The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-21

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.... body Of which ne was d
Others ueld differently. and
... .. the North IN the Inter
t|-.I-N," published Il sever.
.l.5u him. 1t was by 4 Law
.....4Gur to some at that time
..u.i the Two Georgia Seua-
..#..ut Brown, we're the great
....t B4ty. others held niuI.
.... Garland, Beck, Lamar, vest.
.....a4 some others. The Angus
....l.., had this a. / preserved it
..5, and / thiuk IL vas written
....t ana gifted acquaintance.
..l. James k. Rainfall. L MarJ-
.. birth, ana who much distin-
tI!Asrif by tEat patriotic poem
Inc true ring AND high devo-
tuuine son OF the South,
..... Was 80 often sung during the
and 1ItT, entitled My Ma
. lIe wrote many other poems
win the stimGlous and f-rvor
r|.oubIoua and testing times. i
..,. A Sunday Reyeric,
Il. Dreux," Tn same Sen
here's Life III the Old Land
There are others of perhaps
3D.. greater merit, but l do not
...-:u now. Mr.. kanda! had the
..uliue pOeteIc att1atus. He was
.~..lIi-t. and for yers edited tn
T.. lt,a.) Daily Chronicle, one Of
...I Of southern newspapers. The
..t. deferred to above contained this
....t preserved from this editorials:
.. ..rlres reads his speeches. 50
prudleton, so does David Davis,
...a. Hampton. Mr.. Lamar hardly
.... himself WithOu manuscript,
.leu it would not take five min
ra deliver what he has composed.
.... Vance. the wonder of the must
sticks to his essay before hiHl
... .acIinces the flavor of his ora
...4 uurucy. Mt. Beck is in the same
..t.a9r".
..r. rising orator Of the South is
....u. vest. of Missouri. He is L
....s. His figure is as short and un-
....f. as that of Edmund Kean was
..ft tg be. But. like the famous ira
a,...iu. he has that within which more
-.4u makes amends for some defects
.t I.-r4on. Mr.. Vest may be fairly
...--rl as one of the few cOnsummate
..tY,e Of the senate. He has nearly
....rE endowment for usefulness and
UIItlancy rs a speaker, and no man
- more admired for his OratOry and
feared Tor his powers of retort.
Senator Vest sustained Il great rep
utatluu until the close Of his brilliant
.-f4t0rial career. His health failed
and he retired, but not until he had
..-r in the Senate, think, for quite
twenty years. lie died only some two
.rurs ago very greatly lamented, for
U. lett no man in the august body who
.ae his superior. After retiring he
#soJr several most entertaining, al
u.frublr papers upon distinguished
SENATORIAL contemporaries, for the
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
read them with exceeding Interest.
for they were exceptionally clever, the
style so good, the generosity so prom
inent, the sincerity SO pronounced, the
fine. discriminating judgment so con
s~picu0us.
How does the two Houses of the
congress compare noW-190G-in true
ylaquence With the times before the
VAR? The South used to have dozens
If able and eloquent men in the Con
grcss-men Who were ready, we'll fur
aished. vigorous debaters. These men
lid not read their speeches.. 1t was
not the style or custom among the
representative men of the South prior
To the war.
Mungum, Badger and Graham never
read a speech in the Senate. Clay, Ben
tom. McDuhie, PlVstOn, Berren, Jeffer-
son Davis, and scores OF other
@nuthrons fired otf-hand and generally
hit the ''bulTS-eye."
have no idea that the SOuth'S
aUlest men in the House of RepfeSen-
latiVes even read their cut and dried
speeches. | had the good fortune to
hear a discussion between Henry Win
ter Davis. Of Maryland, a remarkable
speaker and of high abilities, and Alex
aIder II. Stephens, of Georgia, one OF
thp very ablest men in Congress, and IT
WAS 4 great intellectual treat. Mr..
Davis replied to Mr.. stephens. 1t was
SO elegant, so clear-cut. 50 repl"te
with points, so dignified and yet so
ready. I might have thought it Il pre-
pared speech. spoken memorial, If it
had not been q fine reply 10 the speech
preceding it. There was no reading op
The part Of either speaker. Probably
'ae abIest leading Northern Senators
aIe responsible mainly for i~ntrOduclng
'hv habit of reading political essays
md hund-cuffed stump-speeches in the
Senate. [ do not think Webster or
'ho3te or Winthrop read their speeches.
h"t I suspect that Everett, the most
#ftIncial of speakers. read his from his
rlsiIly prepared manuscript. No doubt
Nt'or to the war several Northern Sell
"turs ana members of the House were
|~1tE. fluent, aggressive, oquen
irakers, but the most of those VINO
'rt*rr The war represented the North
+" & n~1"reSS We're rather men OF pfoSy
IH""tiNltie9 and gifts, WithOu dlStlll-
""II~t magnetism or true oratoflcai
Dr..
believe e~loquence is a gift and that
Il .'Ii abounds in the South. l can
| institute comparisons, or deny that
"H.Iory now is below the old Standard
the bar. in the pulpit. in le@lSla-
'' iNItS or on the MUSINGS IllClI
#"N be- nov speakers eGualing the
''' of the past. | suppose that IN
.t IF the states there are men OF
.'".F and genuine debating and rare
.'atjcal gifts. and OerhaGs now ana
"'"A Won may find a forest BORN De
SUGGEST H-1cS who has the very rare IA
'"'# of electrical magnetic speech IN
...i.|tttbIe development. Strange TO
'. NaI very ErifteQ Vance some lllneS
HS speeches in the Senate. l
".' heIFd him read Il speech and ne
.'.t Ij We'll. What he said was Salu
".|" precision and finish and a Ger
power. He said Just what he de
"l 81" say on u very important trying
'@@I"u-On the night of his nomlnd-
... i| Governor in 1ST6-but for hlm
"tT great oratOr-it WOS rather tame.
Itl' Wpnted fires did not burn that
II" WAS beyond doubt or com
'H the very Creates huStlngS
N'i-Sppaking to the people from
@'ump'-I have ever heard, ana
"l'e heard many of h first cam
..-''f- and speakers from 1914 TO
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