The daily union., 1852-12-08
The BRONZE HORSE AND THE HERO or Nnw ORLEANS.

THE BRONZE HORSE AND THE HERO OF New ORLEANS
| am haunted Oh Chiron OF Gotham-haun,ed by the
vision of wondrous horse For siI days and nights
has il stood before me- with hery eyes, dlstended nos
,rls and swelling neck for days and nights has 1t
destroyed my appetite and chased my slumbers. | am
worse than haunted erdenoniadO. Therefore, TO
you turn as one able TO appreciate my plight ok
travsgant," am |! imaginative !" Come and
Even your lofty head Tall Son OF York, must bend as
you follow for beneath this lev and blackened shed
is enshrined the divinity OF genius All, you too feel
You too ak il breathing seed OF Apollo has de.
scended from his erial course you TO whom equine
power and grace the alphabet OF daily existence,
stand almost awed by the shape which has enhralled
my feeble Gaze on until the scene which has
transfxed him rises like second sight before you. lie
tue flash OF The cannon, and hears us roar the con-
tnuous rattle OF muskery mingled with the shouts OF
furiae men, excite hm his dlaed eyes wildly strive TO
pierce The smoke and dust OF battle. he Teloceih IN
his sreng be mockeih al fear and is not ahfghied
neither uneth he back from the sword" But see, hs
comrade of green pasture and quiet STALL oi daily dnll
and gerng parade, rolls before him in the death strug
gle, with the appalling cry which bursts from the horse
in his agony and then, wild with rage and horror, be
swerves, be recoils upon his launches, with foTeieet
msdly paving the air and dlsended jaws That mpoieniy
strive 10 elude the thradom OF the bit Do you not read
all this in the eloquence OF arl before you
Gaze on, you 10 whose acute and pracsed eye the
horse textbook. and detect one fault OF fcnnceplon or
expression in his colossusgaze until you is mighty
neck curve, s hinks heave, vs. veins swell by the life
OF inspiration thai fashioned H. aud which steals from il
you almost despite your will and confess that better
than Bucephalus bore Alexander over blood stained
fields 10 material conquests will the war.hofse OF the
Hero OF New Orleans bear its creator through more glo
nous labors 10 a ollier fame.
have to-day seen the horse and his rider" The
General is mounted; his dress a fdc-,iB Il OF the
uniform worn by him al New Orleans the face and fig
ure nothing in mbIsnre greater merit how.
ever, is in the with which the Artist has beaed the
acknowledged difficulties OF gtaceless costume, and a
figure naturally rgd. There great beauty the
trasi between The high physical excitement OF the animal
and the intellectual quetude OF The rider he has re.
solved and that iron force Of will which marked him
during life is here eKpressednoi artist OF ordinary
penetration would have supposed by harsh and passion
lines, but by repose-eebleness and uncertainty agi
tate, but strength and decision quiet the eternal
hills; and we read in the Generals iacs that The COW
ardly, the yacia,ing the dsasccied OF New Orleans
might well hope to escape from his mental resolve as
the frantic sieed he reins from his iron muscle.
have given transcript of the impressions produced
myself and others by The equestrian statue Of Gen
eral Isckson-those truths odihe greatest is be.
hind" Other men have produced similar works OF merled
renown, but other horses have needed extrinsio
support 10 maintain them in the position in which 10,
equine race display their highest grace and FIRE, and
power; but II has remained for Clarke Mills 10 achieve
that perfect union OF genius and science by which the
American charger, thrown upon iis launches remains
Sc H. balanced self.controlled And here may America
rest her highest pride in the anst.fe she has yet given
that Mills, by this and beautiful perception and
usment OF tho principles Of gravilafon in his art has
aken stride in stsuary Of which The Old World has not
yet dresmed--N y SDirn Of the Tines.