The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-28
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Reminiscenee Of Hayne and Webster: +.
Hon. Henry S. Foote devotes one of his re-
miniseences now in course Of publication. to
Senator Robert Z. Hayne, of this State, giving
an ac,ounttof the way in which, ,as described
by himself he oyercame the habit of stammer-
ing IN youth, and adding a, graceful tribute by
him to his old antagonist, Daniel: Webster. Mr.
Foote writes :,
Gen. Hayne was of medium stature, well
shaped, aild of singularly animated and mer-
cirial aspect. His eyes were very bright and
dazzling, and of light hazel color. Z Hiscoun-
tenanee wore very mild and benignant ex'
preston. His face was cleanly shayen, and ne
was elegantly but tunostenta tatiously attred. bis
manners were marked with a graceful and WIN
ming affability which I have never seen sur
passed. asked him how he had been able to
acquire such, wondrous facility of expression,
ana such remarkable capacity for keeping alive
the interest of his audience. He answered my
queries without any false modesty, and without
q particle of vulgar egotism, very nearly in
these words: ou give me credit for much
facility Of expression, and for having success
f,liE, cultivated TO some. extent the graces OF
rhetoric display. I shnll surprise you, do
not doubt, when tell you that at sixteen
wears of age / was an awkward, stammering
boy: I desired to become lawyer, and was
assiduously preparing myself for the legal pro-
fession., A youth more ambitious OF oratorlcal
distinction than i was am sure has never
lived. But my friends and relatives all joined
in urging me to give up the hope OF future re-
nown as speaker, and to devote myself to
aone.other calling better adapted to the slen. J:
derness Of. my facilities. They told me that it
was absurd and ridiculous in onewho suffered
so abominably to think of becoming even a
tolerable pleader Of causes. This mortified me
mueh,. hut I. did desist from the struggle in
which had so zealously enlisted. thought
much Of the difficulties Of similar kind which
Demesthenes was reported to have encountered,
and of the successful efforts made by him to
overcome them. essayed to find out all the
mysteries which belonged to our complex vocal
organ. labored from hour to hour, and from
minute to minute, to ascertain the precise ma
ture of those particular impediments TO clear
and easy articulation under which was suffer-
ing. ]. pondered this subject by day, and it
was With me the prompter of many painful
and of many pleasing dream. at length the
light broke 10 upon me. l found that hao
never before learned to talk that / had been
suEered all my life 70 jabber confused and un-
telligible sounds. I learned at last that to
speak. in the true sense Of the word, was to ar
ticulate distinct yocables that the order Of my
emperament was such, as well as my ambition,
10 communicate ideas to the mind OF others (;
that had heretofore unduly hurried my sylla-
bIes upon each other, or rather, tried to do so,
so-Shatfhe vocal sounds became inextricably
intermingled and hopelessly indistinct and
that every fresh effort had involved me In
greater and greater embarrassments. came
at last to hie conclusion that the, first step /
had to take Ii. order to. acquire the complete
control ofmy voice was to put my own feelings
under the strictest discipline, to habituate my
self to sober Thought, and to learn the indis-
pensable art of keeping the feryent sensibilities
with which was endowed under thorough
command; and after had done these things
IN an effectual manner it would then be indis-
pensabIe that should strive to enunciate each
syllable that had to utter clearly and emphat-
ically bHfore,a attempting to emit succeeding
one, and so on until the whole sentence, whether
long or short, should have passed from my lips.
BY pursuing this course rigidly for consider
able period of time, hoped that at last !
might accomplish the great object that ]. was
seeking to attain, and that I should become
able to speak fnently and without pain either
to myself or to others. practiced constantly
upon these ideas, and if now speak with ease,
as YOU seem to think, ] am indebted for my
power in this respect to the labors which
Fave lust described This is so certainly. the
case that assure you were I even DOW to at
tempt to express myself in the rapid manner
which has Become SO. common of late among
Young men of fiery temperament and OF un-
chastened moral organism, ! should inevitably
stutter just as disgustingy as |. did forty years
ago ,l,I., .-;.,......
After this interesting recital had closed, /
test between himself and Mr.. Webster, in the
national Senate, now nearly half century
ago, and asked him what he thought of Mr..
Mebster's spowers as a, speaker. He at once
answered that he supposed him, upon the
whole, to be the most consummate orator of
either ancient or modern times ); that his abili-
ty;asl 4 reasoner, he was confident, had never
been exceeded that his imagination was as
fertile and vigorous as that of Milton or Ho-
mer that his humor was both exquisite and
abundant; that his knowledge was unlimited ;
that he had the most happy command of his
temper at all times, and that on certain great
occasions he had excelled all the speakers that
had ever lived, not excepting either Domos-
themes or Cicero. I then asked him what he
thought of Webster's manner. He replied that
it was always grand and impressive, that he
had neyer,heard him utter word in careless
or vulgar style; that he seemed never to forget
his own dignity, or to be unmindful OF the
character and feelings of others, and that, when
thoroughly excited, the sublime grandeur of
his thoughts and language derived great addi-
tional potency from his noble and ul-moving
enuuciation, andqhis few but impressive ges-
lures. Ithen said to him: "But Gen. Hayne,
every one in the South admired your speeches
on the occasion to Which you have been refer.
ring more than they did those of Mr. Webster,
and it is said that Gen. Jackson was so much
delighted with the first of your speeches in the
Senate that he had it printed on satin for dis
tribution among his friends at distance. Was