The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-11-01
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LORD BRouGHAM, in his Historical Sketches
of Statesmenwho f1ourished in the time of George
the Third gives some remarkable examples.
showing the great loss sustained by England in
the histury of its statesmen, and of its national
progress, through the imperfect state of parlia-
mentary reporting in former times. He opens his
life of Lord CHATHAM thus
p There is hardly any man in modern times, with
the exception, perhaps, of Lord Somers, who
fills so large space in our history, and of whom
we know so little. as Lord Chatham; and yet he
is the person 10 whom every one would at once
point. if desired to name the most successful
and most brilliant ator that this
try ever produced of Lord Soiners, indeed, we
can scarcely be said TO know anything at all,
That he person of unimpea achable integrity.
a judge of great capacity and Learning, firm
friend of liberty, but cautious and safe counsel
or in most difficult emergencies, all are ready to
acknowledge. But the authority which he pos
sessed among his contemporaries, the influence
which his sound and practical wisdom exercised
over their proceedings, the services which he
was thus enabled to render in steering the Consti
tuition safe through the most trying times, and
saving us from arbitrary power without paying
the price of our liberties in anarchy aud bloodshed;
nay, conducting the whole proceedings oi rev.
olution with all the deliSeration, and almost in the
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded his name with mild yet imperishable
glory, which, in the contrast of our dark igno-
rance respecting all the particulars and details of
his life, gives the figure something altogether
mysterious and ideal. It is now unfortunately too
late, by supplying this information, to fill up the
outline which the meager records Of his times
have left us. But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who flourished within the memo
ry of the present generation still rests upon vague
tradition As a statesman, indeed, he is known
to US by the events which history has recorded to
hayo shap anau nHer hi dp,ini iafrat
even of his share in bringing these about, little
has been preserved of detail So, fragments of
his speeches have been handed down to US, but
these bear SO very smaIla proportion to the prodi
gious fame which his eloauence has left behind
it, that far is manfesly lost than has reached
US; while of his written compositions but few
letters have hitherto been given to the world.
The imperfect state of parliamentary reporting
is the great cause of this blank
What Somers aud Chatham have lost in fame
by the oblivion of all the mastery efforts of their
minds which. welding the power Of Parliament,
conducted the march OF the Government during
their connection with it, the history of the nation
has also lost for want of the vgor and verify the
ceaTness. the ireshneas and beauty with which its
events and their causes might have been pre-.
served in the luminous eloquence Of its orators.
The great men who conducted our revolution
ary struggle in the Continental Congress, have
left history behind them Of the views and
events which had their birth in their debates, ex-
cept in the meager formula of journal. The
fervid feeling of the hour, the impelling circum
stances, the argument, the eager controversy
which set the subject in every variety of light,
passed away with the bre ath that gave them ut.
terance; and men who were not surpassed, in the
opinion OF Lord Chatham, by 'Ihe master states
men of the world have bequeathed to posteriiy
nothing of the eoquence winch guided our Ma
tional Councils but the shadow of a name.' Re-
cent publications show how graphic history be-
comes when the actors in it speak for themselves,
ard events as they emerge stamp themselves on its
page. Congress has now taken care that this
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