St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-03-25

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cuted the Rare and Graceful
Work Of Art.
Especial Washington Letter.l
The equestrian statue Of jackson n
Lafayette square, opposite the whit<
house, is considered the best work Of
art of its kind in tho national capital
Its location is such that Il attracts It
tention from greater number Of Viz
itors than any other statue, and Il haa
. history. which was recently brought
TO light by the efforts Of certain un.
artistic people to obscure the Jachsos
statue by placing the Lafayette statue
at the south entrance Of the park. II
YVES claimed. by officials having Z
little brief authority, that ''the gov
eminent has oclear title to the jackson
statue, and can obscure il, or remove Il
into the woods, IL IL wants TO-"
| There was once . newspaper pub
lished here called tho National Intelli-
gencer. The files Of that paper, under
the date Of January II. 1858, contain the
following paragraph: 1T ID due to the
jackson monumental committee to say
that the jackson statue has been made
and erected entirely under their con
troll and direction. They caused the
money to be collected, employed the
artist. and made all the arrangements
for its Inauguration That committee
consists now of the following gentlemen:
Hon. Cave johnson, chairman; Amos
Kendall, +. r. Blair. John w. Maury.
Il. b. French, Charles X. Gardner. c. p.
Sensstock. John McCalla, George w.
Hughes, Thomas Ritchil. George
Parker, John C. Rives and A. J. Donel-
son. The original committee consisted
Ct thirteen members, of whom were tho
following gentlemen: John r. Van Ness,
James uoban, Jesse e. Dow and Will
liam A. Harris, the three former of
whom have died. and the latter. upon
going abroad, resigned; and their
places have been filled by Messrs Nc
Gala, Parker. Hughes and Donelson."
The files of the same paper show that
the statue was inaugurated ON January
6. 1855, the date ordinarily called
'Jackson's Day." because It is the an
niversary of the victory ut New O..
leans. Upon that occasion. the statue
was presented to the United States; and
hence there is no doubt about the title
OF the government TO the statue of ''Old
Hickory" but il has been settled that
the bronze presentmcnt OF the military
emit position The statue Of Lafayette
is now located at the southeast entrance
of the park, instead of the south en-
trance. where it would have been d.
rectly between the jackson statue and
the white house.
The names Of the members Of the
jackson Monumental association are
the names Of the most prominent citi-
Gems of carly Washington. The official
programme Of the dcdicatory exercises
contains the following:
Military escort
The monument committee
Clark Mills. artist
Hon Stephen A Douglas, oratoe.
Charlains OF congress-
President OF the United States
Senate and house OF representatives
Judges q the supreme court
Commander in chief OF the army, and tho ~. |
Est commodore 10 the navy. etc. |
Il was a long procession. and the ex. |
ercises lasted from ten o'clock in tho :
until three o'clock in the A. i
the last performance being .
national military salute, followed by . !
by the chaplain Of tho |
house. At the conclusion of the grafton
BY the greatest orator Of his day. Hon.
stephen A. Douglas, Mr.. Clark Mills,
he artist, vas presented to the vast !.
.0f !. people and heartily
- he deserved to be, for his
work wax'unrivstcd at that date.
Clark. kSsRhad been q plasterer. and
{ was whils.ppSagcd in making plaster
,orriccs and center pieces that he con-
:luded TO undertake the reproduction
# faces in plaster. lie had very little
uccess. and finally turned to modelling