Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-03-18
UNIQUE RHETORIC.
Col. John r.. Morris Resurrects
Some of Henry Blount's Word
Painting.

Painting.
Col. John r. Morris, breathing heav-
lily with excitement, walked into the
Observer office recently, holding in his
hand a piece Of an old newspaper.
Henry Blount, Of Wilson, is over yon-
der at the Buford," said Col. Morris.
HE intended to lecture at the A. r.
P. Tabernacle tonight, but conflicting
engagements caused him to postpone
his address. But want you to read
this editorial that Blount wrote in 1893,
when he was editor Of the Wilson Mir
ror. 1t is about Judge Lamar, Of the
supreme bench, who had just died.
The paper that Col. Morris proffered
read:
His Judge Lamar's) grafton few
years ago upon John c. Calhoun was.
perhaps. the finest and grandest and
sublimest effort Of his life, for 1t was
acute in analysis-broad in its scope
Of colossal In its array Of
matter-deep in its penetration Of mo-
tive-elegant in its garniture Of ex-
pression-forceful in its presentation Of
truth-grand in its portraiture Of char
acter-happy in the thrilling inspira-
tion Of most glowing theme-intense-
ly sweet with all the blooming flowers
Of the warmest feeling Joyous in the
radiant beamings Of its graceful rhet-
oric-kingly in the majestic sweep Of
20 oil In 10
mellowest fruitage Of the ripest patri-
otism-matchless In the workman-like
structure Of its massive proportions
noble in its grand and ethical teaching
in the riches of successfully garnered
wisdom and experience-pure and pa
triotic in all its thought and express
sions-queenly in the magnificent dra-
perry of its royal diction-rich in the
exquisite tintings Of the finest poetic
fancy-sublime in the glorious ascent
of It's heaven-towering burst Of ora
tory-true in it's mastery dealing with
times, men and motives in its
quaint. and delicate and graceful ref
erence to complex questions and all
conflicting theories-virile in it's vigor-
Gus strength and splendid independence
of thought and emotion-wise with the
astute reflections of a mind we'll
trained in the profoundest school Of
smanship-xerxesian in its match
less marshalling Of various events and
cognate themes in fitting place and Or
der-young in the exuberant glowing
of its enthusiastic ardor, yet old in its
matured Neutrality-suspicious. In its pow
erful advocacy Of the immortal princi-
pies so ably enunciated by that dead
patriot and statesman, the matchless
Calhoun-the man without a peer-it
will stand throughout the flight Of CEN
turies as the massive, mastery, mag
niflcent masterpiece Of mastery
mind, and will prove a monument to
the fame Of Lamar more lasting than
marble, for on the adamantine and in
vulnerable surface Of its merit and
worth and splendor and beauty the cor
roding and devastating moth Of decay
will never fix fang"
Perceive" said Col. Morris-"per-
ceive the gentle play Of the a, b. c's.
Why, knew man who read this
piece years ago, and when he got down
to about the ms or ms he deliberate
ly arose and took off his coat and said:
81 be dam If believe he'll get over
the x; and when he saw that 'xer- .
xersian' he tainted dead away"
And perceive, as Col. Morris. says,
that moth of decay" which will "nev-
er fix a g."-Charlotte Observer.