"Su-Ki-Yu, by imperial appointment, Lieutenant Governor of the Province
of Fuh Kun, in his Universal Geography, says:
"'It is evident that Washington was a remarkable man. In devising plans
he was more decided than Chin-Sing, or Wu-Kang,[A] in winning a country,
he was braver than Tsau-Tsau or Lin Pi.[B] Wielding his four-footed
falchion, he extended the frontiers thousands of miles, and then refused
to usurp the regal dignity or transmit it to his posterity, but first
established rules for an elective administration. Where in the world can
be found such a public spirit? Truly, the sentiments of three dynasties
have all at once unexpectedly appeared in our day! In ruling the State
he promoted and fostered good customs, and did not depend on military
merit. In this he differed from all other nations. I have seen his
portrait; his air and form are grand and imposing in a remarkable
degree. Ah! who would not call him a hero?
"'The United States of America regard it promotive of national virtue
generally and extensively neither to establish titles of nobility and
royalty nor to conform to the age, as respects customs and public
influence, but instead deliver over their own public deliberations and
inventions, so that the like of such a nation--one so remarkable--does
not exist in ancient or modern times. Among the people of the Great
West, can any man, in ancient or modern times, fail to pronounce
Washington peerless?'
"This stone is presented by a company of Christians and engraved at
Ningpo, in the Province of Che Heang, China, this third year of the
reign of the Emperor He-en Fung, sixth month and seventh day." [July 12,
1853.]
ARTICLES DEPOSITED
IN
RECESS IN THE CORNER-STONE OF THE
MONUMENT
ON JULY 4, 1848.
Constitution of the United States and Declaration of Independence;
presented by Mr. Hickey.
American Constitutions; by W. Patton.
Large design of the Washington National Monument, with the _fac simile_
of the names of the Presidents of the United States and others.
Lithographed.
Large design of the Washington National Monument. Lithographed.
Historical sketch of the Washington National Monument since its origin,
in MS.
Portrait of Washington, from Stuart's painting, Faneuil Hall.
Plate engraved with the names of the officers and members of the Board
of Managers.
The Statesman's Manual, containing President's Messages from Washington
to Polk, from 1789 to 1846, vols. 1 and 2.
Copy of the grant for the site of the Monument under the joint
resolution of Congress.
Constitutions of the Washington National Monument Society, addresses,
circulars, commissions, instructions, form of bond, from 1835 to 1848.
Small design of Monument and likeness of Washington, with blank
certificates for contributors.
Watterston's New Guide to Washington; by G. Watterston.
Map of the City of Washington; by Joseph Ratcliffe.
Laws of the Corporation of Washington; by A. Rothwell.
J. B. Varnum, Jr., on the Seat of Government; by J. B. Varnum, Jr.
Statistics by John Sessford of the number of dwellings, value of
improvements, assessments of the real and personal tax, &c., in the City
of Washington, from 1824 to 1848, print and manuscript; by John
Sessford.
Census of the United States, 1840; Force's Guide to Washington and
vicinity, 1848; by W. Q. Force.
Drake's Poems; Catalogue of the Library of Congress, printed 1839;
Catalogue from 1840 to 1847, both inclusive; by Joint Committee on the
Library of Congress.
Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico, 1846-'47; by R. P. Anderson.
All the coins of the United States, from the eagle to the half-dime,
inclusive.
Census of the United States from 1790 to 1848, inclusive.
A list of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, its
Officers, with the dates of their respective appointments; by W. J.
Carroll, Clerk Supreme Court of the United States.
Proceedings of the General Society of the Cincinnati, with the original
institution of the order and _fac simile_ of the signatures of the
original members of the State Society of Pennsylvania; by Charles L.
Coltman.
Constitution and General Laws of the Great Council of the Improved Order
of Red Men of the District of Columbia.
By-Laws of Powhatan Tribe, No. 1, and General Laws of the Great Council
of the same Order.
American Silk Flag; presented by Joseph K. Boyd, citizen of Washington,
District of Columbia, on the 4th of July, 1848.
The Temple of Liberty, two copies, one ornamented and lettered with red.
The letters are so arranged in each that the name of Washington may be
spelled more than one thousand times in connection; by John Kilbourn.
Design of the Monument, small plate, produced by a process called
electrotype; by Chas. Fenderich, Washington.
A copy of the Constitution of the first organized Temperance Society in
America; by L. H. Sprague, July 4, 1848.
Sons of Temperance in the District of Columbia.
Report on the Organization of the Smithsonian Institution; by Professor
Henry.
Coat of Arms of the Washington family; by Mrs. Jane Charlotte
Washington, July 4, 1848.
The Blue Book for 1847; Congressional Directory; by J. & G. S. Gideon.
Thirty-first Annual Report of the American Colonization Society.
Message of the President of the United States and accompanying
documents, 1847.
Navy Register, 1848; by C. Alexander.
Coast Survey Document; Army Register for 1848.
The Washington Monument; Shall It Be Built? by J. S. Lyon.
Holy Bible; presented by the Bible Society; instituted 1816.
Vail's Description of the Magnetic Telegraph; by A. Vail.
Report of the Joint Committee on the Library, May 4, 1848, and an
engraving; by M. Vattemare.
Morse's North American Atlas.
African Repository and Colonial Journal, 1848.
Military Laws of the United States, 1846; by G. Templeman.
Appleton's Railroad and Steamboat Companion.
Daguerreotype likeness of General and Mrs. Mary Washington, with a
description of the Daguerreotype process; by John S. Grubb, Alexandria,
Va.
True Republican; the likeness of all the Presidents to 1846, and
inaugural addresses; by G. Templeman.
Silver Medal, representing General Washington and the National Monument;
by Jacob Seeger.
Copies of the Union Magazine, National Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book,
Graham's Magazine, and Columbian Magazine, for July, 1848; by Brooke &
Shillington.
Constitution of the Smithsonian Association, on the Island, instituted
November 9, 1847.
Harper's Illustrated Catalogue; by S. Colman.
Smithsonian Institution--Report of the Commissioners on its
organization; Reports from the Board of Regents; by W. W. Seaton.
American Archives; A Documentary History of the American Colonies to the
present time; fourth series, vol. 5; by Peter Force.
Guide to the Capitol; by R. Mills.
An American Dollar; by Miss Sarah Smith, Stafford, N. J.
American State Papers, 1832; National Intelligencer for 1846 (bound); by
Gales & Seaton.
Abstract Log for the use of American Navigators; by Lieut. M. F. Maury,
U. S. N.; by M. F. Manry.
Report of Prof. Bache, Superintendent of the Coast Survey; by Coast
Survey Office.
_Fac simile_ of Washington's Accounts; by Michael Nourse.
Claypole's American Daily Advertiser, December 25, 1799, and the
Philadelphia Gazette, December 27, 1799, containing a full account of
the death and funeral ceremony of General Washington, the official
proceedings of Congress, Executive, &c.; by G. M. Grouard.
Publication No. 1, Boston, 1833.
A cent of 1783 of the United States of America; by W. G. Paine.
United States Fiscal Department, vols. 1 and 2; by R. Mayo, M. D.
Maps and Charts of the Coast Survey; by Survey Office.
Letters of John Quincy Adams to W. L. Stone, and introduction; letters
of J. Q. Adams to Edward Livingston, Grand High Priest, &c.; Vindication
of General Washington, &c., by Joseph Ritner, Governor of Pennsylvania,
with a letter to Daniel Webster and his reply, printed in 1841;
American Antimason, No. 1, vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut, 1839, Maine
Free Press; Correspondence Committee of York, Pennsylvania, to Richard
Rush, April, 1831; his answer, May 4, 1841; Credentials of a Delegate
from Jefferson County, Missouri, and proceedings of a meeting of
citizens to make the appointment of a delegate; by Henry Gassitt,
Boston, Massachusetts.
Annual Report of the Comptroller of the State of New York, January 5,
1848; Tolls, Trade, and Tonnage of the New York Canals, 1847; State of
New York--first report of the Commissioner, Practice and Pleadings; by
Hon. Washington Hunt.
Specimens of Continental Money, 1776; by Thos. Adams.
Report of the Commissioner of Patents, 1847; by Edmund Burke.
Walton's Vermont Register and Farmers' Almanac, 1848; by Hon. Mr. Henry.
Maury's Wind and Current Charts of the North Atlantic; by M. F. Maury.
Astronomical Observations for 1845, made under M. F. Maury, at the
Washington Observatory; by M. F. Maury.
Casts from the seals of the S. of T. and I. O. R. M.; by J. W. Eckloff.
Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Thirtieth
Congress and Documents; by R. P. Anderson.
NEWSPAPERS
Deposited in Corner-Stone.