Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-25
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,
20 the I'eopIe "a tho UIslIed 6ldles.

1 w A1hlNGION NAIIONAL mONO~
MENT SOCIETY,
TO the People Of the United States.
FKLLow-CIrxEMs We address you ON behalf Of
! the Washington National Monument Association, and
submit for your consideration the following report OF
what has been done:
At that time there in the treasury of the Associa
| ton the sum Of $50, 40 &c.
The work has gone ON with varied progress until
the sum Of $4,000 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, $4,000.
The base built of the blue stsne Of the Potomac,
solid and indesrucnble, is sunk eight feet below the
surface, and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface OF the surrounding earth II Is fty-ye 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 two feet in
height tied and bounded into the blue stone at every
course. In its ascent II diminshes gradually and
regularly in the exterior line.
The interior is carried up a straight undertaking
chamber. Within and set into the solid wall of this
Interior according to the taste of the architect have
been placed and yet to be placed the stones con-
| trbuted by States, communities, and associations
This naked shaft thus rigdly 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. 1t is
already of the first objects which meets the eye
Of the traveller as he passes, through the hills by
WHICH the CITY III neHneu IN ana ne strS 10 una inc
immense machinery on its top designed for lifting
stone still idle, and anxously inquiries the cause.
| Felow-citizens: We are panied to say, ii is your
neglect. When the scattered and subjugated Polish
nahon and the friends Of liberty in Europe began to
| erect monument to koscusko, they made 1t 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, totestify 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 a greater than
Koscusko, 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 it
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 llbor and
money, in the same cause with you.
But they have failed not for lack of energy zeal
their part but from want of that action and SYM
patty 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
ional metropolis.
While thousands have answered promptly the, APP
peal to their patriotism, and contributed the amount
already received and expended the far greater
Der, either from apathy want of opportunity have
failed to join in this work of grateful duty. This
failure compelled predecessors to arrest the prose-
cution of the work. and to appeal TO Congress for
sistance.
Fellow-citizens: This is not suitable object of
Legislative provision. free, prosperous, thriv
ing people, will not allow debt of love and graft
ude 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 22d February last
we have not been idle Our arrangements have been be-
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 pano-
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
50 dead to the sensations which innate in every
breast at the bare naming Of such benefactor,
to refuse or neglect TO give their aid in such
cause ..gss-4
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,
conmunlCate ulrectiy WIN our secretary, anu senu
in his contribution to our Treasurer, or suggest
mode for its collection.
BY order of the Board
CHARLES G. 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 TO wit:
FRANKLIN PIERCE,
President Of the u. States and ex-ofcio President
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President |
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor of Washington and ex-offcio I'd V. Prest |
GEORGE H. PLANT,
Third Vice President. |
JOHN NJ. MoCALLA,
Treasurer |
CHARLES G. TUCKER,
Secretary. |
Managers
Henry ADDISON, Jos. II. BRADLEY,
Gas. r. BELr, SAMUEL @. BUsEy,
FREscH s. EVANS, JAMES GORDON, |
CHAs. w. DAVIS RoBERT T. KSrGHT,
JOHN N. CRAIe, JosKrH LIBBr, SR-,
SAMUEL E. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BRooKH.
THoHAs ID. SANDY, 7
p. s. Editors friendly 10 the cause are requested
10 insert the above address.
&c. TUCKER, Secretary.