Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1854-11-07


yet he IS the person to Hnonl every one would at
Dnce point il desired 70 name the most success
ful statesman aud most brilliant praior that this
country everpfoduced. Ofi.ord Somers, indeed,
we can scarcely be said 10 know any thing It all.
That he was apeTson Of uRimpeachable integrity,
a Judge OF great capacity and lRarning. a firm
friend Of libetty. but a cautious and safe conn
sel'd In difficult agencies, all are ready
ID Acknowledge. But the authority he possessed
among his contemporaries, the influence which
his sound and practical wisdom eSetcired over
their proceedings, the services which he was
thus enabled to render in steering the Constitu-
tion safe through the most trying Times, and saw
ing ms from arbitrary power without paying the
pfice of our liberties in anarchy and bloodshed--
nay. coneucting the whole proceedings of levo-
luton with all the deliberation, and almost in
the forms, 81 an ordinary legal proceeding, have
surrounded 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 1t is now, unfortunately,
too late, by supplying this information, to fill up
the outline whichthe nneager records Of his times
,haVn left us. Bat it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who fourished within the memo
~ of the present generation, still rests upon
vague traditions. Yet even Of his share in bring
ing these about littI. has been preserved In de-
tail,- So, fragments of his speeches have been
handed downto us, but these bear so very small
a proportion to the prodigious fame which his
eloquence has left behind it, that for more is
manifestly lost than has reached us; while Of his
written compositions, but few letters have hith-
erto been given 10 the world. @t
"Fheimperfect state Of parliamentary report
ing is the great cause OF this blank" 10 8iiz ,
sSomers 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 ddring
their connection with it, the history of the nation
mas also lost for want of the yigor and verify the
clearness, the freseness and beauty with which
its events and their causes might have been pre-
served in the luminous eluquence of its orators,
The great men who conducted our Revolutions
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 meagei formula of Journal. The
feryid feeling Of the touf, the impeiling circum-
stances, the argument, the eager controversy
whichset the subject in every variety Of light,
passed away with the breath that gave them ut
te.ance; and men who were not surpassed, in the
opinion of Lord Chatham, by "the master states
men of the world" have bequeathed to posterity
nothing OF the eloquence which guided our Ma
tional Councils but "the shadow Of name"
Recent publications show how graphic history
becomes when the actors in, it speak for them
selves, and events as they emerge stamp them
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that this sort Of genuine history shall fall from
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every public, man will make his own his own his
tory, and blend It imperishably with that Of his
coentry. % ,..
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