Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-21

lie followed the same metnod.
s sH:,ber he spoke to farmers OF
..anciers, to a mob or to senate
!. '1-ammonly avoided any assertion
;,.iividual superiority, and relied
D Il. impersonal, unimpassioned
7. .-... rI of facts and principles to
, ,.rm his point. His hearers
SI lived that he was simply adjust
s' :. and relating their own ideas.
I3,ber their vanity nor pride was
''s,n5ed bv his mode of exposition.
s.,b Hamilton and Webster were
.,..d to the skies as heaven-born
,..,men because they seemingly
,s5 themselves on the level of
loosest thinkers. On the other
Il Burke, a far greater political
MIKE. s than either Hamilton or
W ~ hiled practically in the
~ q Commons because he
IcSr1l s5t hide his immense moral
,.i w. ,tsTectual superiority to all
y o-ber members; but displayed
I, aggressive orations, immortal
!. regards eloquence and breadth
| 4 4 thought, but inefficient as regards
4. Immediate question put to vote.
| r. rreatest Grafton in all literature,
!. aspect to fullness of matter,
I'VE of reasoning, richness of
-,-arv, and intensity of moral
In. is Burke's speech on the
Knob of Arcot's Debts; yet its eff
]. when delivered i'll the House
/ iCommons, was so slight that Pitt,
|Av a short consultation with
|Gptl7ille, concluded it was not
Erth while to answerit, and pushed
ss MEASURE through the House,
r,cless of the fact that Burke had
l-nonstrated its folly and its ini-
Guilty /
Itnay be objected to all this that
Ilcauley, one of the most effective
d writers and speakers, was also
cna Of the most self-asserting and
seli-conhdent. Il wish," Lord Mel
bourne once said, in his languid
way. that ! was as sure of anything
as Tom Macaulay is of everything"
But Naaulay's self-confdence was
combined with a clearness of COM
nol-sense statement which made
Ii, hearers contented with them
s'es. His speech, in 1889, to the
electors of Edinburgh was not a
Te' intellectual effort; but it eli
ctei from a Scotch artisan one of
te finest compliments ever paid to
speaker who sinks the desire to
az.e IN the desire to influence.
1u. it was a wise-like speech, an
b that defeeshunt in argument.
M, Ell mon"-with a pause of
tense disappointment--"I'm think
: could ha' said the hail O it
-gI.'
8thout dogmatizing on the SUI
Hlty of persuasion to invective,
tlr be said that,in practical af-
| n contrivance, with a moral end,
letter than the morality which
4>ons and inveighs without think
g of anything but itself. When
e Government OF Great Britain
s threatened by the Chartists,
r Government bloodlessly tri-
1phed by hitting on the expe-
alt Of making the rowdies of
4llon members of the special
QIce. DIR. Mott, the shrewdest of
-college presidents, when he saw
aveak student in danger of being
Tlsl by dissipated companion,
usithe latter into his room, and
apd him into the position of
GI5.lan of the youth he had in
t-ded to lead into dissoluteness.
hh to conclude, every judicious
Ether Of a family manages to save
: sons and daughters from des-
g.ton not so much by openly as
4-l. their tendency to self-indul-
'5aee, but by gradually insinuating
10 their minds and hearts the
rAclries of honor and self-res-
SILt Most persons, old and
!ll9, have an instructive outbreak
v Ieoellon when an attempt is
= -'ie to carry their personality by
lie prnciple we have attempted
---fite Is the hardest test to which
80 y, N practical affairs, can be
A. Vivid conceptions of
i %'- nd right are SO general
! o.lated with inconsiderate
, ,~1l II their expression that the
y: S3l'r are ever on the watch to as
NV 10 msolent self-assertion what
- - really spring from the Hottest
=" Of self-abnegation.