The New York herald., 1870-11-15
Tho French Bazaar-chari.y Open. Her

The French Bazaar-Charity Opens Her
The Grand National Fair for the benefit Of
those who may have been widowed and
orphaned in France by the horrors Of the
present slaughter-which we by courtesy call
war-will commence its charitable ministra-
tions this evoning at the armory Of the
Seventy-frst regiment, at the junction Of
Broadway and Sixth avenue. It is unneces-
sary, perhaps, to say that the gentle presid-
ing spirits of this great charity are women.
What would there be of tenderness or charity
in this wide world of ours If womanhood did
not inspire it? This National Bazaar is
expected to be magnificent affair, so well
organized and skilfully furnished with all the
elegances which decorate the tables upon
such occasions that even the love of peh
might be tempted equally with the impulse Of
charity to contribute liberal patronage to
this noble affair.
We need speak no stronger words in behalf
Of this enterprise than the touching language
which the ladies themselves have uttered in
their address,
The dead on the field Of battle are at peace; the
wounded soldier in the hospital cared TOR BY the
sleepess benevolence official and voluntary, OF the
country In whose cause he has been struck down.
Long after the smoke of the battle has melted away
the desolated h0mesteads, the devastated feids the
ruined FARMS the suspended industry OF the regions
which it has ragged. protract It's awful work In
pestilence and famine. Through Germany, where
no hostile foot mas troa the cry q the homeless the
terrible. What, then, must be the wretchedness the
woe, the want Of the populations which IN France
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from them to perish at their door, their present
shelter and their nope Of future support consumed
IN the confagraon OF all the savings OF the past
The Germans have already raised splendid
contribution for the victims Of the war of their
own nationality, and it was doubtless needed.
Germany, though victorious, presents the
aspect of Germany still suffering, both on the
battle field and at home. It Is true that her
soil has not been desecrated by the narrowing
scenes which followed the German arms into
French territory. The Germans have not seen
their villages desolated, their peasants hung
at the doors of their own homesteads, their
women dishonored even within the shelter Of
their own roof tree, their fields wasted until no
grain of corn nor implement to raise food on
the farms was left to feed the starving popula-
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district Of country, over which foreign troops
swept with the devastating force of some
deadly simeon. Germany has not experienced
this. She has been spared the sorrows of the
vanqushed, but she is still entitled to sympa-
thy, warm sympathy, for the thousands
Of dead and wounded victims with which
regal ambition has blasted the fields OF
Lorraine and Alsace and crowded the hospi-
tails Of Berlin. Wherever German resident
is to be found-all over the world-including
the cities Of China and India, and even the
mining colonies of South Africa, at Cape
Town, as well as in this country, the Germans
have contributed generously in aid Of the suf.
ferers of the war. Charity is universal. 1t
knows no nationality in its preferences. Its
ample heart, so full Of love- cannot contract
upon distinctions of race or individuality, Of
friend or foe. If it does it is not that virtue
of which the Apostle Paul spoke as the
greatest Of the three great virtues.
The Germans in this city-to their credit be
it writtan-have sent most generous ooutribu-,