New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-27
TRUE AND FALSE BENEvOLENCE.

To THE WEALTHY AND CHARITABLE Dear friends help
all who help when you viii but forget not pray you
those who struggle to help themselves especially ii broken
down in health Here assistance rarely given although
here ii deserved and therefore most appreciated
We see frequently things of this kind hare kn0rH a
person ready give at any time few hundred dollars for
finishing cornce public building to refuse to eRd
dress maker with constitution broken down by plying
her needle something purchasing sewing machine
What heart and feelings he here could have relieved
kaor teachers in this City who spend all their earnings
10 support their nfm parents, whose heahs are broken
down Frustrated and feelings depressed and who
have no means Of recruiting themselves AMI hare
kHOVR gentlemen reuse TO gd them something 10 extend
their business that they might live easier who give whole
fortunes to build public buildings Ind kHor talented
gifted persons in this City, capable of carrying out great
improve ments, Of Importance to every in branches of
science and literature and in broken down state Of
heaih and in trouble which eating at their heart
strings be refused the assistance requisite to establish
their health by gentlemen who often lay their hundreds
uIon plate 10 90 10 an extreme end OF Asa lhese
things are hard but they are true.
Your donations to buildings often Of importance
large library is fine thing Those who are at leisure
light hearted and well step into them and gam thence
something enrich the mind and refresh the Imagination
Tut who that build these would give ten dollars to enyen
heart administer the mind Of those who write the
books with which they hlled Hoe much rH any
man, do gou think who bads these in our City, give or
Ind 20 a stricken one however talented who meeky ap
plies 10 them for assistance How molly charitable ID
these mem How Discriminating How well applied their
bounties Our PEOPLE well taxed for public buildings
the big buildings you choose do all yol can for little
niggers in Africa do all you for them-it Is no
bic object but do not in your way stumble over the
weary the lad and depressed with bleed hearts in reach
# your daily walk perehance at your own hrssde
Ten to bat you have such ease if you have teacher
in YOUR own house.
find l Oh think before Won play at random on such
heart strings Let nothing stand between them and your
elevated and refined mad depressed and stricken down
These mdly ask and your cold eva-ive answer chils
them the hearts They FEEL the sting Of poverty
the wTechedness OF dependence Your De2gar az the
door with comparative nOnchalaDce calls out Got any
"vtes and these alone are thought of 10 assist How
strange Where DO you think your kindness will be most
APPRECIATED and where most deeply feAY
And look around you; see how many young men and
women may struggling up the rough pathway Of
lie in buslnesshow many Of them could you make per
fecy happy by loan Of hundred dollars to further iher
business Here assistance is dscrrsd whoever gives t.
Depend upon IT, Worth i neglected. suffers much;
Now my kind althy, dear friends, viii you not think
= r. iis.5ny baerts All a-onnd Won before vOs give
fortune build big house The raI, sensitive, nigh
minded woman who asks you for assistance Heeds
before asking for IT, and 10 Ookea heart the refinement
and quinteseenee Of your charity
We How ans We Aspinw ais, ye Grnnss 20 hinilrns,
We Lenoxes We Coopers ye Leupps ye DTights e Laws
when you give won't you think Of AIS class They are
al around yOu suffering tmid depressed and sensitive,
slow 10 ask timidy receiving would were the dAagh
ter wife or sister Of ole q YOU would make your
mouey-your lcose change, mean--ny 10 where
n would sOOhe lofty mind trammeled down as with iron
would soathe the and weary in ouI midst,
the -trltEcn Lle seL,lANc rpA1 Nncfe.e
FAssIE HEART.
RsNarks :
There Is truth in the foregoing but 80 Overlaid
and saturated with falsehood that the essay would DO
more harm than good without the corrections which
we proceed 10 apply to t-as follows:
l. II Is not true thai the Poor generally seek gifts or
loans Of the Rich and feel sggrieved By their de-
nsl There poor creatures who would Ike % ride
I'D the Hin of Difficulty behind Somebody saddle but
the great mass Of moral temperate Industrious poor
uen that We have known ask Odds Of any They