Mr.Clay's speeches swayed listening senates and moved multitudes, but reading them is a disappointment.

Between the two the difference is much the same as that between Burke and Charles James Fox.

Fox was the parliamentary debater of England, the consummate leader of his party.

His speeches, always listened to and cheered by a crowded House of Commons, perished with their delivery.

Burke could never command a body of followers, but his parliamentary orations form brilliant and permanent chapters in the political literature of two continents.
While Mr.Webster's name is so honorably perpetuated by his elaborate and masterly discussion of great principles in the Senate, he did not connect himself with a single historic measure.