The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-01-17
THI GLOBE.
The Official Paper Of Congress, and News-
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LORD BRoUGHAM, in his Historical Sketches
of Statesmen who flourshed in the time of George
the Third, gives some remarkable examples.
showing the great loss sustained by England in
the histury Of its statesmen, and OF its 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 TO whom every one would at once
point. if desired to name the most successful
statesman and 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 was person of unmpeachable 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
nay, conducting the whole proceedings OF rev.
olution with all the deberation. and almost in the
forms. of 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. It is 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 flouTshed within the memo
ry of the present generation, still rests upon vague
tradition. As a statesman, indeed, he is known
to by the events hich 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 smalla proportion to the prod
gious fame which his eloquence has left behind
it, that far is maDifes,y lost than has reached
| US; while of his written compositions but few
| letters have hitherto been given 10 the world.
| The imperfect state Of parliamentary reporting
\ is the grent cause Of this blank
| 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 nation
has also lost for of the vigor and verify, the
ciearness. the ireshneas and beauty with which its
events and their causes might have been pre-
served In the luminous elnquence Of its orators.
The great men who conducted our revolution
airy struggle in the Continental Congress, have
left history behind them of the views and
events which had their birth in their Debates ex-
cept in the meager formula of journal. The
fervid feeling of the hour, the impelling ercum
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
! c&ihion OF Lord Chatham, by the master states.
5 men of the world have bequealhed to posterIty
nothing OF the eloquence which guided our Ma
tional Councils but the shadow of name Re-
cent publications show how graphic history be-
, comes when the actors in it speak for themselves
ard events as they emerge stamp themselves on It's
. page. Congress has now taken care that this
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