. Adventures and achievements of Americans; a series of narratives illustrating their heroism, self-reliance, genius and enterprise . y I need not tell you, gentlemen, howwide is the difference between sticks or stones, and double-triggered loadedrifles cocked at your hreast. The eftect of this terrific image, exhibited inthis great orators peerless manner, cannot be described. I dare not attemptto delineate the paroxysm of emotion which it excited in every heart. Theresult of the whole was, that the prisoner was acquitted; with the perfectapprobation, I believe, of the numerous assembly who a
. Adventures and achievements of Americans; a series of narratives illustrating their heroism, self-reliance, genius and enterprise . y I need not tell you, gentlemen, howwide is the difference between sticks or stones, and double-triggered loadedrifles cocked at your hreast. The eftect of this terrific image, exhibited inthis great orators peerless manner, cannot be described. I dare not attemptto delineate the paroxysm of emotion which it excited in every heart. Theresult of the whole was, that the prisoner was acquitted; with the perfectapprobation, I believe, of the numerous assembly who attended the was it that gave such transcendent force to the eloquence of Henry ?His reasoning powers were good : but they have been equaled, and morethan equaled, by those of many other men. His imagination was exceed-ingly quick, and commanded all the stores of nature as materials for illus-trating his subject. His voice and delivery weie inexpressibly happ_v. Buthis most irresistible charm was the vivid feeling of his cause with which heBpoke. Suck feeling infallibly communicates itself to the breast of p o 5; >^ li ^ ~ 44 ^ — a 2 ^ J. 3 - 50. ~- t; Mcj — Q ^ J: <L ^ u :- 3 eC ?yi 03 Is nJ O t; 2H (a bi ^ w ^ ™ ^ - t; C 5 G, ^ ¥ ?? ^ ?/) 1 *- o C- ?fi CJ OJ » a: S o ^ M t3 OJ 4) bf -J- K I y. tu 1 0- T3 :=: -i ^rt ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE AMERICAN TEMPERANCE REFORMERS. A HISTORICAL SKETCH. What will you take to drink? united to a significant toss of thehead, and an unmistakable angular glance from the eye toward well filleddecanters; was a question and an action of almost universal occurrence inevery house in our land, within the memorj- of many whose heads havenot even yet become gray. And then came the step up to the sideboard ; the passing of the sugar-bowl and the water pitcher; the cranch and the whirl of the toddy sticlv inthe tumbler; the decanting of the stimulant; the pause of anticipation asthe glass was held momentarily in the hand
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