The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-01-24
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iLoRD .BRouGHAal, in his Historical Sketches
,f Statesmen who hourished in the time Of George
The Thsrd, gives some remarkable examples.
showing the great loss sustained by England 10
the. history OF its statesmen, and of its national
through the imperfect state Of parlia-
mentary reporting 10 former times. He opens his
life of Lord CHATHAM thus: mw +
There is hardly any man in modern times, With
the exception. perhaps, of Lord Somsrs, 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, it 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. /
ThatAe was person of unmp 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 !
was thus enabled to- render in steering the Consti-
tuition safe through the most trying times, and
saving US from arbitrary power without paying /
the price OF our liberties in anarchy and bloodshed
nay, conducting the whole proceedings OF a rev.
oluton with all the deliSeraton, and almost in the
forms,f of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded his name with a, mild yet imperishabfe
glory, which, in the contrast of our dark igno-
rance respecting all the particulars and details OF
his life. gives the figure something altogether
nysterious and ideal. II is unfortunately too
late, by supplying this Information, to fill up the
outline which the fneager records Of his times
have left us. But il is singular how much Of
Lord Chatham, who hourished within the memo
ry of ibe present generation, still upon vague
| tradiuou. As a statesman, indeed, he is known
to us by the events which history has recorded to
! have happened under his admin istraiIon. Yet
even oi 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-
I gious fame which his e!o9uence has left behind
it, thai far more is manfesiIy 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.
L What Somers and C hatbam havelost in fame
by the oblivion of all the mastery efforts Of their
minds which. WELDING the power of Parliament,
/ conduc ied the march OF the Government during
their conaec.on with it, the history eflthe nation
has also lost for want Of the vgor and verify, the
clearness the ireshneas and beauty with which its
events and the.F causes might have been pre-;
served IL The luminous e1oquence Of It's orators.
| The great men who conducted our revolution
fary struggle 10 the Continenta Congress. have
left no history behind them of the views and
events which had their birth in their debates ex-
cept in the meager formula Of journal. The
feryid feeling of the hour. fhe impelling crcum
:: stances, the argument, the eager cobtrovers,
q which set the subject in every variety of light
e passed away with the breath that gave them Vi,
iterance: and men who were not surpassed in th,
t opinion OF Lord Chatham, by the master states
men OF the world have bequeathsd to posierit,
: nothing OF the eloquence which guided OUT: N a
tiopal Councils but the sshadow; of name, Re
cent publications show how graphic history be
o comes when the actors IN it speak for themselves
Il and events as theyemerge stamp themseyeson on il
8 page. Congress has aoas taken care that thi
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+ limperishably with that ef his country.
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