Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-10
Proposed Monuments by COIOred Cit

Proposed Monuments by COlOred Cit
liens.
The name of Abraham Lincoln will be
treasured by the colored citizens Of the
United States to the latest generation, and
two Monuments to his memory have been
set on foot by them that should be liberal
ly supported and successfully prosecuted.
The first is the Colored Peoples Eduea-
tional Monument by the NATIONAL Lincoln
Monument Association, organized in
Washington, April 25th, 1865. The Off
GERS of the Association are Rev. IL. H.
Garnet, President; James Wormly, Vice
President; Stephen Smith, Philadelphia,
Treasurer Walker Lewis, Washington,
Assistant Treasurer; Lewis A. Bell, Re
cording Secretary; VIM. J. Wilson, Cor
responding Secretary. There is a Resident
Board Of Directors in Washington Direc-
tors in most of the States-for Ohio, Peter
II. Clark, Cincinnati-Yice President also
for Ohio, David jenkins, Columbus
The Life Directors include such men as
Hon. Charles Sumner, Hon. Gerrit Smith,
Gen. VIM. Duane Wilson, Right Rev.
Daniel A. Payne, Rev. J. w. Lougen,
Rev. d. w. Anderson, Major M. r. De-
lany, and other philanthropists of note.
THE Association is for the sole purpose
of erecting a Colored Peoples National
Monument to the Memory of Abraham
Lincoln, and the claims of the truly noble
object and ambition are set forth in the
following short, vigorous
APPEAL.
This Association now appeals earnestly
to IA loyal public without distinction of
| color, to exert all their influence towards
the accomplishment of this p
namely: The erection of u colOred peo-
pies monument in memory of our late
beloved President, Abraham Lincoln;
said monument to be a seat of
learning, dedicated to God, to Literature,
and to the Arts and Sciences, and shall be
held and appropriated for the education
| of the children of freemen and freedmen,
and their descendants forever, and to be
called 'FThe National Lincoln Monumental
Institutc,n to be located in the District OF
| Columbia.
The Association most earnestly solic1ts
contributions from the friends of the ever
to-be-lamented Chief Magistrate and the
friends Of progress everywhere, for. this
noble undertaking. monument not of
marble or of brass, but a monument of
Education. Marble may crumble, brass
may tarnish, but the light of learning is as
enduring as time.
Deeply sensible, therefore, THAT in no
other way can the people of color so well
p%erpetuste the memory of Abraham Lin
coin as by carrying out, in this manner,
thegreat aim he Ind in yiew-thee elevation
of their race throughout the land-this
Association confidently relies upon the
hearty cooperation of all the true friends
Of the venerated dead.
Churches, Sabbath-sehools, Easonic and
Odd Fellows Societies, Benevolent and
other Associations especially of col
ored persons, verywbere, and regi-
ments, officers and soldiers, all are
most earnestly called upon TO contribute
in aid of this work.
The National Lincoln Monument Asso-
citation is a permanency; the Monument
will be built; its light will be spread
abroad.
This Association, then, invites all to
come up to its help, and thus assist in diff
.fusing that light, and making IL venerated
name imperishable'
Friends, North, South, Eastand West let
your responses to this appeal be speedy,
and equal to the occasion which calls them
forth.
The second proposed Monument to the
memory of Lincoln was a humber origin,
but is none the less heartfelt. Soon after
the assassination of the President, Char
lotte Scott, of Marietta, Ohio, Il colored
woman and former slave in Virginia.
handed five dollars to Rev. G. D. Bat I
telle, to be applied towards rearing a mon
ument to Mr.. Lincoln's memory, saying
she thought many coiored persons would
be delighted to contribute to such an OBJ
ject, adding with abundant tears: "The
cOlored people have lost their bestfriend."
The incident was noticed in the Marietta
Register, and soon other contributions
were added from colored persons in the
Kanawha Valley.
The good work, so humbly and sincere
ly begun, did not stop here. TheSt. Louis
Democrat copied the paragraph, and Jas.
B. Yeatman, a wealthy gentleman of that
city, and President of the Sanitary Com
mission in st. Louis during the war, gave
the project his endorsement through the
Democrat. This reached some of the col
ored regiments in the field, and in a short
time Mr.. Yeatman received S4,2O from a
colored regiment at Vicksburg, to be added
to Charlotte SCOTS fivel From another
colored regiment came So, 200; then from
a colored battery s5OOl Other contribu-
ions followed, and officers wrote Mr.. Y.
that their only trouble was to keep colored
soldiers from giving too much. Their
greenback was not withheld, but the
officers limited subscriptions to S. each.
The Register says:
This walked up Mr.. Yeatman with great
eurnestness, and in company with DR.. W.
g. Elliott and Wayman Crow, ESQ, prom
lent and wealthy citizens of st. Louis,
are making arrangements, both west
and east, to carry out Charlotte SCOTS no.
bic thought into complete execution, by
obtaining subscriptions and erecting a
magnificent monument in Washington, as
the offering of the colored people of the
land, to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
What could so appropriately adorn the
grounds of the Colored Peoples Educa-
ional Monument in the Capital of Free
America, as the Charlotte Scott offering to
.ho Memory of Liucoln? Both-History
md Honor-and Foreverl
The American Board.