The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-01-23
COMMUNICATED.
The Orphan's Home.

Shall the efforts which have been made to
,laee this institution on a substantial and
enduring basis be crowned with success, or /
shall they fail /! I
Ifthis home for the homeless cannot be es- !
tablished by any other means than private /
charitable donations, then its fate is writteni Z
if il have no quarter Of suceor except from
of money from the public
treasury. then the children of the Confed-
crate dead must be left to poverty, iguo-
rance. starvation, and shame
The previous little beginning made to col
lect teachers books, provisions, clothing,
beds. fuel aud shelter for the dear little ones
must cease and dissolve, and they must dis
perse TO they know not where
The plain reason Is this, that neither pr
vate nor public donation in the present CON
dition of the people, is adequate to the daily
pressing needs of those in whose behalf the
Home was projected. With the wealth OF
the people destroyed, there cannot be an
abundant public treasury, and the eXpendl-
lures must be economical and confined with
in the limits of actual Governmental neces-
sitv. The private necessities of the people
are 80 great. that any amount of taxation Is
burthensome, and now when the State tax
is combined with the tax Of the General
Government. It becomes 80 grinding and OPP
pressive that it IS a serious problem how
/ the great body Of the people can live.
Then the Orphans Home must despair
/ lift looks to the quarter mentioned as the
Z only uof,rea Of hone and success
/ Should this be its fate Look to the Ian
guaoe of the Joint resolution Of the Legis-
/ lature passed Dec. 9Th, 1868, in which 1t IS
said .'that the State pledges herself to her
/ soldiers that those dear ones they have left
/ behind them, shall not want whilst MissIs-
sippi has it in her power to assist them
A copy was transmitted TO command
ing officers of Mississippi troops, and
whether they nerved a weak arm, or made a
single heart beat holder, or Drawer or not
can only be determined by the surviving
soldiers OF the brighter lustre impaired to
the ewes of their wives, engaged in an al
most superhuman struggle for subsistence
during their absence. OF the same date Is a
resolution of thanks to the mothers, wives
sisters and daughters of the State. On the
9Th of April, 1864, the Legislature Resolved
THAT nothing had occurred since the com
mencement of the war, which so thrilled
their hearts as the determination of the
brave soldiers of the State, to fight to the
last and gain our liberties or perish IN the
attempt, and we hereby renew the pledge
given that so long as any means remain tC
prevent it. the families of our brave soldiers
shall never suffer-
This was transmitted to Generals Lee
Longstreet. Johnston and Polk, and read tc
each regiment of Mississippians.
But more specifically to the point of edu
eating the children of soldiers who have
died, been killed, or permanently disabled
in the military service of the Confederate
States and stating it to be the duty of the
State to make provision therefor, is the joint
resolution approved August 18th, 1864.
The obligation and the pledge of the STATE
made and delivered in the most solemn
form, as well as its inter inability through
private or public donation to redeem ant
cancel that pledge and obligation, have beel
shown. and now what remains
/ A proposition was made to the last Legls
lature to establish lottery, whereby thes
helpless children could be clothed, fed an,
educated, and the projectors of that schem
were and are now willing to advance tel
thousand dollars to the Orphans Home, il
cash, upon the passage of the bill, and do
: nate twenty-five per cent of the nett earn
ings. annually to its support, subject to tn
deduction of -the'sum mentioned, as an ad
vance
institute and th6J"y d8p the 6f Ra t 6sGSiGd
institution of learning in America Othe
institutions of learning have been built b.
! the same means. Churches, residences 70
Pastors and Pastors salaries have all bee
, provided for by means, as exposed to rigi,
f criticism, as the principle involved in lottt
~ schemes.
State Legislatures as wise and moral a
ours have sanctioned such schemes for mora
and educational purposes. And it is tn
z grandest achievement of pulpit, church an,
moral craftsmanship when the exterpa
: ton of evil is known to be impracticable
to harness it to benevolent enterprises, ant
r thus extract good ont of it.
II it be, immoral TO sanction a lottery 70
the purposes contemplated, what shall
f be said in defense of a violated pledge, sol
p EMMY given to those who reposed implicit
faith in it, and who haveI forfeited thei
; lives upon that faith
, Can man stand in front of those child
rem and their mothers. with the pledge o
, the State in his hand, with an open comics
sion of the poverty of the State Treasury
and whilst they are starving for bread. ant
and dying from cold and want of shelter, ant
debate with them the morality of lotter,
scheme, which will amply provide for al
their necessities
Such a man would debate the technica
, legality of a war when the guns of the enc
: my were firing upon him