Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-06-02
Tho Widow and Orphan.
For the RBPUBLYcAN.

My friends, have often been Bneer0
at for making 30 much fuss about tn
widows and orpbana When the &C
eursed rebellion broke out when tn
Delaware boys were going 10 the front
many Of them said "Crozier, we don :
want you to go, some of us won't com
home again, see that the old woman ant
child enjoy the holidays" have triet
to do 30. Some few years ago called
on a soldiers widow on very cold
morning. found her bucket frozen fast
between her stove and bed, nothing to
eat, no coal and no wood.
went down to see that generous and
good man, the late William Lee, who
always wore a part of the mantle of that
good old man Peter Cooper. He said,
Ell, this won't do that woman shan I
suffer this way her husband was the
hrst one in the Delaware Regiment that
fell, and from that day to the day Mr..
l.. died, his hand was always open to
the widows and orph ,ns. may AZ
well say it, that he t,ok his mantle
nome to glory with him, but we have
four more Williams left yet, that have
got good share of Peter Cooper's man.
tie around their shoulders, with respect
to the orphan boy we have adopted.
On the 4th day Of last September,
year ago, Captain Carroll called on me
to 60 and see his mother. went up to
see how things looked, and found her
an intelligent, hard working little wo-
man, with three little orphans, and the
only curse about her was her poverty.
You men and women that visited the
bi-centennial in Philadelphia saw the
thousands of little orphans clothed and
educated, but when you cross the Penn.
sylvania line the curse of Cain is upon
their brow. Now, my friends, con-
tend the men of Delaware, fought as
we'll as the men Of any other State In
that grand army, the grandest- army
that ever trod the earth, when cursed
rebellion and treason had driven this
country to the brink of the precipice and
stepped back to see 1t tumb BILE into the
gulf of oblivion; when Uncle Abraham
called out his three hundred thousand
men or more who had good right arm
and . loving heart, then turned their
back on all they loved on earth, many
Of them never to come back, but they |
who did come back and marched around |
the WhiteHouse brought home the Con.
stitution unimpaired, with the old flag
Of glory flying over them and there have
been few patriotic men and women
that have looked after her from that
day to this.
i made up my mind that day that
there should be one soldiers widow who
should have home and one soldiers
orphan adopted. The State never did it
but that is no reason the people should
not. See the poverty and want. A
soldiers widow died the other day.
Jacob Sharp and the preacher in charge
)f ST. Paul's, the Rev. Mr.. Hill, five
women and two men were at the fune-
al with the four little orphans, who
perhaps shall never meet on earth in
! place called home.
Mr.. Hill says to me, "Mr. Crozier
never saw such distress in my life"
said to him, " My friend, was Coro.
Ter of this County six years in my
ime, yet never saw anything like it
,efore.'
NOw,yO will hav q men mean enough
when you ask them aid for the comfort
# the widows and orphans to tell you
o go to the soldiers and get it, Such
nen ought to be gibitted. The soldiers
ave you all you have on earth had it
lot been for those brave men, jeff Da-
is empire of slavery would have been ,
Established throughout the Union, with
he nigger's" head for the corner q
tone. My friends, as we will hold our {
airs out on the corners and highways,
We cannot afford to pay twenty Fl We dol !
ars for hall any more for the bare s
ooted orphans and receive twenty We !
ents. Now, gentlemen, if you thiuk !
10 call on WIN. S. Bullock, General
fcNair or W. H. Pierson. o., Z
Yours with respect,
ELI CRozIER President of the Society
( We the People, for the protection of s
he widows and orphans, and the prom I
lgation of public good throughout the
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