Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-11-03
PROSPECTUS -ts54-'5.
THE GLOBE;
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the time of George the Third" gave some
remarkable examples. showing the loss sus-
tanned bv England in the history of its
statesmen, and Of its national progress
through the imperfect state Of parliamenia-
nv reporting in former times. tie 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 a 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, II de
sired TO name the mos, successful statesman
and most brilliant orator that this country
ever produced. OF Lord Somers, indeed
we can scarcely be said to know anything
at all. That he was person of unimpeach
able integrity Judge of great capacity and
learning. a firm friend Of liberty, but cau-
tlous 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 aud practical wisdom exercised over
their proceedings the services which he was
thus enabled to render in steering the Con-
siitution safe through the most trying times,
and saving US from arbitrary power without
paving the price of our liberties in anarchy
aud bloodshed-nay, conducting the whole
proceedings Of n revolution with all the de-
liberation, and almost IN the forms, of an Or
binary legal proceeding, have surrounded
his name with a mild yet imperlshable glo-
~, which, in the contrast of our dark igno.
rance respecting all the particulars and de-
tails Of his life, gives the figure something
altogether mysterious and ideal II is now
unfortunately too late. by supplying this in
formation, to I'LL up the outline which the
meager records of his times have left us.
But It is singular how much of Lord Chat
ham, who ilOurlshed within the memory of
the present generation, still resis upon vague
tradition. As statesman, indeed, he is
known to MS by the events which history
has recorded to have happened under his ad
miustraton. Yet even OF his share of
bringing these about, little has been pre-
served Of detail. So, fragments OF his
speeches have been handed down to US but
these bear SO very small proportion to the
| prodigous fame which his eloquence has
4 lett behind IT, that far more is manifesty
/ lost than has reached u.s. while Of his writ
I ten compositions but few letters have hith-
erto been given to the world.
I "The imperfect state of parliamentary re-
/ porting Is the great cause of this blank"
/ What Somers and Chatham have lost in
( fame by the oblivion Of all the mastery ef.
/ forts of their minds which, welding the pow
I err of Permanent, conducted the march of
Z the Government during their connection
with II, the history of the nation has also lost
/ for want of the vlgar anG verify, the clear
ness. the freshness and beauty with which
2 It's events and their causes might have been
preserved in the luminous eloquence Of its
orators
The great men who conducted our Revo
lutionarv struggle in the Continental Con
gross have left no history behind them Of
the views and events which had their birth
IN their debates except IN the meager form
ola of a journal. The fcrvid feeling of the
hour the lmpelliug circumstances, the argu-
ment, the eager controversy which set the
subject 10 every variety Of light, passed a
way with the breath that gave them utter
unco and men who were not surpassed IN
the opinion Of Lord Chatham, by 'the inns
+ ter statesmen of the world" have bequeath-
ed to posterity nothing Of the eloquence
which guided our National Councils but
"ihe shadow Of a name.n Recent publica
tons show how graphic history becomes
when the actors in 1t speak for themselves,
and events as they emerge stamp themselves
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