supply of human
want-the varieties of soil, clay, and
lime and sand in all their mixtures /; en-
riching loans and marls; organic fertil-
izers the bubbling spring; the irriga-
ting stream the sheltering wood and
hill; the changing seasons; the strange
circulation of vapor, and cloud, and rain;
the solar ray shooting from the upper sky;
latent heat and electric fire pervading all
creation the marvellous structure of the
vegetable world; seed, and root aud stalk,
and leaf, and bud, and flower, and fruit,
and grain, each after its kind, endless In
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form and quality, the food, the cordial
the medicine, the clothing of man, draw
ing each its peculiar nutriment from the
same soil--we may regard them as form
ing together one vast system of machinery
waiting for intelligent and industrious
man to turn the furrow, and scatter the
seed, and reap the harvest; and thus
give their motion to the mystic spindles
from which Nature draws out the fibers
of vegetable life, and the beautiful looms
where she weaves into the tissue OF the
year. for the comfort and delight of hei
children, the gorgeous tints Of spring, and
the golden fruits of autumn"
In the general thought embodied II
these magnificent paragraphs there is
nothing new. But it by no means follows
that the language--the expression--i'
their only merit. The more than fault
less, the expressive and picturesque use o.
words has its charm and power; Bu'
back Of that lies the full mastery of thu
thought itself. Mr.. Everett looks deeI
enough and contemplates long enough, tc
read the meaning Of the two pictures, auc
to see the relations of the smaller move
ments to the great whole and then EN-
ploys his exquisite skill in showing wha
the thought really embraces.
IL requires not only keen, quick eye