_Cromwell_, but Cromwell was _only_ a _soldier_, and the state he founded _went

down_ with him into his grave. I would call him _Washington_, but the great

Virginian _held slaves_. This man _risked_ his _empire_ rather than _permit_ the

slave-trade in the _humblest village_ of his dominions.

 

You think me a fanatic to-night, for you read history, _not_ with your _eyes_,

but with your _prejudices_. But fifty years hence, when _Truth_ gets a hearing,

the Muse of History will put _Phocion_ for the _Greek_, and _Brutus_ for the

_Roman_, _Hampden_ for _England_, _Lafayette_ for _France_, choose _Washington_

as the bright, consummate flower of our _earlier_ civilization, and _John Brown_

the ripe fruit of our _noonday_, then, dipping her pen in the sunlight, will

write in the clear blue, above them all, the name of the _soldier_, the

_statesman_, the _martyr_, _TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE_.

 

--WENDELL PHILLIPS, _Toussaint l'Ouverture_.

 

Practise on the following selections for emphasis: Beecher's "Abraham Lincoln,"

page 76; Lincoln's "Gettysburg Speech," page 50; Seward's "Irrepressible

Conflict," page 67; and Bryan's "Prince of Peace," page 448.

 

CHAPTER IV

 

EFFICIENCY THROUGH CHANGE OF PITCH

 

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