The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-11-08
THE GLOBE:
The Official Paper Of Congress, and News.
paper for the People.

pdpff lUl tnt Itupit.
II ORD DBOUGHAM, in his Historical
IL Sketches Of Statesmen who fouTished in
the time Of George the Third, gives some re-
markabe examples, showing the great loss sus-
sained BY England in the history vfls statesmen,
aud Of lis national progress, through The imper-
feel state Of parliamentary reporting in former
times. He opens his life Of CHlrHAs thus;
"There is hardly any man in modern times,
with the exception, perhaps, of Lord Somers,
who fills 50 large space in our history. and Of
whom we know 50 little, as Lord Chatham; and
yet be Is the person To whom every one would
at once point, il desired to name the most sue
cessfal statesman aud most brilliant orator that
this country ever produced. VI Lord Somers,
indeed, we can scarcely be said to know anything
al all. That he was person Of unimpeachablc
integrity, judge Of great capacity and learning,
q firm friend OF liberty. sbut cautious and safe
counsellor in most difficult emergencies, all ale
ready to acknowledge. But the authority which
he possessed among his contemporaries, the in
iluence which his sound and practical wisdom
exercised over their proceedings, the seIsices
which he was thus enabled to render in steering
the Constitution safe through The most trying
times, and saving Us from arbitrary power with
out paving the price Of our liberties in anarchy
aud bloodshed-nay, conducting the whole pro-
ceelings Of revolution with all the deliberaiou,
and almost n the forms, Of an ordinary legal pro-
ceeding, have surrounded his name with i mid
vet nperishable glory, which, in the contrast Of
our dark ignorance respecting all the particulars
aud details Of his life, gives the figure something
altogether mysterious and ideal. II is now un-
fortunately too late, by supplying this iniorma-
ton to ill up the outline which the meager re-
cords Of his times have left US. But il is singu.
lar how much of Lord Chatham, who fourlshed
within the memory OF the present generation. still
rests upon vague tradition. As o statesman, in
deed be is known to US by the events which his
tory has recorded to have happened under his
administration. Yet even Of his share in bring
ing these about, little has been preserved Of de-
tall SO, fragments Of his speeches have been
handed down 10 us, hut these bear so very small
a proportion to the prodigous fame which his
eloquence has left behind il, that FAR more is ma
niieslly lost than has reached US; while Of his
written compositions but lew letters have hith-
eito heen given 10 the world.
The imperfect state of parliamentary report
ing is the great cause of this blank
What Soincrs and Chatham have lost in fame
by the Oblivion of all The mastery etforts Of their
minds which, welding the power Of Parliament,
conducted the march Of the Government during
their connection with il, the history of the ma
ton has also lost for want Of the vigof and verify,
the ceaness, The freshness and beauty with which
its events and its causes might have been preser-
we'd in the luminous eloquence OF its orators.
The great men who conducted our revolution
al h., In
no history behind them Of the views and events
which had their birth in their debates, except in
the meager formula Of a journal. The iervid
feeling of,the hour, the impeling circumstances,
the argument, the eager controversy which set
the subject in every variety Of light, passed away
with the breath that gave them uiterance; aud
men who were not surpassed, IN the opinion Of
Lord Chatham, by the master statesmen of the
worh,n have -Lequeaihed 10 posieriiy nothing of
the eloquenre which guided our National Coun-
ellis but :. the shadow of a name." Recent pub
LEGATIONS show how graphic history becomes when
he actors in it speak Tor 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 II lmperish.
ably with that of his country.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix is so
voluminous that it can only be read by our busy
countrymen partially juring IFS progress. Some
are interested in one measure, some in another.
Different sections look for the most part 10 the
action of their several representatives--lh con-
Germs of one frequently possessing no interest for
the rest-and amidst the mass il Is difficult for
each section. or individual to get at the special
matter most interesting othcm. To obviate this,
and enable all 10 get at glance a general view
Of the entire proceedings Of Congress. and TO Fix
their attention on what suits their particular views
will publish in future, in addition to The Daily
Globe and the Congressional Globe and Appen-
dix, TUEsDAr's CoyGREssIoSAL GLoBr, con-
tanning brief of each days debate on every inn
porhnt subject discussed during the preceding
week. arranging the names Of the speakers pro
and coa.s and presenting the points discussed and
leading Arguments on caeh side, somewhat in the
nj ado r. rh;rh forensic hs;efs 70 ,,ssna,el This