The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-04-28


Soldiers Aid Society of Lancaster, the
report Of the President was ordered to
be published.
Will you, Mr.. Editor, please insert
this report in your paper of this week,
with this note and oblige the Society.
Respectfully &c.
Mrs. ]. D. MARTIN, Sec.
A. P. MILLER, Esq.
REPORT
Another year of our quiet organiza-
tion has come TO a close, and in COM
pliance with official requirement, !
now submit for your consideration
condensed report of its operations, du-
ring that period. The exhibit it will
be seen, is very much contracted in
comparison with the report Of last
year. The total amount Of monies re-
ceived by the Treasurer from every
source, sums up an aggregate of $445-
OF, and there have been expended in
cash donations, and for the purchase
of sanitary stores 1854 81, leaving a
balance in the Treasury at this date Of
$50 IS.
1t would be ungrateful not to ac-
knowledge here, how much the Socie.
ty is indebted to those loyal, kind
hearted, eloquent gentlemen, the Rev.
Messrs. ingalls, and McCabe, each Of
whom delivered public lecture in
this city, gratuitous and unsolicited, in
aid of our funds. During the past
year the Society has sent to the Gin
cinnatti branch of the U. S. Sanitary
Commission, sixteen barrels, six boxes,
and two kegs of hospital stores. These
contained the usual assortment of can
ned fruit, dried apples and cherries,
onions, tomatoes, catsup, wine, shirts,
drawers, socks, shoes, 'kerchiefs, mix
ed clothing, rags, books, magazines,
&c.
1t will be remembered that among
T the cash expenditures of the year is in
cluded the sum OF 500 voted by the
Society and sent as a donation to the
Cincinnati Sanitary Fair in December
last. Through this agency a pack.
, age of fancy articles made up in Ian
caster, was also sent to the fair, esti
mated at home value of S67.
You will learn with regret, which
feel in answering the fact, that oul
Corresponding and Recording Secreta
8 ries, Madames Daugherty and STAN
t baugh, have resigned the position
: which they have filled so faithfully
: and infuentially among us for the pas
{: two years.
In summing up this brief statement
a there is certainly no room found fo
: self congratulation. We cannot fee
entirely satisfied with the amount c
VI our contributions, or the value Of ou
y work, and we should therefore b
y thankful, that during the year Ion
intervals of rest occurred in our hos
pitfalls, when sanitary aid was not th
eminent necessity.
ID Under no circumstances can we hop
to realize large success. Our men
I. bership is Too limited and the discoul
agements too numerous to expect thi
We have not many sympathisin
friends among that class of either
who possess the influence of wealth an
A. position, and we have some unfriendl
of who would not hesitate to break u
O. this, and all sister organizations,
10 they could. 1t is very evident the
n- that our association is not popular
90 the Lancaster Interpretation of th'
ID word. 1t has in fact encountered
n persistent opposition from the first,
n Prejudice that will not be cnlighte
es ed, stupidity and malinformation ha'
es done their best to cripple its wor
,r, and block our way, But it is son
rc compensation to know, that ifthis, al
"A, hundreds of kindred societies we
d. swept out of existence, the great, graz
ne humanitarian work of providing {
or the sick and wounded soldier wou
all march unmpoded on. This most cat
he olic and benifcent charity, has VIC
h to itself the active regards of the be
m purest and most exalted minds in
ole land, and no true soldier, true stat
in man, or true man, has ever utter
We against it ono word of disparageme
ire Con ALMIGHTY has blessed it, n
of it is now enthroned in the natiol
an heart. Her most earnest men and "
ty, men have concentrated their effo
,re and poured out their means and me
cy with splendid prodigaity to ma
its benefactions most broadly avai
bio, Witness the great Sanitary Fla
. that have been held at Chicago. G
cinnati, Columbus, Buffalo, Albal
;. Brooklyn, and the late Mctropolit
raj one of New York, with its culmin
ing, magnificent offering ofmore tn
has a million of dollars, That person su
ing ly is blind who fails "to discern
signs of the tines" who is slow
,;o discover in these majestic, spontane'
''o' movements, the oversight of the Pr
idonoe of Cod In the presence
I' these superb events, blazing from Q
ry pago of the country's history, I
ard little association of ours, can well
all ford to stand up against any amo
ers, of social opposition, and to compassi
,tu- ate, while it utterly ignores the sn
-ate sinister opinions that would impair
nm. working usefulness at home.
will We are bound by every obligat
and of gratitude and honor, to do what
pa can, TO alleviate the sufferings and