The proposed statue will be colossal in size and of bronze in construction, with outstretched arm, typifying a greeting from the primal American to the people of all other nations.
That might be well represented by “Samoset,” illustrating the finer, better traits of the Indian, when he cried out a “Welcome, Englishmen” to the strangers who were landing.
I have dwelt so much on this theme that I’m actually confusing the real Indian with a wooden statue. Never mind. Did you know that Schiller wrote an Indian Death song?
I’ll quote a few verses:
“Well for him! he’s gone his ways,
Where are no more snows;
Where the fields are decked with maize
That unplanted grows;
Where with beasts of chase each wood,
Where with bird each tree,