The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-11-14
To the Loyal Women of America.
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WASHINGTON. ID. c.. OctOb

CoUNTRYwoMEN I'm the extraor-
dinary enlargement of the whole struc-
ture of our National Government,
which has this year been forced upon
us, the wants of the sick and wounded
of the Army and Navy cannot be at
once fully provided for by the ordinary
means. aTI1h ol l5u off. .JEerjf q II
Whatever aid is to be given from
without, must, nevertheless, to be eff
fectiye, be administered systematically,
and in perfect subordination to the gen.
eral system of administration of the
government. To hold its agents in any
degree responsible for the duties with
which they are charged, government
must protect them from the .interfer.
ence of irresponsible persons. "2l
b Hence, an intermediate agency be-
comes necessary, which, without TAX
ing any of the duties of the regular
agents of government out of their
hands. can, nevertheless, offer to them
means of administering to the want.
of the sick and wounded much beyond
what could be obtained within the ar
bitrary limits of supply established b,
government, and in strict accordance
with the regulations necessary fol
maintaining proper accountability,
to it. -,r vserr,-sa0 rra-~ as-- :
The Sanitary Commission, a volun
teer and unpaid bureau of the War
Department of the government, con
stitutes such an agency.
The sanitary commission has estab
lished it's right to your confidence
The President, the Secretary of War
General Scott and General Nc Clellan
have each recetnly acknowledged, il
the warmest terms, the advantage
which have already resulted from it,
labors, and the discretion and skill
with which they have been directed
It's advice has been freely taken, and
in several important particulars, acte(
upon, favorably to the health of tn
army, by the Government. There ha
scarcely been company of volunteer
in the field, with regard to which som
special defect, error, or negligence, en-
dangering health, has not been pointe,
out by its agents, and its removal o
abatement affected. There has no
been a. single instance in which its ser
vice or advice, offered through all it
various agencies, have been repulsed
not a single complaint has been re
ceived of its embarrassing any office
in his duty, or of its interfering wit
discipline in the slightest degree. II
, labors have, to this time, been chief
!; directed to induce precautions againl
a certain class of diseases which ha7
: scourged almost every modern Eur,
pean army, which decimated our arm
! in Mexico, and which, at one tim
/. rendered nearly one half of our armis
= in the war of 1912 unfit for servic
tits a ground for national gratitud
that our present armies have passe
. through the most trying season of th
u year wonderfully escaping this DANCE
: That there are grander causes for th
THAN the labors of the Commissio
d cannot be doubted, but that, anon
g human agencies, large share of cred
Q for it should be given to those labo,
y it is neither arrogant nor unreasonab
g to assert. In this assurance, what CO
g tribution that has hitherto been ma,
II to the treasury or the store of the Coz
e mission is not received back again t.
l. fold in value --sf..ss .r..er
st After full and confidential conferen'
20. with the Secretary of War the Cor
y, mander of the Army of the Potoma
t. and the Quartermaster) General, the
* is reason to ask with urgency for
at large increase of the resources of t
$, Commission, especially of that ella
lo, of its resources upon which it mu
RI chiefly draw for the relief of the si
a and wounded. q sf.eIsbsi;ag 81
IS The experience of the Commissl
Ia has so well acquainted it with the e:
ct nest desire of their loyal countrywom
rs to be allowed to work in the natior
ID cause, that it is deemed unnecessary
n do more than announce that there il
ID real and immediate occasion for th
ne best exertions, and to indicate convs
lent arrangements for the end in vie
20 1t is therefore, suggested that soc
ne ties be at once formed in every neis
to borhood where they are not already
it. tablished, and that existing societ