The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-01-10
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The Official Paper Of Congress, and Ne,cs

THE GLsoBiss r
The QGciat Paper Of Congress, and News. Il :
~. paper for the People.
{, Eofb BRouGHAn. in his .HistoricsI Sketches
pfs5tatesmen Who fiourshed in the time of George
51e Third gives some remarkable examples.
Showing the great loss sustained by England in
fHe history of its statesmen, and of its national
ptogress, through the imperfect state of paria-
mentary reporting in former times. He opens his
life of Lord CHATHAnf thus
tThere is hardly any man in modern times, with
the exception. perhaps, of Lord NSomers, who
fills SO large space in our history, and of whom
we know so little, as Lord Chathams 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
try ev er produced. or Lord Somers, indeed, we
| can scarcely be said to know anything at all.
That he person of nnimpeachabie integrity,
a 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
Eoyer their proceedings. the services which he
was thus enabled to render in steering the Consti
tution 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 oi rev. |
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur |
rounded his name with mild yet mperishable |
glory, which, in the contrast OF our da,k Igno.
rance respecting all the particulars and details OF
his life, gives the hgure something altogether
mysterious and ideal. 1t is now unfortunately too |
lae by supplying this information, to fill up the
outline which the meager records of his times
have left us. But it ia singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who hourished within the memo
of the present generation, still upon vague
tota ana nAaa hoi 10 kno
to us by the events which history has recorded to
! have happened under his Administrations. Yet
even of his share in bringing these about, little
q 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-
8 gous fame which his eloaueuce has left behind
it, that far is manifesdy lost than has reached
US; while of bis written compositions but few
y letters have hitherto been given to the world.
T THE imperfect slate of parliamentary reporting
is the great cause of this blank
4 What Somers and Chatham have lost in fame
eby the oblivion of all the mastery efforts of their
ltffnihds which. WELDING the power OF Parliament,
!, conducted the march OF the Government during
f their connection with it. the history of the nation
has also lost for want Of the vigor and verify the
tclearBess the reshneas 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
ary struggle in the Continental Congress, have
left no history behind them of the views and
events which had their birth in their debates, ex-
lcept in the mesger formula of journal. The
. lferrid feeling of the hour. the mpelling circum
II stances, the Argument. the eager controversy
''' which set the subject in'eyery variety OF light
ae passed away with the breath that gave them ut
n terance; aud men who were not surpassed. in the
al opinion OF Lord Chatham, by the master states
rs men of the world have bequeahed to posterity
s- nothing of the eloquence which guided our Ma
tionai Cou1cils but the shadow of name Re
cent publications show how graphic history be
90 comes when the actors in speak for themselves
~, ard events they emerge stamp themselves on 1t
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