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The Preservation of Learning in the Dark Ages, Wm. B. Fowle,

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FOWLE'S SPEAKER.

TRUE ELOQUENCE.

Extracted from WEBSTER's Address on the Completion of the Bunker Hill

Monument, June 17, 1849. Eulogy on Adams + Jeff.

WHEN public bodies are to be addressed on momentous Janel occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong Hall passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech, further Boston than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness, are the qual- /826 ities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It can not be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they can not compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it, but they can not reach it. It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, with spontaneous, original, native force.

The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of rhetoric, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power; rhetoric is vain; all, all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, in the presence of higher qualities; then nature is eloquent; then patriotism is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic; -the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming in the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man

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