The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-12-13
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n ORD BB0UGHAM, in his Historical
"A Sketches " Statesmen who lourished in
the time OF George The Third, gives some re-
.aned hy England in the history oiils statesmen,
and Of is national progress, through The imper-
feet state of parliamentary reporting in former
times. He opens his life u CHlrHis thus;
.Thcre is hardly any man in modern times,
with the exception, perhaps, Of Lord Somers.
who fills 50 large space Ia our history. and Of
whom we know SO little. as Lord Chatham; and
yet he j. the person to whom every one would
al once point, ii desired 10 name the most sue
cesslul statesman and most brilliant orator that
this country ever produced. Of Lord Somers,
indeed, we can scarcely be said to know any Thing
al all. That he was person Of unimpeachahle
integrity, judge Of great capacity and learning,
a firm friend of liberty, but a cautious and sale
counsellor in most difficult emergencies, all are
ready TO acknowledge. But the authority which
lie possessed among his contemporaries, the in
luence 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 bloodshcd-nay, conducting the whole pro-
ceedings Of revolution with all the deliberalion,
and almost in the forms, Of an ordinary legal pro-
ceeding, have surrounded his name with mild
yet imperishable glory, which, in the contrast 81
our dark ignorance respecting all the particulars
and details Of his life, gives the figure something
altogether mysterious and ideal. II is now un-
fortunately too late, by supplying this iniorma.
ton. to ill up The outline which the meager re-
cords Of his times have left US. But il is singu.
lar how much Of Lord Chatham. who fourishcd
within the memory Of The present generation. still
rests upon vague tradition. As a statesman, in
deed, he is known To US by the events which bis.
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.
iail. So, fragments Of his speeches have been
handed down 10 us, but these bear very small
proportion TO the prodigious fame which hi.
eloquence has left behind il, that far more is ma.
niiesily lost than has reached Us; while Of his
written compositions but few kiiets have hiti.
elio been given 10 The world.
!. The imperfect state Of parliamentary report
ing is the great cause Of this blank"
What Some-s aud Chatham have lost in fame
BY the oblivion Of all the mastery ellolts Of their
minds which, welding the power Of Parliament,
conducted the march of the Government during
their connection with il, the history Of tse ma
lion has also lost Tor want Of the vgoI and verify
The cealness, the freshness and beauty with which
lis events and its causes might have been preser-
we'd IN The luminous eloquence Of its orators.
The great men who conducted our revolution.
AIRY struggle in the Continental Congress have left
no history behind them Of the views aud events
which had their birth in their debates. except in
the meager formula Of a journal. The fervid
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 u,terance; and
men who were not surpassed, in the opinion of
Lord Chatham, by I" The master statesmen of the
world" have hequeathed TO posteri,y nothing Of
the eloquence which guided our National Coun.
ellis hut :. 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 its page.
Congress has now taken care that this sort OF
genuine history shall fall from the press, full aud
perfect, day by day; and thus every public man
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