Show A tribute to lincoln in the exposition grounds at chicago will stand a model in wood covered with to represent stone of a monument which is ia to be ba of granite and stand in aprin sprin springfield field ills it is ia to be the tribute of the colored people of tile the united states to their liero hero patron abraham 11 a in lincoln i the baso base will rise four feet from the ground and lie thirty six feet square end and f from rom I 1 the lie center of this baso base tho the monument will liae iise seventy feet and be surmounted by a life size eizo figure of a colored soldier around the monument aro are pedestals resting on the base for eight bronze icat tie aes ues so each ei eight bt feet high and representing abraham lincoln frederick doug V ii ti 17 I 1 emancipation BION I 1 I 1 lass ass charles summer Su inner robert drown crown elliott john brown Brownl Vendell phillips owen lovejoy and william lloyd garrison the tha total height seventy four feet represents the years of slavery under tho the constitution 1789 1803 many inscriptions commemorate comme morato various incidents connected with slavery and emancipation ci cj the bronzo bronze statues will ivill be set upon the monument model at tho the world s fair and will art afterward orward bu be transferred to tho the permanent monument at springfield tho the selection of subjects for tho the statues lias has been made in ide by hon S 31 cullom Cul loin of illinois lion hon robert smalls south carolina lion flon william 13 allison iowa hou hon john K R lynch 1 sippi lion john J ingalls kansas and colonel robert G ingersoll governor pifer fifer and senator cullum of illinois fern aru tho the trustees of funds and dr george W bryant the commissioner general of the association is na nov in boston at SO 09 charles street to whom subscriptions for the tha monument may bo be len ant L 9 D S |