Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-04-14
Are We Good Looking :?

care We Good Looking People," is the
title of pleasant paper in the March number of
Putnam, from which we make an extract:
"Look at our notabilities are they not good
looking? better looking than most nobii,ies
elsewhere !? Take, for example, our new Presi-
dent Pierce, and compare him with Prince AL
bert; the former was certainly not chosen for
his good looks-ths latter was. The artists have
done their best for Victorias conso-t, and in spite
of all their art, their cunning ari6ces, their fiat
tering touches, their ingenious disposition of
light and shade, and their courtly concessions of
the true 10 the ideal, there is not picture of
Prince Albert in which he himself is not essen
tally the most insignificant object; the feathers
and boots, the drapery and background are inf
nitely more dignifed and impressive; Albert's
great pastry rolled out face, without line or an
emotion, looks always like blank spot in pic
ture. President Pierce, no thanks to art, has a
face with a concentrated expression of energy,
with lines of thought and eyes full of fire. Pres
dent Fillmore, too, would take the precedence
of any crowned head, in the court of beauty
How Napoleon lie petit, the Emperor of all the
French, dwarfs and shnks by the side Of him.
Mr.. Fillmore is tall, porty, and has frank, ex-
pansive face. Louis Napoleon is short, tneagor
cold and reserved; his face hidden, for the most
part, in thick set beard where an expression Of
lust and violence lies in ambush. Louis, though
no beauty himself, has, however, taste for
beauty in others, especially for the golden hair,
the dark eyes, the blooming face, the seductive
graces of the Spanish Senorta Montijo. Having
caprics, as the French say, for la Belle Espag-
noe and unable to corrupt, he has sworn with
his bloody hand upon his heart, Napoleon oath,
to love and cherish her in the holy bands of mat
rimony. Looking at General Scott, with the eye
of an artist, where can you find better model of
military hero! Lofty in stature; lifting his
head high above the crowd of ordinary men
well proportioned with broad shoulders and a
swelling chest ; a firmly placed foot and erect
posture a brow of command; an eye of con-
cent? alton and mouth of firm resolve he has
the look and bearnng Of gallant soldier, and
no wonder he scattered the Mexicans, and stalk.
ed into the capital conqueror. The shade of
Daniel Webster rises high among us in our
Senate and tribunals and in the assemblages of
the people solemn and portentous; with the
serious aspect of the anxious patriot the brow
broodng with thought the eye looking steadily
into the darkness of futurity the lips closing
upon their last words of eloquent utterance, in re-
solve dark cloud gathering upon the manly
face, and presaging fate; and he passes away
in the gloom of death. There never was more
noble-looking man than Daniel Webster, and il
has been truly said that in appearance he wal
the ideal of great statesman. Our poets sDl
authors, Cooper and Irving and Longfellow
Melville and Lowell are handsome and superior
looking men. Our artists too, for the most part
can find no better life studies than in their ewl
cooking glasses"