The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-26
FOND '6F 'C[ASs|Cs.
Som. Southern ey1srt..taaiI
Still Quote Them.
- 9sll4lsi Dno99g
CHARM IN THEIR UTTERANcES
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speeehes-How william Horny
Harrlson's Liberal Use Of
Plutarch Was Curbsd
BY Web.ser'0I|. i1fI,I
CHARM IN THEIR uTTERANCES
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

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by .w,'.'e''b..sH0IIJ t>M.'
BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington. - Northern senator's
and Representatives Jare rathk jchlry
In their use Of classical illusions
when making their speeches.-- Tho
southerners are fond of their classics.
though growing less fond, ot,, them,
year, by year. as the news smemberS
with the education that is broaden
ing in the south, as it is broadening
in the north, come into, Office. At
times. however, to hear one Of the
southerners speak is as good for the
brushing Of the cobwebs from, menu
Dry as tis. tho ire-reading after many
years Of the pages Of Smith and An.
thon's Classical Dictionary: Iifttd 80
bij The northern men draw compari-
sons and sharpen their points from
modern instances, and yet there is q
Charm about the .utterances Of the
men of the south. They pass from
Homer to the Rienzi- of Miss Milford
as readily as If month rather than
centuries lay between. Ulysses wan
ders in the senate chamber and the
VOICE Of the siren Is heard from the
corridor. >ReguluS again .defies. : the
Carthagenians, while the domes OF
the African city are burning with
the splendor Of MONDAY" =. ="
~ Szssa Gems from johffni aTyfsff:s ss:s e
Searching the records one finds
that ms the elder days the classic
habit was stronger athan it5is stoaSSs
So strong, indeed, that q man OF sixty
Years sago;! iwrfting sof 9sIoneal5sf s'sthe'
speeches OF, JOHN Tyler..of ~Xirginia.
delivered some years before, said
that there were more Greeks and Ro-
mans than Americans in the speeches.
The writer set it down that this was
"a fault (ors yirtue) common to his
states $ sss;;ssss IEss
During the debate on sthes etmceSS
bin' of Jackson's. time, the records
show that John Tyler Brushed up his
classics. his Shakespeare and his Col
ley Cibbers and deliVered himself sof
this: ~as"< = y fSs = - TIL ~ = . - ~
.'Rather than give my aid l would
surrender my station here, for I as
pire not to initiate the rash boy who
set fire to the Fphesian dome. No,
sit, I will lend no aid to the passage
of. this bill. "IShad almost sat1t that
1fhad rather be "a sdegnand bay the
moon than such Romans' will not
yet despair. Rome had her Curtius:
Sparta her: I.eonid as, and Athens hen
band 81 devoted lpatriots- AID Shall
IT. be said that the American senate
contains not one man who will step
forward to rescue HIS country IN this
moHfent Of peril?" -. -, -.
i 1T is somewhat curious fact that
the writer of three score years ago
no criticises what he calls Mr.. Ty-
|ler's literal use Of; Plutarch, and 10Th
ers in his speeches, himself places
upon nearly every page of his writing
something in Latin or In Greek, fire.
qeently piles sPIlion upon sossa, makes
Homer, Ovid and Virgil his own, and
mounts .,to~sthe~ source At - "SinHs
brook that flowed fast ~ sthe soracae
tot God" 1t seems to have been the
custom of the times, this dealing In
the merchandise Of the ancients and
the medieva1s. and in some or the
wares Of the more modern. ~ The
southerners cling to- iheascustenaH in
part, but 'if IL fSst' going fts way
f. Story About General Harrison.
T.; Out of the record of the days Of
Calhoun Webster jackson and the
|grest comessa story Of eneralssARYiiiil iaan
Henry. HARRISON OF whom the. uraeard,
writer says. General Harrison was
native 81 Virginia and received hii
I education sthere. Toahis Lat day he,
never fecoa Plutarch."
aThis lnimadvsfsion foE.asssuch It
| Is intended. wasn't tered ingconnection
ENith To ataaemen1s tint thesuse Of
EancientS illusions VAS fanlt Tor,
virtaey common Is tie Tfrkinians.'
The chronicler tells this story of Gen.
eral Harrison sam shigs Aova for Rlu4
tarch, and Daniel Webstefsa connec'
ton Herewith.
/ a1,tsEidsnt HarassH 4 faaditfu1d
I'm essage#pro>e. IA Sd uFaaoM a hia
assa t ~ 81 gs @ 81 u
u silllAgrea ,tr 9 O. m 8 Z q d z :
untimely fate that kept them out.
1T was, said at, the time that the
morning before THE message Was do
Elivered ahessecresary IL astats&eIect
CWebster) was met by q friend. walk.
inEl In the vicinity Of sthe White
House in no little apparent perturba;
oa' Wilt i. III 1 matter { v1ith you thi!
morning, Mr.. Webster 2 inquired hi1
friend; you seem sgitated:: } - :
,"Agitated, sir! and who would not
ke6l agitated. that had committed the
murder / have this morning.?
i..Murdert! Mf.EWebster?'-s i3sS
"'Aye, sir, murder; murder with
malice aforethought, of know not
how many Greeks and Romans"
It may have heens Of. benefit to IHar,
frison's writing style that Webster
| vas as mercilessE copy reader stsy
| I'D I,r5s<ata.ta...s; " q Il,
"Well, my son, I, see you've been
reading the Il 4fe pf abraham Llnrblniss
That's good It Is always profitable to