Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-10
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL MONU.
MENT SOCIETY.
10 ths People cf tAs United States.

TO The People Of the United States.
FKLLow-CIrIzKxs: We address you ON behalf Of
the Washington National Monument Association, and
submit for your consideration the following report OF
The cornerstone was laid ON the 4h Of July, ls4s
At that time there in the treasury OF the Assoca-
ton the sum Of t62, $50 Cd.
The work has gone on with varied progress until
the sum Of S230O0a the product Of voluntary contri
buttons alone, has been expended in its erection.
The original estimate Of the cost Of the whole work,
the SHAH the base, and the ornamental part exceeded
81, 222, 900.
The base, built Of the blue stone Of the Potomac,
solid and indestructbe, is sunk eight feet below the
surface, and rises and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth IL Is fftyhve feet
square at It's 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 10 the taste of the architect have
been placed and are yet 10 be placed the stones con-
tribued 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 nfty-
two aud half feet above the blue stone base. II is
already one Of the first objects which meets the eve
Of the traveller he passes through the hills by
which the city is hemmed in and he starts 70 find the
immense machinery on It's top designed for lifting
stone still idle and anxiousy inquiries the cause.
Fellow-ctzens: We arc panied TO say, Il Is yonr
neglect When the scattered and subjugated Polish
naton and the friends Of liberty in Europe, began 20
erect monument 10 Kosciusko, they made il q labor
of lsve 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, 10 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 10 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 10 the front rank
among the nations, and we call upon you for aid.
Hitherto men well known 10 you, have given 10 II
long years Of carefuness and labor They have been
urgent and pressing in their calls for help, and you
have, 10 certain extent responded to their call IL
was not their work. IL was yours; they were your
stewards giving their time, 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 yours, which was 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 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 want of opportunity have
failed TO Join in this work Of grateful duty. This
failure compelled our predecessors to arrest the prese
cution of the work. and to appeal to Congress for as
sistance.
Fellow-citizens: This is not suitable object Of
Legislative provision A free, prosperous, thirty
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-iounded hopes of means To prosecute
the work Since election, the 22d February last
have not been idle. 0urarrangements have been be-
gum and are now in progress All causes OF diifer-
ence between us and the Old Board have we hope,
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
men everywhere to contribute each his mite 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 benefacior, 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
the name Of Washington, singly or in companies,
communicate directly with our Secretary, and send
in his contribution 10 our Treasurer, suggest o
mode for its collection
By order Of the Board
CHARLES G. TUCKER, Secretary.
Inc lOllOWlnR are tne present OHlctrs anu 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:
President of the o. States and ex-oficio President.
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN T. TOWERS,
Mayor Of Washington and ex-ofiicio cd V. Prcs't
GEORGE III. PLANT.
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. MoCALLA,
Treasurer
CHARLES c. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers;
HEyRY ADDISON, Jos. H. BRADLEY,
CHAs r. BELr, SAMUEL @. Busy,
FRENCH s. EVANS JAMES GoRDoN,
CHAs w. DAVIS, ROBERT I. kSIeHT,
JoHN ~ CRAIG JOSEPH LIBBY, Sn.,
SAMUEL f. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. Books.
JOSIAH 4. Polk,
P.S. Editors friendly to the cause, are requested
70 insert the above address.
&C. TUCKER, Secretary.
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