Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-29
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
or TIE
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY.
70 the People of the United States.

70 tie People Of the United States.
FELLow-C CITIZENS; We address you on behalf Of
the Washington National Monument Association and
submit for your consideration the following report Of
The cornerstone was laid on the 4th of July lS4s
At that time there in the treasury of the Associa
ton the sum OF $62, 450 &c.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum OF 100000, the product OF voluntary conri-
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, 222,0
The base, built of the blue stone of the Potomac,
solid and ndestuctble is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth IL is ftyhye 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 it diminishes gradually and
regularly in the exterior line.
The interior is carried up straight undertaking
chamber Within and set into the solid wall Of this
Interior according to the taste OF the architect have
been placed and are yet to be placed the stones con-
tribued by States, communities and associations
This naked shaft, thus rigidly cut thus firmly
based, thus indissoubly bonded, now rises in its
simple and grand proportions one hundred and fifty
two and half feet above the blue stone base. II is
already one of the first objects which meets the eye
of the traveller he passes, through the hills by
which the city is hemmed in and he starts to find the
immense machinery on its top designed for lifting
suOne sun lule, anu dnAiousiy inquiries tne cause.
Fellow-citizens: We are panied TO say, It IS your
neglect. When the scattered and sqbugated Polish
nation, and the friends of liberty IN Europe, began TO
erect monument to kosclusko, 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 a greater than
Kosciusko to him who in history or myth, is known
laid tie 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, ana we can upon you 1or alo.
hltherto, men wen known 10 you, nave given 70 u
long years OF careianess ana iaDor lney nave peeh
urgent ana pressing IN ther Calls ior nelp ana you
nave 10 certain extent responded 70 their can. IL
was not lheir WORK, u was yours lney were your
stewards, giving their tine ana care ana ipor ana
money IN the same cause WIN you.
bnt they nave ia.lea not ior ick Oh energy 9r zeai
on their part but from want Of that action and sym
The people Of this broad and happy land you the
children of Washington; you, TO whom he has left
the priceless beauest of his services and his love-
have held back the contribution needed from each to
erect to his memory suitable Monument in the
tioual metropolis.
While thousands have answered promptly the APP
peal to their patrotisp and contributed the amount
already received and expended, the far greater num-
SGI, e'.nei ron; p; y " VIZ W =. M
faur cone,lnd omr to arrest tTe prase
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