The native American., 1838-06-16


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THE NAVAL MONUMENT IN FRONT OF THE
1Tf -.a@ CAPITOL
All things to be subject to the mutations Of fortune
as well TO the changes Of time. This little rostia
columns which purchased by private contributions in
tile navy TO commemorate the fate and memory OF the
young officers who fell in the attack npon Tripoi IN
1901 was at period scarcely tolerated by Govern
ent in consequence Of the bad taste both in the design
and execution Of the work.
The whole is Leghorn production, and cost about
$3 000 so that it small affair at first, and tme
that magniGes many things has, in the improvement Of
our .juds sment only male ihls great by justly magnify
i4.g our understanding Of its errors.
We remember in the history of this tneral cenotaph
which has travelled from its Tuscan birth place Of doubt
tl classicism to our Capital that when il arrived in this
country the officers peti,ioned Congress to permit 10 be
landed free Of duty; but the boon denied, and the
money was raised by another appeal to the Of the
ocean The next difficulty to give it local habita-
Gpn and permission asked to erect it IN the yard
where il nov stands. This refused and at length it
found resting place for ts disoinrd forms at the Navy
Yard The last embarrassment was to erect it, but there
were no means and in emulation Of the efforts Of the
Sibyl third demand made on Congress. But Con
gress had only hearts of for things Of stone and
Mercury, Fame, and History night have wandered about
as dsecta memba OF Eysm to eternity if the purses Of
Neptnne's young officers had not more unloosel
their strings. r3 a@
The heaten gods and goddesses were soon arranged,
and by ytue Of being stationed Immediately in front Of
III. great guns At the Washington Navy Yard, con-
sdered according Senator Aliens notion, belonging
10 the military establishment Of The country, and entitled
after five year Service to the right Of citizenship From
specal respect the origin Of these beings, they were,
however, allowed in advance to become nauralzed cub
,cts &C the monumental community OF the United States,
and have been enjoying all the privileges Of such from
tl,t 10 the present time One would have thought that
orotecton, the benefit Of our laws and free Govern
ment would have been sufficient but the spirit that
makes the living foreigner thirst Tor rights poltca anc
to be near the Of power spreads its Promethean
FIRE 10 the very images wrought from foreign qnarres, and
oninates them with the same feeling. We find these
Gres after few years, wandering from their Old abode
and now stationed at the west front o the Capitol, to
piye the Legislators the benefit Of orign experiences and
q the same time perfect their doubtful denzcnship by
6xns themselves under the very nose of the nation, and
thus enieavoring to obtain two great gs al once he
naturalization papers and an office.
..Iabor o,nnia venc" says the bard Of Manfna. and
+ houph thrice denied they have reached your hresh
old Ills but another step to your very Hail. where they
von,a claim the right Of membership. Strange things
have come 10 pass tile very forest Of Burnhamwood has
marched to Dunsnane, and with fewer helps than have
the.e present speechess sones:" but they may think
,bamselves stones Of wounded rightser wounds like
Casar's. and find some Anthony to put a tongue in
every wound to move the stones Of Rome to muiny."
Ulustrious are the examples Of such doings Govan-
MIS- dead spirit spake, Hamlet in his cerements walked,
and why not these ambitious spirits Of the aliens'
Little do you know the outward force ana great ater-
ny that will help them TO whatever they may delgn to
tsy We are not perhaps, apprised that the Hbernian
who crops the fowery harvest Of the Capitol Tor his own
cows. and leaves the shorn lawn for with its piebad
sunburnt features, il ready with all his gang to lend
hand 10 install these in our seats We do not know ha,
the very guardian Of these works, the who planned
,be pennv fountain for four thousand dollas-who gives
to eyery foreigner employment, and makes his distant
deputy think that like Oheo, he is " fellow almost
damnd in fair mifeis the great friend Of all that is
foreign. - ~ h
Great business checks or dms the vision Of heegis
,atos or they would have that going through ou
public grounds is like visit to Jehosopha where strange
faces, strange tongues strange every thing fill up the
hooks and crooks, and one single native can bt
found: how eight must move one rose bush, an'
fourteen pub up slender eef they had seen all this
they would admit the foreign force about us enough
..Make these statues move--descend and take you b,
& the liand. .5{ ss#4#H0. \.
But TO the subject. This monument is sad proof o
our submission to foreign frppery. for If the good com
non sense Of the Native had prevailed, we should no
,ay be annoyed with confused jlmbe Of engmatica
G.res ranged round nnmeaning stone post and set il
"a odd contrast with the huge Capitol as to make
.sOssa like wart." s E
The p,ace for this sarcophagus is The graveyard
! 6t that the patriotic Gerry who fulfilled his saying
/. Dulce ct decorum est pro patria mori-
ants sweet and becoming to die for our country
should repose there. Why should the unurned ashes Q
other patos be singled out for especial sorrow wit
the false epitaph of
Htc Aecora functorum in bello vrornm clerres
Here rest the sacred ashes of men who fell IN war
la looking at this pile Of masonry, we hafd'y kho'
which Of the sensations controls most whether that
gravity at the subject commentaries or mirth at IN
drol arrangement of odd pieces of garden sculpture ha
with some chisselng and mending OF the old ana'o
my, are palmed upon works of art