Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-03
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
OF THE
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT S0CI ETY..
To the People Of the United States.


MENT SOCIETY,
10 the People Of the United States
FKLLow-CIrIzKEs: We address you on behalf Of
the Washington National Monument Association, and
submit for your consideration the following report of
The cornerstone was laid on the 4th Of July ls4s
At that time there in the treasury OF the Associa
ton the sum of 500, 400 60.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the of $2s0,6oa 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
81, 1920
The base, built of the blue stone Of the Potomac
solid and indestructibe is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface OF the surrounding earth Is nfty-nye feet
walls of blue stone fifteen feet thick faced with white
marble fourteen inches thick, in courses two feet in
height tied and bounded inte the blue stone at every
course. In its ascent it dminishes 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-
tributed by States, communities and associations.
| This naked shaft, thus rigidly cut, thus firmly
based, thus indissoubly bonded, now rises in its
simple and grand proportions one hundred and fifty
two and half feet above the blue stone base 1t 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
stone still idle and anxiously inquiries the cause
| Fellow-ctzens: We panied TO say, it is your
neglect When the scattered and subjugated Polish
nation, and the friends OF liberty IN Europe began TO
erect monument to Kosciusko, they made it 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 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 q 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 for aid.
Hitherto men well known to you, have given to 1t
long years of carefuness and labor They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help, and you
have TO 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 was 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
tonal 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 or want of opportunity have
faled TO join in this work of grateful duty. This
failure compelled our predecessors to arrest the prose-
cution of the work. and to appeal to Congress for
sistance.
Feow-citizens: This is not a suitable object of
Legislative provision A free prosperous, thirty
tude due by every individual heart to be discharged
by an act of Congress!
new Board OF Managers have now been appoint
ed. We come into office under favorable auspices,
nIad inf tn ppnt
the work Since election, on the 22d February last
have not been idle Our arrangements have been be-
gun, and now in progress All causes OF differ
ence between US 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, of twenty-five 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 pulsations, and every man who reveres
the name Of Washington, singly or in companies,
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his contribution to our Treasurer, or suggest a
mode for its collection.
Bv 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 22d
day of February last, to wit:
FRANKLIN PIERCE,
President of the o. States and ex-offico President.
YESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor Of Washington and ex-officio I'd v. Prcs't
GEORGE ii. PLANT,
Third Vice President
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
Treasurer.
CHARLES G. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers.
HxxRY ADDISON, Jos. H. BRADLEY,
CHAs r. Belt, SAMUEL @. Busy,
FRENCH s. EVANS, JAMES GoRDoN,
CHAs W. DAVIS, ROBERT T. KNIGHT,
JouS N. CRAIe, JOSEPH LIBBY, Sn.,
SAMUEL +. DOUGLAS, THoMAs A. BRooKK.
JOSIAH +. Polk,
PS Editors friendly TO the cause, are requested
to insert the above address.
G. G. TUCKER, Secretary.
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