pulpit in efforts to arouse men to a sense of duty and induce them to decide

their personal courses, and by counsel in seeking to influence a jury. The great

preachers, like the great jury-lawyers, have always been masters of persuasion.

 

Notice the difference among these four exhortations, and analyze the motives

appealed to:

 

Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay! Let not a traitor live!

 

--SHAKESPEARE, _Julius Caesar_.

 

Strike--till the last armed foe expires, Strike--for your altars and your fires,

Strike--for the green graves of your sires, God--and your native land!

 

--FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, _Marco Bozzaris_.

 

Believe, gentlemen, if it were not for those children, he would not come here

to-day to seek such remuneration; if it were not that, by your verdict, you may

prevent those little innocent defrauded wretches from becoming wandering

beggars, as well as orphans on the face of this earth. Oh, I know I need not ask

this verdict from your mercy; I need not extort it from your compassion; I will

receive it from your justice. I do conjure you, not as fathers, but as

husbands:--not as husbands, but as citizens:--not as citizens, but as men:--not

as men, but as Christians:--by all your obligations, public, private, moral, and

religious; by the hearth profaned; by the home desolated; by the canons of the