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to the colored troops under his command, in the Department of N[[obscured]] the 6th colored heavy artilery Col: J.P. Coleman, which responded by the generous gift of $4,242, and also before the 70th U.S. Colored Infty. Col: W.C. Earle", by which the sum of $2,949.50 was contributed, an average, in the two regiments of about five dollars to every man. These sums have been sent to the West. San. Com. with request that a Freedmens Lincoln Monument be erected at Washington City. That point has been selected not only as the seat of Government, but because it is the place where the work of emancipation began, and where the last deadly blow of the slave power was struck. On the spot where Freedoms best defender fell, let his name and the cause for which he died be most highly honored, upon the monument of Americas Representative man, at the Nations Capital, let his own immortal words be inscribed by the hands of liberated bondsmen, If Slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong. In view of these facts & cordially approving the plan, the Western Sanitary Commission at St Louis Mo. offers its services to receive such funds as may be contributed, and account for them without any expounce [[expense]] whatever, so that every dollar may go directly to the end proposed. Wherever the sum of $50,000, shall have been received, the Commission, will publicly announce

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I did not include in the text the script written at top between two pages (continues in next page). No idea why other transcriber didn't bother, so I added ignored text