Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-05-07
From the Home journal.


-. ..,s OF the battle-of the struggle
$50 gs OF the busy cares of lifel' ~
But the poet--ever dreaming 3.
--.s~ Let the wheels of progress rolls 1-
Striving not to cast the shadow &
OF the angel of his soul. E
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MISS DICKINSON THE FEMALE ORATOR.
Mp. Willis, of the Home Journal re-
=, Gently listened to this wonderful woman,
and says: THAT she, with her pretty
hand can WELD an audience as Caesar
e falchiou Nigh sway his legions-we were
ourselves living witness, the other night.
ss Miss Dickinson is symetrical young
Creature, every moment showing we'll
knit agility of frame, and her build and
action altogether being just what would
%. be picked out for daring horsewoman.
The Napoleonic mould of her jaw express
es the energy which is her leading char
acteristic Her features are otherwise
well chiselled. her forehead and upper lip
of the Greek proportion, and her nostrils
thin, The men would all call her beau
tiful-the women would admit it with
their usual reluctauce-but We thought
Ourselves THAT she was beauty. but for
= the look, little too determined, of that
-. strongly moulded jaw, though this would
: better hold the throat-atch to helmet
land make her look more like Semiramis
in the field. She wore her hair with the
adolescent cut of young Hephastiou,
had long sleeves and a high-necked dress,
aud with the contralto fulness of her voice
seemed, in fact, more ready for masculine
service than for the " complying tender
sness" of her sex. \
-. But how, under the delicacy Of a girl
of eighteen, could be gathered the strong
wisdom which she poured forth SO volubly
that night, was to us a wonder AS she
walked up and down before the thousands
in that crowded hail. she discussed topics
SO grave that they required rather the
scope and grasp of Senator's mind or
historians, and presented them to the
enthusiastic crowd with a fuency tina.
was wholly without hindrance. How, to
such youthful lips, flowed so easily such
stately language How, over every gesture
and every look, every turn of argument
and every cadence of voice. reigned such
absolute self possession How, amid the
. gracefulness of that virgin beauty, could
accumulate the thunder to denounce
laggard as she denounced Mcclellan, ex-
ecrate traitors as she did Beauregard and
Davis! Efortless and modest as it all
was, it was too uncommon to seem nat
ural 1t was woman in the exercise of
an inspired gift.
"a lady friend who met Miss Dickinson
at party at the honse of Mr.. Charles
Gould. tells us that the eloquent damsel
there held long and earnest conversation
with Mr. Fremont and that her manner
IN society is so tranquil and thoughtful
as to inspire great respect. Her express
onis absorbent and deferential, and she
Is much admired by the eminent men
with whom she chances to converse Mr..
Fremont says that she reminds him very
strongly of Rachel, the French woman of
genius and that her tones particularly
arc wonderfully like the great tragedians
What is to be the destiny ofsuch "hliss?"
She has appeared, now, forty threc times
in public, and is to 60 Oh with what she
knew from childhood, (she says,) was to
be her Mission" The ad,e of 10
an of Are is prophesed. as we all know.
But is it to be for this time and crisis,
and is Miss Dickinson the aooman' on
whom the mantle has already fallen ?
With the expectation that we have yet
much to write of the doings of this fair
prophecies, we admilingly take our leave
for the present % sg9 geo saa elsa
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