Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-30
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY.
10 me peoDIe Of M Unife1

TO the People of the United States.
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 on the 4th of July l84S,
At that time there in the treasury of the Assoca-
ton the sum Of $62,450 &c.
| The work has gone with varied progress until
the Of $3.50 00a 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, 1926, 900.
The base built of the blue stone of the Potomac,
solid and ndesructible is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface OF the surrounding earth IL is hity-hye ieet
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 it diminshes gradually and
| regularly in the exterior line.
The interior is carried up straight underwriting
| 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-
tributed by States communities, and associations.
! This naked shaft, thus rgdly cut, thus firmly
based, thus indissoluby bonded, now rises in its
simple and grand proportions one hundred and nifty
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
| Fellow-ctizens We are panied to say, it 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 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 VINO
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 ana.
Hitherto, men well known to you have given to 1t
long years of carefulness and labor They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help and you
have, to certain extent responded to their call 1t
not their work, it yours they were your
stewards, giving their time and care, and abor 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
patty yours, which 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 beques 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 the APP
peal to their patriotism and contributed the amount
already received and expended, the far greater num-
failed to join in this work of grateful duty. This
failure compelled predecessors to arrest the prose-
cuton of the work. and to appeal to Congress for as
sistance.
Fellow citizens: This is not a suitable object of
legislative provision. A 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 Congressl
A new Board Of Managers have now been appoint
ed. We come into Office under favorable auspices,
and with we-founded hopes of means to prosecute
the work. Since election, the 22d February last,
have not been idle Our arrangements have been be-
gun, and are 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 10 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
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 a cause.
Let every man, then, who feels his heart beat with
American pusations, 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, suggest a
mode for its collection.
By order of the Board
CHARLES G. TUCKER, Secretary
The following 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 u States and ex-oficio President
YESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN 7. TOWERS,
Mayor of Washington and er-officio I'd V. Pres't.
GEORGE Ii. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
CHARLES c. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers
HxNRY ADDISON, Jos. II. BRADLEY,
CuAs. r. BELT, SAMUEL G. Busy,
FRENCH 8. EVANS, JAMES GORDON,
CHAs. w. DAVIS, RoBERr 7. KNIGHT,
john N. CRAIG, JOSEPH LIBBY, Sn.,
SAMUEL Il. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BRooKE.
JOSIAH i. Polk,
p s. Editors friendly to the cause, are requested
TO insert the above address.
c. G. TUCKER, Secretary.
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