Show A monument to whittler it may not bo out of place to suggest that if there is auy american poet who deserves the statue of a man of action not the seated or half recumbent effigy of the thinker or philosopher but the figure in bronze standing in the attitude of intellectual combat with the world that poet is whittier no figure it would seem could more readily inspire the sculptor especially if the man bo taken in the prime of his life every one who has described him at that epoch has left an account of a most impressive personality colonel T W higginson saw in him at 35 a man of striking personal appearance tall slender olive complexion black hair straight black eyebrows brilliant eyes and an oriental semitic cast of countenance not an ill moment for the sculptors consideration would bo that of whit tiers appearance at the antislavery convention at philadelphia in 1833 when according to mr J miller mckim who was with him his figure with his dark frock coat with standing collar black flashing eyes and black beard was noticeable and if it bo objected that it should bo the poet and not the agitator who would be thus represented tho answer may surely bo made that tho ethical basis was never lacking whit tiers verse and that it is as the poet moving his fellow countrymen by his works to homaner feelings that this poet at least should bo depicted J E chamberlin Chamber liu in atlantic |