Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1866-04-14

and, taken collectively, exhaust or de-
fine the varieties of eloquence. The
difference in the men is broad, distinc,
and radical. One of these men was
somewhat heavily built, about the aver.
,,age hight his face was round and some.
what forid, smooth and clear; he had
large, dancing blue eyes; his head was
round, his hair fine, inclining to bald
ness, his foreheadtall and broad he
was squarely built, quick, active and
full of energy; be had great fancy, was
lively, spontaneous, generous, profuse
and careless had an exquisite sense of
the beautiful; was bold, brave, chival-
rous and restless. He was foreigner
by birth. This man cut and carved his
own way through life-coming among
US poor lad and leaving us famous
name. He was sociable, and possessed
an unequaled power over the young,
who followed him wherever he led ask.
ing no questions. This man was the
gallant and the lamented Colonel Baker,
once our townsman and dear friend
Colonel Bakers style of oratory was
like himself-full of fancy, rich and
forid, pleasing and enrapturing to all
who heard him. His voice was musical
and harmonious He spoke with much
emotion his style and manner were
not absolutely original and deep, nor
what the world calls philosophic. His
eloquence was rhetoric it created feel
ing and moved others to sublime action
Colonel Baker was graceful, his gestures
being generally undulatory, his arms
moving from left to right, sometimes
up and sometimes down. His reason
was not deep, as the world uses that
term, yet it effected what was beyond
the power of logic to do; it produced
merriment, it caused action and iuspir-
ed energy in his hearers. His mode of
reason was fgurative, fanciful and rhe
torical. He did not reason metaphys-
ically, subjectively, mathematically, in
wardly. His style was metaphoric, fig
urative and external-that is, he used
figures and illustrations of the sensible
world. Fragrant be the memory of
Colonel Baker.
The next gentleman, who is also a
self made man, shall be nameless. 1t
does not matter to this audience who he
is or where be lives. His physical
build is short, thin and square, in fig
ure and features running to sharp, keen
points. He has light hair, blueish gray
eyes, large and square head, stoop-
shouldered, shrunk and shriveled, ner-
vous and restless, full of action and en-
ergy. His eye keen and penetrating,
his voice sharp and shrill-"squeaky
and squally." His gestures are angu-
lar, see-saw, his fore finger long and
bony, striking tho palm of his left hand.
His gestures rather awkward than 9TH
erwise His method of reasoning is met
aphysical, mathematical, precise and
logical. His eloquence is forcible.
Under this mans oratory the speaker
often wished he was a surgeons knife,
that he might cut the things to atoms
and see into them. He spoke to the
inner man by subject, thought and
speech, rather than through figures or
the physical world. Bakerroused; the
nameless man made one think and feel.
Baker made his auditors boisterous the
other caused them to think and reflect.
Bakers eloquence was like Baker the
others like himself. So with all men.
1
TThe nameless orator alluded to in
this paragraph cannot be mistaken by
any one who has ever lived in SPRING
field. It is none other than Judge Ste
phen T. Logan, one of the most pro-
found lawyers of the West. He is the
father Of the Hon. David Logan, Of Or
egon.]
The third man was, long, tall and
bony, as has been described he had
no grace of style, beauty or action. His
features were long and blunt, and con-
sisted mainly in snaps and jerks-some-
times the gestures were extended to the
whole body. His voice was husky,
loud and rattling. This man stood up,
his hands and arms hanging generally
at his side loosely; sometimes his
thumbs were hooked in the armholes of
his vest. This gentleman spoke logic
ally, through analysis, using figures of
the external world to illustrate his idea
He did not argue metaphysically, math-
ematically, abstrusely. He reasoned
from the outside world to the inner
mind-was not rhetorical, oratorial, but
eloquent in his way. Lincoln-for this
lis the third man-reasoued deeply,
broadly, strongly. His sloqusnce pro