The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-12-06
THE GLoBE.
The Official Paper Of Congress, and Neps
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The Official Paper Of Congress, and Neus
paper for the People.
LonD BRouGHAM, in his Historical Sketches /
of Statesmen who f1ourished in the time of George
the Third gives some remarkable examples.
showing the great loss sustained by England in /
The history of its statesmen, and of its national T
progress, through the imperfect state of parlia-
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 /
Hills so large space in our history, and of whom
we know so little, as Lord Chatham; aud yet he |
Is the person 10 whom every one would at once
point. il desired to name the most successful /
statesman ard most brilliant orator that this coih
try ever produced. Of Lord Somers. indeed, we
can scarcely be said TO know ything at all |
That he was person of uninlpeachabe integrity, /
judge OF great capacity aud learning, firm
friend OF liberty, but cautions and safe counsel |
or in most difficult emergencies, all 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
was hus enabled to render in steering the Consii-
tuition safe through the most trying times, and
saving us from arbitrary power without paying
the price of liberties in anarchy aud boodshed;
nay. conducting the whole proceedings OF arev-
olu,ion with all the delioerailon and almost in the
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded his name with a mild yet imperishable
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. It is now unfortunately too
late. by supplying this information, to fill up the
outline which the mesger records of his times
have left us. But it is singular how much OF
Lord Chatham, who fiourished within the memo
ry of the present generation, still rests upon vague
tradition. AS statesman, ntleed, he is known
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have happened under his administrators. Yet
even oil 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 so very small proportion to the prodi
gous fame which his eio4uence has left behind
il, that far more is manfes ly lost than has reached
US; while of his written compositions but few
letters have hitherto been given 10 the world,
THE imperfect state of parliamentary reporting
is the create cause of this blank
What Somers and Chatham have lost in fame
ny the oblivion Of all the masterly efforts. of THEFT
ininds which, WELDING the pnwer Of Parliament,
conducted the march Of tile Government during
their connection with it. the history of the nation
has also lost for want Of the vgor and verify, the
j cieaness. the ireshpeas and beauty with which s
), events and their causes might have been pre-.
iFseryed in ;he luminous einquence of its orators.
i The great men WAC conducted our revolutions
81 ary struggle in the Continental Congress have
} lieft no histoty behind them OF the views aud
sevents which had their birth in their debates. ex-
cent in the mcaeer tor,nuia of a journal. The
! fervid feeling of the hour, the mpeIling circum
stances, the argument. the eager controversy
which set the subject in every variety of light,
passed away with the breatlSthat gave them ut.
lierance: and men who were moi SURPASSED in the
opinion OF Lord Chatham, by She master states-
E men of the world have beaueafhed to posteritv
/, nothing OF the eloquence which guided our Ma.
t,ional Council. but the shadow of a name:'e Re.
comesS,,hen ,he actors IN i, sneak for themselves
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