Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-12-13
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a IN ITl17 81 aaes OF Ss9agsess. and ..t.ys,s.
per ;ol Ee Fe5Ila Bil6- eHlM in fys ~. ~.
torical Sketches q Statesmen VII 6urisbe in tie
tim of Gorge the Third gives some rem ar!zabIe
examples showing th great loss ss liiie6 Eng
land in the history OF its stat6suen and OF is iyf-
tiona progress. through the imperfect sta ars
| liamentafy reporting inlfprmcr times L. opens
hls lie OF Lord EftTIisi ia us There is hardly
| aRy man in modern times NTH the exeeption,per-
haps of Lord Somers, who fills so large space in
our history and of whom know so little. as Lord
/ Chatham and yet he is the person to v hon every
would at once point, if desired to the most
successful statesmen and most brilliant orator that
| this country ever produced OF lord SOmers. in
deed. We can scarcely be said to know anything al
/ all That he was person q unimpeachable iRteg-
rlty, Judge OF great capacity and learning. hrm
friend ofliberty, but cautious and safe counselor
/ in most difficult emergencies all ready to ac-
knowledge. But the authority which he possessed
| among his cotemporaries, the influence which his
( sound and practical wisdom exercised over their
/ proceedings the services which he was thus ena-
bed to render In steering the Constitution safe hro'
the most trying times, and saving from arbitra-
fy power without paYps the price OF our liberties
inanarchy and bloodshed- -nay.conduetingth whole
proceedings of q revolution with all the deibera-
tlon and almost in the forms of an ordinary legal
proceedings, have surround ed his with mild
yet Imperishable glory which, in thecoIItrastof
dark ignorance respecting all the particulars and
details of his life gives the figure something alto
| Sether mysterious aud ideal. 1t is unfortu-
nately too late, by supplying this inform att to fill
up the outline which the meagre records of his times
| have left us. But il is singular how much of Lord
Chatham who fiourished within the memory of the
present generation, still rests upon vague tradition
| As a statesman indeed, he is known to US by the
events which history has recorded to have happen
| ed under his administration Yet even of hisshare
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 prodigious fine which his olo-
qucnce has left behind it. that far more is manifest
! y lost than has reached US; while of his written
compositions but few letters have hitherto been
given to the world The imperfect state of parlia-
mentary reporting is the great of this blank
! What Somers and Chatham have lost in fameby
the oblivion of all the mastery efforts of thier
/ minds which, welding the power of Parliament,
conducted the march of Government during their
connection with it. the history Of the nation has
also lost for want Of the vgor and verify the clear
ness; the freshness and beauty with which its
events and their causes might have been preserv-
| ed in the luminous eloquence of its orators
The great men who conducted the Revolutionary
struggle in the Continental Congress have left
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 feelings of
the hour, the impelling circumstances, the argu-
ment, the eager controversy which set the subject
| IN every variety of light passed away with the
breath that gave them utterance; and men who were
not surpassed. in the opinion of Lord Chatham, by
the statesmen Of the world have bequeath
ed 10 posterty nothing OF the eloquercc which gal
ded National Councils but E-the shadow of
name" Recent publications show how graphic
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