Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-30
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY.

FELLOW 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 1S4s
At that time there in the treasury of the Assoca-
ton the sum Of $62,450 SO.
The work has gone with varied progress until
the sum of $23O00a 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, 1926, 900.
The base, built of the blue stone Of the Potomac,
solid and indestructble is sunk eight feet below the
surface, and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface OF Che surrounding earth is hfty-iye 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 1t diminishes 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 are yet to be placed the stones con-
trbuted by States, communities, and associations.
This naked shaft, thus rigidly 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. II is
already of the first objects which meets the eye
of the traveller as he passes, through the hills by
which the city is hemmed in and he starts to find the
immense machinery its top designed for lifting
stone still idle and anxiously inquiries the cause
Feow-citizens: We are panied to say, il is your
neglect. When the scattered and subjugated Polish
natlol' ana tne irends ol liberty ~ pegah =.
erect monument W hosciusko, they haoe iapo,
OF leve, and from every valley and mountain, and
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
nave shaken that unhappy country, Pngrm hahds
sun sweli that PIE WIN constant conTipuuohs.
We are erecting Monument TO greater than
Kosciusko to him who in history or myth, is known
anonR every khareu anu nalion VI tlle earn wao
a,u 'ne iouhualons, gnVe ne anu
intended the structure OF tnat government when
with miraculous speed has risen to the 'front.' RANK
among the nauons, ana we can upon you ior aie.
hitnerto, men Wen known 70 you, nave gwen 70 ~
long Years Oh careIuness ana laHor lhey nave peen
urgent ana pressing In their calls LOT heip ana you
have, 70 certain extent responded 70 their call II
was not their WORK. u was yours; they were your
Stewards giving their uHe ana care, ana ltDor, ana
money, IN me same cause WIN you.
But tney nave aiied not lor lack OF energy or zeal
on their part but from want OF that action ana sym
pathy on yours, when was essental 70 success ou
tne people OF TINS proad anu haPPy iahd you ,ne
chllareh OF washington you " Mnoih ne nus iei'
the priceless pequest OF MS services ana ms rove,
nave held back the contributor needed from each 70
erect 10 MS memory suitable monument IN the ma
no WL n; METROPOLIS, , ., a.,
Whhe thousands nave answered promptly the. ap.
peal to their PATRIOTISM ana contributed the amount
already received ana expended tae lar greater num-
Der either from apathy or want Of opportunity have
tailed 10 JOIN IN tnls WORK OF grate1ui DUTY ms
failure compelled our 10 arrest the prose-
cuoh OF the work. ana 10 appear 10 congress ior as
sistance . 49,
fellow.cuzens: ms Is NOT suitable oD)ect OF
legislative provision. A free, prosperous, thirty
ing people, VIII not allow DEBT OF love and graft
tude, due by every mdviduai hear 10 DC discharged
by an act OF Congressl
new Board OF managers nave now peen appoint
ed. we come INTO once under favorable auspices,
and with well-iounded hopes OF means 70 prosecute
the work. since our election, on the ga feDruary as
wehave notbeeni our arrangements nave pesn pc
between and the old Board have, as We hope,
been removed, ana we Wi m MN 60 70 WORK.
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nd n,;'t % 81 n,;l,;ona cann6t hs
90 daad tnha apan,,atans ,h;nb ara ;nna;a in avsr
Sroas - ~ ae h.a W Sc hanafoc,n
refuse or neglect to give their aid in such cause
Let every man, then, who feels his heart beat with
American pulsations, and every man who reveres
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his contribution to our Treasurer, or suggest
mode for its collection.