New-York tribune., 1875-02-15

OF of property seek him to be their spokesman 50 20
that he is at once IuS1 Ii listening to
the debates in the Scottish kirk, and. himself at,
tempting to speak failing in his first endeavGl anu n
him and offered him f1,000 sterling IL ne wouInu
teach him to speak with proprety IN pubic tont ~
sounds like simple proposition ana IL II Weio hts tb
by the scholar. and with equal earnesness Dy ano
master it might be successful. In 1913 was III Ee
land and saw Mr. Austin, barrster, VINO was % salI
to receive 10000 year for services of ra,
road cOmpanies He presented the desires vi ~. I1
road companies to the railroad committee IN Iaiir
ment and such was his power tnat IL Was trasto
be well deserved The great ana grow,ng wgartnnato
at stake in this country must pay PioPoi'
prices TO their advocates and deiehderS'
uNIyERsALITY OF ELOQUENCE-HoW DEVELOPED
But the power which SO fascinates and astonishes
and commands is talent when ls unt
yersal. All men are competitors IN TINS ar'
We have all attended meetings called for some
business in which no one had Deiore-
hand any great interest. Every speaker rises un-
willingly and his speech is bad apology Du' 10 20
only the first plunge which is formidable; ueep
interest and sympathy thaws the ice, Ioosenn soO
tongue. and will carry the cold ana 10 ta ondence
Go into an assembly well lnterested-s0me aney
political meeting the eve of crisis. ihen ~ ap
pears that % aS s so feW do It only needs
that they should be pushed forward into deep WaUor
without corks, and, after struggling lot lew mo
mepts they soon find their element. Inc most hard-
fsted brawny laborer sometimes turns out IN pup
lie assembly TO be fluent and effective orator lie
is filled with certain creative heat when perhaps
come to him only once in his life. whenever theIe
is grand eoquence there is great accumulatl0n OF
heat which expands all the faculties into fullest
power. Every man may nave that eXperlence
once. Those whom we admire, the great orators
have some habit of heat, and moreover o Ger
tain control of it, an art of outstanding IT, as II
their hand was on the organ stop. ana tney co1i,n %
use it temperatey, and now let it on In It's 1ull
power. | recolect that Jennie Lind when In
this country, complained of the halls that they
did not give her room enough 1or her 'oIco nt anu
she exulted in an opportunity given ner IN gIeaV
halls She even sometimes sang III halls ABOVE ran
road depOts. 1t is so with men with TINS talent
They sometimes find themselves cold while In prl-
yate company and pressed for Words but give them
q commanding occasion, the inspiration OF q great
multitude. and they surprise by new ana unl0oke9.
for powers Before they were out or place ana uht
as cannOns in a parlOr To be sure there are physl-
cal advantages in some emlnently httlng ior tnls
art good voice has charm In speech as III song;
sometimes itself chains attention. lndlcatng rare
sensbtV, especially when trained well, III an us
powers The voice, like the face, often lhdlcates
| what is the range of the speakers mind. Many
people have no ear for music, but every one has an
ear for slful reading. Every one OF us has at some
time been a victim OF q well trained voice, perhaps
been repelled once for all by harsh, lndellcato
| speaker The voice. indeed, is so delicate, and IN
| dicates the state of mind so mnutely that nave
heard an eminent preacher say that he learns from
! the first tones of Eis voice on Sunday morning
Whether he is to lave a successful day. A singer
cares little for the words OF song "A gOOd singer
will make any words GLORIOUS. Inc same hoiuS
|
| reader who can weave poetry into any hymn III
! the hymn book, thing which any orator can DO
In moments of highest thought, the voice VIII az
tain power which surprises the speaker as lhuch as
| the auditor The famous tTagedian, Garrck, USED
10 say that his great passages on the stage aston
| ished himself as much us the house belieVe some
orators 90 to the assembly as to the closet 10 Ihu
their best thought One with disagreeabie voice
was reading the Koran. when just man passing DY
| asked what was his monthly stipend. lie answered,
Nothing at all" "Why then do you take so much
troublei" He replied. Il read for the sake OF Goo
The other rejoned, For Gods sake don't read, f0T
destroy Mussulmanism" ILaughter Then there
are persons of winning manners, almost endear-
ment their style what the french historian c"iiS
"caressing in their speech
TIE mold MAN ELOQUENT"
But all this is fhe gymnastics. tho education of
elonuence and not eloqueuce itself 1t is said that
| one of the best orators of bis time was the late
President John Quincy Adams L have heard that
no man could read the Bible with such powerful ef-
feet as he / can easily believe it. though | never
heard him speak but twice. and then IN bs OLD age
| when his fine voice was much broken, but the words
| he could speak with that cracked organ showed
! what power might have belonged to 1T III earlier
manhood. If Indignation makes good verses, as
Horace says it is not less true that good indignation
| makes an excellent speech. in the early days of
| this man, some of the audience Will recall, Mr.
| Adams was drawn while senator-no, was APP
pointed professor of rhetoric OratOry i'll Harvard
| College. When he read bis first lecture there.
in 1906, not only the students heard him with
|
and by unusual visitors. remember when en-
tered college hearing the story of the number of the
coaches in which in that old time his friends came
! out from Boston to hear him. While still Professor
! be was elected to the United States Senate, and
while there took such grounds III the debates CT That
session astOushed and greved hls tnends III Dos
ton When on his return from Washington he resumed
his lectures at Cambridge his class attended but the
coaches from Boston did not come, and indeed many
| of his past friends deserted him. In 1919 he was
appointed Minister TO Eussia. and resigned his
charge at the University His last lecture contains
| some nervous allnsions to the treatment he had
| received from his old friends, which showed how
! much 1t had stung bin, and which made q profound
impression the class OF students to which he said
| it. will read the closing paragraph, Wmch long
! resounded in Cambridge lt Is in the lecture OF
July 2S S09 in taking leave OF his class on his de-
parture for Russia: 49, ~
AT no hour of your life will the love of letters
ever press you as burden tail you as resource.
! In the vain and foolish eXutation of the heart,
which the brighter pictures Of life will sometimes
excite the penslve FORTRESS of science shall call YOU
back TO the sober pleasures of her holy cell. In the
modification of disappointment her soothing voice
shall whisper serenity and peace. In social CON
verso with the mighty dead of ancient days you viii
never smart under the calling sensation OF depend
ence upon the mighty living OF tho present age;
and in your struggles with the world. should Crisis
ever occur when even friendship may deem 1T pru-
dent to desert you, when even your country may
seem ready TO abandon herself and You; when even
priest and Levite shall come and look on you ana
pass by on the other side, seek refuge, my untalDg
friends and be assured You will find 1t III the flend-
ship of L8lius and ScpO IN the patriotism OF Cicero,
DelnoSthenes and Burke as well as IN inc preceptS
and examples of Him whose whole law is love- and
who taught us to remember injuries only to forgive
them
THE ELoQUENCE or THE STREET.
Every one has felt how superior IN force Is the Ian
guage of the street to that of the academy The
street must be one of the orators schools. Ought
not the scholar to be ablo to convey his meaning in
terms as short and strong as the porter truckman
uses to convey hlsi Lord Chesterfield taught that
without being instructed in the language of the
butchers in Paris no man could be complete mas
ter of French. THE speech Of men in the street is
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