The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-10-25
THE GLOBE.
The Official Paper Of Congress, and News
paper for the Peop1e.

paper for the People.
LORD BRoUGHAM. in his Historical Sketches
OF Statesmen who fourished in the time of George
the Third gives some remarkable examples.
showing the great loss sustained by England in
the history Of its statesmen, ard of its national
progress. through the imperfect state of parlia-
mentary reporting in furmer 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 so large 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 at once
point. it desired to name the most successful
statesman and most brilliant that this coun
try ever produced OF Lord Somers, indeed, we
eau scarcely be sid to know anything at all
That he was person of unimpeachable integrity,
judge of great capacity aud 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
was thus enabled to render in steering the Consti.
tuition safe through the most trying times, and
saving US from arbitrary power without paving
the price of our liberties anarchy aud loodshed;
nay, conducting the whole proceedings oI a rev.
| oution with all the deliberaon, and almost in the
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded his name with a mild yet imperishable
glory, which, in the contrast of our da,k 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 which the meager records of his times
have left us. But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who f1ourshed within the memo.
ry of the present generation, still rests upon vague
tradition. As a statesm m, indeed, he is known
to US by the events which history has recorded to
have happened under his administrator" 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 small proportion to the prodi-
gious fame which his eloquence has left behind
it, that far more is manifesy lost than has reached
US; while of his written compositions but few
letters have hitherto been given to the world
The 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 nation
has also lost for want Of the vigor and verify the
clearn4ss. the ireshness and beauty with which its
events and their causes might have been pre-.
served In the luminous el"quence Of its orators.
The great men who conducted our revolution
ary struggle in the Continental Congress, have
left no history behind tliem 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 impelling 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 were not surpassed in the
opinion OF Lord Chatham, by the master states-
men of the world have bequealhed to posterity
nothing OF the eloquence which guided our Ma.
tionai Councils but the shadow of a name.' Re-
cent publications show how graphic history be-
han tto IL Far
ard events as they emerge stamp themselves on its
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