The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-11-25
THE GLOBE--The Official Paper of

Statesmen who hourished in the time of George the
lhlrd, gives some remarkable examples, showing
the great loss sustained by England in the history
OF It's statesmen, and of its national progress, thro
the imperfect state of parliamentary reporting in
former times He opens his life of Lord Chatham
thus: .. . - L
"There 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 little. Lord Chatham and vet he is the
person to whom every one would at once point, if
desired to name the most successful statesman and
most brilliant orator that this country ever produced
Of Lord SomerS indeed, we can scarcely be said to
know anything at all. That he was person of un-
lmpeachabe integrity. Judge of great capacity and
learning, firm friend of liberty, but cautious and
safe counselor in most difficult emergencies all are
ready to acknowledge But the authority which he
po ssessed among his contemporaries the influence
winch his sound and practical wisdom exercised over
their proceedings, the services which he was thus
ehaOled TO render in steering the constitution safe
through the most trying times, and saving us from
arbitrary power without paying the price of our lib
critics In anarchy and bloodshed-nay conducting
the whole proceedings of revolution with all the
dellberatlon and almost in the FORMS of an ordina-
ry legal proceeding, have surrounded his name with
ld yet lmperishable glory, which. in the contrast
OF our dark ignorance respecting all the particulars
ana details of his life, gives the figure something
altogether mysterious and ideal, 1t is now unfor-
tunately too late by supplying this information. to
u! nh up the outline which the meagre records of his
times have left US. But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who fourshed within the memory
OF the present generation, still rests upon vague
tradition As statesman, indeed, he is known to
us by the events which history has recorded to have
| happened under his administration Yet even of
his share in bringing these about, little has been
preserved of detail So, fragments of his speeches
nave been handed down to u.s. but these bear so
very small proportion to the prodigious fame
whch ms eloquence has left behind it, that far
| IS ma tlsf In l..sf @l,1,~
written compositions but few letters have hitherto
been given to the world.
IhlS imperfect state of parliamentary reporting
is the great cause of this blank"
What Somers and Chatham have lost in fame by
the OBLIVION OF all the mastery efforts of their minds
"mch. welding the power of parliament, conduct
ea tne march OF the government during their con-
necton with 1t, the history of the nation has also
lost Tor want of the vgor and verify the elearness
the freshness and beauty with which it's events and
their causes might have been preserved in the lu-
minous eloluence of its orators.
Inc great men who conducted our revolutionary
struggle In the continental congress have left no
history behind them of the views and events which
had their birth in their debates except in the mea
gre formula of Journal The fervid feeling of the
hour, the lmpelling circumstances, the argument
the eagor controversy which set the subject in eve
ry variety of light passed away with the breath that
gave them utterance; and men who were not sur
passed, in the opinion of Lord Chatham, by O. the
master statesmen of the world" have beoueathed
to posterty nothing of the eloquence which guided
our national councils but " the shadow of a name
Recent publications show how graphic history he
comes when the actors in it 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 and
perfect day by day; and thus every public man will
make his own history, and blend it imperishabIv
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ire luenty possessing interest for the rest-and
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