4296. KOSCIUSKO (General), Emancipation for slaves.—
The brave auxiliary of my country in its struggle for liberty, and from
the year 1797, when our particular acquaintance
began, my most intimate and much beloved
friend. On his last departure from the United
States in 1798, he left in my hands an instrument
appropriating after his death all the property
he had in our public funds, the price of his
military services here, to the education and
emancipation of as many of the children of
bondage in this country as it should be adequate
to.—
To M. Julien. Washington ed. vii, 107.
(M.
1818)
