Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-10
EX- CONFEDERATE HOME.
The Need of Aid from the State at
Large Set Forth by Represent
ative Men.
Duty We Owe to Those Who Fought and Bled
at Our Side-The Beginning of a Good
WOrk-MOney Needed at Once.
Special to the Gazette.

| Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX. July 9.-Several years
ago the John B. Hood camp of this city
inaugurated a plan for establishing a
home for disabled INDECENT ex- Confeder-
ate soldiers. The philenthropic men
who understood the enterprise had many
| difficulties to encounter, but have accom-
plished good work and can point with
pride to beautiful home where about
thirty of the old heroes are comfortably
sheltered. The present accommodations,
however, are not commensurate with the
demand and hundreds of worthy applI-
cants left in perjury by the vicisstudes of
war, and doomed to remain so by physi-
cal disabilities, must be denied admit
lance. Travis county could easily care
for her own dependent soldiers, but the
object of this institution is to shield from
beggary and want all the brave fellows
whose prodigies of valor were once the
admiration of the world. The state of
Texas in 1861 called her sons TO arms, and
without questioning the right or consider
ing the danger they promptly responded
to the call. For four years upon every
contested field her banners led the van
always found among the dead and
wounded. When the war was ended
many of those MANNED heroes returned
to their homes unable to care for them
selves and have been buffetted from
place to place wherever charity opened
door or pity promised assistance. No
reasonable person would expect one COM
munity to raise money sufficient to con-
tribute the necessary supplies for all the
helpless ex-Confederates of our state
and 1t is but just and fair that every
town and county should assume pro
rata expense. In presenting the claims
of such an enterprise it requires neither
logic or pathos to awaken sympathy in
every generous nature, and surely the
men of gray, the knightliest throng
of which the world holds record, cannot
neglect the comrades who Tell by their
sides as they marched through that long
night of sorrow and blood. We who,
when the morning dawned, were left I'M
scared by blade or ball will be unworthy
the colors we wore and the history we
made lfnow we fail to come up to the full
measure of a soldiers highest duty.
Many posts of the Grand Army with a
magnanimity unparalleled IN history
have made liberal contributions to this
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express our gratitude to those true and
gallant soldiers, but every impulse of
manhood imposes the sacred trust of
caring for these unfortunates upon the
friends and comrades who shared their
dangers and know their worth The
United States government distributes
millions of dollars annually 20 those
who enlisted in the Northern army
who were injured by the war. The pen
sion list numbers almost as many men as
ever followed the standards Of Grant and
Sherman, and we of the South who con-
tribute largely to that fund do not com
PLAIN. We willingly provide for those
swept with fire and sword the finest por-
tions of our land and crushed with iron
hoops our hopes OF a nation, but in
mercy's name what have we done for the
men who barred their breasts to the storm
and went down before it? Absolutely
nothing Citizens of Texas reflect upon
these things and let the memories of
common hopes and consecrated sorrows
that followed to the death the waning
fortunes of cause we loved make every
gentle hearted woman and every ehival-
rous man to join us in this noble charity.
L. S. Ross, chairman; s. 7. Fillmore,
secretary; R. VI. Swearingen, John B.
Rector. W. R. Handy, d. G. Shelly,
X. B. DebraY, Henry r Shelley, w.
C. Walsh. j J. TobinNA. P. Wool
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