Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-05-30


dently of the Commission.
The Commission has been censured for
attempting to accumulate supplies, and for
holding them in reserve at distance from
the scat of war, and gifts have been with
held from it on this account, and sent to
those who were cnger TO bestow them with
thoughtless liberality wherever a soldier
could be found disabled for time from
duty. Nothing can be more certain than
Il at had all taken this course, tho lives Of
hundreds of brave men, each dear to some
fir eside, would ha e been lost at Antietam,
which have now been saved. This will
not be regarded as aa eXtravagant state
ment when it is known that there were
thirty regiments Of one State alone, which
went into this battle absolutely without
the smallest particle of medical or susgi.
cal stores in the hands of their surgeons
that the Government supplies sent out for
their relief did not reach the ground till
the tuird day after the. battle, and that one
of the largest Of the field hospitals was
provided by the Commission, not only
with subsistence stores, bedding, clothing,
and medicine, but for several days with
the only medical attendance which the
patient in it received.
Let the full meaning Of this be felt, and
let it be remembered THAT, in what was
done here, every contributor to the treas
ury or the stores Of the Commission had
part as much as if the aid thus gvin had
/ been rendered in person to the Sufferers
on the field; perhaps even more so, for,
placed in the hands of men instructed and
trained how best 10 use it, each gift re-
ceved value which it might not have
had in the hands of the contributors. Il
will be seen, then, that in proportion as
the principle of Union is adhered to, in the
bestowment of these gifts, their value is
increased, and that in every departnse
from this principle there is waste Of thrt
which may otherwise be to the saving of
life.
| The impulse may be a natural one
which seeks to know even the individual
perso6 upon whom our gifts are bestowed
and to give them by the hands of some
friend or neighbor ,"lhGGtt i i. must be obvious
that it is to say the least, ligher. lor'n
of benavolence and Of patriotism which
asks only to have REASONABLE assurance
that the soldiers OF the Union will be
helped by our offerings, when and where
they most need our help, and that only by
the exercise Of this larger benevolenca that
) measures of relief can be taken at all ade.
quate to. the necessities Of the army, or
commensurate with the grandeur OF its
purp oses.
ASSOCIATE MANAGES OF THE WOMEN S
PENNSYLVANIA BRANCH.
The Board Of Managers of the w. p. B
appointed, at their last meeting, the fol.
lowing Associate Managers
Mrs Samuel Leipcr and Miss FELTON,
Delaware county; Mrs. Hester, Wes
Chester, county; Miss Sarah n Walter
Montrosc, Susquchanna county Mis-!
, Lucy L. Moore, Welsboro,' Tioga county
Mrs j. H. Barton, Lock Haven, Clinton
county Mrs Mary Bullock, Nlauch Chunl
Carbon county Mrs Rachel b. Evans
Norristown Montgomery county; Mrs. Il
: E. Little, Tunkhannock, Wyoming co
Mrs. P. A E slcr, Harrisburg, Dauphin
county.
. The Women's Pennsylvania Brancl
U. S, Sanitary Commission acknowled e:
f the receipt, during the month of April, o
the following boxes, barrels and packages
Note by the Editor.-Here follow
large list of Boxes, Packages, &C., received
by the Sanitary Commission which We
have no room now to publish.
Col. Democrat.