The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-09-11
Northwestern Fair at Chicago fol
the benefit of the Sanitary
Commission,

We have received from Mrs. ALEXAN-
DER MITCHELL, President Of the Soldiers
Aid Society of Milwaukee, a circular
signed BY Mr.. Gov. SALoMoN, Mrs. Gov.
YATES, Of Illinois, Mrs. Gov. KIRKLAND,
of Iowa, Mira. Gov. RAMSEY, of Minnesota,
and the Presidents or other officers of some
twenty of the soldiers aid societies in the
several North western States, addressed TO
the several aid societies and other assoca-
tons in the said States, from which we
extract enough to shsw it's object and as
much as our space will permit. Thew
say:
"This continued need of money has
suggested te many Of the active and pa
triotic women Of the Northwest the neces-
sity Of holding a grand Northwes EN-
Fair in the fall, for the benefit Of the San,
tary Commission. After a correspond
ence of nearly two months with some of
the principal aid societies and Union
Leagues Of the Northwest, aided in many
instances by personal interviews, it has
been decided TO hold Northw estern Fair
in Chicago, during the last week in Ccto-
Der and the first of November, the pro-
coed. to be devoted to the relief of our
sick and suffering soldiers. Assurances
have been received that the States of lii
nois, Michigan. Wisconsin, Iowa, and
Minnesota will join in this project, and
substantial offers Of aid have been proffer-
ed by leading persons in these States. A
mass meeting Of ladies has already been
held in Chicago a. Bryan Hall, when an
Executive Committee Of sixteen ladies was
appointed, to make such arrangements for
holding the Fair in this city as might be
necessary. 1t was also decided to call a
convention of delegates from the AID So
cie.ies and Union Leagues Of the above
mentioned States which shall meet in
Chicago, September LIST, to make necessa-
~ arrangements for the Fair, which will
be alike agreeable to all parties
The object is a most laudable and noble
one, and cannot fail to commend itself to
every man and woman in The North who
possesses a heart or the common sympa-
thies Of humanity. We most earnestly
protest. however, against the partizan ap.
peal of this circular, and We believe Mrs
NJ does not sympathise in the least with
the objects of these secre. political
Leagues which are appealed to to the ex'
cluslon o. other associations that are de.
voted to the preservation of the Union
and Constitution.
1t is in very bad taste for the Ladies
Aid Societies who desire and expect to
raise by this Fair s25 COO, to assume in
their address that there are no hearts that
sympathse in their laudable object except
those that beat under the lrery Of these
secret political OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
men who compose majority in the North
and are opposed to these Union Lacquer,
and their unworthy oljects-that the
wives, daughters, and sisters Of these men
who have fathers, sons and brothers in the
federal army fighting for the preservation
Of the Union and go'vernment-have no
hearts to open their purses and let the
dimes flow to the relief Of the brave SOL
iiers who are lsnguishing in the hospitals
Of the South.
Is it the purpose Of the managers Of this
fair to get all the money they can from
Democrats and their wives, daughters and
sisters, and then prove 10 the soldiers bv
this circular that it came from the Union
Leaguers Or is their purpose to show
to the soldiers that Democrats, their wives,
daughters and sisters are "unft asso-
ciates," and unworthy 70 be invited to the
great Fair? We have known village pic.
pics and fairs to have been gotten up on
the same pa-,izan principle, which would
have proved sad failures had not Demo
Gratis and their families swallowed the in-
suit offered and contributed the largest
portion Of the aid received for The sol-
diers.
We regret that the ladies did not adj
dress their appeal to lie whole people of
the Northwestern States, as we fear their
distinctions will be considered oaiou,, and
prove Improbable. r..