The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-09-19
Thirty Women Starving.

Thirty Women Starving.
Thirty women, 10 Montgomery, Al
ALBANIA, with children, numbering nine
ty-six in the aggregate, published a
card in the papers ofthat city in which
they declare they are actually suffering
for the absolute nccessarics Of life, and
can get no work with which to support
themselves and their helpless children.
They appeal for help, and say;
ave know not what to do to avoid
starvation! The wailings of our chill
dren for bread are horrible to hear.
Unless we obtain some assistance we
must starve.'
To which the Nashville Press and
Times responds: 49,
"This certainly is a piteous appeal ;
it has the pathos Of hunger. Lis to be
hoped the citizens of Mont4 .ery will
not discard a cry Of distress'so full Of
agony-literaIly, the wall Of the widow
and the orphan. These women are the
widows Of Confederate soldiers who
persisted in battle or died from disease
Of the camp"
W. agree with the Press and Times
in its hope that the "citizens Of Mont
gomcry will not discard a cry of dis
tress SO full of agony-literally, the
wall Of the widow and orphan" But
our wish is the same, whether the suf-
fering women be the widows Of Con.
federate or Federal soldiers. Humani-
ty and charity would not stop or abate
their good work to inquire as to the
position occupied by the husbands OF
these women during the war. Human
ity and charity would strew flowers up
on the graves of both Confederate and
Federal, for both fought, no doubt, for
what they believed to be d principle. 1t
is left to contemplate brutality and
fendish m~alignity 10 cry out traitor,
and the cry is made more base when
uttered by the %conqueror. Yes, it is
so. VIZ do not suppose the Press and
Times advises relief for these starving
women because of any honor attaching,
in it's estimation, to wives of Confeds-
rate soldiers, but because they were
united in wedlock to traitors. We on
ly base Jul Interpretation upou the
fact that We have never seen in that
paper any leniency advocated towards
the conquered party, and have seen,
time and again, the foulest ISLANDERS up
on law.abiding citizens, whose only
crime was that they would not yield a
support to the humiliating and heart
less policy of the Jacobins.
And all over the South th3re is wall
ing Of widows and orphans, which
comes from other causes than hunger
-wailing because their husbands are dc
MED the rights which, under the Con.
stituti0n and terms Of surrender, they
are entitled to wailing because the en-
ergies, the hopes, the efforts Of their
protectors are paralyzcd by the relent
less cruelty of vengeance, denoninated
legislation; wailing because they hear
the cry Vac victis! from saintsan the
Jacobin leagues, who were but a while
ago the loudest in professions ofhatred
for the Yankee and the Federal cause /;
wailing because our efforts to maintain
our self-respect and honor rather than
to consent to ignominious terms made
after the surrender, are tortured into
evidences o fdisloyalty, as an excuse for
grinding us withtaxation to support arm
ed turncoats and adventurers dedicated
to the work of riding rough shod over
civil law and keeping bad men in Office;
wailing because they sec corruption and
decentralization inevitably ensuing from
the attempt to rule our country by de.
grading the ingenious blood of white
men, and the consequent elevation OF
the negro to n place he is not fitted for
m ntally or morally and all this, and
ten times more, that q few vile white
men may rule.
But this cry of whae women for help
leads us to extract as follows from a
late number Of The Round Table, a
journal published in New York, and
unsurpassed, as We have before said in
our paper. for ability of editorial man.
a%gement-a paper, too, which is and
has been a steadfast opponent of sla-
very, and staunch supporter OF nation
al unity. This paper says:
We have heard much of the equality
Of the negro with the white man. In
the name of justice and of mercy, let
our political negrophilists at the North
begin to do something to show that
they still believe the white man to
be equal to the negro. The whole
course of our government has tor
months past been calculatedt to degrade
our own blood in the Southern states
in order to exalt the negro population.
All our charities have been devoted to
the negro. Only u few generous-h hear
ted persons have turned their liberality
to the poor whites. 1t is we'll known
that the school fund in more than one
of the southern States has been, during
the last year, diverted from its object
to buybread to feed the starving. Yet
while freedmen's schools are dotted all
over the South and Yankee school-mis.
~tresses are everywhere-and some. of
them most laudably-engaged in teach.