Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-11-21
Thanlxsgiying.

Thursday nextwill be observed through
out the country as day of national thanks
giving to the Almighty for the blessings
Of the past year. This is holiday which
has heretofore been more generally OBJ
served throughout the Northern and East
ern States than elsewhere, but of late years
its observation has been more general
have much to be thankful for, in the bless
ings which we have enjoyed, and the COM
forts which we are now allowed to have.
Our people have been blest in the enjoy
ment of health, whilst other portions of
our country have been devastated by dis
ease. Whole towns and cities have been
rayaged by that fell-destroyer, the yellow
fever, and thousands hurried to an untime-
ly grave. Storms have swept the ocean
and along the coast, many human lives
lost and vast amounts of property destroy
ed, and in one single storm twas .estimat-
ed that 800 vessels, mostly small ones, were
wrecked. In the most thickly populated,
and, therefore, the richest portion of the
Union, financial storm has ruined thous-
ands. Men who yesterday were million
aires are to-day penniless. Nor is this the
worst. In consequence of this miss-called
financial panic untold suffering has been
entailed upon the whole of that class Of
people who are least able to bear it-the
laboring class. Men and women who were
dependent upon their daily earnings for
the necessaries of life and the support OF
their families, have found themselves sud-
denly and at most inclement season OF
the year deprived of employment. Manu-
factories, mills, labor in all its skilled
branches. have been brought to q stand
still. No work, no prospect for work; no
food for the strong man or weaker woman;
no fuel to protect the aged and young from
the bitter blasts of the winters wind; no
help except from the cold charity of the
world. The rich who could have thus af
forded relief have gone down in the gene
ral ruin which has been brought about by
a mistaken financial policy of our Govern
ment, It is estimated by the New York
World that there are now in at3city So,
900 persons out of employment who were
dependent on their daily labor, and this
is daily increasing. And most sad to say
of these, it is estimsted that at least &c, 0Ot
are sewing women. Obi it is fearful tc
Econtemplate to what life the poor unfor
Etunates may, in their desperation of star
walton, be driven. 1t makes the heart sick
and the strong man to shudder to think Of
them, perhaps selling soul and body for a
morsel of bread Think of it, fathers, who
live here in this land of plenty, where youl
wives and daughters are provided with all
the necessaries, if not the luxuries of life
You have comfortable houses, though plain:
you have an abundance Of clothing, though
coarse; you have plenty of food, though
simple; you have quantities of fuel, though
troublesome to get Think of all these
things, and say if we have no cause to be
thankful that we have not only been spar
ed such suffering, but,we have all these
blessings, and, when offering up your CRATE
full thanks in the Temples of the Lord, OF
in the midst of your happy families, forget
not the poor, for "the poor ye have always
with YOU - -.