Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-27
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU.
MENT SOCIETY.
" az PeopEe "a az UniLed States.

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| FELLow-CIrIzESs; 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 $50, 450 49,
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum of $3.50 009 the product Of voluntary conI-
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
| 81, 222 900.
| The base built of the blue stone of the Potomac
solid and indestructible is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth II is fftyhve 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 courses two feet in
height tied and bounded into the blue stone ut every
course In its ascent it dimnishes 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 are yet to be placed the stones con-
| ributed 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 City
two and half feet above the blue stone base II is
already 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
stone still idle, and anxiously inquiries the cause
Fellow-citizens We are panied to say il is your
| neglect When the scattered and snbugated Polish
nation, and the friends of liberty in Europe, began TO
erect monument to Kosciusko, they made 1t 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-
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 greater than
Koscusko, to him who in history or myth, Is known
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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 1t
long years of carefulness 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, it was yours; they were your
stewards, giving their me and care, and ibor and
money, in the same cause with you.
But they have failed, not for lack of energy or zeal
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 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
onal metropolis.
While thousands have answered promptly the APP
peal to their patriotism, and contributed the amount
already received and expended the far greater num-
Der either from apathy OF want OF opportunity, have
| failed to join in this work of grateful duty This
failure compelled our predecessors to arrest the prose-
cuon Of the work. and to appeal to Congress for as
sstance
Fcllow-ctizens: This is not suitable object of
legislative provision. A 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 our election the 22d February last
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gun, and in progress. All causes of differ
between us and the Old Board have, as we hope
been removed and we will immediately 60 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
so dead 10 the sensations which innate in every
breast at the bare naming Of such benefactor 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 reveres
the name Of Washington, sngly or in companies,
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his contribution to our Treasurer, suggest
mode for its collection.
BY order of the Board
CHARLES @. TUCKER, Secretary.
The following are the present Officers and Mana
gers OF the Society," oil OF whom, except the PRESIDENT
and Second Vice President, elected on the 22d
day of February last TO wit:
President of the u States and ex-otcio President.
vESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN T. TOWERS,
MAYOR Of Washington and ex-offcio cd V. Pres't
GEORGE II. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
Treasurer.
| Secretary.
Managers
HxSRY ADDISON, JOS. IL. BRADLEY,
| CHAs. II. BELT, SAMUEL @. BusKY,
FRENCH s. EVANS, JAMES GORDON,
| CHAs w DAVIS, RoBERr T. KNIGHT,
| Jous N. CRAIa, JOSEPH LIBBY SR,
| SAMUEL L. DoUGLAs THOMAS A. BROOKE.
JOSIAH F. Polk,
| p s. Editors friendly to the cause, are requested
| to insert the above address
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