mory, but which, upon reflection, was appropriated to building
the Shaw School at Charleston, S. C. And yet all these sums sink into
insignificance when compared to that contributed by the negro soldiers
to the erection of a monument to the memory of President Lincoln, at the
capitol of the nation; seventeen hundred of them gave _ten thousand
dollars_. But let the record speak for itself, for it is only a people's
patriotism that can do such things:

CORRESPONDENCE AND STATEMENTS OF JAMES E. YEATMAN,

PRESIDENT OF THE WESTERN SANITARY COMMISSION, RELATIVE
TO THE EMANCIPATION MONUMENT.

"ST. LOUIS, April 26th, 1865.

"_James E. Yeatman, Esq._:

"MY DEAR SIR; A poor negro woman, of Marietta, Ohio, one of
those made free by President Lincoln's proclamation,
proposes that a monument to their dead friend be erected by
the colored people of the United States. She has handed to a
person in Marietta five dollars as her contribution for the
purpose. Such a monument would have a history more grand and
touching than any of which we have account. Would it not be
well to take up this suggestion and make it known to the
freedmen?

"Yours truly, T. C. H. SMITH."

Mr. Yeatman says:

"In compliance with General Smith's suggestion I published
his letter, with a card, stating that any desiring to
contribute to a fund for such a purpose, that the Western
Sanitary Commission would receive the same and see that it
was judiciously appropriated as intended. In response to his
communication liberal contributions were received from
colored soldiers under the command of General J. W.
Davidson, headquarters at Natchez, Miss., amounting in all
to $12,150. This was subsequently increased from other
sources to $16,242."

"MARIETTA, OHIO, June 29th, 1865.

"_Mr. James E. Yeatman, President Western Sanitary Commission, St. Louis_:

"MY DEAR SIR: I have learned, with the greatest
satisfaction, through Brigadier-General T. C. H. Smith and
the public press that you are devoting your noble energies
in giving tone and direction to the collection and
appropriation of a fund for the erection of the Freedmen's
National Monument, in honor and memory of the benefactor and
savior of their race.

"The general also informs me