STATUE OF LINCOLN.

The unvailing of the statue of Lincoln took place in Lincoln Square, Washington, on Friday. The original cost of the monument, $17,000, and other incidental expenses, have all been paid by colored people. The first contribution to the statue fund vas made the morning after the assassination of Lincoln by Charlotte Scott, a colored woman of Marietta. Ohio, who contributed $50. The last Congress appropriated $3,000 for the pedestal and the statue was allowed to pass the Custom-house free of duty. The statue, which is of bronze, is of colossal size, being twelve feet high, resting upon a pedestal ten feet high. It represents Lincoln standing erect with the proclamation of emancipation in his left band, while his right hand is outstretched over the kneeling of a slave from whose limbs the shackles have just been freed. Upon the base of the monument is the word “Emancipation.” There were on the speaker's stand President Grant, members of the Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court, Foreign Ministers, Senators and Representatives and other persons of prominence. After music by the marine band, “Hail Columbia,” prayer and reading of the emancipation proclamation, Prof. Langston formally accepted the statue in behalf of the entire nation, then called upon President Grant to unvail it. Prolonged applause greeted the words of the speaker, and increased when the President stepped to the front and grasped the rope that was all draped to the flag vailing the statue. The President gave one firm pull and the starry banner glided down, and amid deafening cheers of the multitude, the playing of music and booming of cannon, the beautiful monument stood unvailed. A poem was then read, composed by Miss Cornelia Ray (colored) of New York Frederick Douglass was then introduced and delivered an oration. in the course of which he said;

Lincoln's great mission was to accomplish two things: First, to save his country from dismemberment, and, second, to free his country from the great crime of slavery. To do one or the other, or both, he must have the earnest sympathy and powerful co-operation of his loyal fellow countrymen. Without this his must be vain and utterly fruitless, and had he put the abolition of slavery before the salvation of the Union, he would have inevitably driven from him a powerful class of American people and rendered resistance to rebellion impossible. Viewed from genuine abolition ground, Lincoln seemed today cold, dull and indifferent, but measuring him by that sentiment of his country — a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult— he was swift, zealous and determined. Though Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery. He was willing, while the South was loyal, that it should have its pound of flesh, because he thought it was nominated in the bond, but further than this no earthly power could make him go.