The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-12-06
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I ORD BBuUGHAM. in his Historical
~ Sketches Of Statesmen who loufished in
the time Of George the Third, gives some re-
markable examples, showing the great loss sus-
isined by England in the history olis statesmen.
and of lis national progress, through the imper-
feel state o. parliamentary reporting in former
,imes. He opens his life 81 ChaTnia thus:
There is hardly any man in modern times,
with the exception, perhaps. Of Lord Somers,
who ellis so large space 10 our history, and Of
whom We know so little, as Lord Chatham; and
yet he i The person to whom every one would
at once point, il desired 10 name the most sue
eessluI statesman and most brilliant orator that
this county ever produced. OF Lmd Somers,
indeed, we can SCARCELY be said to know nylhins
AZ all. That he was person Of unimpeachable
integrity, judge Of great capacity and learning,
firm friend Of liberty, but cautious snd sale
counselor in most difficult emergencies. oil aie
ready TO Acknowledge. Bpl lhe authority which
he possessed among his contemporaries, the in.
auencc which his sound and practical wisdom
exercised over their PROCEEDINGS, the service.
which be was thus enabled to render in steering
The Constitution safe through The most trying
times. and saving Us from arbitrary power with
out paving the price Vt our liberties in anarchy
and boodshed-nay. condpcIing the whole pro.
cceslIngs Of revolution with oil the deliheraion,
and almost in the forms, of an ordinary legal pro-
ceeding, have surrounded his name with mid
yet imprrishable goiy, which, in the contrast Of
our daIk ignorance respecting VII the particulars
and details If his life, gives the figure something
altogether mysterious and IDEAL Il is now nm
fortunately too late, by supplying this inlqrma-
ton. 10 fill up The outline WHICH the meagcr re-
cords Of his times have ief, US. But il is singu.
lar how much Of Lord Chatham, who hourlshed
within the memory OF the present generation. still
rests upon vague tradition. As statesman, in.
deed, he is known to NJ by the events which his.
tory has recorded To have happened under his
administration. Yet even of his share ia bring.
ing these about, little has been preserved of de-
tail. So, fragments OF his speeches have been
handed down 10 us, hut these bear so very small
proportion TO the prodigious fame which his
elcqurnce has left behind il. that bar more is ma.
nilrsly losl than has reached us; while of his
wrl'ten compositions but few stieis have hjtl-
eito been given TO the world.
|" The imperfect state Of parliamentary report
ing is the great cause Of this blank"
What Snmers and Chatham have lost in Game
by the ohlision of all The mastery eiioits Of their
minds which, welding The power Of Parliament,
conducted the march of the Government during
their connection with il, the history of the ma
.un has also lost for want Of the vigor and verify
The c!eainess the freshness and beauty with which
It's events aud IFS causes might have been preser-
we'd 10 the luminous rloquence Of IFS orators.
The gieat 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 bIlh in their debates. except in
the mcager formula of journal. The fer.id
feeling Of the hour. the impeling circumstances,
the argument, the eager controversy which set
the subject in every variety Of light, passed away
with the breath that gave them uierance; and
men who were not surpassed, in the opinion Of
Lord Chatham, by "ihe master statesmen Of The
world have hegueuthe,l 10 pusieriy nothing Of
the eluquence which guided our National Couu-
ellis hut :. the shadow Of name.' Regent pub.
lcaiinns show how graphic history becomes when
the actors in il speak iof themselves, aud events
as they emerge stamp themselves on lis page
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