Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-21
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WARRINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,

70 the People of The United STATES
FELLow-CIrxEss; We address you on behalf d
the Washington National Monument Association, and
submit for your consideration the following report Of
what has been donei
The corner stone was laid on the 4th Of July, 1s4s
At that time there in the treasury Of the Associa
ton the sum Of $62,46o &C.
The work has gone on with varied progress unit
the sum of $3.50 600 the product or 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
d, 222, 900
The base, built Of the blue stone of the Potomac
solid and indestructible is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface OF the surrounding earth II is ffyye 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 int the blue stone at every
course. In its ascent 1t diminishes gradually and
regularly IN the exterior line
The interior is carried up straight, undertaking
chamber Within and set into the solid wall Of thit
INTERIOR according TO the taste of the architect have
been placed, and yet to be placed the stones
tributed by States communities, and associations.
based, thus indissolubly bonded, now rises in ID
simple and grand proportions one hundred and fifty
two and half feet above the blue stone base. II il
already one 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 anxously inquiries the cause.
Fellow-citizens: We are panied to say, 1t is your
neglect. When the scattered and subjugated Polish
nation and the friends of liberty in Europe began to
erect monument to Koscusko, they made it q 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.
H.
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 it
long years of careuness 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 ibor and
money, in the same cause with you.
But they have failed not for lack Of energy zeal
patty 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! ap-
peal to their patriotism, and contributed the amount
Der, either from apathy want of opportunity have
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
sstance.
Fellow-citizens: This is not a suitable object of
Legislative provision. free, prosperous, thriv-
ing people, will not allow debt of love and graft
tude due by every individual heart to be discharged
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, on the 22d February last
we have not been Our arrangements have been be-
gun, and now in progress. All causes of differ
ence between and the Old Board have, we hope,
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 oil the piano.
ply of freedom in this broad land who is not dead to
the common impulses of humanity; who is worthy
in the least degree of the countless and diversified
blessings by which he is surrounded, we call upon
men everywhere to contribute each his mite. great
and mighty people, of twenty-five Millions cannot be
80 dead TO the sensations which are innate in every
breast at the bare naming of such benefactor, as
to refuse or neglect TO give their aid in such
cause.
Let every man, then, who feels his heart beat with
American pulsatons and every man who reveres
directly with our Secretary, and send
In his fcontrbution TO our Treasurer, suggest 4
mode for its collection.
BY order of the Board:
CHARLES G. TUCKER,
Secretary.
The following are the present Officers and Mana
gers of the Society, all OF whom except the President
and Second Vice President were elected on the 22d
day Of February last 70 wit:
President Of the U. States and ex-oficio President
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
m
Mayor Of Washington and ex-offcio I'd V. Pres't.
GEORGE III. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
CHARLES G. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers
HKNRY ADDISON, Jos. II. BRADLEY,
CHks. r. BELT, SAMUEL @. BusKT,
FRENCH s. EVANS, JAMES GoRDoS,
CuAs. w. DAVIS RoBKRr T. KNIGHT,
JOHN N. CRAIG, JosErH LIBBY, ST.,
SAMUEL Z. DOUGLAS, THoxAs A. BRooKE.
THOMAS ID. SANDY,
p. 8. Editors friendly 10 the cause are requested
TO insert the above address
@. G. TUCKER, Secretary.