Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-03
BurIimgamc as AN Orator.



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the use of note or memorandum to MD his
memory. His habit was 70 form in hi-
own mind "a clear and accurate cornDre-
hansion of the subject. 10 mark ita natural
divisions, and thoroughly anaIyiz4 its So
ouences and connections, and then with
utmost care to frame the sentences and
paragraphs which should make M the
spepch. After silently and th0ronghlv
digestiug the whole subject. rhetorically
as we'll az logically. he would repeat the
entire Grafton aloud, over and over again.
He used frequently to saw that 20 one
could tell how a phrase or a sentence
would strike the ear of an audience until
it was tested by actual hearing" And
in the same connection he would add
that he Every often ch4nned and
corrected the structure of a whole para
uraph on finding that the way he had
thought it ont was not the way THAT
sounded best" Charles James Fox had
no confidence in the eff .ct upon the House
of Commons Of a speech that read well ::
and Mr. Burlingame seemed to have =
similar intuition in regard TO the rednire-
ments of both tho popular and the parlia-
m entary ear.
With speech thus prepared Mr.. Bur
delivery was exceedingly feet
i've. He spoke with the unerring correct
moss of one who had Thoroughly studied
his part. and yet with the absolute fresh
ness and apparent spontaueitv of \ man
who had Rnrung TO his feet with the abun-
daut fitness of the subject and the uucon-
trollahle impulse of the occasion. And he
had the remarkable gift of retaining this
freshness and spontaneitY. no matter how
frequently he repeated the speech. And
the precision of this repetition was among
the noteworthy features of his oratory.
In what is termed a campaign speech it is
difficult for the best filled mind and the
reAdiest tongue to make more than one
raaffv valuable effort. The issue to he
discussed on successive days. pending one
election, are so entirely identical az to adj
NIT Of but slight variation in the mode of
their presentation by the same speaker
The prince of all campaign orators, Tom
Corwin of Ohio. was in the habit of saving
that ga man who shonld attempt a fresh
speech on every stump would never have
any speech worth listening to-" While.
therefore, it is to be expected that agen-
eral similarity will, of necessity, pervade
the speeches of any man who attempts to
discuss the issues of a political campaign.
it was peculiar TO Mr.. Burlingame to de-
liver, dav after day, the same speech ex-
actly, 0erbGtjn2 Ell Hterat5n2 ct 2)et17ctudtj12
And he was wise in 50 doing Any
attempt to change the thread of his argu-
ment or to vary the felicitona illustrations
OF his rhetoric would have deranged the
entire framework of that which he so fifty
competed and joined together He al
ways Kept IN MIND that he had differ
emf audience every day, and that no mat
,er now naoKheyed me speech became toI
hIlnseii IL was iFesh and new to each
= u .t .tn o,ow W., o. hearers But, in
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