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 The condition of East Tennessee had, from the out- 
 break of the war, excited much interest in the loyal 
 States. It has sometimes been called the Switzerland 
 of North America, and certainly no part of the conti- 
 nent had higher claims to the name of " the happy 
 valley." Its fame had crossed the Atlantic. More 
 than twenty years ago, an English gentleman, who 
 had lived several years in East Tennessee, published a 
 pamphlet in London, in which he expresses himself in 
 the following glowing terms : — 
 
 " To one who has resided some years in the valley of East Ten- 
 nessee, breathing the pure air from its mountains, and drinking of its 
 crystal springs, enjoying the sunny smile of its temperature and the 
 cooling shade of its noble forests, delighting the eye and the heart with 
 its fields of fruitfulness, which at every turn present a new aspect, it 
 is not ' England's laughing meads,' nor ' her flowering orchard trees,' 
 nor yet Lomond and the Trosachs, with all their beauty and histor- 
 ical associations, and the magic thrown around them by the exuberant 
 imagination of the poet, that could tempt him again to quit the peace- 
 ful solitude, the clear blue sky, the song of the mocking-bird, the note 
 of the dove, the hum of the humming-bird, and the silence of nature 
 where all is echo." ^ 
 
 1 A brief Historical, Statistical, and Descriptive Review of East Tennessee, 
 developing its immense Agricultural, Mining, and Manufacturing Advau' 
 tages. By J. Gray Smith, a naturalized citizen of the United States. Lon- 
 don, 1842. 
 
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 Some further description of the natural features of 
 this favored region will be found in the following 
 pages. It is sufficient to observe here, that it was 
 inhabited before the commencement of the war by a 
 substantial population of about 300,000, employed 
 chiefly in agriculture, and for the most part cultivating 
 farms of moderate size. Although surrounded on all 
 sides by slaveholding States, and conterminous with 
 those in which the slaves stand in the largest propor- 
 tion to the free population, less than ten per cent, of 
 the entire population of East Tennessee are slaves. It 
 is no doubt in a considerable degree owing to this cause, 
 that the great majority of the people have adhered to 
 the Union, under circumstances of unexampled trial, 
 from the commencement of the war avowedly levied 
 by the South for the protection, perpetuation, and ex- 
 tension of slavery. 
 
 By their loyalty to the Constitution and Union, the 
 people of East Tennessee were immediately marked 
 out as the victims of the most cruel persecution, on 
 the part of the leaders of the Rebellion. Although 
 the oppression of the Southern minority by the North- 
 ern numerical majority had for many years been the 
 favorite topic of the agitators in the slaveholding 
 States, no respect was anywhere paid to the rights of 
 the loyal minority opposed to secession, although in 
 East Tennessee they amounted to six-sevenths of the 
 local population. Mr. Calhoun spent the last half of his 
 life in contriving organic arrangements, by which a 
 minority should possess a veto on the measures of the 
 majority, but the moment the appeal was made to 
 
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 arms, the Unionists throughout the South became the 
 victims of unrelenting proscription. Mr. Senator Ma- 
 son, of Virginia, in a letter addressed by him to the 
 editor of a public journal, declared that those who did 
 not choose to vote for the ordinance of Secession, — 
 obtained as it was in secret conclave by surprise, in- 
 timidation, and fraud, — must expatriate themselves ; 
 and plainly intimated that troops had already been 
 sent from'the Gulf States to compel them to do so. 
 This sentence of banishment, for refusing to commit 
 treason, was denounced against a third part of the 
 population of Virginia. A correspondence which took 
 place at the close of 1863, between Mr. Jefferson Davis 
 and the Governor of North Carolina, has been recently 
 brought to light, in which the Governor is rebuked 
 for even wishing to conciliate the Unionists of that 
 State, who are denounced as traitors by Mr. Davis, 
 and threatened with punishment as such. The friends 
 of the Union in all the Border States, constituting a 
 great majority of the people, instead of being left 
 undisturbed in their loyalty, or even permitted to 
 enjoy in peace their rights as a minority dissenting 
 from the policy of the slaveholding States, have been, 
 over and over again, invaded by the armies of the 
 South, their towns and cities sacked, their property 
 plundered and destroyed, and theh young men forced 
 into the ranks of the enemy. 
 
 But nowhere have the rights of a dissenting minor- 
 ity been so flagrantly violated as in East Tennessee, 
 whose inhabitants, owing to the isolated position of the 
 valley, were for two long years beyond the reach of 
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 the protecting arm of the General Government. The 
 treatment to which they have been subjected will be 
 more fully set forth in the following pages. It is briefly 
 summed up in a memorial to Congress of their elo- 
 quent champion, Colonel N. G. Taylor : * — 
 
 " I will not say," he observes, " that they are more loyal, but I do 
 declare that they have been more terribly and cruelly tested and 
 tried than any other of our people. In 1861, when the question 
 was presented, out of a vote of little more than 40,000, they gave 
 30,000 majority for the Union. Their arms and ammunition were 
 seized, before they could organize, by the rebel soldiers ; and though 
 the Government, which owed them protection, did not protect them, 
 yet their hearts clung to the Government, and they prayed for the 
 Union. Five thousand of their men have seen the inside walls of 
 rebel prisons, and hundreds of them, covered with filth, devoured of 
 vermin, famished with hunger, have died martyrs to their country 
 there. Their property has been seized, confiscated ; their houses 
 pillaged; their stock all driven off; their grain consumed, their sub- 
 stance wasted, their fences burned, their fields laid waste, their farms 
 devastated by friends as well as foes. The Rebels robbed them, the 
 Federals devoured them, for they had short supplies, and our women 
 broke their last biscuit and gave them the biggest half, out of the 
 mouths of hungry children. They gave up the last horse, mule, cow, 
 sheep, hog, everything they had, to the soldiers that needed them, 
 because they were Union soldiers, or were plundered of them by the 
 enemy. Their young men have been hunted like wild beasts, by 
 soldiers, by Indians, sometimes by bloodhounds, and, when caught, 
 tied two-and-two to long ropes, and driven before cavalry — thin- 
 clad, barefooted, and bleeding — over frozen roads and icy creeks 
 and rivers. Some have been beaten with ropes, with straps, with 
 clubs. Some have been butchered, others shot down, in their own 
 houses or yards, in the high road, or the field, or in the forest ; others, 
 still, have been hung up by the neck to the limbs of trees, without 
 judge or jury. I have heard of no single neighborhood within the 
 bounds of East Tennessee, whose green sod has not drunk the blood 
 of citizens murdered." 
 
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 Such was the respect paid by the leaders of the 
 RebeUion to the rights of their fellow-citizens who 
 chose to adhere to the Union. Even the liberating 
 army of the General Government did, at first, but 
 complete the exhaustion of the devoted region, for in 
 his haste to expel the enemy. General Bumside was 
 compelled to move in advance of his supplies. As soon 
 as a communication was open with the North, a cry 
 for relief went forth from our afflicted fellow-citizens 
 of East Tennessee. Colonel Taylor, of Carter County, 
 who had formerly represented them in Congress, — a 
 victim himself of the devastations he has so feelingly 
 described, — was deputed to visit the Northern cities, 
 where he was received with a sympathy due to his 
 patriotic and fervid efforts, and to the cause in which 
 he was engaged. A relief association was organized in 
 Philadelphia, and considerable sums promptly contrib- 
 uted. A like reception awaited him in Boston. An 
 opportunity was afforded him of addressing the legis- 
 lature, and a resolution providing for an appropriation 
 of a hundred thousand dollars from the State treasury 
 was introduced. In aid of this movement, a public 
 meeting of the citizens of Boston was called in Fanueil 
 Hall, on the 10th February, 1864, of which the follow- 
 ing account is extracted from the " Daily Advertiser " 
 of the next day : — 
 
 "Fanueil Hall was crowded yesterday afternoon with 
 a large audience called together by the announcement 
 that Colonel Taylor, of East Tennessee, would make 
 an address before the citizens of Boston, on the suffer- 
 ings of the people of that region. A large number of 
 ladies occupied seats in the gallery. 
 
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 "About a quarter past four Colonel Taylor entered 
 the hall, accompanied by His Excellency Governor An- 
 drew, Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. J. E. Field, President 
 of the Senate, Hon. A. H. Bullock, Speaker of the 
 House, His Honor Mayor Lincoln, Collector Goodrich, 
 Judge Thomas Russell, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Hon. 
 C. G. Loring, Hon. J. Wiley Edmands, and several 
 other distinguished gentlemen. Their entrance was 
 the signal for enthusiastic applause by the audience. _ 
 
 "Honorable J.Wiley Edmands called the meeting to 
 order, and said that the committee, appointed for the 
 purpose of considering the best method of aiding the 
 people of East Tennessee, had called this meeting so 
 that the citizens of Boston might have an opportunity 
 of hearing about their brethren in that region. Mr. 
 Edmands stated that the committee had prepared the 
 following list to be nominated as officers for the meet- 
 ing, and they were, on motion, elected. 
 
 ^^ President, — Hon. Edward Everett. 
 
 " Vice-Presidents, — His Excellency Governor Andrew, 
 His Honor Mayor Lincoln, Hon. J. E. Field, Hon. A. H. 
 Bullock, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Hon. Charles G. Lor- 
 ing, William Clafflin, Esq., Patrick Donahoe, Esq., Wil- 
 liam B. Rogers, Esq., Charles B. Goodrich, Esq., James 
 Lawrence, Esq., Richard F'- '\ingham, Esq., Julius 
 Rockwell, Esq., Charles L. , oodbury, Esq., John M. 
 Forbes, Esq. 
 
 " Secretaries, — Colonel F. L. Lee, and Samuel Froth- 
 ingham, Jr. 
 
 "Honorable Edward Everett then stepped upon the 
 platform, and spoke as follows" : — 
 
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 SPEECH OF MR. EVERETT. 
 
 Fellow- Citizens : — We have come together for the 
 grateful purpose of tendering a most cordial welcome 
 to our honored guest, Colonel N. G. Taylor, of East 
 Tennessee, and the pleasing duty has devolved upon 
 me of introducing him to the Union-loving men of 
 Boston, assembled in Faneuil Hall. I bid him a hearty 
 welcome in your name. To introduce him, however, is 
 wholly superfluous. Many of you have already heard 
 him, and, as a matter of course, you desire to hear him 
 again ; all of you have heard of him, and, as a matter 
 of course, you wish to hear from him. It is therefore 
 as unnecessary, as it would be unbecoming in his pres- 
 ence, to dwell upon his titles to your respectful atten- 
 tion ; but in addition to all his personal claims upon 
 our sympathy, you will " hear him for his cause ; " the 
 cause, not simply of the Union, to which we are all 
 devoted, but of faithful Union men, who, from the 
 outbreak of the Rebellion, have stood at the post of 
 danger ; on whom the storm of war first broke ; and 
 on whom, from that day to this, it has beat with its 
 wildest fury. At this distance from the seat of war, 
 we hear only the far-off roar of the tempest -, but all 
 its waves and billows have gone over the devoted 
 region, for which our honored guest comes to plead. 
 
 And a more interesting region, or one better entitled 
 to our most active sympathy, is not to be found within 
 the limits of the United States. Forming a part of the 
 noble State of Tennessee, it is, in many respects, a 
 
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 State of itself, and not a small one either. It consists 
 of the broad valley of the magnificent river, which 
 traverses it from northeast to southwest, three hun- 
 dred miles in length, and with a varying width of 
 from fifty to seventy-five miles, — and of the slopes of 
 the mountains, which separate it on the north from 
 Kentucky, on the southwest from Middle Tennessee, 
 and on the southeast from North Carolina and Geor- 
 gia : — a beautiful valley, between beautiful enclosing 
 hills, fertile many of them to their summits ; sparkling 
 with a hundred tributaries to the noble stream which 
 forms its principal feature. 
 
 That river, fellow-citizens, is in some respects one of 
 the most remarkable on the continent. Its northern 
 affluents rise in the State of Virginia, but, as if to read 
 a lesson of patriotism in the very face of the soil, as if 
 to prop the fabric of the Union by the eternal but- 
 tresses of the hills, instead of flowing to the Atlantic 
 like the other rivers of Virginia, it gathers up the 
 waters of its tributary streams, Holston and Clinch and 
 French Broad, and connecting Virginia and the Caro- 
 linas with East Tennessee, flows southward down to the 
 northwestern corner of Georgia. There, after kissing 
 the feet of the glorious hills of Chattanooga, instead of 
 flowing to the Gulf, its seeming natural direction, it 
 coquets with Northern Alabama, breaks into the Mus- 
 cle Shoals, plants Decatur at their head, and Florence 
 at their feet, and then sweeping back to its native 
 North, traverses the entire width of Tennessee a second 
 time, apparently running up hill, — for while it is flow- 
 ing northward, the Mississippi, parallel to it, and at no 
 
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 great distance, is rolling its floods southward, — enters 
 the State of Kentucky, and empties at last into the 
 Ohio, fifty miles above the junction of that river with 
 the Mississippi, thus binding seven States in its silver 
 circuit, and connecting them all with the great cen- 
 tral basin of ^ the continent. The soil of Eastern Ten- 
 nessee is rich, the mountains are filled with coal and 
 almost every variety of ore ; their slopes bubble with 
 mineral springs ; the climate is temperate and health- 
 ful ; the territgry divided into farms of a moderate 
 size, for the most part tilled by frugal, industrious men, 
 who own the soil, which yields them its well-earned 
 abundance. Tn no part of the State are there so few 
 slaves ; in none is there a more substantial popula- 
 tion ; in no part of the South is the slave-interest so 
 feeble. East Tennessee greatly resembles the lower 
 ranges and fertile valleys of the Alps, and it has been 
 often called the American Switzerland. It is divided 
 into thirty counties, and its population does not, I 
 think, fall short of 300,000 souls. My friend, Colonel 
 Taylor, nods assent. 
 
 But this grand valley, with the hills that enclose it, 
 possesses an interest for us far beyond that which 
 attaches to their geographical features, merely as such. 
 It is one of the most important links in that chain of 
 valley and mountain, which traverses the entire North 
 American continent, from northeast to southwest, sep- 
 arating the streams which flow into the Atlantic from 
 those which seek the St. Lawrence, the Ohio, and the 
 Mississippi. Forcing its way down into the heart of the 
 region, whose alluvial plains are devoted to the culture 
 
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 of tobacco, cotton, rice and sugar, by slave labor, this 
 ridge of highlands, with the valleys embosomed in them, 
 from the time you leave the State of Pennsylvania, 
 begins to assume the highest political importance, in 
 reference to the present stupendous -struggle. Extend- 
 ing to the southwest as far as Northern Alabama, this 
 noble mountain tract, and the valleys enclosed in its 
 parallel and transverse ridges, is, by the character of 
 its climate, soil, and natural productions, the natural 
 ally of the North. Here, if nowhere elsd, we may truly 
 say, with the German poet — 
 
 " Auf den Bergen ist Freiheit ; der Hauch der Griifle 
 Steigt nicht hinauf, in die reinen Liifte." 
 
 That means — 
 
 On the mountains is Freedom ; the breath of the vales 
 Rises not up to the pure mountain gales. 
 
 Overrun it may be by the armed forces of the Rebel- 
 lion, but all the sympathies and attachments of this 
 region are with the loyal States. While the aristoc- 
 racy of the southeastern counties of that State were 
 shouting " My Maryland," the farmers of the western 
 counties in Cumberland Valley, shouted back "No, it 's 
 our Maryland." Western Virginia, a portion of the 
 same grand chain of mountain and valley, is as loyal 
 as Massachusetts. Then comes Western North Caro- 
 lina, and still more Eastern Tennessee, the home of 
 our honored guest, and of as true hearted, loyal. Union- 
 loving a population as there is on the continent. As 
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 filled with Union sentiment. It was with the greatest 
 difficulty that it was engineered into secession. As to 
 East Tennessee, when an election was ordered by the 
 disloyal Governor of Tennessee in that dark winter of 
 February, 1861, to see if the State was willing to hold 
 a convention for the purpose of seceding, there were 
 7,500 votes for the convention and 34,000 (nearly five 
 to one) against it. This circumstance, when the treason 
 of the cotton-growing States was consummated, marked 
 out East Tennessee for the peculiar vengeance of the 
 leaders of the rebellion. I will not anticipate what will 
 be so much better stated by our honored guest.; it is 
 enough to say, that in addition to all the sufferings of 
 regular warfare, the Union-loving inhabitants of East 
 Tennessee have been the victims of lawless outrages 
 and cruelties, of which the narrative curdles the blood. 
 Leaving all further detail to him, I will only recall to 
 your recollection the letter of Mr. Judah P. Benjamin, 
 at that time the rebel Secretary of War, of the 25th 
 November, 1861. It will be remembered that, at this 
 period of the war, the Government had been unable to 
 send any aid to the loyal men of East Tennessee. It 
 was before the glorious days of Grant at Chattanooga, 
 and Burnside at Knoxville. Thrown upon their own 
 resources, they naturally sought to save themselves 
 from being overrun, by destroying the bridges on the 
 chief lines of communication. One would suppose 
 that, under the usurped rule of men, who professed to 
 go to war for self-government and State-rights, the 
 people of Eastern Telmessee, if for any reason they 
 thought fit to do so, had a right to burn their own 
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 bridges, without asking leave of the rebel cabal at 
 Richmond. But Mr. Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi 
 planter, and Mr. J. P. Benjamin, a lawyer of New Or- 
 leans, thought otherwise. They not only denied the 
 right of the farmers of East Tennessee to burn their 
 own bridges, but they undertook to outlaw the great 
 majority of the population of that region, five to one 
 faithful Union men, denouncing them as traitors, be- 
 cause they refused to commit treason. To show you 
 how the friends and neighbors of our honored guest 
 have been treated, let me read you that letter of the 
 New Orleans lawyer, who was under oath himself to 
 support the Constitution of the United States : — 
 
 " War Department, Richmond, Nov. 25, 1861. 
 
 " Col. W. B. Wood : Sir, — Your report of the 20th instant is 
 received, and I now proceed to give you the desired instruction in 
 relation to the prisoners of war taken by you among the traitors 
 of East Tennessee. 
 
 " First. All such as can be identified in having been engaged in 
 bridge-burning are to be tried summarily by drum-head court-martial, 
 and, if found guilty, executed on the spot by hanging. It would 
 he well to leave their bodies hanging in the vicinity of the burned 
 bridges. 
 
 " Second. All such as have not been so engaged are to be treated 
 as prisoners of war, and sent, with an armed guard, to Tuscaloosa, 
 Alabama, there to be kept imprisoned at the depot selected by the 
 Government for prisoners of war. 
 
 " Wherever you can discover that arms are concentrated by these 
 traitors, you will send out detachments, search for and seize the arms. 
 In no case is one of the men known to have been up in arms against 
 the Government to be released on any pledge or oath of allegiance. 
 The time for such measures is past. They are all to be treated as 
 prisoners of war, and held in jail till the end of the war. 
 
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 Such as come in voluntarily, take the oath of allegiance, and surren- 
 der their arms, are sure to be treated with leniency. 
 
 " Your vigilant execution of these orders is earnestly urged by the 
 Government. 
 
 *' Your obedient Servant, 
 
 " J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of War. 
 
 « Col. W. B. Wood, Knoxville, Tenn. 
 
 " P. S. Judge Patterson, [Gov. Johnson's son-in-law,] Colonel 
 Pickens, and other ringleaders of the same class, must be sent at 
 once to Tuscaloosa to jail as prisoners of war." 
 
 Such was the atrocious letter of the rebel Secretary 
 of War ; such the treatment to which the Union men 
 of East Tennessee have been subjected. 
 
 But I am encroaching on the time that belongs to 
 our honored guest. I will only add, fellow-citizens, 
 that our brethren of East Tennessee are fighting our 
 battles as well as their own, on their blood-stained soil. 
 It is our cause as much as theirs in which they have 
 suffered the most cruel persecution ; and however 
 largely, however promptly, your relief may be ex- 
 tended to them, it will come too late, I fear, to rescue 
 some of them from the horrors of starvation. This 
 must not be. If the Union means anything, it means 
 not merely political connection and commercial inter- 
 course ; but to bear each other's burdens and to share 
 each other's sacrifices ; it means active sympathy and 
 efficient aid. 
 
 Colonel Taylor, on being introduced, was received 
 with loud applause and hearty cheers. He addressed 
 the assembly as follows: — 
 
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 SPEECH OF COLONEL TAYLOR. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Ladies, Genilemen, Fellow- Oitizms: — It is 
 with feelings inexpressible that I appear before you to- 
 day. It is with a gratification that I cannot find words 
 to express, that I see so many of Boston's fair daugh- 
 ters and Boston's brave men. I am gratified, sir, at 
 this assemblage and this presence, the more, when I re- 
 member that this assembly is convened, and that I am 
 here to address it, not in my own behalf, but in behalf 
 of my country, in behalf of my people in the moun- 
 tains of East Tennessee ; and I accept the presence of 
 this assemblage, and the compliment thus offered, as an 
 oJBfering to my people of East Tennessee ; for which, in 
 their name, permit me, fellow-citizens, ladies, and gen- 
 tlemen, to return you my grateful acknowledgments. 
 
 I regret that I cannot come here to tell you that we 
 of East Tennessee are happy ; that I cannot come here 
 and tell you that our people are now as prosperous as 
 they were wont to be ; that in their quiet and peaceful 
 vales at the base of their mountains, they are pursuing 
 the avocations of domestic life, in the enjoyment of all 
 that the Constitution of the United States guarantees to 
 all its citizens. I regret that I cannot tell you to-day, 
 fellow-citizens of Boston, that this is the condition of my 
 country ; but it is not my happiness to give you this 
 sort of information. There is one thing, however, that 
 it renders me happy to be able to tell you, and that is, 
 though not blessed with the wealth that crowns you to- 
 day, though not blessed with the prosperity that smiles 
 all around upon your happy community, they have a 
 
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 heart that has ever, and still constantly and devotedly 
 and passionately, in every circumstance and condition 
 and trial of life; beats true to the flag of our country 
 and the Union of these States. 
 
 My distinguished friend who has just addressed you 
 has rendered it unnecessary for me, even if I could, to 
 give you a description, geographically, of the country 
 which I represent before you to-day ; for he has painted 
 it with the pencil of an artist, as he is, in word-painting, 
 unexcelled within the limits of our broad country. While 
 he has drawn the outline of that beautiful, and lovely, 
 and loyal land, he has impressed his pictures with the 
 warmth, and beauty, and patriotism of his own devoted 
 heart. I come to you to-day, fellow-citizens, as the rep- 
 resentative of East Tennessee, not to talk to you about 
 party politics, not to make arguments or appeals for 
 the support or the advancement of the interests of any 
 particular party or any particular man in these United 
 States ; for I tell you, in all candor and truth, that such 
 has been our condition, for more than two years, that 
 we have had no party politics, as we used to understand 
 them. It is true we have parties there, but there are 
 only two. AVe once had a Democratic party, a Whig 
 party, an American party, and an anti-American party ; 
 but these parties have all beei* merged in the great 
 questions that have divided us for the last four years, 
 — I might say, for the last eight years, and we are 
 divided into only two parties : the one known as the 
 Union party, and the other as the Secession or Kebel 
 party ; and I am glad to tell you to-day, as my illus- 
 trious friend has told you in advance, that when the 
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 test was applied at the ballot-box, we stood, in the 
 thirty counties of East Tennessee, as thirty-four thou- 
 sand to seven upon this question ; thirty-four for the 
 preservation of the Union of these States, and seven 
 for the dissolution of this Government. 
 
 Neither do I come before you to-day, fellow-citizens, 
 as a beggar, although I present myself somewhat in 
 the semblance of one ; nor do I represent a begging, 
 although a beggared people. She whose people were, 
 too proud to bow the neck and receive the yoke of 
 King Cotton of the South, is too proud at heart to ask 
 alms at the hands of her sisters of the North. But I 
 come, as the representative of a suffering and loyal 
 people, reduced to extremity by reason of their devo- 
 tion to our common country, to present some plain 
 facts to the loyal people of the North and of the West, 
 that they may have an opportunity for the extension 
 of that benevolence, which opens its hand always to 
 the suffering and the faithful everywhere. 
 
 It is true, fellow-citizens, that many of our kindred 
 of the South are very angry with the people of East 
 Tennessee, and they hate us with great bitterness, and 
 of late have done us great injury. Yet, while the re- 
 membrance of this fact is a source of great pain to the 
 people of East Tennessee, they are consoled by the re- 
 flection that this animosity and hatred have been en- 
 gendered by her devotion to the union of these States, 
 by her adherence to the farewell advice of our glorious 
 Washington, the Father of our country ; by her persist- 
 ent refusal to take part or lot in any mad effort for 
 the overthrow of our common Government, — a Gov- 
 
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 eminent which has always protected its citizens, which 
 has never infringed a soHtary right of an individual or 
 a State of this Union, from its beginning down, and 
 which our people believe it to be their religious duty 
 to hand down, as a priceless and inestimable heritage, 
 to their children and children's children. 
 
 But, fellow-citizens, it is not true that East Tennessee 
 has ever been unfaithful to the Southern people, either 
 in principle or in fact. We believed, and we declared, 
 that the interests and institutions, the happiness, pros- 
 perity, and rights of the-'people of the South were bound 
 up with and in the Union, and that they could never 
 be preserved outside of the Union. We declared ttis 
 upon the rostrum, and at the hustings, everywhere, from 
 Carter to Shelby, — from the eastern limit of the State 
 to its western boundary upon the Mississippi River. 
 History has been written, fellow-citizens, and its immu- 
 table verdict is, that our judgment was right and cor- 
 rect, and it has demonstrated that their's was false and 
 fallacious. Let the universal prosperity that swelled 
 every channel of our vitality — commercial, political, 
 industrial, and social — at the beginning of the war, 
 and within the Union, attest this fact; and let their 
 ruined commerce, their paralyzed industry, their bank- 
 rupt treasury, the dismembered families, the broken- 
 hearted widows, the orphaned children, the desolated 
 homes and new-made graves, without the Union, attest 
 the unutterable folly of those who execrated the peo- 
 ple of East Tennessee because they would not affihate 
 with treason. Could those who made this war be made 
 alone to taste its bitterness and feel its woes, it had 
 
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 been well indeed. Then East Tennessee would have 
 escaped. But, alas ! the concentrated fury of the war 
 has rolled over her innocent bosom, and she is in ruins 
 to-day, having nothing left her but pride, poverty, and 
 patriotism. Her people are the descendants of the 
 pioneer heroes of North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, 
 Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, with here and there 
 an individual from other Northern and Southern States 
 of the United States -, and, like their illustrious ances- 
 try, they have never learned how to prove false to the 
 Constitution and Union of the* country. The pioneer 
 heroes of East Tennessee left their daughters, their 
 wives and their old inen, to defend their homes against 
 a savage foe, in the great war for Independence, while 
 they buckled on their armor, and struck upon the 
 sides of King's Mountain, under the lead of Shelby 
 and Campbell, for our infant nationality. In the war 
 of 1812, they fought gallantly on many a battle-field, 
 and triumphed under the immortal Jackson at New 
 Orleans. In 1832-33, when Nullification threatened 
 with the sword to cut the gordian knot of our beloved 
 Union, and when the illustrious Jackson appealed to the 
 Eternal to witness that the Federal Union must be pre- 
 served, a united Amen swelled in the hearts and broke 
 from the lips of the people of East Tennessee, as from 
 the lips of one man, and they were ready to sacrifice 
 their lives in defence of the integrity of our glorious 
 Government. Her stalwart sons were mingled in the 
 front ranks of the Mexican war, and they poured out 
 their blood freely with their fellow-citizens of other 
 States at Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo, at Monterey and 
 
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 Buena Vista, at Chepultepec and Cherubusco, and helped 
 to swell the shout of victory as our gallant legions 
 marched in triumph into the Grand Plaza of Mexico. 
 
 Thus, fellow-citizens, in peace and in war, in the cab- 
 inet and in the field, at the hustings, at the bar, and in 
 the Senate, in public assemblies and private circles, in 
 the homes of the rich and the cabins of the poor, the 
 heart of East Tennessee beats time to the music of 
 the Union. Witness the sad history of the past three 
 years ! This devotion is not a mere sentiment, it is a 
 passion ; nay, more, it is a principle on fire, ever burning, 
 never consumed ; it is a heritage of the blood, trans- 
 mitted from sire to son, imbibed with mother's milk; 
 stereotyped upon the heart, and riveted in the soul. 
 
 The first test of the Union sentiment of East Ten- 
 nessee, in reference to the existing difficulties, was ap- 
 plied, as has been remarked by my friend, the Chair- 
 man of the meeting, in February, 1861. The form of 
 the question then w^as, A Convention or No Convention, 
 and representatives or delegates to be elected by the 
 people to that Convention, in case it should receive a 
 majority in its favor at the pending election ? The 
 true test in this election was the aggregate majority of 
 those who vindicated the Union cause during the con- 
 test. The questions before the people were amply dis- 
 cussed from the rostrum, and when the day for election 
 came, the State of Tennessee, casting a vote of 130,000 
 or 140,000, gave a solid majority of 64,000 opposed 
 to going out of the Union of these States ; and of that 
 number, fellow-citizens. East Tennessee gave 34,000 
 in favor of the Union, and 7,000 against it. In June, 
 
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 when the question was put in a different form — 
 Eepresentation or No Representation? — East Tennes- 
 see again recorded her vote, by overwhelming majori- 
 ties, against the great treason. Then came persuasions, 
 soft and sweet, and silent eloquence dropped like the 
 dews of Hermon into the ears of our people of the 
 mountains, and our young men were promised exemp- 
 tion from the battle-field if they would only acquiesce 
 and let the storm roll on. Well, fellow-citizens, the Au- 
 gust election came, and the question was to elect a Gov- 
 ernor, members of Congress, and representatives to the 
 State Legislature. By that time, the bristling bayonets 
 of the Southern Confederacy were found all over the 
 State of Tennessee. Our great men in the middle and 
 western portions of the State had felt the force of the 
 storm ; among them, the man whom I was proud to 
 follow, in 1860, as the representative of the Union sen- 
 timent of our State, in conjunction with my illustrious 
 friend on my right — I mean, fellow-citizens, John Bell. 
 He, and the Ewings, Cave Johnson, Neal Brown, and a 
 host of men whose hearts had been true to the Union 
 until the storm rose, now felt their knees smite to- 
 gether and their hearts fail them, and the fury of the 
 tempest swept them all off into the Southern Confeder- 
 acy. Our boys in the mountains saw the gathering 
 storm. Efforts were made to keep us from the ballot- 
 box. We were told — "The State having now gone 
 out of the Union, if you dare to go and vote for the 
 men who are in favor of the old Union, we will see 
 that you are taken care of We have places prepared 
 for men of your sentiments, and the first thing you 
 
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 know you will find yourselves under the gallows, or in 
 the loathsome dungeons of the Southern Confederacy." 
 The storm came up, from the west and south, and the 
 east of us, — dark, gloomy, gathering blackness with 
 every hour. We heard the muttering thunders in its 
 bosom, we saw the livid flashes, as they flashed upon 
 us in our isolated position. But, fellow-citizens, when 
 the election came, when the rest of the State was fall- 
 ing off and going into treason and the Southern Con- 
 federacy, East Tennessee, as far as she was concerned, 
 elected her candidate for Governor, her representatives 
 to the Congress of the United States, and her represent- 
 atives to the legislature, by overwhelming majorities. 
 It was all sorts of an election. We had candidates for 
 various offices in the Confederacy, and candidates for 
 the same offices in the Union ; and in my District, the 
 candidate for the Congress of the United States was 
 elected to that Congress, and he was also elected to the 
 Congress of the Confederate States. 
 
 Then came, my friends, the violence to individuals j 
 then came the cutting down and shooting down of 
 Union flags; but still. East Tennessee breasted the storm, 
 she still held out faithful ; and by and by the Confeder- 
 ate Congress, when the war waxed hot and hotter, passed 
 a conscript law, and every man in the community, from 
 eighteen to thirty-five years of age, was enrolled by 
 officers in every neighborhood, appointed for that pur- 
 pose, and notified to rally at a given time and at a 
 given point, to enter active service for the defence of 
 the rebel cause. Then the exodus, already begun, 
 swelled to hundreds and thousands. Our young men 
 
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 had resolved that they never, — no, never, — conld be 
 persuaded or charmed by blandishments or flattery, or 
 forced by bayonets, to strike at the heart of the mother 
 that bore them. No, fellow-citizens, but they went to 
 their homes, kissed their mothers' lips and received 
 their blessing; they received the fond farewells of their 
 fathers, their sisters, their wives and their little ones, 
 and then went forth exiles from their own loved land, 
 and for no other reason than that they loved that land. 
 There was no promise of premiums or bounties to 
 them ; there was no hope of wealth, happiness, and 
 prosperity in the distance ; but they left their homes in 
 the darkness of the night, and ascended the rocky 
 sides of the mountains, one hundred and fifty or two 
 hundred miles from Kentucky, where they hoped to 
 find relief Ragged and in tatters, with their feet un- 
 shod and bleeding, they took the pathless ridges of the 
 mountains, in the darkness of the night, aided by the 
 silvery rays of the moon or the dimmer light of the 
 stars ; and, in the daytime, sought the deepest, darkest 
 gorges of the mountains, that they might find shelter 
 and rest until the coming shadows of another night 
 enabled them again to pursue their perilous way, that 
 they might find liberty and the flag of their country, 
 under its folds alone to fight, and, if need be, there 
 to die. 
 
 Regiments, companies, and squads of infantry and 
 cavalry were now distributed over the length and 
 breadth of the country, for the purpose of hunting down 
 and shooting the escaping conscripts. Everywhere they 
 went, fellow-citizens ; and as they went they entered the 
 
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 houses of the people, searching for arms and ammu- 
 nition, and thus the people of the whole county were 
 robbed of their muskets and rifles, and left perfectly de- 
 fenceless. Prominent citizens were arrested now, by 
 armed bands, frequently at midnight, in the bosom of 
 their families, without notice, and carried before some 
 provost marshal, or some upstart official, tried before a 
 military commission, hastily got together, ex farte, with- 
 out evidence, and with scarcely the semblance of a 
 charge, sometimes with no charge at all, and then hur- 
 ried off to the loathsome dungeons of Tuscaloosa, Ala., 
 or Madison, Ga., or Richmond, or Salisbury, or Knox- 
 ville, or Nashville, there to lie in the midst of unutter- 
 able filth and vermin, to pine away and famish upon 
 their scanty and miserable fare, and sometimes to die 
 in utter despair. I, myself^ have known the facts of 
 which I speak. Men as reputable as any in East Ten- 
 nessee have suffered in this way. I will mention one 
 case. Mr. Pickens, (whose name is mentioned in the 
 letter of the Confederate Secretary of State, which has 
 been read by my friend, the Chairman,) had been a 
 representative in the State Legislature. He was a man 
 of heart, a man of soul, a man of intelligence, a man 
 who was popular among all our people, a good citizen, 
 and true and loyal to his country ; but he had been 
 ostracized, and in compliance with the order of which 
 I find a copy in the hands of my friend, he was seized, 
 without charges, carried South, and in the loathsome 
 dungeons of Tuscaloosa, Ala., he paid the forfeit of his 
 life, and became a martyr to the glorious cause of 
 
 human liberty and the Union of these States. 
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 Sir, such instcances are not rare in our community. 
 The prisons of the South have been filled with the best 
 men of East Tennessee ; and it is said by those who 
 know, that not less than five thousand — think of it, 
 fellow-citizens! — not less than five thousand of the 
 men of East Tennessee, because they were true to their 
 country, because they loved the flag that emblematized 
 all that they held dearest on earth, because they would 
 'not bow the knee to Baal, nor receive upon their necks 
 the yoke of the king of the South, have been snatched 
 from their homes by the hand of lawless power, and 
 borne away into captivity. The railroad bridge near 
 where I lived was burned, and the parties charged with 
 burning it were arrested, tried by a drum-head court- 
 martial, according to the order which you have heard 
 read, and hung ; and, fellow-citizens, I speak the truth 
 when I tell you, that at least two of those gentlemen 
 — for they w^ere gentlemen, honorable, high-minded, 
 intelligent, moral, upright citizens of the community in 
 which they lived — two, at least, I say, of those who 
 were thus ignominiously hung, and their bodies left 
 dangling in the air, knew not that they were sentenced 
 until they were brought within sight of the gibbet 
 upon which they were to expiate with their lives that 
 offence which they had committed against the Southern 
 Confederacy, — of being true to their own Govern- 
 ment! 
 
 Thus affairs moved on, fellow-citizens, and Terror 
 planted her black flag over all our country; and, to 
 make the reign of Terror still more fearful, a legion of 
 tawriy Indians, whose forefathers had been wont, in 
 
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 earlier times, to tomahawk and scalp the citizens of 
 our section of the comitry, were brought from their 
 mountain regions, with their painted faces and wild, 
 unearthly whoops, and put upon the track of our re- 
 maining young men. But be it ever remembered, to 
 their credit, that these poor, half-civilized Cherokees 
 were less savage on the trail than their pale-faced com- 
 panions in arms ; and the people of my section of coun- 
 try, after the first terror had subsided, and they found 
 the kindness of heart that existed in the bosoms of 
 these people, preferred a thousand Cherokee Indians 
 among their homes to one captain's company of rebel 
 Southern soldiers. 
 
 Several regiments of citizens had now volunteered, 
 and hundreds more had been compelled by coercion 
 to enter the rebel lines, and to serve in the rebel 
 army ; and about this time, August, 1863, Jeff. Davis 
 made another call, running up to forty-five years of 
 age ; and at the same time, Governor Harris issued an 
 additional call, embracing all up to fifty-five years of 
 age ; so you see that all our population from eighteen 
 years of age up to fifty-five were called for by these 
 several authorities. But simultaneously w4th these calls 
 came the advance of General Burnside's gallant and 
 glorious army across the Cumberland Mountains, for the 
 redemption and relief of our suffering people. The 
 army of General Bragg had been, just previous, com- 
 pelled to evacuate Chattanooga, and thus General Rose- 
 crans occupied that extremity of the State ; and many of 
 our young men at once sprung from their hiding-places 
 and their coverts in the mountains, and rallied to the 
 standard of their country, under the lead of these gal- 
 
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 lant and glorious champions of the Union, and our 
 mothers, sisters, wives, and old men were left alone 
 to occupy our vacant homes. To-day, fellow-citizens, 
 more than 25,000 Tennesseeans wear the uniform and 
 bear the arms of your country and my country. 
 [Prolonged and enthusiastic applause.] While I would 
 not disparage any other portion of these United States 
 in its patriotism and devotion to country, I must say 
 for my section, that in the midst of all the sufferings 
 and trials, privations and perils incident to every hour 
 of their lives, they have furnished to the support of 
 your Government and my Government more men, in 
 proportion to their population — more than two to 
 one — than any other part of our common country. 
 
 As General Burnside, in September, marched with 
 his conquering hosts towards Upper Tennessee, the 
 rebel army retreated before him ; but as they went, 
 thinking, perhaps, that they were seeing the last of 
 East Tennessee, they seized upon the property, the 
 live stock, especially of the Union farmers, all over 
 the country, where they could find it, and carried 
 it off with them. From that moment, the work of 
 devastation went on with accelerated momentum. 
 Four times have the Union and rebel armies trav- 
 ersed the whole length of East Tennessee, exhausting 
 the country all around for current supplies, and at 
 every movement, widening the track of ruin that they 
 left behind them. In the track of the armies came 
 robbers, who found convenient hiding-places and ral- 
 lying points in the mountains that skirt our valleys, 
 and came down and claimed their share of the prop- 
 erty of our plundered people ; and thus it came to 
 
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 pass that our barns and stables, our cribs and dwell- 
 ings, were entered and robbed, and our people left 
 utterly destitute. The very wearing apparel of our 
 women and children Was seized by these ruffians and 
 carried out of our houses. Our blankets and bed- 
 clothing, everything of woollen that was calculated to 
 render the soldiers more comfortable, was seized by 
 the strong hand, and carried away. Our tanneries 
 shared the same fate. They had all been compelled, 
 in the reign of the rebels, to contribute sixty per cent, 
 of their leather to the Government for the shoeing of 
 their soldiers ; but now, when they were retreating 
 from the State, they seized all the leather in the vats 
 and bore it away, leaving our old men and women and 
 children to meet the rigors of the passing winter bare- 
 footed, as well as almost naked. 
 
 Believe me, fellow-citizens. East Tennesse has drunk 
 the full cup of suffering, and nothing seems left her 
 now but to drain its bitterness to the very dregs. She 
 has sacrificed everything but loyalty and honor ; she 
 has suffered everything but dishonor and death ; and 
 now destitution and famine, followed by despair and 
 death, are trampling upon the thresholds of her sad 
 homes, are entering their very doors, ready to con- 
 summate the sacrifice and complete the suffering. But, 
 thank God, throughout her sufferings she has been 
 faithful. Persuasions, threats, insults, imprisonments, 
 wounds, stripes, privations, chains, confiscations, gib- 
 bets and military murders, the clash of arms, the terri- 
 bleness of armies with banners, and all the combined 
 and concentrated horrors of internecine war marshalled 
 
 3* 
 
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 upon her battle-torn bosom and hurling sorrow and 
 ruin into all her homes, have never corrupted her 
 loyalty, nor driven her a solitary line from her devo- 
 tion to the Government of her fathers. Left unpro- 
 tected, when she ought to have been protected by the 
 Government that she loved, interior and isolated, dis- 
 armed before she could organize, she was choked down 
 by tyranny, under a reign of terror black as the night of 
 the Robesperian dynasty, and her proud neck felt the 
 heel of a despotism more relentless and crushing than 
 the power of an autocracy. Her loyal people, because 
 they could not do otherwise, suffered the infliction of a 
 bondage which their inmost hearts abhorred — a bond- 
 age that fettered the soul and sealed the lips, and all 
 but closed the door of hope. We know, fellow-citizens, 
 what history means when it tells us of a " Reign of 
 Terror." Such a state of things is only to be felt ; it 
 never can be told. It comes to me now, even here on 
 the free soil of Massachusetts, not as a reality in the re- 
 trospect, but like the memory of some horrid dream, 
 to disturb and haunt me along my pathway of life. God 
 grant that I may never feel the iron heel of such a 
 despotism in my soul again, nor see it in the bosom 
 of my fellow-citizens anywhere ! We breathe but to 
 live ; and live but to pray — " Oh, Lord, how long ? " 
 But, thank God ! the prayer of the loyalist, leaping up 
 from the heart, cannot be held by the hand of the 
 oppressor, and East Tennessee, in answer to our 
 prayers, is almost free, and the old banner waves once 
 more triumphantly, gloriously, over our mountain-girt 
 home, and there may it float forever ! 
 
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 With this history of the people of East Tennessee 
 before you, fellow-citizens, it is for you to determine 
 whether this brave and patriotic population shall be 
 suffered to fall and perish in their devotion to our 
 common country, by the blighting hand of famine, or 
 whether your philanthropy and benevolence shall in- 
 terpose to shield and protect and guard and save them. 
 East Tennessee, my native East Tennessee, has sacri- 
 ficed all she had for the country. Her horses, her 
 mules, her flocks and herds, her cattle upon a thousand 
 hills, have all been offered up ; her corn and wheat are 
 all consumed ; her young nlen — all who have not 
 perished in the camp or on the battle-field — are now 
 swelling the ranks of your victorious armies ; and, sir, 
 our matrons and maidens, our old men and little chil- 
 dren, our soldiers' widows and orphaned babes, are all 
 bound and upon the altar -, already the sacrificial knife 
 is uplifted ; it trembles in the hand of Famine ; — may 
 God save my people, and avert the stroke, in this their 
 day of sorrow and trial ! 
 
 While the scourges of this cruel war have thus 
 blighted and blasted, devastated and ruined East Ten- 
 nessee, the home of the free, the home of the loyal and 
 the brave, they have scarcely been felt north of Mason 
 and Dixon's line. On the contrary, a degree of pros- 
 perity, such as you have never before experienced, has 
 poured into the lap of the people of the North and West 
 boundless wealth. The labors of your agriculturists 
 have been succeeded by the blessings of a gracious 
 Providence ; your mechanics have received remunera- 
 tive prices for all the labor they could perform ; your 
 
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 merchants have seen their trade prosper beyond all 
 parallel ; your manufacturers have extended and en- 
 larged then' operations in every branch of industry ; 
 and your mineral region is pouring forth, from the 
 bounties of the earth, uncounted wealth. Whether 
 you, fellow- citizens, will make this vast increase of 
 wealth a source of blessing to yourselves, your chil- 
 dren, your country and the world, is a problem that is 
 left for you to solve. The desolations and ruin of this 
 unnatural and cruel war have opened a wide field for 
 your philanthropy and benevolence. Will you enter 
 it ? — will you sow it ? — will you cultivate it ? If so, 
 an abundant crop of blessings will fall upon your basket 
 and upon your store, upon your homes and hearths, 
 and, above all, upon your hearts. 
 
 When starving Ireland was weeping over her fam- 
 ishing children, and as they were drooping and dying 
 in the remorseless grasp of famine, her wail of woe 
 was heard across the wide waste of waters, and Amer- 
 ica wept in sympathy with Ireland ; but while she 
 lifted up, with one hand, their dying heads, with the 
 other she ministered nourishment and life to the per- 
 ishing children of the Emerald Isle. A nobler example 
 of national magnanimity and Christian charity can 
 scarcely be produced from the annals of the world. 
 Yet these people were the subjects of a foreign Gov- 
 ernment, and were strangers beyond the sea. The cry 
 of suffering now comes to the American ear and falls 
 upon the American heart from the famishing lips of 
 .our own people ; and East Tennessee, from the summit 
 of her rock-ribbed mountains, with one hand beckons 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 33 
 
 to her rich and powerful and flourishing sisters of the 
 North, and with a bursting heart and tearful eye points 
 with the other to the desolation that hangs like a pall 
 of death over her forty thousand ruined homes in the 
 valleys below. Will those sisters prove again angels 
 of blessing and angels of mercy to bring peace and 
 happiness and hope to those desolate homes, or will 
 they leave their past munificence alone to illustrate 
 and glorify their future history ? That you, fellow- 
 citizens, do sympathize with my people, and that you 
 are ready to open your hands for their relief, I cannot 
 doubt ; and especially when I remember that the appeal 
 of the suffering and the sorrowful, the afflicted and the 
 bereaved of earth has never been made in vain to 
 your magnanimous legislature, nor to your magnani- 
 mous and benevolent people. Sir, the question is 
 reduced to one of life or death. General Grant, as I 
 learn from General Robert Anderson, wrote to him the 
 other day, saying that there were three alternatives 
 for the people of East Tennessee : one was, to be car- 
 ried out of their section to where they could find 
 something to eat ; another was, that provisions should 
 be carried to them ; and the last was, if neither of the 
 others was adopted, that the people of East Tennessee 
 must perish in the midst of their mountains. Sir, I do 
 not believe you intend that these people shall perish. 
 I will not believe it till I see their bones bleaching 
 among their native hills. I believe you have hearts 
 that palpitate in unison with their hearts ; I believe 
 you have hands that will open for their relief 
 
 Sir, we must be relieved from destitution ; but that 
 
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 is not all we must be relieved from. We must be 
 relieved from the weight of this crushing war. How 
 is that to be accomplished ? Somebody is to be sub- 
 jugated. Either the traitors who have aimed at the 
 life of this great nation must be conquered, or the 
 remnants of the people who have bared their bosoms 
 to the storm, who have seen their homes made deso- 
 late for their love of country, must feel again the heel 
 of the traitor on their necks. Sir, this war must be 
 ended ; peace must come again ; we cannot live in 
 this state ; it is abnormal ; it is opposed to all our 
 hopes and wishes. We all love peace and desire peace ; 
 but those traitors who would not have peace at the 
 beginning are not ready now to embrace peace. A 
 voice comes up from their homes, — a voice comes up 
 from tens of thousands of new-made graves in the 
 sunny South, — a voice comes up froni an ocean of 
 tears, spreading over the land, — a voice comes up 
 from tens of thousands of acres of waving cotton-fields 
 of the past, reminding them of the blessings of peace. 
 Their prosperous homes, their broad fields, their wide- 
 spread sails of commerce, their open ports, their accu- 
 mulated wealth, their growing importance and gran- 
 deur, are all so many voices pleading for peace with 
 that people j and yet they will not hear of peace. 
 And, sir, that is not all. The very God of heaven 
 says — Peace ! Peace ! Peace ! But they will not 
 hearken ; they will not hearken to the voice that 
 comes from the tombs of their dead ; they will not 
 hearken to the appeal of interest, that comes to them 
 from every channel of commerce and industry through- 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 35 
 
 out their land ; they will not hearken to the cry of the 
 people that suffer here, nor to the warning that comes 
 from abroad, from those who love liberty, and pray 
 for peace. They have passed all this by, and now I 
 tell you there is only one way to obtain peace. And 
 what is that ? By crying peace to them ? — by talk- 
 ing moral suasion ? — No, sir, no ! I ask you, sir, can 
 we get peace, happy, lovely, glorious, lasting peace, by 
 quibbling over questions of constitutional law and 
 talking about violated rights, and the rights of traitors, 
 if they will come back into this Union, while they are 
 pointing their daggers at the very heart of our nation- 
 ality itself? No, sir. The temple that contains the 
 treasures of a nation and the hopes of posterity in all 
 time to come is blazing ; the smoke is flying upward 
 as incense to heaven ; and what should you think of 
 the firemen wto approached that temple to extinguish 
 the flames, and instead of sending the antagonistic 
 element to quell the fire, went to quarrelling as to 
 who should throw the water first ? Sir, the ship is in 
 danger ; on her port is Scylla, on her lee is Charybdis ; 
 behind her is a reef, and breakers are before her ; the 
 storm is spending its fury all around, and pirates 
 are on her track. Shall the crew of that noble vessel, 
 freighted with our wives and children and loved ones, 
 freighted with our hopes for all time to come, freighted 
 with the prospects of liberty and the hopes of freedom 
 of all earth's inhabitants that know or have heard of 
 us — shall- her crew, in the midst of this storm, fall to 
 fighting as to who shall next command the ship ? Oh, 
 is it not the part of patriotism for every man, in this 
 
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 dark hour, to come and strengthen the heart of the 
 helmsman to stand at his post ? [Enthusiastic and 
 prolonged applause.] And no matter what questions 
 may separate and divide that crew, is it not their duty 
 to stand in the midst of the storm, and say to the 
 helmsman — " Guide our bark safely through ! Here 
 we are, at your back, and we will stand by you through 
 the storm ! " [Renewed applause.] Sir, if we do this, 
 the vessel will soon pass between Scylla and Charybdis, 
 she will leap over the breakers and the reefs, and when 
 we get out upon a calm sea, and upon a prosperous 
 voyage, then, and not until then, can we settle the 
 questions that we may choose to raise. 
 
 Sir, I have said that we want peace, and must have 
 peace. But how shall we get it ? There is but one 
 way, that I know of Let it gleam upon the bristling 
 points of fifteen hundred thousand bayonets [tremen- 
 dous and long-continued applause] ; let it blaze upon 
 the glittering steel of five hundred thousand swords ; 
 let it leap from the mouths of ten thousand cannon, 
 and the echo of that thunder will bring peace to every 
 home and house and heart throughout the length and 
 breadth of our reunited country. When the atmos- 
 phere is damp and filled with malaria, and death moves 
 in every breeze, then, sir, what do we want ? We 
 want the keen flash of heaven's electricity, we want 
 the live thunder, rolling from mountain top to moun- 
 tain top ; and then all is purified, all is calm, all is 
 serene and healthful once more. 
 
 Sir, I trust the time is coming, and will soon be 
 here, when this cruel war will be over. I trust the 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENJ^ESSEE. 37 
 
 day is soon coming which is to prove but the dawn of 
 that prosperity which is in reservation for our glorious 
 country in the near and far-off future, when, reunited, 
 w^e shall sit under our own vine and fig-tree every- 
 where, and none shall make us afraid ; when the voice 
 of the sentinels upon Liberty's watch-tower, as it is 
 uttered upon the coast of the Atlantic, shall be echoed 
 all along the line, until the last man hears and returns 
 the salutation from the shore of the far-off Pacific. 
 
 Sir, permit me, in conclusion, to say, in the language 
 of the illustrious statesman who now sleeps his last 
 sleep at Marshfield, " Liberty and Union, one and 
 inseparable, now and forever ! " [Loud and prolonged 
 applause, and three hearty cheers for Colonel Taylor.] 
 
 At the conclusion of Colonel Taylor's remarks, 
 George B. Upton, Esq. offered the following resolu- 
 tions, which were adopted unanimously by the meet- 
 ing:— 
 
 '■'■Resolved, That the warmest sympathy of all loyal and humane 
 Americans is due to the suffering Unionists of East Tennessee, for 
 the steadfast fidelity with which they have maintained the cause of 
 our common country in the midst of peril and distress, for the 
 spirit with which the men have rallied to defend the flag, for the 
 devotion with which the women and children have sacrificed their 
 diminished resources to feed our armies. 
 
 ^'Resolved, That patriotism, sound policy, and humanity alike re- 
 quire that the extreme need of these our brethren and sisters should 
 be relieved fi'om the overflowing abundance with which Providence 
 has blessed us, even in time of civil war. 
 
 " Resolved, That we call upon our Legislature to make a liberal 
 grant in aid of the loyal population of East Tennessee, and that it will 
 be a matter of just pride that the name of our old Commonwealth 
 shall head the National subscription, which will carry hope and life 
 to those noble men and women." 
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 On motion of Mr. Upton the officers of the meeting 
 were appointed a Committee to present the subject of 
 the resolutions to the Legislature. 
 
 Repeated calls were made for Governor Andrew, 
 and, at the request of the Governor, Mr. Everett an- 
 nounced that the state of His Excellency's health was 
 such that he was compelled to ask the meeting to ex- 
 cuse him from making any remarks. 
 
 Honorable Robert C. Winthrop ascended the plat- 
 form in response to repeated calls. He excused him- 
 self from speaking at length. He said that from first 
 to last in this terrible strife his heart had been with 
 the Border States. He had felt that the Border States 
 had been the hinge of the whole contest. With them 
 he had been willing to go wherever they led, and to 
 stop whenever they felt obliged to stop, whether upon 
 subjects relating to slavery or the Constitution. He 
 had felt that with them we might save this Govern- 
 ment, without them we must inevitably lose it. He 
 trusted 'that nothing would be left undone for reliev- 
 ing the sufferings, and encouraging and rewarding the 
 loyalty, of the people of the Border States, and partic- 
 larly of East Tennessee, whether by individual contri- 
 bution or legislative appropriation. 
 
 REMARKS BY JUDGE RUSSELL. 
 
 Judge Russell being called out by the audience, 
 spoke substantially as follows : — 
 
 Fellow- Citizens : — I hope " I dare do all that may 
 become " a very modest young man, but I dare not 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 39 
 
 address an audience that has been thrilled by elo- 
 quence such as we have heard to-day. It has seemed 
 to me that we listened, not to Colonel Taylor's voice 
 alone, but to the voice of Eastern Tennessee herself, — 
 her loyalty, her fidelity, the courage of her men, the 
 patriotism, the suffering, the agony of her women and 
 her children. Colonel Taylor needs no indorsement, 
 but we know that he has for every word the full in- 
 dorsement of the noble Burnside. Let me add, that 
 this testimony is confirmed by one of the Generals who 
 marched to relieve Burnside. General Blair has just 
 told me a touching story of the devotion of the women 
 who crowded to the line of his forced march to wel- 
 come the sight of our armies ; to wave the flags which 
 in evil days they had hidden in the secret recesses 
 of their homes, even as they kept the love of Union 
 in their hearts ; to bring th^ last piece of bacon, the 
 last handful of meal, to feed the advancing soldiers of 
 the Union cause. Often, he said, he forbade his men 
 to take the scanty gifts of the poor. As often, he 
 heard the reply : " Take it ; I have a husband, a son 
 at Knoxville ; take it all for the Union." These are 
 the people for whom our aid is sought. 
 
 A friend has just asked whether it is in the power 
 of the Legislature to make the proposed grant. I am 
 glad no one doubts that it is in their hearts. I know 
 nothing in our State Constitution which forbids an act 
 of humanity and patriotism. It is for the " support 
 and defence of Government" to guard the outposts in 
 Tennessee ; it is for the " preservation " of the people 
 here to preserve the loyal people there. Nor are prec- 
 
40 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 edents wanting, if precedents are needed for an act of 
 generosity and of justice. Soon after the adoption of 
 our Constitution, the State passed a resolve, and incur- 
 red expense to aid the suffering inhabitants of South 
 CaroHna. God hasten the day when the relations of 
 South Carolina and Massachusetts shall again be such 
 that the cry of distress there shall meet a ready answer 
 in our own Commonwealth. We have made a State 
 grant to help build a monument to Washington, in the 
 capital. Can we vote supplies to honor the memory 
 even of the greatest among our deceased patriots, and 
 is it unconstitutional to keep alive the families of those 
 patriots who stand in arms for the flag ? We have 
 helped to raise another monument to the signers of 
 the Declaration. Can we do nothing to support that 
 people whose position, whose very existence to-day, is 
 the proudest testimonial to the love of Union, and the 
 strongest assurance that the Union shall be eternal ? I 
 do not fear the legal question. I am only anxious that 
 what is done shall be done at once. Our friend has 
 spoken of America's gifts to Ireland, gifts so well 
 repaid by the devotion of Ireland's sons in the day of 
 our country's trial. Let me once more recall to your 
 minds the words of Mr. Everett, when he pleaded in 
 Fanueil Hall for the famine-stricken Irish. " Even 
 now," he said in closing that appeal, " even now, while 
 I have filled your ears with empty words, some of our 
 fellow -Christians have starved to death." And now, 
 while we are preparing to seek our comfortable homes, 
 some of our fellow - patriots are sinking in despair. 
 " Want, like an armed man," stalks among the deso- 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 4X 
 
 lated homes of Eastern Tennessee. Famine hardly 
 delays to strike, and pestilence, sure attendant of fam- 
 ine, glooms in the horizon. God help those faithful 
 hearts ; and may He so move our hearts that our 
 hands may be open and our feet be swift to bear 
 deliverance to those of our brethren who are almost 
 ready to perish. 
 
 The following letter from General Frank Blair was 
 then read : — 
 
 "Boston, Fehruary 9, 1864. 
 
 " Honorable J. Wiley Edmands : Dear Sir, — I have received 
 your invitation to address a meeting to be held in behalf of the loyal 
 people of East Tennessee, at Faneuil Hall, on Wednesday evening 
 next. I regret that my engagements will not permit me to attend. 
 It has been my fortune recently to pass through that country, and to 
 witness the suffering and distress which have been inflicted upon that 
 people on account of their steadfast and devoted loyalty to their coun- 
 try. No people have been more faithful and none have had their 
 faith so tried. After the battle of Chattanooga I marched in com- 
 mand of the I5lh Army Corps, under General Sherman, to the relief 
 of Burnside at Knoxville. ,We passed through a country which had 
 already been visited by both hostile armies, and pillaged with unre- 
 lenting cruelty by the rebels on account of the loyalty of the people. 
 Our troops were without rations or supplies of any kind, having been 
 ordered to give up the pursuit of Bragg's flying army and march to 
 the relief of Knoxville without an opportunity of obtaining anything 
 of jhe kind, and were compelled to forage on the country. The peo- 
 ple on our approach came out to meet us, bringing with them their 
 scant supplies, and freely offered them to our soldiers. They cheered 
 us with kind words, and waved the old flag, which they had cherished 
 in secret, and implored us to hasten to the succor of their kindred, 
 who composed a part of the garrison of Knoxville. 
 
 " I trust that the people of Massachusetts will hearken to the 
 appeal of Colonel Taylor, and that their liberality, so well known and 
 so often felt in the remotest quarters of our country, will be stimu- 
 4* 
 
42 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 lated by the remembrance of the kindness and devotion of the loyal 
 women of Tennessee who succored our toil-worn soldiers on their 
 march to the relief of their beleaguered brothers, many of whom 
 were sons of Massachusetts. 
 
 " 1 am, with great respect, your obedient servant, 
 
 "Frank P. Blair." 
 
 The foregoing proceedings, as has been stated, ap- 
 peared in the Boston journals of the next day, the 11th 
 February. It will be observed that the only measure 
 of relief contemplated by the Resolutions was an ap- 
 propriation from the treasury of the Commonwealth. 
 The Committee appointed had reference to that object, 
 and no arrangement was made for individual subscrip- 
 tions, it having been doubtless considered that an ener- 
 getic movement for that purpose might be regarded 
 by members of the two houses, as superseding the 
 necessity of legislative action. 
 
 But though no provision w^as made for .receiving 
 private subscriptions, a chord had been touched by 
 Colonel Taylor, which drew a sympathetic response 
 from the heart of the community. On the same day 
 on which it was written I received the following letter, 
 apparently in a female hand, enclosing three dollars: — 
 
 "Boston, 11 February, 1864. 
 
 '■'■Dear Sir: — Enclosed is a ' mite' which I wish forwarded with 
 the thousands and tens of thousands of dollars that I hope will be 
 sent forward from this goodly city of Boston, to alleviate the unpar- 
 alleled sufferings of our dearly beloved countrymen in East Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 " Such earnest, eloquent pleading as comes to us from our old 
 * cradle of liberty ' cannot be unheeded by any patriot or lover of 
 his race. 
 
 " Teacher of a Public School. 
 
 "Mr. Everett." 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 43 
 
 Having no other means of acknowledging this 
 anonymous letter, I sent it for publication, the next 
 day, to the Editor of the "Daily Advertiser," with the 
 following note : — 
 
 " The accompanying letter was received by me to-day, with a three 
 dollar bill enclosed. I request its publication, not merely on account 
 of the pure spirit of patriotic and Christian charity which it discloses, 
 but in the hope that )t may serve as an example to others. Small as 
 the sum is, I doubt not it is large for the means of the giver, and it 
 will sustain the life of one of our starving brethren in East Tennessee 
 for a fortnight. If a small portion only of our community would, 
 according to their ability, imitate this example, that desolated region 
 might again become ' the happy valley ' of the South." 
 
 On the same day on which this note appeared in the 
 " Daily Advertiser " (12th February), a letter was ad- 
 dressed to me by Mr. F. H. Peabody, of the banking- 
 house of J. E. Thayer & Company, enclosing a check 
 for one hundred dollars, which was accompanied by a 
 donation of fifty dollars from his brother, Lieut.-Colo- 
 nel Peabody. In the hope of obtaining their consent 
 to mention their names, these liberal donations were 
 not announced on the 13th. To my great regret, these 
 young gentlemen insisted that their generous contri- 
 butions should be announced anonymously. It is only 
 for the purpose of this publication that they have 
 yielded to my request that their names should now 
 be mentioned. I also received on the 12th an anony- 
 mous line from a " Boston Boy," enclosing five dollars 
 as " another mite for the sufferers in East Tennessee." 
 
 The announcement of this donation in the "Daily 
 Advertiser" of the 13th was accompanied with the fol- 
 lowing remarks : — * 
 
44 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 " In making this second announcement, I would express the hope 
 that the movements of public and private liberality will not interfere 
 with each other. One friend has said to me, with reference to the 
 proposed legislative appropriation, that the sympathy of individuals 
 was the proper dependence in cases of this kind ; while another 
 friend has suggested that the aggregate of suflfering to be relieved is 
 too vast for anything but the public resources. This last view, I fear, 
 is nearer the truth, or rather the suffering is so general and so ex- 
 treme, that after public and private liberality have both done their 
 best, much want will remain hopelessly unrelieved. In addition to 
 the cruel outrages inflicted upon the loyal people of East Tennessee, 
 for the two long years that the Government was unable to extend to 
 them any military protection, — outrages of which so shocking a pic- 
 ture was presented by Colonel Taylor, — this devoted region has lat- 
 terly been the battle-field of two large, hostile armies, operating far 
 from their chief base of supplies. It is now utterly exhausted. The 
 rich, the people in moderate circumstances, and the poor have been 
 brought down to one common ghastly level of destitution, and are in 
 want of food and clothing. It is plain that nothing but ample appro- 
 priations from ihe large and prosperous States can effectually face 
 this great amount of suffering, and that there will still be enough of 
 want left to require all the aid that can be derived from private lib- 
 erality." 
 
 On Monday, the 15th, the donations of the Messrs. 
 Peabody were announced, with an extract of the letter 
 of Mr. F. H. Peabody, in which he says, " The behavior 
 of the people of East Tennessee is something that every 
 American will be proud of for ages to come. Now 
 that Colonel Taylor has told us how to be useful in the 
 matter, I believe the people of Massachusetts will give 
 very substantial proof of their admiration for the most 
 splendid patriotism of the age." A donation of five 
 dollars from a lady in Yarmouth Port, transmitted in a 
 letter of the 13th, expressive of " warm sympathy for 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 45 
 
 the suffering East Tennesseeans " was acknowledged 
 also on the 15th. 
 
 Such was the commencement of the movement for 
 the three days which followed the meeting in Fanueil 
 Hall. I have thought it a matter of interest to narrate 
 it with some particularity. The daily record of dona- 
 tions announced at the time and now reproduced for 
 preservation will show the steady and rapid growth of 
 the fund. Liberal contributions steadily flowed in, 
 anonymously in many cases, although at my earnest 
 request, publicly expressed, and privately addressed to 
 donors when known to me, they sometimes consented 
 to the mention of their names. Letters of approval 
 and encouragement were also addressed to me by per- 
 sons of influence. Among the earliest of these (15th 
 February) was C. P. Curtis, Esq., who accompanied his 
 liberal donation with the request that it should " be 
 remitted to the cruelly used people of East Tennessee." 
 On the same day, W. H. Gardiner, Esq., addressed a 
 letter to me, in which he remarked that " of the 
 almost innumerable calls for aid caused by this griev- 
 ous war, I know none, after the care of our own sol- 
 diers, so unexceptionable or making so strong an 
 appeal to all who have anything to give, as that of 
 the loyal Tennesseeans. Yet we are moving verv/ 
 slowly. Private citizens seem to be waiting for some 
 action of the Legislature. The Legislature seems to 
 be waiting to know how the people would like to see 
 their money given away ; but while we ponder, East 
 Tennessee starves." This letter enclosed the generous 
 donation of two hundred dollars. 
 
46 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 Thus far, I had acted wholly as a volunteer in re- 
 ceiving and announcing donations, but evidently the 
 time had arrived for some organized movement. A 
 meeting was accordingly held at my house on the 17th 
 of February of the gentlemen named as officers of the 
 assembly of the 10th, in Fanueil Hall, and of a few 
 others who had been actively engaged in getting up 
 that meeting. The members of the Legislature j^res- 
 ent at this meeting represented that the best feeling 
 with respect to the suffering East Tennesseeans pre- 
 vailed at the State-House, and that the chief difficulty 
 in the way of the grant was the doubt entertained by 
 many members of the constitutional right of the Legis- 
 lature to make such an appropriation. To aid in the 
 removal of this doubt a memorial affirming the consti- 
 tutional power, drawn up by Hon. C. G. Loring, and 
 subscribed by Judge Curtis and other eminent jurists, 
 was signed by the persons present at the meeting and 
 ordered to be presented to the two houses. A Com- 
 mittee was also appointed, consisting of Mr. Edward 
 Everett, Hon. R C. Winthrop, J. Wiley Edmands, Esq., 
 Hon. Judge Russell, and Patrick Donahoe, Esq., to con- 
 sider and report a plan of proceedings in order to a 
 general subscription. In the mean time it was deemed 
 expedient to suspend the daily announcement of dona- 
 tions which had hitherto been made in the columns of 
 the " Boston Daily Advertiser." No further announce- 
 ments were accordingly made for some days. 
 
 It was soon apparent that this withdrawal of the 
 subject from the public eye would operate unfavorably 
 upon the progress of the fund, and at a meeting of the 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 47 
 
 Sub-Committee on the 20th, it was voted to recom- 
 mence the daily announcements, which from this time 
 forward were continued without intermission. But the 
 question of legislative aid being still undecided, it was 
 deemed expedient to postpone for the present a for- 
 mal appeal to i^he public. 
 
 An inspection of the record of donations for the 
 second week will show with what strength the tide of 
 sympathy and munificence was rising. It would be 
 obviously improper to continue to single out individual 
 cases from the roll of beneficence, but I cannot forbear 
 to allude to the donation of two hundred and fifty dol- 
 lars from the late venerable Mrs. Pratt, then in the 
 ninety-seventh year of her age, and the liberal contri- 
 bution of Dr. James Jackson, who gave to the fund, at 
 this early stage, the sanction of his revered name. Mr. 
 William Gray's munificent donation of five hundred dol- 
 lars was accompanied with a promise of another of the 
 same amount if the legislative grant should fail. 
 
 On the 25th, a letter was received from Mr. Speaker 
 Bullock, enclosing the generous donation of one hun- 
 dred dollars, and announcing the failure of the proposed 
 legislative appropriation in the following terms : — 
 
 " Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
 House of Representatives, 
 Boston, 25th Feb. 1864. 
 
 " My Dear Sir : — You have already been apprised of the action of 
 
 the House of Representatives upon the Resolves relating to East 
 
 Tennessee. I desire that you and all our fellow-citizens should justly 
 
 appreciate the motives which have controlled the vote of members in 
 
 refusing the appropriation of $100,000. It is not to be supposed that 
 
 they are insensible to the sufferings of the people of Tennessee, nor 
 
48 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 that they have forgotten the pathetic appeal of Colonel Taylor, so 
 fully sustained by the simple and unadorned statement of General 
 Burnside. But, speaking as an impartial witness of the discussion, I 
 may properly say that the members of the House have undoubtedly 
 acted under the influence of grave doubts as to the constitutional pro- 
 priety of making the appropriation from the State Treasury. 
 
 " I take it for granted that this action of tl|p House will render 
 instantly imperative the private contributions of our people. I ac- 
 cordingly inclose to you my own." 
 
 The failure of the legislative appropriation gave a 
 new impulse to the individual subscriptions. On Sat- 
 urday, the 27th of February, they exceeded $2,100, 
 and on Monday, the 29th, donations to the amount of 
 more than $4,000 were announced. Among them 
 was the munificent sum of $1,000 contributed by a 
 unanimous vote of the Boston Stock and Exchange 
 Board. 
 
 The contributions thus far had been received princi- 
 pally, though not exclusively, from Boston and the ' 
 immediate vicinity. At a meeting of the Sub-Commit- 
 tee on the 29th of February, it was ordered that the 
 Chairman be requested to prepare the draft of an ad- 
 dress to the citizens at large, to be submitted to the 
 General Committee. Accordingly, at a meeting of the 
 General Committee on the 2d of March, a draft of an 
 address was reported by the Chairman, which, with 
 amendments was accepted, as follows. It was thought 
 to indicate the only organization for the collection of 
 subscriptions which was necessary, under the favorable 
 predisposition of the public. 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 49 
 
 TO THE PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 " The undersigned were appointed a Committee of the citizens of 
 Boston, assembled in Faneuil Hall on the 10th of February, to pre- 
 sent the subject of the destitution of our loyal brethren in East Ten- 
 nessee to the consideration of the Legislature. In the discharge of 
 this duty, the Resolutions adopted by that meeting, with enthusiasm 
 and unanimity, were respectfully transmitted by the undersigned to 
 the House of Representatives. But the wide-spread interest which 
 has been manifested in the subject, by the community at large, and 
 the evident demand for some more organized and concerted action 
 than has yet taken place, have led the Committee to think they shall 
 render an acceptable service by addressing themselves directly to the 
 people. 
 
 " In dd?ng this, however, they deem it wholly unnecessary to do 
 more than ask the attention of their fellow-citizens, throughout the 
 Commonwealth, to the statements and appeals which have been made 
 with such resistless power by Colonel N. G. Taylor of East Tennes- 
 see. Those who have had the privilege of knowing and hearing him, 
 will need no voucher for his character ; to others it may not be super- 
 fluous to say, that he is fortified with credentials from Governor John- 
 son of Tennessee and from the President of the United States. Any 
 attempt to add force to his accounts of the distressed condition of his 
 fellow-citizens would be unavailing. The Committee desire only in 
 this Address to suggest to their fellow-citizens convenient methods of 
 giving effect to that warm interest, which they rejoice to believe has 
 been so universally excited in behalf of these noble sufferers. 
 
 " They would respectfully propose, therefore, that the municipal 
 authorities of the several cities and towns of the Commonwealth 
 should regard, themselves as committees to receive donations from 
 their fellow-citizens ; that the churches throughout the State, where 
 no particular reasons exist to the contrary, should take up special 
 collections for this purpose ; and that corporate bodies, whose charters 
 allow it to be done and whose means admit, should also contribute to 
 the relief of our destitute brethren. 
 
 " Whatever sums may be thus raised may be remitted to the Chair- 
 5 
 
50 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 man of this Committee, and will, with the large amount already 
 received, be applied under the direction of the Committee, in the 
 most prompt and efficient manner. Contributions will also be most 
 willingly received by the Chaii-man of this Committee from liberal 
 minded individuals, who may wish to take part in this most meritori- 
 ous and patriotic work, in places where no local committee is organ- 
 ized, or who may for any reason prefer to address themselves to him. 
 
 " The Committee trust that it will not be thought obtrusive, in a 
 case of this kind, if they look beyond the limits of Massachusetts, and 
 respectfully invite the cooperation of the liberal and patriotic men 
 and women of the other New England States, either as individuals 
 or through local committees. Their contributions, in either case, will 
 be most willingly received and promptly acknowledged by this Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 " The undersigned are happy to state, that, on the application of 
 the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Association for the 
 relief of East Tennessee, the Secretary of War has promised that the 
 supplies, which may be forwarded to Nashville, shall be transported 
 to East Tennessee by the Government trains, and that General Grant 
 shall be instructed to furnish all possible facilities for their safe con- 
 veyance. Articles of ^ood can be most readily obtained in the West- 
 ern markets ; clothing and shoes can probably be procured to greater 
 advantage in this vicinity. Donations of these last-named articles 
 will be most gratefully received, and will be forwarded to their desti- 
 nation by Mr. Samuel Hall, Jr., 8 Central Wharf, Boston. In the 
 expenditure of the fund committed to them, the undersigned pledge 
 their best exertions, that it shall be applied with the utmost possible 
 economy, promptness, and efficiency. 
 
 " In pleading the claims of a class of our fellow-citizens who have 
 suffered so long and so cruelly, whose patriotism has been so nobly 
 manifested under the greatest hardships and discouragements, and 
 whose destitution is now so extreme, the Committee deem it scarcely 
 becoming to allude to motives of expediency. But when expediency 
 runs in the same channel as patriotism, humanity, and conscience, it 
 may honestly be appealed to. It may not, therefore, be improper to 
 state, that in all the field of military operations, there is not a spot of 
 greater interest and importance than East Tennessee. As the con- 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 5^ 
 
 trol of the Mississippi divides the States in rebellion East and "West, 
 so the restoration of East Tennessee to its lojal inhabitants severs 
 one of the two remaining lines of communication between the North 
 and the South of the States confederated in this gigantic treason. 
 There is accordingly no object of greater importance than to maintain 
 this district, which will in all probability be one of the great battle- 
 grounds of the approaching campaign. It hardly need be stated that 
 this circumstance will of necessity complete the exhaustion of the ter- 
 ritory, and reduce, if possible, to a still lower depth, the destitution of 
 the entire non-combatant population. 
 
 " The Committee will only remark in conclusion, that the case now 
 presented to the public sympathy seems to them to stand alone, in 
 the strength of its appeal to our patriotic liberality. A loyal people, 
 equal in numbers to the entire free population of South Carolina, 
 nobly adhering to the Union by a majority of five to one, when South 
 Carolina took the lead in a treasonable war against it ; selected for 
 this reason as an object of vindictive hostility ; the vast majority of 
 her citizens denounced by a military Cabal at Richmond as traitors, 
 because they refused to commit treason ; her prominent citizens too 
 old for military duty hurried off to perish in the prisons of the Gulf 
 States ; her young men forced into the I'ebel arrfly ; Union men, active 
 in opposition to the tyrants who pretend to wage war for self-govern- 
 ment and State rights while trampling on both, cruelly scourged and 
 in some instances shot and hung in the sight of their families, their 
 property given up to waste and plunder, their old men, women, and 
 children reduced to want, — these are some of the titles of the loyal 
 people of East Tennessee to our sympathy. And when we add that 
 a great majority of the young men, who during two and a half years 
 that their territory was occupied by the Confederate forces have been 
 able to escape conscription into the rebel array, are now battling for 
 the Union, the Committee feel that they present a case hardly to be 
 paralleled in the annals of patriotism. They are confident that in a 
 community like tliis, the aged parents, the wives, the sisters of breth- 
 ren who, under circumstances like these, are sealing their fidelity to 
 the Union with their blood, will not be allowed to perish from want. 
 
 " Edward Everett, John A. Andrew, Frederic W. Lincoln, 
 Jr., J. E. Field, A. H. Bullock, Robert C. Winthrop, Charles 
 
52 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOK 
 
 G. LoRiNG, William Claflin, Patrick Donahoe, W. B. Rog- 
 ers, Charles B. Goodrich, James Lawrence, Richard Froth- 
 iNGHAM, John M. Forbes, Thomas Russell, A. A. Lawrence, 
 J. Wiley Edmands, J. Z. Goodrich, F. L. Lee, Samuel Froth- 
 ingham. 
 
 " Boston, March 2, 1864. 
 
 " P. S. The Press throughout the Commonwealth is respectfully 
 requested to give insertion to the foregoing Address." 
 
 When the Sub-Committee held their meeting on the 
 last day of February, the fund exceeded $19,000, 
 which had been contributed spontaneously and with- 
 out solicitation, in the seventeen days which had 
 elapsed from the announcement of "the Teacher's" 
 modest donation. Steps had been taken, at the out- 
 set, to ascertain the most direct channel for the con- 
 veyance of su^Dplies to East Tennessee. In order to 
 make a portion of the fund as promptly available as 
 possible, the Sub-Committee, having been clothed with 
 full powers as an Executive Committee, determined on 
 the 2d of March to remit $10,000 to Lloyd P. Smith, 
 Esq., of Philadelphia, who, in conjunction with Fred- 
 eric Collins, Esq. was about to repair to Knoxville in 
 person, on behalf of the Pennsylvania Association for 
 the Relief of East Tennessee. These gentlemen readily 
 took charge of this sum, and it was joined with the 
 funds of the Pennsylvania Association, in the purchase 
 of large supplies of food at Cincinnati. These supplies 
 were as promptly conveyed to Knoxville, as the means 
 of transportation at Nashville allowed, almost the en- 
 tire force of the railroad being required by General 
 Sherman's army, then on the advance into Georgia. 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 53 
 
 A very interesting report of the visit of Messrs. Smith 
 and Collins to Knoxville has been published by those 
 gentlemen, and they are entitled to the cordial thanks 
 of the contributors in this part of the country, for their 
 fidelity and good judgment, in the application of the 
 funds remitted from Boston. 
 
 From this time forward the fund advanced with per- 
 haps unexampled rapidity. The sum announced on 
 the 3d of March amounted to $6,349, which was the 
 largest sum in any one day. The sum of $4,829 was 
 reported on the 4th ; of $3,456 on the 5th ; of $5,024 
 on the 7th ; and of $3,120 on the 8th, which included 
 the donation of $1,000 from the officers and men of 
 the 44th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. This 
 handsome donation was accompanied with the follow- 
 ing letter : — 
 
 "Boston, March 5, 1864. 
 " Hon. Edward Everett : Dear Sir, — Through the liberality of 
 their fellow-citizens, the Regiment which I have the honor to com- 
 mand, received a Regimental Fund of $5,000. A portion of this 
 money has been applied to the use of the Regiment, — a portion I 
 retain for further need of the Regiment. Upon consultation with 
 William Gray, Esq., Treasurer of the fund, and with my field- 
 officers, and feeling sure that it will meet the approval of the orig- 
 inal donors, I have decided to devote $1,000 to the relief of the 
 suffering loyalists of East Tennessee, which please accept in behjilf 
 of the men and officers of the 44th Regiment M. V. M. 
 
 " I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 
 
 " Francis L. Lee, Col. 44th Regt. M. V. M." 
 
 The contributions announced on the 9th of March 
 amounted to $6,220, in which was included the sum of 
 
 5* 
 
54 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 $4,773 collected in Franklin Street and its vicinity by 
 the active exertions of George H. Braman, Esq. In a 
 supplement to the "Boston Daily Advertiser" of the 9th 
 of March, a complete list was given of all the donations 
 up to the 8th, amounting in the aggregate to $52,120 
 received in less than a month from the date of the 
 meeting in Faneuil Hall. 
 
 On the 5th of March, Messrs. J. IngersoU Bowditch, 
 Hon. A. A. Lawrence, and Samuel Hall, Jr., Esq., were 
 added to the Executive Committee. Mr. Hall kindly 
 took charge of the contributions of ready-made cloth- 
 ing, &c. and forwarded them from time to time to their 
 destination. His reports will be given in the sequel 
 and will show how much the cause is indebted to him 
 for his laborious and gratuitous services. 
 
 It having been intimated by Mrs. George Ticknor, 
 President of the Ladies' Sewing Circle, that the ladies of 
 that association would cheerfully make up into articles 
 of wearing apparel such materials as the Committee 
 would furnish for that purpose, it was voted on the 
 10th of March to place the sum of $2,000 at her dis- 
 posal, to be expended in the purchase of materials. In 
 this way, the sum appropriated was, by the generous 
 cooperation of the Ladies' Sewing Circle, rendered 
 nearly twice as efficient as it would otherwise have 
 been. The articles of clothing made up were forwarded 
 from time to time by Mr. Hall. The extent of the 
 labor bestowed by the Ladies' Sewing Circle may be 
 seen in the following report of its results : — 
 
 " Dear Mr. Everett : — It is due to you,' to the gentlemen who 
 consented to intrust us with $2,000, and to us who received the trust, 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 55 
 
 that some report should be made of the mode in which we have used 
 the money given for the benefit of sufferers in Tennessee. We have 
 used it as discreetly and carefully as we could ; — we sent last Mon- 
 day our ninth package to Mr. Hall, the agent you designated, and 
 that exhausted the last dollar of our fund. 
 
 " The schedule of the packages is as follows : — 
 
 Whole number of articles sent 2,921 
 
 Whole number procured by $2,000 2,579 
 
 Donations, and socks knit from the yarn sent by Mr. Edmands 342 
 
 2,921 
 Of this number there were : — 
 For women and children . . . . . . . 1,875 
 
 For men and boys 1,046 
 
 " It has been a very interesting occupation, and we wish we could 
 do more for those who suffer so terribly and so faithfully. 
 
 *' Hoping you will think that we have fulfilled our stewardship suit- 
 ably, we are very truly yours, 
 
 " Anna Ticknor, 
 
 ''Park Street, June 8, 1864." " IsA E. LORING." 
 
 I subjoin a letter from Rev. Dr. Humes, Chairman of 
 the Knoxville East Tennessee ReUef Association, con- 
 taining a copy of a vote of thanks adopted at a regular 
 meeting of the Executive Committee, on the receipt of 
 the foregoing report. 
 
 " Knoxville, Tenn., June 22, 1864. 
 
 " Dear Sir : — At the regular meeting of the Executive Committee 
 'of the East Tennessee Relief Association, held to-day, it was unani- 
 mously 
 
 " ' Resolved, That the Chairman be instructed to tender the thanks 
 of this Society to Mrs. Ticknor and Miss Loring, and to the Ladies of 
 the Sewing Circle of Boston, whom they represent, for their kind 
 sympathy and benevolent labors, on behalf of the destitute and suffer- 
 ing people of East Tennessee ; and that this insufficient tribute to 
 their active patriotism and friendship h.e placed upon the records of 
 the Committee, in token, not only of gratitude, but also of our desire 
 
56 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 that the memory of their names and good deeds be cherished and per- 
 petuated in our mountain homes, long after the garments, with which 
 they have clothed their needy countrymen, shall have perished.' 
 
 " I need scarcely say that it gives me peculiar pleasure to comply 
 with the directions of the Committee, and to communicate, as I beg 
 leave to do through you, to Mrs. Ticknor and Miss Loring, a copy of 
 the above resolution of thanks. 
 
 " "With the assurance of my strong and sincere appreciation of their 
 practical good will, I am, 
 
 " Yours truly and respectfully, 
 
 " Thomas W. Humes, 
 " Chairman Ex. Com. E. T. R. A." 
 
 In thus placing on record the active cooperation of 
 the Ladies' Sewing Circle, I cannot forbear adverting 
 to the large share borne generally by the patriotic 
 women of the community in this meritorious work. 
 An inspection of the list of donations will show them 
 to have been among the earliest and most liberal con- 
 tributors ; and I am well persuaded that their active 
 sympathy, felt in every form of domestic influence, 
 has been one of the most efficient causes of the success 
 of the efforts for the relief of our suffering brethren in 
 East Tennessee. There were incidents and circum- 
 stances of the war, as it bore upon the women of that 
 devoted region, well calculated to touch the hearts of 
 their sisters in the loyal States. Husbands, brothers, 
 and sons were often torn from their homes, thrown 
 into prison, forced into the army, in some cases shot 
 or hung in sight of their families. The following 
 touching occurrence of a different character was 
 vouched for by Colonel Taylor, as within his own 
 knowledge. 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 5*7 
 
 "Incident of the War. — After the battle at Bean I Station, 
 East Tennessee, the rebels were guilty of all manner of indignity 
 toward the slain. They stripped their bodies, and shot all persons 
 who came near the battle-field to show any attention to the dead. 
 The body of a little drummer-boy was left naked and- exposed. Near 
 by, in an humble house, there were two young girls, the eldest but six- 
 teen, who resolved to give the bod}' a decent burial. They took the 
 night for their task. With hammer and nails in hand, and boards on 
 their shoulders, they sought the place where the body of the dead 
 drummer-boy lay. From their own scanty wardrobe, they clothed 
 the body for the grave. With their own hands they made a rude 
 coffin, into which they reverently put the dead boy. They dug the 
 grave, and lowered the body into it and covered it over. The noise 
 of the hammer brought some of the rebels to the spot. The sight 
 was too much for them. The stillness of the night — the story so 
 eloquently told by the heroic labors of the little girls. Not a word 
 was spoken ; no one interfered, and when the sacred rites of burial 
 were performed, all separated ; and the little drummer-boy sleeps 
 undisturbed in his grave on the battle-field." 
 
 The most judicious and efficient manner of disposing 
 of the fund was of course an object of early consider- 
 ation with the Committee. They were aware that 
 strong objections to the employment of salaried agents, 
 for the disbursement of a fund of this kind, existed in 
 the community, although in some cases the duty can- * 
 not be so satisfactorily performed through any other 
 agency. To entertain individual applications for relief 
 coming from so great a distance was out of the ques- 
 tion. Fortunately there already existed at Knoxville, 
 the capital of East Tennessee, an Association organized 
 for the purpose of relieving the distress of that devoted 
 region. The gentlemen composing the Executive Com- 
 
58 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 mittee of that Association ^ were certified to us as per- 
 sons of the highest respectabihty, and the Committee 
 conceived that thej should best discharge their duty 
 to the generous contributors to the fund, by paying it 
 over in large instalments and as fast as it could be 
 advantageously invested, to the accredited agents of 
 the Knoxville Eelief Association, who were duly au- 
 thorized to receive it. These agents, at that time, 
 were Colonel N. G. Taylor, to the effect of whose 
 fervid appeals the formation of the fund was mainly 
 due, and Mr. G. M. Hazen of Knoxville. A letter hav- 
 ing been received from Colonel Taylor, then in New 
 York, requesting that the funds on hand might be 
 remitted to him and Mr. Hazen, it was on the 17th of 
 March voted by the Executive Committee, that Mr. J. 
 Wiley Edmands, one of their number who was about to 
 visit New York, be requested to examine the creden- 
 tials of Messrs. Taylor and Hazen. If in his judgment 
 they were found sufficient, the Chairman was author- 
 ized to' accept their draft for a sum not exceeding 
 $40,000. Mr. Edmands found the gentlemen named 
 to be clothed with full authority to receive and invest 
 whatever funds might be contributed for relief of the 
 loyal people of East Tennessee. Accordingly on the 
 21st of March their draft at sight for $40,000 was paid. 
 Mr. Hazen repaired immediately to Cincinnati, the 
 nearest market to East Tennessee, at which provisions 
 
 1 This Committee consisted of Rev. Dr. Humes, (a clergyman of the Epis- 
 copal Church, possessing the entire confidence of the community,) Messrs. 
 William Heiskell, W. G. Brownlow, John Baxter, O. P. Temple, and John 
 M. Flemins. 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 59 
 
 conld be obtained, and invested the fund placed in his 
 hands by the Committee and a small sum which had 
 been collected by Colonel Taylor, in those articles 
 which were most needed for the relief of the existingr 
 distress. On the arrival of this large amount of flour 
 and other bread-stufis, bacon, and other articles of food 
 at Nashville, considerable delay arose from the limited 
 means of transportation, the railroad to Chattanooga 
 being the only route. The War Department, as has 
 been observed, had, at the instance of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Committee, engaged to cooperate in the relief of 
 East Tennessee, and to allow suppHes to go forward 
 by the Government trains. The exigencies of the 
 military service required at first the employment of 
 the entire force of the railroad, but before lono; the 
 agent of the Knoxville Relief Committee was allowed 
 to dispose of one merchandise car daily, or to that 
 average amount. In this way the supplies were con- 
 veyed to their destination as rapidly as they could be 
 advantageously received and distributed. 
 
 This distribution was effected in the most satisfac- 
 tory manner. Under the superintendence of the Exec- 
 utive Committee at Knoxville, local committees were 
 organized in the different counties in East Tennessee 
 within the federal lines. It was, of course, impossible 
 to send supplies into those counties in the Northeast- 
 em part of the State, which were in the possession of 
 the enemy, and not entirely safe to do so, in the mid- 
 dle region, lying open to the ravages of armed bands 
 of ruffians under the name of guerrillas. But fugitives 
 from these districts constantly arriving at Knoxville 
 
60 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR , 
 
 were relieved at that place. A small portion of the 
 supplies were sold at Knoxville and elsewhere to per- 
 sons who had money, but owing to the destitution of 
 the markets, were unable to exchange it for food. The 
 Committee here did not recommend this measure, but 
 there seems to be no valid objection to it, as without 
 it persons having the means to purchase would in 
 some localities have been obliged to accept as a gift 
 what they would rather pay for. The proceeds of 
 these sales were of course added by the Knoxville 
 Committee to their funds. 
 
 On the 20th of April, the further sum of $20,000 
 was, on the draft of Colonel Taylor, remitted to Gil- 
 more, Dunlap & Co., bankers of the Knoxville Eelief 
 Association at Cincinnati. The funds intrusted to us 
 having been all contributed under the influence of the 
 eloquent appeals of Colonel Taylor, deputed by the 
 Knoxville Committee to procure relief for his fellow- 
 citizens of East Tennessee, were evidently applicable 
 exclusively to that object, nor could they justly be 
 extended to sufferers in any other quarter, though 
 equally destitute and meritorious. Accordingly when 
 representations were made to us by letter of the great 
 distress among the loyal refugees at Murfreesborough, 
 and still more at Nashville and even at Cincinnati, 
 though principally at Nashville, knowing that these 
 refugees had fled not only from East Tennessee, but 
 from Western North Carolina and the Northern coun- 
 ties of the Gulf States,»profoundly sympathizing as we 
 did with the sufferers at the places just named, and 
 fully aware of the heavy burden which had devolved 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 61 
 
 upon our fellow-citizens at Nashville, we yet felt it 
 beyond our power to adopt any general measure of 
 relief We called the attention, however, of the Knox- 
 ville Committee to the subject, and suggested the 
 expediency of authorizing a reasonable distribution of 
 supplies at Murfreesborough for fugitives from East 
 Tennessee, and such relief as might be deemed practi- 
 cable to the much larger number of the same class at 
 Nashville and Cincinnati. This recommendation was 
 promptly and liberally complied with by the Knoxville 
 Committee. 
 
 About the middle of April a communication was 
 addressed to the Secretary of War, setting forth that 
 the transportation of supplies, notwithstanding the 
 kind promise of the Department, was seriously delayed 
 at Nashville, and requesting that if this arose from any 
 undue strictness in construing the orders which gave 
 precedence to the Government work, the officer in 
 charge might be directed to interpret them more liber- 
 ally. To this letter the following reply was received 
 from the Department : — 
 
 " War Department, ) 
 
 "Washington City, May 4, 1864.) 
 
 " Sir : — I have the honor, by direction of the Secretary of War, to 
 acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 24th ultimo, 
 relating to the difficulty experienced in obtaining transportation for 
 the supplies furnished by citizens of Massachusetts, for the benefit of 
 suffering Unionists in East Tennessee. 
 
 " In reply, I am instructed to say that these difficulties arise solely 
 from the fact, that every available means of transportation has been, 
 and is still, needed by General Sherman, to transport supplies of 
 food for his army, preparatory to the opening of the Spring Campaign. 
 In the mean time, Government rations have, whenever practicable, 
 6 
 
62 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 been issued in cases of special need, (230,000 rations have already- 
 been issued in such cases in the department of the Tennessee,) and 
 you may rest assured that the facilities desired by you, will be fur- 
 nished, whenever the interest and the necessities of the public service 
 will permit. 
 
 " I have the honor to be. Sir, very respectfully, 
 " Your obedient servant, 
 [Signed] Ed. R. S. Canbt, Brigadier- General. 
 
 " Hon. Edward Everett, Boston, Mass." 
 
 Meantime the fund continued to increase. The sym- 
 pathy in which it had its origin pervaded all classes of 
 the community. Donations continued to be made, 
 from those of a thousand dollars and more from the 
 Stock and Exchange Board, the Corn Exchange, and 
 the ladies and gentlemen who took part in the musical 
 entertainments at Chickering's Hall, down to the literal 
 mite of the poor widow. Other dramatic exhibitions, 
 concerts, and exhibitions of tableaux contributed liberal 
 sums. Children's fairs were held* in town and country, 
 the proceeds of two of which amounted to $1,000 
 each, and several churches took up large collections, 
 notwithstanding the liberal donations already made by 
 individual members. The principal amount received 
 was from Massachusetts, although some handsome 
 remittances were made from Providence, K. I., from 
 New Hampshire, from Maine, Vermont, and New York. 
 Among these it will not be thought improper for me 
 to mention the donations of $500 each from Mrs. 
 Deborah Powers of Lansingburg, N. Y., Miss Arabella 
 Rice of Portsmouth, N. H., and Hon. J. Goodwin of 
 Portsmouth, from the estate of the late Mrs. Charlotte 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 53 
 
 Rice of that place, and in presumed accordance with 
 what would have been her wishes. 
 
 In this way the fund which, when the aggregate 
 list was published on the 9th of March, amounted to 
 above $52,000, had by the end of that month swelled 
 to above $77,000. The end of April brought it up to 
 $91,500. One hundred thousand dollars,, the amount 
 of the appropriation proposed in the Legislature, had 
 been assigned by public opinion as the sum which we 
 should endeavor to raise by private subscription, and 
 on the 4th of June that amount was reached. The 
 foundation was laid in the Teacher's donation of three 
 dollars on the 11th of February, the head-stone was 
 carried up by $1,000 received from a Children's Fair 
 at the house of Dr. T. I. Talbot on the 4th of June. 
 On the following morning the fact was announced in 
 the "Daily Advertiser," with the following remarks : — 
 
 " To the numerous individuals and societies whose unsolicited dona- 
 tions have resulted in this large contribution for the relief of our loyal 
 and destitute brethren in East Tennessee, on their behalf I return my 
 most grateful acknowledgments. 
 
 " In addition to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, thus con- 
 tributed in money, articles of clothing valued in the aggregate at some 
 thousands have been received and forwarded. Nor must the assid- 
 uous labor of the Ladies' Boston Sewing Circle, in making up two 
 thousand dollars worth of materials of clothing, and of other smaller 
 sewing circles, in town and country, be forgotten. 
 
 " Liberal as is the amount, which has thus far been raised, here 
 and elsewhere, much destitution and suffering will still remain unre- 
 lieved. I shall be most happy, on behalf of the Committee, whose 
 organ I have the honor to be, still to receive whatever may be con- 
 tributed for this object, announcing the donations, however, less fre- 
 quently than has hitherto been done. 
 
64 
 
 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 " It is but an act of jutntice to the Editors of the " Daily Advertiser " 
 to return them the cordial thanks of the Committee for the gratuitous 
 daily insertion of ray announcements, at one time of great length, for 
 which the usage of the Press would have warranted the ordinary 
 advertising charge. The success of the subscription has, in no small 
 degree, been promoted by this liberality on their part. 
 
 " Edward Everett." 
 t 
 
 I am happy to state that more than two thousand 
 dollars have smce been added to the fund. 
 
 The following reports from Mr. Hall will afford some 
 idea of the quantity of ready-made clothing which has 
 been forwarded by that gentleman. The pecuniary 
 value of the articles has been stated but in few ill- 
 stances, but is supposed to amount to several thousand 
 dollars. Sincere thanks are due to Mr. Hall for his 
 laborious and gratuitous services in forwargling them. 
 
 " Dear Sir : — The following packages, containing clothing, &c., 
 have been received to this date, contributed for the sufferers in East 
 Tennessee, viz : — 
 
 1 box from Mrs. Ticknor, Park 
 Street. 
 
 1 bundle from M. G. Chapman. 
 
 1 do. from Mrs. H. F. Damon. 
 
 1 do. from Mrs. Sherman. 
 
 1 box, value $250, from Mrs. J. A. 
 Little, President of the Ladies' Union 
 of Arlington Street Church. 
 
 1 bundle from Mrs. Balch. 
 
 4 do. from Mrs. E. Atkins. 
 
 1 do. from Mrs. Emory Washburn, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 2 do. from the Misses Ward. 
 
 1 do. from Dr. Winsor, Cambridge. 
 1 do. from Mrs. Emerson. 
 1 do. from Miss Wells, Cambridge. 
 1 do. from Mrs. Pickering. 
 
 1 bundle from John Gardner. 
 
 1 do. from Prof. F. J. Child, Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 2 boxes from Melendy & Stewart. 
 
 3 barrels and 1 bundle from ladies 
 of West Medford, through Mrs. Eliza 
 H. Caret. 
 
 2 bundles from George F. Guild. 
 1 do. from Mr. Clark. 
 
 1 do. from Mrs. Frances Parkman. 
 
 2 boxes from Mr. R. Pollard. 
 
 1 do. from J. C. Hoadly, New Bed- 
 ford. 
 
 2 bundles from Mrs. Dr. Charles E. 
 Ware. 
 
 12 do. from persons unknown. 
 
 " Respectfully yours, 
 
 <' Samuel Hall, Jr. 
 « Boston, 3Iarch 24, 1864." 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 
 
 65 
 
 " Dear Sir : — The following contributions of clothing, &c. for the 
 sufferers in East Tennessee have been received since my last acknowl- 
 edgment (March 24), and have been sent forward, viz : — 
 
 3 boxes and 2 bundles from Boston 
 Sewing Circle, by Mrs. Ticknor. 
 
 1 bundle from Mrs. McNeil, Kox- 
 bury. 
 
 1 do. Miss C. A. Brewer. 
 
 1 do. Mrs. Thwing, Quincy. 
 
 1 do. S. Chapin, Gloucester. 
 
 1 do. B. F. Adams. 
 
 1 do. Mr. BuUard. 
 
 2 do. L. A. Huntington. 
 
 1 do. William P. Thurston, Jamaica 
 Plain, and 21 Dover street. 
 
 2 cases brogans from Col. Gordon 
 McKay. 
 
 1 bundle from Edward Page. 
 1 box and 1 bundle from the Indus- 
 trial Society of St. Paul's Church. 
 1 do. from Miss I. E. Loring. 
 
 3 bundles from Mr. Manning. 
 
 3 barrels and 2 boxes from John J. 
 May. 
 
 1 bundle from Mrs. Sarah Johnson, 
 value $83. 
 
 2 boxes from Waltham Soldiers' 
 Aid Society, by Miss M. J. Miles, 
 value $375. 
 
 1 basket and 1 bundle from Miss 
 Margaret C. Thompson. 
 
 1 bundle from Mrs. C. E. Norton, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 2 boxes from J. H. Nichols, Salem. 
 2 bundles from Mrs. Augustus 
 
 Flagg. 
 
 1 do. from "A New Bedford Lady." 
 
 2 boxes and 1 bundle from " Corner 
 of Summer and Otis streets." 
 
 2 bundles from Bishop Eastburn. 
 2 do. from Rev. Mr. Foote. 
 
 1 box from North Bridgewater. 
 
 2 boxes and a bundle from Mr. Jo- 
 seph Willard. 
 
 " Respectfully yours, 
 
 " Samuel Hall, Jr. 
 
 « AfrU 18, 1864." 
 
 " Boston, May 18, 1864. 
 " Dear Sir : — Since my last acknowledgment (April 18th), the 
 following contributions of clothing, &c., have been received, all of 
 which have been forwarded to the sufferers of East Tennessee, 
 
 3 cases from Boston Sewing Circle, 
 by Mrs. Ticknor. 
 
 2 bundles from Mrs. Fletcher. 
 1 bundle unknown. 
 1 box from New Bedford. 
 1 bundle from Mrs. McKean. 
 
 1 case from ladies of Beverley, by 
 Hannah C. Adams. 
 
 2 bundles from Mrs. T. C. Hubbard, 
 Newton. 
 
 1 box from Greenfield, or Shelburne 
 Falls. 
 
 1 bundle from Mrs. Atkins. 
 
 1 barrel, value $53.75, from Ladies' 
 Benevolent Society, Amory Village, 
 Millbury, Mass. 
 
 1 bundle, 80 pairs stockings, J. Wi- 
 ley Edmands. 
 
 1 do. from Miss Minot. 
 
 1 box from Salem. 
 
 1 bundle from R. H. Stearns. 
 
 " Respectfully yours, 
 
 "Samuel Hall, Je." 
 
 6* 
 
66 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 "Boston, June 24, 1864. 
 '■'^ Dear Sir: — Since my last report (May 18), the following pack- 
 ages of clothing, «fec., have been received, all of which have been for- 
 warded to the East Tennessee Relief Association, viz : — 
 
 1 bundle, Moses P. Grant. 
 
 1 do. Rev. Mr. Barnes, Maiden. 
 
 1 do. Mr. Morrill. 
 
 1 do. Mrs. Curret, West Medford. 
 
 1 do. H. Williams. 
 
 1 do. Mrs. Eastburn. 
 
 2 boxes from Boston Sewing Circle, 
 by Mrs. Ticknor. 
 
 1 box. New Church Sewing Circle, 
 Boston. 
 
 1 do. Brookfield, Mass. 
 
 1 do. and 2 baskets, Louisburg 
 Square. 
 
 " Respectfully yours, 
 
 " Samuel Hall, Jr." 
 
 In this connection it may be proper to mention that 
 Mr. Allen Cameron, agent of the Abbot Worsted Com- 
 pany, Graniteville, contributed one hundred pounds of 
 gray stocking yarn, worth one dollar and fifty cents 
 per pound, to be knit for the destitute in East Ten- 
 nessee. A portion of this yarn was knit into eighty 
 pairs of stockings by the laHies of Rev. Edward E. 
 Hale's congregation. 
 
 After Mr. Hazen had invested at Cincinnati the sum 
 remitted to him and Colonel Taylor as above men- 
 tioned, he was relieved of his agency, and Thomas G. 
 Odiorne, Esq. of Cincinnati, was appointed by the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee at Knoxville, as their permanent 
 purchasing agent. This gentleman's residence at Cin- 
 cinnati, high character, disinterested zeal in the cause, 
 and experience as the agent of the Sanitary Commis- 
 sion eminently qualified him for the efficient discharge 
 of the trust, which he has executed to the entire satis- 
 faction of the Committee in Boston and the Executive 
 Committee at Knoxville. 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 57 
 
 It has already been stated, that, instead of employ- 
 ing paid agents of their own, the Committee deemed 
 it expedient, from time to time, to pay over the fund 
 intrusted to them to the accredited agents of the 
 Knoxville Relief Association. By April the 23d, 
 $72,000 had been advanced in this way.-^ This sum, 
 with the liberal appropriation of the Philadelphia 
 Committee, and donations made directly to Colonel 
 Taylor, has kept the agent at Cincinnati amply sup- 
 plied with funds for the purchase of all the supplies, 
 which could be sent forward by water to NasJ;Lville, 
 and has left a balance in his hands to be invested in 
 proportion as transportation can be obtained by the 
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad. 
 
 On the 28th of July, the fund intrusted to the Com- 
 mittee having reached an amount larger by about 
 $2,000 than the sum originally contemplated, a meet- 
 ing was called to consider the expediency of clos- 
 ing the account, and it was decided that of the bal- 
 ance on hand, $28,000 should be remitted to the 
 bankers at Cincinnati, making $100,000 paid over, and 
 leaving the residue chargeable with the cost of trans- 
 portation of the ready-made clothing, forwarded by 
 Mr. Hall, and some small contingent expenses. Before 
 the remittance could take place, a letter was received 
 from Dr. Humes, stating that the stock of supplies on 
 'hand at Knoxville, and in charge of the local agents 
 would, with prudent management, suffice till larger 
 
 1 In this sum of $72,000 are included $10,000 paid to the Philadelphia 
 Committee, and $2,000 expended in materials of clothing made up by the 
 Ladies' Sewing Circle. 
 
68 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 means of transportation could be obtained; and that 
 as the number of refugees at Knoxville was increasing, 
 it was expedient to have in reserve the means of rehef 
 for autumn and winter, when he fears, that the distress 
 will again become serious. For these reasons, he rec- 
 ommends that the Committee should retain, for the 
 present, the balance in their hands. In accordance 
 with this advice he has been informed that $28,000 
 will be held by the Committee subject to his draft at 
 sight, or that of the bankers at Cincinnati acting by 
 his direction. 
 
 It is but an act of justice to the Knoxville Commit- 
 tee to speak in terms of high commendation of the 
 manner in which they have effected the distribution of 
 the supplies, — a work beset with no inconsiderable 
 difficulties arising from the extent of territory to be 
 relieved, the want of those means of communication 
 which exist in most of the Atlantic States, and the 
 unsettled state of the country. By the aid of local 
 organizations and agencies, with the vigilant super- 
 vision of the Central Committee at Knoxville, it is 
 believed that the work has been judiciously and satis- 
 factorily performed. Some losses have occurred, una- 
 voidable it is presumed, on a line of communication so 
 extensive and circuitous, where delay and irregularity 
 in transportation were necessarily accompanied with 
 unexpected accumulation at particular points, and • 
 where the channels of ultimate distribution are so 
 numerous. But the Committee have no reason to 
 think that these losses were greater than was to be 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. gg 
 
 expected under the circumstances of the case, the 
 nature of the service, and the state of the country. 
 
 The Committee perform an agreeable duty in ac- 
 knowledging their special obligations to the Rev. Dr. 
 Humes, the Chairman of the Executive Committee of 
 the East Tennessee Relief Association. Too much 
 cannot be said in praise of the diligence, fulness, and 
 punctuality of his correspondence. The extracts from 
 it, which have accompanied the daily announcement 
 of donations, have served an important purpose in 
 keeping up the public interest in the cause. It has 
 afforded the contributors to the fund the satisfaction 
 of knowing that their active sympathy has taken 
 the desired effect ; and that the supplies so liberally 
 furnished have been faithfully and judiciously distrib- 
 uted. 
 
 Dr. Humes' letters have not only furnished the 
 satisfactory information of suffering relieved, want of 
 the most urgent kind supplied, and of life no doubt 
 in this way, in many cases preserved, but they have 
 contained assurances scarcely less gratifying that the 
 moral effect upon the minds of our fellow-citizens in 
 East Tennessee of this manifestation of active sympa- 
 thy on the part of their Northern brethren has been 
 most auspicious. It has impressed them with feelings 
 toward their fellow-citizens of the North not soon to 
 be effaced. It has shown them that the love of the 
 Union with us is not a profession which satisfies itself 
 with words but a sentiment which warms the heart. 
 
 The following, with the omission of some personal 
 allusions, is extracted from the " Knoxville Whig " of 
 the 25th of June last: — 
 
70 ACCOUNT OF THE FUND FOR 
 
 " In a late letter from Mr. Everett to the President of the East Ten- 
 nessee Relief Association, theYact is announced that Massachusetts has 
 contributed one hundred thousand dollars for the relief of the 
 suffering and destitute people of East Tennessee. . . . This 
 is one of the most remarkable and suggestive facts developed by this 
 strange war. Between Tennessee and Massachusetts there has never 
 been any common identity of habit or thought, and no close commer- 
 cial or personal ties, which sometimes bind together the citizens of 
 neighboring States. Indeed, we have been taught for many years 
 (though we did not all believe) that the people of the North were 
 narrow-minded, selfish, cold, and avaricious. But no sooner do they 
 hear the tale of the destitution of a people fifteen hundred miles away, 
 than, with the instincts of a common humanity, a common religion, 
 and a common patriotism, they outstrip all others in the most gener- 
 ous race of charity." 
 
 After alluding to the cooperation of " all the leading 
 men and all the churches, charitable associations, pub- 
 lic and private institutions, and of the women, the boys, 
 and the girls," the article proceeds : — 
 
 " No one seems to have felt that he had done his duty unless he 
 had contributed something. And all this was done from principle, 
 not from enthusiasm. They regarded it as a sacred duty. They ever 
 have been taught that charity and benevolence are duties which they 
 cannot neglect. The Southern gentleman, rolling in his wealth, will 
 live in the greatest elegance, and expend his money with princely 
 prodigality on himself and his own circle, but he has a dull ear to the 
 claims of charity outside of his circle. He is most liberal to himself, 
 while the Northern man is more liberal to others. Herein is the dif- 
 ference between the two. Hence public enterprises have been fos- 
 tered and patronized, and the cold and bleak North has prospered and 
 grown great ; while the rich and productive South has stood compar- 
 atively still for want of that liberal public enterprise. 
 
 " We say, from the bottom of our heart, all honor to glorious old 
 Massachusetts. The people of that State are indeed our neighbors 
 
THE RELIEF OF EAST TENNESSEE. 7I 
 
 and' our brethren. And that which is true of them is likewise true, 
 p<ftsibly in a less degree, of all the people of the North. For, even 
 fai'-off Maine has generously contributed her thousands for the relief 
 of our suffering people. And so of nearly every State. Let us 
 hold them in everlasting remembrance, and prove ourselves worthy 
 of their benefactions." 
 
 Respectfully submitted, by order of the Committee, 
 to the contributors to the fund, by 
 
 Edwaed Everett. 
 
 P. S. — Since the foregoing Report was prepared, 
 the further sum of twenty thousand five hundred 
 dollars ($20,500) was, on the 3d of October, remitted 
 to the Bankers of the Knoxville East Tennessee Relief 
 Association, and an order filled for shoes to the amount 
 of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500), to be 
 forwarded to Knoxville, making, with the sums above * 
 reported, an aggregate of one hundred thousand dol- 
 lars ($100,000). 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTOES. 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF THE LOYAL AND SUF- 
 FERING EAST TENNESSEEANS. 
 
 Feb. 11, Teacher of a Public 
 
 School $3 00 
 
 Feb. 12, F. H. Peabody 100 00 
 
 Lt.-Col. Peabody.... 50 00 
 
 Boston Boy 5 00 
 
 Feb. 13, Mrs. Sylvester Baker, 
 
 jr., Yarmouth Port 5 00 
 Feb. 15, James Gordon Clarke 50 00 
 
 Mrs. S. Hooper 100 00 
 
 A lady aged 83 5 00 
 
 Feb. 16, Mrs. John Mackay.. . 100 00 
 
 " Anonymous 20 00 
 
 " Anonymous 5 00 
 
 Charles P.Curtis.... 50 00 
 
 Feb. 17, A friend 50 00 
 
 " A Bank Clerk 3 00 
 
 " For the destitute Ten- 
 
 nesseans 20 00 
 
 " Anonymous 5 00 
 
 " Augustus Lowell 100 00 
 
 " E. A. Raymond 30 00 
 
 " Dorchester 1791, dated 
 
 at Newton 200 00 
 
 W. H. Gardiner 200 00 
 
 Feb. 18, Ehsha T. Loring. ... 100 00 
 " General James Dana, 
 
 Charlestown 50 00 
 
 Feb. 19, An old lady 50 00 
 
 " Anonymous 4 00 
 
 " Mrs. E. Wigglesworth 100 00 
 " Octavius Pickering. . 30 00 
 
 Feb. 20, A poor girl 1 00 
 
 " Anonymous 2 00 
 
 Feb. 21, Anonymous — a lady 100 00 
 Feb. 22, Dr. James Jackson. . 50 00 
 
 Carried up $1588 00 
 
 Feb. 22, Brought up $1588 00 
 
 " Children's Fair in Mt. 
 
 Vernon Street 100 00 
 
 " John Gardner 50 00 
 
 William Everett 20 00 
 
 W. F. Weld 100 00 
 
 Dr. John Horaans. . . 100 00 
 Mrs. William Pratt. . 250 00 
 Mrs. G. H. Shaw ... 250 00 
 " Anonymous, Jamaica 
 
 Plain 50 00 
 
 " Anonvmous 5 00 
 
 Feb. 23, Sprague, Soule & Co. 500 00 
 
 " Anonymous 50 00 
 
 " Anonymous 50 00 
 
 " Anonymous 6 00 
 
 " Anonymous, Salem . 100 00 
 
 " Edmund Munroe 50 00 
 
 " Ladies of Needhara 
 
 Plain 52 00 
 
 Lydia S. Gale 100 00 
 
 J. C. Hoadley, New 
 
 Bedford 48 00 
 
 Mrs. Henry Grew ... 100 00 
 C. S. F., Keene. N. H. 20 00 
 *' Nathaniel Francis ... 200 00 
 " A Scotch woman... 10 00 
 Feb. 24, Ignatius Sargent, Ma- 
 chias, Me., the con- 
 tribution of loyal 
 
 citizens 100 00 
 
 " Abbott Lawrence. ... 200 00 
 
 *' James Parker 100 00 
 
 Henry W. Pickering. 50 00 
 " Miss Charlotte Harris 100 00 
 
 Carried over $4348 00 
 
76 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Feb. 24, Brought over $4348 00 
 
 " Miss Isa E. Loring. . 200 00 
 
 Miss F. L. Gray 25 00 
 
 Miss A. G. Gray.... 20 00 
 
 William Gray 500 00 
 
 " George Howe 200 00 
 
 " Annie 3 00 
 
 " A child 1 00 
 
 " W. Yarmouth 1 00 
 
 Feb. 25, Mrs. G. Lee 100 00 
 
 " A lady in Chestnut 
 
 Street 25 00 
 
 " James Sturgis 50 00 
 
 P. C. Brooks 200 00 
 
 •' Thomas J. Lee 50 00 
 
 " Master Reginald Gray 5 00 
 " Sam. S. Gray. 5 00 
 " Wm. T. Andrews... 100 00 
 " Dr. Charles Mifflin . . 50 00 
 " Miss Louisa M. God- 
 
 dard 50 00 
 
 " C. G., a poor man's 
 
 offering 5 00 
 
 " Hon. A. H. Bullock . 100 00 
 " William S. Rogers . . 50 00 
 " Mrs. Abby M. Wales 50 00 
 
 " Miss Wales 300 00 
 
 " Anonymous 50 00 
 
 " Anonymous 50 00 
 
 " Anonymous 20 00 
 
 Friend X 100 00 
 
 Feb. 26, Mrs. Sally Batchelder 5 00 
 
 W. W. Clapp^jr 25 00 
 
 " Hon. George B. Upton 200 00 
 
 A Salem lady 100 00 
 
 George M. Wales.. . . 100 00 
 " Rev. Dr. Burroughs. 50 00 
 " Mrs. Dr. Hayward, 
 
 Pemberton Square. 100 00 
 Hon. Dwight Foster. 50 00 
 " Master Willie R. Rich- 
 ards 10 00 
 
 " Charles Deane 100 00 
 
 " Sam. Boyd, Marlboro' 100 00 
 
 Joseph Whitney & Co. 100 00 
 
 " Jonathan Ellis & Co. 100 00 
 
 Mrs. B. D. Greene . . 200 00 
 
 " George Livermore, 
 
 Cambridge 100 00 
 
 Sterne Morse 100 00 
 
 Rev. Dr. N. L. Froth- 
 
 ingham 50 00 
 
 Turner Sargent 100 00 
 
 Richard Leeds 50 00 
 
 Johnson & Thompson 100 00 
 " A friend from Brook- 
 line 50 00 
 
 J. C. Tyler & Co. . . . 100 00 
 C. D. Head & T. H. 
 Perkins 100 00 
 
 Carried up $8648 00 
 
 Feb. 26, Brought up $8648 00 
 
 0. S. 20 00 
 
 " A Bostonian 2 00 
 
 Feb. 27, Dr. John Ware 50 00 
 
 " John Wooldredge... 100 00 
 " Boston Stock and Ex- 
 change Board, by 
 unanimous vote . . . 1000 00 
 
 A Friend 10 00 
 
 Charles E. Guild.... 25 00 
 " Hon. Jacob Sleeper.. 100 00 
 " Messrs. H. & L. Chase 60 00 
 " Matthew Howland, 
 
 New Bedford 50 00 
 
 " Samuel Johnson 100 00 
 
 Mrs. Thomas G. Gary 100 00 
 A lady 20 00 
 
 B. C. Ward 100 00 
 
 " John J. Low, West 
 
 Roxbury 25 00 
 
 " Rev. Wm. Mountfort 50 00 
 " A poor ex-Teacher.. 2 00 
 
 " James M. Beebe 200 00 
 
 Joseph B. Glover.. . . 100 00 
 " Robert Waterston... 100 00 
 " J. Huntington Wol- 
 
 cott 200 00 
 
 " Mrs. Wolcott 100 00 
 
 " J.Randolph Coolidge 50 00 
 " Hon. Stephen Fair- 
 banks 100 00 
 
 Hon. C. G. Loring.. 100 00 
 " The Misses Lowell, 
 
 Roxbury 200 00 
 
 Mrs. Mary B. Park- 
 man 25 00 
 
 Geo 5 00 
 
 Miss Eliza S. Quincy 50 00 
 
 C. H. Gay 25 00 
 
 " Martin L. Bradford. . 50 00 
 
 R. C. Mackay 150 00 
 
 " W. Mackay 50 00 
 
 " Newton 20 00 
 
 " W. from Newton 5 00 
 
 " James Hunnewell, 
 
 Charlestown 100 00 
 
 " Rebecca P. AUyn, 
 
 Cambridge 20 00 
 
 " Carruth & Sweetser . 100 00 
 Col. Charles R. Cod- 
 man 50 00 
 
 G. L 85 00 
 
 " Jacob Stone, New- 
 
 buryport 20 00 
 
 " Col. Theodore Lyman 100 00 
 
 " A. S. Stimpson 25 00 
 
 " Master Stimpson, a 
 
 birthday offering . . 2 00 
 
 K Street 6 00 
 
 " Anonymous 15 00 
 
 Carried over. . . .$12,455 00 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 77 
 
 Feb. 27, Brought over $12,455 00 
 
 " Clara and Lucy Rog- 
 ers, twin sisters. . . 30 00 
 " Martin Brimmer.... 250 00 
 " Master Edward Gray 8 00 
 " Mrs. Eliza Babcock.. 20 00 
 " A lady in Greenfield, 
 
 Mass 10 00 
 
 Mrs. Henry W. Pick- 
 ering 50 00 
 
 " Harry Pickering .... 10 00 
 " Thos. VVigglesworth. 100 00 
 " Miss Mary Wiggles- 
 worth 100 00 
 
 Hon. Charles Allen.. 25 00 
 " Dr. R. W. Hooper. . . 100 00 
 
 Mrs. E. Hooper 100 00 
 
 " Miss E. Hooper 50 00 
 
 " Miss M. I. Hooper . . 50 00 
 Miss Ellen S. Hooper 50 00 
 
 " Marian Hooper 50 00 
 
 " J. H. Eastburn 100 00 
 
 Solomon Piper 100 00 
 
 " Jacob A. Dresser 50 00 
 
 " John Collamore 50 00 
 
 ■ " J. Wiley Edmands... 500 00 
 Mrs. E. R. Mudge. . . 50 00 
 " From the Sec. Church 
 in Dorchester, of 
 which from Mrs. 
 Walter Baker $100, 
 and from the Misses 
 
 Oliver $50* 325 00 
 
 Mason G. Parker.. . . 25 00 
 George H. Tilton.... 25 0% 
 William W. Tucker. 100 00 
 " Field, Converse & Al- 
 len 100 00 
 
 Miss Eliz'th S. Bangs 30 00 
 
 " An aged lady 30 00 
 
 J. Eliot Cabot 50 00 
 
 " Dresser, Stevens & 
 
 Co 50 00 
 
 J. E. Thayer & Bro. 300 00 
 
 W. B. Spooner 200 00 
 
 G. B. Gary 50 00 
 
 Carried up $15,543 00 
 
 * The donation from the Second Church 
 in Dorchester was accompanied with the 
 folio wins: note: — 
 
 " Dorchester, 29th Feb., 1864. 
 
 " Dkar Sir, — I have the pleasure of 
 transmitting to you $325, a contribution 
 for the Patriots of East Tennessee from 
 friends in the Second Church, Dorchester. 
 We observe a fourth Sabbath evening of 
 each month as -a time for prayer for our 
 country, and last evening thought it fitting 
 to act as well as pray. 
 
 " With much respect I am, 
 
 '' Dear Sir, truly yours, 
 
 [Signed] "James A. Means, Pastor." 
 
 7* 
 
 .1000 00 
 
 Feb. 27, Brought up $15,543 00 
 
 " Sydney Bartlett 100 00 
 
 " J. Appleton Burnham 100 00 
 " Chas. Hook Appleton 100 00 
 
 " Charles Amory 100 00 
 
 " Patrick Donahue. ... 100 00 
 
 S. P. H 25 00 
 
 Rev. C. T. Thayer. . 50 00 
 Rice, Kendall & Co.. 100 00 
 J. C. Howe & Co... 
 " A crumb for the hun- 
 gry Tennesseeans . 1 00 
 
 Jos. S. Fay 100 00 
 
 " H. P. Sturgis 100 00 
 
 " Henry Lee 100 00 
 
 " Henry Lee, jr 50 00 
 
 " Mrs. Henry Lee, jr... 50 00 
 
 W. H. Guild 50 00 
 
 " Three workwomen. . 7 00 
 " E. Mudge, Sawyer & 
 
 Co 500 00 
 
 " Col. Samuel Swett... 40 00 
 Feb. 29, Benjamin S. Rotch. . 100 00 
 " A Cordial Sympa- 
 thizer 30 00 
 
 " Mrs. C. G. Loring. . . 100 00 
 Hon. J. C. Dodge, 
 
 Cambridge 50 00 
 
 " Henry Upham 100 00 
 
 " William Parsons 100 00 
 
 " Rev. Henry W. Foote 30 00 
 " Albert D. Bosson, 
 
 Chelsea (aged 10) . . 1 00 
 
 " A Bostonian 25 00 
 
 " Josiah Quincy, jr 100 00 
 
 Prof F. J. Child, Cam- 
 bridge 25 00 
 
 W. S. Bullard 250 00 
 
 " Hon. Artemas Hale, 
 
 Bridgewater 20 00 
 
 " Two ladies, do 15 00 
 
 " Chas. Brewer & Co... 100 00 
 " Alexander Moseley . . 
 " A Boarder, 44 Sum- 
 mer Street 
 
 March 1, Daniel Hammond ... 
 
 Alfred Winsor & Son 100 00 
 
 " A friend 30 00 
 
 " G. W. Bond 100 00 
 
 Dr. Cliarles E. Ware. 50 00 
 " James 0. Safford. . . 
 
 C. H 
 
 G. A. R 
 
 " Dr. Jacob Bigelow.. 
 " William A. Grover. 
 William S. Whitwell. 
 
 " Two widows 10 00 
 
 " William Durant 100 00 
 
 " Mrs. J. Augustus Pea- 
 body 50 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 5 00 
 50 00 
 
 100 00 
 5 00 
 
 10 00 
 150 00 
 100 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 Carried over $20,272 00 
 
78 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 March 1, Brought over $20,272 00 
 
 Mrs. C. Wm. Loring. 50 00 
 " Thomas G. Apple- 
 ton 100 00 
 
 " Mrs. N. Fairbanks . . 5 00 
 Miss Ellen M.Ward. 100 00 
 " Miss Julia E. Ward,. 100 00 
 " Harrison P. Page, Wa- 
 
 tertown 100 00 
 
 " Dr. Chas. Beck, Cam- 
 bridge 100 00 
 
 " Mrs. Anna S. Moring 25 00 
 " T. W. Wellington, 
 
 Worcester 50 00 
 
 " From a lady, Salem . 50 00 
 " From a merchant, Sa- 
 lem 50 00 
 
 " Mrs. M. Lowell Put- 
 nam 100 00 
 
 " Mrs. S. A. Wright. . . 20 00 
 " SethBemis, Newton. 50 00 
 
 " Anonymous 100 00 
 
 " A Poor New Hamp- 
 shire Boy 5 00 
 
 " Anonymous, Middle- 
 borough 50 00 
 
 Edward Cruft 50 00 
 
 " Mrs. S. Cabot, Brook- 
 line 100 00 
 
 '* Mrs. E. W. Forbush. 20 00 
 
 Dr. 0. W. Holmes.. . 100 00 
 
 " Dr. H. Richardson . . 25 00 
 
 Miss E. Ricliardson . 25 00 
 
 Wm. B. Bradford ... 50 00 
 
 " Messrs. Faulkner, 
 
 Kimball & Co 500 00 
 
 " Wellington Brothers, 
 
 East Cambridge ... 50 00 
 
 Elisha Atkins 100 00 
 
 " Master Edwin F. At- 
 kins 10 00 
 
 " James L. Little 250 00 
 
 " Wm. Munroe 200 00 
 
 " Dr. Edward Reynolds 50 00 
 
 « Miss Mason 50 00 
 
 Miss S. L. Mason.. .. 25 00 
 
 " Hon. P. Sprague 30 00 
 
 Mrs. J. M 10 00 
 
 " Samuel A. Way 100 00 
 
 J. S. Barstow 100 00 
 
 " George M. Soule 100 00 
 
 " C. A. Cummings 25 00 
 
 0. F. Hovey &Co... 500 00 
 
 " Wm. P. Mason 200 00 
 
 " Mrs. Daniel Denn v.. 100 00 
 Dr. W. R. Lawrence. 100 00 
 Joseph H. Billings... 50 00 
 
 " Fees of referees 30 00 
 
 " Amherst,by the hands 
 
 of Col. W. S. Clark 250 00 
 
 Carried up $24,527 00 
 
 March 1, Brought up $24,527 00 
 
 E. S 20 00 
 
 Milton Hill 10 00 
 
 " C. and J., two poor 
 
 young men 4 00 
 
 " Benjamin R. Gilbert. 50 00 
 " Alexander Beal, Dor- 
 chester 25 00 
 
 " B. D. Emerson, Ja- 
 maica Plain 100 00 
 
 " Ezra Abbot, Cam- 
 bridge 20 00 
 
 A lady in Cambridge 20 00 
 
 " John Bertram, Salem 200 00 
 
 Hon. R. H. Dana, jr.. 30 00 
 
 ", Geo. W. Wheelright 50 00 
 
 " Forest Hill St., Rox- 
 
 bury 5 00 
 
 Miss C. H. Wild .... 25 00 
 " Weld Farm, West 
 
 Roxbury 80 00 
 
 " Edward Atkinson ... 50 00 
 " D. W. Salisbury .... 100 00 
 Burr Brothers & Co. 200 00 
 " Henry L. Pierce, Dor- 
 chester 100 00 
 
 Francis Cabot 25 00 
 
 " Arthur Searle 20 00 
 
 C. K 10 00 
 
 A. H 5 00 
 
 " Messrs. Claflin,Saville 
 
 &Co 100 00 
 
 " Eaton, Cumings& Co. 100 00 
 
 " Cambridge 50 00 
 
 " Francis Williams, 
 
 Quincy 100 00 
 
 Mrs. E. H. D 25 00 
 
 March 2, Henry Williams 25 00 
 
 " A school-girl's month- 
 ly allowance 1 00 
 
 Uncle Ben, Savin Hill 10 00 
 " A friend in Cambridge 10 00 
 
 '■ Elbridge Torrey 10 00 
 
 " Mrs. James Lawrence 200 00 
 " Professor Asa Gray, 
 
 Cambridge 20 00 
 
 " L. Grozelier 10 00 
 
 C.W.Clark 25 00 
 
 " E 3 00 
 
 " A friend in Roxbury. 6 00 
 
 " A friend 10 00 
 
 " Anonymous, by the 
 hands of J. I. Bow- 
 ditch 100 00 
 
 " Mrs. N. I. Bowditch. 500 00 
 " J. Ingersoll Bowditch 200 00 
 " Mrs. J. I. Bowditch.. 100 00 
 
 Wm. Claflin.: 200 00 
 
 " Hon. Seth Ames 50 00 
 
 " S. C. Thwing 100 00 
 
 Carried over $27,631 00 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 79 
 
 March 2, Brought over $27,631 00 
 
 Rev. Dr. Ellis & Mrs. 
 
 Ellis, Charlestown. 100 00 
 " Mrs. H. B. Rogers.. . 100 00 
 " William Read & Son. 100 00 
 
 " Anonymous 50 00 
 
 " Master Jas. Lawrence, 
 
 jr 2 00 
 
 " Anonymous,in Mount 
 
 Vernon Street 15 00 
 
 D. P.Ives 100 00 
 
 M. L. C 100 00 
 
 I.E. Piper 5 00 
 
 Rev. Dr. Bartol 50 00 
 
 " Leverett Saltonstall.. 100 00 
 
 Ariel Low & Co 100 00 
 
 H. H. Hunnewell. ... 300 00 
 
 Wm. Gray.jr 250 00 
 
 Mrs. S. P. Miles,Brat- 
 
 tleboro 50 00 
 
 " Rev. R. Ellis, second 
 
 donation 10 00 
 
 A small boy 1 00 
 
 Sam'l Frotliingham.. 50 00 
 " Sam'l Frothingliam, 
 
 jr 50 00 
 
 " Dr. Henry Bartlett, 
 
 Roxbury 50 00 
 
 1 5 00 
 
 S. G. Snelling 50 00 
 
 Lindsley, Shaw & Co. 100 00 
 Henry Wain Wright.. 100 00 
 " From one who has 
 very little of this 
 
 world's goods 2 00 
 
 " Howland, Hinckley & 
 
 Co 50 00 
 
 J. G. Kidder 100 00 
 
 John A. Blanchard. . 100 00 
 
 Naylor & Co 300 00 
 
 Sewall, Day & Co.. . . 100 00 
 
 " J. Field 200 00 
 
 " Chas. H. Coffin, New- 
 
 buryport 100 00 
 
 " Mrs. M 28 00 
 
 F 100 00 
 
 Charles B. Poor 25 00 
 
 "See Acts XX. 35".. 10 00 
 
 J. W. Paige 100 00 
 
 March 3, J. F. B. Marshall.. . . 50 00 
 " Miss Harriet S. Hay- 
 ward 100 00 
 
 Lemuel Shaw 50 00 
 
 E. W. B 5 00 
 
 A. B. Almon, Salem. 30 00 
 
 " George H. Gray and 
 
 Dantbrth 200 00 
 
 Hon. Albert Fearing. 100 00 
 Hon. Rob't C. Win- 
 throp 50 00 
 
 Carried up $31,269 00 
 
 March 3, Brought up $31,269 00 
 
 George D.Welles 50 00 
 
 " OHver Ditson 100 00 
 
 E. B. Phillips 25 00 
 
 Mrs. R. G. Shaw.... 200 00 
 " Miss Louisa Shaw. . . 25 00 
 " Jona. French, Rox- 
 
 " bury 100 00 
 
 " Mrs. James Sturgis. . 50 00 
 
 " John G. Tappan 100 00 
 
 " Charles F. Bradford, 
 
 Roxbury 50 00 
 
 Charles K. Cobb .... 50 00 
 
 " George J. Fiske 100 00 
 
 " Homer Bartlett 50 00 
 
 " "Homo Sum" 8 00 
 
 " James W. Sever 50 00 
 
 " Hon. Edward Brooks 200 00 
 
 " Francis Brooks 100 00 
 
 " Joseph E. Worcester, 
 
 Cambridge 100 00 
 
 " A New England Sis- 
 ter to her brave and 
 suffering young sis- 
 ters in 10. Tennessee 5 00 
 
 " George Gardner 300 00 
 
 E. M. and E. A. C... 10 00 
 
 Charles Heath 50 00 
 
 " Mrs. Charles Heath.. 50 00 
 
 " Miss E. Parsons 50 00 
 
 " The contents of a sav- 
 ings-bank from two 
 
 little boys 2 00 
 
 S. Willard& Son.... 100 00 
 
 J. C. W 25 00 
 
 " Larkin, Stackpole & 
 
 Co 100 00 
 
 " A Book-keeper 10 00 
 
 Edwaj-d S. Philbrick. 100 00 
 
 Beacon Hill 15 00 
 
 Fishers & Chapin.. . . 100 00 
 
 " From R 1 00 
 
 From 509 5 00 
 
 " Samuel May 200 00 
 
 " John J. May 100 00 
 
 Natli'l Winsor & Son 100 00 
 William S.Eaton... 50 00 
 
 Thomas Groom 50 00 
 
 Maguire & Campbell. 50 00 
 
 " L. A. Shattuck 50 00 
 
 Reuben A. Richards. 50 00 
 
 Franklin King 50 00 
 
 " From Minnie & Nelly 10 00 
 
 T. E. M 5 00 
 
 " Francis Bacon lOO 00 
 
 William Ropes lOO 00 
 
 " E. L 10 00 
 
 W. H. R 5 00 
 
 Isaac Thacher lOO 00 
 
 Elizabeth J. Stone... lO 00 
 
 Carried over. . . .$ 34,590 00 
 
80 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 March 3, Brought over $34,590 00 
 
 David W.Hodgdon.. 50 00 
 D. A. Dwiglit & Co.. 100 00 
 William Perkins.... 100 00 
 " Robert S. Perkins. . . 50 00 
 J.W. P. Abbott, West- 
 ford 25 00 
 
 " William Raymond... 10 00 
 
 March 4, Otis Daniel 200 00 
 
 F. Snow & Co 100 00 
 
 " Edward 0. Banvard, 
 
 Calais, Maine 50 00 
 
 " The Misses Snow, 
 
 Roxbury 200 00 
 
 " D. C, Calais, Maine. 5 00 
 
 M 25 00 
 
 C. T 5 00 
 
 •' Chief Justice Bigelow 50 00 
 
 " Sidney Homer 100 00 
 
 Mrs. H. S 15 00 
 
 " Hon. George Morey. 50 00 
 " Mrs. Sarah Johnson. 50 00 
 
 " R. E.Robbins 250 00 
 
 " A Physician, who 
 promises the same 
 every Saturday for 
 
 five weeks 10 00 
 
 " Dane, Dana & Co. . . . 100 00 
 
 " Avon Place 30 00 
 
 " Little, Brown & Co.. 200 00 
 " Capt. Arthur H.Clark 20 00 
 Benjamin C. Clark.. 20 00 
 " Miss Donnison, Cam- 
 bridge .• 50 00 
 
 Hon. James Savage.. 200 00 
 
 Prof. W. B. Rogers. 25 00 
 
 " William Sprague.... 100 00 
 
 Thos. G. Bradford... 25 00 
 
 " Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
 
 S. Beal, Kingston.. 50 00 
 " George Draper, Hope- 
 dale, Mass 50 00 
 
 " Rev. Dr. George Put- 
 nam, Roxbury 100 00 
 
 " Jona. B. Bright, Wal- 
 
 tham 20 00 
 
 " Andrew Warren, do.. 5 00 
 
 0. \V. Baker, do 5 00 
 
 " Newell Sherman, do.. 5 00 
 
 Marshall Smith, do.. 3 00 
 
 " Daniel French, do.... 5 00 
 
 " Dorus Clarke, do. . . . 5 00 
 
 Dr. R. S. Warren, do. 5 00 
 
 " Perez Smitli, do 5 00 
 
 " Rufus Stickney, do.. 100 
 " Cornelius Irish, do... 1 00 
 " Phineas Upliam, do.. 5 00 
 
 Wm. Jewell, do 5 00 
 
 " George Lawton, do. . 10 00 
 John Roberts, do... 10 00 
 
 Carried up $37,095 00 
 
 March 4, Brought up $37,095 00 
 
 C. L. Mosely, Wal- 
 tham 5 00 
 
 " Jarvis Lewis, do 2 00 
 
 Wm.E. Allen, do.... 3 00 
 
 Federalist 30 00 
 
 Mrs. David Sears.... 100 00 
 
 C. L. F. R 50 00 
 
 Dr. Wm. W. Morland 20 00 
 
 " In a blank envelope. . 20 00 
 
 Chandler & Co 100 00 
 
 J. A. & W. Bird & Co. 50 00 
 
 " Seth Turner, Ran- 
 dolph 50 00 
 
 " '63 1 00 
 
 " Walter Channing, M. 
 
 D 100 00 
 
 " Samuel B. Pierce ... 50 00 
 
 AWebfoot 10 00 
 
 A Widow 20 00 
 
 Benj. Thaxter 50 00 
 
 " Anonymous, by the 
 hands of J. I. Bow- 
 ditch 150 00 
 
 W. S. Appleton 100 00 
 
 " Daniel N. Spooner... 100 00 
 George F. Parkman . 200 00 
 
 William Beals 100 00 
 
 Francis B. Hayes.. . . 100 00 
 
 N. B. Gibbs 100 00 
 
 Henry B. Rogers 500 00 
 
 John A. Dod'd & Co.. 100 00 
 
 " A friend 5 00 
 
 J. W. Wheelwright.. 50 00 
 
 " E. A. Boardman .... 30 00 
 Dr. G. C. Shattuck. . 100 00 
 
 C. C. Gilbert 50 00 
 
 David W. Williams, 
 Roxbury 100 00 
 
 " Charles Emery 20 00 
 
 March 5, Geo. C. Lord, Newton 100 00 
 Charles H. Lord, do.. 100 00 
 Edward W. Lord, do. 28 00 
 
 H. Williams, do 10 00 
 
 Nash,Spaulding&Co. 300 00 
 
 A. F. — Salem 5 00 
 
 F. H. M 5 00 
 
 " Hon. Emory Wash- 
 burn 50 00 
 
 " James Hay ward 100 00 
 
 " From Longwood .... 5 00 
 S. W. Rodman 50 00 
 
 '■ Anonymous 10 00 
 
 " John Cormerais 25 00 
 
 Dr. John Dean 20 00 
 
 J. J. Dixwell 50 00 
 
 " Mrs. Anna Parker. . . 50 00 
 Grant, Warren & Co. 300 00 
 George R. RusseU. . . 200 00 
 
 " Mrs. F. C. Paine .... 25 00 
 
 Carried over. . . .$40,994 00 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 81 
 
 1 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 March 5, Brought over |40,994 00 
 
 " Gardner, Dexter & 
 
 ^ Co 100 00 
 
 James Read 100 00 
 
 ^" Mrs. James Read. .. 100 00 
 
 ^^ Augustine Heard... 100 00 
 
 A httle bo3', 6 years 
 oldjiis own money 
 
 Ellice 
 
 Charles W. Parker.' 
 
 Joshua Stetson 100 00 
 
 " Hon. S.Williston, E. 
 
 Hampton 100 00 
 
 Anonymous; proc'ds 
 of the sale of un- 
 necessary silver 
 
 plate 12 00 
 
 E. F. Waters 25 00 
 
 "^ The Misses Newman 200 00 
 
 S" ^- i'erkins, Italy 100 00 
 
 Curtis & Co 100 00 
 
 L,izzie Leland 20 00 
 
 1^' Edward Motley 50 00 
 
 From three friends . 85 00 
 
 ;; D B. Flint 60 00 
 
 Charles L. Young. . 50 00 
 " Waldo Maynard. ... 50 00 
 
 " Francis Bassett 100 00 
 
 Mrs. W. C. Codman 50 00 
 Thomas Worcester. 100 00 
 
 "^ Aunt Betsey 5 OO 
 
 Dr.Le Baron Russell 50 00 
 
 David B. Sewall, 
 
 Fryeburg, Me. . . . 
 
 " Santuit River, Cotuit 
 
 March 7, A. A. Lawrence, jr., 
 
 BrookHne .' 50 00 
 
 S. W. Vinson, clerk 6 00 
 
 " T. Lee lOO 00 
 
 John H. Thorndike. 50 00 
 " Mrs. E. Miller and 
 
 Charles E. Miller, 
 
 Quincy loo 00 
 
 Mrs. J. G. Howard, 
 South Braintree. . 
 " Samuel Gilbert, Bos- 
 ton 
 
 " Samuel Gilbert 
 
 Dorchester .... 
 " George W. Harding, 
 
 do- 100 00 
 
 W. C. Harding, Rox- 
 bury 100 00 
 
 ^fli^^'^- •■ • 10 00 
 
 Utncers and men of 
 the 44th Regiment 
 Massachusetts Vol- 
 unteers * 1000 00 
 
 6 00 
 5 00 
 
 March 7, Brought up $44,408 00 
 
 Dana, Farrar& Hyde 200 00 
 
 Crab Apple 5 oO 
 
 Foster & Taylor 200 00 
 
 Otis Norcross 100 00 
 
 His Honor, F. W. 
 
 Lincoln, Jr., Mayor 50 00 
 Hon. J. Z. Goodrich 500 00 
 Bigelow, Brothers & 
 
 Kennard 100 00 
 
 ^'a^>;-;; 10 00 
 
 Mrs. N. H. Emmons 100 00 
 A friend in Cam- 
 
 ^bri'ige 20 00 
 
 G. M., Norfolk 
 
 M 1 Q A ^^"o'J' 10 00 
 
 March 8, A dictate of con- 
 science for the suf- 
 fering Loyalists of 
 East Tennessee... 200 00 
 " A friend to the good 
 
 -^,^a"se. 20 00 
 
 Edward D. Peters & 
 
 „ ^"•••.•: 300 00 
 
 bamuel Atherton... 50 00 
 
 ;: f ^^-S 50 00 
 
 Anonymous, from 
 
 Worcester 5 qO 
 
 " Eben C. Stanwood 
 
 „ <^ Co 100 00 
 
 Brewster, Sweet & 
 
 ^Co 100 00 
 
 George N. Hastings, 
 (12 years) E. Cam- 
 bridge 1 00 
 
 Walter H. Whitney, 
 (lOyears) E.Cam- 
 bridge 1 00 
 
 Carried over.. $46,530 00 
 
 jr., 
 
 10 00 
 50 00 
 50 00 
 
 Carried up $44,408 00 
 
 The very liberal donation of the 44th 
 
 Regiment was accompanied by the fol- 
 io wmg letter: — 
 . „ ^ " Boston, March 5, 1864. 
 
 Hon. Edward Everett — 
 ,, ".^?''iy S'l'- Through the liberality of 
 their fellow-citizens, the Regiment which 
 1 have the honor to command, received a 
 Regimental Fund of $5000. A portion of 
 tois money has been applied to the use of 
 the Regiment, — a portion I retain for fur- 
 ther need of the Regiment. Upon consul- 
 tation with VVm.Gra3'|Esq., Treasurer of 
 the fund, and with my field oificers, and 
 feeling sure that it will meet the approval 
 of the original donors, I have decided to 
 devote $1000 to the relief of the suffering 
 loyalists of p:ast Tennessee, which please 
 accept in behalf of the men and officers of 
 the 44th Regt. M. V. M. 
 
 " I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
 " Francis L. Lee, 
 "Col. 44th Regt.M.V.M." 
 
82 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 March 8, Brought over. . . .$46,530 00 
 " William Brigham. . . 50 00 
 
 " Kobert B. Storer ... 50 00 
 
 " "Somebody" 50 00 
 
 " W. P. Pierce 200 00 
 
 " P. Anderson, Lowell 25 00 
 
 Jas. W. Walworth.. 100 00 
 
 " Isaac Livermore.. . . 50 00 
 
 An old lady 50 00 
 
 O.H.Sampson 25 00 
 
 " William A. Bangs . . 25 00 
 " J. Dixwell Thomp- 
 son 25 00 
 
 The following most liberal contri- 
 butions to the fund, to the amount of 
 $4,773, were obtained in Franklin St. 
 and vicinity, through the energetic and 
 disinterested cooperation of Mr. George 
 H. Braman, of No. 51 Frankhn St. : — 
 
 March 8, Jordan, Marsh & Co. 500 00 
 " Friend of the Coun- 
 try 500 00 
 
 " Wilson, Hamilton & 
 
 Co 250 00 
 
 " J. C. Burrage & Co. 250 00 
 " Hogg, Brown & Tay- 
 lor 250 00 
 
 Parker,Wilder & Co. 240 00 
 " Denny, Eice & Co.. 300 00 
 
 " Washburn, Welch & 
 
 Carr 200 00 
 
 " Haughton, Sawyer & 
 
 Co 200 00 
 
 " Almy, Patterson & 
 
 Co 200 00 
 
 " Pierce, Bros. & Co.. 100 00 
 
 " King, Goodridge & 
 
 Co 100 00 
 
 " Sweetzer, Swan &. 
 
 Blodget 100 00 
 
 " Burrage, Bros. & Co. 100 00 
 
 " George S. Winslow 
 
 & Co 100 00 
 
 " Wilkinson, Lamb & 
 
 Co 100 00 
 
 «' J. C. Converse & Co. 100 00 
 
 " Anderson, Heath & 
 
 Co 100 00 
 
 " Hill, Danforth & Co. 100 00 
 
 " Ordway, Tebbetts & 
 
 Co 100 00 
 
 " John C. Morse & Co. 50 00 
 
 " Allen, Lj^e & Co... 50 00 
 
 " Mrs. Isaac Fenno. . . 50 00 
 
 " Thayer, Badger & * 
 
 Plimpton 50 00 
 
 " Stone, Wood & Co.. 50 00 
 " Woodman, Horse- 
 well & Co 50 00 
 
 Carried up $51,370 00 
 
 March 8, Brought up $51,370 00 
 
 C. Curry 50 00 
 
 H. E. Wright & Co.. 50 00 
 
 F. A. Hawley & Co. 50 00 
 " Bliss, WhitingjPierce 
 
 & McKenna 50 00 
 
 " Clerks at Jordan, 
 
 Marsh & Co 82 00 
 
 " Clerks at Ordway, 
 
 Tebbetts & Co.... 31 00 
 " Whitney, Grain & 
 
 Marr 25 00 
 
 Gross, Daniels & Co. 25 00 
 " Whitten, Burdett & 
 
 Young 25 00 
 
 " Washburn, Foque & 
 
 Co 25 00 
 
 " Sargent, Brothers & 
 
 Co 25 00 
 
 " Lewis Coleman & Co. 25 00 
 " Geo. W. Simmons & 
 
 Co 25 00 
 
 " F. F. Wheelock & 
 
 Co 20 00 
 
 N. H. Clark 20 00 
 
 " Devonshire Street. . 10 00 
 
 " George Alden 5 00 
 
 March 9, No. 58 Milk Street. . 25 00 
 " Thomas B. Wales.. 100 00 
 
 " Levi Bartlett & Co. . 100 00 
 
 " Hon. Stephen Salis- 
 
 " bury, Worcester.. 300 00 
 
 " George C. Kichard- 
 
 son 200 00 
 
 H 25 00 
 
 J. P. Thorndike.... 100 00 
 " A lady in Berk- 
 shire 10 00 
 
 " Edward N. Perkins, 
 
 Jamaica Plain ... 50 00 
 
 Keene 10 00 
 
 Edward S. Tobey. . . 200 00 
 " Anonymous, by the 
 hand of E. S. To- 
 bey 25 00 
 
 " Ex-Gov'nor Lincoln 100 00 
 
 " Gardner Brewer & 
 
 Co 200 00 
 
 " Geo. P. Hayward & 
 
 Co 25 00 
 
 J. C. B., Lexington. 25 00 
 
 William Dall 100 00 
 
 " Two ladies in Rox- 
 
 bury 20 00 
 
 " Miss Henrietta Sar- 
 gent 20 00 
 
 " Israel Whitney 25 00 
 
 " Nathan Matthews . . 100 00 
 
 Carried over... $53,673 00 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS. 
 
 83 
 
 March 9, Brought over $53,673 00 
 
 Walter H. Whitney, 
 second donation . . 1 00 
 
 « M. D 10 00 
 
 " Proceeds of Mr. Sid- 
 
 dons's reading. . . . 100 00 
 
 March 10, Mrs. E. D. H 5 00 
 
 " Kev. Geo. M. Rice, 
 
 Westford 5 00 
 
 " Anonymous 100 00 
 
 B.S., 29BowdoinSt. 25 00 
 " Citizens of Hallow- 
 ell, Me., per Justin 
 
 E. Smith 208 00 
 
 " John H. Sturgis .... 50 00 
 
 " J. P. Preston 100 00 
 
 William F. Matchett 25 00 
 " Lucretia A. R., Bal- 
 timore, Md 5 00 
 
 " Drop in the hucket. 5 00 
 " Soldiers' Aid Soc'ty, 
 Winthrop, by the 
 hand of Mrs. J. C. 
 Hall, Treasurer . . 50 00 
 Samuel G. Ward. . . 100 00 
 " Mrs. T. W. Ward. . 100 00 
 
 " Benj. Abbott 25 00 
 
 W 10 00 
 
 Mrs. H 100 00 
 
 " Mrs. Nathan Apple- 
 ton 100 00 
 
 " Hon. Richard Fletch- 
 er 100 00 
 
 H.E.J 5 00 
 
 " Mrs. Judge Put- 
 nam* 30 00 
 
 " J. M.Forbes 250 00 
 
 " Hon. James Arnold, 
 
 New Bedford 500 00 
 
 E. S. Dixwell 20 00 
 
 " Hon. David Sears . . 150 00 
 " A Teacher 2 00 
 
 The following sums were remitted 
 by Rev. C. H. Brigham, being, with 
 the exception of the donation of Mr. 
 Baylies, contributed by the First Con- 
 gregational Church in Taunton : t 
 
 Samuel B. King 100 00 
 
 Theodore Dean 100 00 
 
 Edmund Baylies 100 00 
 
 Mrs. George A. Crocker 50 00 
 
 Timothy Gordon 50 00 
 
 Carried up $56,249 00 
 
 * This venerable lady contributed by 
 her needle-work over a hundred dollars 
 to the fan- of the Sanitarj' Commission. 
 
 t The liberal contribution from the 
 First Congregational Society in Taunton 
 was announced iu a letter from its pastor, 
 
 I Brought up $5( 
 
 I Francis B. Dean 
 
 '. Joseph Dean 
 
 ' Artemas Briggs 
 
 ! Sylvanus N. Staples 
 
 j Allen Presbrey 
 
 j Charles R. Atwood 
 
 I Charles Robinson 
 
 Enoch Robinson 
 
 William Brewster 
 
 j Le Baron B. Church 
 
 Jesse Hartshorn 
 
 ' A. King Williams 
 
 j James Henry Sproat 
 
 ; Nathan A Skinner 
 
 j Charles H. Brigham 
 
 ■ Samuel 0. Dunbar 
 
 I Henry C. Perry 
 
 Edwin Keith 
 
 C. W. Sproat and W. E. Fuller 
 
 Billings T. Presbrey 
 
 James P. Ellis 
 
 Mrs. G. L. Macomber 
 
 Wm. T. Crandell 
 
 Mrs. G. C. Converse 
 
 March 10, Mrs. J. W 
 
 ' " Chas. Hickling, Rox- 
 
 bury 
 
 " A " mite-y man of 
 
 Salem" 
 
 " Lawton 
 
 " Two ladies 
 
 D. W. H 
 
 " Hartley, Lord & Co. 
 George T. Rice, 
 
 Worcester 
 
 JVIarch 11, A Son of Massachu- 
 setts, Charlestown, 
 
 N. H 
 
 " F. Nickerson & Co. . 
 " Rev. Dr. S. K. Loth- 
 
 5,249 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 7 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 2 00 
 
 1 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 10 00 
 10 00 
 22 00 
 25 00 
 100 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 5 00 
 100 00 
 
 rop 10 00 
 
 Carried over. . .$57,211 00 
 
 Rev. Charles H. Brigham, from which, 
 without his permission, I venture to make 
 an extract, for the sake of showing the 
 noble spirit that animates that commu- 
 nity: — 
 
 " Taunton, March M, 1864. 
 " Deak Sir, — On Sunday last, accord- 
 ing to the suggestion of your circular ad- 
 dress, I called the attention of my people, 
 in a special sermon, to the sufferings of 
 the Patriots in East Tennessee, and asked 
 for their offerings. In two days I have re- 
 ceived $740, which will probably become 
 $800 or $900, as the smaller subscriptions 
 come iu. This is from my own congrega- 
 tion." 
 
84 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 March 11, Brought over $57,211 00 
 
 M. W 5 00 
 
 " Citizens of Amherst, 
 N. H., by the 
 hands of B. B. 
 
 David 282 00 
 
 Master Henry Eliot 
 
 Babcock 6 00 
 
 James C. Ward, Nor- 
 thampton 25 00 
 
 P. Holmes, Kingston 100 00 
 Wm. S. Adams, do.. 100 00 
 
 Sabin & Page 30 00 
 
 Mrs. D. C , Lan- 
 caster, Mass 10 00 
 
 Milton Railway 2 00 
 
 A friend 5 00 
 
 Mrs. J. Gardner 50 00 
 
 "Brighton " 100 00 
 
 Wm. Knowlton, Up- 
 ton 100 00 
 
 Franklin Haven. ... 100 00 
 Proprietors of the 
 " Christian Exam- 
 iner " 20 00 
 
 George Allen 50 00 
 
 Boston Boy, — the 
 same who gave the 
 donation on the 12th 
 
 Feb 10 00 
 
 " Mrs. Abbott 25 00 
 
 Tremont 50 00 
 
 " Peter Smith, Ando- 
 
 ver, Mass 100 00 
 
 Two sisters, M. & A. 6 00 
 
 March 12, Edwin Upton 50 00 
 
 " Francis Draper, Cam- 
 bridge 50 00 
 
 " Alpheus Hardy & 
 
 Co 100 00 
 
 " Webster & Co 100 00 
 
 " Sampson Reed 50 00 
 
 A. H 20 00 
 
 " Reed, Cutler & Co. 100 00 
 
 " Anonymous 25 00 
 
 " E. B. Welch 50 00 
 
 The Centre Church 
 in Haverhill, by 
 the hand of Rev. 
 
 Mr. Munger 286 00 
 
 " D. H. B 8 00 
 
 " Anonymous 40 00 
 
 E. H 25 00 
 
 " Edward Warren, M. 
 D., Newton Lower 
 
 Falls 25 00 
 
 " Physician's second 
 
 week's donation. . 10 00 
 " Currier & Greeley.. 100 00 
 " A friend 10 00 
 
 Carried up 
 
 3,434 00 
 
 Brought up ... . $59,434 00 
 March 12, Mrs. J. M. Codman, 
 
 Brookline 50 00 
 
 W. T 5 00 
 
 " First Church in Taun- 
 ton, additional. ... 65 00 
 
 March 14, A 6 00 
 
 " Rev. Dr. C. A. Bar- 
 tol, a second dona- 
 tion of 50 00 
 
 " Mrs. Nancy White. . 50 00 
 
 " A school-boy 1 00 
 
 George Hews 25 00 
 
 C. Ellis, M.D 60 00 
 
 " E. H. Eldredge .... 100 00 
 
 Rolfe Eldredge 50 00 
 
 " The venerable Presi- 
 dent Quincy 100 00 
 
 " Anonymous 25 00 
 
 " Ditto 25 00 
 
 " Wm. M. Byrnes.... 20 00 
 
 " G. Rogers 20 00 
 
 " Isaac F Dobson.... 100 00 
 
 Cash 20 00 
 
 J. W. B 50 00 
 
 S. E. P 60 00 
 
 R. D. R 60 00 
 
 F. C 50 00 
 
 W. T. G 50 00 
 
 P. S. C 25 00 
 
 Cash 20 00 
 
 W. P.,jr 25 00 
 
 " Francis Peabody... 100 00 
 
 Cash 6 00 
 
 " W. Amory 100 00 
 
 Cash 25 00 
 
 J.P.Gardner 50 00 
 
 J. D. Bates 50 00 
 
 Cash 25 00 
 
 " Ditto 25 00 
 
 Ditto 100 00 
 
 " G. M. Barnard 100 00 
 
 " T. Quincy Browne. 50 00 
 
 Iasigi,Goddard&Co. 300 00 
 
 Miss M. G. Loring.. 60 00 
 
 O 2 00 
 
 Waldo Flint 50 00 
 
 " A friend to the suf- 
 fering 10 00 
 
 " A little girl 1 00 
 
 " Anonymous 10 00 
 
 " Mrs. Tyler Bigelow, 
 
 Watertown 100 00 
 
 " Mrs.Theodore Chase 50 00 
 
 March 16, Anonymous 10 00 
 
 " A lady of Bridge- 
 water 6 00 
 
 " A. Bummer, Cam- 
 bridge 6 00 
 
 W. P. H., Cambridge 1 00 
 
 Carried over. . . $61,739 00 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 85 
 
 Brought over $61,739 00 
 
 March 15, Mary Leary, Halifax, 
 N. S., now of West 
 
 Newton 2 00 
 
 " Dabney & Cunning- 
 
 liam 50 00 
 
 " From a lady in New 
 
 Hampshire 100 00 
 
 A friend 25 00 
 
 G. Kace 10 00 
 
 " A poor old Duster.. 2 00 
 
 J. R. H 100 00 
 
 " * Unitarian Society 
 
 at Watertown 415 60 
 
 The following sums were contrib- 
 uted by the pupils of Mr. T. Prentiss 
 Allen's School, New Bedford t : — 
 
 M. Morris Howland 2 00 
 
 A. Thornton 2 00 
 
 E. Allen 2 00 
 
 Carried up $82,449 60 
 
 * The contribution from the Unitarian 
 Society at Watertown was accompanied 
 by the following letter from its Pastor: — 
 
 " Watertown, 14th March, 1864. 
 
 " Deak Sir, — Please devote the en- 
 closed contribution from the Unitarian 
 Society in this place to the sufferers in 
 East Tennessee. 
 
 " This society is the representative of the 
 old territorial parish, which was founded 
 in the summer of 1630, with Rev. George 
 Phillips for Pastor. But the original ter- 
 ritory has shrunken to a little town, which 
 was "lately still further reduced by the 
 scission of that portion now called Bel- 
 mont, and the population of Watertown 
 is now shared by four other societies be- 
 sides our own. 
 
 " This contribution would have been 
 larger if several of my parishioners had 
 not already liberally subscribed at their 
 places of business in Boston. 
 
 " But accept the offering made at the 
 close of service last Sunday, for brothers 
 who sufier for their dear country's cause 
 and glory. 
 
 " I am very respectfully yours, 
 [Signed] "J. Weiss." 
 
 t The subscription paper at ISlv. Allen's 
 school had the following caption; — 
 
 " The loj'al boys of Massachusetts to 
 the loyal boys of Tennessee send greet- 
 ing: Having heard through Col. Taylor 
 of the hardships and the privations that 
 you have endured, while your fathers and 
 our fathers have been struggling side by 
 side, for the support of the Union cause 
 and in defence of liberty, and feeling that, 
 although remotely situated, we are broth- 
 
 Brought up $62,449 60 
 
 Walter Clifford 2 00 
 
 G. Willis 2 00 
 
 R. Coggcshall 1 00 
 
 Arthur Clifford 2 00 
 
 P. R. Almy 1 00 
 
 B. R. Tucker 1 00 
 
 W. A. Bartlett 1 00 
 
 G. P. Tucker 1 00 
 
 A. G. Swift 2 00 
 
 Horace Wood 1 00 
 
 E. C. Dubois 1 00 
 
 E.D.Antony 100 
 
 E. P. Tucker 1 00 
 
 W. Almy 2 00 
 
 C. Almy 1 00 
 
 J. Stoddard 10 00 
 
 E. Gordon 1 00 
 
 H.Swift 2 00 
 
 P. Swift 1 00 
 
 Morgan Rotch 2 00 
 
 JohnB. Gerrish 2 00 
 
 James H. Harris 5 00 
 
 W. M. Thomp 1 00 
 
 H. B.Stone 2 00 
 
 J. R. Chapman 2 00 
 
 Charles Almy 1 00 
 
 Henry A. Delano 1 00 
 
 D. L. Parker 1 00 
 
 J. Frank Perry 1 00 
 
 R. G. N. Swift 1 00 
 
 S, R. Potter 3 00 
 
 J. C. Tripp 1 00 
 
 Willard Nye, jr 1 00 
 
 J. N. Faulkner 2 00 
 
 C.N. Swift 1 00 
 
 The Master of the School 8 00 
 
 March 15, Jona. Howland, New 
 
 Bedford 50 00 
 
 " Capt. Latham Croos, 
 
 do 50 00 
 
 W. R. Austin, Dor- 
 chester 25 00 
 
 " From a boy, his own 
 
 money 4 00 
 
 A little girl, L. S. . . 3 00 
 
 Carried over . . . .$62,650 60 
 
 ers and have a united interest in the pros- 
 perity of our glorious country, we wish to 
 manifest to you our sympathy; and as we 
 have been prosperous while you have been 
 suffering, we wish to send you a trifle from 
 our abundance. Accept then these con- 
 tributions from our own private stores, 
 and be assured we are happy to do our 
 part toward relieving your wants and en- 
 couraging you to hold out, until better 
 days shall come, as we hope they wiU 
 soon come to you." 
 
86 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Brought over. . . .§62,650 60 
 March 15, Congregational Ch. 
 in Shrevvsb'y.frora 
 tlie Pastor, Kev. 
 
 Wm.McGinley... 53 50 
 
 E. H 1 00 
 
 P. A. Gay 50 00 
 
 N. G. Manson 50 00 
 
 " Pirst Evangelical 
 Cong'gational Ch. 
 in Cambridgeport. 234 92 
 
 March 16, A. L 5 00 
 
 " Sympathizer 5 00 
 
 " Joseph Willard 25 00 
 
 J. K. P 5 00 
 
 " Two ladies of North- 
 
 horough 20 00 
 
 " Mrs. Deborah Pow- 
 ers, Lansinb'rg, N. 
 Y., remitted by D. 
 Powers & Sons ... 500 00 
 " Eev. S M. Worces- 
 ter, Salem 10 00 
 
 " Sophy Hayes 20 00 
 
 Hon. Jno. H.Clifford, 
 
 New Bedford .... 100 00 
 
 A lady 10 00 
 
 Edward Page 50 00 
 
 W.C.Cabot 25 00 
 
 W. &R 100 00 
 
 " Mrs. Gam'l Bradford 50 00 
 " George P. Bradford. 5 00 
 " Samuel May, jr., Lei- 
 cester 10 00 
 
 " William B. Howes, 
 
 Salem 100 00 
 
 A. C 50 00 
 
 " Amos Cummings... 50 00 
 ■" Two ladies in Cam- 
 bridge 10 00 
 
 " F. Vinton 5 00 
 
 March 17, A Little Help 20 00 
 
 " Claire A. L. Rice, 
 
 Danvers Centre.. 5 00 
 
 r. &C 2 00 
 
 " Benj. B. Howard ... 50 00 
 " Dorr, Parks & Co... 75 00 
 " Citizens of Barnsta- 
 ble, forwarded by 
 tlie Selectmen ... 338 00 
 " Centre Street, Dor- 
 chester 20 00 
 
 J. H. Ward 100 00 
 
 " Walter Aiken, 
 
 Franklin, N.H... 10 00 
 
 N. P. G., a Uttle girl 5 00 
 
 Cash 10 00 
 
 " Osborn Howes 100 00 
 
 Miss M. E. Davis .. 10 00 
 
 " Samuel T. Morse.. 25 00 
 
 Carried up.... $64,965 02 
 
 Brought up. . . .$64,965 02 
 March 17, J. Amory Davis, 
 
 Dorcliester 100 00 
 
 Edward Russell, do 50 00 
 H. I. Nazro, do 25 00 
 
 Setli Pettee, do 10 00 
 
 F. W. G. May, do 10 00 
 
 G. M. Weymouth, do 5 00 
 March 18, Joseph A. White . . 50 00 
 
 P 8 00 
 
 F. N. P 5 00 
 
 " Miss Arabella Rice, 
 Portsmouth, N. 
 
 H 500 00 
 
 " Benjamin Emerson, 
 
 Pittsfield, N. H... 5 00 
 " Ebenezer Collamore, 
 
 Charlestown 50 00 
 
 A. B. Berlin 5 00 
 
 George May 100 00 
 
 Daniels, Kendall & 
 
 Co 100 00 
 
 " From the friends of 
 the sufferers in 
 East Tennessee, 
 
 Eastport, Me 140 00 
 
 R. R. Endicott, 
 
 Beverly 25 00 
 
 Ira E. Gray 20 00 
 
 March 19, Proceeds of a vocal 
 and instrumental 
 concert at Plym- 
 outh 58 00 
 
 Q. H. D.'s 10 00 
 
 " Oliver Prescott, New 
 
 Bedford 50 00 
 
 " Shawmut Sabbath 
 School, by the 
 hands of Wm. T. 
 Shapleigh, Treas- 
 urer 119 77 
 
 " The Physician's 
 third week's sub- 
 scription 10 00 
 
 " S. A 5 00 
 
 J. F 5 00 
 
 P. D. W 5 00 
 
 " B. B 5 00 
 
 J. D. R 5 00 
 
 L. S. C 5 00 
 
 J. A. T 5 00 
 
 " C. T. F 5 00 
 
 R. M 5 00 
 
 L. L 5 00 
 
 S. H 5 00 
 
 " Wm. J. Rotch, New- 
 Bedford 100 00 
 
 " Lyman Tiffany .... 100 00 
 " J. P. Faulkner, 
 
 North Billerica... 25 00 
 
 Carried over 
 
 3,695 79 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 87 
 
 Brought over . . .$66,695 79 
 March 19, John Perley, Salem. 30 00 
 " Mrs. I'ersis K. Park- 
 hurst, Tenipleton, 
 
 Mass 11 00 
 
 March 21, Martha Hooper Lee 50 00 
 " Miss Abis;ail Locke, 
 
 Templeton 25 00 
 
 A friend 20 00 
 
 L. M 10 00 
 
 W. B. R 5 00 
 
 W. C. Tenney, 
 Marlborough, 
 
 Mass 50 00 
 
 " D. Denny Kice, 
 (aged 7 years) 
 
 Koxbury 1 21 
 
 " L. andC. — two little 
 
 boys — $1 50 each 3 00 
 " John Bartlett, Cam- 
 bridge 20 00 
 
 " Citizens of Lexing- 
 ton, — chiefly the 
 product of a col- 
 lection taken in 
 the First Parish 
 Church, — by the 
 hands of L. J. 
 
 Livermore 281 25 
 
 " R. B. Forbes 100 00 
 
 " Proceeds of an ama- 
 teur concert given 
 March 19tli, at 
 Messrs. Chicker- 
 ing's Rooms which 
 were generously 
 offered lor the occa- 
 sion, by the hands 
 of Dr. D. D. Slade 600 00 
 " Collection taken in 
 the First Church 
 in Abington, re- 
 mitted by Rev. F. 
 
 R. Abbe 70 00 
 
 " Collection taken in 
 the Shepard Con- 
 gregational Soci- 
 ety, Cambridge, 
 remitted by S. T. 
 
 Farwell 165 50 
 
 " Additional from the 
 1st Evang. Con- 
 gregational Ch. at 
 Cambridgeport. . . 12 00 
 George H. Kuhn ... 100 00 
 
 S. F. Jenkins 100 00 
 
 A. S. Woodworth . 25 00 
 March 22, Teachers and pupils 
 of the Berkshire 
 Family School, at 
 
 Carried up.... $68,374 75 
 
 Brought up $68,374 75 
 
 Stockbridge, from 
 the Principal, Fer- 
 dinand Hoffman.. 67 50 
 March 22, W. Chadbourne ... 100 00 
 
 " A few Citizens of 
 
 Danvers 178 00 
 
 " AllenGannett, Lynn- 
 field 2 00 
 
 " Proceeds of a dra- 
 matic exhibition 
 and concert given 
 by the young la- 
 dies and gentlemen 
 connected with the 
 Mayflower Divis- 
 ion, No. 33, S. of 
 T. of Province- 
 town, Mass., re- 
 mitted by James 
 
 Gifford 100 00 
 
 E 5 00 
 
 " Several young ladies 67 00 
 Elmer Townsend . . 50 00 
 
 " Collection taken at 
 Trinity Church on 
 Sunday last, (in- 
 cluding a check for 
 $200, from H. W. 
 Sargent, Esq., of 
 the State of New 
 York), by the 
 hands of the Sen- 
 ior Warden of the 
 Church 385 00 
 
 " Shepard Congrega- 
 tional Society of 
 Cambridge, addi- 
 tional 30 00 
 
 "A Graft of the Brok- 
 ers' Board" 50 00 
 
 " Anonymous 5 00 
 
 " Jonathan Bourne, jr. 
 
 New Bedford 100 00 
 
 E.J 20 00 
 
 A little girl 5 00 
 
 " Collection taken in 
 the First Congre- 
 gational Society of 
 Roj'alston, remit- 
 ted by Hon. George 
 Whitney 60 00 
 
 " Citizens of Plym- 
 outh, through An- 
 drew L. Russell, 
 Esq. (this is in ad- 
 dition to the $58 
 received from Ply- 
 mouth on the 19th, 
 making in all $700) 642 00 
 
 Carried over. . . . $70,241 25 
 
88 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Brought over $70,2il 25 
 
 March 22, From the ladies and 
 gentle'n of Brook- 
 line, remitted b}' 
 J. Murray Howe, . 
 Esq 437 00 
 
 " Collections made at 
 the Unitarian, Or- 
 thodox, and Uni- 
 versalist Societies 
 in W. Cambridge, 
 — in addition to 
 $200 from J. Field 
 and $100 from G. 
 H. Gray, previous- 
 ly acknowledged 466 56 
 
 " *George F. Bartlett, 
 New Bedford, six 
 Eng. sovereigns, 
 
 valued at 43 00 
 
 March 23, Baptist Church in 
 Sharon, by the 
 hands of Mr. C. 
 D. Hixon 14 10 
 
 " A lady in Salem ... 50 00 
 
 " Hon. Samuel Hoop- 
 er, Washington . . 200 00 
 
 " The family of C. 
 Lord, Buckland, 
 Mass 6 10 
 
 " C. M. Owen, Stock- 
 bridge 50 00 
 
 " Simeon N. Perry, 
 
 Walpole, N. H. . . . 80 00 
 
 " F. A. Sawyer 50 00 
 
 Carried up $71,588 01 
 
 * Mr Bartlett's donation was accom- 
 panied by the following interesting letter 
 to Mr. Everett: — 
 
 " New Bedfokd, ^farch 21, 1864. 
 " Dear Sin, — In response to Colonel 
 Taylor's touching appeal, in behalf of our 
 suffering loyal brethren in Kast Tennes- 
 see, I cheerfully part with the only 
 thing saved from the wbaleship ' Lafay- 
 ette,' burned bv the Pirate 'Alabama,' 
 April 15th, ISCS', off Fernando de Noron- 
 ha, and enclose the same to you here- 
 with, viz. (6) Six English sovereigns, 
 worth about forty-three dollars. Capt. 
 Lewis was fortunately on shore with tliis 
 gold to purchase stores, when Captain 
 Semmes steamed around the island ,and 
 burned his ship. 1 will regard it as a 
 forced contribution from Capt. Semmes, 
 in the name of the immortal Lafayette, 
 who loved our country and its Father, 
 and I am most happy in being able to 
 make so worthy a bestowal of it. 
 " Yours respectfully, 
 [Signed.] "George F. Bartlett." 
 
 Brought up $71,588 01 
 
 March 23, Two " contrabands " 
 by the hands of 
 B. A. Nutt, Cam- 
 bridge 5 00 
 
 March 24, " A Slice from our 
 
 Daily Bread" 5 00 
 
 " From Berlin and 
 
 Long wood 75 00 
 
 " The Young Ladies 
 Soldiers' Aid So- 
 ciety of Nashua, 
 remitted by Miss 
 Kate M.Thayer.. 50 00 
 
 " Members of the 
 Boston Corn Ex- 
 change 1130 00 
 
 " Geo. F. Hoar, Wor- 
 cester 50 00 
 
 March 25, Benj. Snow, Fitch- « 
 
 burg 50 00 
 
 " A few contributors 
 in Stockbridge, 
 received through 
 Mr. Ferdinand 
 Hoffman 50 00 
 
 " First Congregational 
 Ciiurch and Soci- 
 ety of Calais, Me., 
 by Kev. Mr. S. H. 
 Keeler 100 00 
 
 " Monument Church, 
 South Deerfield, 
 Mass., by Eev. 
 David A. 'strong. 10 00 
 
 " Proceeds of a morn- 
 ing concert in 
 Mt. Vernon Street 260 00 
 
 " Citizens of Barn- 
 stable, — an addi- 
 tional contribu- 
 tion, through tiieir 
 Selectmen 54 50 
 
 " Arthur Wilkinson. . 100 00 
 William Phillips & 
 
 Son, New Bedford 75 00 
 Mrs. Chs. K. Cobb.. 50 00 
 
 " L. C. & E., Charles- 
 town 30 00 
 
 " Collection made in 
 Rev. Dr. James 
 W. Thompson's 
 Church, at Jamai- 
 ca Plain 506 44 
 
 " *Collection made in 
 
 Carried over $74,188 95 
 
 * The donation from Chelsea was ac- 
 companied by the following letter: — 
 " Chelsea, March 25, 1864. 
 " Dear Sir, — We have been very much 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 89 
 
 Brought over $74,188 95 
 
 Clielsea by three 
 
 school-girls 45 00 
 
 March 26, Hon. Joseph Grin- 
 
 nell, New Bedford 100 00 
 
 H. C 5 00 
 
 " First Church in Box- 
 ford, by W. C. 
 
 Kimball 107 25 
 
 Alex. Strong & Co. 100 00 
 Stone & Downer.... 100 00 
 " Marlborough, col- 
 lected by liev. G. 
 
 N. Anthony 304 65 
 
 M. H. G 5 00 
 
 " Anonymous 1 00 
 
 " H. A. A., in Memo- 
 
 riam, NewBedford 10 00 
 The Pli3-sician's 
 fourth week's sub- 
 scription 10 00 
 
 " Proceeds of Second 
 Readings by Mr. 
 Siddons and Miss 
 
 Cameron 75 00 
 
 " H. K. F., Charles- 
 town 25 00 
 
 " R. M. Mason, re- 
 mitted from Paris 200 00 
 " Anonymous, in ad- 
 dition to a former 
 donation of $200.. 100 00 
 
 Carried up ....$75,376 85 
 
 interested in the patriotic people of East 
 Tennessee, and not being able to aid them 
 with money, we thought we perhaps 
 might do so by devoting to them our 
 leisure time, of which we had only our 
 afternoons, as we are school-girls and 
 have many lessons to learn. We have 
 been from house to house in the little 
 town of Chelsea, which is far from rich, 
 with a subscription paper, asking from 
 each person tlie small sum of ten or fifteen 
 cents. Tlie enclosed is the result of our 
 efforts. It might be a comforting thought 
 to the suffering Tennesseeans if they 
 could know how generous and interested 
 even the poorest people have been in 
 their cause. One poor eld woman gave 
 all the money she had (seven cents) with 
 the earnest wish that it was a great deal 
 more, and that it might also do a little 
 
 " Hoping that this mny bring half as 
 much comfort to some hungry Tennes- 
 seean as we have had pleasure in collect- 
 ing it, we are, 
 
 " Very Respectfully, 
 
 " C. L. E. 
 " M. S. E. 
 " H. E. D." 
 
 Brought up $75,376 85 
 
 March 26, Hancock St. Church, 
 Quincy, collected 
 at a Prayer Meet- 
 ing, by Rev. Mr. 
 
 Thwing 26 15 
 
 E. H 20 00 
 
 M. P. Grant 30 00 
 
 A sailor 5 00 
 
 " Old North End 10 00 
 
 » " Proceeds of a little 
 girls' fair near Ply- 
 mouth Rock, re- 
 mitted by B. W. 
 
 Watson 13 00 
 
 " E. P. Tileston, Dor- 
 chester 100 00 
 
 Samuel Downer, do. 50 00 
 
 Joseph Dix, do 25 00 
 
 " Lothrop & Moseley, 
 
 do 20 00 
 
 " William W. Paige, 
 
 do 10 00 
 
 " Daniel B. Stedman 
 
 & Co. do 20 00 
 
 " John Preston, do.. . 10 00 
 Wm. L. Clark, do.. 10 00 
 " William B. Newbu- 
 ry, do 10 00 
 
 Robt. L. Living, do. 5 00 
 " Edward Jarvis, M. 
 
 D., do 5 00 
 
 " Alex. B.Wheeler, do. 6 00 
 " Palmers & Bachel- 
 
 ders, 100 00 
 
 Henry C. Rand, N. 
 
 Cambridge 25 00 
 
 " Collection taken in 
 the Lawrence St. 
 Congregational 
 Ch., Lawrence, re- 
 mitted by C. A. 
 
 Colby 170 00 
 
 " Collection taken in 
 the Central Ch., 
 Lynn, remitted by 
 P. 0. Knapp,.... 132 03 
 " From the ladies and 
 gentlemen of the 
 private theatricals 
 in Chickering's 
 
 Hall 732 00 
 
 March 29, A friend 50 00 
 
 " Collections in Stock- 
 bridge, Massachu- 
 setts, made by R. 
 
 B. Craig Ill 00 
 
 " Anonymous 8 00 
 
 April 1, A Law Student at 
 Cambridge, being 
 
 Carried over $77,079 03 
 
90 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 April 1, 
 
 Brought over. . . $77,079 03 
 
 one halt of all he 
 
 
 has 
 
 2 00 
 
 E. P. H 
 
 10 00 
 
 Dr. Daniel Swan, 
 
 
 Medtbrd, 
 
 100 00 
 
 The Misses Welles.. 
 
 200 00 
 
 Henry Edwards.. . . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Elijah Bardwell, 
 
 
 Hadley 
 
 5 00 
 
 Frederic Clapp 
 
 3 OO. 
 
 S. H. H 
 
 5 00 
 
 Anonymous, Wor- 
 
 
 cester 
 
 3 00 
 
 John Russell, Green- 
 
 
 field 
 
 100 00 
 
 Anonymous 
 
 1 00 
 
 Avon Place, second 
 
 
 donation 
 
 20 00 
 
 r. Peirce & Co 
 
 100 00 
 
 Mrs. Betsey S. Beal, 
 
 
 Kingston 
 
 10 00 
 
 Congregational Ch. 
 
 
 and Soc. at West 
 
 
 Bovlston, by Rev. 
 
 
 J. H. Pitts 
 
 29 00 
 
 Amount given at St. 
 
 
 Paul's Church on 
 
 
 Easter Sunday. . . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Abraham Barker. . . 
 
 50 00 
 
 " Acts 11th chapter. 
 
 
 26tli and 27th 
 
 
 verses " 
 
 20 00 
 
 Collection made in 
 
 
 the Greenville Bap- 
 
 
 tist Church and 
 
 
 Society, by Rev. 
 
 
 N. P. Cooke, 
 
 44 56 
 
 Central Cii., Lynn, 
 
 
 additional 
 
 10 00 
 
 George A. Newell.. 
 
 50 00 
 
 Baptist Society in 
 
 
 Royalston 
 
 25 00 
 
 Francis Chase, Roy- 
 
 
 alston 
 
 1 00 
 
 General John S. Ty- 
 
 
 ler 
 
 50 00 
 
 The Misses Baldwin, 
 
 
 Dorchester 
 
 60 00 
 
 Master CliarlesL. B. 
 
 
 Whitney, prize for 
 
 
 excellence in dec- 
 
 
 lamation, Spring- 
 
 
 field, Mass 
 
 3 00 
 
 William A.Wheeler, 
 
 
 Dorchester 
 
 3 00 
 
 Congregational Ch. 
 
 
 and Soc. at Mat- 
 
 
 tapoisett, Mass. . . 
 
 42 32 
 
 A firiend 
 
 5 00 
 
 
 
 Brought up $78,130 91 
 
 April 1, H. B. Pearson ' 50 00 
 
 " A Boston minister.. 25 00 
 
 " Edward C. Jones, 
 
 New Bedford .... 100 00 
 " "A little more help " 40 00 
 " Tlie following ofii- 
 cers of the cus- 
 toms in Boston, $5 
 each, viz.: — R. C. 
 Nichols, Wm. H. 
 Gorham, N. H. 
 Whitney, C. Jud- 
 son, Jos. O. Cole, 
 M. Eggleston, O. 
 Nichols, P. F. Wil- 
 liston, Henrv Bor- 
 ing, C. C. Wood- 
 man 50 00 
 
 April 2, Collection at a meet- 
 ing in Somerville 14 60 
 A. M. H, "all she 
 
 had " 1 00 
 
 " Arthur Searle 30 00 
 
 " Samuel Johnson, his 
 second contribu- 
 tion 100 00 
 
 A. S., Salem 20 00 
 
 " To fulfil the inten- 
 
 tions of one lately 
 deceased, Salem . . 10 00 
 " From D. H. Rogan, 
 
 Greenfield, Mass., 
 being the contri- 
 bution of an Kast 
 Tennessee Refu- 
 gee, and a few of 
 
 his friends 12 00 
 
 H 5 00 
 
 " D. R. Greene, New 
 
 Bedford 100 00 
 
 S. R. M 50 00 
 
 " Pupils in the Adams 
 School at Dorches- 
 ter 50 00 
 
 Carried up $78,130 91 
 
 April 4, 
 
 1 00 
 
 10 00 
 2 00 
 
 " Unknown " 
 
 "A friend," with a 
 poetical dedication 
 
 Mrs. R. P., of Salem 
 
 ThePhysician's fifth 
 week's subscrip- 
 tion 10 00 
 
 1st Trinitarian Con- 
 gregational Ch. at 
 Maiden 35 00 
 
 S 50 00 
 
 A. A. T 30 00 
 
 The officers of the 
 20th Regiment of 
 Mass. Volunteers, 
 
 Carried over.... 178,926 51 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 91 
 
 Brought over. . . .$78,926 51 
 by tlie hands of 
 Col. Francis W. 
 
 Palfrey 125 00 
 
 April 4, A Massachusetts 
 
 family, now abroad 300 00 
 John B. Tait, Dor- 
 chester 20 00 
 
 Wm. H. Bangs, do. 15 00 
 
 Henry G. Denny,do. 10 00 
 
 " Robert Johnson, do. 10 00 
 
 Charles Hunt, do 10 00 
 
 Thomas J. Allen, do. 10 00 
 A.H.Stevens, do... 10 00 
 
 E. &C.B.Minot,do. 5 00 
 Jno. G. Wood, do.... 2 00 
 
 " Enos How, do 1 00 
 
 April 5, Three little sisters.. 3 00 
 
 " Easter offering in the 
 
 Church of the 
 Disciples, Indiana 
 Place, Boston.... 241 43 
 
 " From Bernardstown, 
 
 Mass., by Alman 
 Newcomb, Esq. ... 90 00 
 
 A friend 30 00 
 
 Mrs.MariaF.Sayles 500 00 
 
 " The Teachers and 
 Scholars of the 
 Unitarian Sabbath 
 School, Glouces- 
 ter, Mass 30 00 
 
 " G. W. Mcssinger, 
 
 Esq., being his sal- 
 ary ibr the year as 
 Treasurer of First 
 Church, Boston.. 50 00 
 
 " Saml. Frothingham, 
 
 second donation . . 100 00 
 
 " A friend in Stock- 
 bridge, additional. 10 00 
 April 6, G. H 10 00 
 
 F. & A 12 00 
 
 " A friend in Newton 
 
 Centre 10 00 
 
 " Second Parish Sab- 
 bath School, Am- 
 herst 20 00 
 
 " Citizens of Auburn, 
 
 Mass 73 25 
 
 " Mrs. McBurney, 
 
 Hoxbury 50 00 
 
 " Collected by four 
 little girls at Fal- 
 mouth 15 45 
 
 April 7, Congregational Par- 
 ish in Southfield... 42 90 
 *His Excellency, J. 
 L. Motley, Jr., 
 
 Carried up. .. .$80,732 54 
 * Jlr. Motley, iu the letter of 22d of 
 
 Brought up $80,732 54 
 
 Minister of the 
 United States at 
 
 Vienna 200 00 
 
 April 7, R., from Providence, 
 
 R.I 100 00 
 
 M. A. R., 3 00 
 
 " No Shirk " 5 00 
 
 Frederick Taber, . . 5 00 
 
 H. J. R 20 00 
 
 " Collection at the 
 Church in Hous- 
 atonic, Mass., by 
 Rev. Josiah Brew- 
 er, Pastor 16 00 
 
 " Collection in the 
 
 Parish of St. An- 
 drews, Hanover, 
 by Rev. Samuel 
 Cutler, Rector ... 46 00 
 " A Party Hack " . . 1 50 
 
 Federalist 10 00 
 
 April 8, A friend in Kings- 
 ton, Mass 20 00 
 
 " Mrs. A., Worcester, 
 
 Mass 6 00 
 
 " Proceeds of a mas- 
 querade in Cam- 
 bridge 150 00 
 
 " F., Portsmouth, N. 
 
 H 20 00 
 
 P.P., Beverly, Mass. 20 00 
 April 9, From a " River 
 
 town" 10 00 
 
 C 10 00 
 
 " Congregational So- 
 ciety of Milford, 
 by Rev. A. A. Ells- 
 worth, Pastor 45 00 
 
 L 150 00 
 
 " Rev. K. M. Hodges, 
 
 Cambridge 100 00 
 
 " Proceeds of an enter- 
 
 tainment given un- 
 earned over . . . .$81,670 04 
 
 March, containing his liberal remittance, 
 writes : — 
 
 " I enclose a check for $200, and I wish 
 that it was in my power to send a much 
 larger sum. When, in after days, the 
 history of this unexampled insurrection 
 against Liberty comes to be written, there 
 will be few episodes more moving or 
 more instructive than the record of those 
 Tennesseeans who have so long sustained 
 the Republic and its principles, amid 
 such trial and at such sacrifices. Cer- 
 tainly it is no charity on our part to assist 
 them, but a sacred duty, which I am 
 sure that all will fulfil in proportion to 
 their means."' 
 
92 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Brought over $81,670 04 
 
 der tlie auspices of 
 the Teachers' As- 
 sociation in Music 
 Hall, on the 24th 
 
 March 135 GO 
 
 April 9, Proceeds of a Juve- 
 nile Concert at 
 Williams Hall.... 12 00 
 "Roxbury " 2 00 
 
 " " Impecuniosus," 
 
 Baltimore 5 00 
 
 " Hon. Icliabod Good- 
 win of Portsmouth, 
 from the estate of 
 the late Mrs. Char- 
 lotte Kice of that 
 city, and in pre- 
 sumed accordance 
 with what would 
 liave been her 
 wishes 500 00 
 
 " Teachers and Pupils 
 
 of tlie Unitarian 
 Sunday School at 
 
 Exeter, N. H 66 00 
 
 April 11, Joseph Lovejoy 25 00 
 
 " C. P. Emmons, 
 
 Needham 25 00 
 
 " A class in the Chest- 
 nut-street Congre- 
 gational Sabbath 
 School at Chel- 
 sea 25 00 
 
 " W., Charlestown... 1 00 
 
 " Proceeils of a fair 
 got up for the chil- 
 dren in East Ten- 
 nessee by eight 
 little girls at Ply- 
 mouth, VIZ. : — An- 
 na Y. Stoddard, 
 Mary Hodge, Liz- 
 zie C. Faulkner, 
 Abby W. Davis, 
 Joanna W. Davis, 
 NellieClark,Laura 
 y. Loring, Edith 
 A. Andrews 80 00 
 
 " Susan D. Rogers. .. 25 00 
 April 12, G. A. Bethune 50 00 
 
 " Somerset Street 10 00 
 
 " " Mariner," Newbu- 
 
 ryport 5 00 
 
 " Missionary Ch. in 
 Lanesville, Glou- 
 cester, Mass., by 
 Rev. Thomas Mo- 
 rong 20 00 
 
 Carried up $82,656 04 
 
 April 
 April 
 
 April 
 
 Brought up $82,656 04 
 
 12, Mrs. Henry Cutter, 
 
 Winchester 10 00 
 
 13, Anonymous, Yar- 
 mouth 10 00 
 
 Miss S. B. Morton, 
 Milton Hill 50 00 
 
 Mrs. N. F. Safford, 
 Milton Hill 25 00 
 
 Hon. Samuel H. 
 Dale, Mayor of 
 Bangor 25 00 
 
 Friends of East Ten- 
 essee in Nantucket 80 GO 
 
 A Collection on Fast 
 Day at a Union 
 meeting of the 
 liaptist and Ortho- 
 dox churches in 
 Littleton 32 06 
 
 Isaac H. Gitford, 
 
 North Dartmouth 50 00 
 
 Lawrence St. Con- 
 gregational Ch., 
 Lawrence, addi- 
 tional 2 00 
 
 A friend, in Chelsea 100 GO 
 
 Proceeds of two am- 
 ateur concerts at 
 Salem, given on 
 the 4th and 11th 
 instant, under the 
 auspices of Mr. 
 Manuel FenoUosa 650 00 
 14, " From one who 
 keeps his money 
 as long as his con- 
 science will let 
 him " 5 00 
 
 L. and C, two little 
 boys. Proceeds 
 of their fair in 
 Hancock Street... 5 10 
 
 Bessie L 2 GO 
 
 Pupils and teacher 
 of the Eliot Sab- 
 bath School, New- 
 ton, Mass 132 GO 
 
 ^Collection made in 
 the Sunday School 
 of the EliotChurch, 
 Newton, Mass., re- 
 
 Carried over 
 
 33,784 20 
 
 * Mr. Bacon, in transmitting the hand- 
 some donation of the Eliot Sunday School 
 writes, "'We were stimulated to make 
 our collection as large as possible by the 
 liberal offer of our Sabbath School teach- 
 er to double whatever sum might be con- 
 tributed by the school. The result was a 
 contribution of $132." 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 93 
 
 Brought over. . . .$83,784 20 
 raitted, with the 
 prccedinu;, by Mr. 
 George W. Bacon 127 50 
 
 April 14, " Alpine " 10 00 
 
 " Ladies' Aid Society, 
 
 South Danvers... 50 00 
 
 South Church, do. 52 33 
 
 " Baptist do. do. 5 55 
 
 Methodist do. do. 20 00 
 
 " Unitarian do. do. 27 10 
 
 April 15, Anonymous 10 00 
 
 W., Northampton.. 20 00 
 
 C 5 00 
 
 S 5 00 
 
 " Second Cong. Soc. 
 in Nantuclvet, by 
 Kev. J. K. Karcher 88 03 
 " Mass. Char. Fire So- 
 ciety 800 00 
 
 Anonymous 20 00 
 
 C. S 5 00 
 
 " S. H. Bourne, Ken- 
 
 nebunk 5 00 
 
 Cora 25 00 
 
 April 16, Mrs. Mary Morton, 
 
 Milton Hill 50 00 
 
 Mrs. M. H. M. 
 
 Thompson 25 00 
 
 " C. F. W 5 00 
 
 Blodget& White... 100 00 
 " Thomas W. May- 
 
 hew, Westport 
 
 Point 10 00 
 
 " Proceeds of tab- 
 
 leaux at Jamaica 
 Plains, by the 
 hands of Miss 
 
 Horton 334 75 
 
 April 18, A dressmaker 5 00 
 
 T. C 10 00 
 
 " J., being net amount 
 
 of three days' work 10 00 
 " S. Blackinton, North 
 
 Adams 100 00 
 
 S. Johnson, do 50 00 
 
 S. W. Bray ton, do. 50 00 
 " Mrs. Mary B. Park- 
 man 5 00 
 
 " M., second donation 100 00 
 
 " Chiefly raised by con- 
 
 tributions in the 
 several churciies 
 of Milbury, re- 
 mitted by D. At- 
 
 wood 150 00 
 
 " Turner Sargent, in 
 addition to a form- 
 er donation of the 
 same amount 100 00 
 
 Carried up $85,664 46 
 
 Brought up.. $85,664 46 
 April 18, Harry and Charlie.. 5 00 
 
 " The officers and 
 crew of the Unit- 
 ed States ship Rat- 
 tler, enclosed in 
 a letter from Dr. 
 Scollay Parker, A. 
 A. Surgeon, dated 
 oft' Hurricane Isl- 
 and, Mississippi 
 Kiver, 25tli March, 
 1864 127 00 
 
 " T. Jefferson Cool- 
 
 idge 200 00 
 
 April 19, A Farmer of North 
 
 Perrv, Me 5 00 
 
 C. D. Kellogg 20 00 
 
 M. H., Rollinsford, 
 N. H 25 00 
 
 " Citizens of Tyngs- 
 
 borough 23 00 
 
 " Collection made by 
 
 three little girls 
 in Concord, Mass. 50 00 
 
 " Citizens of Dennis, 
 being the proceeds 
 of an exhibition 
 held there 37 00 
 
 " Anonymous 5 00 
 
 " Mrs. Henry Grew, a 
 
 second donation of 
 the same amount. 100 00 
 
 " Collection in the 
 church of the Rev. 
 Dr. Hill in Wor- 
 cester, in addition 
 to the very liberal 
 contributions of 
 individuals of the 
 Society heretofore 
 announced 222 00 
 
 " M., East Cambridge 10 00 
 April 20, First Congregation- 
 al Church in New 
 Marlboro', from 
 Rev. C. C. Painter 40 00 
 X. Y. Z 1 00 
 
 " Universalist Church 
 
 in Shirley Village, 
 by Rev. C. B. 
 
 Lombard 41 00 
 
 *Anonymous 500 00 
 
 Carried over ..$87,075 46 
 
 * This munificent donation was enclos- 
 ed in a note in which the writer says: — 
 
 ":I have stood in the fight mnny a day 
 by tlie side of those E:ist Tennesseeans, 
 but I see there are yet other ways of do- 
 ing-, one's duty towards them; so I add 
 my contribution to their aid." 
 
94 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Brought over $87,075 46 
 
 April 21, Elias Keith, Rowe, 
 
 Mass 6 00 
 
 " S. P. Brown, Dover, 
 
 Me 100 00 
 
 " A few Citizens of 
 York, Me., remit- 
 ted bv Mr. George 
 Moody 45 00 
 
 " Proceeds of a little 
 girls' fair in Dor- 
 chester last week : 
 Fanny Downes, 
 Anna Morse, Ber- 
 tha Newbury, Liz- 
 zie Peirce, Lila 
 Howard, and Em- 
 ma Nazro, Com- 
 mittee 200 45 
 
 April 22, "A Vermont Soldier 
 
 on the Potomac ". 1 15 
 
 " A family on Dana 
 
 Hill, Cambridge.. 15 00 
 
 " E. P. N., Ports- 
 mouth, N. H 25 00 
 
 " Proceeds of a young 
 
 ladies' fair, held at 
 No. 21 Boylston 
 
 Place 1000 00 
 
 April 23, Citizens of Ipswich.. 385 00 
 Benjamui F. Clarke, 
 
 Winchendon 5 00 
 
 " A few ladies in Bel- 
 
 mont, — collected 
 by Miss Mack .... 57 00 
 
 " Collection taken in 
 Kev. Joshua Coit's 
 Church at Brook- 
 field, Mass 30 00 
 
 " An American gen- 
 
 tleman in Italy. .. 200 00 
 
 " Aaron Roberts, Do- 
 ver, N. H 10 00 
 
 W. J. H 2 00 
 
 " A few individuals 
 in Nortii Parish, 
 Portsmouth 150 00 
 
 " " Dickens Dramatic 
 
 Club," Cambridge 103 00 
 April 24, From a friend, by 
 
 J. J. M 50 00 
 
 " First Baptist Church 
 in Dorchester, by 
 Kev. Mr. Barrows 17 50 
 C. & J. A 10 00 
 
 " "In Menioriam," F. 
 
 C. L. and F. S. M. 40 00 
 F. A. E..... 30 00 
 
 " Members of the M. 
 
 E. Church in Dor- 
 
 Carried up $89,557 56 
 
 Brought up $89,557 56 
 
 cliester, by Rev. 
 
 C.S.Rogers 35 00 
 
 April 24, Collection in the 
 Congregational 
 Cliurcli at South 
 Reading 72 18 
 
 " Social gathering at do. 46 00 
 Collection in the 
 Unitarian Church 
 in Nortli Chelsea, 
 Rev. W. 0. xMose- 
 ley, Pastor 34 00 
 
 " Collection at the 
 
 Crombie Street 
 Church and Soci- 
 ety at Salem, by 
 Henry J. Pratt... 73 47 
 
 " Penny contributions 
 of the JMt. Vernon 
 Sabbath School for 
 one montli, by 
 Warren L. Tower, 
 Treasurer 25 00 
 
 " Lafayette Burr, — 
 
 formerly a resi- 
 dent at the South 50 00 
 
 " Miss Wales, — in 
 addition to a pre- 
 vious contribution 
 of S300, before re- 
 ported 200 00 
 
 April 2G, Collection taken at 
 the Church of the 
 Unity at Worces- 
 ter, Rev. Mr. Ship- 
 pen, Pastor, 158 00 
 
 " Collection taken at 
 
 the Congregation- 
 al Church at Wen- 
 ham, Rev. J. S. 
 Sewall, Pastor. . . 29 00 
 
 " Unitarian Sunday 
 School at Quincy, 
 L. P. Forbush, 
 Superintendent... 252 10 
 April 27, Chas. K. Cobb, in 
 addition to two for- 
 mer donations of 
 same amount 50 00 
 
 " Collected in New 
 
 Bedford,by Master 
 Willie Howland, 
 who was prevent- 
 ed from getting 
 more b}' illness.. 3 50 
 
 " Collection at the 
 Dorchester Village 
 Church, Rev. Mr. 
 Rich, Pastor 53 25 
 
 Carried over... $90,639 01 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 95 
 
 Brought over. . . .$90,639 01 
 April 27, Collection at the 
 Church of the 
 Tliird Religious 
 Society of Dor- 
 chester, Rev. I. 
 J. Mumford, Pas- 
 tor 100 00 
 
 " * Collection taken at 
 the First Church, 
 Dorchester, Rev. 
 Mr. Hall, Pastor.. 272 50 
 " Collection at the 
 First Independent 
 Methodist Church, 
 Dorchester, Rev. 
 Mr. Pettee, Pastor 13 35 
 " Cyrus Brewer, Dor- 
 chester 10 00 
 
 " Miss M. H. Hooper, 
 
 Dorchester 5 00 
 
 J. H. B. Lang, Dor- 
 chester 20 00 
 
 " " A friend " by J. 
 
 J. M., Dorchester 20 00 
 
 " C. P. Lewis, do. 15 00 
 
 Wm. Hendrv, do: 10 00 
 
 D. C. Holden, do. 5 00 
 
 G. T. Stoddard, do. 2 00 
 
 April 28, Anonymous, from 
 
 Worcester 2 00 
 
 " Profit on 700 shares 
 
 Sutton Copper Co. 10 00 
 
 Carried up $91,123 86 
 
 * Tiie contributions from Dorchester 
 were transmitted in the following noble 
 letter from the Selectmen : — 
 
 DoKCHESTER, April 27, 1864. 
 
 " Dear Sir, — The Committee appoint- 
 ed by the Selectmen of Dorchester, in ac- 
 cordance with your published i^ug^estions, 
 to obtain in that town contributions for 
 the aid of the loyid sufferers in East Ten- 
 nessee, feel that in clo-iing their duties 
 they ought to report briefly to yourself. 
 
 " They have made personal application 
 to a large number in the town best able 
 to give such charities, many of whom 
 have given with characteristic liberality; 
 and tliey have caused contributions to be 
 taken up in several of the churches. The 
 amount thus given by the citizens of Dor- 
 chester, either through this Committee or 
 otherwise, they find to be about three 
 thousand dollars. And while they would 
 gladly have made this amount larger, 
 they still feel that, if other towns would 
 give in like proportion, an amount will be 
 reached much larger than that originally 
 asked from the State. 
 
 " Very respectfully, 
 
 " For the Committee, 
 [Signed] " Samuel Athekton, Treas." 
 
 Brought up $91,123 86 
 
 April 28, Edward Holbrook. . 20 00 
 
 Myrtle Street 5 00 
 
 " * John W. Peirce, 
 
 jr., Tremont, Me.. 25 00 
 
 Miss C. R. V 2 00 
 
 " Collection in the 
 
 North Congrega- 
 tional Church and 
 Society at Haver- 
 hill, remitted hy 
 Mr. Samuel White 162 75 
 April 29, Jas. L. Mills & Son. 25 00 
 
 Mrs. C. R. V 2 00 
 
 " Collection in North 
 Congregational 
 Church in Haver- 
 hill 162 50 
 
 April 30, E. A. H., Roxbury. . 15 00 
 " Anonymous, in ad- 
 
 dition to a larger 
 
 donation 2 50 
 
 " Collection by the 
 
 youngest class at 
 M'Ue de Bonne- 
 ville's school for 
 young ladies, 54 
 Chestnut Street.. 25 00 
 
 May 2, A. B 4 00 
 
 " Anonymous, a third 
 
 c(mtribution 30 00 
 
 " A contribution from 
 
 Carried over $91,604 61 
 
 * The contribution of Master Peirce, a 
 lad of twelve, was remitted in the fol- 
 lowing letter : — 
 
 " S. W. Harbor, Tremont, Me., 
 April 5, 1864. 
 "Dear Sir, — Enclosed please find 
 twenty-five dollars, which 1 have collect- 
 ed for the suffering East Tennesseeans. 
 I had read and heard so mUch of the suf- 
 ferings of these loyal people, that I wish- 
 .ed very much to do something for them. 
 1 said to my mother I will give them my 
 dollar, all my vioney. She said that will 
 do very little good alone, but I might go 
 round and ask my young friends to give 
 for this noble cause. I was pleased to do 
 so, and have collected this sum. I found 
 both old and young ready to give me 
 something ; very few refused. In 07ie 
 family I got almost five dollars. I know 
 this is a small sum compared with the 
 thousands you are receiving, but if some 
 little boy in each town in this State would 
 go round among his friends, the sums 
 thus collected all put together would 
 make thousands of dollars, and oh! how 
 much suffering would be relieved. 
 
 " KespectfuUv vours, 
 [Signed] " Jko. "W. Peirce, Jr." 
 
96 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Brought over. . . .$91,604 61 
 the citizens of 
 West Ainesbury, 
 transmitted by W. 
 J. IJoardman, I). 
 M.Tukesbury. and 
 W. F. M. Hun- 
 tington, Selectmen 
 of Amesbury .... 161 00 
 May 5, Trom the Central 
 Church, Lynn, ad- 
 ditional contribu- 
 tion, from P. C. 
 Knapp , . . 32 14 
 
 " First Church in Rox- 
 
 bury,Rev. Dr. Put- 
 nam, remitted by 
 Mr. S. C. Thwing 933 00 
 
 North End 1 00 
 
 A Union Boy 2 00 
 
 " The proceeds of a 
 little girls' fair 
 in West Cedar St. 
 by Misses Maria 
 Decatur, Grace 
 Kellogg, and Susie 
 Spring 50 65 
 
 " A part of the " Pen- 
 ny Contribution " 
 of tlie Mather Sab- 
 bath School of Ja- 
 maica Plain, Ibr- 
 warded by the Su- 
 perintendent, in ac- 
 cordance with the 
 unanimous wish 
 of the members of 
 the school 10 00 
 
 " Anonymous 25 00 
 
 May 6, * Lydia S. Gale, a 
 second donation 
 
 of 100 00 
 
 May 7, Parlor juggling by 
 Ellison & Cool- 
 idge 2 25 
 
 " * A second contribu- 
 tion of fifty dol- 
 lars from "A Graft 
 of the Brokers' 
 Board." 50 00 
 
 Carried up ...$92,971 65 
 
 * The generous donation of Jliss Lydia 
 S. Gale was transmitted in the following 
 letter : — 
 
 Boston, 6th May, 18G4. 
 
 ii Sir — Being very desirous that the 
 subscription for East Tennessee should 
 amount to one hundred thou-and dollars, 
 I again enclose one hundred dollars to- 
 ward the much wisheJ-for consumma- 
 tion." 
 
 Brought up $92,971 65 
 
 May 7, The North Baptist 
 Society in Dor- 
 chester, by the 
 hand of the Pastor, 
 Rev. Mr. Crane.. 15 00 
 
 " Messrs. Nickerson & 
 
 Co 100 00 
 
 May 10, Congregational Ch. 
 and Society of 
 Buckland, for- 
 warded by C. 
 Lord 32 10 
 
 " Congregational So- 
 
 ciety at Acton, 
 Rev. Geo. W. 
 Coleman, Pastor. 7 00 
 
 " Anon\'mous contri- 
 bution at St. Paul's 
 Church on Sun- 
 day last 100 00 
 
 " Balance of a sum 
 contributed by 
 three individuals 
 to defray expenses 
 on a case of caps, 
 vests, &c., pre- 
 pared by ladies of 
 Beverly, and sent 
 by Miss Hannah 
 C. Adams 6 75 
 
 « " Treasurer," — Bal- 
 
 ance of a fund orig- 
 inally contributed 
 for war purposes. 38 22 
 
 " t Miss Anne Wig- 
 
 glesworth, a sec- 
 ond donation of. . . 100 00 
 
 Carried over... $93,370 72 
 
 * The contributor who signs himself 
 " A Graft of the Broker's Board," writes: 
 
 " 1 feel that JIassachusetts and the 
 whole country are doing too little for 
 those noble and suffering Patriots of East 
 Tennessee. It makes one's blood run 
 cold to hear of what they have to endure. 
 Captain \V. W. Dean's published letter is 
 sufficient to urge us on to give more re- 
 lief. Herewith enclosed is another fifty 
 from " A Graft of the Broker's Board." 
 
 t Miss Wigglesworth's second donation 
 was enclosed in the fohowing note: — 
 
 " Will I\Ir. Everett be kind enough to 
 accept the enclosed, that it may lend its 
 little aid in filling the vacuum which ex- 
 ists between the present receipts and the 
 hundred thousand dollars, which we must 
 send from An\s«achusetts. 
 
 " I have not waited till this last moment 
 before sending my mite, as my first was 
 sent in February. But I cannot sit still 
 and merely wish that our contributions 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 97 
 
 Brouo:ht over. . . .$93,370 72 
 May 10, Miss Mary Wiggles- 
 worth 100 00 
 
 May 11, Mr. Emmanuel, an 
 attache of the Con- 
 sul-General's oflSce 
 at Constantinople.. 20 00 
 " Mrs. Albert W. Paine, 
 
 Bangor, Me 10 00 
 
 E. D. Everett 20 00 
 
 " A lady in Dedham, 
 
 " her mite," 50 00 
 
 " George Eliot Eich- 
 
 ardson 1 00 
 
 " Four Cambridge boys 2 00 
 " A " Boston boy," (one 
 of the first contri- 
 butors to this fund) 
 
 third donation 10 00 
 
 May 12, The earnings of a lit- 
 tle boy 1 00 
 
 " Citizens of Dana, 
 Mass., remitted by 
 N. L. Johnson, 
 chairman of the 
 
 Selectmen 48 65 
 
 " Messrs. Faxon, Elms 
 
 & Co 50 00 
 
 Mrs. Peter C. Brooks 200 00 
 May 13, * J. S. W., one hun- 
 dred dollars in gold 170 00 
 " t "Dorchester, 1791," 
 Newton, a second 
 
 donation of 200 00 
 
 May 14, Proceeds of an exhi- 
 bition of tableaux, 
 by four boys ; Allen 
 R. Tilden, Vincent 
 Y. Bowditch, J. O. 
 
 Carried up.... $94,253 37 
 
 should reach the sum of one hundred 
 thousand. I must make mj' wish — and 
 hope that others will do the same — as- 
 sume a practical form. 
 
 " Very respectfully yours, 
 
 " A. WlGGLESWOKTH. 
 
 " 1 Park Street, May 9, 1864." 
 * J. S. W. writes: — "1 enclose you 
 my contribution for the sufferers in East 
 Tennessee. I had hoped, belbie this, to 
 congratulate you on a completion of the 
 $100,000. . .' . . By your letter of j-es- 
 terday from Dr. Humes, it appears that 
 great destitution still prevails. It is to be 
 hoped that the sum desired from Massa- 
 chusetts will soon be made up." 
 
 t "Dorchester, 1791," writes from New- 
 ton as follows: — " The touching evidences 
 we have had of the extreme destitution 
 and suffering of our friends in East Ten- 
 nessee would seem to demand a division 
 of even the 'crust.' " 
 
 9 
 
 Brought up $94,253 37 
 
 S. Huntington and 
 Arthur J. Putnam. 14 30 
 
 May 14, Edwin Howland 100 00 
 
 " Collection taken in 
 the Church of Rev. 
 Samuel Brooks at 
 South Framingham 39 50 
 
 J. Kuhn 25 00 
 
 " Anonymous 2 00 
 
 B. H 1 00 
 
 M 3 00 
 
 " A little boy in Wo- 
 
 burn 1 20 
 
 " Henry Lyon, M. D., 
 
 Charlestown 50 00 
 
 " t Anonymous, for- 
 merly a resident in 
 
 Knoxville 50 00 
 
 May 16, Col. Samuel Swett, 
 a second contribu- 
 tion 30 00 
 
 " A young lady in 
 
 Summer Street 10 00 
 
 " Anonymous 10 00 
 
 " A lady in -Kingston, 
 
 Mass 10 00 
 
 " Thos. Wigglesworth, 
 — a second dona- 
 tion of. 100 00 
 
 May 17, From a member of 
 
 the Legislature 25 00 
 
 " Mrs. A. L. Wales, a 
 
 second donation of. 50 00 
 May 18, Amos P. Tapley, 
 
 Lynn 100 00 
 
 " Miss Eliza Whitwell, 
 
 Dorchester 100 00 
 
 " I. G. R 50 00 
 
 May 19, What the young En- 
 
 » sign left for the 
 
 loyal Tennesseeans 
 
 when he went to 
 
 serve his country, 
 
 byH. S. W 5 00 
 
 " Isaiah Chase, West 
 
 Harwich 5 00 
 
 May 21, A young lady 40 00 
 
 " Quincy Sun. School, 
 
 additional 2 00 
 
 May 23, Anonymous 5 00 
 
 " Rev. Alex. Proudfit, 
 Chaplain U. S. A., 
 
 Carried over $95,031 37 
 
 * The contributor who formerly resid- 
 ed in Knoxville writes: — " Fifty dollars 
 from one wlio, in days of yore, was a short 
 sojourner about Knoxville, and whose 
 then estimate of East Tennesscans has 
 been borne out and tested." 
 
98 
 
 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 Brought over. . . $95,081 37 
 
 
 Brought up ... . $97,726 83 
 
 Portsm'th Grove, 
 
 
 
 the Pastor, Rev. 
 
 
 R. I 
 
 15 00 
 
 
 Mr. Noble 
 
 18 00 
 
 May 23, Sam'l Rodman, New 
 
 
 May 30 
 
 Anonymous, second 
 
 
 Bedford 
 
 100 00 
 
 
 contribution 
 
 40 00 
 
 " " An Old-Fashioned 
 
 
 ^^ 
 
 Methodist Society at 
 
 
 Man" 
 
 50 00 
 
 
 Maiden Centre, by 
 
 
 May 26, H. Bromfield Pear- 
 
 
 
 Rev. Mr. Barnes, 
 
 
 son, a second dona- 
 
 
 
 the Pastor 
 
 50 50 
 
 tion 
 
 50 00 
 
 <( 
 
 Anonymous gift for 
 
 
 " Anonymous 
 
 2 00 
 
 
 East Tennesscans 
 
 100 00 
 
 " Proceeds of tableaux 
 
 
 May 31 
 
 Addditional from the 
 
 
 by " Ten young la- 
 
 
 
 Methodist Society 
 
 
 dies of Mr. Shack- 
 
 
 
 at Maiden Centre, 
 
 
 ford's School,". . . 
 
 25 00 
 
 
 by Rev. Mr. Barnes 
 
 20 00 
 
 " The Amesbury Mills 
 
 
 " 
 
 Proceeds of a chil- 
 
 
 Congregational So- 
 
 
 
 dren's fair, held 
 
 
 ciety 
 
 37 46 
 
 
 by Georgiana Hay- 
 
 
 May 28, George Wilson, New- 
 
 
 
 ward, Ellen Hay- 
 
 
 Bedford 
 
 10 00 
 
 
 ward and Geo. R. 
 
 
 " William Gray, a sec- 
 
 
 
 R. Rivers, at the 
 
 
 ond donation of. . . 
 
 500 00 
 
 
 house of Dr. Hay- 
 
 
 0. W. Holmes, M.U. 
 
 100 00 
 
 
 ward, Temple 
 
 
 " Net proceeds of a 
 
 
 
 Place 
 
 190 00 
 
 musical entertain- 
 
 
 « 
 
 A mite for the poor 
 
 
 ment at Chicker- 
 
 
 
 suiferors in East 
 
 
 ing's Hall, the use 
 
 
 
 Tennessee, from a 
 
 
 of which was giv- 
 
 
 
 poor female 
 
 5 00 
 
 en by the Messrs. 
 
 
 « 
 
 Octavius Pickering, 
 
 
 C.'s gratuitously 1162 00 
 
 
 a second donation . 
 
 30 00 
 
 W. H. H. Newman 
 
 50 00 
 
 " 
 
 " One of the Com- 
 
 
 G. F. H 
 
 5 00 
 
 
 mittee," (a second 
 
 
 " Edward Warren, M. 
 
 
 
 donation) 
 
 111 00 
 
 D., Newton Lower 
 
 
 June 1, 
 
 Proceeds of a little 
 
 
 Falls, (second don- 
 
 
 
 child's fair in West 
 
 
 ation) 
 
 20 00 
 
 
 Chester Park 
 
 7 00 
 
 " Four school girls at 
 
 
 " 
 
 Mrs. J. Mason War- 
 
 
 New Bedford 
 
 7 00 
 
 
 ren 
 
 100 00 
 
 " Three boys at Wal- 
 
 Mrs. Charles G. Lur- 
 
 
 pole, (Arthur 
 
 
 
 ing, (a second do- 
 
 
 Cram, George B; 
 
 
 
 nation) 
 
 100 00 
 
 Clark, James B. 
 
 
 June 2, 
 
 The proceeds of a 
 
 
 Lewis,) " the prof- 
 
 
 
 gold chain 
 
 20 00 
 
 its of a small store 
 
 
 " 
 
 Evelyn, of Norris- 
 
 
 and picking dan- 
 
 
 
 town, on a visit to 
 
 
 delions " in the 
 
 
 
 Boston 
 
 5 00 
 
 holidays 
 
 5 00 
 
 " 
 
 Collection at a meet- 
 
 
 " Proceeds of a chil- 
 
 
 
 ing of the Univer- 
 
 
 dren's fair, held at 
 
 
 
 salist Society at 
 
 
 the house of Wil- 
 
 
 
 South Danvers. . 
 
 33 00 
 
 liam Gray, Esq., 
 
 
 June 2, 
 
 Friend X., by the 
 
 
 by Ellen Gray, 
 
 
 
 hand of S. E. Sew- 
 
 
 Anna Jackson, and 
 
 
 
 all, Esq., (a second 
 
 
 Georgiana Eaton.. 
 
 500 00 
 
 
 donation) 
 
 100 00 
 
 May 30, One day's pay of a 
 
 
 " 
 
 A lady of Ho.\bury 
 
 1 00 
 
 Navy Yard employe 
 
 3 00 
 
 « 
 
 A member of the 
 
 
 " Anonymous, Dor- 
 
 
 
 State Legislature, 
 
 
 chester 
 
 4 00 
 
 
 who voted against 
 
 
 " Congregational So- 
 
 
 
 the additional com- 
 
 
 ciety at Truro, by 
 
 
 
 pensation, (a sec- 
 
 
 
 726 83 
 
 
 ond donation) .... 
 
 25 00, 
 
 Carried up $97, 
 
 Carried over $98,682 33 
 
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 
 
 99 
 
 Brought over $98,682 33 
 
 J'lne 2, Hon. S. L. Crocker, 
 
 Taunton 100 00 
 
 " Anonymous 131 66 
 
 " 4, Proceeds of a cliil- 
 dren's fair at Dr. 
 Talbot's,31 Mount 
 Vernon Street, on 
 Wednesday last . . 1000 00 
 
 " East Tennessee, 
 
 anonymous 10 00 
 
 " Miss "Martha B. 
 Waite, remitted 
 by Hon. George B. 
 Upton 100 00 
 
 " George W. Wales, a 
 
 second donation . . 100 00 
 Mrs. B. C. C. Par- 
 ker, West Newton 10 00 
 
 The following sums remitted by his 
 Honor Jabez C. Knight, Mayor of 
 Providence, R. I., viz : — 
 
 June 6, Charles Sherry, Jr., 
 
 Bristol, R. 1 100 00 
 
 " Ladies' Relief Asso- 
 
 ciation, 5th Ward, 
 
 Providence 100 00 
 
 " Joseph A. Barker . . 25 00 
 
 S. G. Mason 20 00 
 
 Rev. Dr. Wayland. 25 00 
 " Charles E. Carpen- 
 ter 25 00 
 
 Amos D. Smith.... 100 00 
 
 " Anonymous 10 00 
 
 " Several small sums 
 from Olney Ar- 
 nold, Pawtucket, 
 R. 1 31 00 
 
 " Willy A. Stevens, 
 
 Cambridgeport, 
 " collected from 
 little playfellows 
 and friends ". . . . 10 00 
 
 June 7, From the Congre- 
 gational Church 
 and Society in 
 
 Hollis, N. H 56 50 
 
 H. 0. H 37 98 
 
 June 10, Proceeds of a Con- 
 cert given in the 
 Music Hall on the 
 4th instant, under 
 the auspices of 
 Mrs. Eastburn ... 302 25 
 " P. B., by the hand of 
 
 J.J.May 10 00 
 
 Carried up ....$100,986 72 
 
 Brought up $100,980 72 
 
 June 10, An aged lady wlio 
 withholds her 
 
 name, a twenty 
 dollar gold piece. . 39 00 
 " Proceeds of a collec- 
 
 tion at the Trini- 
 tarian Church at 
 New Bedford, of 
 which Rev. W. 
 Craig is pastor.. . . 150 00 
 
 June 13, Ladies Benevolent 
 Society at North 
 Andover 10 00 
 
 June 20, Miss Ira E. Loring, 
 
 a second donation 100 00 
 " From Misses Mary 
 W.Gannett, Sarah 
 M. Bond, & Grace 
 T. Etheridge, the 
 proceeds of a chil- 
 dren's fair 41 25 
 
 June 22, Proceeds of an em- 
 blematic and dra- 
 matic entertain- 
 ment in Chicker- 
 ing's Hall 116 00 
 
 June 29, Proceeds of a chil- 
 dren's fair, held 
 at the house of 
 Jolin Lowell, Esq., 
 Chestnut Hill, 
 Newton 386 00 
 
 July 7, From S. D., by the 
 hand of Rev. Ed- 
 mund F. Hafter. . 25 00 
 
 July 10, W. W. W., Salem. . 8 00 
 
 July 13, Small balance of one 
 of the children's 
 fairs 5 00 
 
 July 26, First Congregational 
 Church and Soci- 
 ety in Yorke, Me. 21 45 
 
 Aug. 6, Attleboro' ($128 50) 
 and Wrentham 
 ($41 00) by the 
 hands of Mr. H. 
 Rice 169 50 
 
 Ang. 11, Additional from the 
 children's fair, at 
 Dr. Talbot's 4 00 
 
 Aug. 24, D. B. Check, Dan- 
 ville, Kv 6 00 
 
 Sept. 17, Capt. S. D. Trench- 
 
 ard, U. S. N 20 00 
 
 Sept. 21, Miss Jane Bachelor, 
 
 Northbridge Centre 1 00 
 
 Oct. 26, Proceeds of a fair at 
 
 109 Pinkney St. . . 92 16 
 
 Total ,..$102,180 08 
 
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