Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-06-14
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU-
MENT SOCIETY,
ADDRESS OF

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FELLow-CIrnEss; We address you on behalf OF
submit for your consideration the following report OF
The cornerstone was laid on the 4th of July 1s4s.
At that time there in the treasury oil the Assoea-
ton the sum Of $62, $50 &c.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum of $230000 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 indesruetble, is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface OF the surrounding earth 1t is hftyhve 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 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
trbuted by States, communities, and associations.
based thus indissoubIy bonded now rises in its
simple and grand proportions one hundred and fifty
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-citzens: We are panied to say, it is your
neglect When the scattered and subiugated Polish
nation, and the friends of liberty in Europe began to
erect monument TO Kosciusko, they made II 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 commissions which
have .i 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 carefulncss 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 lbor, 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 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
tional metropolis.
While thousands have answered promptly the, APP
peal to their patriotism and contributed the amount
already received and expended the far greater
Der either from apathy or want Of opportunity have
failure compelled our predecessors to arrest the prose-
cuton of the work, and to appeal to Congress for
sistance.
Fellow-citizens This is not a suitable object of
legislative provision. A free, prosperous, thriv
ing people, will not allow debt of love and graft
tude due by every individual heart to be discharged
by an act OF Congressl
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, on the 22d February last
gum and are now in progress. All causes of differ
ence between us and the Old Board have as we hope
been removed, and will Immediately go to work
We appeal to the people. We wish no Legislative
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
Che 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
breast at the bare naming of such benefactor, as
to refuse or neglect to give their aid in such a
cause
Let every man, then, who feels his heart beat with
American pulsations, and every man who reveres
the name Of Washington, singly or in companies,
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his contribution to our Treasurer or suggest a
mode for its collection.
BY order of the Board
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 U. States and exoficio President
yESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President. |
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor Of Washington and ex-oficio I'd V. Pres't
GEORGE H. PLANT
Third Vice President. |
JOHN M. McCALLA,
CHARLES C. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers:
BESRf ADDISON, JOS ii. BRADLEY,
Gas. r. BELT, SAMUEL @. BUsKy
FRENCH s. EVANS, JAMES GoRpoN,
CBAs. w. DAVIS, RoBkRr T. KNIGHT,
JOHN N. CRAIG, JosEPH LIBBY, ST.,
SAMUEL Z. DOUGLAS THOMAS A. BRooKE.
THOMAS ID. SANDY,
y. s. Editors friendly TO the cause are requested
TO insert the above address.
Q. @. TUCKER, Secretary.