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Updated: May 19, 2025
Council at Canawangus Interesting reminiscence of Red Jacket Address of Farmer's Brother Jasper Parrish Horatio Jones Red Jacket's visit at Hartford, Conn. A council of the Iroquois was held at Ca-na-wau-gus, near West Avon, in the autumn of 1798. Connected with it is a reminiscence of Red Jacket of much interest, as an item of history, and it serves well to illustrate the orator's mental habit.
"Woman's fearless eye" was expressed by a wild glare; "manhood's brow, severely high," by a sudden clutch at the reddish locks falling over the orator's hot forehead, and a sounding thump on his blue checked bosom told where "the fiery heart of youth" was located.
Can we fancy anything more biting than the idea that the tears caused by the ills of another soon grow dry on the orator's cheek, or more wise than that which tells us that eloquence is no more than wisdom speaking eloquently? Then he wrote the six Paradoxes addressed to Brutus or rather he then gave them to the world, for they were surely written at an earlier date.
That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt orator's desk.
When he was arranging to return to his village on Savaii he requested as a favour, and was presented by the king of Manua with an orator's staff a long one, reaching to the shoulder, and which the king himself was accustomed to lean upon when addressing public meetings.
Not wholly, for even in "cold type" some measure of the power and persuasiveness of the orator's argument is suggested.
Men accepted the principle not only of acting but of speaking for their own advantage. This gave greater zest to a debate on public questions, and certainly sharpened the orator's powers. If a man had benefited the state he was not ashamed to blazon it forth; if another in injuring the state had injured him, he did not altogether sacrifice personal invective to patriotic indignation.
Come to the Pnyx." And he went on. "Very well to the Pnyx," said Aristophanes, "and I will obtain matter for a new comedy, to be called Alcibiades." "You are right, perhaps," answered Lucillus. "The whole matter is not worth weeping for. Therefore let us laugh!" Alcibiades stood again on the orator's platform in the Pnyx.
What popguns of jokes have these ears tingled to hear let off at him, what asinine sentiments, what impotent conclusions, what spelling- book moralities, what adaptations of the orator's insufferable tediousness to the assumed level of his understanding!
With indefatigable zeal he traveled from one end of the country to the other, arguing with chiefs, making fervid speeches to assembled warriors, and in every possible manner impressing his people with his great idea. The Prophet went with him; and when the orator's logic failed to carry, conviction, the medicine-man's imprecations were relied upon to save the day.
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