Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-05-17
2elmuat Chronicle.
81. CIatrsviIIe, Ohio, May ".
An Appeal for the Starving.

Judge wyeth of Marshall County,
Ala, has appealed TO the citizens of
Cincinnati in behalf of the citizens of
his State. He says:
al have come here to plead with you for
the suffering, starving people Of North
Alabama. They are literally starving-help-
less women and children and infrm Hcn are
suffering for the want Of bread.
"The facts are 50 terrible that they can
scarcely be believed. and | feel that the
greatest difficulty that | shall have to en-.
counter will be the doubts that will suggest
themselves in regard to tho truth of my
statements.
The Hon. W. T. May, Judge of the
Probate Court of Marshall County, in
a certificate to the tr%uthfulness of this
statement, says he has carefully in
vestigated the condition of the,
people in his County, and finds
that there are 2,1S0 women, children
and inflrm men and of persons who
arc able to work, but have no means to
purchase supplies for carrying on farm
ing operations, there are families en-
bracing 1000 persons, white and black;
of the residue of the population, not
20 have means more than adequate to
their wants.
Gov. Patton Of Alabama writes
II have long known Judge Wyeth as a
respectable member ofthe bar, and Christian
gentlemen, in whom the utmost confidence
may be reposud. What hu says in regard
to the destitute poor OF the mountain Coun.
ties OF North Alabama may be strictly relied
on.
Many Of these people have planted
small crops, but are utterly without the
means to sustain life until their vege.
tables and grain mature. The dcstitu-
ton includes all classes, families of
Rebel soldiers, Loyalists, white and
black. Judge Wyeth MAKES his APP
peal without distinction. "In the
name of God and our common human.
ity, l beg for bread for my starving
people,
The Memphis Post, n loyal journal
publishes this appeal in full, with the
following comments:
"a terrible reproach md n crime lies al
the door of the people of Memphis that they
allow here, within the circle of their own mer
camille influence, thousands Of poor South.
ern women and children to literally starvt
to death, without one effort to lend a help
ing hand. If a call is made to raise monel
for the erection of n church, with mura
tablets and painted windows to the hOnol
and glory of those who fell ficht;sg agains
their country's flag, money is freely given
but their carving fellow-citizens of the sam,
blood as themselves nre compelled TO rely 70,
Ielief from starvation and death upon thosl
Northern yanIals whom they so ~earnestl,
Willy and dciame.
The Memphis Argus, n Rebel sheet
disclaims for the Southern people an,
obligation to give relief to these starv
ing people, and calls on the Radicals
to come 10 their relief. The Argu.
says:
1.-The people reported to DO starving ar
themselves the political brethren of thes
very Radicals. And it so hanpens, too
that oil this starvation aud restitution wa
brought upon the country by the ~fanatica
agitation Of the very %poIiscal organization
to which both tho 'Unionists' so.calIed
OF North Alabama and the Radicals belong
and it IL to them that those starving broth
rem naturally look for their best and larges
help. Let EN- shell out"
The alleged oifense of these ~starvin
people is that they were loyal to tn
Union therefore, let them die, say tn
reconstructed.
In the same journal, we find the fol
lowing:
"A grand ball will he given Mt tho Gayos
House on the evening Of the 81 of May, 70
the benefit OF the manned soldiers of tn
rmies OF the Confederate States. Thi
noble project deserves every encourageme
from our citizens, and will not fail to prov
agrApd success.
Let thosc who believe that guarantee
are not necessary for the protection O
loyal citizens OF the South mark thi
invidious Internationally. Y. Tribune