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membered in heaven when the gifts of those rich in this world's goods shall have passed away and been forgotten.

RECEIVING THE STATUE.
Professor Langston, when receiving the statue, said: "In behalf of our entire nation, in behalf especially of the donors of the fund with whose investment you and your associates of the 'Western Sanitary Commission' have been charged, I tender to you, sir, and through you to the commission our sincere thanks for the prompt and wise performance of the trust and duty committed to your care. The finished and appropriate work of art presented by you we accept and dedicate through the ages in memory and honor of him who is forever to be known in the records of the world's history as the emancipator of the enslaved of our country. We unveil it to the gaze, the admiration of mankind.

"Fellow-citizens, according to the arrangement of the order of exercises of this occasion it had fallen to my lot to unveil this statue which we dedicate to-day; but we have with use the President of the United States, and it strikes me that it is altogether fit and proper to now ask him to take part in the exercises as far as to unveil this monument."

THE UNVEILING.
President Grant advanced to the front of the stand. A moment passed in the deepest silence, but when the President pulled the cord and the flags fell away, and the bronze figures were exposed to view, the people burst into spontaneous applause and exclamations of admiration. To the noisy manifestations of admiration were added the booming of cannon and the strains of the band, which struck up "Hail to the Chief."

THE MONUMENT.
The monument stands on a granite pedestal ten feet in height, for which an appropriation was made by the last Congress. The martyred President is standing beside a monolith, upon which is a bust of Washington is bas relief. In his right hand he holds the proclamation, while his left is stretched over a slave, upon whom his eyes are bent, who is rising, and from whose limbs the shackles have just burst. The figure of the slave is that of a man worn by toil, with muscles hardened and rigid. He is represented as just rising from the earth, while his face is lighted with joy as he anticipates the full manhood of freedom. Upon the base of the monument is cut the word

"Emancipation." The figures are colossal, and the effect is grand. On the front, in bronze letters, the following inscription:
"FREEDOM'S MEMORIAL.
"In grateful memory of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, this monument was erected by the Western Sanitary Commission, of St Louis, Mo., with funds contributed solely by emancipated citizens of the United States, declared free by his proclamation, January 1, A.D. 1863.
"The first contribution of five dollars was made by Charlotte Scott, a freed woman of Virginia, being her first earnings in freedom, and consecrated by her suggestion and request, on the day she heard of President Lincoln's death, to build a monument to his memory."
On the reverse:
"And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God."

LETTERS.
Professor Langston said he had received a great many congratulatory communications. He read the two following:
LETTER FROM WM. STICKNEY.
WASHINGTON, April 12, 1876.
Mr. John M. Langston, chairman, &c.:
SIR: A slight indisposition, which has kept me house a few days past, prevented an earlier acknowledgment of your invitation to attend the inauguration of the statue of Lincoln, the 14th instant. Thanks for the invitation, which a pressure upon my time will prevent me from accepting. I honor the memory of the great man to be commemorated. The sentiment he uttered (I love to quote it) will glow with increasing brightness down the ages, as long as public virtue is honored and there remains a reverence for practical Christianity: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let is strive to finish the work we are in- to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and other nations."
May God help us to "strive on" till the consummation is fully attained.
With sincere respect, yours truly,
WM. STICKNEY.