Show lincoln tribute to commemorating a famous toto ilo battle seventy tareo year years reo A status of abraham lyneo A unveiled at freeport ill scene cn 0 the ih lincoln dougl debate eo elk august IT 27 1168 out of the misu mists of the past the majestic Jestic na figure of abraham lincoln the ck later emerge 1 in bronie bronz on august 27 2 basl to take its rightful place in freeport the city which he be maile wade a landmark in american bistu j y in ills tits memorable morable cac debate with stephen A douglas august 27 1 in the presence of a throng throns far in to excess of the IS people who crowded into freeport freeport seventy one o years before an heroic statue of Alora aad liam lincoln was unveiled in to tint that city the great crowd that made its pilgrimage to freeport on that occasion nus unlike that of seventy severity one years before then the renter greater part were farmers and plain folk mer the issue of 1 cry ery which they came to bear clari clarl ced fel last I ast year the throng came to pay tribute to the greatness rent grent ness of lincoln of particular interest was wits a Ten erable group of men and women whose enviable distinction was that the y had heard one or more of the demates between lincoln and doug laa las in to the summer ind fall of 1858 also conspicuous la the poop group of visitors vas as an official delegation from the legislature ct wisconsin then in session which unanimously adopted a resolution to end send a delegation to the unveiling the statue which Is a gift to freeport by IV T raleigh prominent mapu manufacturer facture is the first statue of its und kind and the first one to mark one of the seven debate epos sms of the lincoln douglas cam it represent represents lincoln in the earlier period of life before he wore vore a board bud sad when in bis his trung mil manhood it stands in a jaural letting setting ot of trees in taylor park |