From the Richmond Enquirer.
TRUE ELOQUENCE:
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We do not remember having met with a passage


Of The same length, so full Of tue feeling, thrill


ling pathos, and graphic power, as-the following


extract from a speech delivered by MIaA5 3.
Longslreef Of Georgia, before the Methodist Con


rentfon at Louisville The rcaaeF is transported,


inyoiuntarily. to the gloomy but sublime scene,


where The. SeIfdcvoted pioneer Of n holy cause


fails beneath the weight Of his perilous enterprise


The vast West is filled with roInaTtic incidents OF
these holy, men, leaving behind theRihe comforts
and security. OF civilization and meeting the dam


gers and aacri6cfs 0fa forest life. To their credit


Be said, the Jealous &frthods are found the first
among those who break the Stiffness of the Yves
iern wEds, dndpush ohthe blessings Of civilization
and religion. -
= But will il be believed that the orator, whose elo-
quence is able to afousethe deepest sympathics of
The heart, is also the. author of the Georgia
Scenes so Justly popu lar as record ofthe rich
est MISUNDERSTANDING hanor Il furnishes bun nn-
other instance OF the versatility of the huai mind


1t is, we think; Thomas Hood, the prince of les.
tcrs. who is described as suffering kerhly from


peeuniary and physical causes and yet his pub.
iished Jokes and coneeits seem never to flag 10
Spirit Laman Blanchard, the author the ig.
inisable AMrs, CaudEe's Lecturcs,n is also said
to have been severe shderer from many causes:
In both instances, the natural bent of the mind
had faH sway; at intervals. But heFem our own
land, NE have striking instance of man, who
can, at one, monnents dash off with his pen, the
mos. comic skeiehesof passing scenes and, at the
next, rise in religious assembly, conyoised for
the most solemn and vital Objects and chain, wilh
his pathos and his eequence. the hearts OF listen


ing crowd. Such is the variety of ffeeitDgs eVok,
Cd by the peculiar excitement Of Surrounding cir
camstances: ~ :.


~ No; we must part, aud the sooner the better


Let as. with our new organization, try to get back
to primitive Methodism. X speak not Of its ez-
ternais, some Of hick never legitimasely belong
ed to it but OF its inward graces. speak of ils
which eaowed with equal feTvor aunids,
lhe n1iaSm Of the lowland sWamps and the heaRh-
fat breszes' Of the mountain, which led the Meth-
odst preacher seek .helost sheep of the fold of
Gh1stwhirhersoeker they wandered. ! speak Of
that Methodist that preached not only on stated
daysysaad Al stated times, but, which preachsl az
all times and iu all places-in the chapel, the hut
che knchep5 the grove, the wlderness-.to fathers,
molhets, hnsbaGds, wives, parents, children, mas
ters, serFaa.s-- which never entered house withz
out word for the Lord, and,neVer left it without
pfayiag blessing Gpen which planted The s,an-
dard ofthe cross on the spot which we occupy, ere