The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-11-08
THE GI.oBEs
The Official Paper Of Congress, and Ne'os-
paper for the People.

IHe CDsc1dt FdPer 81 congress-, ana Nes0S-
paper for the People.
LORD BRouGHAM in his Historical Sketches
of Statesmen who flourished in the time of George
the Third gives some remarkable examples.
showing the great loss sustained by England in
progress, through the imperfect state of parIia-
mentary reporting in former times He opens his
life of Lord CHATHAM thus
There is hardly any man in modern times. with
the exception. perhaps, Of Lord Somers, who
ellis so large space in our history, and of whom
we know so little, as Lord Chatham; and yet he
is the person TO whom every one would at once
point, il desired to name the most successful
statesman and most brilliant orator that this coun-
try ever produced. OF Lord Somers, indeed, we
can scarcely be said to know anything at all
That he was a person Of unimpeachahle integrity,
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
thus enabled to rsDder in steering the Consti-
tuition safe through the most trying times, and
saving from arbitrary power without paying
tn. price of liberties in anarchy and bloodshed;
nay, conducting the whole proceedings OF rev.
outon with all the deiiberation. and almost in the
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
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. 1t is now unfortunately too
late, hy supplying this information, to fill up the
outline which the mesyer records Of his times
have left us. But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham. who fouiished within the memo
ry of the present generation, still rests upon vague
| tradition. As statesman, indeed. he is known
to US by the events which history has recorded to
have happened under his administration. Yet
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 very small proportion to the prodi-
gious fame which his eloquence has left behind
it, that far is manifesy 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. 30
What Somers and Chatham have lost in fame
by the oblivion of all TIE masterly efforts Of their
minds which, welding the power Of Parliament,
conducted the march OF the Government during
their with it, the history of the nation
has also lost for want Of the vigor and verify the
clearness. the ireshneas and beauty with which its
events and their causes might have been pre-
served in the luminous elnquence of its orators.
The great men who conducted our revolution
ary struggle in the Continental Congress, have
left no history behind them OF the views and
events which had their birth in their debates, ex-
cept in The meager formula of a journal. The
| fervid feeling of the hour, the impeing crcum
stances. the argument, the eager controversy
which set the subject in every variety of light,
passed away with the breath that gave them ut
| :erauce; and men who were not surpassed. in the
opinion OF Lord Chatham, by 'the master states-
men of the world, have bequeahed 10 posterity
nothing OF the eloquence which guided our Ma.
tionai Councils but the shadow of a name Re-
cent publications show how graphic history be-
l 4. "a E. Al.
ard events as they emerge stamp themselves on its
page. Congress has taken that this
sort of genuine history shall fall from the press.
full and perfect. day by day; and thus every pub
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imperisa.biy with that of his country.
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