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2. From H. R. Schoolcraft, explanatory of the price of earthen pottery presented by him at the last meeting. Also,

3. Communications relating to the Report of the Committee on a national name, from Eben Clapp, Jr., Corresponding Secretary of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society, W. B. Hodgson, Hon. Joseph Storey, and Hon. Henry Clay.

The Librarian then reported the donations received since the meeting of the Society held on the first Tuesday of April; among which was a collection of Maps presented by Mr. Depeyster on behalf of Richard Varick De Witt-in connection with which Mr. Depeyster, after a few explanatory remarks, offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted

"Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be returned to Richard Varick De Witt, Esq., for the valuable Maps presented by him from the collection made by his father, the late Simeon De Witt, who, at the time of his death, was Surveyor-General of this State, and, during the Revolutionary War, Geographer to the Army.'

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The following resolution, offered by P. G. Stuyvesant, Esq., was likewise adopted :

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Resolved, That the Librarian forthwith cause the Maps now presented to the Society by Richard Varick De Witt, Esq., to be bound up in an atlas and denominated the De Witt Atlas.'"

The Chairman of the Executive Committee reported favorably upon the nominations referred to them at the last meeting, whereupon the following gentlemen were declared duly elected :

As Corresponding Members: Mason T. Cogswell, M. D., Albany; Rev. Asahel Davis, Batavia, Genesee County, N. Y.; Rev. D. McLean, Freehold, New Jersey, and Prof. Renwick, of Hamilton, N. Y.

As Residents: Wm. Bailey, W. W. Gilbert, Richard B. Kimball, George M. Root, and George W. Betts.

On motion of Gen. Wetmore, the Report of the Executive Committee on the Monthly Bulletin was re-committed to the Executive Committee.

The report of the committee on a national name being the special order for the evening and next in order of business, the first resolution was read by the Chair and submitted to the Society for disposition.

D. D. Field, Esq., addressed the Society in favor of the resolution, and was followed by

Wm. B. Lawrence, Esq., who moved to strike out all after the word "Resolv. ed" in the resolution before the Society and to insert the following:

"Resolved, That the name of the United States of America, identified with the memory of the great and good men, who, in the cabinet and the field, accomplished the glorious achievement of our national independence, and which is already consecrated by the history of more than two-thirds of a century, during which period the people of this Union have attained to a rank second to none among the nations of the world, is regarded by this Society, in common with their fellow-citizens at large, a heritage which they are bound to transmit to their remotest descendants.

"Resolved, That the United States of America is a name peculiarly adapted to our country, from the nature of our political organization; and, that in the happy combination of the federative representative system, which leaves to the people of every State the powers of selfgovernment for all local matters and limits the operation of the Federal Government to foreign intercourse, we have the means of extension, which may ere long make the political denomination of America co-extensive at least with the geographical appellation of the northern division of our continent.

"Resolved, That the terms 'America' and Americans' are only applicable in a national sense to the United States, and that it is therefore inexpedient to suggest any other name to denominate our territory or our citizens, and that all difficulty in confounding the people and the physical productions of the other portions of the continent with those of our country may be obviated by giving to them their distinctive appellations."

The Society was addressed, upon this motion, by Philip Hone, Esq., Prof. Mason, E. C. Benedict, Esq., C. F. Hoffman, J. W. Chancey, John Duer, Esq., Judge Jones and Gen. Talmadge.

Prof. McVickar then moved that the report and resolutions lie upon the table until the first meeting in Autumn. The motion was supported by Hon. B. F. Butler, and, on division, was lost.

After some other remarks by Mr. Depeyster and the Rev. Dr. Matthews, it was decided by the Chair that the motion of Mr. Lawrence was divisible, and that the first question for the consideration of the Society arose on the motion to strike out all the resolution of the committee after the word Resolved. It was carried in the affirmative.

The motion to insert Mr. Lawrence's resolutions, being then put by the Chair, was decided in the negative.

The question next arising on the disposition of the second, third and fourth resolutions, they were unanimously rejected.

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III. BLAIR, OF THE GLOBE (With a fine mezzotint portrait.).
IV. FAC-SIMILE AUTOGRAPH OF JACKSON

V. THE INNOCENT CONVICT. A Tale. By C. F. Briggs
VI. SEEING A FRIEND OFF IN A PACKET

VII. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF HEINRICH ZSCHOKKE
VIII. ODE TO JACKSON. By Walter Savage Landor
IX. TO A FRIEND SINGING. By R. S. S. Andros
X. ON PREACHING. By W. A. Jones

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XI. A Song of THE PAST. By R. S. S. Andros

XII. EDUCATION. By H. Norman Hudson. (Concluded.)

XIII. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY

XIV. AMATEUR AUTHORS AND SMALL CRITICS.

XV. SONGS OF LABOR-THE SHOEMAKER. By John G. Whittier
XVI. FREMONT'S EXPEDITIONS

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XVIII. THE MISSION OF GENIUS.-A TALE OF ART. By Mrs. E. F.
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XX. REVENGE AND REQUITAL. A Tale of a Murderer Escaped. By
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XXIV. THE PRIEST-THE WIFE-THE FAMILY

XXV. THE CHANGE IN THE COMMERCIAL LEGISLATION OF ENGLAND
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XXVII. MONTHLY FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL ARTICLE XXVIII. OUR REPRESENTATIVES ABROAD-MR. C. E. LESTER

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WE must erect a glorious monument to the glorious old man. It is due to him -due to ourselves-due to our children, to whom his memory and his example will be among the noblest legacies which our generation will have to transmit to the next, and to all succeeding ones. The printed book is not enough -the recorded archive-nor even the practical results of his life, as stamped over the whole surface of the institutions of his country-these, we say, though in one sense his imperishable monuments, are not enough. A visible embodiment, symbol, representation, is proper, is needed, to carry down to posterity-manifest and actual, before the eyes that are to open long after ours shall have closed-the expression of his greatness, goodness and glory, the attestation of our gratitude. No mausoleum-no column-no pyramid-a statue, a statue alone, is the proper monument which a nation ought to erect to its great dead. For General Jackson we propose some worthy and fitting national tribute of this kind-to be erected by a national movement-at the national centre or metropolis-with a free outpouring of the national heart. A grand, colossal Equestrian Statue in bronze, at Washington, to be erected by a voluntary national subscription, is the proper monument for Jackson.

And this is the proper time to do it. Now when the public heart is yet freshly bleeding, and throughout the length and breadth of the country, tens of thou

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sands of warm and true Democrats stand ready, for nothing more anxious than to be allowed to unite with their fellow-citizens in a suitable mode of rendering to the memory of the great departed hero and statesman, some signal tribute of their reverence and their love.

No equestrian statue has yet been erected in our country. In foreign countries it is not an unfrequent mark of honor, to commemorate the glory of great warriors or rulers. There is probably no capital in Europe in which more or less of them are not to be found. They are usually and justly deemed the finest ornaments, at once to grace and ennoble the centres of public squares. Washington and Jackson have as yet been, perhaps, the only two of our historic worthies who have so combined high military with civil greatness and eminence, as to make equestrian statues appropriate to their forms and their glories. But to both of them such monuments ought to be erected, and must be erected. In regard to Washington, indeed, a resolution of Congress authorizing it, has, to our disgrace, remained so long unexecuted, that few now remember its existence. But it will still be carried into effect, nor is the delay which has run into forgetfulness and neglect, in regard to him from whom no rival fame can ever rob the immortal title of "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," any reason for postponing the re

* The present is a Double Number-including the two Numbers for July and August. This was made convenient by a change in the publishing arrangements of the work, the former engagements with Mr. H. G. Langley having terminated with the last (June) Number. See Prospectus of Vol. XVII., on the Cover

demption of the kindred duty to the memory of him whose name stands the next on the same page of glory with that of the Father of the Country. On the contrary, it should serve as a warning to us not to suffer the present auspicious season for the purpose to pass unimproved; nor leave to the colder sympathies and fainter memories of a succeeding generation, the performance of the duty which should spring from the fresh feelings and glowing gratitude of ours. Let the measures be duly organized for the erection of the statue we propose to Jackson, and we may depend upon it that Washington's will not be far behind; the same year, and perhaps the same day, would probably be made to witness the elevation of both of them to the pedestals from which they will for ages look forth on the land they both only lived to love, serve, and save. Indeed, there is strong reason to hope and believe that the next Congress will carry out the long deferred design of such a statue to Washington.. A resolution to that effect was reported by a Committee of the Senate, though the session adjourned without action upon it.

Marble is not the proper material for an equestrian statue designed for a situation involving exposure to the atmosphere. It should be bronze, imperishable bronze. It will be somewhat more costly, but it will be at the same time safely insured to carry down to our most distant posterity the form and features of the great old man. Seventyfive or a hundred thousand dollars will suffice for the purpose, though twice that amount could be well applied in increasing the size and improving the embellishment of the pedestal, &c., nor can there be any difficulty in raising by national subscription within the present year any amount that may be required. As a specimen of the spirit at once awakened by the suggestion, we may mention that on stating the plan to one of our old Democrats, a plain, retired old political soldier under the lead of the departed chief, he immediately offered the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars as his contribution to wards such a subscription-and we verily believe that he would have carried the offering, prompted by his overflowing heart, up to the half of his moderate fortune, had it been necessary.

And there are hundreds of such men, thus feeling, and thus ready to act, scattered throughout the country; thousands who would not willingly be denied the privilege of subscribing amounts considerable, though their circumstances might not permit them that of offering so large a sum as that above stated; and tens upon tens of thousands who would insist on the right to add to such a national subscription, for a statue to Jackson, at least some small saving from the earnings of their daily toil. It needs but to be started, with a proper organization, and under proper auspices to secure the confidence of the people in the safety and wise application of the fund thus collected, to ensure its prompt subscription, to any amount that may be desired.

We are glad to be able to state that it is in contemplation among some of our Democratic friends in New York to proceed without delay to establish the organization requisite for this purpose. The constitution of a committee of gentlemen, distinguished in character and position, whose names will afford the highest possible guaranty to the country, will probably be adopted, to originate and direct the movement. Placing itself in correspondence with their political friends in the other States, such a committee will either serve as the means of starting similar organizations in all the other States, each acting within its own; or, if judged most expedient, may itself remain the central committee of direction, through its correspondents and agents, to collect the subscriptions throughout the Union, and superintend the execution of the work, in accordance with what it may ascer tain to be the wishes of the majority of the subscribers. The latter would probably be the most efficient, prompt, and simple mode of carrying the plan into execution. We make this brief preliminary statement of it, in order to engage for it the attention of our friends throughout the country; to let them know that a suitable mode and opportu tunity will soon be afforded them, of aiding to realize this, which all will feel to be an object commanding at once the warm sympathy, and the deep interest of every friend to Jackson's principles, every lover of his virtues, every American admirer of his patriotism, services, and fame.

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