The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1862-11-08
Saturday Morning, Nov. 8, 1862.
lFrom the oshawa, Canada, vindicator.l
Mr.. Moffat's Lectures.

Bro. Moffat has jnst concluded his course of
lectures in our County, and on the whole
they have been a brilliant success. Every
where the brethren testify that they never lis
tened to such lectures before. On last Friday
night he gave the closing lecture in this place.
The hall was crowded to its utmost capacity,
and though Mr.. Moffat was so worn down by
his labors that it seemed almost impossible for
him to speak when he first commenced, vet
ne held that vast audience, many of whom
were standing, in breathless attention for over
an hour and halt, and closed with an original
and brilliant peroration that thrilled like an
electric shock through every heart We un-
derstand that Bro. Moffat intends returning to
Canada again, and making it his permanent
home, and we hope the Sons, and all friends of
Temperance, will rally around him and sustain
him in his noble efforts, else he may leave us
as he did before, worn down by toll and crush
ed by poverty. Bro. NJ is man that will win
laurels in any land. We got a peep at his
scrap book, and to show that we have not
formed too high an estimate of his powers, we
give few of the many notices of the press
which he received while travelling in the
neishhnring Rennhlic -
The South Carolina Son of temperance
says What shall we say of Moffat; the pat
ois upon whose tongue proclaims him to be
from the classic land of Scots wha ha' VII
Wallace bled' At one time the touching mel
ody of his voice in sympathy with suffering
humanity, drew tears from all, and again each
manly heart burned with indignation, as i'm
terribly vivid language he depicted the wrongs
inflicted on our race by the rum curse. But
who can do justice to Moffat? Not us, and
we forbear the attempt"
The Spirit of the Age, North Carolina. says:
"Those who neglected to go and hear Moffat
have missed a treat that perhaps they may
never have the opportunity to get again. We
had heard all the stars of the Temperance Re-
form, but such genial humor, such beautiful
poetic illusions, and such transcendent pero-
rations, we never heard combined in one
speech before Without fear of contradiction,
we pronounce Moffat one of the greatest of
living orators"
The Christiin Star and Herald says 1--WE
have heard Moffat, the great temperance ora
tor, and though our expectations were raised
to pretty high standard, they were more than
realized. Moffat does not make so much dra-
matte display as Cough, but in classic purity
of style, poetic beauty of composition, and ter
rible power of denunciation, he far excels
him."
Mr.. Moffat is now in Durham County where
he commenced course of lectures, in Bow
manvile, on Monday evening. He will next
go to Toronto and Kingston, and to Portland,
Maine, and will spend most of the winter lee
turing in the latter State. He will probably
return this way to his home, in Ohio, near
Cincinnati, in the Spring, when he promises to
give the public a brief sketch of his life prev-
Gus to entering the lecturing field, which will
serve to show that he has no small cause to
cry out increasingly against the drinking usa-
ges of society, and the sale of alcoholic poi
son, throughout this Christian land