Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-22
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONJJ.
MENT SOCIETY.
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TO the People Of The. United States
FELLow- CirIzENs: We ad dress you ON behalf Of
the Washington National NJ lnument Association and
submit for your consideration the following report of
what has been done
The cornerstone was laid on the 4th Of July, ls4s
At that time there in the treasury OF the Assoca-
ton the sum Of $62, 450 Sc.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the of $2300o the product Of voluntary contr
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
III, 1926, 900
The base, built of the blue stone Of the Potomac,
solid and indestructbe, is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen aud half feet above the
surface Of the surrounding earth IL fftyfye feet
square st its top From this springs the shat with
walls of blue stone fifteen feet thick faced with white
marble fourteen inches thick in courses 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.
chamber Within and set into the solid wall Of this
interior according to the taste Of the architect have
been placed and yet TO be placed the stones con-
| tributed by Sts.ca 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 nifty
two and half feet above the blue stone base II IS
already one of the first objects which meets the eye
of the traveller as he passes, through the hills by
which the city is hemmed in, and he starts TO find the
immense machinery It's top designed for lifting
stone still idle, and anxiously inquiries the cause
Fellow-citizens We are panied to say, 1t ia your
neglect When the scattered and subiugated Polish
nation and the friends OF liberty in Europe began to
erect a monument to Kosciusko, they made II q labor
| of leve, 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 s that unhappy country PILGRIM hands
We are erecting Monument to greater than
Kosciusko, to him who In history 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 pntions, and we call upon you for aid.
Hitherto, men well known to you, have given to It
long years of carefulness and labor. They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help and You
have TO q certain extent responded TO their call II
was not their work, Y was yours; they were your
stewards giving their tme and care, and ibor and
| money in the same cause with you.
But they have failed not for lack Of energy zeal
on their part but from want of that action and SYM
patby on yors which was essential to success. You,
the people Of this broad and happy land yon, the
| children of Washington; you, 10 whom he has lett
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.
peal to their patriotism, and contributed the amount
already received and expended the far greater num-
Der, either from apathy or want OF opportunity, haye
| failed to Join in this work Of grateful duty. This
failure compelled predecessors to arrest the prose-
cuon Of the work, and to appeal TO Congress for as
| sstanos
FelIow-ctzens; This Is not suitable object of
| Legislative provision. A free, prosperous, thirty.
ing people, will not allow debt of love and graft.
tude due by every individual heart to be discharged
! by an act OF Congress!
| A new Board Of Managers have now been appoint
| ed. We come into office under favorable auspices,
and with well-founded hopes Of means to prosecute
the work Since election the 22d February last
we have not been idle Our have been be-
gun Snd %
been removed and we will Immediately go to work.
We appeal TO the people. We wish no Legislative
aid We look to free hearts we call upon all not
| the liberal and the generous alone We call upon
each man who this day walks erect in all the piano.
ply of freedom in this broad land who is not dead 10
| The common impulses of humanity; who is worthy
in the least degree of the countless and diversified
| blessings by which he 10 surrounded, we call upon
men everywhere TO contribute each his mite great
and mighty people, of twenty-five millions, cannot be
so dead to the sensations which innate in every
breast at the bare naming Of such beneiaclor as TO
refuse neglect TO give their aid in such cause.
Let every man, then who feels his heart beat with
American pulsations, and every man who reyeres
the name Of Washington, singly or in companies,
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his contribution 10 our Treasurer or suggest
mode for its collection.
Bv order of the Board
CHARLES U. TUChEh, Secretary.
The following are the present Officers and Mana
gers of the Society oil of whom, except the President
aud Second Vice President were elected on the 22d
day of February last 70 wit:
FRANKLIN PIERCE,
President Of the u. States and ex-ofcio President.
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN T. TOWERS
MAYOR Of Washington and ex-oficio I'd V. Pres't.
GEORGE ii. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
CHARLES c. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers:
HxHRY ADDISON Jos III. BRADLEY,
Gas. X. BKLT, SAMUEL g. BusKr,
FRENCH s. EVANS, jams GoRDoN
| CLAs. w. DAVIS, RoBkRr 7. kSIGHr,
| JoHs n CRAIa, JOSEPH LIBBY SE.,
SAMUEL Z. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BRooEr.
| josiah u. Polk,
p. s. Editors friendly TO the cause, are requested
| " insert the above address,
C. TUCKER, Secretary
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