Biographical and historical sketches of early Indiana . shead and face were cast in the finest moulds, his eyes were blue,his hair auburn and his complexion florid. By nature he wasopen and frank. He was generous to a fault, carrying his hearton his sleeve. A more magnetic and attractive man could no-where be found, and had he lived to the allotted age of man-kind, he must have reached still higher honors. The Western Democratic Revlezv, in its October number, 1854,.thus sums up Governor Willards characteristics as an orator : Willard, though a young man, is the best popular orator inthe Unite
Biographical and historical sketches of early Indiana . shead and face were cast in the finest moulds, his eyes were blue,his hair auburn and his complexion florid. By nature he wasopen and frank. He was generous to a fault, carrying his hearton his sleeve. A more magnetic and attractive man could no-where be found, and had he lived to the allotted age of man-kind, he must have reached still higher honors. The Western Democratic Revlezv, in its October number, 1854,.thus sums up Governor Willards characteristics as an orator : Willard, though a young man, is the best popular orator inthe United States. His language is chaste and elegant, utterh^void of commonplace and provincialisms, his manner that ofa practical speaker, his voice one of the best we have everheard for an orator. He speaks with rapidity, precision anduncommon emphasis, and can be heard distinctly by an im-mense number of persons at once. His commanding talentswill, one day, lift him far above the reach of the most bitterstings of prejudice and the boldest shafts of
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