Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-26
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along time past the agent Of the association.
Mrs. O. for many months has been visiting the
suffering colored people. She has found many
cases Of extreme destitution and starvation.
The following named persons constitute the
Executive Committee:
sayles J. Bowen, postmaster, president: s. J.
w Taber, Fourth Auditor, vice president; @.
Buckingham, chief clerk Second Comptroller s
Office vice president; George Z. Baker, disburs-
ing clerk State Department, treasurer y. Dubois,
General Land Office, secretaryi VIM, IL. Chan
ming pastor Unitarian church d. H. Nadal, pas
tor Wesley Chapel NJ. Z. church; Z. II. Gray,
pastor Z street Baptist church; II. II. Oarnott,
pastor Fifteenth street Presbyterian church; 9.
Storrs, George Z. II. Day, WIN. slade, George +.
Needham, Lewis ClephaDe.
The following Is Mis-. Oriflng' appeal:
To the Fri nds Of Humdnuy:.
beg leave to make tho following statement
and appeal to the Northern States In behalf Of
the destitute freed people In and around the ma
The population Of Washington at the last CEN
sus was-whites o., 900, free colored IA 900, and
from recent partial census by the War Depart
people have been added. A large proportion Of
these are women and children, few OF whose
husbands and fathers are still In Government
service; but most of them are either disabled,
dead, or left with the rebels.
A host Of miserable women, with large families
Of children, besides DID, crippled, blind and sick
persons, have been driven out Of Maryland and
sought refuge here. Most Of these people have
exhibited industry and thrift beyond the expec-
tatious Of their friends, paying, generally, by
days labor-often difficult to obtatn-ior shan
ties, garrets, cellars, and stables-unht for hu-
man beings to live in-an average rent OF from
S5 to 80 per month.
At the CONNER ucomont Of the winter OF 1854,
upon personal examination found nino hundred
families, with an average number Of five chill
dren, without wood or the means to obtain 1t
half that nu mber without beds or blankets, and
as many without bread or the means Of subsist-
ence. Upon this report being presented to the
Secretary Of War, 1850 cords Of wood, $500
blankets, and commissary stores to feed, during
the extreme cold weather, 1900 per day were
delivered and paid for from the freedmen s fund,
held in trust by the War Department.
At the same time II was found that thousands
Of women and children Of the latest arrivals were
without a change Of clothing, and large numbers
had no underclothing at ALL
A number Of infants, Of only a few days old
were found without garment, and In this con-
dition many perished from cold.
Hundreds Of old persons and children were
without shoes and stockings, and being badly
frost bitten, several had their limbs amputated
In consequence, and are crippled for life.
Very few among the twenty thousand have
comfortable beds, or household utensils. hnd,
from burying their dead, that the sanitary con :
ditiOu Of most OF the poorest classes cnnduces
much to the fearful mortality among them, as
they are compelled to breathe a very impure air
within and a stencil from without the room, aud
are often covered with vermin, even after death.
There has been no material change In the con-
dition and wants Of these poor people since last
winter, except that labor Is not SO easily found
since the close Of the war as before. Persons OF
the above description are almost daily coming In
from Virginia and Maryland, clothed, OF course,
In rags.
| have lately learned from the ouartermaster &
Department, where collins are issued for those
freedmen too poor to buy, that since the com
mencement Of the extreme hot weather, about
eighty cofins per week have been called for,
most Of which were for children
This mortality is far greater than has before
been reported since they came to the city.
"In slavery, - the mothers soy, "Our children
never dies It pears like they ali die here" 1t
Is the opinion Of physicians practicing among
them, and Of other close observers, that three.
fourths of these children die from neglect and
want.
In one family Of soldier who lost his life In
battle, fve out OF ten Of his children have died
since March, 1855 from the above causes. In
another, three out Of seven children Of soldier,
drafted In December last, have starved to death
within the last three weeks. The mothers, in
both cases, were prOstrated with sickness, and
all their supplies were suddenly and entirely
cut off. In the same square, mothers and sons,
and wives and children OF soldiers, still in Gov
| ernment service as regular United States troops,
are suffering for the necessartes OF life, know =
ing nothing more OF these men,, they say, than
that "when the war broke up they didn't come
home.'
Near these lives another soldiers wife, having
four skeleton children, who, as she says, were
starved ont In Frederick, Maryland They have
| neither bed, table nor chairs, nor any household
save frying out nNs they
had obtained two days' work, and with her
scanty wages had tried to keep the children
alive but said She "God knows how often we
are hungry. - These cases might be multiplied
to scores and hundreds in and around the national
| capital.
The character and advancement OF the schools
for freedmen In the District Of Columbia Is en-.
couragins, nearly 5000 children being In attend
ance, but 1000 might and would he In both day
and Sabbath school but for want Of proper cloth
ing.
The Bureau OF Freedmen has no appropriation
from Congress to meet the wants OF those
wretched men, women and children. Mai. Gen
Howard, In his circular No. 2, distinctly states
| this, and also invites the benevolent public aud
associations already organized for freedmen g aid
to o-operate In giving the needed relief to these
sufferers until compensating labor can be found
| for them.
We trust this statement of facts will reach the
Boards Of the Sanitary and Christian Commis-
| siOns, and of the various Christian associations
for the atnelioration and elevation oil suffering
humanity, aud that benevolent societies through
out the North may recognize the claims Of these
people, and respond to his call.
We want lumber, nails, and glass to put NJ
| temporary buildings for the old and crippled-a
| rest for the freedmen daily coming to theiI
''cty OF refugee buildings for schools, intelec.
tuHl and Industrial together with an intelligence
| and business office and stsre- room. Two large
industrial schools are now In successful opera
tion, where classes, numbering over two hun
dred women without husbands, are, in turns OF
about a month to each class, learning to make
| and mend garments.
We need large quantities of cloth for these
schools, and also yarn for knitting. Bedding OF
every description is absolutely needed before the
coming winter. Household utensils and little
cheap furniture should be supplied to those who
have none
Sleeping on the shanty and stable floors last
winter induced colds and pulmonary disease that
terminated the lives Of hundreds, who, with beds
| or bedsteads to sleep on, might now be living
Provisions of all kinds are needed for these
familiesa whose rents absorb much of their
sCanty earnings. Money and all other cOntribn
tions should be sent to the address Of George E.
Baker, Esq Treasurer Of the National Freed =
men Relief Association, Washington d. G.
THE LUsBY CAsE.-This morning in the
Criminal Court Judge Willie said he understood
that Mr.. Bradley intended to made a further mo-
tion, and 1t seemed the object Of the various mo
UODs was to embaTrass the court. He suggested
that the case could go up on an appeal. He
would direct the clerk to enter on the docket that
such paper rs was offered yesterday by the
District Attorney had been presented after
which entry he would order that the nOLts pro-
SeQui be not entered, and then the appeal might
be taken.
Mr. Darlington said that in this case he had
done all ho could do. There was nothing more
for him to do, and he wished to be rectuS in
curtd and rectuS in cOnSctentfd.
Mr. Bradley then offered the following prayer
United States against John +. Lusby-lndict-
ment for Rape.
"Iu open court comes. this 26th day OF Oc-
tober, A. D. 1865 John F. Lusby, by his COun =
sol nd Ia In a in