1863.] 271 [Sharswood. 



While his freedom and boldness won the affection and confidence of 

 those who sympathized in his views, it aroused the ire of adverse parti- 

 sans, and embittered the opposition to him. Hence he had to exer- 

 cise to a large degree a virtue very essential in a statesman depending 

 for his position and influence upon the popular will, and which on 

 one occasion' he himself called " the endurance of manurance." 



As a writer, while all his earlier compositions are distinguished by 

 great purity, tenderness, and elegance of language, a style gradually 

 grew upon him, which cannot please a correct taste. It is, however, 

 entirely original. In his speeches and conversation it was easy and 

 difi"use. In writing and re-writing, which was always his habit, with 

 an anxiety to condense, he was not able wholly to reject the collateral 

 subjects of illustration, which presented themselves. His style is not 

 a compound of artificial epithets and complicated convolutions, but 

 rapid, broken, and rugged, as the result of an effort to press too much 

 in a given space. 



In his private relations, Mr. Ingersoll possessed the affection and 

 veneration of all about him. He had a warm and affectionate nature, 

 though a stranger would be apt to conclude from his exterior that he 

 was cold. He was sensitive upon such subjects, and shrank from 

 observation. It was so too as to his religious feelings and opinions, — 

 he obtruded them upon no one. He was a sincere and firm believer 

 in the truth of Christianity, without the slightest taint of bigotry or 

 fanaticism, and attached to the forms and worship of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church, in the communion of which he died. 



Mr. Chase made a communication in reply to the following 

 questions of Mr. Dubois. 



" What number of vowel-sounds are there in other lan- 

 guages, which are foreign to the English language ? 



"Are there any possible voAvel-sounds, which are not used 

 in any language ?" 



No writer that I have ever met with, has treated of the various 

 sounds of speech so fully and satisfactorily, as Professor Haldeman 

 in his Analytic Orthography, and in framing answers to the two 

 questions, I shall be largely indebted to his work. (Trans. A. P. 

 S., Vol. XL) 



According to his definitions, "Vowels are sounds of the uninter- 

 rupted voice, the distinction between them being due to slight 



