The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-07-24
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of band, or, at least, withont written
preparation.
Sueh Is the case With many noted
preachers, among others, With spuFgcon
and Beeeher. Others make notes or
headings OF their subject, they frame
here aud there a sentence they leave the
rest TO careful study Of there subject
and to the moment OF speaking. Others
again carefully write out the whole Of
their speece, and either commit tito mem
ory or con il over very thoroughly before
appearing in public to deliver IL. Web.
sier aud Everett always carefully pre-.
pared their oralions 10 this way, while
Clay often spoke with little or no prepa.
ration.
John Bright makes notes aud headings
OF bis speeches, and with much care
writes on aud commits to memory the
most important passages. .
Gladstone jols down only facts and
figures, and for his expressions relies
entirely upon the moment OF speaking.
Lord Derby wrote out every word and
usually committed his speech to memory.
NJ. Theirs was equally precise, while
Gambetts, the greatest OF living French
orators, speaks extempore, and his mar
velous eloquenoe is the result Of the in.
spirations Of the moment.
Sumner pre- composed verbally bis
great speeches in the laboratory OF bis
brain, memorizlng them, afterwards able
TO produce the eloquent sentences In the
order in which he had thought them out.
A gentleman who once called at his room
in Washington was told by his young
negro servant: Masss Sumner, he gone
to the Senate to make bin speech
What speech2 asked the gentleman in
surprise
Why dat ar speech he's been holering
out In bed every mornln' desc free weeks
As rule, orators manifest painful
anxiety about tbeir speeches. They are
uneasy and nervous, as if anticipating
failure. This is due 10 the very sensitive
organization which makes item orators.
Why, how nervous you are said a
friend on taking Canning's hand just
before be rose 10 speak. Am 7 was the
prime minister's reply. Then ] shall
makea good speech.
Daniel Webster, ou the other hand,
was cool, calm, collected. His nerves
were OF iron. Everything bad been
thought out before be rose to speak.
Mr.. Webster, asked a friend, nervous
ly, grasping him by the atm, on the
morning when be was ready to reply to
HsyDe, Mr.. Webster, are you ready3
The great man bringing his open right
hand vertically down into the palm Of
the left, quietly said, | have got four
fingers in.
Four fingers was, among sportsmen,
the mark Of an unusually heavy charge
for gun. Mr.. Hayne found out how
heavy the load was.
A junior counsel once congratulated
Sir William Follet on bis perfect compos-
ure 10 the prospect of great case he was
about to try. Sir William merely asked
bis friend to feel bis hand, which was
wet from nervous anxiety.
This nervousness and anxiety seems a
condition of oratorial success. The late
Lord Derby, the Rupert OF debate, as be
was named by bis admirers, said that his
principal speeches cost him two sleepless
nights, one in which he was thinking
what to say, the other 10 lameuting over
what be might have said better.
cicero, according TO Plutarch, not only
wanted courage Ia arms, bat In speaking
also lie began tmidly, and IN many
cases he scarcely left of trembling even
When be got thoroughly into the current
and substance OF his speech.
Orators have always been very diff
dent In socisl lie. The great Dir. Pit
was very shy in bis private intercourse
with men. Lord Camden was on terms
Of great intimacy with bin, and one day
remarked, as Pitt was at his house:
My children have heard so much about
you that they are anxious TO have q
glimpse OF the great man. They are now
at dinner. Win you oblige me by going
in with me q moment?
0, pray don't said the orator In real
alarm. What on earth could say 70
themi
Give them at least The pleasure of see
ing you, replied bis lOrdship, as he half
led, bali pushed him into the room.
The prime minister Of England ap.
preached the little group. There be
stood, looking alternately at The father
and the children, and twirling his bat for
few moments without being able TO ST
q word.
Very different was the habit Of Fox.
What a man Fox 10 said Wslpole. After
his long and exhaustiug speech on Hast
ing's trial, be was seen handing ladies
into their coach With al the gsyeiy and
praitle Of IN idle gallaui.
When Daniel Webster was . school
boy, be tells us; Many 3 piece did !
commit 10 memory aud rehearse 1t over
and over again 10 my room. Bat when
the day came, when the school collected,
when my name was called aud / saw al
eyes turned upon my seat, could not
raise myself from Il.
Cowper's friends procured him place
as clerk in the bouse OF lords, where the
daties only required him TO stand up aud
read preliminary notices and documents
The thought Of standing up before soeh
40 audience was 20 terrible 10 hlm lhat
rs time drew ou be was 10 agony Of fesr
AID tried 70 hang himself.