Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-02-19

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Aess,s. Editors,:-I regret to have
to appear In the newspapers, bit your
last isste renders II, conceive, both
proper and Important for Inc to 10 SO.
The notice I refer to is that In which
you say, |" My salary lad been paid
In a manner satisfactory to. all par
ties" This leaves the Inference that
/ had been disputing or claiming as a
mercenary compensation for work
which was the "laf,or Of love" and
that this claim had been contested. II
those who have made themselves
I" busy with my flame,n had Seen ana
attended the sick and wounded, as /
have done, they would have Known
that have all along been Influenced
byhigherandpurer motives than they
attribute to me. Had they heard the
dying soldier, as / have done, fmpiore
God with his last breath TO- raise up
friends for his helpless orphan, they
would have understood why I, In my
old age, gave up q comfortatie home
and q coifpetent1iving, and day and
night periled my life In the ha0nts
of civilization and IN the Wild home
of savages, oobtain, money to pay
for and support an asylum, In which
their little ones could find protection,
education, and a shelter from the cold
and the rain. It Is we'll known that,
in connection with one other lady
and gentleman Of this city, origins.
ted the idea and begged the money to
found this institution. I spent twO
years in travelling and obtained seven
teen Thousand dollars, and set In u;
-matronp s0ihott salary, or help, with
thirty odd children. The Board OF
Managers thinking me unworthy OF
this position--ina an Institution I had
been the founder Of, and which I add
intended and designed should be self.
sustaining, by learning the children
to ,cork ia Useful GoocupationsMdis-
placed me and put the institution
under superintendent, with a salary
Of three thousand dollars. i4i'ii
Even after being THUS discarded, ]
did not giveup, but left, again my
home for New Orleans, Texas and the
Pacific coast, and thereby obtained
and ,remitted to the managers over
eleven thousand dollars. When /
started they offered me per centum
of ten per cent. on what / should OBJ
tain, they have since paid one agent
In Tennessee, and n man at that
t,centy per cent?. Irefused to 60 as q
paid agent, and never intended to re-
ceive one cent in compensation and do
not conceive, that am doing so now,
for no money could pay me for the ter
rible hardships endured In Califbr.
mia, fUm the result Of which am, per-
haps, a cripple for life; but on return
ing I found Tint the managers were
paying salaries to others, whose work
Is certainly not more fneritorious,
and feeling that I could do good with
the money to many an object of char
ity (fJr SO help me H eaven I will ap.
propriate IL In no other way, / deter
mined to accept their voluntarily prof.
fered compensation. / ask nothing
for myself, and left II with them
what they should agree to pay me.
Had it been but five dollars I would
have taken it, not for myself but as a
trust fund 10 be sacredly appropriated
to the wants Of Confederate orphans,
in raising them in the fear and adj
milton OF the Lord, and teaching
them to ,work-the boys as farmers
or, mechanics, the girls in all the
knowledge Of efficient house wives.
The Society has given me their
check for FIVE hundred tiollars, and
will, doubtless, pay me the other five
hundred. Rest assured 1t will GO as
above indicated. I sincerely trust the
asylum VIII prosper, but I respectful
~ suggest that the" pulling At me-"
in private or in public, will not add
one crumb to the table, or one Joy to
me work in my own way, and In ST.
lence. and you need not be surprised,
ifm a few months, another Orphans
Home should spring up IN the land,
and all by the labor OF one, old wo-
man, whose trusts ia God and the
good cause, TO support her. = ~ 2
Respectfully, nv KY ''i' In,
Mrs. ELizABETI NJ. NoRRrs. d