Appeal of the Executive Finance Committee in the city of New York.

Date:
[1861]
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Credit: Appeal of the Executive Finance Committee in the city of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITARY COMMISSION. APPEAL OF THE EXECUTIVE FINANCE COMMITTEE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. To our Fellow-Citizens : The Committee, addressed in the preceding letter from Dr. Bellows, the President of the Sanitary Commission, earnestly entreat your immediate and hearty co-operation in the nohle undertaking it so ably advocates. Never before, in the history of human benevolence, did a gracious Providence vouchsafe an opportunity for doing good on such a scale; to so great a number; in so short a time ; and with comparatively so little money. Of the im- mense array of three hundred thousand men now in arms in our defence,—to be swelled, if necessary, to five hundred thou- sand,—the experienced military and medical members of the Sanitary Commission declare that one-fifth, if not one-fourth, may be saved by proper care, who must otherwise perish. Reducing the results of individual action to a form still more precise, they estimate that every dollar, honestly and judi- ciously expended in sanitary measure, will save at least one soldier's life. Cannot a city like ours, find forty or fifty, or even sixty thousand dollars, to save a like number of the sons, the bro- thers, the friends, the fellow-countrymen now gone to battle for the very purpose of rebuilding its own broken fortunes, of restoring, in fullest measure, its former prosperity \ Fellow-citizens : We cannot afford that any one of our brave defenders shall needlessly perish. All our interests, commer- cial, fiscal, political and moral, are crying aloud for a speedy