Identifier: livingoratorsina01mago (find matches)
Title: Living orators in America
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Magoon, Elias Lyman
Subjects: Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 McDuffle, George, 1788-1851 Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866 Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858 Preston, William C. (William Campbell), 1794-1860 Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865 Orators -- United States Biography Oratory -- United States
Publisher: New York, Baker and Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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either insipidor equivocal. He resembles a mighty stream, sometimesflowing in a full and limpid current, and oftener, per-haps, turbid and encumbered with rubbish, but there isalways a mighty volume of meaning and force in himwhich it is much easier to criticise than excel. Whatwe are most anxious to impress on the young reader is,that neither uncouthness nor impetuosity is necessarilyallied to great strength. In Laocoon, as Goethe hassuggested respecting that master-piece of antiquity, wecontemplate nature in full revolt and desperation. Thelast choking pang, the desperate struggle, the maddeningconvulsion, the working of the corroding poison, thevehement fermentation of his blood, the stagnating cir-culation, suffocating pressure, and paralytic death, yetover the utmost violence is thrown the mantle of ma-jestic grace. We see it, feel it thrillingly in that pre-sence, and in a moment understand what the great poetmeant when he celebrated the Still greatness of simplicity and repose.
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Sai^wsg i^jA.mm X Jl/i- ./>:Micheliw Zii^.JJ/oVMViut Ai.JK) CHAPTER VI. LEWIS CASS, THE COURTEOUS. It is an invigorating exercise, to attempt the ana-lytical portraiture of great logical powers; and it is anexhilarating one, to describe adroit talents employed insplendid declamation. But, to many persons, it is notless pleasing to contemplate simple statesmanship habitu-ally adorned with decided good nature. We propose to sketch the career of General Cass as acivilian, military chieftain, and patriotic statesman. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Oct. 9th,1782. His ancestors were among the first settlers ofthat part of the country. It is said that his father borea commission in the revolutionary army, which hejoined the day after the battle of Lexington, and in whichhe continued until the close of the war, having borne apart in the battles of Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Trenton,Princeton, Monmouth, and Germantown. In 1799, hemoved with his family to Ohio, and settled in the vicinity

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