Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-17

al garden-never invaded by con
gresham or the people-why not have
this costly and majestic fountain sup
plant the cast-out group of statuary
1t would be refreshing. Water Is al
ways beautiful. 1t Is always painted by
the sun, Gods glory and heavens
splendurs are In IL, and God Himself
was baptized, as If water could perfect
Gods divinity. This grand fountain
should lave with freshness the air in
hailed by the capitol and impress its
| Lessons ofsobriety and virtue and beau
ty ana purity upon the people az,
| statesmen.
J, THE PICTURES.
Then let Mr.. ingalls, go hirtheY and
inquire whether IL be true that the
amorous old artist who left splendid
evidences of immortal genius
and of faultless taste every.
where upon the interior walls of the
capitol did not produce upon these
walls faces of men and women who
should not be maligned in the one
case or made historical in the other.
Is the sweetest seraph floating among
clouds beneath the summit of the
DOME and as seer 10y mortal eyes, in
| the very midheavens--is she the
charming inomordtd who threw a
bust of Pallas at a painters aching
| head? Do we discover in distorted
features of devils cast out of the
| heaven of true patriotism the faces of
Alexander II. Stephens and of Il. II.
| II Of IaH 10 A hst r1
people, staring upwards ~ their
necks do crack, discern all these sug-
gestive outlines and likenesses in the
top of the dome. Perhaps this fact
impeis Hon. Manning to lift 1t out of
sight.
TRoTTfNG INGALLS, OUT.
was going TO lead Mr.. ingalls, out
into the back yard of the capitol, real
ly designed to be the front of the struc-
ture, and suggest general reformatory
processes which l am sure he would
approve. George Washington was not
sun-worshipper, but intended that
| the eastern should be the front proper
of this proposed temple of patriotism.
But Georgetown was a commercial
! fact of considerable Importance in
those days and everybody went to-
wards Georgetown, and the road to
Georgetown became the great thor
oughfare, and struggling horses of
| tradesmen went up along tins road
now called Pennsylvania avenue, and
! Washington City grew up on the
wrong or west side of the capitol. ON
| the east front, perhaps hundred
yards from the capitol, n gigantic
naked figure of George Washington
sits on n bench. 8. w. holds a big
Roman sword in mis- right hand, and
seems in the act of throwing il at
Christopher Columbus, who stands on
the top of the steps leading into
the capitol. Christopher is about to
throw ball at the gigantic
father of his country, and we are thus
taught by the artists how heroic was
little Christopher. The anachronism
involved in this iuxtaposition of G.. w.
and G. c. need not be discussed. 1t is
pleasing story beautifully told in
marble, and am amazed when Hon.
Ochiltree fails to propose that the Ro-
man gladius be taken from G.. WIS
brawny hand and that the little
Ratchet be substituted. The nudity
of G.. w. causes innocent people from
rural districts to suppose, when con-
templating his majestic form, that
they are viewing the great shirtless"
father of mankind, Adam. If Mr..
ingalls, can do no better, let him steal
Jno. Sherman's bloody shirt" and
lend it till spring-time to G.. w. He
could wear IL gracefully and well. He
was STAKEHOLDER. Then, while stroll
ling about this capitolne backyard,
why not smash the ingenious and ar
tistic group in marble which so oflends
our visiting red brethren. Here we
have rude savage arrested in the very
act OF scalping II white woman,
and the story is well told. The fable
thus eXpounded owes its origin to the
fecund fancy of Peter Farley and
other dreamful literary crusaders of t
by-gone age. | once directed the ut
tention of Choctaw chief to this ele
: giant work Of art. He stared at j
amazed:
"Ah! we'll" he said, "that Indian i,
no Choctaw. No Choctaw IN
war ever shed whit,
mans blood.n After thinking awhil,
the old man went on. al wish tina
(pointing to the offensive group wer,
: taken away
Al later period, Charles Sumner
who may have talked to the old Chloe
} taw nobleman, Pitchelyn, prevented
i. the decoration of the interior walls o
the capitol by paintings full of often
sive sectional patriotism, and | am no
sure that a proper regard for the sentl
ments OF our red fellow.countrymel
should not impel Mr.. ingalls, to have
this effective work of art consigned /,
some graveyard of dead pas
sions and memories. And ma,
. not ask Mr.. Ingall
whether he does not really think
however he may goose-gabble about /
. as politician, that this embryo cav
airy regiment, charging about il
, bronze over the parks OF the capitol
should be disbanded, and figures o
statesmen and men of genius an,
/ learning and beneiactors of mankin,
l.ul I'll