The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-10-30
Patriotic Relief Fund

Americans in foreign countries have watched
with intense anxiety the progress of the civil
war, which is now raging with such fury
throughout the length and breadth Of their
country. The struggle is waxing iercer and
fercer, and threatens yet TO draw into it every
man capable of doing army duty, and to leave
its tale of sorrow on every threshold, north and
south. But the fat has gone forth, that the
UNION shall be preserved, the rebellion crushed,
and treason forever destroyed, if it requires the
sacrifice of half the wealth and half the popula-
ton of the North to do it. There is now no
such thing as peace or compromise with the
rebels that have brought on this war, and it
must be suppressed, if every one of them is sacri-
feed in the contest. TIE North is now of but
one mind on this question, and is speaking out in
thunder peals,-" The UNION MUST AND SHALL
BE PRESERVED"
Americans residing abroad cannot engage per-
sonally in the struggle, but they can aid in this
great conflict by contributing of their means to
alleviate the sufferings of their wounded
brethren, who are now bearing the brdnt of the
contest, or to aid their families, many of whom
may be in want during the coming winter.
California and Oregon are already at work, and
contributing literally to supply the wants of the
soldiers. At the latest adyices from San Fran
cisco, $3.50, 900 had been raised, and 5000, 900
of it sent forward to the east. The work was
still in progress, and probably over $500 900
would be raised in that state alone.
The Sanitary Commission, which has charge of
the Relief Fund, is presided over by DR.. Bellows
of New York City, and when the first hundred
thousand dollars was sent for. ard, he acknowl-
edged the receipt of it by telegraph in the fol-
lowing note
New YORK, September %, 1862.
To II. F. Teschemacher, Chairman Of the Central Relief
homes of the nation. Thanks to God and San Francisco for
made on the strength Of your bounty. We Instantly tclegraphed
our agents on the battle-febds OF Maryland to spare nothing,
cooling parched lips before this reaches you. The cities of the
mated to the utmost exertions in our cause when they find
themselves outstripped at a bound by their youngest sister
golden San Observation-Disclosures from the scene of war but
already nearest to the sick and woanded in her hospitals and
battle fields. HENRY W. BELLOWS.
President L. s. Sanitary Commission.
The work of raising a soldiers fund here has
also commenced, and about $1,000 are already
pledged. Americans should esteem it a privilege
if not a duty, to assist ia contributing towards
this noble object. Let every American residing
in this group give something, not s%tintedly, but
literally, and worthy of the cause. None will be
the poorer for their charities toward so noble an
object. The subscriptions range all along from
800 to So. Persons living on the other
islands need not wait TO be called on, but
may send forward their contributions at once. i
Messrs. A. y. Cartwright and E.. O.. Hall have
charge of the subscription book, and remittances
may be made to them. 1t is hoped that at least
1000 will be ready to remit by the first mail,
leaves about the 10th of November.