Letters From North America Written During a Tour in the United States And Canad
Letters From North America Written During a Tour in the United States And Canad
Hodgson, Adam
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" But, after all, I think it impossible for an unprejudiced stranger to visit the beautiful Senate-chamber and House of Representatives in the Capitol, at Washington, without being struck with the intelligence and practical skill of Congress ; the regularity of their proceed- ings ; their ready, perspicuous, forcible busi- ness-like style of eloquence ; and, with some exceptions, their habitual courtesy and atten- tion to the feelings of opponents. He would 168 LETTERS FROM sometimes witness, i...n American oratory, the freshness of youth, the fervour of boundless anticipation, and that consciousness of personal identity with the glory and prosperity of his country, which a popular government infuses into the meanest citizen ; but he would sel- dom be dazzled with confiscations of cultivated genius, or electrified with bursts of impas- sioned feeling, and would seek in vain, in the American Congress, for that indefinable but irresistible charm, which classical associations, the refinements of polished society, and a his- tory rich, in all that is illustrious and vene- rable, imparts to the eloquence of a British Parliament.
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