The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1851-01-22
STATUE OF CALHOUN.

The Charleston correspondent OF the Co
lumbla Telegraph i'll lulges il some very
appropriate comments on this work:
H sadly erred in representing Mr. Cal
houn as pointing to the scroll, upon which
was inscribed the words "truth, Justice
and the constitution, making with eacf
other an angle Of about seventy degrees
This is not a usual mode of pointing, MOI
was it popularity of Mr. Calhoun
tie then objects to the drapery, which
is the classic tOga;
"Fhis partiality for the antique is shown
10 be out of pace and over-strained by a
mere statement OF the intention and design
of the work. The object is to preserve in
the hearts AID minds of the liviug-to per-
petuate aud transmit TO posterity, vivid
recollection oS the moral and intellectual
worth o: the departed statesman, by appeal .
ing to the sense of sight, by means of an
enduring aud faithful representation of Cal
houn-a patriot and statesman of South
Carolina, who floruished in the first half of
the nineteenth century. The features and
genera! CONTINUATION were intended to car
~ out this design; the palmetto placed
him upon the soil OF South Carolina,
and his dress should have rescued him from
the Roman era. Why the Palmetto trunk
that grows now upon our soil? Why not
ueglect all the unities of time and placer"
We most heartily Concur in these remarks
Why should the costume of Greece aud
Rome be the only fit dress for heroes and
statesmen? The "blue and buff OF WASH
ington-the short Goa! and cooked hat of
Napoleon, are a part and parcel of the men.
The white plume of Navarrs-the splendid
fuery OF Murat, are identified with their
characters.
We have before us an engraving after
Canoya's Colossal Statue of Napoleon. II
represents him nude, with the Grecian mil
itary cloak thrown on the left arm, the
hand holding long sceptre, while the right
glasps diminute globe, and perched on
it the figure of winged Victory holding a
crown in her hand. The right leg rests
on the trunk of tree, from which shoots
the mistletoe, and to it the Roman sword
is suspended by its belt The features are
a copy of Napoleon's face, which was one
that painters call the heroic. But certain
ly this statue cannot be said to be in any
degree copy of the man. In works o: i'm
agination, the artist may follow his own
taste, and give his statues the drapery-or
no drapery-he may select. The Countess
of Abrizzi thus speaks of Canova's Psyche
and censures has fastidiousness which TO-
bed her limbs:
"a light drapery of brilliant whiteness,
and of the finest texture, which forms ar
admirable contrast with the almost natural
tints of the flesh, aud does honor even to
the chisel of Canova, is folded with grace
full simplicity around her. But why, .
Psyche. conceal, beneath that envious vest,
thy lovely limbs, when, yelled, only in thy
righteousness and artless innocence, the
though S of thosa who fix their admiriug
eyes upon thee become pure and guiItIess
as thyself-"
The same may be said of Powers Greek
Slave" aud Eve" Statues Of the gods.
too, should be nude. But why WASHING.
ton or Napoleon should be strippedof their
clothes, and either left naked or wrapped
in the clamys of the Greeks or the tooa
oftaeRomans,is beyond our comprehension.
A writer IN the North American Review
OF 1929, thus speaks Of this classic draperv
as regards statutes Of modern heroes:
''However supe. ior naked figur and flow.
ing draperies may be, for the purposes Of
art, 70 the formal and fantastic. dresses Of