The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-11-29
THE GLOBE:
The Official Paper Of Congress, and News.
baptr for The pfOple,

n ORD BBOUGHAM, in his . distorted
IL Sketches OF Statesmen who aouTished in
the time Of George The Third, gives some re-
niarkable examples, showing the great loss sus-
tanned by England in the history olils statesmen,
and Of lis national progress, through the imper-
feet state of parliamentary reporting IN formei
times. He opens his life Of CHATHAM thus:
aThere 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 litile as Lord Chatham; and
yet be is the person to whom every one would
at once point, if desired TO name the most sue
cessful statesman and most brilliant orator that
this country ever produced. Of Lord Somers,
indeed, we can scarcely be said to know nylhing
at ALL That he was person Of unimpeachahle
integrity, Judge Of great capacity and learning,
firm friend OF liberty. but cautious and sale
counsellor in most difficult emergencies, all are
ready 10 acknowledge. But the authority which
he possessed among his contemporaries, the in
auence which his sound and practical wisdom
exercised over their proceedings, the services
which he was thus enabled to render in steering
the Constitution safe through the most trying
times, and saving US from arbitrary power with
out paying the price Of our liberties in anarchy
and bloodshed-nay, conducting the whole pro-
ceedings Of revolution with all the delibcraiion,
and almost in the forms, Of an ordinary legal pro-
ceedng, have surrounded his name with mild
yet impershable glory, which, In the contrast u
our dark ignorance respecting Ill the particulars
and details Of his life, gives the figure something
! altogether mysterious and ideal. Ii is now un-
fortunately too late, by suppl, ing this informa-
/ ton To Gil up the outline which the nieager re-
cords of his times have left US. But il is singu.
1 lar how much Of l,ord Chatham, who noirishrd
within the memory OF the present generation. still
| rests upon vague tradition. As q statesman, in
/ deed, he is known To Us by the events which his
tory has recorded to have happened under bis
administration. Yet even of his share in bring
ing these about, little has been preserved Of de-
tail. So, fragments. of his speeches have been
handed down To US, hut these bear so very small
a proportion TO the prodigious fame which his
eloquence has left behind it, that far more is ma
niiesily lost than has reached US; while Of his
written compositions but few lctleis have htli-
elio been given 10 The world.
/" The imperfect state Of parliamentary report
| ing is the great cause Of this blank"
| What Somers and Chatham have lost in fame
by the oblivion Of all the mastery etiolis Of their
minds which, welding The power Of Parliament,
conducted the march of the Government during
their connection with H. the history of tse ma
ton has also lost for want OF the vsor and verify,
the eleaIness, the freshness and beauty with which
its events and its causes might have been. preser-
we'd in the luminous eloquence Of its orators.
| The gleat men who conducted our revolutions
ary struggle in the Continental Congress have left
no history behind them Of the views and events
which had their birth in their debates, except Ia
the meager formula of journal. The fefyid
feeling Of the hour, the impelling circumstances,
the argument, the eager controversy which set
the subject in every variety Of light passed away
with the breath that gave them utterance; and
men who we're not surpassed, in the opinion Of
Lord Chatham. by "the master statesmen of lhe
world" have hequeatbed 10 posterity nothing of
the eloqaence which guided our Nalioual Goun.
ellis but " the shadow Of name." Recent pub
LEGATIONS show how graphic history becomes when
the actors in il speak for themselves, and events
as they emerge stamp themselves on ils page.
Congress has now taken care that this SORT of
genuine history shall fall from the press, full and
perfect, day by day; and thus every public man
will make his own history, and blend il imperish
ably with that of his country.
The Congressional Uloi'e and Appendix Is SO
voluminous that it can only be read by our busy
countrymen partially during lis progress. Some
are interested in one measure, some in another.
Different sections look for the most part 10 the
action of their several represenialves--iIfe con-
Germs Of one frequently possessing no interest fur
the rest--and amidst the mass il is difficult for
each section. or individual, to get at the special
matter most interesting TO them. To obviate this,
and enable all 10 get at glance general view
Of the entire proceedings of Congress. and to fix
their attention on what suitsther particular views
will publish in future, in addition to the Daily
Globe and the Congressional Globe and Appen-
dix, TuEspAr's CosGnEssioSaL GLoBK, con-
tanning brief Of each days debate on every inn
portant subject discussed during the preceding
week. arranging the names Of the speakers pro
and con-. and presenting the points discussed and
leading arguments on each SIDE somewhat III the
mode in which forensic briefs arr ntsnalej. ThisI