The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-11-22
THE GLOBE:
The official Paper Of Congress, and News
Daptr for The Pfoplr.

The official Paper Of Congress, and News
paper for The People.
I ORD BBoUGHAM. in his Historical
~ Sketches of Statesmen who Aourished IN
The time OF George the Third, gives some re-
markabie examples, showing the great loss sus-
aimed by England in the history oiils statesmen
aud Of lis national progress, through the imper-
feet Stale OF parliamentary reporting in forme.
times. He opens his life Of CHATHAM thus:
.There is hardly amy man in modern times,
with ihe exception, perhaps, Of Lord Somers,
who fills so large space la our history. and VI
whom we know 50 little, as Lord Chatham; and
YET he is the person 10 whom every one would
nj once point, IL desired To name the most sue
cessiul statesman and most brilliant orator that
this country ever produced. VI Lord Somers,
indeed, we can SCARCELY be said 10 know nylhing
al all. That he was person Of unimpeachahle
integrity, judge Of great capacity and learning,
firm friend Of liberty. but cautious and sale
counsellor in most difficult emergencies. NIL are
ready TO acknowledge. But the authority which
he possessed among his contemporaries, the in
auence which bis sound aud practical wisdom
exercised over their proceedings. The services
which he was thus enabled to render in steering
| ,iA.As. anL saving fran arbitrary power with
out paying the price Of our IlDerlies iu anarchy
and blooJshcd-nay, conducting the whole pro-
ceedings Of a revolution with oil the deliheralion,
aud almos, in the forms, Of an ordinary legal pro-
ceeding, have surrounded his name with mild
yet imperIshable glory, which, in the contrast u
our dark ignorance respecting al 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 inforna.
ton. to Gil up the outline which The meager re-
cords Of his times have left US. But il is sngu.
lar how much " Lord Chatham. who fourlshed
within the memory OF the present generation. still
rests upon vague tradition. AS statesman. in
deed. he is known To US by the events which his.
tory has recorded To have happened under his
administration. Yel even of his share ia bring
ing these about, little has been preserved of dc.
tail so, fragments of his speeches have been
handed down To US, but these bear so very small
a proportion 10 the prodigous fame which his
eIoquence has left behind il, that lar more il ma.
nfes,ly lost than has reached US; while of his
HrIirh compositions but q few ktsels have hltil-
elio been given 10 the world.
THE imperfect stale Of parliamentary report
ing is the great cause Of this blank
What Somers and Chatham have lost In zane
by the oblivion of all the msstery eolts 81 their
minds which, welding the power Of Parliament,
conducted the march Of the Government during
their connection with il, the history of tie ma.
tim has asu lost for want Of the viyor and verify.
the cleanliness, 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.
airy struggle in the Continental Congress have left
no history behind them Of the views and events
which had their birth in their debates. except in
the mcager formula Of Journal. The fessid
feeling of the hour. the impelling circumstances,
the argument, the eager controversy which set
the subject in every variety OF light, passed AWAY
with the breath thai gave them ulterance; and
men who were not surpassed, in the opinion Of
Lord Chatham. by " the master statesmen of the |
world" have hequeathed 10 posterity nothing oil
the eloquence which guided our National Coun. |
ellis hut the shadow of name" Recent pub
LEGATIONS show how graphic history becomes when
the actors ia it speak for Themselves and events
as they emerge stamp themselves on lis page.
Congress has now taken care that tins sor, OF
genuine history shall fall from the pfess, full and
perfect, day by day; and thus every public man
will make his own history, and blend il nperish.
ably with tina, Of his country.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix is 50
that il can only be read by our busy
;auniymen partially during it, progress. Some
ire interested in one measure. some in anniher.
Different sections look for the most part 10 the
'ciion Of their several epresentatives-ihe con-
'erns of one frequently possessing no interest for
he rest-and amidst the mass il Is difficult for
ach section. OF individual. 60 get at the special
natter most interesting 10 them. To obviaie this
md enable all 10 get at glance general view
# the entire proceedings Of Cangless. and to fix
heir attcntlon on what suits their particular views,
will publish in future, in addition to the Daily
Hole and the Congressional Globe and Appen.
tx, A TuEspAr's CONGRESSIONAL GIoBr, con-
aiming brief Of each days debate on every im.
ortant subject discussed during the preceding
'eek, arranging the names Of the speakers pro
nd con-, and presenting the points discussed and
aiding arguments on each side. somewhat IN the !
ste in which forensic briefs are i.iepacd. This