The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-08

or rhetorical pyrotechnics ever employ- cd to conceal paucity of ideas by the gorgeoasness of phraseology. This rhetorical display across the forensic heavens reminds me forcibly of an as- tronomer's description of the remark able tenuity of the tail of a certain comet. He said it's length was a hum
 dred million miles as 1t stretched
 athwart the skies that its breadth was
 50,0O0 miles and yet the solid matter
 which 1t contained could be condensed
 ana transported In a one-horse cart"
 But he was not content to employ the
 weapon of ri1icIle only. He assailed
 Ingalls, with invective and one who
 would read a splendid burst of eloquent
 indignation should read Vances speech
 on the legislative. executive and judi
 cial appropriation bill for the fiscal
 year ended June 30, 1880. Only few
 days ago mob arose against a dozen
 or so little negro children in Pittsburg,
 Pa. Their crime was attendance at
 school. The mob made them tenants of
 hospitals instead. How ridiculous is
 Ingalls, magnificent eloquence in be-
 half of the negro read in light of that Pittsburg oHtrage the good year 1905.
 Vance was a versatile man-thinker, orator. poet. scholar. soldier. adminIs- trator. The greatest child of his brain was the lecture on The Scattered Ma tion. It is a wonderful production, in- hnitely surpassing Bob IngersolPs blasphemies. It is the work of Il schol- ar and thinker. as well as of an or ator and poet. His reading must have been vast and his reelection the pro- fouadest to have produced this extra | ordinary composition. Ii is history and ! philosophy, as well as eulogy of the l greatest branch of the human family. | No man interested in the subject can i an Jrd to neglect this lecture, and Vance l must ever be an honorcd name with | the chosen people who produced Abra- ham. Jacob, Moses and David.
 Here Is an extract. After referring | to Macaulay's famous passage concern ing the antiquity of the Catholic | Church, Vance proceeds:
 The Jewish people, church and insti- tutions. are still lekt standing, though | the stones of the temple remain no longer one upon the other, though its sacrihcial fires are forever extingush- ed, and though the tribes. whose glory 1t was. wander with weary feet through out the earth. And what is tho line of Roman pontiffs compared to that splen- did dynasty of the successors of Aaron and Levi? The twilight of fable in which the line of pontiffs began, was but the monday brightness of the Jew lsh priesthood. Their institution car ries the mind back to the age when the prophet, In rapt mood stood over Babylon and uttered Gods wrath against that grand and wondrous mis- ress of the Euphratian plain-when the Memphian chivalry still gave prece- fence to the chariots and horsemen who each morning poured forth from the orazen gates of the abode of Ammon; when Tyre and Sidon were yet build ng their palaces by the sea, and Car mage. their greatest daughter, was yet inborn. That dynasty of prophetic priests existed even before Clio's pen lad learned to record the deeds of men md when that splendid entombed civil ization once lighted the shores of the 1rythraean Sea, the banks of the Flu 'hrates and the plains of Shinar, with glory inconceivable, of which there naught now to tell, except the dumb lo1uence of ruined temples and buried ities."
 Dozens of passages equally eloquent nd ornate might be culled from this em or human thought. Every youth, ew or Gentle. ought to read and pom CT this eloquent lecture. It ought to e recited in every American academy exercise the thought and stimulate l he imagination of every budding ge- ius of our land.
 Only a deeply religious mind could ave conceived this splendid work. and pon reading 1t one can but wish that he lines of Vance had been so cast as make letters his professions IL will ot be until real historian has told ne story of the tremendous revolution 1881 that the figure of ZebuIon Baird ance shall loom up before the public ision in all it's Titanic proportions. He as very great man.
 -------------- MES. InFinAa .a | l., IS S6; her daughter is 76. her grand aughter 54. her great ddaughter [