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A Plea for the Orphan and the Widow*Deeply penetrated with Borrow for the bitter woee that have fallen upon the helpless women and children, recently driven from their homes by the ruthJeeas hand of War, ami that of Famine, itsfrim attendant, and by the tern hie desolation of re and swora that has swept over their onoe happy land, we, the undersigned, a few Christian women, have united ourselves into an Association for the purpose ot relieving the necessities of these abiect* starving, poverty-stricken and icoy-trom orea-turee, who have nothing but rag% to shield them from the rigors of the approaching winter, and whose cry for mercy goes up with a wad so piteous and so fidl of anguish, that no human heart can wnln tend it and be at peace with God.Many of them were once blessed with independence. and some with affluence, who are now bowed down with mUy, wishing fbr death to re-leaae them from their sutferings, because hope is dead within them, and the future a horrible Wank. Nevertheless, the children, who constitute morefcliau half of this great mass of human woe, are the “Sunlight in the Picture,” and with their bright, innocent faces and joyous looks, carry the heart of the Christian philanthropist up to a holier and hap-B'or world, for, “Of such,’* we are told “is the agdorn of Heaven/* For their sake*, then, we would plead ; who, if snatched by timely aid from death and fell disease, may grow up to swell the noble throng of heroes and statesmen, who are towield the strong soepter of unbroken power, and to support, by their hearts and voices, the Constitution of this “glOTious Republic,** for which our Fathers fought and bled. ■
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 19, 1865
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