[5]. Genesis, Chapter 32, Ver. 24, 25.
[6]. Scipio Jones.
[7]. Dr. John P. Durbin, one of the most eloquent of American orators, was able to speak to a child with such beauty of expression and propriety of enunciation that a company of educated ladies and gentlemen were entranced. Conversation was suspended and regret felt when the doctor turned from the delighted child to the rest of the company. In an earlier period, when enfeebled voice compelled him to suspend public efforts, he had gone from cabin to cabin among the negroes on the plantations of Kentucky, conversing with them on religion, and claimed that by this process he acquired his marvelously simple style.
Extemporaneous Oratory, Buckley, p. 94.
[8]. Samuel i, 19.
[9]. II Samuel vi, 16.
[10]. Exodus xxii, 18.
[11]. See Little Billy’s Pumpkin.
[12]. See Mars Pinckney’s ’Simmons.
[13]. A negro superstition.