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He spoke nearly for two hours with unhesitating and uninterrupted fluency. As I returned homewards, to Kensington, I thought a second Johnson had visited the earth, to make wise the sons of men; and regretted that I could not exercise the powers of a second Boswell to record the wisdom and the eloquence that fell from the orator's lips.
The great Commencement event of the Summer was Wendell Phillips's oration at the centennial anniversary of the venerable Phi Beta Kappa at Cambridge. It was also the semi-centenary of the orator's graduation at Harvard, and there was great anticipation, not only because Mr. Phillips is now in many ways the first orator of his time, but because his alma mater has not sympathized with his career.
Now, as we go on with the orator's life and prose works, we need not return to his poetry. The names of many masters have been given to us as those under whom Cicero's education was carried on. Among others he is supposed, at a very early age, to have been confided to Archias.
Mitford, in his "History of Greece," took a new view of this orator's political administration a view which lowered his character for integrity he found an unresisting acceder to his doctrines in a public having no previous opinion upon the subject, and, therefore, open to any casual impression of malice or rash judgment.
His lips worked convulsively when he was not speaking. And yet there was just a faint ring of the accomplished orator's music in his voice, a music which suggests a listening ear and that ear the orator's own. Perhaps she heard it. At any rate his passionate attack did not seem to move her. "I prefer to be what I am," was all she said. "What you are! But you don't know what you are."
And thus, Mr. Raymond said, the orator's criticism upon his own speech would go on, correction following correction, until the reporter feared he would not have it ready for the morning edition of his journal.
Out of curiosity we stopped to listen, and learned that religion was our orator's theme. I turned to a man standing near me and asked: "Who is the fellow speaking?" "The pious man is Robert Brown. He is exhorting in the name of the Lord of Hosts." "The pious Robert Brown?" I queried, "exhorting in the name of of the Lord of where, did you say?"
On one occasion, old General Adam Stephen tried to burlesque the orator's manner of speech; on another occasion, that same petulant warrior bluntly told Patrick that if he did "not like this government," he might "go and live among the Indians," and even offered to facilitate the orator's self-expatriation among the savages: "I know of several nations that live very happily; and I can furnish him with a vocabulary of their language."
I am not about to report the orator's speech. Stealing another's thunder is an offence punishable condignly ever since the days of Salmoneus. Perhaps, too, he may wish to use the same eloquent bits in the present Olympiad; for American life is measured by Olympiads, signalized by nobler contests than the petty States of Greece ever knew.
I give the orator's words below in his own language, because in no other way can any idea of the sound be conveyed. There is, too, a definition made very cleverly to suit his own point of view between the conservatives and the liberals of the day. "Optimates" is the name by which the former are known; the latter are called "Populares."
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