Oration delivered by Hon R.B. Elliott, April 16, 1872, at the celebration of the tenth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia

Robert Brown Elliott

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m -Vf:- OlRAflON: 1 ; BYPEIil^i^ltEi) 'A' 1. B. ELLIOTT,Ji APRIL 16, 187^, THEAT Tif,k. df 11 f|; 1 OF EMANCIPATION IN l^E DISTRIOT OF COLUMBIA. t>Wiii»i-: ,»., ^ WASHINGTON:^ fi. f'Ol-KINHORN po., j=>RINTERB,^ 1872. -4^-*-•:¥?? ..:??^ / ?•• :^ OKATION: BYDELIVERED B.HON. R. ELLIOTT, APRIL 16, 1873, AT THE I^TH AllVERSAR!OF TiCELEBH.VHi)N OF EMANCIPATION IN THE COLUMBIA.DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON: po.,^ ^RINTERS,ji. J^OLKINHORN 1872. TION.ORA Mil. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens: tbe Teiitl) Anniver-"We Lave assembled to celebrate in the District ofof the Abolition of Slavkkvsary derives its chief fromColumbia. This event signiticance the fact tiiat it was the forerunner of the Proclamation allof the 1st of January, 18G3, declaring personsday held as slaves in tlie States and of States then in }»arts "and that the Executiverebellion free, announcing tlieGovernment of tlie United States, including military and naval will and main-authorities thereof, recognize tain the freedom of said That Procla-persons." grand mation which came from the hand ofnot-unworthy Abraham the immortal of AmericanLincoln, martyr whose andEmancipation, benign never-to-be-forgotten a have enshrined incountenance, yondergrateful people monumental marble that seems to throb with the pulse of a as it looks down thissympatliy, upongenerous commemorative to-dav. Glorious man ! Thygatherinor name shall live tlie archives of a nationforever in saved, and in the hearts of a race redeemed.

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• Slaves

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• Langue: English

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