Show WEBSTERS F R IS REPLY TO HAYNE senator daw idawee of massachusetts writing r ring on the subject has oratory Deci declined lived in she october forum alej ui its sonic interesting notes in regard to weiters We Web biters anost famous speech the senator Is biking the point that ahe changed co conditions wider under which most breeches are now delivered account tor cor most of the changes in the nature lef fit oratory ora tory past and present tile the fact that a pubic speaker now addresses not ony only tile the audience before him out a whole whole nation perhaps pw hapa through the ahe press tends leads to replace the spon tane nui ui and utterance of thoughts which crowd upon the orator while n M feet with the more carefully guard W ed and polished essay which will tie be at once committed to and ana without revision exposed to criticism in elin I 1 liis of this thia change the senator gives the following tol facts about the reply to hayne harne waca webster pronounced that greatest ot of his orations orai tlona ione the reply to hayne there was no power printing press in existence nor railroad tn fit this cou country nor was the telegraph abou ant of and what we call stenography wai wa not no t known until nearly ten years afterward while there I 1 li no doubt that mr debtor sanke otter after long and profound study of chii subject yet tie lie was com compelled peed to speak at last without opportunity port unity for immediate preparation and froam a arlex more than 1 a I cidern sheet of note paper and finhen he was done all that remained en cil paper of that grandest of english orations was this brief and the imperfect and detached notes taken by mr seaton I 1 hy by a method of his own lilloll would now be discarded as useless arh this mils brief and these notes ard by the th e help of his wife who had ao 10 listened toned to the speech and could recall its mst striking passages Rai lages and also aiso by a aid id of mr websters own recollections nil ill Soa seaton torl undertook the work of writing out u t this unsurpassed effort friends who were listeners were called in and par paragraph raph alter adler para paragraph grapIn submitted to the test of their memory and a or at rewritten as doubts were thrown on the accuracy of the original draft they were called in also alsa to aid in the choice of oc phrases and sentences vac most impressive Teg regardless ardless of th this original notes it was not until FL a month after its delivery that this work of re rc was competed and the speech first published as ai it now appears even in the washington jewsh new paper the public was kept in ili waiting tor for this long period before it could read and weigh this great argument the fame of which as described by those who had listened to dt had spread far and wide it was nearly six we weeks eks before anything beyond what was in lottris 0 of friends and fugitive extracts produce I 1 from imet memory nory regI reached ched boston if nr mr webster could reenter re enter the sen lie ale chamber today to day and speak us as he lid then before he could resume inis seat beat unload multitudes from portland jn in 01 ielne line to lorrand in oregon would be reading had bad said the of abat day was delivered 0 to the senate and to within the sound of the ora oratorio toro voice it was its extraordinary character alone that rescued dt tor for the coun country itry and tor for looming coming generations I 1 mr winthrop says that mr air webster spared no labor tn ill the writing out of bi his speech after delivery dell vory to make it as ai a i perfect and impressive as possible to readers in all conling coming ti time m e ss as it baj been to hearers at the ali T moment n 0 m e I 1 in order to satisfy a public eap exp expectation e c t at lvin not justified bythe by the shorthand hamd report of mr seaton the report la Is atilt preserved in chii th boston library sa that every reader of iane he speech in its present form can appreciate the value of th the e final finish this great example makes clear the necessity which forces the most gifted orator to ito conform to the changco of condition which surround him this finall finishing of sentences and phrases this his restatement of lof a argument r ZU after delivery Is not pos possible R ible now if done at all they must be done before the traitor speaks for every sentence Is 13 transferred with photographic accuracy to 0 paper arl and published to the world by the stenographer as soon loon as it falls from the me HM of the th speaker passing Instantly b beyond recall in the ltv summer M mer of 1 I visited washington reaching there on the day on which sir mr seward read from manuscript one of those orations full 0 of f profound political philosophy and eloquent in the enforcement of groat great political truths for which he was so justly celebrated in the evening I 1 called with many others to pay my respects acts and offer my cone ratu athons among these callers mr S sumner brier whose first political speech had then been waited for by impatient friends for some rome time As lie he offered to IN sir I 1 r seward very warm and hourly hearty congratulations and commendations mends t ions 0 of t the speech just del delivered hered mr seward remarked to him by the way sumner where here la Is that spec speech ch sou were going to make I 1 thought you would have delivered it beffie now sir air sumner replied if 1 I have it all written out but I 1 committed it to memory perfectly yet here were two great and justly celebrated orators but of if distinctly different types and each found himself compelled to train his big peculiar tor for the most moat effective work in subordination to surrounding conditions mr seward had noni none of the graces braces arid and could practice none of the arts in delivery y which eh win ain arid and captivate avid and chain the hearer and never turned aside to attempt either mr sum sumner nor was in ili his delivery richly endowed with the highest qualities of tile the oratorical art the one was listened is to because no one could afford to love lose a word he uttered while the consummate oratory of the other as well as the matter of his oration itself won the hearer to bi hla aldi bi d e th thus U a by writing ri ting out in full be beforehand forchand wit with 1 treat great care and elaboration what they had to say they were both able I 1 to ase secure every word and phra ie and sentence tor for all who may hereafter road read them in the precise form and shape they chose on the fullest deliberation to have them presented ili mr sumner by committing his production to memory was able to t add to tile me force of the argument itself all the grace and art and fire of oratory orator y ot of which aich lie he was so w consume consummate ate a matter this last was mr everetts Everet fa method during his entire ell tire public life and his last great oration on washington was in manuscript at homo home whilo while lie he wan reciting it in ill all parts of 0 tile the country front from memory with all the grace and eloquence and of diction that had been fashioned and put upon paper m alth I 1 th care in his own study but the exacting duties of ills public service gervice compelled mr sumner early to give up ills laborious practice of comin bitting hla his speeches to memory and excel except I 1 t in debate led hint him to deliver from manuscript whatever he had prepared to at any length while for the reasons gi given yen public speakers ap eakers have come more and more to th the e M method c of committing to paper beforehand whatever they design to present to the public on important occasions occasional the practice of reciting floca memory la Is passing out of UP u and is 1 P lanm re sorted to by any noted speaker ot of the present day all conditions condition 8 ft and n d I 1 indu n fl u encel have for arany years tended directly to the substitution at 0 the manuscript for the extempore delivery ot of speeches military tary improvements though we are a peaceful nation and have little interest irk in international disputes in chich we are not the aggrieved party this valedictory of 0 the commanding general may have its application there are strong reasons in favor of an awakening such as he recommends and the most inexpert c citizen as regards military affairs can c cite lie features of the equipment ot of the army as maintained at present which call for or improvement for example every ono one knows that our tr troops 00 pa are not ilot equipped with rood good fifles though a new weapon Is being placed in the hands bands of the mon men as quickly as the Spring fieW arsenal can turn out specimens of it the field at tillery Is also alao far from nin modern dern and as the ice on t explosions plo of cais calaona sons enabled general mills miles to say other portions of the artillery than the guns would be worse than useless in time of set gel loust trouble again if it wits was to cairy on oil a siege loge the siege guns would hae hac to be manufactured first Gaill callings Cat lings and c ther other other small email guns are abundant in the army but they scarcely deserve descry e the tha name artillery some people have no not t forgotten that custer lost his life and a thousand men with him been because U 8 the L indiana were equipped with betto better rifles than the government troops had all this hows as all major general gendral schofield says li it shows that if an another 0 thor con met like the civil war var broke brok L ell out t it would take as long to prepare tor for it as it did for or that terrible at struggle rag g le and in the meantime our toe foe would have an equally fortunate opportunity to meet our final arrangements the journal ind I 1 providence A french officers views the journal des debats paris by way of an interesting told you so ao 1 publishes some notes made by a french officer on the at state to ot of the japanese arm army y in this rills a expert said that in the case of 0 war with china or korea the japanese army has little to fear a prediction which has certainly been fulfilled the frenchman had a chance to watch tile japanese autumn maneuvers we condense dense its his special points the japanese infantry although young in n appearance seems seeing to be in ili excellent condition their resistance to fatigue Is remarkable although their diet consists only of rice and figh and they usually sleep on the hard ground the common soldier la is well disciplined and very intelligent the non commis signed officers are arc well trained and full of vigor and dash tile the ca cavalry airy on the other hand are arc the weakest portion of the army the men and even the officers ride badly and are badly mounted the horses liae hae no po go in them they trot badly cannot gallop at all and could not be compared with a jin rick sha runner who can easily cover forty miles in a little oyer over eight hours the field artillery Is excelle excellent nL its movements are executed with swiftness and the guns are mostly three inch bronze pieces front from the national arsenal at osaka they are good at 2500 to yards but can be used with effect at a longer loncar range tile the commissariat has not yet been tried to any great extent but the medical service Is very praiseworthy |