Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-11-17
The Confederate Orphan
Asylum.
An Earnest and Immedi-
ate Appeal in its Be-
half.


We beg leave to call your at
tention, and through you the at
tention of your congregations
and Sunday Schools, to the con-
dition of the Confederate Or
phan Asylum at this place.
Immediately after the close
OF the war, the ladies of our
city and vicinity formed the no.
BILE design of establishing a ref
uge for the orphans of those
Confederate soldiers who had
persisted in the war. In the
face of every encouragement
they have persevered until they
are now the owners Of comfort
able buildings and grounds
well suited for the purpose, all
paid for. For four years they
have succeededin taking care of
and educating many of the or
|phans Of our heroic dead, and
there are now sixty-fve inmates
in the Asylum.
The treasury is nearly empty.
They must have help or be
compelled to abandon an enter
prise very dear to their hearts,
and turn those helpless chill
dren out on the world. They
do not believe that a humane
and Christian people will per-
NIT such a sad termination of
their heroic struggles, if the
condition of the children under
their charge should be brought
to their attention, and they
have besought US to make an
appeal to the charitable and
Christian public for relief.
In their names, and in behalf
Of the destitute children under
their care, we respectfully and
earnestly entreat you to read
this paper to your congregations
and Sunday Schools f.; to speak
a word in season for the sacred
cause, and take up a collection
in both your congregations and
Sunday Schools at the earliest
day practicable.
No nobler monument can be
erected by our people, to the
memory Of those who fell in the
cause of the South, than to see
that their little children are
rescued from the curse of igno-
rance and the pangs of helpless
poverty.
Soldiers of the Lost Cause
Can you forget the comrades
that you buried upon lonely and
distant battlefields. who We're
not permitted, like yourselves,
to return to their homes and
the embraces of their families !?
Men of the South I! You
who were strangers during the
war to the hardships and dam
gers that fell to a soldiers lot,
give freely Of your substance
to feed and educate the children,
of those who died in your stead
in the gloomy hospital or upon
the perilous edge of battle.
Women of the South Your
unselfish and undying devotion
to your native land during its
mighty but unsuccessful strug-
gle, assures us that your gener-
Gus hearts will respond with a
bound of JOY to this appeal
Children of the South Come
with your little offering, to help
the soldiers orphan child, and
cheer his lonely lot.
Christians OF every name and
order Remember your Mas
ter's great example and forget
not the fatherless in their days
of need.
To all who have a heart to
feel for the woes of humanity
and a hand to relieve the dis
tressed, we make an earnest APP
peal to come to the help of our
noble women, who are strug-
CLING with such undying faith
in this holy cause-hold up their
hands and cheer their hearts I'M
this crisis in their glorious en-
and they and their lit
tie orphan charges will bless
your names.
We deem it proper to add,
that in its organization and man
agement the Asylum is entirely
free from all sectarian influences. |
A union Sabbath School is |
taught at the Asylum in which |
all the denominations are repre-
All contributions will be at
once forwarded to Mrs. A. @.
Munford, Secretary and Treas
lrer, GAINESVILLE, Tennessee.
COMMITTEE OF FINANCE.
John F. House and G. G.i
smith, Methodist Episcopal
Church South.