Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-07
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY.

MENT BOCIETY,
TO the People Of the United Statss
FELLow-C CITIZENS: 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 the 4th Of July, 1s4s.
At that time there in the treasury Of the Assoca
ton the sum OF $62,4oO &C.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum of s2S000a 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
| 81, 222, 900.
The base built of the blue stone of the Potomac,
solid and ndestructible is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth II is ftyve 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 II 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 ffty-
two and half feet above the blue stone base II 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 find the
immense machinery on its top designed for lifting
stone still idle and anxiously inquiries the cause.
Fellow-ctzens: We are panied TO say, II is your
neglect When the scattered and subjugated Polish
naton and the friends Of liberty In Europe began TO
erect monument to Kosciusko they made It q labor
plain and running stream, far and 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 ad:
Hitherto, men well known to you, have given to It
long years of careulness and labor They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help, and you
have TO certain extent responded to their call II
was not their work, 1t was yours they were your
Stewards giving their time, and care, and lbor, and
money, in the same cause with you
But they have failed not for lack of energy real
on 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 ne 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
tional metropolis.
While thousands have answered promptly thel 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
failed to join in this work of grateful duty. This
failure compelled predecessors to arrest the prose-
cuon of the work. and to appeal to Congress for as
sstance.
Fellow-citzens: 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 Congress-!
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 election on the ed February last
we have not been idle Our arrangements have been be
gum and are now In progress All causes Of differ
been removed, and 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 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, call upon
everywhere to contribute each his mite great
and mighty people, Of twenty-five millions cannot be
dead to the sensations which are innate in every
breast at the bare naming of such benefactor as 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, singy or in companies
in his contribution to our Treasurer, or suggest
mode for its collection
BY order of the Board:
CHARLES G. TUCKER, Secretary.
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-oficio President
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President. |
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor of Washington and exoficio I'd v. Pres't |
GEORGE ii. PLANT,
Third Vice President |
JOHN M. MoCALLA,
Treasurer |
Secretary.
Manager.
HENRY ADDISON, JOS. H. BRADLEY,
CHAs r. Bur- SAMUEL G. BusKY,
FRENCH s. EVANS, JAMES GoRpos,
CHAs w. DAVIS, ROBERT 7. KEoHr,
JOIN N. CRAIa, JosEPH LIBBY, SH.,
SAMUEL e. DouaLAs, THOMAS A. BRooxl.
JOSIAH r. Polk,
P.S. Editors friendly 10 the cause are requested
TO insert the above address.
G. @. TUCKER, Secretary.
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