From the Monmouth Inquirer, August 6, 1846.
MONUMENT MEETING.

The adjourned meeting, called to take into further consideration the propriety and importance of erecting a monumeut to designate the ground and to commemorate the Battle of Monmouth, convened in the court room, during the recess of court, on Tuesday. A considerable number were present, among whom we noticed some of our most estimable and influential citizens. The meeting was temporarily organized by the appointment of THOMAS G. HAIGHT, President, and AMZI C. McLEAN, Esq,, Secretary. It was, therefore, determined to organize a permanent association to be called "The Monmouth Monument Association" for the accomplishment of this purpose. A constitution was then offered by Rev. D. V. McLean, which was taken up, section by section, and, with a few immaterial alterations, adopted. The officers of the association are a President, one Vice-President from each township, a Treasurer and Secretary, and a committee for the circulation of subscriptions and the collection of funds, consisting of three from each township. The contribution of fifty cents will constitute an individual a member of this association. When the monument is erected, the organization and the proceedings of the association, with the subscription books containing the names of those who shall contribute towards the erection, will be placed securely in the base of the Monument, there to remain until some convulsion of nature or the destroying hand of man shall prostrate it with the earth. Thus by contributing fifty cents the name of each individual will be transmitted to posterity down to the latest ages. The following are the names of the permanent officers and committees of the association:

President - THOMAS G. HAIGHT.
Vice-Presidents - James S. Lawrence. Esq.. of Upper Freehold; Thomas M. Perrine, of Millstone; James W. Andrews, of Freehold; William Little, of Middletown; Lyttleton White, of Shrewsbury; Halsted Wainright, of Howell; Samuel C. Dunham, of Dover; Edward Allen, of Jackson; John Meirs, of Plumsted; Samuel Birdsall, of Union; David W. Moore, of Stafford.
Treasurer - Thomas H. Arrowsmith.
Secretary - A. C. McLean.

Managers.

Upper Freehold. - Thomas Miller, John Cox and Augustus Ivins.
Millstone. - William P. Forman, Rev. Charles F. Worrell and Joseph J. Ely.
Freehold. - Robert E. Craig, Enoch L. Coward and Samuel Conover.
Middletown. - Dr. Edward Taylor, Asbury Fountain and Daniel Holmes.
Shrewsury. - Thomas E. Combs, Dr. John R. Conover and James Green.
Howell. - Dr. Robert Laird, John S. Forman and Andrew Simpson.
Jackson. - William Allen, William Francis and ----- Horner.
Dover. - Dr. Lewis Lane, Anthony Ivins. Jr. and David Jeffrey.
Union. - John Tilton, William Birdsall and Joseph Holmes.
Stafford. - Samuel M. Oliphant, John Willits and Dr. A. G. Hankinson.

THE MOVEMENT OF 1854.

The movement of 1854, referred to, took no definite shape. It originated with Major S. S. Forman, of Syracuse, New York, a native of Monmouth, and who went over the battle-field the day after the battle, being at that time only thirteen years of age. Happening to fall in with a stray copy of the Democrat it revived old recollections, and he wrote the editor a letter, which was published, in which he referred to the movement of 1846, and urged that a monument ought to be erected on some spot in or adjacent to the village, where it would be of easy access to visitors.

The letter excited some interest, and was the subject of a good deal of discussion throughout the county, and one gentleman, Mr. William T. Sutphin, who then owned the parsonage farm, went so far as to offer to give four acres of ground on the highest part of the farm, and one thousand dollars in money towards the erection of the monument, but as no steps were taken towards organizing the movement, the whole matter gradually faded out.