The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-02-07
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pGpeT.J OF tHS GODfc.
LoRp BnouGHAM in his s{iisorical Sketches
of Statesmen " ho ourished in the time of George
the Third gives some remarkable examples.
showing the great loss sustained by England in
the history of its statesmen, aud of its national
progress, through the imperfect state of paria-
mentary reporting in former times. He opens his
life of Lord CHATHAM thus
There is hardly any man in modern tmes, with
the exception, perhaps, of Lord Somers, who
fills so large space in uus history, and of whom
we know 50 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 ard most brilliant that this coun
try ever produced. OF Lord Somers, indeed, we
can scarcely be ssid 10 know anything at all
That he was person of unimpeachable integrity,
judge of great capacity and learning, a firm
| FREUD of liberty. bat cautious and safe counsel
or in most difficult emergencies, all ready to
nowledse. 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 be
thus enabled to render iB steering the Consti-
tution safe through the most trying times, aud
saving us from arbitrary power without paying
the price of oul liberties in anarchy and blooisbed:
nay, conducting the whole proceedings OF a rev.
oiuton with all the deiiSeraon. and ALMOST in the
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded his name with mild vet i'm pc, sh able
siory, which, in the contrast of our da,k igno-
rance respecting all the particulars and details Of
his life, gives he figure something altcge ther
Mysterious aud ideal. Ii is now unfortunately too
Iae by supplying this information, to fill up the
\ outline which the measer records of his times
have left us. But it is singular how much OF
Lord Chatham, who flouIished within the memo
ry of the present generation still rests upon vague
tradition. As a statesman, indeed, be is known
to us by the events which 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 banded down to US, but
these bear very small proportion to the prodi-
gious fame which his eloiuence has left behind
it, that far more is maiifesy lost than has reached
, us; while OF his written compositions but few
letters have hitherto been given to the world.
The Imperfect slate Of parliamentary repurting
is the great 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 connecton with it, the history OF the nation
has also lost for want of the vigor and verify, the
ccariess, the ireshueas and beauty with which III
events aud their causes might have been pre-
served iu the luminous elnquence of its orators.
The great men who conducted cur rev oution
AIRY struggle in the Continental Congress- have
left no history behind them OF the views anC
events which had their birth in their debates, ex
lcept ia the measer formula of a journal. Tn.
fteFVld feeiiHS OF tbe hOuT, the fhptlifnS clTcum
l. stances, the argument. the eager Controver,,
n which set the subject in every variety of light
e passed away with the bre ath that gave them ut
r terance; and men v no were not surpassed. in tn
At opinion OF Lord Chatham, ny the master states
re- men of the world, have bequeaihed to posteri,
s. nothing OF the coquence which guided our Ma
tionai Councils but the shadow Of nsme.' Re
cent publications show how graphic history be
20 comes when the actors IN II speak for themseve es
n ard events as they emerge stamp themselves
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