The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-03-14
American Monuments.

when it can be said that republics are un
grateful, at least in the matter Of post mortern
reward by the erection Of statues. The time
was when Washington, Franklin, Madison,
Jefferson, and few other distinguished gen.
erals and statesmen of the Revolution, alone
had the honor of material remembrance in
stone or on canvass. Now, sculptors and
painters rejoice to find that gratitude to bene-
factors and love of the fine arts have so far
advanced together, that very soon every man
who has made or shall make name in any
thing notable or praiseworthy, will have his
statue erected or his portrait displayed in his
native place, as an inctement to others to
follow his good example.
Just now this public feeling of gratitude is
turned to the embodiment of the visabe
forms of the pioneer soldiers who have de-
Tended and extended our boundaries, the ora
; tors who have guided our national Legisla
ture, and the imaginative genuses who have
invested with literary glory the American
name.
The Kentucky House Of Representatives
has just voted $4,000 to finish monument
to Henry Clay and his statue which is to
be raised at New Orleans has just arrived,
u and will be inaugurated on the 18th OF April,
s the anniversary of the birth Of the sage of
u Ashland.
e The committee charged with directing the
y erection, in independence Square, Philadel.
q phia, OF monument paid for BY the thirteen
e original States who united 10 the DeClara-
ton Of independence, is now in active ses'
sion. 1t is we'll known that, at the time OF
g the Declaration. Phladel phia was the capi.
8 tai Of the Thirteen Colonies, and the Cont
q mental Congress sat in the building which
Is now serves as a Court House and the City
II Hal ,aud behind which extends Independence
y Square. The monument is to have thirteen
re sides, on which will be carved the escutch
n cons and devices of the glorious thirteer
'c States.
An appeal has been made, by committee
b composed of some of the leading men O.
New England, to patriotic men throughou
NJ the Union, in favor OF the erection, at the
'; common expense Of all the States, Of mon
10 ument at Lexington, in commemoration
OF the contest which took place there on th'
re 18th of April, l775, between the Briti'i
ne troops, and patriots of Boston. The com
H. mittee urge that, as the blood shed at Lex
ss ington, was the signal which called tn
s' country to arms from Maine to Georgia, no
III only the old thirteen States, but the ne,
'is States, which they have peopled, should ai
in commemorating On event that secured tn
I" common liberty Of all.
eo Boston has lately placed in front of he
e. State House the statue of Daniel Webste
Ills one OF the greatest intelects Of his time, an
ne a firm and able defender OF his country
Constitution and the Boston Journal say
ne that the bust Of Samuel Adams, one of I'll
chief orators and patriots Of the Revolution
In is to be placed in the hall of the Massach
IKE setts House of Representatives.
ay' The Phemin of Vermont, says that M
IL L. G. Mead, the sculptor, has just receive
zen from the quarries at Rutland, two lar!
olt blocks OF marble, to be used in making
will statue of Ethan Allen. DISTINGUISHED in d
dispute between New York and Massach
setts about the possession of Vermont. q
ell later in the war of the Revolution. 1t W
was he who, having surprised the British gar
'an son at Ticonderoga, summoned them to g.
oio render "in the name Of Jehovah and
'ere Continental Congress - A few years
the fore, in speaking of the claims Of New Y
els to Vermont, he said, "The gods of the mo
the tains are not the gods of the valleys"
'nly New Jersey, as proud of her "Blues'
as Vermont of her screen Mountain Boys
aabout to erect monument to her rev
tionary heroes, to cost not less than $40 o
tue The first stone is not to be laid till $l5,t
1t shall have been obtained. The subscrpt
ana now exceed $4,000.
10 In New York, the people of Coopersto
are about to raise a statue TO Fennim
dat Cooper, the most fertile and popular move
lived s.ho I1n;,od s,.tes and The frat who in
OF the Ollt6Q SldL6sS dhu HISt WIN
'ha' duced the American name, with credit
we're honor, into the republic of letters.
JUS In the city of New York there is an eq'
ID trian statue of Washington in Union Pa
wno and The Mayor of that city has lately b
'one informed by w. ]. Hubbard, o! Richmt
'ne Virginia, that he has a copy of the statue
on'y the latter place. made from the life by H
"ces den, which he puts at the disposal of1he
r''d' council Of New York.
"o"' ,' The people and State Representative
'0ou' Missouri have united in oppropriating mo
non' for the erection a statue Of Hon. Thomai
Oney Benton. in the city Of st. Louis, in wi
'0'e' commercial prosperity he always took n
.. active interest, as destined, as he belle
ner to surpass that Of any other locality in Ar
'"'On lea, or, perhaps, in the world.
nef -pSesA-
, Ju- OFSocrates, seeing scolding wife
were had hung herself upon an olive tree,
Q bv claimed: "Oh, that ell trees would