The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-14
a StatI,a of Madison.

casion of the unwilling OF the statue OF
sToNgwALL JACKSON the orator said:
"Here on this hill the forms Of Washing
ton, and Henry, and Lewis, and Mason, and
Nelson, and jefferson, and Marshall arrest
our eyes, and make their silent but sautary
and earnest appeals to our hearts. AS We
look on this monument there is one miss
james Madison, venerable and illustrious
lame, as one Of The founders of the Consti.
tuition Of the Union"
It was an appropriate suggestion at such
2 time that there was vacancy caused by
the absence of the statue of MADISON, and it
is vacancy to be regretted. The New York
World, In a comment upon this expression
OF feeling in DR.. HoaE's address, says:
1.-The intimation of the Virginia orator Is,
as we say, that this deficiency Virginia her
self should supply. She has completed thus
far, even in her hour of distress and sorrow,
the rest of Crawford's grand group. Why
should she not finish il? This we Of the
3. North earnestly demur TO. 1t should be our
fupction, quite as sacred as that of the
Mother Of States, to unite in raising monu.
ment 10 one of the illustrious three who did
stitution than any other man. We are by no
means sure that the task of Madison in per-
suadipg the abstractionists of his own region
into acquiesceuce with the Constitution was
not more difficult, and in its success more
neritorous, than that even OF Hamilton.
Let us Of the North, then, at once, without
reference TO the Centennial and political
hubbubs OF our day, go TO work with will
and help to put James Madison on his pc.
destal at Richmond"
What attention the suggestion Of the
World may command in the North We know
not. Certainly such tribute to MADISON
by the people of the Empire State would do
them honor, and show that they properly
appreciated tie craftsmanship Of one of the
greatest statesmen the country has produced,
whose theories and principles so largely con.
trDuted to the establishment Of system Of
government which has done as much for
human happiness as any the world ever saw,
aad which has especially secured to the EN-.
pire State a rapidity of growth and wealth
that Is without example In the world.
But this is tteir concern, not ours. We
may say, however, within the bounds OF pro-
prety, that such an act as the presentation
of the statue of MADISON by the people OF
the North to Virginia would be a most
graceful exhibition Of the spirit Of concilia-
ton, and would exert an influence SO en-
tirely national that Virginia would appear
only as the medium through which it would
be disseminated over the Union.
However, the matter is but q suggestion
of the World'S, and as such re Only mean
to notice it with approval IS a sentiment Of
that paper.
Before concluding this article we Woulo
say that the group around the WASHINGTON
statue admitted of but one representative o
craftsmanship according to the plan upor
which it was designed, and that one coult
be none other than JEFFERSON. We did no
understand Dr.. HcGE as meaning that Their,
was an omission in not putting MADlsol
there also. He. spoke of the absence o
MADISON from the hill which was adorned
with statues Of other WORTHLESS immortal il
the history Of the nation. Such memoria
to bis great fame would have broken th'
uuity of the design of the WAsHINGTo,
monument. Yet, room could have beer
allotted TO it 10 like conspicuous place.