...a speaker is to have a good cause. Then, if he is thoroughly in earnest, we enjoy hearing him. He once illustrated his subject by the story of a Union general who tried to rally the fugitives at Pittsburg Landing , and said, waving his sword in the air: In the name of the Declaration of Independence, I command, I exhort you, etc., while a private soldier leaning against a tree, with a quid of tobacco in his m...