The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-11-22
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TORD BR0tJGHAM, in his "Historicsi

~ Sketches Of Statesman Who aourishsd in The tns
y GeOrge the Tbird,n gives some remarkable eS.
implies, showing the gfoa4Ose susained ~ kng nna
the history Of is satesman and offs national pIo-
sreass through the imperfect sthie Of parliamentary
'epostipg N fotner lines. Heopsns his Ne u Lord
In AT n thus:
"fbere is hardly any man IN modern times with the
exception, perhaps, Of Lord semers, who s large
space 10 our history, and of whom We know 30 lit
e As Lord Chatam; and re, he "a The person 10 whom
every one woud at once Ioih: II desired 20 nInS De
most suosessful statesman and moit brIlisIt pk tof
~s can a Sc s oTo
That he was Q person Of pnimpeaehable integrity,
Judge Of great capacity and learning nTm friend IL
cuh emergencies, all are ready 70 seknoSledge. But
the authority which he possessed among his eotemporA
Tes the influence which his sound and practical Nis-
which be was thus enabled 10 render ~ steering tS
Constitution safe through the most trying times and
ing US from arbitrary power without paying the price
of liberties in anarchy and bloodshednay, con.
ductng the whole proceedings Of revolution with all
the deliberations and almost in the FORMS Of orii-
nary legal proceeding have surrounded his name with
mild yet tmpershabie glory, which, In the contrast
Of our dark ignorance respecting all the particulars
and details ofhls life, gives the figure something alto
gether mysterious and ideal. II is unfortunately
too late, by supplying this information, 10 MI up the
outline which the meaeer records Of his times have len
us. but Il 10 singular how much Of Lord Chatham,
who nOurished within the memory OF The present Re
Grafton, still rests upon vague tradition. Asa sttcs
man, indeed, he is known u US by the events which
history has recorded TO have happened under his ad
mnstration Yet even of his share In bringing these
about, little has been preserved ofdetail So, ag-
ments of his speeches have been handed down 10 US,
but these bear very small proportion TO the pro-
dgious fame which ms eogpenee has LEFT behind II,
that far more is mabifstly lost than has reachedu
while Of his written compositions buta few letters have
/, itlertO been given to the world
''The imperfect state Of parliamentary reporting Is
the great cause of this blank.n ff-.s
What Somers a. Chatham have lost in fame by the
oblivion Of oil the mastery efforts Of their minds which,
welding the power of Parliament, conducted the
ma Cff he wifi
it, the history of the nation has also lost for Ofthc
vgor and verty the clearness the freshness and beau
~ with which its events and their might have
been preserved in the luminous eloquence OF its ora
tors. f.Ai.|.. .is'|... d ..-i r..#.-
Tho great men who conducted our. Revolutionary
struggle in the Continental Congress have left his
tory behind them of the views and events which had
their birth In thoiT debates EXCEPT In the meager form
uia Of journal. The fervid feeling Of the hour, the
impelling circumstances the argument the eager con
troversy which the subject In every variety OF light
passed away with the breath that gave them utcrance
and men who were not surpassed in tho opinion Of
Lord Chatham, By 'the master statesmen of the world
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Of . name" Recent publications show how graphic
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