The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-11-15
THE GLOBE:
The Official Paper Of Congress, and News
paper for the People.

a OhD DDODNnAms IN MS ftlstotiCdt
L. Sketches Of Statesmen who hourished Ia
the time Of George The Third, gives some re-
markable examples, showing the great loss sus-
,ained by England in the history oiIs statesmen.
and of lis national progress, through the imper-
feel state Of parlIamenta, reporting in forme,
times. He opens his life Of Graham thus;
.There is hardly any man in modern times,
with the exception, perhaps, Of Lord somers,
who ellis so large a space ia our history. and a
whom we know 50 little, as Lord Chatham; and
yet he i the person 10 whom every one would
ii once point, il desired to name the most sue
cessful statesman and most brilliant orator that
this country ever produced. vi Lord Somers,
indeed, we can SCARCELY be said 10 know any thing
at all. That he was person of unimpeachabie
integrity, judge Of great capacity and learning,
firm friend Of liberiy. but cautious and sale
counsellor in most difficult emergencies, all are
ready TO acknowledge. But the authority which
he possessed among his contemporaries, the in-
flucnce which his sound and practical wisdom
exercised over their proceedings, the services
which he was thus enabled 10 render in steering
the Constitution safe through the most trying
times. and saving US from arbitrary power with
out paying the price Of our liberties in anarchy
and blooJshed-nay, conducting the whole pro-
ceedings of revolution with all the del.heraiion,
and almost in the forms, of an ordinary legal pro-
ceeding, have surrounded his name with mid
yet imperishabe gloly, which, Ia the contrast of
our dark Ignorance respecting all the particulars
and details of his life, gives the figure something
altogether mysterious and ideal. 1, is now I'M
fortunately too late, BY supplying this informa.
ton TO eli 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 fOlrished
within the memory OF the present generation. still
rests upon vague tradition. As q statesman, in
deed, he is known 10 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-
tail. So, fragments of his speeches have been
handed down 10 US, but these bear so very small
proportion 10 the prodigiuus fame which his
eloquence has left behind il, that far more is ma
niesily lost than has reached US; while Of his
written compositions but few letters have hita-
eito been given 10 tie world.
The imperfect state Of parliamentary report
ing is the great cause of this blank"
What Somers aud Chatham have LOST in fame
by the oblivion of all the mastery eliolts Of their
minds which, welding The power OF Parliament,
conducted the march Of The Government during
their connection with il, the history of tie nd.
lion has also lost for want OF the vgor aud verify,
the cealness, the freshness and beauty with which
its events and its causes might have been preser-
| we'd in the luminous eloquence Of lis orators.
The great men who conducted our revolution
airy struggle in the Continental Congress have left
no history behind them Of the views aud events
which had their bnth in their debates, except in
the meager formula of journal. The feryid
feeling Of the hour. the impelling circumstances
the argument, the eager controversy which sci
the subject in every variety of light passed away
with the breath that gave them utterance; and
men who were not surpassed, in the opinion of
Lord Chatham. by SHE master statesmen of the
WORLD" have hequealhet TO posteriiy nothing Of
the eloquenre which guided our National Coun-
ellis but !. the shadow Of a nalne." Recent pub
LEGATIONS show how graphic history becomes when
the actors in il 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 il imperisil.
ably with that of his country.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix is so
voluminous that il can only be read by our busy
counirymen partially during its progress. Some
are interested in one measure, some in another.
Different sections look for the most part TO the
action Of their several representaiives--lhe con-
Germs Of one frequently possessing no interest for
the rest-and amidst the mass it Is difficult for |
each section, individual, to get at the special
matter most in,eiesiing.t 10 them. To obviaie this,
10 aflt ~ ,io
of the entire proceedings of Congress. and 10 fix
their attention what suits their particular views,
| will publish in future, in addition TO the Daily
Globe and the Congressional Globe and Appen- /
dix, A TUEsnAr's CONGRESSIONAL GLoBr, con-
tanning brief Of each days debate on every i'm
portant subject discussed during. the ecedng
week. arranging the names Of the speakers pro
andcoa., and presenting the points discussed and
leading arguments on each side. somewhat il the |
mode in which forensic briefs arr pleIalcd Ths