Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-05
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONI-
hENT SOCIETY.
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mENI bOSlEiIy
10 the People of tho United States.
FKLLow-C IrIrExs. 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 1913.
At that time there in the treasury OF the Assoca-
ton the sum Of $62, $50 SO.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum of 100000 the product of voluntary contri'
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 indestructbe is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and hai eet above .he
surface of the surrounding earth II is fiyhye 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 at every
course. In its ascent it diminishes 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 nave
been placed and are yet to 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 ana my
two and half feet above the blue stone base 1t Is
already Of the first objects which meets the eye
Of the traveller he passes, through the hills BY
which the city is hemmed in and he starts TO md the
immense machinery on its top designed Tor hiung
stone still idle, and anxiously inquiries the cause
Fellow-citizens: We are panied to say, 1t Is your
neglect When the scattered and subiugated Polish
naton and the friends of liberty in Europe, began 70
erect monument to Kosciusko, they made It 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.
We are erecting Monument TO 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 to the front rank
among the nations, and we call upon you Tor and.
Hitherto, men well known to you, have given to 1t
long wears of carefuness and labor. They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help, and you
have 10 certain extent, responded TO their call 1t
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 or zeal
on their part but from want OF that action and SYM
pathy on yours, which essential to success. You,
the people of this broad and happy land; you, the
children Of yG to whom n ne III mas lsi'
have held back the contribution needed from each to
erect to his memory suitable Monument in the ma
tonal metropolis
While thousands have answered promptly thel APP
already received and d. the far greater num-
Der, either from apathy Ant Of opportunity, have
failed to join in this wu.h OF grateful duty. This
failure compelled our predecessors to arrest the prose-
cuton of the work. and to appeal to Congress for
sstance.
Fellow-citizens: 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
by an act Of Congressl
A new Board OF Managers have now been appoint
ed We come into office under favorable auspices,
and with well-tounded hopes of means to prosecute
the work Since election on the I'D February last
ehave not beenide. Our arrangements have been be-
gun, and are now in progress. All causes Of differ
ence between and the Old Board have as 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 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, oftwenty-hve millions, cannot be
SO dead to the sensations which innate in every
breast at the bare naming of such beneactor as to
refuse or 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
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his contribution 10 our Treasurer, or 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 all OF whom except the President
and Second Vice President were elected on the ed
day of February last, 70 wit: -
President of the u States and ex-ofiicio President
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN 7. TOWERS,
Mavor of Washington and ex-oficio I'd v. Prest
GEORGE II. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
Treasurer
Secretary.
Managers:
HKyRY AppIsoS, Jos. II. BRADLEY,
CHAs. X. BELT, SAMUEL G. BUsEI
FREYcH s. EVANS, JAMES GonDoN,
CHAs W DAVIS RoBERr n KNIGHT,
JouS n CRAIa JosKPH LIBBY, Sn,
SAMUEL K. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BROOKE.
JOSIAH +. Polk,
P. s. Editors friendly to the cause, are requested
70 insert the above address.
q. @. TUCKER, Secretary.
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