The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-22
eif years ago. and II viii require gh'y igot o.
prot cdon To- keep up the manufacture Lere much

eight years ago, and Il viii require 10 gsy igot o.
protect To- keep up the manufacture Lere much
longer.
Vermont mob only raises sculpt r., bat also
the marble wherein, according 70 Soc ates ne ma
many statues, busts, etc, waiting ony tDs t'ncn
of genius to make them all but live The marble
has name abroad. TAO tons OF West Ratiind
marble have been ordered by an eminent tta'i an
artist aud will be sent 10 Rome, IN two oipaka, OF
equal weight. Some people think that IL Ia better
that the marble than the artists should go 10 itsv
Their theory II that genius must depend upon Its
own home for every thing, and Thai II IL rather in
jursd than bspe6tlcd by reign study and reaace
apon foreign models | know nothing about the
matter except that the further back yon trace the
history Of sculpture, to certain point, the greater
ycn ahd the art; and IL IL very certain that the
Greeks, who exeels1 all the worli in scalptare,
in most everything else OF an Intellectual cha
scter, did rot 30 10 Memphis rhebes TO learn per-
FICTION III the art, nor 10 Persepois or Eo0atana-
They wopld have found little in either place 10 All
shsm. They looked wrhin for models, and found
them and also for all altertme. Vermont Is mol At
tea and she GfteD Msupiai,s are not Hymettus aud
The skies here though often rich enough to startle
the widest Imagination, a. not such as one sees Ger
the isles hat crown the Egean Deep" and wnice
10 resIecs differ from those at which Phdiis add
Praxteles and Cslmaehas gaZe3, so long ago; but
where Heaven has been pleased TO confer . the
vision and faculty divine" nave the right - look
for some manifestation Of original power. Bat per-
haps may he told that Americans are not Greeks
proposition to ebicb should the more readily sub
lectGal pre-emneDce, we're far enough removed from
even fair standard OF moral excellence.
From sculpture 10 rCit il not very great descent,
when consider that artists have loved t. carve or
paint ecneBs NJ the latter that looked good enough
70 eat and at which even birds have pesSed. Farm
er5 mpain Of she rasa2es 81 worms on their apple
trcea aid anticipate great loses from the depredI
tons OF The nny mlrauders whose very physical iI-
significance renders them formidable enemies. pnat
aDc ent enemy Of plums, the curcuo, Is Carrying on
great bus eSs the destructive line, aud making
himself 30 misehievuus az possible. Whist purpose
thske nests sobseive 10 she economy OF nature is
would be hard TO say but as nothing could have been
created III vain, they must ha e their province,
equally with the hunniDg bird ana tie wild bee.
Ore thing. however Is very certain and that H. that
the who should cOntrve some plan Tor their ex-
rirsa'iQc wtul0 be regarded as public kene'actor
but one degree heigw the disc OF the virtues OF
vaccination.
Vermont all conservative vhig thong IL be is as full
Of isnas as Crom wel's armyoIe Of those anoIna
lies Of which there many Ia Ameyicea politics.
Here, sboltionsm has 6rmer hold on the gnOhc
mind than in any ether part Of New England, slough
free soism is LOT near so powerful ss u - Ia soaie
Of tie neighbolin2 States. A fugitive slave could
no more fe captured here than an Arab in the
desert The higher law" has always been popular
10 Vermont for TO the assertion and maintenance u
that Gees she owe her political being. Ethan Allen
was the higher law made visible and pl.iu 20 even
the dullest capacity. There gas q free soil conyen-
ton held il Franklin county, on the 7th Jaly, at
which several nominations were made, and some nai
dozen resolutions, of the roarug sort, adoDted.
One Of tie resolutions was directed against clergy
man OF the town Of Enosbufg, wa6 has been srac.1s
In favor of the institution Of slavery, basDe his dis
courses on the Bible lor, rather. should say, jodg
ing from what have heard Of them, on Mr. fetch
ers learned work, Studies on Sayery') The
others directed against Baltimore platforms the
wbis and democratic parties, aud most everything
else The doings Of the same party in other quarters
OF .he State arc Of the same character.
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