Mr. Gough  proceeded  to  Springfield,  and  I  returned  to
New  York,  to  the  duties  of  my  office. But  so  valuable
were  his  services,  especially  among  the  religious  and
wealthy  classes,  that  I  procured  them,  the  following
winter,  in  New  York  city,  for  more  than  thirty  consecu-
tive meetings,  in  crowded  halls  and  churches ;  took  him
to  Hartford  and  New  Haven,  in  Connecticut ;  to  New-
ark, Patterson,  New  Brunswick,  and  Trenton,  in  New
Jersey ;  to  the  city  of  Philadeljihia,  where  we  had  eleven
enthusiastic  and  powerful  meetings ;  to  Baltimore  and
"Washington,  where  we  had  eight  meetings,  which  were
attended  by  members  of  Congress  and  numerous  strangers
assembled  at  the  inauguration  of  the  new  President ;  and
as  far  South  as  Richmond,  where  a  great  imj^ression  was
made. In  all  this  action,  we  were  well  sustained  by  the
liberality  of  friends,  and  had  the  countenance  and  prayers
of  the  ministry  and  churches. Though  himself  an  unedu-
cated man,  Mr. Gough  deeply  interested  the  ofiicers  and
students  of  Harvard,  Yale,  Princeton,  and  other  colleges,
and  induced  many  to  pledge  themselves  against  the  use  of
intoxicating  liquors. In  what  consisted  his  peculiar  pow-
er, was  the  subject  of  much  sj)eculation  in  the  press. In
my  own  Journal,  I  spoke  of  his  eloquence  as  Antenor,  in
the  Iliad,  spoke  of  the  eloquence  of  Ulysses  :

"  '  When  Ulysses  arose,  his  eyes  were  cast  down. He  used  no  motion


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with  his  staff,  but  held  it  motionless,  after  the  manner  of  a  clown. You
might  have  taken  him  for  a  simple  feUow. But  no  sooner  had  he  begun
to  give  vent  to  his  sonorous  voice,  uttering  flakes  of  words  gently  falling
like  wmter  snow,  than  it  became  evident  that,  in  eloquence,  no  man  could
cope  with  Ulysses.' "

The  Journal  of  Commerce  said :

"  Mr. Gough  is  certainly  a  wonderful  young  man. He  is  worth  study-
ing as  a  model  of  natural  eloquence,  as  well  as  of  Christian  fervor  and  kind-
ness. No  man,  or  woman,  can  hear  him  without  rising  in  moral  feeling."

"  It  is  impossible,"  said  the  New  York  Sun,  "  to  convey  anything  like
an  adequate  idea  of  the  powers  possessed  by,  or  to  tell  what  there  is  about
him  so  fascinating. 