The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-02-25
BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.


tee, appointed at former meeting to devise
means to finish the monument, made Report
which was accepted, and of which the following
is the substance
The Committee recommend that two
kinds of subscriptions he obtained, in each
town throughout the Commonwealth, for
raising the Gum of $4,000.
First-from those who may be disposed
to contribute Immediately.
Second-from such others aswill engage
to pay certain sum annually for two years.
1t in conformity to the second methods
$500 persons will subscribe $40 each, or
5000 persons SIS each, the whole sum re-
CURED can he obtained, and the monumene
finished in two years; and if at the explra-
ton OF this year, the subscribers will al
vance the second years subscription, the
last stone may he placed next autumn.
Resolutions were then passed appointing
committees in Boston, Salem and Charlestown,
to obtain subscriptions. Ii was also resolved
that an address TO the people ofthe State, with
the proceedings Of the committee be transmit
ted with subscription papers to some persons in
every town in the State, requesting them to-
organize committees for obtaining subscriptions
&c. and that all the newspapers in New Eng
land be requested to publish the proceedings OF
the meeting.
The following extract contains the most inn
portant part of the
ADDRESS.
The Bunker Hill Monument Association
have engaged in the work of erecting a
monument worthy Of the spot, worthy of
those ilnstrous sons aud those memorable
deeds of the revolution, which it is design
ed to commemorate, and also worthy of
ever standing the memorial of the establish
ment of those great principles of liberty
which resulted from the revolution. The
monument will be the highest Of the kind in
the tcorld, and only below the height of the
Egyptian Pyramids. 1t will form when
completed, an obelisk thirty feet square at
the base, and fifteen at the top. 1t will con-
sist Of eighty courses of our Quincy Gran
lite. each course two feeS eight inches in
thickness. The whole height, when laid,
will be two hundred and twenty feet. No
traveller will then inquire for the Battle
ground. The monument will endure until
the foundations of the earth itself are shak-
en-. Our descendants in the most remote
ages will have this perpetual memorial before
them, of the virtues and valor OF their an
cestors, and this ever-enduring memento OF
the price and the value of liberty.
The whole quantity of stone necessary to
complete this work, is six thousand, seven
hundred tons. OF this quantity twenty
eight hundred tons are already laid in the
fourteen first courses, and five hundred tons
more are already dressed, on the Hill, be-
ing the quantity required for FIVE courses
and with that already laid making more
than half the quantity necessary for the
whole structure. Twelve hundred tons are
already split out in blocks to dimensions for
the various parts of the monument, at Quin-
cy, and have been placed in situations where
they can be best hammered. The remain
der, twenty-five hundred tons, can he split
from the quarry in ninety days, for three
thousand dollars; considerable progress
has been made in preparing the ledge for
that purpose. The Committee continued
the work as long as they considered them
selves justified, and only ceased, at the Hill
on the first of September, and on the seven
tecnth of January at the quarry.
To accomplish this great work, it must
he evident, has required a sum Of money
far beyond the subscription, and to complete
it still larger sum is required. The ma
chinery at the quarry, at the wharf, and on
the Hill, has cost ten thousand dollars
hut half the sum, as the committee have.
learnt. paid for the staging used in erecting
the Washington Monument at Baltimore -
To extinguish all the titles to the battle
ground has cost twenty -four thousand dol
lars. In proceeding as far as they have
1ko o~ano111 oil 4hosn
funds, and twenty thousand dollars in addi-
ton. Thirty thousand dollars more are re-
quired to complete the work. With fifty
thousand dollars the work can be completed
within the year, and the whole battle field
reserved. This most interesting spot is
now wholly in the control Of the Society,
and from the Monument the whole field of
battle is now open to the eye; hut unless
fifty Thousand dollars can he raised, n con-
siderable part of it must be sold, and the
opportunity lost for ever. preserving 1t from
being covered with buildings, which would
dis6gure it. Under these circumstances,
the Society appeal, with confidence, to all
Americans, and especially to every son of
New England, to enable them Mt once to-
finish the great work. Mr.. Willard, the
Architect, has already freely given three
years. service and one thousand dollars in
money to the great work. and is willing to
do as much more. Let his fellow citizens
bnt emulate in a small degree the zeal Of
this distinguished architect, and this Monu-
ment of their liberties and of the valor of
their fathers may he finished and consecrat-
ed before the fifty-fifh anniversary of the,
memorable battle of BUNKER HILL.
II. A. S. Dearborn. Franklin Dexter.
Jos. E. Sprague. Benz Whipple.
s T. Armstrong. VIM. P Mason
E. H. Robbins, Jr. T. Fl. Perkins, Jr.
Geo. Peabody. VIM H. Prescott.
N Tufts. John Rayner.
Josinh Bradlea. Amos Lawrence.