The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-30
JOHN RRIGIIT.
A sketch Of EngIand's Great
COmmOner.

A sketch OF England's Great
COnmOneF.
written lor The Wheeling ITIELLlggEScER By an
eI-NpoTtor Of the British liou'o oil ComnlonsI
LEEDS, ENoLASD, March, 1875.
Few Englishmen write that name with
ont respect, without admiration, and most
with enthusiasm. lie Is, for one thing,
beyond oil doubt the greatest orator Of
his time. Those who have heard him
most frequently, and those who are best
able to criticise his Oratory, have formed
the highest opinion oft. II Is something
which no words Gun adequately describe,
something which must be felt to be ap-
preciated, but yet something which men
Of ali parties and OF all shades Of opinion
regard with admiration which almost
approaches to Yeneration. One Of the
keenest and most skillful Of our Par
liamentary critics, and q thorough Tory
"a constant opponent OF Mr.. Brighps
views on public policy-has likened him
TO Moses, or David, or on Isaiah, simply
because he looks upon him as being all
but inspired when he Is giving ut!erance
to one Of those magnificent orations which
are destined to form part Of the deathless
literature Of England.
Mr., DRIdHTs POPULARITY.
Within the last three or four yenrs the
art Of photography has made Mr.. Brights
features so Welt known that certainly he
ear 10 nowhere within the limits Of the
Intel Kingdom without being recOg.
niEel. II has been the lot Of the writer
10 zee the Member for birmingham stared
at by every third man he passed In Re
gent street, London, on summers alter
noon, surrounded by an admiring but re-
spectful group on the deck Of one Of the
HOlyhead aud Kingstown steamboats,,
greeted with enthusiastic cheers when ac-
cidentally detected Oh the platform Of a
Scotch wayside station, and followed with
Riances Of ailectionate pride as liesturdily
strobe through the crowded Market street
Of Manchester, the Getty Of his love"
Wherever he goes, Mr.. bright Is upon all
hands the object Of eager attentions
attentions paid by Conservatives as we'll
~ Libefals-and more even than Mr..
Disraeli or Mr.. Gladstone, does lie seem
to have personal interest for the public
OF tie United Kingdom. 80 far rs the
working classes are concerned tie fact Ia
doubtless to be explained by the position
which he has occupied for years IA the
1Tribune Of the People" whilst in the
case Of the upper cla@es-whose SYM
pathies, as rule, have not been with Mr..
BriRhl-thls admiration and respect form
attribute 10 the wonderful gift which more
than any other man Of his generation he
possesses, the llenyen.bestowed one Of elO-
quunce.
MR.. BRloitIs PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
John Bright passes among some, the
present writer being Of the number, as
he handsomest man In the House Of
Commons. His figure 1t Is true Is heavy
and unwelldy, he barely reaches middle
height, and Of late years he has become
very stout. But his broad, yet lofty fore.
head, firm clean.cnt mouth, and above all
the wonderfully fine eyes which can flash
fire or shed tears at will, make up acoun.
tenance possessing the highest kind Of
manly beauty. During the last few years
transformation, too, has taken place In
Ma appearance, which has In one sense
been d great Improvement. Within that
period his hair laS turned from an iron
grey 10 pure white, so that now there
iasometlling venerable about his outward
aspect-leonine though Il Is witllal.
MR. nRiottT AZ Az ORATOR.
Perhaps Ii L. in sonic degree 10 the
charm Of tile speakers face, perhaps TO
his rich melodiots voice, that hiS hold
0Sef his Audience Il due. These things
are nero accidents. II Is by his posses.
sion Of the Fart Of clear and persuasive
exposition" that he iasCinaies those who
listen to him, and obtains q command
oyer the feelings Of his audience such
a. h enjoyed by no other public man Of
lis time. We have seen him thrill TO
tears, OF rDnse TO shouts Of applause, the
like Of which we have never heard before,
atough Lancashire audience Of eight or
nine thousand persons, packed within one
Of the great mills Of R0chdale-liis ma
tive town, In the House Of Commons we
have heard him speak for an hour Ut a
stretch, whilst every man In the building
listened with bredthless attention, and
the cheers that broke out at the end Of
every sentence came almost as much from
one side Of the House rs from tie other.
Nay, We have watched the faces Of The
men to whom IL committed the govern
hieht OF the British Empire, and Of the
tslfahEefss permitted to Join with them
misunderstanding ttihres Of the blood.
poets Of long descent, the ministers Of
foreign counties, and the leaders oil the
ohufch-we have watched them, as slow
N word BY word, he was rolling forth the
magnificent pefotalion Of one Of his great
SPEECHES, and we have seen upon their
touhlehanets such q Rfapt, an almost
aWe.sttickeh expression aa@tU return 10
The sihile already tsedzone might have
expected l0see on the faces Of a Hebrew
congregation before whom Isaiah was
deiiyefihg himself Of his heaven.born
visions.
A sPEciitGN OF Mr. bRIaHr's ELoQUEScE.
One Hyision" Of hls Ia worth ifanscrib.
Ing, which formed the petofalion Of
speech delivered In birmingham, on the
snbject d your civil Wat-ahd The deiiy4
cry oi which will ever dwell In The mem.
0fieS 0ithose wh0heatd Il IA one Of the
most wonderful incidents Of their lives
FThe leaders Of the revolt, said hc-aftef
speaking TOT neatly two hours with re-
gatd to The Indispensable monsltous
thing, that over 4 territory forty times A
large a England, the blight and curse Of
slavery shah b. forever petpetuated. l
cannot believe, iof my part, that such a
fate viii betall that iaif county stricken
though Il now Is With the tayages Of war,
/ cahnot believe that civilization In IL
Quincy With The Aun will sink into end.
lea nisl,tiu otdetlostaiiiy The ambition