Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . enviable fame. The statue is a most faithful repre-sentation of the original. It is him as he lived. It is him as we knew him. In his life he hasleft us an immortal example, and his character will forever remain a model for posterity. [Ap-plause.] Address of Mr. Brooks. Hon. James Brooks, of New York, spoke as follows: It was appropriate that in unveiling a statue like this a democrat be given an opportunity toexpress for himself and his associates their common interest both
Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . enviable fame. The statue is a most faithful repre-sentation of the original. It is him as he lived. It is him as we knew him. In his life he hasleft us an immortal example, and his character will forever remain a model for posterity. [Ap-plause.] Address of Mr. Brooks. Hon. James Brooks, of New York, spoke as follows: It was appropriate that in unveiling a statue like this a democrat be given an opportunity toexpress for himself and his associates their common interest both in the man and in the memorialof the man. He who acted so foremost a part as Mr. Lincoln in that portion of our history, themost exciting and most perilous save that of our revolutionary era, is entitled not only to such amemorial as this, but to have it placed here, under the great dome of the Capitol. We have noParthenon, no Pantheon, no Vatican, no Museo Barbonico, no Pinakothek, no WestminsterAbbey, wherein to entomb our illustrious men, or to erect statues to their honor. Yet the time is 22 v4\ V f i;-(iA,^,,. damfo il?&aUton of (EI|nflt Snarrtption on rpuprac at^p: 3fram (6. (Uarft. AntintcUi to Ijia Uttlefrtpnb, iltaa Utuutp Seam. Ualiran. Sump, IBrn. _1 coming, nay, in part come, when this rotunda, and the surrounding halls and grounds will befilled with pictures, paintings, frescoes, statuary, bronzes, friezes, bas-reliefs, and other monumentsof the worlds memorable men. But in the work here that we are unveiling, is the double memorialof not only a chief magistrate, in the prime of life, foully shot down, but the memorial of a womanshandiwork—a womans plastic art. [Applause.] The Parthenon, the Vatican, the great museums of Paris, Berlin, and London, bring everto our eyes the works of some Phidias, or Praxiteles of antiquity, but they show us no marble monu-ments, busts, nor statues, the finger work of the fairer sex, while here in this rotunda we now seethe equal r
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