The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-11-15
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paper for the People.
LORD BRoUGHAM, in his Historical Sketches
of Statesmen who fourished in the time of George
the Third gives some remarkahl examples.
showing the great loss sustained by England in
the history of its statesmen, and of its national
progress, through, the imperfect state of parlis-
mentary 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 large a space in our history, and of whom
we know little, as Lord Chatham; and vet 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 alt.
That he was person of unmpeachable integrity,
q judge of great capacity and learning, a 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
was thus enabled to render in steering the Const-
tuition safe through the most trying times, and
saving US from arbitrary power without paying
tho price of our liberties In anarchy and bloodsed
nay, conducting the whole proceedings OF rev.
oution with all the deliberation. 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-
respecting all the particulars aud details of
his life. gives the figure something altogether
mysterious and ideal. 1t is now unfortunately too
late, by supplying this Information. to fill up the
| outline which the mesger records of his times
have left Us. But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who houIished within the memo.
ry 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 happened under his administrsuon. Yet
even oil 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 smalla proportion to the prodi-
gious fame which his eioquence has left behind
it, that far is manifesiy lost than has reached
US; while of his written compositions but few
letters have hitherto been given to the world
sThe imperfect state 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 nstion
has also lost for want Of the vgor and verify. the
cearness. the ireshneas and beauty with which its
events aud their causes might have been pre-.
served in the luminous eloquence 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 impeiling circum
| stances, the argument, the eager controversy
which set the subject in every variety of light,
passed away with the breath that gave them ut
terance; and men who wero not surpassed. in the
opinion oil Lord Chatham, by 'the master states.
men of the world have bequealhed to posterity
nothing OF the eloquence which guided our Ma.
| tional Councils but the shadow of a name.' Re-
cent publications show how graphic history be-
comes when tho sectors in it speak for themselves,
and events as they emerge stamp themselves on its
page Congress has now taken care that this
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