L~N COLN LORE. Bulletin of the Lincoln National We Foundation ------Dr. Louis A. Warren, Editor Published each week by The Lincoln National life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana Number 608 FORT WAYNE, INDIANA December 2, 1940
THE EMANCIPATION GROUP BY THOMAS BALL
Tlu: heroic bronze statue of Abra~ fore him, a slave from whom the ders of the l?rovost Marshall of :-il. ham Lincoln by Thomas Ball has re -" hackles of oppression have been Louis. centl>• been given some prominence by hroken. The origiual statue made itt Some of the symbols incorporated its usc on a postage stamp which 1865 is in Italian marble. A photo· in the study are interesting. The made its appearance on October 20, graph of it token in Florence, lt.aly, President stands beside a monolith on 1U40, to commemorate the seventy h; in the Foundation collection. There which there is a closed hook, and in a marble study of this group ex fifth anniversary of the passing of os his hand resting on the monolith is the thirteenth amendment t.o the Con· hibited in the second floor corridor a sc.rolJ representing the Emaucipa tititution. of the New York Public Library. tion Proclamation. A whipping post This was a much more imJ>Ortant 'l'he bronze group at Washington, entwined by a rose vine, with thf• anniversary than might be implied a later study by Ball, ditre,·s slightly bondseL·vant's garment partly obscur from the little attention that was ing it, symbolizes its passing and the J>aid to it, but unfortunately it came disuse of the ball and chain and in the midst of a political campaign. Thirteenth Amendment Prellmi.naric~; whips which lie at its base. On tht.· Not only wel'e four million men lib :)ide of the monolith in relief is a crated from slavery by the amend 'fhe (o1Jowin.. c:bronoJoaieal t.uble roco1·d,. profile of George Washington. lhG ovont.e wbic:.n v«~fae('d lh• r~W~Inl' ol the ment but the paasage of the Emanci thirteenth 1Uttendm4!nt. 'l'he COl)t of the monument was ll&tion Act was a significant and IbiS $18,000 and Congress authorized the epochal event in the annals of consti Duc:mbt.r 8. Pruidt.Jtt. Lincoln I'OUlliuau. expenditure of $3,000 additional for tutional government. "'the Grut C,;on•ununallun" (Uih Amend· the ba.e and pedestal. It was dedi· 111f'nl) ln M"'aAI'C to Conareu. An amendment, the twel!Lh, tQ the cated on April 14, 1876, the eleventh Otoc:t.nabta• 11. Amtildmcnt. bill lnlrOdu«Cl in (.;onstitution of tho United States, lbe Uo1a0 by A.ahley. and a Jotol reeolutJon anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's '':as made in 1804, five years befol'e on ant\!nd1nent •ubmittM br Wilton. assassination. The principal speaker on the occasion was Frederick Doug· Abraham Lincoln was born. He Hvcd 18,~ hi• whole lifetime of fifty·six yeat·• lass son of a slave and a famous col January 11. Hcndcrton »••&~