Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-06-04
The Vicksburg Wounded.

We understand that. although money
and supplies are coming into the Sanitary
Commission. they are not in proportion
to the fearful necessities of the present
emergency. We who are at home in our
offices and comfortable dwellings have lit
tie idea of the sufferings and horrors Of
war. The noble men who have stem
med the tide of rebellion. and rolled it
down to Vicksburg. have left in their
wake continuous milestones of Lleached
bones and graves. Those who still live.
after q campaign Of unexampled endur-
ance and unsurpassed bravery, now stand
up with firm, bare breasts in front of the
deadly cannon and rifle pits at Ticksburg
exhausted by fatigue and short rations.
For what and for whom do these volun.
teers brave and dare all this? To open
the Mississippi for you and for me to
make money; to sustain the government
aud give value to our property; enable us
to carry on our business and pleasure; to
worship in our churches; to keep our
seminaries in operation; to preserve our
grain warehouses, fruitful fields, sleek
stock and well-filled barns; 10 enable us to
sit under our own vine and fig tree, and
gather our wives and children around us
at home, while they fight die, anu ore
MANNED yonder-under bro:ling sun by
day, insects and malaria by night-un-
sheltered by tent. Dare we refuse to
pour out supplies and money to the point
of selfdenial. for. God only knows. how
many thousand wounded now, and more
to follow? Southern homes are almost
universally denuded of carpets TO furnish
blankets for their soldiers. Southern
women cut down their wardrobes to scan
tiness TO convert them into shirts and
drawers for their rebel brothers. South
err men empty their cotton gins to sustain
their so-called government. They ars.in
earnest We must be too. Like con-
lquers like.
One of the ladies who went down to
yicksburg recently. in behalf of the SAM
tary Commission. was tainted by one Of
the Southern women with the GOODNESS
and indifference Of the women Of the
North. lyon women" said she, ''come
down here, wearing jewelry and Haunting
in silks; do you suppose rre would indulge
in such luxury, when our hospitals are
reckiny with wounded men, and those
smitten with fever? No! we strip oul
houses Of carpets to make into blankets
for our soldiers. and sell our plate and
ljewelry to buy them comforts when they
are sick; and. if necessary. We will wea'
niger cloth, and live on corn meal and
water for their sake. But what do the
white-faced and cold blooded women OIL
the North care. though the corpses o.
their soldiers are piled in cords-blscken
ing in the sun. as we. have seen thsm?-
Give them their jewelry and their silks
and their fine houses. and that's all they
ask for One great national lesson il
not learned till all take part in the strife
and our selfish willingness to let our brave
boys suffer, and we enjoy our. good thing
at home. is subdued. Those who d. mo-
60 themselves. nor give their heart L
treasures dearer than their own lives
should thank God they ere spared blood
and sgonizing suspense or certainty. ant
pour out money and labor without stint
! more freely because the valor and almos
lsuperhumsn endurance Of our men ar'
4 still tried before the serried battlements o
! this Southwestern Sebastopoi. The SAM
tary Commission is straining syery neFv'
Ito meet their wants. CAM one refuse I,
heIp?- Chicago 7ri1uxs. bea .'oa's7o5