New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-08

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Emerson ON OratOry.
E)oquence is eminently the art which
only ffourishes in free countries. 1t
shows the power and responsibility OF
man. Recall the delight that sudden
eloquence gives-the surprise that the
moment is so rich. The orator is the
physician. Whether he speaks in the
capitol or on a cart, he is the bene-
factor that lifts men above themselves,
and creates higher appetite than he
satisfies. The orator is he whom
every man is seeking when he goes
into courts, into conventions, into any
popular assembly. There is no true
orator who is not hero. His speech
is not to be distinguished from action.
His speech must be just ahead of the
assembly, ahead of the whole human
race, or it is superfluous. No act in
dicates more universal health than
eloquence. The special ingredients
of this force are clearly perceptions,
memory, power of statement, logic,
imagination; or the skill to clothe
your thought in natural images, pas
sion which is the heat, and then grand
will. As soon as a man shows rare
power of expression, all the great in.
terests, whether of state or of property,
crowd to him to be their spokesman;
so that he is at once potentate, a
ruler of men. 1t is easy to see that
the great and daily growing interests
at stake in this country must pay pro-
portional prices to their spokesman
and defenders. But this power, which
SO fascinates and astonishes and COM
mands, is only the exaggeration of a
talent which is universal. All men
are competitors in this art. Eloquence
is as natural as swimming--an art which
all men might learn, though so few do.
The orator must command the whole
scale of the language, from the most
elegant to the most low and vile.
Everyone has felt how superior in
force is the language of the street to-
that of the academy. The street must
be one of his schools. Ought not the
scholar to be able to convey his mean
ing in terms as short and strong as
the porter or truckman uses to con-
vey his? The speech of the man in
the street is invariably strong, nor
can you mend it by making it what
you call parliamentary. The power
of his speech is that it is perfectly I'M
derstood by all; and 1 believe it to be
true that when any orator at the bar
or at the senate rises in his thought he,
descends in his language-that is,
when he rises to any height of thought
or of passion he comes down to lam.
guage level with the ear of his audience,
1t is the merit of John Brown and Of
Abraham Lincoln-one at Charleston,
one at Gettysburg the two best
specimens OF eloquence we have had
in this country.
If should make the shortest list Of
the qualifications of the orator, !
should begin with manliness and, per-
haps, it means, here presence of mind.
Men differ so much in control of their
faculties! Fundamentally, all feel
alike and think alike, and at great
heat they can express themselves with
an almost equal force, But it costs a
great heat to enable a heavy man to
come up with those who have quick
sensibility. These are ascending stairs
"a good voice, winning manners,
plain speech, chastened, however, by
the schools into correctness but we
must come to the main matter, of
power of statement-know your fact
hug your fact. For the essential thing
is heat. and heat, comes of sincerity.
Speak what you know and believe.
Eloquence is the power to translate
truth into language perfectly intelli-
gible to the person to whom you
speak. What is said is the least part
of the Grafton. It is the attitude
taken, the unmistakable sign, never so
casually given, in tone of voice, OF
manner, or word, that greater
speaks from you than is spoken to in
him. When a great sentiment, as
religion or liberty, makes itself deeply
felt in any age or country, then
great orators appear.
If there ever was a country where
eloquence was power, 1t is the
United States. Here is room for every
degree of it, on every one of its
ascending stages-that of usefu
speech, in our commercial, manu-
featuring, railroads, and educationa
conventions; that of political advice
and persuasion on the grandes
tbeater, reaching, as all good me1
trust, into a vast future, and so com
polling the best thought and mobiles
administrative ability that the either
can offer, Is it not worth the ambi
ton of every generous youth to trail
and arm his mind with all the resourc
es of knowledge, of method, of grace
and of character, to serve such
constituency?
Jacks0n's Generosity.
1t seems that the young man who's
estate General jackson had admins
tered, on taking possession of it whe