Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-08-02
Three Orators.

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or start, rather, through an address
which placed in nomination another
orator, who was, in reality, not second
to Colonel Ingersoll The generation
that heard these men heard their SUI
perior in Abraham Lincoln.
All of them were great speakers.
One was an orator possessing all the
qualities in the highest form, Lincoln;
another, Blaine, was an orator of the
magnetic style, and Colonel Ingersoll,
an influential word painter. Extracts
from their best efforts are worth read
ing agin.
When he nominated Blaine in this
city, Ingersoll said:
Like an armed warrior, like plum
ed knight, James G. Blaine marched
down the halls of the American Con-
gress and threw his shining lance full
and fair against the brazen forehead of
every defamer of his country and mall
igner nf its honor. For the Republi-
can party to desert that gallant man
now is worse than if an army should
desert their General on the field of
battle. James G. Blaine is now, has
been, the bearer of the sacred stand
ard of the republic, l call it sacred
because no human being can stand be-
meath it's folds without becoming and
without remaining free.
Everything considered, this is fair
sample of the rhetoric of Colonel In
gersoll. 1t was effective and is a
creditable composition, but it is some
what exaggerated and slightly soph-
omorical But it is distinctly inferior
from every point of view to the per-
grafton of the Garfield memorial ad-
dress, delivered before the two houses
of Congress in February, 1882, in
which Mr.. Blaine said
AS the end drew near his early crav-
ing for the sea returned. The stately
mansion had been to him the weari-
some hospital of pain, and he begged
to be taken from its prison walls, from
its oppressive, sitting air, from its
homelessness and its hopelessness.
Gently, silently, the love of a great
people bore the pale sufferer to the
longed-for healing of the sea,to live or
to die, as God should will, within
sight of its heaving billows, within
sound of its manifold voices. With
wan, fevered face tenderly lifted to the
cooling breeze, he looked out wistfully
upon the oceans changing wonders; on
its far sails, whitening in the morning
light; on its restless waves, rolling
shoreward to break and die beneath
-Ae MONDAY sun; on the red clouds of
evening, arching low to the horizon;
on the serene and shining pathway Of
the stars. Let us think that his dying
eyes read mystic meaning which on
ly the rapt and parting soul may know.
Let us believe that in the silence of
the receding world he heard the great
waves breaking on the farther shore,
and felt already upon his wasted brow
l-e breath of the eternal morning.
BolA are admirable specimens of the
art of the speaker, but both are shad-
owed by the words of Lincoln at Get
tysburg. This address is too familiar
to need quoting here. Great as 1T is,
and the worlds best judges have called
it matchless, it is not much superior to
the words that closed his second inau-
gural address. From his heart and
soul he said:
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we
pray, that this mighty scourge of war
may speedily pass. Yet, if God wills
that it continue until all the wealth
piled by the bonIsmen's 200 years of
unrequitted toll shall be sunk, and un-
til every drop OF blood drawn with the
lash shall be paid with another drawn
by the sword, as was said 5000 years
ago, so still it must be said, chat the
| judgments of the Lord are true and
righteous altogether. With malice to-
ward none, with charity for all, with
hrmness in the right as God gives us
to see the right, let us finish the work
we are in, to bind up the Nation.
wounds, to care for him who shal
have borne the battle, and his widow
and his orphans, to do all which may
achieve and cherish just and last
ing peace among ourselves and will
all nations.
Lincoln rose to heights Blaine ant
Ingersoll never reached, but happy TIL
man who has heard the three. Wei
can he say that a single generation sci
dom produces three more eloquent an,
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