The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-09

The Southern Relief Meeting.
The Cry of the Starving for Bread.
RESPONSE OF EVANSVILLE.
Speeches, Resolutions, and Com
9isg t mittees. 80.

he Court mouse ldSI nlguU 10 ldkc ac-
son in regard to the furnishing wants
5 sf the South, was we'll attended, es-
secially by the solid men of the city.
When the meeting was called to order
asAe court room was we'll, filed. The
Crescent City Band, which, with it's
usual genuine liberality had volun-
aeered its services, disceursed some Of
6ts.sweetlmusic while the audience was
assembling, and contributed much
towards the success of the meeting.
The meeting organized by calling
Samuel Orr, Esq, to the Chair, and
The appointment of Esquire Ben.
Stinson as Secretary. In taking the
Chair, Mr.. Orr said that strange
shings sometimes happened, but he
never had expected to preside over a
meeting of Southern sympathizers.,
During the war he was opposed to
9esepding bread and meat to. rebels, but
vas in. favor of whipping them. But
now things have changed. Men, wo-
men and children are starving, and
se are called upon to help them. As
4 Southern ,sympathizers we are assem-
bled tonight, to do what we can to
relieve the suffering and the dying,
and he was glad to do what he could
30 help in this movement. Herefer-
red to the times in the past when
: Evansville had been called supon to
nd the starving. and had, always re-
sponded literally. Our people had
i saevergbeen3 appealed to in vain, and
he believed they would not now, even
slough it might be to help those who
Aad been our enemies.
r Judge A. L. Robinson, in respond.
ing to a general call, made by the.
neeting, said that he gave this. move
zsent his heart aud his hand. There
a xas no man in this city-in Indiana
IN the Union-who hated rebels more
han he did, but now they were starv-
ing, dying, and we must relieve them.
II has been asked shall we send
food to the peepIewe have been fight
ing? [ say, yes; by the hundreds,
thousands, millions of dollars, for
Ehey need it. 1t. is terrible thing,
Ibis cry of .gaunt want and ia mine
which comes to us from Georgia, Ala
bama, and other Southern States
shis cry for bread. A proposition was
E. 3sfore Congress, to appropriate one
miIlion dollars for the relief of the
South, and it ought to have passed;
bat it did not, and we must do what
ne can, as individuals and COMMUNE
: des, to relieve this, suffering. The
law, pronounced by the great Law
gyer, was the law CT the land, the
law of the community, of the indi-
gidual, = IF thine enemy hunger,
ssed him." Let us obey that law now
.sss rs feed the ,staryipg rebel, and the
aeEpless women and children; and
~ Is take definite actionTto- night. !
Rev. w. H, McCarer said that in
exder to get some definite proposition
.ssfoye the. meeting, upon which to
asst, he would move. the, appointment
ef a Committee to submit plan of
sstion for the raising of money and
provisions; which motion being adopt
sd, the President appointed Rev. w
p a. MeCarer,i Philips Hernbrook, Col.
Charles DENLY, Christian Decker,
and Giliison 5Maghee = : 49, !.
sf A. While the Committee was out,
o Judge Parrett Twas called out. He
ssid that his professional engagements
Rad prevented him from giving this
sabject the consideration it deserved,
- Bat he accepted the statements made
here tonight and daily in the papers,
rs facts-that the people of .4aie
shought he could say our country are
N want, and he accepted it as settled
that there is a spirit of magnanimity
and generosity in the people of this
country, forgetting what is past, which
you'd impel them to rush to the re-.
def of those who were starving and
IN absolute want. IF we never give
sill those appealing to our generosity
!. san show that their suffering was not
brought about by their own wrong
conduct, we might never give at all.
q The Judge Thoughtful might be well
q not to speak of Rebel in such
50 meeting as this; it would be we'll
for time to forget that, and come to