The North-Carolina standard., 1845-10-15

have been so recently deposited 1t is impossible
that it should not succeed if the proper exerticns
are made to receive the contributions of nations
feelings. The committee of this city deter
mined to do their duty; and the following address
is the first offering which they lay upon his
shrine. They have framed wise instructions for
the agents whom they are about appoint Let
those agents cooperate with its friends everywhere,
and the work will be done.
JACKSON MONUMENT.
To tile People of the United States:
A large meeting of the citizens Of Washington
on the 18th of September, Is45, (Gen. John p.
Van Ness presiding,) unanimously and enthusiast
ically adopted these resolutions:
Resolved That the American people be called upon
to unite in erecting at the seat of the federal government
suitable monument to the memory ofthe Hero, Patriot
and Sage whose loss the nation still deplores to
go down ouros distant posterity, record of the
great mans glory and of his countrys gratitude and
griet.
ResoIUed That colossal equestrian statue, in imper
shable bronze is deemed the most suitable for the pur
pose, to transmit to future centuries the features and
form which the annals of the republic will teach each
new succeeding generation to look with an everrenewed
love and reverence, and everrenewng ambition to
emulate his noble deeds and nobler virtues.
ResolUed That for the purpose of raising by voluntary
subscription the requisite sum- central committee OF
organize the necessary measures for the collection OF
such subscription, by whom monthly publication OF
ed and ResoIued That as Genersi Jackson's most
trusted and beloved friend and the selected nheror Of
his papers and guardian of his fame Francis p Blair be
appointed treasurer. ..
Resolped That the following citizens constitute said
committee of thirteen, with power to supply vacancies in
their number and after the completion of the sub
scrpton to direct and superntend the execution of
proposed work Cave Johnson Francis P Blair, Thomas
Ritchie, Amos Kendall. John P. Van Ness, John c.
RiVes, William A. Harris, Jesse E. Dow, Benjamin B.
French, John w. Maury, Charles K. Gardner, James
Hoban, and Charles P. Sengstack.
The committee on whom devolves the execu-
ton of the high trust designated by their fellow
citizens of Washington, feel confident that its full
flment is not more earnestly desired by their i'm
mediate constituents than by the great mass of the
American people.
A colossal equestrian statue in imperishable
bronze, presenting to the eyes of all future gene
rations the Hero and Patriot as he lived, exhibit
ing the features, the person, the apparel the atti
tude, and almost the action, which belonged to
him at the moment of rendering the highest SER
vice to his country, has always been looked upon
by the free and nobleminded people of every age,
as the best bequest they could give to their de-
scendants. In such model, the virtues to which
the republic attributes its greatness are, in some
sort, enduringly personifed; ; and the posthumous
honor which imparts immortal presence in the
midst OF his countrymen to one great public bcne
factor, gives birth to the patriotic emulation which,
through succeeding ages, mutiplies aspirants to a
kindred-fame.
1t is not only, then, the national gratitude, but
just sense of the public interests wise care of
the national glory, which erects lasting monu-
ments 10 commemorate the citizens who devote
themselves to the service of the republic.
The Congress of great men, who contributed
to found the free government enjoy, decreed
an equestrian statue to Washington, as the man
most worthy of the renown of our glorious revo-
luton. 1t was to hand him down to the remotest
posterity in his military character, in the Inca
ments and habiliments which he wore when he
achieved the independence of his country that the
Congress voted monument which should pre-
sent the general as he appeared on the scene of
his greatest exploits. At that time the fine arts
had not attained maturity in our country, ade-
quate to execute worthily the design. Now Amer
ican scuiptors have arisen, from whom Europe
borrows the power to eternize the features of her
illus:rious men; and hence the last Congress took
the first step towards the accomplishment of the
resolution for the construction Of the equestrian
statue to Washington. The gratitude and honor
of the nation imperiously demand the full and i'm
mediate execution of the work, which circum-
stances have already too long delayed. If our
countrymen should also decree an equestrian mon
ument to the patriotic chief "who shed his strip
ling blood in the revolution" and who closed the
last war for the maintenance of his countrys indie
pendence in blaze of glory, only less brilliant
than that which achieved that independence at
York Town, it would be equivalent to an instruc-
ton to the approaching Congress to consummate
the movement of the last session. and the nation
may be gratiGed by Witnessing the elevation of fit
ting memorials to the heroic general who con.
quered liberty for his country, and to him who
preserved it. Such tributes, offered spontaneously
from the national heart to the immoral dead, are
the highest NEED of public honor for the highest
desert of public service and wisely to be encour-
aged on proper occasions, as the bequest of one
age to another, and one of the bes. means of per-
petualing the SILENT but deep and pervading moral