The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-11-18
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Third" gives some remarkable examples, showing
the great loss sustained by England in the history
of its statesmen and of its national progress. thro
the imperfect state of parliamentary 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 fills
so large space in our history, and of whom we
know so little as Lord Chatham and yet he is the
person to whom every one would at point, if
desired to name the most successful statesman and
most brilliant that this country ever produced
OF Lord Somers, indeed, scarcely be said to
know anything at all That he person of un-
impeachabe integrity judge Of great capacity and
learning, firm friend of liberty but cautious and
safe counselor in difficult emergencies, all are
ready to acknowledge. But the authority which he
possessed mong his contemporaries, the influence
which his sound and practical wisdom exercised over :
their proceedings, the services which he was thus
enabled 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
Ierties in anarchy and bloodshed--nay conducting
the whole proceedings of revolution with all the
deliberaon, and almost in the forms, of ordina-
Try legal proceeding have surrounded his name with
a mild yet impershable glory which, in the contrast
of our dark ignorance respecting all the particulars
and details of bis lite gives the figure something
altogether mysterious and ideal. 1t is unfor-
Itunately too late, by supplying this information, to
ill up the outline which the meagre records of his
times have left But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who fourished within the memory
of the present generation, still rests upon vague
tradition. AS statesman. indeed he is known to
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. &c. fragments of his speeches
have been handed down to US, but these bear so
very small proportion to the prodigious fame
which his elOquence has left behind it. that far more
is manfestly lost than has reached us while of his
written compositions but few letters have hitherto
been given to the world.
This imperfect state of parliamentary reporting
is the great cause of this blank"
What Somers and Chatham have lost in fame bv
the oblivion of all the mastery efforts of their minds
which. welding the power of parliament, conduct
ed the march of the government during their con-
nection with it, the history of the nation has also
lost for want of the gor and verify the clearness
the freshness and beauty with which its and
;, their causes might have been preserved in the lu-
e mnOus elO iuence of its orators
: The great men who conducted our revolutionary
struggle in the continental congress have left no
history behind them of the views and events which
y had their birth in their Debates except in the mea
gre formula of journal. The fervid feeling of the
!, hour, the lmpelhng circumstances, the argument
the eagor controversy which set the subject in
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 81 the
Il master statesmen of the world" have beuueathed
to posterty nothing of the eloquence which guided
0 our national councils but the shadow of name.
o Recent publications show how graphic history be-
comes when the actors in it speak for themselves
! and events they emerge stamp themselves on it,
u page. Congress has now taken care that this sor
of genuine history shall fall from the press full
IS perfect day by day and thus every public man viii
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2 with that of his country
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