The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-12-02
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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, and of its national progress thro
the imperfect state of parliamentary 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
so large space in history, and of whom we
know so little, Lord Chatham and vet he is the
person to whom every one would at once point if
desired to name the most successful statesman and
most brilliant oratOrthat this country ever produced
Or Lord Somers, indeed we can scarcely be said to
know anything at all. That he was person of I'M
lmpeachable integrity judge of great capacity and
learning, firm friend of liberty but cautious and
safe counselor in most difficult emergencies all are
ready to acknowledge. But the authority which he
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, and saving us from
arbitrary power without paying the price of our lib
critics IN anarchy and bloOdshed-nav conducting
the whole proceedings of a revolution with all the
dellberauon, and almost in the FORMS of an ordina-
ry legal proceeding have surrounded his name with
mild yet impershabe glory, which, in the contrast
OF our dark ignorance respecting all the particulars
and details of his life, gives the figure something
altogether mysterious and ideal, II is now unfor-
tunatey too late, by supplying this information to
fill up the outline which the meagre records of his
times have left But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham who fourished within the memory
OF the present generation still rests upon vague
tradltlon. AS statesman, indeed, he is known to
us by the which history has recorded to have
happened under his administration. Yet even of
his share III 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 predictions fame
which his p1OuueDca has LOFT bab;pJ ;+
Is manifesty lost than has reached US while of his
written compositions but few letters have hitherto
been given to the world.
This imperfect state of parliamentary reporting
is the great of this blank
What Somers and Chatham have lost in fame bv
the oblivion OF all the mastery efforts of their minds
which welding the power of parliament conduct
ed the march OF the government during their con-
nection with it, the history of the nation has also
lost for want of the vigOr and verify the clearness
the freshness and beauty with which its events and
their causes might have been preserved in the lu-
mlnous elo1uence of its orators
The great men who conducted our revolutionary
struggle in the continental congress have left no
history behind them of the views and events which
had their birth in their debates except in the mea
gre formula of journal The fervid feeling of the
hour, the impelling circumstances the argument.
the eagor controversy which set the subject in eve
ry variety of light passed away with the breath that
gave them utterance; and men who were not sur
passed, in the opinion of Lord Chatham, bv " the
master statesmen of the world" have beuueathed
to posterity nothing of the eoquence which guided
our national councils but " the shadow of a name -
Recent 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 fall from the press full and
perfect day by day and thus every public man will
make his own history, and blend it imperishably
with that of his country.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix is SO vo-
luminous that it only be read bv our busy coun
trymen partially during its progress Some are in
terested In one measure, some in another Differ
ent sections look for the part to the action
their several epresentatiyes-the concerns of one
fire luenty possessing interest for the rest-and
amidst the mass it is difficult for each section or in
dvidual to get at the special matter most interest
ing to them To obviate this, and enable all to get
at glance a general view of the entire proceed
ngs of congress- and to fix their attention on what
suits their particular views will publish in future
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al Globe and Appendix, A TUESDAYS CONGRESS
SIGNAL GLOBE, containing a brief of each DAVIS
debate on every important subject discussed during
the. preceding week, arranging the names of the
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discussed and leading arguments on each side some
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The brief synopsis of debates will fill but small
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