Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-10-07
CLAW Monument.

AZ recent meelilS vi tho Ni"y A"oiu-
ment Association of St. Louis, JAMES H.
Lucas, from the committee on resolutions,
appointed at the last meeting, submitted the
following report, which was, on motion,
unanimously adopted:
Your committee, having duly considered
the subjects referred TO them, are Of opinion
that in the present position and prospects of
this city, any attempt on the part of the peo-
pie to rear a monument to the memory Of
HENRY CLAY, of temporary or trivial
character, would result in our own day, in
cause Of humiliation and reproach, and
would probably subject us to the contempt
and derision of those who may come after
US.
We acknowledge the proud future our
city has before her; that future cannot well
be over estimated. For all time, st. Louis
must be the great commercial metropolis of
the Mississippi Valley, if the people are but
true to themselves. History teaches us
that commerce has at all times been the
hand maid of the arts. We may rest as
sured, therefore, that our city must become
distinguished for their cultivation. Let us,
then, in the first attempt at a public monu-
ment, rear one that may stand the test of
time, and reflect credit on the taste, enter
prise and public spirit of our people.
| To do this, we must resort to a material
different from any that has thus far been
used in this city, and it would be most ap-
propriate to build this Monument out of our
own Missouri Granite.
The experience which we have from
kindred enterprises, in our cities, teaches
us that it requires considerable time to ac-
complish such an undertaking. We should,
therefore, proceed deliberately, and procure
and concentrate sufficient means to rear such
a monument as will be an ornament to our
city, and on scale proportional in some
degree to its prospective grandeur.
In attempting to make an approximate es-
innate Of the cost of such structure, from
the data in our''reach, we are of opinion that
the sum of 100000 would cover it. This,
it will be said, is large sum of money to
expend when no direct or positive good is
TO result, and that too, whilst our cityi de-
fcient in several necessary public institu-
tons.
The people of St. Louis have done much
already, ard can do, in due time, all that
might be expected of charitable, enlight-
ened, and public spirited people, besides
the Just tribute to exalted patriotism and
worth.
Have they not built hospitals, 'school-hou-
SEES, maintained expensive poor-houses, and
orphan asylums? Look at orr numerous
and magnificent churches, the Mercantile
Library Hall, theatres, &c., SC. Are they
not building plank roads, macadimized roads
and rail roads, in all directions from our city,
and who is the poorer for all this? Ask the
laboring man, and he will answer that he
gets good price for his labor, and is thriv-
ing? Ask the contributor TO all these en-
terprises, he will answer that he is none the
poorer.
Your committee would, therefore, recon-
mend the adoption of the following resolu-
tons:
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this
Board, the Monument proposed 10 be erect
ed in this city in commemoration of the pub
lie services and exalted patriotism of Hon.
HENRY CLAY, should be of a character and
magnitude in some degree corresponding
with the present grandeur and future des-
tiny of our city.
RESOLVED, That said Monument should
be designed with massive proportions, and
constructed of imperishabe material, to be
procured out of the granite quarries of our
own State.
RESOLVED, That, whilst attempting to
perpetuate the name and fame Of our great
orator and statesman of the West, we should
remember that we are perpetuating the his
tory of our own day and time-the middle OF
the Nineteenth Centlry-and that we will
be Judged of by what may remain of our
written history, and by the monuments and
memorials of art we may leave behind us.
RESOLVED, That Architects and ANA
|, teurs disposed to furnish designs or plans,
for the proposed monument free of charge,
be invited TO furnish them with specifications
; and estimates, addressed TO the Secretary Of
this Board.
RESOLVED, That books of subscription be
opened in the different Wards of the city,
and in the county, under the direction of a
committee of this Board-and that when de-
sired, such subscriptions may be made pay
, able in annual payments for five years.
} RESOLVED, That the citizens of the State
at large be invited TO contribute such sums
as they may think fit, towards the construc-
= ton Of the monument in question, and that
r voluntary contributions Of strangers may
be received, and their names to be recorded
, in a book TO be kept for the purpose, as hon
t orary members of the Clay Monument As
' ISOLATION.
4 JAMES H. Lucas,
DANIEL H. BOWMAN,
JOHN G. PRIEST,