Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-24
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
OF rHE
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,

MENT SOCIETY,
TO the People Of the United States.
FELLow-CrriEENsi 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 $62, 450 So.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the Of $230000, the product Of voluntary contr-
buttons alone has been expended in It's erection.
The original estimate of the cost Of the whole work.
the shaft the base and the ornamental part exceeded
The base, built Of the blue stbhe 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 is hfy-hye feet
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 IL diminisheB 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 indissolubly bonded, now rises in its
simple and grand proportions one hundred and fifty
two and half feet above the blue stone base II il
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 find the
immense machinery nm ia ton designed for lifting
stone still idle, and ahSiousy inquiries the cause.
neriect When The scattered ana suhnvated Polish
na,on and M hiands az Thartu IN E,rpna began N
erect monument to Kosciusko' thew made Il labor
~ 1--we and from avery yaIIey and mountain and
Main and @ rnnina st,esn far and near thew brought
stonas and n;jed and beaned them into a vast nvra
midal monnd n testify That love And now after
he lapse Of forty years amid the CONCLUSIONS which
have shaken that unhappy country, pilgrim hands
We are erecting n Monument 10 A Greater than
Kosciusko To him who IN history OF myth. IN known
among every Kindred and nation Of ne earth who
laid Ire foundations gave the roportions and super
with n;racnlons snaad has risen ~ the front rank
among the nations, and we call upon Won for aid.
Hitherto men we'll known TO Won. have giyen 10 Il
long years Of careulness and labor They have been
have m certa;n e1tent resnonded 10 their call II
WINS not their work Il was vours thew were vour
stewards giving their time and care and llbor and
money, in the same cause with YOU.
Rni tbav have failed mot for lack If enerov or veal
ON their mart hut fom want of that action and sym
nathv an vonrs which was essential IN snccess Yon
tho peonIe Of this broad and happy land Won. tbe
children Of washington: Won to whom be has left
have held hack the contribution needed from each to
erect 10 his memorv a suitable Monument in The ma.
tional metronolis.
While thousands have answered promptly the APP
nAtrIOtSln contributed
already received and exnended the fnr greater num-
her either from apathy or want of opportunity have
failed 10 ;oin in this work of grateful duty. This
ilnre comnelled our to arrest lie prose-
cut;on &c tba work and 10 anneal tn Congress- for as
sistance
FeIow-citizens: This is not a suitable object of
Legislative provision. free. a prosperous, thirty
ing people, will not allow debt Of love and graft.
tude due Nv every individual heart to be discharged
hy an act ~ CongressI
A new Hoard ~ Managers have now been appoint
sd We come into of6ce under favorable aispices.
and With wall frnded homes Of means To prosecute
th rorL since nur election IN the 2od February last
have not been idle ur have been be.
o,,n and are now in nrogress All causes of differ
snce between us and the old Board have as we hope
baen removed and we will immediatey oo to work
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 airs innate in every
breast at the bare naming Of such benefactor,
to refuse or neglect to give their aid in such