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Elihu Burritt

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
June
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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Vecut Uk ToRowiUg parngrapli, concernntr the learnedblacksmilh, from ilie IJerald of Freedom, written by Mr. Hogere. The speech reterred to was maJc at a meeting in Boijion. "I had been introduccd lo Elihu Burritt the áay before, aml was much interealed in bis original appearance, and ceeirous of knowing him furlher. 1 had not forraed the highestopinión of Lia libeíality, írom sume passages between his "Chrislian Citizen, nnd ilie oíd Hcrald ofFrecdorn. My companions and 1 lurued into the hul' to hearhim sprak a Hule, before going up into the gr?l con veiH. ion over head. lint ve soon tbrgot - I ditl - every tliintr but the speaker befbré me. The dim - lit hall- -Liie liundful audience - 'lio contras! oí' both wiih the illuininntcd cha pel, and the ocean mullitude nsscmbled over licad - bespeak painfully Ihocsiiination in which tlio greal canse of peace i held in Christendom. I wish olí Clinstendoni coutd have heard Eliliu Biirrilt's speoch. One unbroken, unnbatei siream it was, of profound nnd ofty and orig inal eloquence. I folt rivelod to niv eeat til he finished i!. There wns nooratory about it, in ífieordinary sense of that word - no greces of elocnlion. It va6 niijjhty thoughts radiating oíT froni his hoated rnind, liku ihe sparks from the glowíng 6teel on liia own nnvil - gottipg on as they cume out, what clothing of language tbey mighl, and thus have on the most appropriate imaginable. Not a waste word, nor a wan'ing one. And lie stood and delivored himself in the sjmplicUy nnd earnestnes.s of atlituds and csture, beonjing to his manly and now honored and distnjuÍ6l)ed trade. 1 adniired to witness the touch of rnsticity in hisaccpnt, mnid his truly splendid tlíctio:i, Wljích bftofcèned, 'oè well as ho vein of folid senso that ran throtigh hits pecch, that he wns not educated nt the col egc. I thoughr of Plonphtnan Burns, as I liatencd to Blacksmith Buiritt. O wlia a lignity and beanty lubor imparts to Ifarning."

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