How healthful and how refreshing at an election time
it is to hear a speech replete with the love of the truth, full knowledge
of the subject, and with the dignity, the good temper, the respect for
opponents, and the love of fair play that full knowledge of the whole
subject is so well fitted to bring with it! And next to hearing such a
speaker is the pleasure of meeting such a hearer or such a reader at such
a time. Now, I want such readers and such hearers, if not such speakers,
to be found all the next fortnight among my office-bearers and my people.
Be sure you say to some of your political opponents something like
this:--'I do not profess to read all the speeches that fill the papers at
present. I do not read all the utterances made even on my own side, and
much less all the utterances made on your side. But there is one of your
speakers I always read, and I almost always find him instructive and
impressive, a gentleman, if not a Christian. He is fair, temperate,
frank, bold, and independent; and, to my mind at least, he always throws
light on these so perplexing questions.
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