Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-11
ADDRESS OF fHE BOARD on MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,

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| 10 The People Of Ms United STATES.
/ Fellow CIrrxKxs: 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
| ton the sum Of k62, $50 &c.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum Of ssSoOOo, the product Of voluntary contr
buttons alone, has been expended In lis erection.
The original estimate OF the cost Of the whole work
the SHAH the base and the ornamental part exceeded
| 81, $4,000.
The base built Of the blue stone Of the Potomac,
solid and ndestructible, is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises and half feet above the
surface OF the surrounding earth II is hfyhye feet
square At its top. From this springs the shalt with
walls OF blue stone iiteen feet thick faced with white
marble fourteen inches thick in courses two feet in
height tied and bounded into the blue stone al 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 70 the taste Of the architect have
been placed and yet 10 be placed, the stones
| tributed by States communities, and associations.
| This naked shaft, thus rgidly cut thus firmly
based, thus indssolubly bonded, now rises in It's
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 eve
Of the traveller he passes through the hills by
which the city is hemmed in and be starts TO find the
| immense machinery on its top designed for lifting
stone still idle, and anxiously inquiries the cause.
negiact When The scatisrrd and snh;,uaisd polisb
nation and the friends Of liberty in Erope began 20
erect monument to kosciusko, they made II labor
nl.;n INA r,nnin,, sre., far and near thew hrougbt
Stones and ned and beaned tbem into n vast pyra-
midal mound 10 testify that love. And now. after
have lhaLan that y,,nhannx cann,ry niigrim hands
still swell that nile with Constant contrbutiona
We are erecting Monument 10 a greater than
Kosciusko. to him who in history or myth. n known
among every kindred and nation OF the Garth who
laid the foundntons qaye the proportiops and SUPER
intended the structure of that government which.
with miraculous sneed has risen 10 the front rank
among the nations and we call unnn Won for aid
Hitherto. men well known 10 YOU. have given 10 Il
lone years of carefness ana labor They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for helm. and Won
have to n certain extent responded 10 their call. n
was not their work Il was yours. thcy were yonr
stewards giving their time and care and thor and
money in 1 The same cause with Won.
Buf thew have failed moi for lack of enerpy ar zeal
on their part but from want of that action and SYM
patbv IN yonrs which was essential 10 success You
The people Of this broad and happy land Won the
children of Washington you to whom he has left
the nriceless beoucst az fla services and bs love
bava bsd haeI tbs contr;bnt;on naeded from each \,
erect to his memory suitable Monument In he ma.
tonal metropolis
While thousands have answered PROMPTLY the, an
peal to their patriotism, and contributed the amount
already received and expended the far oreater nun,-
Der either from apathy or want of opportuny. have
failed to ioin in This work of grateful duty This
failure compeed our predecessors To arrest the prse
cuon of the work and to appeal to Congress for as
sistance.
Fellow-citzens: This is not a suitable object of |
Legislative provision. free prosperous, thriy-
inc people will not allow debt of love and graft
tude due by every individual heart to be discharged
by an ACT az Congressl
A new Board Of Managers have now been appoint
ed We come into Office under favorable auspices. |
and with well-founded homes of means TO prosecute
the work Since our election on 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 as we hope
been removed. and we will Immediately 90 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 oil the piano. |
ply of freedom 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, 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 benefactor, as