Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-27
NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT

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Special efforts are now being made to
raise the necessary funds for the erection
of 4 monument at Washington in honor OF
Abraham Lincoln. Congress has already
given over 800, 900 worth of captured can
non and metal of which to make the bronze
figures of the monument. the entire cost
of which is estimated at at $200,000 The
National Memorial Association have
agreed to combine their funds, upon GER
tain conditions, with the National Lincoln
Monument Association, and as wide
reaching sympathetic organization has beea
effected, by which it is believed the need
ed funds may be raised. The special
friends of two of the gentlemen whose
statues are to accompany the monument
have expressed their willingness to defray
the entire expense of the statutes, SO that
there is only the granite foundation, the
column, and the current expenses to be
provided for The nation owes to is mar
tyred President and to itself this memoir
al, a description of which we find in a PAM
phlet recently issued.
The pedestal will be of granite, and the
figures of bronze. The whole structure will
be seventy feet in height, OF Il triangular form,
with truncated angles. Growing the main
column is colossal statue of Abraham Lin
coin, represented in the act of signing the
emancipation proclamation. Six equestrian
statues of the chief generals, whose valor
contributed To the preservation of the Union,
will be poised on bastions thrown out from
the base OF the angles. These have been Sc
lected, namely Grant, Sherman, Thomas,
Shei idan, Howard, and Tadsworth.
On the second section, grouped about the
middle of the monument, are twenty-one CO.
lossal statues of statesmen, philanthropists.
and civilians who stood by Lincoln through
the dark days of the repetition. Among these
The War Minister Stanton, the strong right
arm OF the President during his entire admin
istration; w. ii. Seward, who, throughout
that critical period, saved the country from
foreign Intervention, and maintained peace
with all nations; and Salmon L. Chase, whose
rare financial ability created a currency, and
sustained the country's credit through all the
trying years of the rebellion
| The Christian Commission will be reprc-
scented in the person of George Ii. Stuart, its
! chairman, ana The SANITARY Commission in the
person Of DR., Bellows, president OF the East
ern Commission, and j. +. Waterman, presi-
dent Of the Western. These followed our
brave defend RS into the field, the camp, and.
the hospital, carried to the bedside substantial
evidence OF the love and gratitude of the coun
try, and thus restored TO the ranks thousands
OF courageous soldiers, imparting to the army
and nation, in the shape of material charity,
the priceless wealth of moral power.
The loyal pulpit will be represented by those
distinguished and patriotic divines, Bishop
Simpson and Henry Ward Beecher, whose
spirit-s,irring appeals rang through the land
and stirred the inhabitants to deeds of heroic
valor.
On the third section will be three historical
figures, one on each corner OF the monument,
the first representing the American private
soldier-his country's boast, his country's
| trust--the second representing the noble part