Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-18
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,

10 the People Or the United Mates.
PELLow- CtTIrENs: We address you on behalf Of
submit for your consideration the following report Of
what has been done:
The cornerstone was laid the 4th Of July, l54s
At that time there was in the treasury Of the Associa
ton the sum of So, 450 3D.
The work has gone ON with varied progress until
the Of 4230,o0A, 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
a, 222, 900.
The base, built Of the blue stone Of the Potomac,
solid and ndestructble is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth IL hftyhye feet
square at ia 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 II diminishes gradually ana
regularly in the exterior line
The interior is carried up straight undertaking
chamber. Within and set into the solid wall OF this
Interior according 10 the taste OF the architect have
been placed and yet W be placed the stones con-
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 hfty-
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 find the
immense machinery on its top designed for lifting
Fellow-citizens: We panied TO say, II is your
neglect When the scattered and subjugated Polish
naton and the friends of liberty in Europe began to
erect monument TO Kosciusko, they made 1t 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 a vast pyra-
mida 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
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 10 the front rank
among the natons and we call upon you for aid.
Hitherto, men well known to you, have given to It
long years Of careulness and labor They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help and you
have to a certain extent responded to their call 1t
was not their work. II was yours; they were your
stewards, giving their time and care, and lbor 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 sym
patty 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 be9uest of his services, and his love,
have held back the contribution needed from each to
erect to his memory suitable Monument in the ma
tiona metropolis.
While thousands have answered promptly the; APP
peal to their patriotism, and contributed the amount
already received and expended the far greater num-
ber either from apathy OF 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
Sistance.
Fellow-ctizens: This is not a suitable object of
Legislative provision. free, prosperous, thriy-
ing people will not allow debt of love and graft
tude due by every individual heart to be discharged
bv an act of Congress-!
new Board OF Managers have now been appoint
ed We come into office under favorable auspices,
,pdy ~ Nrnll. fnuni cd n
the work. Since election, the 22d February last
we have not been idle Our have been be-
gun, and are now in progress All causes OF differ
euce between us 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 10 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 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
so dead to the sensations which are innate in every
breast at the bare naming of such benefactor, as to
refuse neglect to give their aid in such cause
Let every man. then, who feels his heart beat with
American pusations and every man who reveres
the name Of Washington, singly or in companies,
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his fcontributon TO our Treasurer, or suggest
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, TO wit:
President Of the u States and ex-ofcio President.
yESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN 7. TOWERS
Mayor Of Washington and ex-officio I'd V. Pres't
GEORGE II. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
Treasurer.
CHARLES G. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers
Hxsur ADDISON Jos. ii. BRADLEY,
CHAs II. BELT, SAMUEL O. BusKT,
FRENCH s. EVANS, JAMES GoRDoS
CHAs w. DAVIS RoBERT I. kSeHr,
JOHN N. CRAIa JOSEPH LIBBY, SR.,
SAMUEL l.. DouGLAh THOMAS A. Brooks.
JOSIAH +. Polk,
p s. Editors friendly TO the cause, are requested
70 insert the above address.
@. G. TUCKER, Secretary.
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