264 Architecture in the United States. 
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E to more than 120 religeuse, 
toa large number of physicians and surgeons, 
mage toa Tunisian Rais, 
Sets who respected the gift 
which a Pope made to the distressed.” 
~ What incentives to noble feeling may be gathered-from that sim- 
ple pillar.. Let us come home now. Philadelphia was visited about 
thirty years since, by a plague equal in its horrors and ravages to 
any on record; has it any public tribute to the courage and magna- 
nimity of those men who stood,:thinking only of others, amid its ap- 
palling scenes? Rush has gone down full of honors to the grave ; the 
rést will soon follow. _ What a lesson of gratitude for present health, 
and of human virtue bold, firm and triumphant in danger, might 
‘be taught there on a monument, even of the plainest and simplest kind. 
- [have a word more on public monuments. Congress once pass 
“ed a vote requesting the remains of Washington, that they might 
erect a cenotaph over them.- The family, though in-deep affliction 
at their still recent loss, granted the request :—nothing further has been 
done. ‘I will make no comment and will pass the disgraceful mattet 
by. They who say, as has been said in Congress, that the whole na- 
‘tion; or the whole world is the cenotaph of Washington, utter sent- 
ments too fine for our earthly senses; they should offer it to ethereal 
beings, for it is like the gauze of ancient Cos,—woven-wind. 
[shall speak-of the architecture of arches and columns and obe- 
lisks, at another time : at present their position is the object to be 
discussed. Such objects always appear best on-high ground,’ and 
‘Situations should there be reserved for them. We may not desire 
them now but other generations will: let us shew regard to their wants 
‘and ‘interests: we are fond enough of making our boast of the 
_ ture: let us shew that we are proud of it, by giving it reason to be 
ene 
_ Fountains will do very well on lower ground. They are so rate 
among us that the reader will be startled at the name. Baltimore I 
‘ _ believe has two natural fountains : Philadelphia had formerly @ hand- 
_ Some jet in Market street, and I still recollect what cheerful feelings 
‘Feport of it mingled ‘with: my early ideas of that city: but, I be- 
