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had gained his reputation OF being able 20
catch the Gar of every man oven nI him who
times nj numbering 1000 Or i5.OOO. and Mr..
Corwin told mo TINT he did II by cnunrating
all v9wcls with distinctness. Inc y2wcis are
ton that should be bestowed upon them. the
| consonants will take care OF themselves"
nor by tho Sder gen Ds although i needs
some such illusions as these to suggest to tho
oratory was singularly adapted TO his time, 1t
~ Ina All TsS only d T site
%S sy s s p ss nGysS Sy sSpsss not $ 70
w1a S F xssa' had prssrs s'
marx: once when GARFIELD. then young man.
told Corwin that he had serious ideas Of writ
ing humorous literature. for he be!!evyed that
your living Il but tfPs the sad%est
al careers. aud you never can be nnything
Ieept study Of the best English poets; AM. and
The MSSds hhRp's sree sS Sv %
Also a sss sv ma pSen c5 tru
simple. such ns the throng could understand.
by wit; and by capacity for nar rsu y an
literary vocation. must have given him fame
and placed him among tho great American
se M FherS was mnG no oHe Mis
ShS S@ could Sy have d dSsermpss t. GorWa would
u tsS sf HeasS
In Kentucky Tom Marshall had almost the
Corwin. nor was no so diigent In preparation
When he Vas stirred. EDS and could give an hour
or two of quiet thought to tho preparation of
an address, he was able to move multitude:
BY iabor such as Corwin and tho other ereatest
orators have, done in secret. his career was
The OI most sSseesslul Of all the whig pslI-
tleian,s produced in New York State was WI
e 70 Ss earg ab as
graduated from college. and while still a lay
orato orator 'y would not TIM have S,' sSalod him much
81 thse All Heshaai ess nor en did T serve lin
Xiprk;, but in The centres q intteiiige ,;
Among a thSse e Who We're then ookIRs for the
By
cd an alliance with him then which lasted
hy s New w 9orR
grasp. Seward was never very popular
stump speaker. He was impressive. but APP
pealed to intellectual audiences and there was
always, the suggestion Of previous prcIara-
Corwin declared, detracted from stump
speech The ,ablest stump speeches IRE al
ways PREPARED beforehand and many Of . them m
order to be perfectly effective they must have
the charm OF apparent spontaneity: they must
must believe that While the ideas were in the
speakers mind before he faced them. the Ian
ton q tSe f momen THAT was as Of
acting which Seward was never able to con-
guer. and therefore his speeches in the
his pure y political and partisan haraneues:
career to the fact that he followed that custom
Ted
litical career-the custom of addressing their
fellow Sitizeps from h;o the STUMP =. n
asserts that Stephen A Douglas was In some
respects. perhaps in most. the ablest cam
he mes lis in par
until his old time friend and fellow townsman
eseye
Giant on the stump: twas asserted that his
than The Democrats Of the East, yet in 1850 1850;
hsn h Douglas e%s tsSn ns sqP the in les
dency. he had more snthusissstic thronss
to ev ssfs Illinois, Down n ths hsn
August Of 1866. and farmers drove thirty miles
saeh PAINS TSo@as Benton said 81
him that he could never be President BECAUSE
yet there never was Democrat who came into into
New England who seemed OF such imposing
stature as Douglas did when he was in the
midst OF tho fury and passion and fascination
about the figure q col. Fellows: but his cheeks
eyes. at ieast during speech. seemed as large
and a. Impressive as those Of Daniel Webster
Rey Woaa saHs seo1 cosen rs
President had he not been overthrowmn on the
S fts BY peaf That TSss
were fellow townsmen for more than twenty
years, and u curious similarity OF career is
Each Of them began his political career on the
stump. and eacl, of them fought his way to his
SS e a Il
nomination for that otiioe BY the Northern wing
feated Abraham Lincoln for the Senate in 1858,
snd liz WIS h STUMP Wash defeated his rival
:. Douglas had gone 10 Springfield ILL.,. a young
NJ ssh9oi teashGr wh9 had Learned the
springiIed Year or two alter Douglas s set set
fled there. As young mon they were rivals for
the hand Of young woman. and she seems to
Qualities What s%e dd mot sn dse owe e IN the
awkward and bony, young man who had been
had better s start thsn Ginco % He had rus
Gelyed fair h edncaton He had peculiar
described as p personal magnetism. ' H Ri mental
processes were intuitiye H9 had almost
snd he was eIf.distrustfal While Douglas Was
alTTSsss S melt IL ts Illinois Legislature and
there Douglas -, revealed his capacity as
n Stllmn Ruankar cont him tp the front