Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-11-18
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.
From the Louisville (Ky.) Courier. I


We have already, says the Richmond
Dispatch, published the touching letter
which was found on the body of VIM.
Leaman, one of the insurgents, from his
sister in Hallowell, Maine. The follow
ing paragraph in that letter is sugges-
tive one:
"Would you come home if you had
the money to come with? Tell me
what it would cost Oh | would be un-
speakably happy if it were in my power
to send you money, but We have been
very poor this winter. have not earned
half dollar this winter. Matte has
had very good place, where she has
had 70 cents week she has not spent
any of it in the family, only very little
for mother. Father has bad very small
pay, but think he has more now he is
a Waterman on the Eastern Queen, chat
runs from here to Boston"
Here is family, one of thousands OF
families in New England in similar cir
cumstances, where one daughter thinks
it very good place" when she can get
seVenty-fve cents week another has
not earned half dollar during the win
ter, and all are Every poor" yet the son
and brother goes off and deserts a moth
er and sisters thus situated; mother
and sisters who, though poor, have evil
IDENTIFY the most affectionate feelings and
tender sensibilities, for the purpose OF
liberating class of people, not one Of
whom knows anything of the want OR
privation from which his own family is
suffering, or who would not look with
out contempt upon such remuneration as
seemed the height of good fortune to the
destitute sisters and mother Of this abo-
litionist When we bear in mind the
intelligence and sensibilities which char
acterize the wives and daughters of the
poorest equally with the richest classes
in New England, it is most amazing that
men should overlook such misery at theil
own doors--nay, should forsake their OWL
kith and kin who are suffering under il
the mother who bore them, the sisters
who love them with all sisters tender
and solicitous love, and run of to eman.
cipate the latest, sleekest, most con
tented and unambitious race under
heaven.
The poor girl speaks in her letter t.
her brother of great revival" goinj
on in their town We are afraid tina
the ''revlvals" in that section of country
are not of mach benefit to public morals
On several occasions, when the Founde
of Christianity was asked by anxiou
men what they must do to inherit eterna
life, he enjoined them to obey the Tel
Commandments and to believe in hin
and be baptized. One of those com
mandments touches on the duty Of chill
dren to their parents, and requires then
to honor their father and mother tina
their days may be long in The land. TIL
untimely death Of his runaway son nigh
afford striking illustration of the text
if the revival preacher in Hallowell con
descends to present such small matters t
the attention Of his people. Anothe
commandment forbids men to coret thei
neighbours servants, and the New Tesla
ment is full Of iniunctions to servants t.
be obedicat to their masters Probabl,
Ill this is mere morality and dead works
and obsolete virtues, of no importance
whatever compared with the cardinal an,
saving grace Of abolition faith and fanat
icism.