{"id":138,"date":"2023-07-12T18:31:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=138"},"modified":"2023-07-12T18:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:31:25","slug":"the-vandalized-statue-of-william-pitt-published-mar-16-1884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/the-vandalized-statue-of-william-pitt-published-mar-16-1884\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vandalized Statue of William Pitt [published Mar. 16, 1884]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"147\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/williampitt.jpg?resize=147%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We haven&#8217;t got many relics of the past in New York. Gotham hasn&#8217;t got much reverence for antiquity. Not half as much as Boston has or Philadelphia, but then Philadelphia and Boston are \u201cold\u201d fogy places anyway, compared to New York, which is essentially \u201cnew\u201d and \u201clive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But in the old Fifth Ward Hotel, as it was called, there was, less than thirty years ago, a relic of bygone days which had a history of its own. It wasn&#8217;t much of a relic to look at, bein\u2019 only a battered piece of carved stone, but such as it was, it was once important enough to have a \u201cgeneral order\u201d issued from a great general about it, and it was town talk in its time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A little while before I saw the relic it was covered with rubbish and dirt from a torn down buildin\u2019 in Water street. It had been put into shape as far as possible and had been put up in a little garden or back yard in the rear of a store in Water street, where it was visited by the curious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the men connected with the Water street store conceived the idea of makin\u2019 a little money out of this bit of stone, and of chargin\u2019 a dime to see it. But the idea didn&#8217;t work. When people can see a whole Bowery Museum, \u201cgenuine\u201d albinos, made to order wholesale; tattooed Greek sailors,\u201d who have always lived in Hester street or thereabouts and never saw Greece or the sea, except on the way to Coney Island, in their lives; when they can see these and \u201cdouble-headed nightingales\u201d and get roped into a \u201cskin game\u201d beside all, for a dime, men weren&#8217;t goin\u2019 to pay ten cents to see one old defaced relic, even if it had some \u201chistory\u201d connected with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tracin\u2019 the course of this relic backwards, I find that before it was set up in the yard back of the Water Street store, it had been for a while in the possession of Ball Hughes, the Sculptor, who \u201ctouched it up\u201d and tried some of the De Cesnola business, I suppose, to make the old thing look as near like its original self as he could, considerin\u2019, of course, he had never seen the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Goin\u2019 backwards another step, the old relic to which I allude had been lyin\u2019 around the corporation yard among a lot of other curious odds and ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When originally brought to the corporation yard the relic of which I write, which was the statue of a great English statesman, had its head on it; but after knockin\u2019 about the corporation yard the statue did what its original never did, lost its head. This head originally was a separate piece of stone fastened to the body by an iron rod. But the rod got loose from the body, and so, in course of time, the head got lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A good many \u201cstatesmen\u201d and politicians learn to get along as well without their heads as with \u2018em, but this rule don&#8217;t apply to their statues, and the loss of the top-piece prevented any attention bein\u2019 paid to the rest of the body till Ball Hughes, the sculptor, came long and tried to restore the statue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Goin\u2019 backwards one step farther, I find that nobody knew exactly what became of the statue for several years before it got to the corporation yard. It was simply \u201cmissin\u2019.\u201d It had, like many livin\u2019 men, disappeared from its first and original position, which was on a pedestal in Wall street, not far from where the Washington statue now stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For the relic I have been alludin\u2019 to was the statue of the celebrated English statesman, William Pitt, who was always friendly to America when it was only a colony of Great Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By an act of the old Colonial Legislature of New York a Robert Charles, Esq., and a Sir Charles Baker were authorized to pay for two statues, to be set up in the streets of New York, as emblems of admiration for an allegiance to the mother country. These two statues were those of King George III and William Pitt. These had been ordered by a previous legislature, but there had been some trouble about the funds necessary. But an appropriation bein\u2019 made afterwards, the statues were paid for and put up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The statue of King George III was placed on the Bowling Green and Pitt was put. as just before stated, in Wall street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There was quite a time over the puttin\u2019 up of those two statues. A lot of the statesmen and politicians of the day made \u201cbuncombe\u201d speeches over \u2018em, and some of the heads of our present first families were conspicuous in their \u201cgush\u201d over these \u201cconnectin\u2019 links,\u201d as they called \u2018em, \u201cbetween the old world and the new.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But the public of New York generally didn&#8217;t share in this enthusiasm. And the two statues had hardly been set up before they were defaced and mutilated. A great deal of indignation was expressed over their defacements and mutilations, and a watch was kept over the statues. But the constables of old New York didn&#8217;t propose to do any more work than they were paid for doin\u2019, and so went to sleep comfortably at night. And it was at night that all the defacin\u2019 was done, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Finally a law was passed imposin\u2019 a fine of one hundred pounds on anybody caught mutilatin\u2019 these two works of \u201chigh\u201d art, the offender to be imprisoned till the fine was paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But the fine might as well have been made a thousand pounds, for all the effect it had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You can&#8217;t stop public sentiment in this, or for that matter in any other country, by a fine, and in point of fact, the injuries inflicted on the statues increased instead of diminishin\u2019 after the fine was proclaimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is an interestin\u2019 fact that the leadin\u2019 Americans of all parties, the \u201crebels\u201d as well as the \u201croyalists,\u201d were opposed to the mutilation of these two statues. General Washington himself, when he was in military command of New York, issued a general order forbiddin\u2019 any one defacin\u2019 them under heavy penalties. He looked upon \u2018em as works of art, and didn&#8217;t exactly see in his cold, calm way, what good would come of hackin\u2019 two pieces of senseless stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But the people of New York in this respect differed from their great leader. The statue of George III, in the old Bowling Green was destroyed by a mob, and the statue of Pitt was torn down and carted away one night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Its subsequent career and misadventures have been described in this chapter, and it shows how soon big things become little, when a bit of stone which was once town talk and the subject of \u201claws\u201d and \u201cmilitary orders,\u201d became an almost forgotten curiosity in an obscure tavern yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We haven&#8217;t got many relics of the past in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifacts","category-revolutionary-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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