The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-12-27

THE GLo7Es
The Official Paper Of Congress, and Ne,0s,
paper for the People.
5 LoRD BRoUGHAM, in HIS Historical Sketches I
of Statesmen who f1ourished in the time of George
the Third gives some remarkable examples. +
showing the great loss sustained BY England ia
the hist0ry of its, statesmen, and of its national
progress, through the imperfect state of parIia-
Inentary reporting in furmer 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
fills so large space in our history, and of whom
we know so little. as Lord Chatham; and yet he !
is the person 10 whom every one would at once
point. if desired to the most Successful
statesman and most brilliant orator that this coun-
try ever produced Of Lord Somers, indeed. we
can scarcely be said to know anything at all /
That he was person of unimpeachable integrity,
judge of great capacity and learning, firm
friend of liberty, but a cautious and safe counsel
or in most difficult emergencies, all are 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 |
thus enabled to render in steering the Consti-
tuition safe through the most trying times, aud
saving us from arbitrary power without paying
tn. price of our liberties in anarchy and bloodshed;
nay, conducting the whole proceedings oi arey- (
oluon with all the deliaeraon, and almost in the
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded his name with mild yet imperishabe
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 aud ideal. 1t is now unfortunately too
lae by supplying this information, to fill up the
outline which the meager records of his times
have left us. But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who flouTished within the memo
ry of the present generaton 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 have been handed down to us, but
these bear very small proportion to the prodi
gious fame which his elequence has left behind
it, that far is manifesly lost than has ached
us; while of his written compositions but few
letters have hitherto been given to the world.
THE imperfect slate 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 which, welding the power of Parliament,
conducted the march Of the Government during
their connection with it, the history of the nation
has also lost for want of the vigor and verify the
cearness. the ireshmeas and beauty with whichits
events and their causes might have been pre-
served In the luminous elaquence Of its orators.
The great men who conducted our revolution
ary struggle in the Continental Congress, have
lett history behind them of the views and
events which had their birth in their debates,
cept in the meager formula of Journal. The
fervid feeling of the hour, the impelling circum
stances, the argument, the eager controversy
} which set the subject in every variety of light,
, passed away with the cath that gave them ut
te ance; and men who were not surpassed. in the
opinion OF Lord Chatham, by the master states-
, men of the world, have bequea.hed to posteriiy
nothing OF the eloquence which guided our Ma.
tional Councils but the shadow of name Re-
cent publications show how graphic history be-
comes when the actors in it speak for themselves,
ard events as they emerge stamp themselves lis
, page. Congress has taken care that this
sort of genuine history shall fall from the press,
full and perfect. day by day; and thus every pub
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