The daily gazette., 1879-12-23
SECOND EDITION
Ulysses, the Orator.
"You d scarce expect one OF my age,
10 speak IN public on the stage. p


"I believe that If there IL another war
in this country it will be one of ignor-
dnce. against Intelligence, and In that
conflict The state of Iowa will achieve
great victory. Furthermore, think
that war will he one Of ignorance and
superstition combined. against education
and Intelligence, and ] am satisfied the
children here will enroll in the army of
intelligence, and wipe out the common
enemy, ignorance"
How eloquent! How concise How
foregoing etfuslon OF our popular orator
ana soliier, Ulysses Caesar, who has not
oHly won laurels, on the bsttle field, but
can vie with Cicero and Dem osthenes,
for the pOtentilla Of oratory. Unlike
Pene!opes net, how free from iDtracy
and repititon. Tautology is unknown
and brevity Is the great secret of its
beauty. The stenlorisn strains of ono
hundred magpies chanting. to six hun.
dred caterwauling cats, could not have
fallen more impressively upon the audi
torres OF these promising juveniles than
the plain sledge hammer ora:ory Of this
II ercules OF the English language. The
reflection of Mrs. Caudle's fertile brain,
which, like PandOra's box, is "replete
with ills, land the editying vplubilities Of
Mrs. PartingtOn, with all her fine
phrensies of climax, metaphor, hyper
6ole and apostrophe fall short OF the
force and diction of Ulysses.
He does not seek to DIRE rs his sciDti lla-
tons of colloquy in the gaudy sunflUwer,
holJyhock and xanthoxylum Of rhetoric
as does Mrs. Widow Bedotte, but be
rather chooses the modest wall flower,
violet, and such like. Neither does he
indulge in fancifuI and sky rockety revr
els,swhich seek to lead the Imagination
through the lovely scenes of "intelli.
gence, ignorance and superstitio on, }" in an
embeil!shed vehicle, emblazoned with
beautiful gems of flight and fancy, but
he rather inclines to the ungarnishej
ana comprehensive, such as Is suited to
the most simple and elementary brain
even to the ebon divine who played &C
beautifully on bis harp OF q thousand
strings, "Spirits of just men made per-
feet" Truly has Bayard Taylor uttered,
"There is an art in literature" And
well might Mrs. Hemans transpose her
Music, oh how faint, &c., to
Language, ooh how faint, how weak !,
| Music "fades before thy SPELL"
and the author of that familiar max i'm
change his emusic hath charms" &c.,
TO Language "hath charms to so0the
the savage breast"
Let Hades Erebus Limbol Llmbris
be the doom of that base wretch who
would seek 10 filch one jot or title of the
fair copyright.
WHOLE HOG OR NOME"
You might Infer, from Chief Justice
Waite's recent writ of error, In regard
to that miscegnation couple who were
married in the District of Columbia
and imprisoned in Virginia, that ht
evidently understands the full force Of
the phrase, "Whole hog,or none."
For what Democrat would marry 9
negro. Hence mongral Republican II
rot as desirable as the full dip of the pig
mentum nigrium.
GRANTS CROWNS.
Allnsion has been recently made to
coat-of-arms emblazened with three an
tique crowns belonging to sone Gran
family, and said to be claimed by Ger
eral Grant. A writer apparently DOS
sessing some knowledget of heraidry
says: "This coat-of-arms is moderl
invention, probably devised by the Gen
eral himself, or by some friend VIII
consulted his taste in the matter, as tn
great ambition of the Generals life is T.
wear a crown, and it is no doubt his de
sign that such an Interpretation shoul
be put upon the shield" Among tn
questions In the New York Sun, Oc
Sth, it is charged that q parrot-th
crest of an escutcheon belonging to tn
| Kingswells of Hampshire has been use
by the kemble--Sartoris-G famil,
hence the late rage for parrots as a pal
of the female toilette.
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