Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-02
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T1Hh GLORE:

FOR THE PEOPLE.
LORD BRouGnAM. in his Historical Sketches of
Statesmen who flourishcd in the time of George
the Third, - rives some remarkable examples,
showing the great loss sustained 10y England in
the history of its statesman, and of its national
progress, though the imperfect state Of parlin-
meutary reporting in the former times. lie opens
his life of Lord CHATHAM thus:
There $ hardly any man in modern timea, with
the exception, perhaps, of Lord Somers, who fills
so large a 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 Mt once point, if
he desired to name the most successful statesman
and most brilliant orator that this country ever
produced. OF Lord Somers, indeed, we can scarce
ly be said to know anything at all. That he was
a person of unimpcachable integrity. a judge Of
great capacity and learning, n firm friend Of lib
erty, but Il cautious and safe counselor in most
difficult emergencies, all are ready to acknowledge.
But the authority which lie possessed among 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, aud saving us from arbitrary power
without paying the price of ourlibertics in anarchy
and bloo1shcd-nay, conducting the whole pro-
ccedings of a revolution with all the delihcration,
and almost in the forms, of an ordinary legal pro-
ceeding. have surrounded his name with Il mild
vet imperishahlc glory, which, in the contrast of
our dirk ignorance respecting all the particulars
ana OCtalIS OF MS Ire, gives tHe HSuTC SOlnclIllllE
altogether mysterious and ideal. 1t is now unfor-
tunatcly too late, by supplying this information, to
I'll up the outlire which the rcager records of his
times have left MS. But it is singular how much
of Lord Chatham, who tlourished within the mem
orv of the present generation, still rests upon
vague tradition. As Il statesman, indeed, he is
known to us by the events which history has re-
corded to have happened under his administration
Yet even of his share in bringing these about, lit
tic has been preserved of detail. So, fragments of
his speeches have been handed down to us, but
these bear so very small q proportion to the prodi-
gious fame which his eloquence has left behind it,
that far more is manilestly lost than has reached
us; while Of his written compositions but a few
letters have hitherto been given to the world.
''The imperfect state of parliamentary reporting
is the great cause of this blank"
What Somcrs 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 vi COR and verify, the
clearness, the freshness and beauty with which
its events and their causes might have been pre-
served in the luminous eloquence Of its orators.
The great men who conducted our Revolution
airy struggle in the Continental Congress have
left no history behind them of the views and
events which had their birth in their debates,
cxceptin the meager formula Of IA journal. The
fcrvid feeling Of the hour, the impclling circum-
stances, the argument, the eager controversy,
which set the subject in every variety of light
passed away with the breath that gave them utter
ance and men who were not surpassed, in the
opinion of Lord Chatham, by ''the muster states
men of the world" have bequeathed to postcrity
nothing Of the cloquence which guided our Ma
tionai Councils but, the shadow Of Il name" Re-
cent publications show how graphic history be-
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 fail from the press,
full and perfect, day by day and thus every pub
lie man will make his own history, and blend it
imperishably with that Of this country.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix is so
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Different sections look for the most part to the
action of their several representatives-the con-
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