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104 Is there any honor in her actions and love for the dead Chieftain? Is there any glory in the efforts for this monument? Has any sacrifice been made for which the world would give praise? If so, let them all fall first and heaviest upon the head of Charlotte Scott. She showed a gratitude characteristic only of a true heart and a well-trained conscience.

When this monument shall have crumbled and fallen; when the hands that placed it there shall have been forgotten in the grave, and when the spot upon which it now stands shall be used for other purposes not now known to mortals, the deed of this woman, the emanation of a thankful heart in kind remembrance and sacrifice, shall not be forgotten by the God in whom the bonded slaves trusted for deliverance.