Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-01
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU- !.
MINT SOCIETY

10 The Peopis Of Tho United States.
FELLow-cIrIzEss 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 in the treasury Of the Associa
ton the sum Of $62,4 50 Sc.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum OF $780, 0e the product of voluntary conri
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.
The base, built of the blue stone Of the Potomac,
solid and indestructbe is sunk eight feet below the
surface, and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth II is dfyfye 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 two feet in
height tied and bounded into the blue stone at every
course. In its ascent 1t 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 ngidly 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. II is
already of the first objects which meets the eye
of the traveller 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
Fellow-citizens: We are panied to say, 1t is your
neglect When the scattered and subjugated 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 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
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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 careulness 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 filled not for lack of energy or zeal
on their part but from want of that action and sym
patty on yours, which essential to 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. Mt
While thousands have answered promptly thel APP
peal to their patriotism, and contributed the amount
already received aud expended, the ar greater num-
Der, either from apathy want of opportunity, have
failed to join in this work Of grateful duty. This
failure compelled predecessors arrest the prose-
cuton of the work. and to appeal to Congress for
sstance.
Fellow-cidzens; This is not suitable object of
legislative provision. A free,a prosperous, thriy-
ing people, will not allow debt of love and graft
tude, 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
have not been idle Our arrangements have been be-
gum and are now in progress All causes OF differ
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
everywhere to contribute each his mite A great
and mighty people, of twenty-five millions cannot be
80 dead to the sensations which innate in every
breast at the bare naming of such benefactor as to
refuse neglect 10 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 70 our Treasurer, or suggest
mode for its collection.
By order Of the Board
CHARLES @. TUCKER,
The following are the present Officers and Mama
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 ex-oficio President.
vESPASIAN 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 NJ. McCALLA,
Treasurer.
CHARLES G. TUCKER,
.4a Secretary. !
Managers
HENRY ADDISON, Jos. II. BRADLEY,
CHAs r. BEIT SAMUEL O. BusEI,
FRENCH s. EVANS, JAMES GoRpos,
CHAs w. DAVIS, RoBKRT T. KNIGHT,
JOHN N. CRAIe, JOSEPH LIBBY, SR,
SAMUEL 4. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. Books.
JOSIAH f. Polk,
p S. Editors friendly 10 the cause, requested
10 insert the above address.
O. G. TUCKER, Secretary.
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