Author: Chauncey Mitchell DePewPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331230816
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Excerpt from Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew, Vol. 7 Nothing is more difficult than to engage the attention of the Senate by what is called "oratory"; yet Senator Depew never fails of an appreciative hearing - and this, too, regardless of whether Senators agree or disagree with him. It is easy to understand how a natural orator like Senator Depew could captivate an audience of men and women who only occasionally hear a public address by a distinguished man. But the Senate hears speeches all the time - some of them very unusual and a few of them really notable. Then, too, most Senators are themselves public speakers of long experience; but most important of all, each of them is exceedingly busy with the details of legislation - the drafting of bills, the studying of precedents, the examination of authorities, the hearing of those who favor or oppose measures before their respective committees. All these things and many more naturally and properly make the Senate uncommonly indifferent to speech making. So it is that there can be no higher tribute to a man's powers as an orator than when his fellow Senators shed their blase indifference, cease for awhile their engrossing work and listen with interest to an oration of a fellow Senator. That is what the Senate always does when Chauncey M. Depew speaks. His Senate oratory is quite unique. Perhaps his engaging personality, a sort of magnetism of geniality, is the foundation. This, of course, is aided by his voice which has a ringing quality that stirs and arouses, curiously modified by a soothing timbre which pleases and mollifies. There is a strange aggressiveness of good nature in his whole manner. These things from the very beginning of his oration tend to make the situation easy; but of course that would amount to nothing were it not for what he says. He speaks to the point. He develops his theme with logical precision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
