Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-11
OUR MONUMENTAL HEROES.
Republican Art from a Crooked"
Point of View.
Some striking Suggestions for o
Great National Work.
IFrom the Baltimore Gazette.

lEfOm the DaitiuioAS No1SeS |
The wise saying of antiquity, that
we must s'call no man happy until he
is desd," is brought forcibly to mlnd
by the present efforts to revive the
great Lincoln emancipation mohu-
Inent in Washington City. Ihere
are. 10 be over thirty figures OH the
high granite base OF colossal, heroic,
and life sizes, and many of the statues
are finished in the plaster; aud 1t
happens that very many OF these ng-
ures, that were idollzed h the
monument was designed, have Since
sunk into moral decrepitude ana
wreck. 1t vas projected that "Mr.
Lincoln, in the ACT OF slsnlhg the
emancipation proclamation, sbouid
crown the column seventy feet high;"
around him six equestrian statues
Grant, Sheridan, Sherman, THOMAS,
Howard and Wadsworth. Grant
should be represented i'll the act OF
cIaspiug to his bosom of ''unimpaired
comtidence" Harrington, Delano,
Sclenck aud Babcock !; Sheridan will
be set forth trampliDg on the pros
lrate form of civil liberty in LOUISE
ana: Sherman, i'll native brass, will
be on his hobby, riding forevermore
10 the Sou UNA Z sSFAS
sen,ed as riding proudly away into
d~lsfavor with the administration, be-
cause he vas too honest for it;
Howard, the great philanthrop!st,
will be represented in the act of ''go-
lug through" the treedman's bureau
+ and university, and Wadsworth will
be there, chiefly because the last
thing he did vas to die for his ceun.
,, try, and that is about the last thing
that Gen. Logan intends to do.
= On the second aud u lower level
will be placed twenty-one colossal
statues of philanthropists. Statesmen
and civilians who stood by Lincoli
and fat army contracts during thu
war. Among these the War Minister
y Stanton. The christian commission
will be represented in the person o
George Ii. Steuart, its chairman, ant
~ the sanitary commission in the per
III sons of DR.. Bellows, president OF tn
ac Eastern commission, and j. E. 4eat
re man, president of the Western. Tn
>, loyal pulpit will be represented b,
, those distinguished and patriotic di
= vines. Bishop Simpson and Herr
az eral of these are already completed
10 and await only casting into meta
- Bishop Simpson will be seen pronoul
III cling Il beneuiction OIL the third tern
81 Mr.. Beecher is among those compl,
N ted. He will stand on the ragge
= edge OF the monument, holding alol
the bible in one hand, and his treats
Is OH "nesI-hiding" i'll the other.
e. At the base of the monument, sill
of gularly appropriate, will be allegoi
nj zeal statues of Liberty, /" Equality,
" and "Justice.' That these are ALI
Isl gories, is also suggestive. Libert
Ii will be represented by the boso1
friends of Grant ''making Free wit
be the public money. Equality will
he portrayed by the sable senator, Bruc
in the United Stttes senate, callir
'se Grant a hypocrite and ;s liar, al
De- Senator Morton, i'll reply. calling hi
!, a damn niger. Justice will be re-
M resented by an allegorical figure Co
-. demning Mrs. Surratt and acquittil
Us BabcOck. Down at the bottom
ali-the monumental "bottom facts
ST. so to speak-will be the CELEBRATE
,te slave" the private soldier and "WoI
an" Gearing for the disabled soldier
"a thing that Grant never did.
W.. Efforts are now on foot to raise q
to necessary money to complete tn
splendid design. Secretary Sewal
said that he had travelled all ov
na' Europe and had 'never seen anythil
my like it," which is, doubtless, tru
ere The present plan is to ask the col
,be mittee for the necessary granite
build the pedestsls and column
Congress has already given the lie
ley essarv metal in captured bronze ca
ect' non. Mr.. Clark Mills, sculpto