Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-12
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
OF TuH
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY.
70 Lhe Fe0ple % the UnIted Btates.

MENT SOCIETY,
TO The People of the United States.
! FELLow-C CITIZENS; We address you ON behalf Of
the Washington National Monument Association and
submit FIR your consideration the following report of
what has been done;
The cornerstone was laid on the 4th Of July, ls4s
AT that time there in the treasury OF the Assocla
| ton the sum of $62,450 So.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum of $3.50 00o 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, $4,000
The base built of the blue stone Of the Potomac
solid and ndestructble is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth 1t is ftyfye 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 il 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
| tributed by States communities and associations.
This naked shaft thus rgidly cut thus b; y
ample and grand proportions one hundred and nifty
two and half feet above the blue stone base. II is
already one of the first objects which meets the eye
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 1t is your
neglect When the scattered and subugated Polish
nation and the friends Of liberty in Europe, began to
erect monument to Kosciusko, they made it labor
of love, and from every valley and mountain, ana
plain and running stream far and near they brought
stones and piled and heaped them into vast pyra-
mida 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.
u IN n
Kosciusko, to him who in history 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 and.
Hitherto men well known to you have given TO it
long years Of carefnlness and labor They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help and you
have, to certain extent responded to their call II
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
patby on YOURS which was essential to You,
the people of this broad and happy land you, the
children Of Washington you, 70 whom ne p, has left
have held back the contribution needed from each to
erect to his memory suitable Monument In the ma
| tonal 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 want of opportunity have
failed 20 join in this work of grateful duty. This
failure compelled predecessors TO arrest the prose-
cution Of the work. and to appeal to Congress for
sstance
| Fellow-ctizens, This is not suitable object of
Legislative provision. A free, prosperous a thirty
ing people, will not allow a. debt of love and graft
ude due by every individual heart to be discharged
| by an act OF Congress
! A new Board OF Managers have now been appoint
| ed We come into Office under favorable auspices,
/ J,,,ib, ad pf IN mr.
the work Since election, the 22d February last,
we have not been idle Our have been be-
gun, and are now in progress. All causes OF differ
ence between us and the Old Board have 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 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
men everywhere TO contribute each his mite. great
and mighty people, of twenty-five millions cannot be
so dead to the sensations which innate in every
breast at the bare naming OF such benefacor as to
refuse or neglect to give their aid IN such cause.
Let every man. then, who feels his heart beat with
American pusatons aud every man who reyeres
| the name Of Washington, singy or in companies,
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 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
oAS Of fs0'0A'' ''' FRANKLIN PIERCE,
president of the u States and exoflicio President
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor Of Washington and ex-oihcio I'd Y. Pres't
GEORGE H. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
CHARLES G. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers
HENRY ADDISON, JOS II. BRADLEY,
CnAs. r. BELT, SAMUEL q. BUskT
| FRRrcH 3. EVANS, JAMES GoRDoN,
i CHAs. W. DAVIS, RoBERT i. KNIGHT,
| JOIN ~ CRAIa, JosKPn LfBpY, SR,
SAMUEL +. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BROOKE
JOSIAH r. Polk,
P.S. Editors friendly 70 the cause, are requested
~ &C. TUCKER, Secretary.
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