Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-13
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,
TO ths People Of ths United States.

mENT bOClETH,
To the People Of the United States
FeLLow-CIrIzEEs, We address you ON behalf Of
the Washington National Monument 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 Associa
ton the sum OF $62, 400 90.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the of $3.50 00g 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
The base, built of the blue stone of the Potomac,
solid and indestructibe is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises and half feet above the
surface Of the surrounding earth II is fty-fye feet
square at It's top From this springs the shaft 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 dminishes 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 yet TO be placed, the stones con-
trbuted by States, communities, and associations.
This naked shaft, thus rigidiy 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 II 10
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 ind 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 snbjugated Polish
nation, ana .ne ire - y Derv ~ 1esh ~
erect ihonuncn. W hoeoiosno, 'oS aue ~ :
Of love, and from every valley ana mountain, ana
PLAIN and running s.rean, lar ana near 'ney p,ogn'
stones and piled ana eeapea mem ho vast pyla-
midai mound, 70 testily tnas love. ana now uiI,
the lapse OF ioIy years, ailu e eon. ;i J
have shaken that unhappy country, pilgrim nahds
sun SVEN that Plie WIN conslalI eontripu.ons. a.,
we are erecnng = Mohaihen. 70 greuter .nan
hosciusko, 70 MN MIo ~ nis.y VI ny VI, 20
among every Knareo anu h'.lon .. .e ear,h VIZ
iad tne ioundauons, ga'e te anu
intended the structure OF .nat government Whien,
With miraculous speeo mus risen 70 'nc iIoi.t rum
among the nations, ana we cal upon you ior aia.
therto, men wen known 70 YOU Tase snen ~,
long years OF careluness ana anor ihey nave pen
urgent ana pressing ~ tnelr caiis ,or neP anu you
have, 70 certain extent responded 70 uelr cali ~
was not their WORK. " was yours tney were ere your
sseWarus, giaihg uaeaa SLIM nh u 90, 'o
money, IN the same cause WIN YOU. s.,
but they nave iaeo not ior iach VI eiieIsy VI ae''
on their part put rom Waht ~ I'M "cson ano q ~
pathy on yours, whch was essenth W success. %,
the people ot TINS proau anu naPPy mna YOU, ,ne
children OF washington you, 70 Mnoin ne ms ieis
tha priceless peduest % ms scisols, au s
nave Aeli pack .le ,Ia.'. .V - ~. ~. y
erece 70 hs nepiofy s"''aoie - '''' 10
uonal metropolis
Whie thousands nave answered. Rtonalpsy sne, ~.
peal % tneir anu N.Y. ,o ,,,,,
already received ana e8pehoeu, 'ee iaS gr.er hun
ger sther IRON apathy VI wan s VI INV Te
failure campeed our to arrest lie prose-
le 1ua t 20 ~ 90 H. ~
c s;a.anaa ~ 'ne "o'"' "Au y 'pp'''
Feowcitizens: This is not a suitable object of
egislauss l MOI, allow debt of love and graft
ing peopis, VII ~! ;.;d, Laort 70 he d;scbarged
luce que y G Every n''' y "
by an ACT o. O9hgreHsss . - 80, h,., .-,,o;n,
NV wv e"raa into nfI;ce nnder faynrable ansnces