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I have, since I came here, come to the conclusion that words are - if you please - moral instruments capa ble of effecting much, when properly applied and directed. And it is altogether useless, at any and all times to talk, without having in view some Object to effect. In legislating in Georgia, it is waste of breath for a man to talk about Greece and Rome, Scipio and Hannibal, Tyre and Carthage, or any of that learned sort Of lore. If one indulges much in it, he is soon looked upon as a fool, speaking In an unknown tongue,' and very properly so too. Eloquence, true eloquence, is certainly in some degree an art; but in nothing more than in selecting and fitting the matter to the time,place,and circumstances. The whole generation of our young orators, instead of reading Blair for rules, Scott and Addison for figures, and Byron and Shake Speare for quotations, had better be studying their sub ject, and thinking to whom they are going to present it, and how they will most probably engage attention, and produce conviction in the minds of those to whom it is presented. Success in producing convictlon is the object of oratory.
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