The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-04

1t is the face, however, that is worthiest OF
study; worthiest, too, of admiration. Inc
lines of that countenance are SO dear ana SO
familiar to our remembrance that it would De
unfair to demand of a foreign artist, working
solely from bad photographs, so perfect
piece of realistic portraiture as many carl
caturist could furnish. But the bearing and
expression are perfect; the face rises above
mere portraiture into the physical type OF
those pecullarities both moral and intellec-
tual, that made up the great soul Of Jackson.
1t is not beautiful; no bastard notiol of Greek
lines has been allowed to change the proper
tons, to straighten up the nose, to depress
the cheekbones of the hard. featured English
face. Yet, without such superficial beauty OF
feature, the higher beauty of moral force and
intellectual vigor has been se'z9d with trans
cendent skill.
There is earnestness in the face deep
calm of soul, a steadiness of resolution that
rises high above excitement There is ten
derness and goodness, too. It is the face of
a man wise and dutiful, sublimely uncon-
scious, and heroically modest. There is
enormous power of will, and of that self
control which passes SO easily into the power
OF controlling others. Such face will har-
monize with all the traditions of the war and
with all his achievements. 1t will speak to
coming ages of the high motives under which
he took up arms for the South, of the Chris
tian spirit in which he led our armies, of the
daring sagaciy with which he planned and
executed our victories. This bronze will
thus be a part of our history. 1t becomes
priceless treasure for our people, at once
model of art and monument of our glory.
AS We look st it we cannot but feel deep
sorrow that the great sculptor died b. fore he
saw his work completed. Yet with Foley, as
with Jackson, the last achievement was the
greatest. For as Charlottesville was to the
soldier so is this Jackson to the sculptor-his
life's masterpiece, sealed and gloriied by
DEATH The statue will stand among statues
as jackson stood among men, simple, heroic
and sublime.
THE INSCRIPTION.
The following is the inscription
PRESENTED BY ENGLISH GENTLEMEN AS A
TRIBUTE OF ADMIRATION FOR THE
s. LDIER AND PATRIOT,
THOMAS J. JACKSON,
AND GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED BY VIRGINIA IN
THE NAME OF THE SOUTHERN PE-PLE
DONE A. d. 1876,
IN THE HUNDREDTH YEAR OF THE COMMON
"LooK THERE Is JACKSON STANDING LIKE A
STONE WALL"
The pedal is located on smooth piece of
ground about.one hundred yards from and d.
rectly northward of the capitol building, and
about hallway between the Washington mon
umental pile and the gubernatoiial mansion,
and not more than thirty or forty feet from
Capitol street. The foundation is composed
of heavy blocks of granite in we'll masonry
extending five feet below the surface of the
ground.
The pedestal on which the statue is placed
is in the center of a circular platform 243 feet
~ enc ito eli l,cr JStv,
about s inches above the surface of the
ground. On the edges of this circle are
plac5d 80 small iron posts with small chain
pendant between them.
The pedestal itself is modelled from the de-
signs OF the sculptor Foley, and is SO perfectly
proportional that in the beautiful white gran
ite for which our James RIVER quarries are
celebrated it makes fitting resting place for
the statue for which it was designed. The
pedestal is composed Of four blocks of gran
lite, the first base being solid block eight
and half feet square and one and q half feet
HIGH cut in two members On this rests the
second base, which is four feet three inches
square and two and half feet high, on which
is heavy Ogee moulding.
The die block which is placed on this
double base, is block of granite three feet
three inches square and four feet high. The
face of the block On which the inscription is
cut is highly polished, and the inscription is
made in deeply cut block letters, which are
gilded SO as to make the inscription legible in
contrast with the polished, raised surface on
which they are cut The whole is surmount-
ed by the cap-stone, which is four and half
feet square and one foot three inches high,
which is cut with a heavy scotia molding
and an ogee wash The statue is seven feet
three inches in height, and, with the pedestal
aS he'd
toned monument.