San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-11
AN APPEAL FOR AID.
Brave Men OF Texas, Help Your
Manned Brethren.

| Manned Brethren.
The following is the address issued
in behalf of manned and disabled
Confederate soldiers:
To he public of Texas:
Several years ago 1.-THE John B.
Hood Camp" of this city, inaugurated
a plan for establishing home for dis.
abled, judigent ex-Confederate SOL
diers.
The philanthropic men who under
took the enterprise had many Difficult
| ties 10 encounter, but have accom-.
plished a good work, and can point
with pride to a beautiful home where
about thirty of the old heroes are
comfortably sheltered.
The present accommodations, how
ever, are not commensurate with the
demand, and hundreds of worthy ap-
plicants, left in penury by the vicis-
STUDIES of war, and doomed to remain
so by physical disabilities, must be
denied admittance.
Travis county could easily care for
her own dependent soldiers, but the
object of this institu ton 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 TeXes in 1861 called her
sons to arms. and without question
ing the right or considering the dam
ger, they promptly responded to the
call. For four years upon every con-
tested field her banners led the van
of battle, and her five-pointed star
was always found among the dead
and wounded.
When the war was ended many of
these manned heroes returned to
their homes, unable to care for them
selves, and have been buffetted from
place to place, wherever charity open
ed a door, or pity promised assist
ance.
No reasonable person would expect
one community to raise money sutfi-
cient to construct the necessary build
ings, and furnish the necessary sup
plies for all the helpless eX-cOnfeder-
ates of our state, and it is but just aud
fair, that every town and county
81 Ouid assume pro rata of the eX-
penses.
In presenting the claims of such an
requires neither logic nor
pathOs to awaken sympathy in every |
nature. and surely the 'men |
of gray 1.-THE knightliest throng |
the world holds record, -
cannot neglect the comrades, who fell |
by their sides, as they marched |
through that long night Of sorrow and
blood.
We, who, when the morning
1awned, were left unscarred by blade
Or ball, will be unworthy the cOlors
we wore and the history we made. if
low we fail to come up to the full !
measure of a soldiers highest duty.
Many posts of the Grand Army.o
with a magnanimity unpara lIeled in
history, have made liberal cOntribu-
ions to this Confederate home, and
words cannot express our gratitude to
hose true and gallant soldiers, but
every impulse OF manhood imposed
he sacred trust of caring for these I'M
ortunates upon the friends and COM
AIDES who shared their dangers and
know their worth.
The United States government dis
tributes millions of dollars annually
o those who enlisted in the northern
army and who were injured by the
war.
The pension list numbers almost as
many men as ever followed the stand
ards of Grant and Sherman. and we
If the south, who contribute largely
% that fund, do not complain.
We willingly provide for those who
swept with fire and sword the fairest
portions of our land and crushed with
ron hoOfs our hopes of 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?
A Absolutely nothing.
Citizens of Texas, reflect upon these
things and let the memories of COM
mon hopes and cOnsecrated sorrows
that followed to the death the waning
fortunes of a cause we loved, move
every gentle hearted woman, and
every chivalrOus man to join us IN
this noble charity.
L. :. Ross, Chairman,
Z. 7. FUIMORE, Sec'y,
Z. NJ. SWEARINGEN,