The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-11-22
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paper for the People.
LORD BRouGHAM, in his sHistorical Sketches
of Statesmen who 1ourished in the time of George T
the Third gives some remarkable examples.
showing the great loss sustained by England in |
the history of its statesmen, and OF its national
progress, through the imperfect state of parlia- |
mentary reporting in former times. He opens his /
life of Lord CHATHAM thus eset
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 name 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 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, and
saving US from arbitrary power without paying
the price oil our liberties in anarchy and blooashed;
nay. conducting the whole proceedings OF rev.
oluton with all the deliberaoD, and almost in the
forms. of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded his name with 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. II is now unfortunately too
late by supplying this information, to fill up the
outline which the meager records Of his times
have left us. But il is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who flouTished within the memo
ry 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 have been handed down to US, but
these bear very snialTs proportion to the prodi
gious fame which his eloguence has left behind
it, that far is manifesy lost than has reached
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 went Of the vigor and verify the
cleaTness. the ireshneas and beauty with which its
events and their causes might have been pre-
served in the luminous einquence Of its orators.
| The great men who conducted our revolution
ary struggle in the Continental Congress, have
left no history behind them of the views and
| events which had their birth in their debates, ex-
| cept in the meager formula of journal. The
| fervid feeling of the hour. the impeling crcum
Stances, the Argument. the eager controversy
which set the subject in every variety of light,
passed away with the bre ath that gave them ut
| terance;s aud men who were not surpassed. in the
opinion OF Lord Chatham, by the master states,
men Of the world, have bequeaihed to posterity
nothing of the eioQuence which guided our Ma.
tional Councils but the shadow of name' Re-
cent publications show how graphic history be-
comes when the actors in il speak for themselves,
atd events as they emerge stamp themselves It's
page. Congress has now taken care that this
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