The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-01-03
THE GLoBE.
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Z LORD BRouGHAM, in his Historical Sketches
of Statesmen who flourished in the time of George
the Third gives some remarkable examples. !
showing the great los sustained by England in !,
The history of its statesmen, and of its national
progress, through the imperfect state of para-
mentary reporting in former times. He opens his I
life of Lord CHATHAM thus:
There is hardly any man i'll 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
scarcely be ssid to know anything at all
That he was person of unimpeachabe 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 boodshed;
nay, conducting the whole proceedings OF rev.
oIution with all the deGeration, and almost in the
forms, of an ordinary legal proceeding, have sur
rounded his name with a mild yet imperishable |
glory, which, in the contrast of our dark igno I
rance respecting all the particulars and details of
his life, gives The figure something altogether |
mysterious and ideal. 1t is now unfortunately too
late, by supplying thisnformaton, to fill up the
outline which the meager records of his times
have left us. But it is singular how much of
Lord Chatham, who feurished within the memo
ry of the present generation, still rests upon vague
tradition. As statesman, indeed, he 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 heen preserved of detail So, fragments of
his speeches have been handed down to US, but
these bear so very small proportion to the prod-
gous fame which his eoquence has left behind
it, that far is maniesly lost than has reached
US; while OF his written compositions but a few
letters have hitherto been given to the world.
The Imperfect state of parliamentary reporting
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 connection with it, the history of the nation
has also lost for want Of the vigor and verify, the
clearness. the ireshneas and beauty with which its
events and their causes might have been pre-.
served in The luminous el"quence of its orators.
The great men who conducted our revolution
ary struggle in the Continental Congress, have
iet history behind them of the views ard
events which had their birth in their debates ex-
cept in the meager formula of journal. The
fervid feeling of the hour the impelling crcum
stances, the argument, the eager controversy
q which set the subject in every variety of light
passed away witi the breat that gave them ut
teraEce; and men who were not surpassed. in the
y opinion OF Lord Chatham, by the master states
men OF the word,' have bequea,hed to posserity
nothing OF the eoquence which guided our Ma,
tonal Councils but the shadow of name Re-
cent publications show how graphic history be-
;, comes when the actors in it speak for themselves
II ard events as they emerge stamp themselves
q page. Congress has now taken care that this
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