The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-04-28

roll OF money 10 SsuI q.
SS0a. There were no home friends along
With IN: and. although two or h-ee
Fayetteville merchants warned hin
against getting into bad hands. ana
tried 10 persuade him TO hitch up his
team, and start nome, IL was noboGys
especial business to look after the
stranger. He was seen late that after
neon. standing IN the corner Of Hay
ani burgess streets, about 200 yards
below the Wagon Yard" talking to
two notorious h7bitues of this dive
Ia the Wagon Yard" | do o re-
member that any q testified To hav-
ing seen him ense@ the place: | think
nos but | have a. impression that god
reasons developed for believing tnat
he did enter IL. At any rate he was
never again seen after that night; or.
if sic has since ~reappeared. IL has
beer OF very recent years. for genera
tons were born, and grew up. and
passed awa and still the Sampson
man was mourned as dead.
The Richmond Times Dispatch OF
18th of April, says e~ditorially: Every
now and then somebody says that the
day Of oratory 10 past, but q glance
at he news columns Of the Tfmes-Dfs-
patch of Yesterday is enough TO Snow
that oratory still has its place n that
the y,eople still love IL. The paper was
full of orations OF distinguished men
throughout the union, orations oolit-
cal AID orations educational. We donb'
If ever before in the history OF tie
United States there was so many not
able crations delivered on the anntver-
sary of Jefferson's birthday"
If the editor of The Times-Dispatca
could have had the opportunity OF SIT
ting Under the ~eloquence both OF the
spell binder" of the first three or fnu-
| decades of the nineteenth century n
/! of The first years of the twentieth CEN
| tury he would Ge impressed with Il
| wide difference between the classes u
! oratory.
The former was inspired by an at
| mosphere and surroundings peculiarly
| favorable and cor ducive to ford ana
| didactic expression. This great Ameri'
| can unoin was just free, white ana
| twenty-one," SO to expresse 1t, at sia'
| time. and was stepping about Win a
| chip on his shoulder AMI the American
| Eagle under its aim, pinchlng IL no"
| and then to make it scream. lhoSt;
| proud citizens were in the yer! eio"
| and ;ervor of tht fourth OF july spirf',
| the red letter day in their calendar, and
| they wanted their forensic and piae-
| form utterances highly seasoned.
No county ever had greater men, 10
| honor and be proud of. than America
ir the first half of the nineteenth cen
tury. but there had not been time to
-. .bo,, low, tiaa tn tIp ola =SlTItX OF
expression and the simplicity of diction
demanded by the severe taste OF the
present day. Even Daniel Webster
the 'godlike Daniel" was wont 10
curl a little in the stirring polemlcs
of his congressional career. In his Ia
nous debate with Hayne, OF South
Carolina. he sent this poerratoii'
skyward: HAS the ghost of the nun
dered coalition. like the ghost of Ban
quo. come back to scar the eyehalls OF
the honorable gentleman, and will ii
not down at his bidding: Are DARK
visions of broken hopes and honor
lost forever still floating before his
heated Imagination" This is fine,
there is no doubt about that; it mus
have been inc0mparably II uttered
by Webster, in his marvellous voice,
with that leonine head and those glow
ing. cavernOus eyes. But it is Il style
that has passed out. that's all-wheth'
1 er for better or worse is a matter oil
taste.
Another orator of the same era, pay
ing a tribute to the patriots of the e
| oiutiOn. utterS this: Hard. hard IN
deed, was the contest for freedom ano
the struggle for independence. The
golden sun of liberty had nearly set ii
the gloom Of eternal night ere its ia
diant- beams illumined our western hor
lion. Had O the tutelar saint of Co
RI lumbia lowered over the American
RI camp, freedom must have met with al
untimely grace This is metaphoricai
1 categorical land tautologicaD, lurid an'
81 spectacular.
wen the great speech of Patrlci
/. Henry. beginning. They tell us, sir
that we are weak"-that wonderful Ell
fort which thrilled the hearts an
a nerved the arms of the colonial patriot
would have rather startled the state
n dignity. and disturbed the decorum q
the most potent, grave and venera
BILE senate of the twentieth century a
Washington. Our chains are forged.
he eXclaimS: their cianking may o
heard on the plains of Boston. Th
c next gale that sweeps from the mort
will bring to our ears the clash of RI
sounding arms"
Inn Martin ChuZZlewit," Dicker
satiriZes the Americans. their foibfei
y their preiudices, their habits. and the
boastful spirit, and an especff
uiea S,Irp i'm DrOddjng them in the rit
about their pyrotechnic oratory. Fl
represents Il ''pallid youth of the Je
ferson Brick school, hurting he TO
. lowing defiance at the British lion
an address before the Watertoast \
- ISOLATION of United SympathiZers:
II 'TBritish lion. where is he? Who
he? What is he? Show him to m
: Let me have him here. Here" sai
the young Columbian. in a wrestling Il
titude. upon this sacred altar. Here