as the white man, they will make
statues and set them up in public; and as we who are white
make black statues, they who are black will of course make
white statues.

"Can anybody say what sin Dr. Jenner committed for which he
does perpetual penance, not in white, but in black, his face
black and his hands too, seated in the most public part of
London, fixed to his chair, with no hope of rising from it?

"This seated figure might be anybody. I see nothing by which
I recognize Dr. Jenner; to say nothing of a cow, there is
not even a calf by his side, with the benevolent physician's
hand on the animal.

"I cannot approve of a seated black statue in the open
air--a black man sitting, and no more.

"I sincerely pity our seated gentlemen in London, poor
Cartwright, who looks like an old cobbler on his stool, and
Fox, worse treated still, blanket-dressed, fat and black. No
wonder some shortsighted man from the new Confederate States
once took Fox for a negro woman, the emblem of British
philanthropy and a memorial of the abolition of the slave
trade.

"The only beasts on which we can now place our heroes are
horses. I may be wrong in my opinion, but I see no beauty in
a horse standing still and a man's legs dangling down from
the beast's back; nor do I think that the matter is mended
by the horse and rider being of colossal size, though they
ought to be larger than life. Perhaps we shall not have any
more of these statues; but is it impossible to remove those
that we have?

"As we are a fighting people, we have been great makers of
statues of fighting men. We put them even in churches. This
reminds that when the time shall come for finishing and
adorning the inside of St. Paul's, there will be an enormous
quantity of old stone to dispose of, which is now in the
shape of generals, captains, admirals, lions and other
animals.

"It is singular, or it is not singular, I can't say which,
that we who box, wrestle, run and in many ways work our
bodies, more than any other nation, have not employed our
sculptors to immortalize our athletic heroes. Some of them
would make good subjects for the artist. He might strip the
boxer or runner naked, if he liked, and exhibit his art in
the representation of strength and bea