Every dollar expended meets some real want, or helps to
save a life. Do the people wish this agency in behalf of the soldiers in
tent, hospital, and on the battle field--at the East--West--South, to
cease? or is it their will to continue it in its largeness of plan, its
scientific exactness, its ability to do all that the friends at home
would themselves desire to do for our soldiers? Our generous and loyal
people have given their entire confidence to the Sanitary
Commission--they have decided that it shall not die for lack of material
aid, estimating beyond all money and all price the lives and health of
the brave men now in the field for the defence of the country, and
grateful that they may repose in the certitude that every cent
contributed will be used in the surest manner to effect the results
required. To aid in sustaining this beneficent institution, New York is
about to inaugurate a great Metropolitan Fair. She asks in the sacred
name of freedom and humanity that her children come together with the
works of their hands, the results of their enterprise, the achievements
of their talents, the bloom of their genius, to do her honor in a Great
Exhibition of Art, Industry, Commerce, all devoted to the cause of human
progress. She begs of her children to do the work which is given them to
do, with a spirit of love and patriotism, remembering no private griefs,
no unworthy animosities; remembering only the bleeding sons of the
Republic, who threw themselves, in their youth and strength, into the
yawning gulf which opened before them, hoping that, propitiated by such
a sacrifice, it might close again--willing to die, or live maimed and
suffering, that a happy, peaceful and united people might again possess
the fairest land which God has given to mankind.
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