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Show tho Coming Colntcit Orator Tho coming colored stiitiHinau and orator of this country 'Is uiimrently ChurlesU. Morris, of Kentuck),u)oun man about twenty Are )cnrs old, Lr. like most of his race, his native uhnu have been thoroughly developed by cul-livatien. cul-livatien. In 1-uuistillc, when a schoolboy, school-boy, Mr. Morris' graduating oration WM sorilllr.nt tliat It was 1 nUUhM In fn'l lu Tl.o Courier Journal. Liter tho )oungina'iwent to school at rhllllpi' academy and at Hirinrd. Ills lit" quence was so marked that ho vat quickly recognized as one of tho leadluj debaters In tho unienity. Lcniing school, Mr. Morris took naturally natu-rally to politics. Scarcely a wonder, when it Is recalled that ho Is a direct di scendant i f Itobert Morris, Iho famous statesman ot tho Involution. Ho Is a good looking )oung fellow, and his elo queucolsso lmprcsslio that once after ho had filed an appolntuunt made for I benttorllii-coek,iifrlendlntrodacod lilui i to Mr, Iliscock with tho remark, "Sen ator. I think It would pay)ou to hire I 1 1m as ) our substitute on ull occasions.' I Tho raso and naturaluess ivlth which I Mr. Morris tnkes hold ot and unraicls I tho tariff and othir profound political I questions shows a capacity ot umltr sttudlng remnrkublo in so )onngtimau Triderick Houglass wroto to him last )ear n warmly commendatory letter Ii w hlcli ho said, "I bless tho good Ird that a)ouug man of )cur promise his risen to plead tho causo of justlco to out jicople ut tho bar of pulllo oj Inlou," |