The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1854-12-20
THE GLoBEs
The Official Paper Of Congress, and Ne,os

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the history of its statesmen, ard OF lfs national
progress, through the imperfect state of parlia-
mentary 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 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 ard 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 person of unimpeachable integrity,
Judge of great capacity and 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
thus enabled to render in steering the Consti-
tuition safe through the most trying times, and
saving from arbitrary power without paying
the price of our liberties in anarchy and bloodshed;
nay, conducting the hole proceedings OF rev.
olution with all the deliheraion. and almost in the
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded 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 ia now unfortunately too
late, by supplying this Information, to fill up the
outline which the meager records of his times.
have left u.s. But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who flouIishe.l within the memo
ry of the present generation, still rests upon vague
tradition. As statesman, indeed, he is known
to US 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 very small proportion to the prodi
gious fame which his eloquence has left behind
it, that far is maniesy 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 .iss-
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 natiun
has also lost for want of the vgor and verify the
clearness. the ireshneas and beauty with which its
events and their causes might have been pre-
served in the luminous elaquence Of its orators.
| The great men who conducted our revolution
ary struggle in the Continental Congress, have
left no history behind them of the views and
events which had their birth in their debates,
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 winch guided our Ma
tional Councils but the shadow of a name.' Re-
cent publications show bow graphic history be
comes when the actors in it speak FOR themselves
ard events as they emerge stamp themselves on 1t,
page. Congress has now taken care that th
sort Of genuine history shall fall from the press
full and perfect. day by day; and thus every pub
lie man will make his own history, and blend j
| imperishably with that of his country. tS -
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