Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-06
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,
10 the People Of tho United Stat

i WA8EtNNION NAIlONAll mONU-
MENT SOCIETY,
10 the People Of tho United States.
FELLOW 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:
At that time there in the treasury Of the Associa
tion the sum of $62,4 50 So.
The work has gone ON with varied progress until
the sum Of $2S00Os the product Of 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, 1925, 900.
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 hftyye 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 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 yet TO be placed the stones
| tributed by States communities, and associations
This naked shaft thus rgidly 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 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 still idle, and anxiously inquiries the cause.
Fellow-citizens We are panied to say, II is your
neglect. When the scattered and subjugated Polish
nation and the friends Of liberty in Europe, began TO
| erect monument to Koscusko, they made 1t labor
| of leye, 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 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, 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 men well known to you, have given to it
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 II
was not their work, it was yours; they were your
stewards, giving their time, and care, and labor, 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
patty yours, which essential to success. You,
the people Of this broad and happy land you, the
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 the, APP
peal to their patriotism and contributed the amount
already received and expended the far greater num-
ber either from apathy or want of opportunity have
failed to join in this work of grateful duty. This
failure compelled our predecessors to arrest the prose-
cuon of the work. and to appeal to Congress for
sistanoe.
Fellow-citizens: This is not suitable object of
Legislative provision free a prosperous a thriv-
ing people will not allow debt of love and graft
tide due by every individual heart to be discharged
by an act OF Congress!
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 the 22d February last
gun and lar are now in progress. All causes Of differ
ence between 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 all the piano.
ply OF freedom In this broad land who is not dead to
the common impulses OF humanltyj 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
breast at the bare naming Of such benefac,or as 10
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
the name OF Washington. snpfy or in companies
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