The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-02-14
The KELLEY LECTURE.

The first lecture of the course ar
r ranged by Prof. Pierpont, by Fr
l Kelley at the Opera House on last
Saturday evening, on the "Yankee
t Volunteer" was we'll received by
8 the largest audience our city has ev.
, er given before to a public lecturer.
| The volunteer soldier, from Saul in
a time Of revolt and revolution to the
Michigander at Santiago in the
. Emanuel mission of our country,
we're displayed as the characters ~ho
materialize Honor and who save the
Country. Honor and Country being
the soldiers highest inspiration and
from the tone OF the lecture, the SOL
dier, the Volunteer soldier, Is the
greatest man on earth; Honor enno-
bling his heart in spirit and Country
employing his hands to service. His
apotheosis of the of the soldier was
very eloquent, and the specification
thrown over him was but proper by
an army chaplain appointed by the
government to ministry, was as ap-
propriate to the volunteer, as was the
blessing of Samuel divinely appoint
ted, to dispense his benedictions to a
somewhat turbulent Regular Arnv
lead 5y Moses. The chaplains, since
Samuel, stay, or ought to stay, with
the congregation assigned them.
The Reverend lecturer is a gentle
man of handsome appearance, of
trained gesture and of pleasing skill
in telling the incidents of personal
experience. The best Of his lecture
was his recital of the immortal charge
OF the 69th at Fredricksburgh and
tribute of poets to their own, their
native land.
He is an entertaining speaker and
while he developed nothing new in
thought, he does array some we'll es-
tablished old notions in some very
pretty and attractive decoration.
His pronunciation is little out of
tingle to an Ohio ear. He pre-.
faces many OF his sentences with a
kind of cockney "ah-ah." He pro-
nounces the, "theah"; day, "daah"
and world. "worruld"; that, .theyat."
He is clear tongued in saying"M Mich
igander" but he had them once to
"waarrehnder" when the Mich-ga n
der wondered what the ''worrnld"
thought of their s.rech-chord." He
got the 69th all right in the fighting
line, from Corcoran to Duffy, but be
spoiled the Irish brosue in trying to
put 4 Boston pronunciation on their
tongues.
A little less of the "ah, ab, a." be-
fore starting in to say something will
dispel the notion of affect alton, and |
a closer observance Of the pronuncia- |
tions that obtains outside of Boston,
will make the lecture much mere
to the ear of people in
the Ohio and Mississippi valley.
Prof. Pierpont is to be congratu-
lated upon having such an entertain
ing lecturer to open his course. The
criticisms We make are in no spirit
of fault. A Lecturer in his public
presentation is public property. Like
the sun, he gives US, indeed, much
but we train our glasses to
see his spots. In that sense. the
sometimes assumes to be,
not a fault finder. but an observer of
and the Lecturer, like the
sun is to astronomical, heaven look
ing eye. an object of glasses other
than those of every day use.
The Lecturer made some asser-
tions which can not have common
acceptance. He asserted that the first
blood shed in the cause of the Revo-
luton, our freedom. was negro blood.
and that the Civil War was for the
liberation of the negroes. Both these
are false in fact and dis
gusting in sentiment. Warren, on
Hill where monument rises ,
10 kiss the clouds; Montgomery with +.
The cliffs of Quebec in memorial ,
over the spot where he fell are not ,
noted in the repertoire Of the Lecturer
but an accidental niger, killed in a :
street brawl. is paraded, famed. We
Ire told under bronze wings in Bos- |
ing, as the Emanuel of American {
liberty. The cival war, ne dogmat- q
cally asserts, was for the liberation
If the slaves of the south. This is c
'uch a gross perversion of history, 7
uch an insult to the millions who
vent out in the war to preserve the
Union, that it makes US half mad, to
wen resent it. Negro blood, the
It. Janarius of the Revolution /!
Nigger slavery the impulse of civil 7
yar!! In face of facts, that At a
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