Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-08
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU.
MENT SOCIETY,
10 Uae People of the United btates.

MENT SOCIETY,
10 The People Of the United States.
FELLOW CITIZENS: 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, 1913
AT that time there in the treasury of the Associa
ton the sum of $62, 400 60.
The work has gone with varied progress until
the sum Of $23000a 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 ndestructble, is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth IL is fyfve feet
square at its top From this springs the shaft with
walls of blue stone fifteen feet TUCK 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 are yet to be placed, the stones
| tributed by States, communities, and associations.
| This naked shaft, thus rigidly cut, thus firmly
based thus ndissoubly 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 as he passes, through the hills by
which the city is hemmed in and he starts TO find the
immense machinery on it's top designed for lifting
| stone still idle, and anxiously inquiries the cause.
! 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 1t a 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 a 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.
/ WY No. ~ than
Kosciusko, to him who in history 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. 1t
was not their work, it was yours; they were your
Stewards giving their tme and care, and ibor 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 on yours which was essential to You,
the people Of this broad and happy land you, the
children Of Washington you, to whom ne !, has lett
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 ap-
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 predecessors to arrest the prose-
cuon of the work. and to appeal to Congress for as
sistance.
! Fellow-citizens: This is not suitable object of
| Legislative provision. 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 Congress
/ 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,
wehave not been idle. Ourarrangementsh have been be-
gun and are now in progress. All causes of differ
enco between us and the Old Board have as we hope
/ been removed, and we will Immediately go to work.
i 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
i 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
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 beneactor as TO
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
communicate directly with our Secretary and send
in his contribution 70 our Treasurer, or suggest
mode for it's collection.
By order Of the Board
CHARLES G. TUCKER Secretary.
The following the present Officers and Mama
gers of the Society all of whom except the President
and Second Vice President, were elected on the 22d
Gay Oh FEBRUARY 'A'' FRANKLIN als; PIERCE,
President of the U. States and ex-oficio President
vESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor of Washington and ex-officio I'd v. Pres't
GEORGE II. PLANT
Third Vice President
| JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
CHARLES c. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers
| HENRY ADDISON, Jos. III. BRADLEY,
CHAs. r. BELT, SAMUEL q. BUsKy
FRENCH s. EVANS, JAMES GoRpoN,
| CHAs w DAVIS ROBERT I. KNIGHT,
JoHS n CRAIa, JOSEPH LIBBr, Sn.,
SAMUEL L. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BROOKE
JOSIAH II. Polk,
P. s. Editors friendly TO the cause, are requested
70 insert the above address.
: '' = 9. g. TUCKER, Secretary.
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