The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-05-20
The Death of Lord Brougham.

Ine OeaCn Oh AOrQ O1OuS AaAn'
The death of Lord Brougham, the vet
eran English statesman, is announced in
our cable dispatches. We give below a
sketch of his life, as published in the Ma
tional IntelKgencer in April, 1867:
Of that veteran anomaly in the House
Of Lords, now completing his eighty
ninth year, tall, gaunt, bizarre, graceless,
rough in person, rude in speech, awkward
in manner, possessing neither the address
of society, nor the dignity of station, nor
the gravity of years, and yet who has
achieved more brilliant success and gain
ed higher honors than any member OF the
British forum the last two hundred years,
it is next to impossible to say anything
ftly and wise. Henry, Lord Brougham,
was born in Edinburgh, in September,
177S. In early life he was the compan-
ion of Jeffrey, Murray, Scott, and Wilson,
and one of the founders of the Edinburgh
Review. When that work had been pub
lished FIVE years, he wrote to MIR. Consta-
BILE for thousand pounds, promising to
repay it by writing, in making which
good he actually wrote all excepting two
articles in one of the numbers of Volume
xvii. AS lawyer he has managed more
important cases than all the rest of the
bar. He was the leading counsel for La
dy Elizabeth Ker, when she claimed the
duzedom of Roxburgh of the English
merchants who resisted the Orders in
Counci of Queen Caroline, when, in
1920, she sued for her right in the British
Grown; of Ambrose Williams, when the
Church brought against him an action OF
libel for an article on the refusal to toll
the bells on the death of the Queen; and
of the Dorchester laborers, when they re-
sisted the act of transportation. Tie has
been fifty-seven years in Parliament. He
acted on the slavery question with Clark
son, Wilberforcc, and Grenvlle Sharp. He
opposed the dragooning policy pursued
by ministers towards the thousands OF
hungry men and women who protested
AGAINST the corn laws he has attacked
the hierarchy with the bitterest irony and
most cutting gibes, and has fearlessly
pleaded the cause OF freedom in the cases
of Smith of Demerara, the Catholics Of
ireland, and the victims of the Holy Al
lance. His power of invective has never
been coualed. He accused Canning "of
the most monstrous trucking for Office
that tho whole history of political tergiv-
ersation could present" and while indig-
nantly alluding to the Duke of Yelling
tons declaration against reform. he ex-
claimed, pointing to Sir Robert Peel,
"Him we scorn mott is you VIC scorn-
you, his mean, base, fawning parasite" !"
His history is the history of law, govern
ment, literature, science, morals, and re-
form in Great Britain the last half centu-
ry. His activity hardly seems moderated
by age On every question of interest he
still addresses the lords, and though his
voice has the melancholy crack of age,
his reasoning is as cogent as in other
days. During the vacations of Parlia-
ment he resides at his chateau in Cannea5
in the South of France. unvisited by
.troops Of friends, for he is pre-eminently
unsocial, but engaged as earnestly in
study as sixty years ago.
In the year 1860, at some time between
the hours of twelve and four of almost
any day during the session of Parliament
there might have been seen. by one who
patiently watched, walking through the
Westminster Hall, where William Rufus
held his first court in 1899, whose timber
framed root is the finest existing example
in the world of scientific construction in
carpentry, and which for more than seven
centuries has been the hall of justice for
all England, eight men, each past three
score years and ten, and each notable as
having been at some former time, in his
way, the first man in the United King.
dom. Of those, Brougham and 81. Leon
ards alone survive. Lyndhurst, Lans.
downc, Grey, Dundonald Campbell and
Ellenborough have passed away. Lord
Palmerston night be added to the num-
ber; but to the world, less even than to
himself, with his alacrity and optimism,
and modern DRESS Lord Palmerston, even
when past his sevcnty-fifth year, did not
seem an old man. They were the giants
in intellect whom the eighteenth century
gave England, unsurpassed yet by the
men who have succeeded them.
GEoRGrA.-A special dispatch from At
lanta to the New York Tribune states
A, 900 whites voted the Republican ticket
at the late election in Georgia. In the
same dispatch it is conceded that some
Is 600 negroes voted with the Democrats.