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at us, and it is attempted to scourge us beyond the range of human brotherhood, we may calmly point to the monument we have this day erected to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
  When Mr. Douglass concluded the band played "Sicilian Vespers," and the exercises were closed by Rev. J. P. Newman, who pronounced the benediction.
  The procession was re-formed, and the great crowd of people left the grounds and poured into the streets.  The procession returned along Tenth street southeast to Pennsylvania avenue, to B street, to First street northwest, to Indiana avenue, to City Hall.  After countermarching in front of the City Hall the line was disbanded.


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(COPY PETITION.)

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 7, 1876.

To the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled:

  The undersigned, your petitioners, respectfully represent to your honorable bodies that on the 14th day of April next, the same being the anniversary of the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia, and the anniversary of the assassination of him whose memory we seek to perpetuate a monument erected by the Freedmen of the country to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., will be inaugurated with appropriate ceremonies. 
  To the end that the ceremonies shall be such as to worthily represent the sentiments of gratitude felt by the people for the great event to be celebrated; and that the ceremonies may properly express the feelings of affection of the people for the memory of the martyr President, Abraham Lincoln, and that every one desiring may have an opportunity of enjoying the exercises, your petitioners humbly beg your honorable bodies to grant, by joint resolution, a general holiday to all persons employed in the several Departments of the Government in this city, on said fourteenth day of April next, and as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray, &c., &c.
  On behalf of Committee of Arrangements.

J.M. LANGSTON,
JOHN F. COOK,
JOHN H. BROOKS,
JOHN P. SAMPSON,
SOLOMON G. BROWN.