Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-25
ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS
WASHINGTON NATIONAL mONU-
MENT SOCIETY,
TO the People of ths Unlted States.


MEET SOCIETY,
TO the People Of the United States
FELLow-CIrIEESs; 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 $82, $50 90.
The work has gone ON with varied progress until
the sum Of $4,000, 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
a. 1895, 900.
solid and understandable, is sunk eight feet below the
surface and rises seventeen and half feet above the
surface of the surrounding earth IL is hfty-ye 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 con-
trbuted by States, communities, and associations.
This naked shaft, thus rigidly 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 s
already one 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 sarts.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, II Ii your
neglect When the scattered and subjugated Polish
nation and the friends OF liberty in Europe began to
erect monument to Kosciusko they made u 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 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
hat, ,iIa with nustau MT
We are erecting Monument TO q greater than
Kosciusko, to him who in history or myth, is known
among every kindred and nation OF the earth VINO
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 wears of carefuness 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 tme and cure, 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
patty on yours which essential to success. Yos,
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
| tiona metropolis.
While thousands have answered promptly the APP
peal to their patriotism and contributed the amount
already received and expended, the far greGer num-
her 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
siBtance.
Fellow-citizens: This is not a suitable object of
legislative provision. A free prosperous, thriy-
ing people, will not allow debt of love and graft.
tde, due by every individual heart to be discharged
by an act of Congressl
A new Board Of Managers have now been appoint
intp off favorable
and with well-founded hopes of means to prosecute
the work Since election on the 22d February last
have not been idle Our arrangements have been be-
gun and now in progress All causes OF differ
cnce between us and the Old Board have, we hope,
been removed, and we will Immediately go 10 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
so dead to the sensations which innate In every
breast at the bare naming of such benefactor, as to
refuse 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,
in his contribution 10 our Treasurer, or suggest
mode for its collection.
BY order of the Board
CHARLES G. TUCKER, 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 ed
day of February last 70 witt
FRANKLIN PIERCE
President Of the u States and ex-offico President
VESPASIAN ELLIS,
First Vice President.
JOHN t. TOWERS,
Mayor Of Washington and exofficio I'd V. Pres't.
GEORGE II. PLANT,
Third Vice President.
JOHN NJ. McCALLA,
Treasurer
CHARLES C. TUCKER,
Secretary.
Managers
HENRY ADDISON JOS. III. BRADLEY
CHAs r. BELT, SAMUEL @. BUsKY,
FRENcH s. Evans JAMES GORDON,
CuAs w DAVIS Robert I. KNIGHT,
JOIN N CRAIa JOSEPH LIBBY, SR.,
SAMUEL +. DOUGLAS, THOMAS A. BRooKK.
JOSIAH +. Polk,
p. s. Editors friendly to the cause, are requested
TO insert the above address.
C. G. TUCKER, Secretary.
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