"But to you, Brethren, his name is a household word. It was breathed over you on a mother's name and graven on your heart by a mother's love. It was taught you by a father's watchful care, and has been held ever before you as your beacon and your guide by a father's ceaseless anxiety. It was your watchword in the sports of youth; it is, it must be, your polar star in the mazes of a maturer life; it is the name for patriotism; it is little less than that of a god. Oh, the heart--the true American heart--the heart that beats responsive to the call of country--the heart that thrills at those words of wisdom and warning which fell from his lips, teaching us the dangers of foreign influence--the heart that swells with gratitude to the great human benefactor, who, having led us through the perils of the terrible conflicts of the Revolution, and guided us through the scarcely less perilous history of the Federation, and presided over that grand and august assembly which framed our matchless Constitution, laid in practice the deep foundations of this mighty Nation--the heart of the native-born American leaps up with joy to testify its deep love and veneration for him and seeks some adequate means to express it. And, Brethren and Countrymen, we bring it to you; we give you, by the means spread before you, an opportunity to enroll your names in the book where is found the mighty company who have contributed to this the most remarkable Monument ever erected to man, which, as his name, shall stand unique, lofty--towering above all others known among men. "Brethren, come to our aid. "By order of the Board: "CHAS. C. TUCKER, "_Secretary_. "WASHINGTON, D. C., _May, 1855_." OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY: FRANKLIN PIERCE, _President of the United Slates and ex officio President_. VESPASIAN ELLIS, _First Vice-President_. JOHN T. TOWERS, _Mayor of Washington and ex officio Second Vice-President_. GEORGE H. PLANT, _Third Vice-President_. JOHN M. McCALLA, _Treasurer_. CHAS. C. TUCKER, _Secretary_. MANAGERS: HENRY ADDISON, THOMAS D. SANDY, CHARLES R. BELT, JOSEPH H. BRADLEY, FRENCH S. EVANS, SAMUEL C. BUSEY, CHARLES W. DAVIS, JAMES GORDON, JOHN N. CRAIG, ROBERT T. KNIGHT, SAMUEL E. DOUGLAS, JOSEPH LIBBY, SR., THOMAS A. BROOKE. The address was printed in certain of the daily papers, and transmitted to the "Councils" of the party by the following letter: