Mr. COWAN. Perhaps so. AndImay here remark, in regard to that group which has been criticised, thutI think thatis the largest Colum bus and the smallest globe I ever saw in jux taposition. [Laughter] The squaw is a lusty looking wench. I do not know whether it is a good representation of a squaw or not, for I never saw many of them. In regard to the other group, I should like to ask my friendfrom Massachusetts if he ever saw so large a stump grow out of the bell of a dog as is there represented. [Laughteni Now, I think this young lady has given evidence ofQemarkable genius and remarkable perseverance in the way of her particular calling; and the best evidence this Congress has of it is the extraordinary excitementwhich she creates among the connoisseurs here. I am for patronizing native genius. I do not want any more Paradise Losts sold for 5 guineas. I do not want the Iliads of Homer to 0 down agpin to posterity without anybody nowing wh0 made them, and having 6 or 7 cities competing for the honor of giving birth to the author. lt the statuary of the Capitol is in bad taste let us improve it; and I do not know any other way than to employ this young lady, who manifests such extraordinary ability, to try her hand upon it; and I am rather inclined to think, from the few specimens I have seen of her work, that she will do it. She has not made a very handsome bust of Mr. Lincoln, but that was not her fault; it was Mr. Lincoln’s, because he was not a very handsome man. [Laughter.] He was a great and good man; but she could not be expected to make an Adonis of him; and I am rather inclined to think, after all, that that is the fault which has been attributed to her bust of Mr. Lincoln. My honorable friendfrom Michigan, in whose classic taste I have great confience, and of whose classic learning I am assured, says that it lacks life and spirit. I think I may appeal to my honorable friendfrom Illinois [Mr. YATES] and my friendfrom California, [Mr. MCDocoM.L, ] who will say that that is the very height of art in this young female artist in maing these busts, because it was a remarkable fact that, of all the men living who perhaps had more humor in him than anyone else, Mr. Lincoln was a man of the saddest face on earth. If it be true that she caught that peculiar expression of the man and put it into the bust, and his friends recognize that as a characteristic of that particular host, that is the highest evidence of) her genius. Therefore, Mr. President, I have come to the conclusion to vote for this resolution; and I do it from the considerations which I have mentioned; and I think they willjustify me in it. I have the highest respect for the opinions of my friendfrom Massachusetts [Mr. Sunxsn] upon all classical subjects, and particularly upon those which relate to most of the line arts; but in statuary I propose to follow the lead of my honorable friendfrom Ohio, Mr. WADE, ] who I think is infinitely superior. Laughter] I have always done so, and as it was a good lead I have come to the conclusion to follow it all the way through.