SKETCH OF GEORGE THOMPSON,

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Few individuals who frequent popular assemblies have ID; listened with delight to this gentlcmln. For many years he has been prominent and influential ad voca,e of hum m rights, dauntless oppo- nent of oppression, bold vindica!or of reform, and q powerful pleader on behalf of Universal Peace, Temperance, Free . dom and F n ,ncipation. A brief sketch of this dls,ingnishe nun may therefore be highly acceptable to his friends and applau !crs.

 The personal appe,r,nce of Mr. T., is prepos>es,ing. H. is endowed with our ideal exterior of gentleman, scholar an orator, and moral champion. He has tall, spare, graceful form. His count1nancc is rather long, pleasant, ex- prcssive, and thoughtful. His foTeheal be,okens mental power of lotty order , i, is full, arched, and ample-and his voice is sof, rich, flexible, distinct, anj admirably adapted to impress and stir an

 

 audience. When he rises to deliver one of his splendid speeches, h' makes no preliminary flourish-no studied at'I'uieS no vain display-but introduces h's subjec, in modest, easy, agreeable man. ner, and then pro :eeds to narrate, argue and declaim. His narratives are clear, flowing, and eminsntly pictsrial-his ars gumen,s lucid, elaborate and logical, and his Reclamation always fluent, exciting, and impressive. His denunciations are frequently terrible. his wit polished, and his inaendoes highly humorous, And ho certainly has that essential talent-a pro found knowledge of human nature. IL may be justly recorded of him in his bi- ogTaphy-

 |. He studied from the life,

 And in the original perused mankind

 We would not say, however that the subject of our portrait possesses an in> ,e!leca of the very highes. order. IL is active, discriminating, and powerful, but