The Athens Post

Major Henry.—This distinguished orator addressed an American meeting on Wednesday night in the Court-house. We have heard Major Henry in his palmiest days. We heard him in the exciting canvass of '40 and '44 when he spoke as none could speak, but those who have the blood of Patrick Henry in their veins. We have heard him in the advocacy of his own claims before the people. We have heard him at the bar, when juries and judges would smile when he smiled, or melt in tears when he poured forth his strains of pathetic eloquence. We have heard him, when we thought he surpassed his own unrivalled excellencies. But never have we listened to such a speech, even from him as the one we heard that night. The facts were strong and well selected. The logic forcible and irresistible, and his audience were spell bound by his rhetoric. It was not only a good speech, an excellent speech, a soul-stirring speech—it was more, it was a living speech—it will be forgotten by none, -and the young men who heard him, will talk of it to their children long after the great orator sleeps in his grave—Clarksville Chronicle.