Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-02-29
The Washington National Monument SO-
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A new and general effort IS now being
made 10 complete this noble monument, the (
old members Of the Board have given way
to others who are determined 10 put il
through. Joseph ClfrisInan, Esq, Of Mad
ison county, has been appointed General :
Agent, who has delegated John Melvin,
Esq. 10 visit each county in the State and
effect such arrangements rs viii enable every
citizen to make a free-will offering. psssii y
From the circular Of the Board Of Mama
gers we present the following extractss h.i.a9
FELLOW CITIZENS We address you on
behalf of the Washington National MOnu-
ment Association and submit for your con-
sideration the following report Of what has
been done: ~
The corner stone was laid on the 4tlN AZ
July, 1913. At that time there was inAbsI
treasury Of the Association, tho sum Of
$62, ,45o 66.
( The work has gone on with varied pro-,
gress, until the sum. of $4,000, the pro-
duets of voluntary contributions alene, has
been expended in its erection. w p
The original estimation of the cost of the
whole work, the shaft, the base, and the er7o
aameDtal part, exceeded 81 ,222, 900. The
base, builtof the bluestone of the Potomac,
an ind structibla is sunk eight feet below the
surface, and rises seventeen and half feet
above the surface of the surrounding eaTth.o
/ It is ffty-fve 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 it
diminishes gradually and regularly in the
exterior line. =
The interior is carried up a straight, un-
ldeyiatino chamber. Within and set into
the solid wall Of this interior, according to
the taste of the architect, have been placed,
and are vet to be placed, the stones contri-
lbuted by States communities and assOeia-
tions.
This naked shaft, thus rigidly cut thus
firmly based, thus indissolubly bounded, now
rises in its simple and grand proportions
one hundred and fifty feet above the blue
stone base. 1t is already one Of the frst
objects which meet 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 its top designed for
lifting stone still idle, and anxiously inquiries
the cause.
| Fellow Countrymen This is not suita-
| bic object of Legislative provision. A free,
a prosperous, a thriving people, viii not
allow debt of love and gratitude, due BY
every individual heart, to be discharged BY
an act Of Congress! ~
A new Board Of Managers have now
been appointed. We come into Office under
favorable auspices, and with wellfounded
hopes of means to prosecute the work
Since our election, on the 22d of February
last, we have not been idle. Our arrange
ments have been begun, and arein progress
We appeal to the people, We wish no
Legislative aid We lock to free hearts; we
call upon all; not the liberal and generous
alone. We call upon each man who this
day walks erect in all the panOply Of free
dom insthis broad land, who IS not dead to
the common impulse of humanity; who IS
E worthy in the least degree of the countless
and diversified blessing by which ne Is sur
rounded, we call upon men everywhere to
, contribute each his mite. A great and
mighty people of twenty-five millions, can
not be 50 dead to the sensations which are
innated in every breast at the bare naming
, of such benefactor, as to refuse or neglect
to give their aid in such cause.
Let every man, then, who feels his heart
beat with American pulsaton, and every
man who revers the name Of, Washington,
singly or in companies, communicate direct
" with our Secretary and send in his con-
tribution to our Treasurer, or suggest mode
for its collection.