The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-15

hold on, We won't use any more adJec-
tives-lecture at McDaniers Theatre
last evening, to a,house that was filled
with the elite of the city, representing
its fair and its commercial community
to advantage. Col. Ingersoll has prob
ably found in this city, as well as in
Denver-and we do not say this in the
spirit Of acknowledgements au-
ldiences, its members coming from all
parts of the continent, and representing
a class of people at once educated and
thorough people of the world, who will
not he cajolsdfinto 1aaghihgl because
an off-handed remark is coarse in its
expression, and therefore enwraps its
hearers, but Nbecause rthe5 sentiment
that it conveys holds a strata Of good
sense that appeals at once to the better
natures,of those who are his attentive
listeners. We use the word attentive
in the strictest sense of It's meaning,
for last night Col. Ingersoll held his
audience enwrapt with his eloquence,
alternately producing laughter, sober
thoughtfulness, and earnest attention
fraught Of momentary musihg. 24 ENt.
To say that the Colonel was "a sue
cess last evening would be outside of
our meaning; to say thathew was a thor
oughbred would impress those who may
peruse this criticism with an idea that
Cheyenne was a backwoods town of the
Wind RiyerIdistrict, and that, our yo-
cabulary possessed a few such words
only that would admit of ones convey
ing a more larded compliment to the
Colonel's forensic powers and dramatic
situations. The Colonel never allows
himself to be other than expressive.
He never forgets the thread of his ar
gument. He never forgets to use the
right word in the right place, although
on the verge Of chaos and confusion.
as was apparently about to occur last
night, when the piano story
with reference to the young lady
and the march of Napoleon cross
ing the Alps were introduced.
The audience sat for one moment en-
thralled tappalledy to hearNits sequence
"a sequence hat terminated only as it
could when the Colonel relieved his
audience, politely, and couched in Ian
guage that the greatest prude living
could well have wished she could have
had the command over. The Colonel
is intensely dramatic, we have said.
He reminds us at times of John Nc
Cullough The has Johns voice., anon
of Henry Ward Beecher the has his
gesticulations and his ready speech).
He never wants for a word; he never
hesitates for q smile; he, bubbles owe
and gushes, and faints and thunders;
arpeggiO, mezzo pidnissinlO, mezzo pro-
fundO-staccatoi He is indeed IN actor
and-an orator. He is as persuasive
as he is argumentafive; as pleasing as
he is obnoxious; bl~ood-curdling as he
is gentle. He is one man in a thou
sand, and his constant allusion to
Shakespeare last night showed that he
had been a close student of that au-
thor, and proved that if he had not
studied his Bible quite as much, that
he was perfectly we'll satisfied with the
authority he had studied in fitting him
to grapple with the worlds great ques-
tons at issue, and struggle on until he
had reached that acme of perfection he
mentioned of tonight, when labor
would become a pleasure, and the world
would be a Paradise. Altogether, the
Colonel is d remarkable mana very
remarkable and individualistic gentle
man, an entirety in himself, and we
feel assured that the people of Chey-
enne will bear us out in our statement
pertaining to the a