Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-07-30
SHORT SPEECHES HISTORIC.

Verbose Orators Seldom Achieve the Fame
for Which They Strive.
It is curious fact that many of the
great speeches which gave Immortality
to orators who made them were deliv-
cred in comparatively small rooms and
small audiences. When Webster
made his great argument in the Dart
mouth college case, aside from the bar,
the officials in charge of the room, there
were not so persons present, and yet
many believe that he spoke to listening
senators and other high officials.
When we read Patrick Henry's won
derful display of eloquence, we see in
our minds eye a spacious room and an
immense crowd of people listening to
his burning words with GREATNESS at
tention. But, in truth, many of these
speeches which quickened or changed
the march of events were delivered in
a small room and to few hearers, never
more than $50. could it have been
here, in this oaken chapel of so pews,"
wrote Hosmer, the gifted author OF
''Sprondro," ''that Patrick Henry de-
livered the greatest and best-known of
all his speeches? Was it here that
he uttered those words of doom so un-
expected, and then so unwelcome:
We must fght?' Even here. But the
words were spoken in tone and man
ner worthy the men to whom they were
addressed, and who were so impressed
with them that for several moments
they seemed almost awe-stricken. It
was only when the voice of Richard
Henry Lee, that other matchless Vir
ginia orator, who rose to second the
words of Henry, rang through the room,
that they were called back to them
Selves
Stewards. speech in defense of Will
liam Freeman was undoubtedly the
greatest and most brilliant effort OF
his professional life. It did more for
him, perhaps, than the conduct of any
case has given any other in the state
of New York in perpetuating his name.
And yet the audience that listened to
him was less than 100 in number. A
friend expressed some surprise that an
argument of so much power, learning
and eloquence should have attracted so
few listeners. MY dear sir,'' said
Seward, my audience was in no sense
limited. The civilized world was my
audience. Posterity will hear it, and
generations unborn will praise or cen,
sure it, from the different standpoints
in which they will view it. did not
make it part of the madding
crowds ignoble strife"
Horace Greeley, who stands peerless
in history among the great journalists
of the world, as do Webster, Choate,
Chatham and Burke among the great
orators, said: Stewards speech in de-
Tense of William Freeman is one of the
masterpieces in the history of oratory,
reason, logic and humanity" Amer
lean Lawyer.
Neatly Eyaded.
She glided into the Office and quietly
approached the editors desk. Il have
written a poem" she began. Welt"
exclaimed the editor with look and
tone intended to annihilate, but she
calmly resumed: L have written a
poem on My Fathers Barn. and
CO., interrupted the editor, with an ex-
traordinary suavity, ''you don't know
how am relieved. A poem written on
your fathers barn, Ell? Twas afraid it
was written on paper and that you
wanted me to publish it. If should
ever happen to drive past your fathers
barn I'll stop and read the poem
Public Opinion.