. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . ough a seaof blood. This man never broke his word. I wouldcall him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier,and the state he founded went down with him intohis grave. I would call him Washington, but thegreat Virginian held slaves. This man risked hisempire rather than permit the slave-trade in thehumblest village of his domiiiions. You think me a fanatic, for you read history, notwith your eyes but with your prejudices. But fiftyyears hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Museof history will put Phoc
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . ough a seaof blood. This man never broke his word. I wouldcall him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier,and the state he founded went down with him intohis grave. I would call him Washington, but thegreat Virginian held slaves. This man risked hisempire rather than permit the slave-trade in thehumblest village of his domiiiions. You think me a fanatic, for you read history, notwith your eyes but with your prejudices. But fiftyyears hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Museof history will put Phocion for the Greek, Brutusfor the Roman, Hampden for England, Fayette forFrance, choose Washington as the bright consummateflower of our earlier civilization, then, dipping herpen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue,above them all, the name of the soldier, the stateman,the martyr, Toussaint LOuverture. ^.ii|i||iijjii||i|i ,..,|i!i|,l| ;ii)i)liin iiiiiiiniiNiiiii |JJII|j|!||||l|!ll|l|l!i||l\|]!\^^^^^ ^¥§¥^^^■^41^^^^^ HENRY WARD BEECHER. THE GREATEST PULPIT ORATOR OF T may be safely said that as a pulpit and platform orator, Beeeher hashad 110 superior. Nothing is studied or artificial about his , frankness, cordiality, fearlessness, clearness, and depthof thought, expressed in the simplicity and beauty of diction, andenlivened by a rich vein of pungent humor, were marked character-istics of his speech. Those familiar with the public career of this great orator and reformer canscarcely conceive of him at four years of age sitting in the Widow Kilbourns schooloccupied in saying his A B Cs twice a day, and putting in the intervals betweenrecitations in hemming towels and aprons; yet such is the story told of HenryWard Beechers first school-days. His father, Dr. Lyman Beeeher, was a Congregational minister, a profoundthinker and scholar, stationed at Litchfield, Connecticut, where, on the then largesalary of eight hundred dollars per year,
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