The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-03-02
THE GALAXY.
MIDDLEBURY- VT.
Tuesday, March, 2, 1847.
RELIEF FOR IRELAND.

w are brdtlHeu 10 learn mat SdtncIiuss
for the relief Of furnishing Ireland have been
held in most Of our sea-ports and many OF
our villages. 1t is said that sSo0,00O have
already been sent from New York. The
city alone has contributed thirty or forty
thousand dollars and will do more. Phila-
delphia will raise so thousand and Boston.
Baltimore and New Orleans literally. A
bill has been introduced into Congress 10 de-
vote 100000 to charity which is necessary
to rescue whole nation from the horrors Of
famine. Instances of private acts Of benefac-
lions too numerous TO mention appear in all
OF our exchanges. Not only Ireland bat
Scotland and even parts of England are
threatened with starvation. Indeed il seems
that France. Holland, Russia and Germany
are TO say the least upon very short allow
ance. History no where records FAMINE
so appalling widespread as that which
now impends over tho " hole European con-
rincnt. Blu; Ireland is the centre Of HI
spreading destruction. Advices from
that country by every arrival present hOr
rid picture. England is overfiowinz with
the mealess population Of Ireland crying
for bread. Scores of these wrcIchcd slarve-
linss are daily landing upon our shores
\ few days since the ship Garrick landed
one hundred paupcr emigrants at n. York.
Our aims houses and other institutions arr
OVERLOOKING with furnishing Foreigners, and
thousands are now begging their bread lom
door to door in New York and elsewhere.
To those who remain in Ireland the worst
has not yet arrived. Nine moths more must
pass over that country before another crop
can contrib 10 her relief II is said thar
Two millions nf its inhabitants are in actua
want, aud lille we are penning this arti
Gle thousands are enduring the worst Of all
sufieIinGs the cravings of hunger on the
ve-y borders of starvation or sinking ex
fit foi food in portions of the country have
nearly become extinct. The most wretchcd
substitutes such as roots. bark, tnrnips and
the like the feed OF the brute creation are
resorrea TO aud have become nearly ca
hausicd. AS the natural consequence Of
existing upon unwhosone food pcsti-
lence has set in. and IS daily sweeping ir<
victims into their graves. At a meeting held
at Dublin ure Of the speakers announced
&C. ,,,a District h.I
already persisted by sheer destiIution and the
maladies it ensendcis.
In view Of this awful picture Of suffering
humanity who does not feel his sympaIhies
excited for the people Of this devoted Island
Their calamities are not the result Of i'm
prudence. They come from the hand Of that
Pro violence which has blest US with IN abun-
dance. We are even growing rich by mill
ions our of The very Gistfesses which We are
called upon to alleviate. While we are SC
amply provided with the means Of succor
shall multitudes Of our fellow beings sinE
under all the horrors OF starvation within Il
days sail fIom our storesl True Christian
philanthropy is limited by no geographic
lines. 1t seeks the amelioration Of the con-
ditiou oil the whole humar family all over the
globe. Even the poor Mexican whose soil
our government has seen fit to stain Wild the
blood Of her OVID citizens are entitled to the
sympaIhes W hich man should feel for his
! fellow man; much more the people OF Ire
land, whose blood is ntcrmingled and now
courses through the veins Of two millions oil
the American family, and whose bravery, eu-
erey apt. toll have contributed so much TO
the glory aud greatness Of this noble rePub-
| lic
So FAR the people of the Union have uooiy
responded TO the calls of suffering humanity
Even many villages in Vermont have come
forward with open hand, and shown oy 'he''
donations that their hearts are IN the i'en'
place, whenever and wherever fellow ne
inc demands our aid. Burlington and Bran
don have literally ontribu'ed,and shall Mid
dlebury be long anticipated in acts OF benev-
oIence so honorable 10 the hearts of the all
.-r. Ar,er:can cifiZens.