Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — The Lincoln Group. [ARTICLE]

The Lincoln Group.

Of the hundreds of thousands who halve gazed on the bronze group in the Capitol grounds at Washington, knoiyn as “Freedom’s Memori il,” representing Lincoln giving freedom to the slave, probably few know that the f ace of the kneeling negro is an accurate pertr lit of a fugitive slave, the last that was captured under civil law in Missouri. The negro was Archer Alexander, received, she tired, and finally res ued from ; slavery as er reeaptu l e by Mr. William G. Eliot, of St. Loui-, who was at that fme a member of the Western Sanitiry Comm ssion at that place. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.