The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-24
EAGLES TRIBUTE TO BAILEY.
To the Editor of The Post.

To the Editor of The Post.
Houston, Texas, April 2i.--ln common
with thousands of others, | listened today
to Hon. Joseph w. Bailey speak for two
hours: and feel glad to avail myself Of
the opportunity of your Invitation to cx-
press my opinion OF MIR. Bailey as he Is
known to the public.
believe have heard most OF those per-
sons prominent at the bar, in the pulpit.
on the lyceum platform and on tho
hastings; and, as | have always consider
ed oratory as the highest OF the arts for
the expression OF thought OF the brain and
the feeling OF the heart, / have been
greatly interested in those men whose
genius, or talent and attainment, have
given them Just renown. ! conceive that
10 convince the judgment, to pleased the
fancy and TO move the viii, are the proper
province OF the orator. IL is not uncofn-
mon in our country TO hear the speaker
who may have In some slight measure.
the one or other of these powers: but 10
Is rare to observe their combination 10 one
person.
The best talent for the bar is the talent
OF accurate analysis, tersc statement, logl-
cal reasoning and brevity. In which con-
vlncing the judgment Is tho object OF it's
exercise. In the pulpit, besides some meas
ure of that quality of mind, arc largely
required scholastic attainment, UNDER
standing OF human senslbility capabliity
to please the fancy, and By appeal TO the
heart to move the auditor to the action OF
duty. On the platform, the power to in
struct. by capability OF original reflection,
TO charm, by artistic use of endowments
aud attainment, and to satisfy, by touch
ing the heart with measure. On the hust-
ings. the powers required at the bar, in
the pulpit and on the platform combined,
with appeal to patriotic conviction as ell
max. Everybody speaks, but few speak
well. In history the speech OF but few Is
remembered; either because of environ
ment, lack of capacity or the mutations
OF time Often the shallowest OF men,
who have the saving quality OF heart and
the personal quality of magnetism, create
admiration temporarily: but their work
dies with the men; often, tho profound
est men fail at fame. except to the pc
dantc student-becauso they lack heart !,
and the only men who while living achieve
recognition and win enthusiasm and who
when dead still live in the literature of
men, are those who have brain as "A
basis honesty as a motive, attainment as
result of study, heart as an inheritance
OF nature and magnetism q brain as we'll
as of heart and person. Pitt and Burke
live because of brain and culture Clay
and Haskell because of heart and person !;
Prentss and Grady because of brain Gull
ture and heart and person; though the
greatest of them ALL and the greatest who.
save Christ, has spoken to his age and
succeeding generations, is Prentss.
Audacfty is quality that fascinates,
and is yet rarely combined with dis
erection. or the men whom that quality
has been part Of, and who have COM
bined II with more solid parts, in our
country, as an exception to the rule, have
been Toon;bs of Georgia. Prentss of
Mississippi, Conkllng of New York, In
gersoll Of Illinois, Henry OF Virginia. Reed
Of NJ nIf1n and nnilnu q TnNna