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The Board of Directors are gratified to state that this appeal has met with a hearty and generous response from one of their own number. JAMES H. LUCAS, Esq., one of the most highly respected citizens of St. Louis, and to whose enterprise much of its prosperity is due, has declared his intention of building and endowing an Observatory, on a large and national scale, at an estimated cost of two hundred thousand dollars. For a work of such magnitude several years will, of course, be requisite, in order to its successful completion, but a beginning will be made at the earliest day practicable.

It is an interesting coincidence that Sir ISAAC NEWTON was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. No better augury could be desired in the establishment of the LUCAS OBSERVATORY OF ST. LOUIS.

The Observatory buildings will not be erected on land now belonging to the University. A beautiful and commanding site, containing twenty acres, has been set apart for the purpose by Mr. LUCAS, and will be used, unless some more suitable place can be found.

THE STATUE OF WARREN.*

MR. PRESIDENT,—

ON behalf of a committee of the directors of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, I have the honor to surrender to you, as the President of that body, yonder marble statue of General Joseph Warren, who laid down his life for his country on this spot, eighty-two years ago this day. In this act of grateful commemoration, we do but pay an earlypromised, long-deferred tribute of affection and respect to one of the most zealous champions and efficient promoters of American liberty and independence—the first distinguished victim in the cause. As far as it is in our power, we wipe off the reproach which has rested upon us for two generations. As early as the 8th of April, 1777, it was ordered by the Continental Congress, that a monument should be erected to the memory of General Warren in the town of Boston, and to the memory of General Mercer in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The marble of which these monuments are to be erected has not yet been quarried. In 1794, the members of King Solomon's Lodge of Masons in Charlestown, erected on the summit of Bunker Hill a Tuscan column, in honor of General Warren and his brave associates in arms. The property of the spot on which this monument stood was, by the donation of the Hon. James Russell, vested in the Lodge, and was ceded by them to the Bunker Hill Monument Association in 1825, on condition that some trace of their early patriotic effort should be preserved within the

An Address, delivered on Bunker Hill, on the 17th of June, 1857, on occasion of the Inauguration of the Statue of General Joseph Warren.

more appropriate and permanent monument which the Association were about to erect. This pledge was fully redeemed in 1845, by allowing the Lodge to place within the obelisk an exact copy in marble of the original monument and of the inscriptions upon it.

At the celebration of the anniversary of the battle, in 1850, three quarters of a century after the great event, it occurred to a generous and patriotic citizen present,-whose heart and hand were ever open to the calls of public spirit or benevolence, the late Thomas Handasyd Perkins, that the time had come when the duty of erecting some permanent memorial of General Warren ought no longer to be neglected, and a contribution of one thousand dollars was liberally offered by him for this purpose. This offer, contained in a letter to the late lamented Dr. John C. Warren, was referred to a committee of the directors of the Bunker Hill Monument Association; by whom, after due consideration, a marble statue, to be executed by some American artist, was recommended as the most suitable form of the memorial. This recommendation was adopted by the directors, was approved by Colonel Perkins, and has been carried into effect by his generous subscription and the contributions of other liberal benefactors. The work was confided, in conformity with the expressed wish of Colonel Perkins, to Mr. Henry Dexter, of Cambridgeport, a meritorious, self-taught American artist, who, in its execution, has united the sympathetic ardor of the patriot with the conscientious zeal of the sculptor. He has adopted the original portrait of Warren, by Copley, as the basis of his likeness, and has no doubt attained as perfect a resemblance of the youthful hero as it is now in the power of the art to produce. In his presence, and that of his work, it would be alike superfluous and indelicate to enlarge upon its merits. There it stands, let it speak for itself. I perform the last pleasing and honorable duty of the committee for procuring the statue, in now transferring it to your official possession, and placing it, through you, in the permanent custody of the Bunker Hill Monument Association.

The performance of this pleasing and honorable duty is

not unattended with sadness. In the interval of seven years, which have elapsed since the work was proposed, its first and greatest benefactor has passed away, and with him the other earliest and largest contributors to the statue, our late respected and liberal fellow-citizens, John Welles and Samuel Appleton, and the two noble brother patrons of every publicspirited and philanthropic undertaking, Amos and Abbott Lawrence. One half of the cost of the statue was defrayed by these five departed benefactors, the residue is the more recent donation of living contributors. The pedestal of beautiful American verde antique is the contribution of the family of the late Dr. Warren. For whatever of interest there is in this occasion-for whatever of satisfaction we enjoy, in seeing the first beloved and youthful victim in the cause of American liberty restored to us in enduring marble, we are indebted, in the first place, to the large-hearted, warmhearted men whose names I have repeated. They have all passed away; and with them has also passed away another honored associate, the friend of nearly half a century, who would have enjoyed a silent but intense gratification in this day's proceedings, the nephew of General Joseph Warren, the late lamented Dr. John C. Warren, whose warm and active interest in the commemoration of the 17th of June, 1775, transcending the limits of name and kindred, led him to consecrate the strenuous exertions of more than thirty years, not merely to the erection of the monument, but to the illustration of all the memories that cluster around Bunker Hill. And may it be permitted to me, sir, as the only survivor of the first committee appointed to procure subscriptions in 1825, and of the executive committee clothed with the full powers of the directors, in the construction of the work, to state, that among all the zealous, persevering, and judicious friends of the Bunker Hill Monument, there was none who from first to last contributed more effectively to its successful prosecution and final completion than Dr. John C. Warren.

Nor let it be thought, sir, that in erecting the statue of General Joseph Warren and bestowing the honors of this

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day exclusively upon him, we forget the services of the great men of whatever rank, who partook, with like courage and patriotic devotion, the perils of the ever memorable 17th of June, 1775, whether with him they gave their lives to the country, or survived for other fields of danger and other calls of duty. To honor, without attempting to enumerate or compare their names, to mark to the latest generation the spot where they stood side by side through the live-long hours of that anxious, toilsome night and that tremendous day, and braved in their most terrible form, and most of them for the first time, the perils of the battle, is the object of the time-defying work which crowns the hill on which we stand. It commemorates no individual man or State. stands indeed on the soil of Massachusetts, where the battle was fought; but there it stands equally for Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, and the younger sisters of the New England family, Vermont and Maine, whose troops shared with ours the dangers and honors of the day. It stands for Prescott and Warren, but not less for Putnam, and Stark, and Greene. No name adorns the shaft; but ages hence, though our alphabets may become as obscure as those which cover the monuments of Nineveh and Babylon, its uninscribed surface, (on which monarchs might be proud to engrave their titles,) will perpetuate the memory of the 17th of June. It is the monument of the day, of the event, of the battle of Bunker Hill; of all the brave men who shared its perils,-alike of Prescott and Putnam and Warren,the chiefs of the day, and the colored man, Salem, who is reported to have shot the gallant Pitcairn as he mounted the parapet. Cold as the clods on which it rests, still as the silent heavens to which it soars, it is yet vocal, eloquent, in their undivided praise. Till the ponderous and well-compacted blocks of granite, which no force but that of an earthquake will heave from their bearings, shall fall asunder, it will stand to the most distant posterity a grand, impartial illustration-nature's own massive lithography-of the noble page, second to no other in the annals of America, on which

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