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"This man, whose character combines so many reasons for private veneration and public gratitude, is yet destitute of a monument to his memory. "No stone tells where he lies." Not one of those massy and time-resisting fabrics, by which all nations, savage as well as civilized, have been accustomed to express esteem or admiration, for their benefactors, has, since his death, been consecrated to his virtues and services.

The cause of this neglect, it is not necessary, and might be invidious, to trace. It is sufficient to state, that the desire seems to have become, in a great degree, universal, that, so far as it respects the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this apparent neglect of the father of his country should no longer exist, but that some distinguished, publick, monument, should express, to the world and posterity, the deep sense of veneration, which its citizens entertain for the great founder of our republick.

Actuated by these motives, a number of the inhabitants of Boston and its vicinity assembled on the evening of the 27th of April last, for the purpose of giving effect, by an organized association, to this general wish of themselves and their fellow-citizens. The result of this meeting was a resolution to erect, in some suitable place, in the town of Boston, a MONUMENT, to the memory of GEORGE WASHINGTON, and that the expense should be defrayed, out of a fund, to be raised by subscription, throughout the Commonwealth, conducted upon principles, which should exclude no citizen, possessing the inclination, from the gratification of uniting in this august tribute."