The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1854-12-22
PRoSPECTUS-ls54-' s.
THE GLOBE:
The Offioial Paper Of Congress and
Newspaper for the People.


Sketches OF Statesmen who fl,urished IN
the lime Of George the Third gives some
Remarkable exsmpIes, showing the great
loss sustained by England in the history
ofiis statesmen, and Of lis national pro-
gress, through lie imperfect state Of par>
Iiameniary reporting IN former times
He opens his lRe Of Lord CHATHAM
thus: a3
There is hardly any man in modern
times, with the exception, perhaps. Of
LordSomers, who fills SO large space
in our history, and Of whom we know so
liule, as Lord Chatham; and ye, he Is the
person TO whom every pne would at once
point, If desired to name the most suc-
cessflil slateman and most brilliant ora.
tot,hat this country ever produced. o.
Lord Somers, indeed we can scarcely be
said 10 know anything at all. ThS, he
was dpersou of unimpeucliable integrity,
Judge ofsreai capacity and Learning, a
firm friend ofhberty, but cautious and
safe counselor in most difficult emerg>
encies, all are ready 10 acknowledge
Bu, the authority which he possessed
among his contemporaries. the influence
which his sound and pnctical wisdom
exercisedoyer their proceedings, tho ser
vices which he was thus enabled 10 rem
der in steering the Constitution safe
though the most trying times, and saving
us from arbitrary power without paying
the price Of our liberties in anarchy and
bloodshed--say, conducting the whole
proceedings Of a revolution with all the
dcliberatlon, and almost 10 The forms Of
an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded his name with mild yet timpor,
ishable glory, which, in the contrast OF
our dark Ignorance respecting all The par,
ticulars and details Of his life, gave the
hgure something altogether mysterious
and ideal. 1t is now unfortunately too
late, supplying this information, TO 6ll up
the outline which the meagher records
Of his times have left US. But II is sim
eular how much Of Lord Chatham, who
fourished within the memory of the pre-
sent generation, still rests upon vague
tradition. As a statesman, indeed. he is
known 10 us by the events which history
has recclded TO have happened under his
administration, Yet even in his share in
bringing these about, little has been pre-
served Of detail. So, fragments Of his
speeches have been handed down 10 US,
but these bear so4vely small d proposition
to the prodigcous fame which his elo>
quence has left behind it, that fat more
is manifestly lost dian has reached us;
while of his written compositions, but a
few letters have hitherto been given TO
the world.
'The imperfect state ef parliamentary
reporting is the gIeatcause ofhis blank.
What Somers and Chatham have los;
in fame by the oblivion Of all the mas
torly Efforts of their minds which, wield>
ing The power of Parliament, conducted
the march of,hc Government during their
connection with il, The history Of the ma
lion has also lost for want Of the viger
and verify, The clearness aud beauty with
which ils events aud their causes might
have been preserved in the luminous e!o-
quence Gifts oretors.
The great men who conducted our
Revolutionary struggle in the Continental
Congress have lef, no history behind them
of the views aud events which had iheil
debates, except in the meager formula o.
a journal. The frevid feeling OF the
hour, the impelling circumstances, the
Iargument, the eager controversy which
set the subject in every vatiely Of light
passed away with the breath that gave
them u,terance; and men who were noI
surpassed, in The opinion Of Lord Chath-
am, BY 'the master statesmen OF the
world" have bequealhed 10 pos,erity
nothing OF The elcqnence which guided
our National Councils but t.he shadow Of
a name Recsn, publications show how
graphic history becomes when tLe ACTOR.
in il speak for themselves, and events a:
they emerge stamp themselves on ii
page. Congress has now taken care tha-
this sort Of genuine history shall fall
from The pross, full and perfect, day by
day; and thus every public man will make
his history, and blendltimperishably viii
tina, ofhis couHtry.
The Congressional Globe and Appen
dix is SO voluminous that il can only bt
read by our busy counlrymcn pattiall,
during lis progress. Some are interest
ed inone measure, some in anolher.--
Different sections look for the most par
to the action of their several representa-,
liyes-the concerns of one lrequentl,
I possessing no interest for the res,--ant
amidst the mass il is difficult fer eael
section, OF individual, 10 get at the spe
cial matter most interesting TO tliem.-
10 obviaie this, and enable all to get |
glance general view OF tlie entire pro
ceedings Of Congress, and 10 fix thei
attention 80 what suits their pariicula
yiews, ! viii publish in future, in addition
| to the Daily Globe and The COMPRESSION
nj Globe and Appendix, A TUESDAY
c CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE, containing brie
Of each days debate on every imporlan
subject discussed during the preceedinI
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