Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-17
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU.
MENT SOCIETY,
To The Pe0Dle of the United States

MENT SOCIETY, M
TO The People Of the United States.
FELLow-cmzESs; 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 CONVERSIONS was laid on the 4th Of July, ls4s
At that time there in the treasury of the Associa
ton the sum of $82, 450 SO.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum of $3.50 00a the product Of voluntary contr.
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 1898, 900.
The base, built of the blue stone of the Potomac,
solid and ndestructble is sunk eight feet below the
surface, and rises seventeen and hall feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth IL is hyhye 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 it diminishes 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 rigidly cut thus firmly
based, thus ndissolubly bonded, now rises IN its
two and half feet above the blue stone base. II is
already one 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
stone still idle and anxiously inquiries the cause.
Fellow-ctizens: We are panied to say, 1t is your
neglect When the scattered and subugated Polish
nation and the friends Of liberty in Europe, began 10
erect a monument to Kosciusko, they made 1t 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
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, Ia 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 carefulness and labor They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help and You
have, to certain extent responded to their CALL II
not their work, it was yours; they, were your
Stewards giving their time, and care, and ibor, 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 on yours which was essential to success You
the people of this broad and happy land yon, 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
tiona metropolis.
While thousands have answered promptly the, APP
peal to their patriotism, and contributed the amount
already received and expended the far greater num-
ber either from apathy or want of opportunity have
failed to join in this work of grateful duty. This
failure compelled predecessors to arrest the prese-
cuon 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, thirty
ing people, will not allow a debt of love and graft
tude, due by every individual heart to be discharged
by an act OF Congress-!
new Board OF Managers have now been appoint
cd We favorable
and with well-founded hopes of means to prosecute
the work. Since election on the 22d February last
we have been idle Our arrangements have been be
gum and are now in progress. All causes OF differ
ence between us and the Old Board have, hope,
been removed, and we will Immediately 60 TO work.
We appeal to the people. We wish no Legislative
aid. We look to free hearts we call upon oil 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 tho 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-fv millions, cannot be
SO dead TO the sensations which innate in every
breast at the bare naming of such benefactor as to
refuse or neglect to give their aid in such cause.
Let every man, then who feels his heart beat with
American pulsaiions, and every man who reveres
the name of Washington, sngly or in companies,
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his contribution 70 our Treasurer, or suggest a
mode for its collection.
Bv order of the Board
CHARLES c. 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 22d
day Of February last TO wit:
FRANKLIN PIERCE,
President Of the u States and ex-oficio President.
YESPASIAN ELLIS
First Vice President.
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor of Washington and ex-oficio I'd V. Pres't
GEORGE II. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
Treasurer.
CHARLES c. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers
HxsRY ADDISON JOS. II. BRADLEY,
CHAs r. BKLT, SAMUEL @. BUsKy
FRENCH s. Evans JAMES GORDON,
Cas- W, DAVIS RoBERr I. KNIGHT,
JOHN ~ CRAIG, JosEPH LIBBY, Sn.,
SAMUEL f. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BROOKE
JOSIAH +. Polk,
p. s. Editors friendly TO the cause, are requested
N insert the above address
G. c. TUCKER, Secretary.
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