Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1854-11-14

who fills so large space 10 our history, and Of
whom we know so little, rs Lord Chatham; and
vet he is the person 10 whom every one would at
Jnce point, il desired TO name the most success
ful statesman aud most brilliant orator that this
country eyer produced. 0fLord Somers, indeed,
we can scarcely be said 10 know any thing 4 all
That hewas rsonof:unimpeachable integrity,
a judge Of great capacity and learning q firm
friend Of liberty. but q cautious and safe conn
selt in most difficult emergencies, all are ready
to acknowledge. But the authority he possessed
among his contemporaries, the influence which
his sound and practical wisdom exercired over
their proceedings, the services which he was
thus enabled to render in steering the Constitu-
ton safe through the most trying times, and saw
ing ms from arbitrary power without paying the
price Of our liberties IN anarchy and bloodshed--
nay, coneuctng the whole proceedings of ievo-
luton withrall the delibelation, and almost in
the fom, Of an ordinary legal proc. eding, 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 Gil up
the outliue which the meager records Of his times
havn left US, But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who fourished within the memo
vague tradition. Yet even of his share in bring.
ing these about, ltlls has been preserved In de-
tail, So, fragments of his speeches have been
handed down 70 u.s. but these bear so very small
Ia proportion to the prodigious fame which his
eloquence has left behind it, that far more is
manifestly lost than has reached us; while OF his
written compositions, but few letters have hith-
erto been given 10 the world.
"The imperfect state Of parliamentary report
ing is the great cause Of this blank"
What Soners 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 ddfing
their connection with it, the history OF the nation
mas also lost for want OF the vig0r and verify, the
clearness, the freseness 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
aIy 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
efyid feeling Of the hour, the iinpelling 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
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 elOqnence which guided our Ma
tiOhal Councils but 1.-the shadow of a name.''
Recent publications show how graphic history
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