Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-01-17

Is.ents expressed in ,his House IS one (Alr Ma
COM who might be called the Fabricius of this
country IL at the last Session of the Prcsi-
dency of the elder Mr.. Adams that no said in re-
lation to the proposition for the erectionof mon
unent or a pyramid to the memoryOf WISHING
ton, that the best way TO commemorate his virtues
was to put his Life into the hands OF every school
boy In the country At the succeeding Session he
was advanced to the seat which YOU, Sir now
I'LL: and here he would speak in the words of an
other man, who as jusay might he called the Dem
tatus OF America. as the one 10 whom he had be-
fore alluded had been STYLED the Fabiicus and
who had where his superior in sagacity /
| spcal said MIR. 4. Of Roger Sherman, and of
what heard with NY own ears. Many rcsou-
tons passed the Old Congress for erecting ulonu-
ments, which the whole means of their Treasury
would have been inadequate to carry into effect
W hen the new Constitution was adopted, and il
was proposed to execute those resolves of the old
confederation, Mr.. Sherman said that the monu-
inelt was the UOte TO erect enc: that pos;efitv
would never enquire 1chcyc the monument was it
was the uCfe aud not the artist that conferred the
honor. IL IS the vote; that is the monument
| In ancient days, before the art Of printing was
discovered, and when men were pcnt UP in mar
/ rover world than ours; pictures aud monuments
/ and statues We're Tesortcd TO, TO commemorate
! great events and the actors in them But we now
possess, in the Press, Engine which gives ubi-
! guilty to great names and exploits. Sir, what mas
become oil the monuments of Egypt! The Pyra-
mids-whcrc are they! They stand. to be sure
! IN gloomy grandeur, amid the sand OF the sur
rounding desart-But don't know who built
Them nor to whom, nor for what they were erect
| ell. Where IS the memory Of Homer? Whore is
his monument His memory lives at the end Of
three thousand years green and great as ever.
The Had lives, and will live, though the language
be dead. So of his great predecessors Bcneiactorj
OF nankind-the inventors of letters-of the plough
whose names alone bave reached us, but whose
names can never die. Sir, said Mr.. r, no man who
has ever walked through Westminster Abbey
WILL IN my opinion, be in favor of erecting monu-
ments TO commemorate public services. We hear
Oh westminster Abbey: il is an imposing mime
and an imposing thing. But it is the vote-the
vote, AID the Speech in the House of Commons
whioh accompanies it, 10 bury an individual there
al the pubic eXPence, that gives its value 70 the
distinction. But go there. and as in MANY other On
ses OF real life, the dear illusion is torn away
there you see the monument of Andre, General
Washington without head perhaps Andre with
out an arm, forget which, and others distigured
and mutated by the pranks of the Inischievo1s ur-
chins OF the neighboring Foundation School, and
miserable things stuck against a wal 10 extend the
| reputation and fame even of such men as Gay and
Addison; to say nothing of the master spirits, of
Ben Johnson c. Shakespeare.
! The amendment of the gentleman froro Nav
| York put the nail in the coffin of the resolution
Y GU are going, said Mr. r. to put paintings into
room not furnished, unnhabited, and unnhabita-
PIE. II, In the fine climate of Italy, and under the
immediate care Of skilful persons the pictures of
| inc OLD masters are many OF them so damaged as
almost 10 have lost their value, what would be-
come OF pictures, in climate like this where for
| forty days we have scarcely seen the sun, i'm
! Inersed III 4 warm vapour bath9 Mr.. r. made
some further observations upon the structure of
the Rotundo, in the course Of which he intiInated
that he might be disposed to support proposition
OF the gentleman from South Carolina for the fur
Their decoration of the Rotundo, if it would not
make the room more of nuisance than the ut
most Efforts Of architecture had already been able
! TO make it.
| To conclude, Mr.. r. said, if he had voted for
any further appropriation for pictures for the a.
partinent he had been Speaking of, it would have
been tor this, and this only now before the House
God forbid that he should disparage the merits Of
-'erry-but he would say thus much that, as Gen
! Washington starts from the canvass of the great
picture OF the Revolution alone and prominent so
stands General Jackson in the history of the late
war We hear of other things, of that period it is
true, but they remind us OF the radancy of the
moon and stars after the sun has risen, or rather,
oi the stars after the moon appears
-.IicGt inter onlsieS
/ Juittni sidus, oelut inter ie1ics
| Lima minOres.
The question now recurring on the resolution Of
Elf Hamilton, as modified by MIR. Randolph, it
was decided by yeas IL nays-Yeas SO, Nays IOS
| 80 the resolution was rejected and, thereupon,
| The House adjourned.
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