The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-11-12
no THE LOYAL WOMEN OF
AMERICA.

GyCTETRY OMEN III Tue SAlEdQEQlZ6fN
enlargement of the whole structure of our
National Government, which has this year
been forced upon rs, the wants of the sick
and wounded of the Army and Navy can
not be at once fully provided for by the
ordinary means.
Whatever aid is to be given from with
out, must, nevertheless, 10 be effective, be
administered systematically, and in perfect
subordination to the general system of adj
ministration of the government. To hold
its agents in any degree responsible for the
duties with which they are charged, gov
eminent must protect them from the inter-
ference of irresponsible persons.
Hence, an intermediate agency becomes
necessary, which, without taking any of
the duties of the regular agents Of govern
ment out of their hands, can, nevertheless
offer to them means of administering to the
wants of the sick and wounded much be-
You'd hat conId be obtained within the
arbitrary limits of supply established by
government, and in strict accordance with
the regulations necessary for maintaining a
proper accountability of it.
The Sanitary Commission, a volunteer
and unpaid bureau of the War Department
of the government, constitutes such an
agency.
The Sanitary Commission has established
it's right to your confidence The President,
the Secretary of War, General Scott and
General Mcclellan, have each recently
acknowledged, in the warmest terms, the
advantages which have already resulted
from its labors, and the discretion and skill
with which they have been directed. It's
advice has been freely taken, and, in several
important particulars, acted upon, favorably
to the health of the army, by the govern
| ment. There has scarcely been a company
of volunteers IN the field, with regard to
which some special defect, error, or negli-
gence, endangering health, has not been
pointed out By its agents, and its removal
or abatement effected. There has not been
a single instance in which its services or
advice, offered through all its various agen-
cies, have been repulsed not single
complaint has been received of its embar-
RAISING any officer in his duty, or of its
interfering with discipline in the slightest
degree. Its labors have, to this time, been
chiefly directed to induce precautions against
| certain class of diseases which have
scourged almost every modern European
army, which decimated our army in Mexico,
and which, at one time, rendered nearly
| half of one of our armies in the war of
1912 unfit for service. II is a ground for
national gratitude that our present armies
have passed through the most try ing season
of the year W. ierfully escaping this daE-
ger. That there are grander causes for this
than the lab9rs of the Commission cannot
be doubted, but that, among human agencies,
large share Of credit for it should be given
to those labors, it ia neither arrogant nor
unreasonable to assert. In this assurance,
what contribution that has hitherto been
| made to the treasury or the store of the
Commission is not received back again ten
! fold in value
I After full aud confidential conference with
the Secretary of War, the Commander Of
tho Army of the Potomac, and the Quarter
master General, there is reason to ask With
urgency for q large increase OF the re-
ources of the Commission, especially Of
! that class of its resources upon which IL
must chiefly draw for the reliefof the sick
/ and wounded.
| The experience of the Commission has so
well acquainted it with the earnest desire of
! their loyal country women to Re allowed to
work in the national cause, that it is deem
ed unnecessary to do more than announce
that there is real and Immediate occasion
| for their best exertions, and to indicate con-
Venient arrangements for the end ia view.
! It's, therefore, suggested that societies be
| at once formed ia every neighborhood
where they are not already established, and
that existing societies of suitable organiza-
/ ton, as Dorcas Societies, Sewing Societies,
/ Reading Clubs, and Sociables, devote them
| selves, for time to the sacred service of
their country that energetic and respecta-
! bic committees be appointed to call from
/ house to house and store TO store, to obtain
1 Contributions in materials suitable to be
made up or money for the purchase of such
materials that collections be made in
churches and schools and factories and
shops, for the same purpose that consriou-
| ton boxes be placed in post Offices, newspa-
| per offices, railroad and telegraph offices,
| public houses, steamboats, and ferry boats,
and in all other suitable places, labelled
FoR OUR SICK AND WOUNDED - and that
all loyal women meet at such convenient,
times and places as may be agreed upon in
each neighborhood or social circle, to work
upon the material which shall be 50 pro-
cured.