The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-07
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PRAYER
We acknowledge the divine power and
presence as we gather here this day. as our
fathers recognized In their lives the guiding
power and control of Providence SO do we
their sons. Not without thy controlling
wisdom did our fathers raise up this nation
now inhabited and enjoyed by us, and we
render thanks to Thee for the great works
OF our forefathers. Especially do we real
ize the labors of him whose honored name
we commemorate to-day, and in the
memorial set up by our hands may we be
inspired to ever keep alive In our hearts
the same spirit of patriotism that actuated
him and those like him. May our land
sui continue in prosperity and growth,
may the light of Thy countenance smile
upon our institutions one and all, upon our
schools and colleges and beneficial labors,
upon our Governors and statesmen in high
authority. May our men be enterprising,
capable and honest, our daughters virtuous
and pure, and may our example of civil
liberty commend itself to all the nations.
May we ever keep in mind Thy holy COM
mands, and cheerfully obey Thy will in
all things, and Thy name as the King of
Kings and Prince of the earth shall have
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Amen.
The hymn "God and our country" was
then sung by twenty male voices from st.
Albans and Burlington. The words com
posed by o. w. Holmes, music by Prof.
5. G. Moore of Burlington.
AT given signal salute was fired and
the statute successfully unveiled amid APP
plausc.
Hon. John F. Pomeroy, Commissioner
OF the State, then came forward and for
mally presented the statute to the State in
the following interesting address.
To His Eacellency Gooe,nor Juhus Gem
0erse
HoNoRED Sir 1T is an appropriate and
happy coincidence of events, which unitcs
the celebration of the declaration of our
| National Independence with the Inaugural
ton of a heroic statue, in marble. in honor of
the man, who, in advance of that immor-
tai blow upon the enemy in the surprise
and capture of the important fortress of
TicOnderOga. And it is happy day for
those intrusted with the accomplishments
of this honorary work of art, interesting
and gratifying as was its object, to be re-
licved of the duties and responsibilities that
trust imposed, and to give an account of
their stewardship.
When the granite column, erected to the
memory of Ethan Allen in this cemetery
was completed, the committee who had had
that work in charge (thc Hon. George p.
Marsh and the one who now addresses YOU
procured the passage of an act of the leg
islature authorizing the erection of a heroic
statue in granite or marble upon the cap
stone of the monument, without expense to
| the state. To the same committee was
given, by said act, the charge of the CON
tcmplated work, and, little anticipating the
years that might be required to accomplish
it, they at once entered upon its duties
called upon the artists of the country for
designs, and undertook to raise the neces-
sary funds by contribution of one dollar
each from Vermonters. To Mr.. Larkin G.
Mead, at that time a promising young
sculptor of BrattlebOrO, was awarded the
preference i'm design, and he accordingly
executed model, which was approved and
adopted by the committee, and he was ex-
pected to commence work on the marble as
soon as the funds would justify it. The ex-
pertinent for raising the money was not
successful, Chiefly from the fact that it
cost so much to collect iD and fell short of
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the meantime, the Legislature, after de.
clinlng an appropriation of one thousand
dollars in aid of this object, appropriated
the sum of two thousand dollars for statue
in marble of the same patriot and taking
the model and artist that the committee had
selected, and the block of marble, which
had been proffered them, caused to be made
a statue, which now stands in the Capitol of
the State. The discouragng effect of this
course, with the absence of Mr.. Marsh as
our Minister to Italy, for the last twelve
years (though still continuing his interest
in the work and his position as one of the
cOmmittee) the war of the rebellion,
which for years absorbed nearly all other
interests, and the great disparity between
our funds and the demands of the artists,
must account for, if not excuse, the long
delay in the contamination of the work of
the committee. But this delay was not
without its compensations, as will appear
from statement of our funds, which have
in the meantime been prOfitably invested.
The amount received from the first cOntri-
button, which terminated ON the list of
January, 1861, was six hundred and fifty
four dollars and thirty-two cents; the
amount received on the subscription of
November, 1870, was five hundred and
eighty-one dollars; making the whole
amount received by the committee from
contribution, and subscription, for this OBJ
ject, thirteen hundred and sixty dollars
and twenty -four cents. This sum, with
the accruing interest amounted on the list
of January last to the sum of twenty
seven hundred and nine dollars and two
cents, which, with the interest since ac-
crued, (therc being no charge by the COM
mittee for their services) will cover the
whole expense of the statue and leave q
small balance In the hands of the commit
tee, which If not otherwise ordered, will be
permanently funded to defray the expense
of keeping in order the Statue, monument
and grounds 1t is but just to say that for
these original subscriptions and contribu-
tons, we are largely indebted to the patri-
otto exertions of Mr.. Warren Root Of this
city.
The statue was modelled after design
of Peter Stephenson, of Boston, now de-
ceased, a sculptor distinguished by many
works of art, particularly statue of the
"Wounded Indian" which was exhibited
at the great exhibition in London in 1851.
AS no likeness of Ethan Allen was known
to exist, and no information could be eX-
pected from any remaining contemporary
the resemblance of the design to the origin
al is only such as his age, current tradition
and the Imagination of the artist would
suggest. The time selected by the artist to
be represented in the statue, was when
Ethan Allen, at the age of thirty-eight
years, made the world-renowned demand
for tho surrender OF Tioonderoga, ''by the
authority of the Great Jehovah and the
Continental Congress !" And the artist
has succeeded in presenting the manly
form and appropriate expression of one
who is earnestly making solemn demand
with his left hand pointing upward, in
dicating his High Authority and with his
right grasping his sword as the means of
enforcement, while at his feet, military
mortar characterizes the act as one of civil
lied warfare. This design, under contract
with the committee, made in January, 1879,
has been produced in marble statue eight
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