Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-31
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,
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10 The People Of the United States
| FELLow-c IrIzEss: 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 laid the 4th of July, ls4s
At that time there in the treasury Of the Associa
/ ton the sum Of x62, 450 So.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum q $3.50 oos the product o. 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 stone of the Potomac,
solid and indestrucdbe, is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises and half feet above the
surface Of the surrounding earth II Is hfty-hve 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 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-
tribuled by States communities, and associations
| This naked shaft, thus rgidly cut, thus firmly
based, thus indissoluby bonded, now rises in It's
simple and grand proportions one hundred and fifty
two and half feet above the blue stone base. 1t 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
immense machinery on its top designed for lifting
stone still idle and anxiously inquiries the cause.
Fellow-ctizens: We are panied TO say, 1t Is your
neglect When the scattered and subiugated Polish
nation and the friends Of liberty in Europe, began to
erect monument TO Kosciusko, they made il 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 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 aid.
Hitherto, mon 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 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
pathy 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
tional metropolis. y
While thousands have answered promptly the APP
peal to their patriotism, and contributed the amount
already received and expended, the far greater
elmer from apathy OF WANT Oi nave
failed to join in this work of grateful duty. This
failure compelled our predecessors to arrest the prose
cuton Of the work. and to appeal to Congress for as
sisiapce.
legislative provision. 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 Congressl
A new Board Of Managers have now been appoint
ed. We come into Office under favorable auspices,
and with wel-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 now 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 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 oil 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 10 the sensations which are innate in every
breast atthe bare naming of such benefactor, to
refuse or neglect TO give their aid in such cause.
Let every man, then, who feels his heart beat with
American pusations, and every man who reveres
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his contribution to our Treasurer, or suggest
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 elected on the ed
' : ~ '' FRANKLIN PIERCE,
President Of the U. States and ex-otcio President
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor of Washington and ex-ofiico I'd v. Pres't.
GEORGE H. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN N. McoALLA,
CHARLES 9. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers:
HENRY ADDISON, Jos. ii. BRADLEY,
CHAs. r. BELT, SAMUEL O. Busy,
FRKNcu S. EVANS, JAMES GoRDoN
CuAs. w. DAVIS RoBERr T. KNIGHT
JoHS N. CRAIG, JOSEPH LIBBY, Sn.,
SAMUEL L. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BROOKE.
JOSIAH +. Polk
p. s. Editors friendly to the cause, are requested
10 insert the above address.
G. G. TUCKER, Secretary.
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