Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-20
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,
~ the PeopIe Qf the UNlted 6tates.


Ib the People Of me United States.
FHLLow- CITIZENS; We address you ON behalf Of
the Washington National Monument Association, and
submit for your consideration the following report of
what has been donet
The cornerstone was laid ON the 4th Of July ls4s
At that time there in the treasury of the Associa
tlon the sum of $62,45O 66.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum Of $2SOOOo the product OF voluntary eontr
buttons alone, has been expended in its erection.
The original estimate OF the cost of the whole work.
the shaft the base and the ornamental part exceeded
81, 1895, 600
The base built of the blue stone of the Potomac
solid and indesructible, is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface Of the surrounding earth 1t is iy-fye feet
square at its top. From this springs the shaft, with
walls of blue stone fifteen feet thick faced with white
marble fourteen inches thick in two feet in
height tied and bounded into the blue stone at every
course In its ascent il dminishes gradually and
regularly in the exterior line.
The interior is carried up a straight undertaking
chamber Within and set into the solid wall of this
Interior according 70 the taste of the architect have
been placed, and vet to be placed, the stones
tributed by States, communities, and associations.
This naked shaft thus rigidly cut thus firmly
based, thus indissolubly bonded now rises in its
simple and grand proportions one hundred and fifty
two and half feet above the blue stone base. 1t is
already Of the first objects which meets the eye
which the city is hemmed in and he starts to find the
immense machinery on its top designed for lifting
stone still idle, and anxiously inquiries the cause.
Fellow-citizens: We are panied to say it is your
neglect When the scattered and subjugated Polish
nation, and the friends of liberty in Europe began to
erect monument to Kosciusko, they made it labor
of love, and from every valley and mountain, and
plain and running stream, far and near they brought
stones and piled and heaped them into vast pyra-
midal mound, to testify that love. And now after
the lapse of forty years, amid the commissions which
have shaken that unhappy country, pilgrim hands
still swell that pile with constant contributions.
We are erecting Monument to greater than
Koscusko, to him who in history or myth, is known
among every kindred and nation of the earth who
laid the foundations gave the proportions and super
intended the structure of that government which,
with miraculous speed, has risen TO the front rank
among the nations, and we call upon you for aid.
Hitherto men well known to you, have given to 1t
long years of carefulness and labor They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help, and you
was not their work, it was yours; they were your
stewards, giving their time, and care, and bor, and
money, in the same cause with YOU
But they have failed, not for lack of energy or zeal
on their part but from want OF that action and
pathy on yours which essential to success. You,
the people of this broad and happy land /; you, the
children of Washington; you, to whom he has left
the priceless bequest of his services and his love,
have held back the contribution needed from each to
erect to his memory suitable Monument in the ma
tional metropolis.
While thousands have answered promptly the APP
peal TO their patriotism, and contributed the amount
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