The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-12-13
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paper for the People.
LoRp BRoUGHAM, IN his Historical Sketchesl
of Statesmen who Hourishedin ihe time Of 0eorGel
the Third, gives some remarkable examples
showing the great loss sustained by England in
the history of its statesmen, aid Of Its national
progress, through the imperfect state of parlia- |
mentary reporting in former times. He opens his |
life of Lord CHATHAhd, thus .ae
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 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 all |
That he was person of unimpeachable integrity,
a judge of great capacity and learning, firm
friend ofliberty, 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
thus enabled to render in steering the Consti-
tuition safe through the most trying times, and
saving us from arbitrary power without paying
the price of our liberties in anarchy and bieotshed
nay, conducting the whole proceedings OF rev.
oiution with all the deheraton. and almost in the
forms, Of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
TOunCGu his name Will q utiQ YET lmDerlsnaDle
glory, which, in The contrast of our dark gno-
rance respecting all the particulars and details Of
his life, gives. the hgure 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 f1ourishet' within. the memo
ry of the present generation. still rests upon vague
tradition. As Statesman, indeed, lie is known
to by the events which history has recorded to
have happened under his administration. 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 SO very small proportion to the prodi
gious fame which his eioquence 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 f 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
clearness. the reshneas 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.
ary struggle in the Continental Congress- have
left 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 impelIing 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 bequeathed TO posterity
nothing OF the eloquence which guided our Ma.
tional Councils but the shadow of name Re.
1 publiratiopa shoxx hov ho
comes when the actors in it speak for themselves
and events as they emerge stamp themselves on it.
page. Congress has now taken care that thi.
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