Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-11

long, iulled by the syren song. OF selfiuterested
demagogues, thepselyes tho creatures Of hicr
arcby and priesthood the most Willy and oyerreach-
ing that the world ever saw; whose religion, a
union Ut superstition and intolerance has for thif-
teen hundred years, chained down the human
intellect and has been, and still il, the unialtering
and neyer-iailing agent Of kingly tyrants and OPP
pressors of mankind. But, thanks to the over.
weening confidence and indiscreet and premature
Boosting of this company of willy conspiraton
against American freedom. we of the American
party al all wide awake now, TO be lulled into
sleep no more, neither by cooking demagogues nor
insidious and cunning prestcraft, our eonnexion
with whom, and with all the old and rotten parties
OF the country, ID forever severed. Hereafter, we
go for the great mission Of our party, that Ameri
cans alone shall be the rulers OF their own country,
aud the sole controllers, under Providence, OF It's
destinies and this mission will prosecute TO its
contamination, though all the powers of Rome and
Of darkness shall oppose us.
One OF the first minor duties which dcvolves upon
our party Is, 70 complete that great work which
has, in other hands, for so many years, dragged
its slow length along We mean the Monument
now erecting in the National Metropolis to the
memory OF that greatest of Americans and of men,
the Father Of his Country. This work, at the last
annual election Of officers for the Washington Mon
ument Society, was, by their election OLA Board Of
Directors composed Of Americans alone, tacitly
assumed by our party. This act met at the time,
and still meets the decided approval Of this Coun
Gil, but, being small in number, compared with
numerous other Councils we have waited for the
lead Of those whose strength, position, and infu-
ence, better entitled them to move first in this
matter None having, to our knowledge, done 30,
we hereby, with becoming modesty, submit our
plan Of operations in this behalf, as imbodied in
the annexed resolution most respectfully suggest
ing that the Grand Council recommend the same,
III. -
Councils, whereby the necessary funds may be
raised for this object:
Resolyed, BY the A,nericams Of Geoygetown, IN
full Council assembled That this Council will
within twelve months from the first day of April
1856 raise one dollar for each member thereof,
the same to be in aid Of the fund for finishing the
Monument to the memory Of General George WASH
ington, now erecting in the National Metropolis !;
and to this end, 1t is hereby ordered, that each
member Of the Council win pay to the treasurer
thereof the sum Of twenty-five cents, on or before
the first days Of June, August, October, and Feb
ruary next hereafter ensuing The funds 80 paid
in shall at like dates, soon thereafter as may
be practicable, be, by our treasurer, paid over to
the Treasurer Of the Washington Monument Soc
ETY., to be by him used for the object aforesaid
And we, one and all, pledge ourselves to carry out
this resolution to the fullest extent 4
Aad be IL further ResolUed, That this Council is
opposed to the appointment oftravellng agents. we
having already seen the evil of that course. Weare
also opposed to calling on the public generally, or
receiving anything from any one but native-born
Americans. We believe that if these resolutions
are generally carried out, the Monument Associa-
ton win have funds enough to do all they wish.
We pledge ourselves, within ten months, to pay
the Treasurer Of the Washington Monument Asso.
citation six hundred dollars, and we call upon other
Councils to 60 and do likewise.
RESOLVED, That, at proper time, the foregoing
address and resolutions be published in the Ameri-
can Oronu