Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-30
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better-he does not look at all like 8 man 1 who is hungry to make meal of the saints | and the prophets. Colonel Ingersoll's char l acteristics vigorous vitalit that per- | mits tremendous physical exertions upon the platform, jolly and not over nice humor that accompanies him to the threshold of the most awful themes, an unbounded admiration for Mr Blaine and Shakespeare, and very unfayorable opinion of God.
 Mir. Blaine himself is a pleasing and not self conscious speaker; Mir. Conkling is ef- fective and dignifed, if self conscious; Sem ator Frye of Maine can, when there is oecs- sion, put Stentor to the blush, and Colonel Tom Ochiltrees peculiar intonation is well known throughout the far Southwest. It must be said that in Congress the days Of luscious oratory seem to be over. There has been since the war growing disposition, due partly to the increasing pressure of business and partly, perhaps, to the evolution of com mon sense, to go about legislating in more business-ike way. The stump is now the place to hear old fashioned oratory. It crops out occasionally in Congress, oftenest from the mouths of southern and western mem- bers and on days devoted to the nonsensical practice of eulogizing those who are beyond the reach of praise or blame. But neither branch of Congress at present affords an or ator whom we can conscientiously commend to our correspondent a model for him to form his style by. Senator Zsb Vance, of North Carolina. is fair example of the old southern school of rhetoric, but in his style our friend, we think will find less to copy than to avoid Among the northern Sena- tors. not many are SO ready as Mir George Frisbie Hoar to begin set oration. 1ith all the Ciceren1an accessories and all the school book hourishes. And when Mr Frisbie doar's oratory is at red heat when the flush of ear1estness has ascended to his brow, when one arm is slightly extended while the other hand rests on the pit of his stomach, and he gazes imt mtressise1y at the Senate through his gold-bowed glasses, then we get fine idea of how Mr. Pickwick may have looked when he rose to an important point of order.
 MT. Henry Ward Beecher is sn able orator -one of the ablest now living in America There was time when his utterances carried the weight of unquestioned sincerity and moved men as did the words of few other public speakers. People still go to hear him. de is born mimic, a wonderful actor. Jo- seph Jefferson is not more an artist on the stage than Beecher in the pulpit His pow CT, so far as it depends on intellectual and physical qualities, is said to be little impaired by advancing years and accommodating load Of remorse-
 For several years the Rev. " H. H. Mur- ray was to Boston what Beecher was to
 
 the corner of the common, and afterWsrd the Music Hall, were crowded whenever he preached. Mr. Murrsy's ushe-s like Beech CTS, were busy and happy. Like Beecher, he felt strong enough in his popularity te say things theoIogically risky, and to do things socially eccentric. The paralleImight be carried much farther, but it does not ex- tend to the matter of retribution- The Brooklyn pulpit orator braves public opinion The Boston pulpit orator, as we were told the other day, has fled with his disgrace to Texas, where he lives an outcast
 Another pulpit orator of very different fame is the Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston. one of the most eloquent of the Protestant Episcopal clergy. He is man of colossal build and of impetuous utterance. He talks faster than any other public speaker we know of; more rapidly, indeed, than the pencil of the swiftest stenographer can fol- low. Mr- Brooks speaks distinctly, and his nimble tongue enables him to put great deal of matter into 6 half hours discourse; nevertheless, the habit of extremely rapid utterance is not good one to cultivate.
 Mir Richard O'Gorman, of this town, is one of the best speakers we have ever heard. His delivery is as chaste Phillips, while it has peculiar glow and richness of it's own; and the cadences of his voice are music Few orators now using the English language unite so perfectly those different qualities without which speech is extraxagsntiy horid. monstrously dry, or sonorously unimpressive the earnest conviction of tLe man of req son, the feryor of the man of imagination, and the severe self-criticism of the man of cultivated and chastened taste
 On the whole, we should advise our cer- resI ondent who is in search of a model orss tor to study the rhetoric and snunciation of Wendell Phillips; to borrow, if he can, some of Colonel Ingersoll's homely Eigor and hu- uOrous audac ty; to analyze the platform art of Beecher and select with discrimina- tion; to acquire, If possible. the earnestnesE and the fancy of O'Gorman; to go to the masterpieces of Evarts for sustained flow of language and the niceties of digital gesticuia- tion; to throw in, perhaps, dash of the Calvinistic vehemence of John Swinton: and to pay particular attention to the strong Bible English of Judge Jeremiah s. Black If he succeeds in combining in his own style the several merits of these orators, to the excIu- sion of their faults, and then schools himself to open his mouth in public only when he has something worth saying to deliver, he will not have to go far to find the greatest Ameri- can orator.