People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — NEW LINCOLN STATUE. [ARTICLE]

NEW LINCOLN STATUE.

Memorial to Scottish-American SoMlera of the Civil War Unveiled at Bdtnburgh. Edinburgh, Ang. 22.—The statue of Abraham Lincoln, erected as a memorial to the Scottish-American, soldiers of the American civil war, was unveiled here Monday in the presemice of the municipal authorities, many distinguished guests, a number of Americans and a large crowd of residents of Edinburgh, including most of the elite of the town and people from the surrounding country. The statue, which is of bronze, stands upon a base of polished red granite. Upon the surbase sits a freed slave in bronze, his face upturned to Lincoln, who holds in hisrighthand the emancipation proclamation. Several battle flags also in bronze lie beneath the outstretched left hand of the slave. The monument is erected in the cemetery set apart for the burial of ScottishAmerican soldiers, a handsome plot of ground in Calton Bill cemetery which, was given for the purpose by the town council. Sir William Arrol, the builder of the great Forth bridge, and Consul at Edinburgh Wallace ; Bruce, the “Poet of the Hudson,” de- ! iivered the oration.