Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-06-02


every home and sewing circle, and SC
diers' relief association, to the urgel
cry for supplies. You cannot make to
Instant or too generous, or too long COZ
tlnued efforts to meet the whole case ! Th
homes of the land must protect the bray
men who have left their comforts to battl
for the liberties of their country. w
have no right to luxuries or extra com
forts, while they continue half-clad o
halfsuccored. Do not believe any storie
which would discourage your efforts. AL
the noisy reports about the abuse of you
gifts, the waste of supplies, the stealing
by hospital stewards and surgeons, have
the usual per eentage of the truth il
them; they are just as true as, and M
more so than, similar charges brought
against any large body of men, or any
great instrumentality. So far as the
Sanitary Commission is involved, it denies
their truth utterly, where its own agency
or agents are concerned"
Truly, as the New York report says
ut is the farmers and villagers who are
making the real sacrifices forthe war ;
they work early and late for the soldiers,
before and after the days work is done
They walk and drive for miles, through
snow and mud, to the weekly sewing circle.
They go from house to house, begging
money and msterials they deay themselves
Il and few friends have determined not
to buy any more new material for our own
clothes, now that the prices are so high,
and the hospital stores are so much need.
ed writes one of these women. we
cannot afford any longer to give both to
ourselves and the soldiers.'
'The work is no longer being carried
on from motives of humanity, as it was at
llrst it has become test of patrtotiSm
Those who are the truest patriots. the
real lovers of the Union, are the earnest
steadfast workers."
A very interesting letter from an agent
of the Sanitary Commission with the
army of the frontier, appears in a Boston
paper. The letter is dated Springfield,
Missouri, April 9th, and is exceedingly
encouraging to the "faithful doers of
small things
The writer says that those who give of
their labor or bestow of their goods, in
ever so small quantities to the frontier
regions, can hardly realize the good that
they are doing in those desolate sections
which are bare of the commonest com
forts Of life. To know how necessary it
is that they should continue faithful in
every good work, they need but to. witness
in those hospitals, the great lack, and |
oftentimes the total want of many COM |
forts, and the joy when the supply comes.
He speaks of the suffering which has
arisen from the want of even so common |
an article as rags for dressing wounds, to
show how great may be the benefit of
gifts that would be triaes to those who
cannot know the sad reality and who
may be withheld from doing small things
because they are not able to edo some
great things" Let every individual then
give in proportion to his or her means.
"Mite offerings" if no more-and the
aggregate shall be such an amount, that
even in the most remote field hospital the
men upon whose shoulders we have Laid
"the bloody and fearful task" of saving
our country shall never again have reason
to think themselves forgotten. To show
what the young are capable of accom-
pllshing, we cannot refrain from speaking
Of several contributions which we have
had of late A boy at school in Blooms.
bury raised the sum of fifty dollars among
his school-mates and sent il TO the "Wo-
mems Pennsylvania Branch of the u. S.
Sanitary Commission" for the use of the
Special Relief Committee " A younr
lady of this city held fair in her own
house with the assistance of four of her
friends, and realized the sum of 800 dol {
lars, which WAS also given to the Especial
Relief Committee. Now, it is not every
young person who could have had their
Efforts crowned with as much success as in
these two instances, but as every drop of
water tends to swell the ril, so every dol
ar contributed to the Sanitary Commits.
sion makes its channel wider. We have
heard with interest of young girl in the
State of Delaware. who happened to see
n the columns of'this paper the call made
lpon farmers, Immediately ordered the
gardener to prepare two large beds of l
'nions, which she offered to take care of
herself, and although the call was made
lut two weeks since, we understand that f
he tender green shoots of the onions are 1
llready some inches above the ground. +
The same goung girl, although living out 2
rom the city of Wilmington, took some i
,opies of THE PosT to the office of the i
Delaware State journal in drenching {
ain storm, and requested the editor to !
'opy the Sanitary Commission articles.
She said, Il took them there, because it
vas the only throughly Union paper in t
he city; and l knew he would copy them, a
md he did, /
Now will not such examples as these
timulate others to do likewise? -? There +
S no estimating the amount of good c
which Jealous worker like this one may 5
ccomplish. Whereverthat journal goes, v
IN interest will be awakened in the Com
mission for we feel that its workings
iced only to be known to secure the con f
dence and affection of the people in it, d
IS the most economical and reliable chan L
e for the bounty of the people to flow to o
ur suffering soldiers,
"Among the pleasant things of the Il
sanitary Commission is the occasional
ieeting with marks and inscriptions upon
he goods received, sometimes with short ii
ote to whomsover the articles may fall. 8
We have heard it said, that nothing does 4
oldiers so much good as words of praise, Il !,
r of sympathy, and inspiring cheer, il
specially from women nothing so lt
timulates them to brave deeds as wo- c.
lan's approval Perhaps we have been "