The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-11-29
PRos cTUs- 1851 AS
T Fl E G. l. o B E:
Tie O&ciat Paper Of Congress, anc
Nc7cSpoyer for tie PeoDle.

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the time Of George the Third" gives
some remarkable examples. showing the
great loss sustained by England in the
history Of its statesmen, and of its ma.
tional progress, through the imperfect
state of parliamentary reporting in for
mcr times. lie opens his life of Lord
! CHATHAM thus:
There is hardly man in modern
times, with the exception, perhaps, of
Lord Somers, who fills SO large a space
in our history, aud of whom we know so
little, as Lord Chatham and yet he is
the person to whom every one would u t
once point, if he desired to name the
most successful statesman and most bril-
liant orator that this country ever pro-
duced. or LORD Somers. indeed. VIC can
scarcely be said to know anything at all.
That he was person of unimpoachablc
integrity, judge Of great capacity and
learning. from a firm friend Of liberty
but cautious aud safe counselor in most
difficult emergencies, all are ready to &C.
knowledge. But the authority which he
possessed amonr his contemporaries. the
influence which his sound and practical
wisdom exercised over their proceedings
the service which he was thus enabled to
render in steering the Constitution safe
through the most trying times, and saw
ing us from arbitrary power without pay.
ing the price Of our liberties in anarchy
and bIoodshed-nay. conducting the
whole proceedings of - revolution with
all the elaboration, and almost in the
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding.
have surrounded his name with n mild
yet lnperishable g.orywhich. in the con.
trast Of our dark ignorance respecting
all the particulars and details cr his life.
gives the figure something altogether
mysterious and ideal 1t is now unfor.
tunately too late. by supplying this in.
formation, to fill up the outline which
the mcager records of bis times have
left us. But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who nourishcd within
the memory 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 have happened under his administra-
tlon. Yet even of his share in bring
ing these about, little has been prcscrv.
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