Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-28
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,

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FkLLow-CIrIzENs 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 Associa
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum of $780, 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 ,222, 900.
The base, built of the blue stone Of the Potomac,
solid and indestructbe is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and bali feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth II Is htyhye 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 dminishes 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-
tributed 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 nifty
two and half feet above the blue stone base. 1t is
already one 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 on its top designed for lifting
stone sui lule, ana anIlOubly inquiries INC 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 to
erect monument to Kosciusko, they made It 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
the lapse Of forty years, amid the convulsons which
have shaken that unhappy country, pilgrim hands
We are erecting Monument to q greater than
Koscusko, 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
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 careulness 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 libor 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. 1s,.
While thousands have answered promptly the APP
peal to their patriotism and contributed the amount
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-
caton of the work, and to appeal TO Congress for as
sistance.
Feow-citzens: This is not a suitable object of
Legislative provision. free, prosperous, thriy-
ing people, will not allow a debt of love and grad.
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 election on the 22d February last
we have not been idle Our arrangements 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 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 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
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
dead TO the sensations which innate in every
breast at the bare naming Of such beneactor as TO
refuse or neglect to give their aid in such cause
Let every man, them who feels his heart beat with
American pulsations, and every man who reveres
the name of Washington, sngly or in companies
in his contribution 70 our Treasurer, or suggest
mode for its collection.
BY order of the Board:
CHARLES @. 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 70 wit:
FRANKLIN PIERCE,
President Of the q. States and exoficio President
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN 7. TOWERS,
Mayor Of Washington and ex-offcio I'd v. Prest
GEORGE II. PLANT,
Third Vice President
JOHN NJ. MoCALLA,
CHARLES 9. ruok nsfS''r''
Secretary
Managers
HEsRr ADDISON, Jos. II. BRADLEY,
CHAs. r. BKLr, SAMUEL G. BusrI
PRKScu s. EVANS, JANIS GoRpos,
CHAs. w. DAVIS, RosERr T. KSIaHr,
JOHN N. CRAIG, JosxrH LIBBf, SE,
SAMUEL Z. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BRooKr.
JOSIAH r. Polk,
p. s. Editors friendly 70 the cause, requested
70 insert the above address
O. G. TUCKER, Secretary.
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