Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-24

long lulled by the syren song Of selEnterested
demagoguss, themselves the creatures Of hier-
archy aud priesthood the most willy and overreach-
ing that the world ever saw; whose religion, a
union of superstition and intolerance has for thir-
teen hundred years, chained down the human
intellect and has been, and still is the unfalterng
and never-failihg agent of kingy tyrants and OPP
pressors of mankind. But, thanks to the over
weening confidence and indscreet and premature
Boosting of this company Of willy conspirators
against American freedom, we Of the American
party are all, all wide awake now, to be luled into
sleep no more, neither by coasinE denagogues nor
inBidiuus and Ginning pnestcraft, our c6niiexioh
with whom, and with all the old aid rotten parties
Of the country, is forever severed. Hereafter, we
go for the great mission Of dur party, that Aniefi-
cans alone shall be the rulers Of their own country,
and the sole controllers under Providence, of its
destnies; and this mission we will prosecute to Its
consummation, though all the powers of Rome and
of darkness shall oppose US.
One of the first miner duties which devolyes upon
our party is, to complete that great work which
has, in other hands, for so many years. dragged
its slow length along. We mean the Monument
now erecting in the National Metropolis to the
memory Of that greatest Of Americans and of men,
the Father of his Country. This work, at the last
annual election of officers for the Washington Mon
ument Society, was by their election Of Board of
Directors composed Of Americans alone, tacity
assumed by our party. This act met at the time,
and still meets the decided approval Of this Coun-
Gil but, being small in lumber compared with
numerous other Councils, we have waited for the
lead of those whose strength, position, and intiu-
ence, better entitled them to move first in this
matter. None having, to our knowledge, done 80,
we hereby, with becoming modesty, submit our
plan of operations in this behalf, as imbodied in
the annexed resolution, most respectfully suggest
;,., hat Ia
or something Of similar import, to the Subordinate
Councils, whereby the necessary funds may be
raised for this object
Resoiued, 6y the americans of Georgetown, IN
full Council assembled, That this Council will,
within twelve months from the first day Of April,
1855, raise one dollar for each member thereof,
the same to be in aid Of the fund for finishing the
Monument to the memory of General George Wash
ington, now erecting in the National Metropolis;
and to this end, it is hereby ordered, that each
member of the Council will pay to the treasurer
thereof the sum of twenty-five CENTS on or before
the first days Of June, August, October, and Feb
ruary next hereafter ensuing. The funds 80 paid
in SHALL at like dates, or as soon thereafter as may
be practicable, be, by our treasurer, paid over to
the Treasurer Of the Washington Monument Soci-
ETY., to be by him used for the object aforesaid.
And we, and all, pledge ourselves to carry out
this resolution to the fullest extent.
And 6e u JTther teSotOed, lhat tiis oouiicn 10
opposed to the appointment of travelling agents, we
having already seen the evil of that course. Weare
also opposed to calling the public generally, or
receiving anything from any one but natiye-born
Americans We believe that, if these resolutions
are generally carried out, the Monument Associa-
ton will have funds enough to do all they wish.
We pledge ourselves, within ten months, to pay
the Treasurer of the Washington Monument Asso-
citation six hundred dollars and call upon other
Councils to 60 and do likewise.
Resoloed, That, at proper time, the foregoing
address and resolutions be published in the Aneri-
can Orqaf.