Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-21
Our Noble Charity.

The Southern Soldiers Relief Associ-
ton has been happily established on a
solid basis, by the appointment Of some
Of the most estimable gentlemen of the
State to Board of Trustees, who have
assumed control of the enterprise
Where can the shattered victims Of the
lost cause look for support, but to those
who hoped and worked with them?-
Whose hearts should warm TO them so
tenderly, as we who came out of the bat
tie with strong limbs and unbroken
health7 We too might have been strick.
en- by the blind bullet; but the good God
has been good to us. We are able to
work, and after awhile, when we have
accumulated property, it will be forgot
ten that we were "rebels," and we will
take our places with the happy and hon
ored of the country. But for the bat
tered soldier of the Confederacy, there
is no forgetfulness.
Unpensioned and unhonored, except
as they are pensioned and honored by
the love and charity of their more for
tunate companions in the great struggle,
they must go hating to the grave. Let
us pension them, and honor them with
bonndless charity and kindly love.
These gallant men have holy claims
on the fathers, mothers, brothers and
sisters of those to whom the blind bullet
was more kind, and who sleep the noble
soldiers sleep on the battle field, who
have escaped the humiliation OF having
the wounds and poverty of the WORKOUT
soldier without either country or flag.
These brave men have claims uuon
the whole world for the lessons Of brav-
cry and devotion which their undsunted
conduct will teach the patriot in all
time to come.
Our people are opening their hands
most literally to this holy charity, and in
few weeks the hopss of the excellent
men and women who have taken the
lead will be grati6ed by seeing every
helpless Confederate soldier within our
reach comfortably and happily housed,
sed and clothed. The Rev. DIR. Knott is
the agent of the Society. He is devot-
ing his entire time to its interests, and
incidentally to the great work of found
ing the permanent home, he is gather.
ing up and giving temporary relief to
those who are working their tedious ways
to their home. While we pray God to
bless, let us help the wounded Confede-
rate soldier who has no home and re-
source.-Aemphis Appeal.
1t is unQuestionably the duty of those
who led the South into rebellion to pro-
vide for those whom the fortune of war
has rendered helpless, but it is evident
from the above that the Appeal still
looks upon the rebellion as righteous
cause, and urges the fact that these men
were engaged in the rebellion as the
argument in favor ofprovision being
made for them.
There is no Disgusting the fact that
the old rebel spirit still lives in the
Southern press, as well as in some Of the
Northern press. The daily compliments
paid to rebel soldiers and rebel officers
by newspapers North md South clearly
prove this, and the discrimination of
unrepenting rebels at the South in favor
of Northern Democrats, shows that the
rebels clearly understood who were
their friends during the rebellion, and
who are willing to be their serfs again.
President johnson may be able to
narse the rebellion Ito death, but it is
not dead yet.