Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-04
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,
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MENT SOCIETY,
10 the People Of hs United States.
FELLow-CIrIzKSs: 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 ls4s
At that time there was in the treasury Of the Assoca
ton the sum of $50, 450 SO.
The work has gone with varied progress until
the sum of $23000a the product Of voluntary oontr
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, 222,0
The base, built Of the blue stone of the Potomac,
solid and ndestructible, is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth 1t is ftyhve feet
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 II 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-
tribufed 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. 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-citizens We are panied to say, it is your
! neglect When the scattered and subugated Polish
nation and the friends Of liberty in Europe, began 70
erect monument TO Kosciusko, they made 1t labor
of leve, and from every valley and mountain, ana
plain and running stream far and near they brought
stones and piled and heaped them into q vast pyrar
| 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
Koscusko, TO him who in history or myth, IL 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 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 It
was not their work, it was yours; they were your
stewards, giving their tme and care, and lbor and
| money, in the same cause with you.
But they have failed not for lack of energy or zeal
their part, but from want Of that action and sym
pathy on 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 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.
While thousands have answered promptly thel APP
peal to their patriotism and contributed the amount
already received expended, gredter 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 prose-
cuton Of the work. and to appeal to Congress for as
sisance.
Feow-citizens: This is not suitable object of
Legislative provision A free prosperous, thriy-
ing people, will not allow debt of love and graft
tude due by every individual heart to be discharged
A new Board Of Managers have now been appoint
ed. We come into office under favorable auspices,
and with well-founded hopes of means to prosecute
the work Since our election the 22d February last
have not been idle. Our arrangements have been be-
gum and are in progress All causes OF differ
between and the Old Board have, as we 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 all not
the liberal and the generous alone We call upon
each 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
everywhere TO contribute each his mite. great
and mighty people, of twenty-five millions, cannot be
so dead to the sensations which are innate in every
breast ut 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
the name Of Washington, singfy or in companies,
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his tcontribution to our Treasurer or suggest a
mode for its collection.
CHARLES @. TUCKER, Secretary.
The following are the present Officers and Mena-
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 q. States and ex-oficio President
vESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor Of Washington and eI-officio I'd v. Pres't
GEORGE II. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ McCALLA,
CHARLES O. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers:
HENRY ADDISON, JOS. II. BRADLEY,
CHAs X. BELT, SAMUEL O. BusEY,
French 8. EVANS JAMES GoRDos,
CHAs w. DAVIS, RonkRr 7. KSIeHr,
john N. CRAIG, JOSEPH LIBBY, SR.,
SAMUEL 4. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BRooKH.
JOSIAH +. Polk,
P.S Editors friendly TO the cause, are requested
TO insert the above address.
c. @. TUCKER, Secretary.
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