The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-03-16
Relief for the soufI,.

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The ladies of the New York Southern Relief
Association have issued an appeal for money
and grain, to freight the United States ship
Dunbarton, now lying at Brooklyn Navy Yard
at the service of the Association. The Dunbar
ton is the second national vessel which has been
placed at the disposal of the charitable people
of New York. The steamer Memphis has al
ready sailed for South Carolina and Georgia.
with $4,000 bushels of grain. In these two
States alone Gen. Towards report submitted
to the Senate last Saturday puts the number of
persons who Wills need help before the next
crop can relieve them, at 22.5OO. SO that the
bounty of the Memphis amounts to but little
more than half bushel apiece for the needy of
two States out of eleven. In all the Southern
States, it is estimated by Gen. Howard, there
are $4,000 destitute persons.
n These figures ought to furnish sufficient
ground for the exercise of that large charity
which twenty years ago went out from this
country to starving Ireland, which during our
civil war organized the Sanitary and Christian
Commissions, which last summer relieved orr
own distresses here in Portland, which in short
has ever been and we hope will ever continue
to be an honor to the American name. The
appeal of the ladies of New York closes as fol-
lows: 7fa@
With the opening Of the spring, which brings
10 us the coming of new hope and new life, the
people ofaregion at the South more than canal
IN area to the Empire of France are enterino
no1 n9urasyely but literally, the Valley OF the
SHADOW OF Death. In parts of five states. the
crops OF three successive years have failed.
i" IllIer came upon people so destitute of the
nACeSgArT1g M fhat = -,
price of a barrel of -four has for weeks past,
Deen equal to months earnings of an able
podled man. The stores of winter scantv az
they were, have been exhausted. The earth
Will not yield her increased again 1untjl the
summer, and these necessities of the hour com
pei us to say, with all the emphasis which
q speech can command, that nothing under Heay-
en-, but the prompt efficient help of the pros
porous people of the North, can avert from
thousands upon thousands OF our fellow crea-
lures of the South, between the first of March
and the first of June, 1867 a fate as horrible as
ehat which turned the heart of Christendom
9ard the miserably perishing people of Ire
t Ino. england, in 1917, shocked from her apa-
Sny, contributed to the relief of the famine
inhabitants of her sister island, no less
sum than fifty millions of dollars.
ti.nit S on 10 rom the opulence and chris
nf th;sy y, eme North less than a hundredth part
S u'.ie amount 1or the salvation of the starving
South. Every day through WIN ."1 eO'I snns
parton nngers untreighted at her docl will Lo
the death warrant OF helpless women and J chill; IL
aIen. IL surely cannot be possible that
through apathy or neglect the hideons sho ena'
ofpermitting these things to be- shall he hra
ed forever upon the history of the Union 1 for
which so much has been borne and done i bu
the devoted living and heroic dead. '' ny
The document is signed by Mrs j. j. Roose.
welt, President of the Association, and by the
other officers. Among the names of the Exec
utve Committee we notice those of Mrs. j. G.
Fremont, Mrs. d. d. Field, Mrs. G. T. Curtis.
and others .fr. I ......
Mr.. Arthur Leary, 70 William Street, is the
Treasurer of the Association. The Depot for
receiving Dry Goods, Clothing, &C., is at No.
IA Bond Street. The Depot for Flour, Pork,
Corn or any kind of Provisions, is at the store
OF HARRIS Gaines & Co., No. 15 Whitehall
o'roe'' anu at the store of March, Price 81 Co.,
81 Water Street.