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Fellow Citizens,
It is with extreme diffidence
that I arise to adding, ^you^ after your desires
have been raised, and your hopes flattered
with the expectations of listening to
the superior oratory of one, who is matured
in age, and who [illegible]1 all the
advantages of extraordinary talents, and
who has had ample time to investigate
all the causes which led to that glorious
revolution which terminated which terminated
in the independence of the
United States — In him you might
well expect to be united that harmonious
voice and those graceful gestures which
are completely attained to the harp of
eloquence; and which are admirably
calculated to strike the imagination +
touch with a delicate hand the scent
springs of papion [papillion?]2 and awaken all
those pleasing sensations which form
in the ravished mind, such a heavenly
train of delights — But your persistent
speaker comes before you [unprepared]3 —
He is one who has always had the
humble walks of life — gracious and
charming have withheld their precious
gems from his grasp — ambition never
find his soul — and his lips were
never laughs to lisp the sweet strains
of eloquence to tickle and charm the ear.