There is a kind of swell medieval bulliness and tinsel about it that pleases his gaudy barbaric soul.

If he had been in Palestine in the early times, we should have had no references to 'much people' out of him.

No, he would have said 'the beauty and the chivalry of Galilee' assembled to hear the Sermon on the Mount.

It is likely that the men and women of the South are sick enough of that phrase by this time, and would like a change, but there is no immediate prospect of their getting it.
The New Orleans editor has a strong, compact, direct, unflowery style; wastes no words, and does not gush.

Not so with his average correspondent.