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398 ILOWEkli AND ITS OPERATIVES.
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societies , and to gather them within the spiritual influence and instruction of the Free Chapel and its Sabbath schoolThe last
. report been this of : — the mission says the work at the chapel on six days has ci
The oJ 0 S . ce has been open every day in summer from 4 to 5 ment p . m the . , , * information in winter , , from and 2 the to hearing 5 o ' clock of ; every for relief tale , of advice want , and emp woe loy- .
afternoon In winter , at work , female in the assistance extensive has clothing been " dep in ar attendance tment , or visiting every the sick , and looking" after children at their homesOn
Wednes-. day afternoons , the sewing" school has been open to any one who for wished this to come , and attended _loy 108 girls . " All services required
mission ( except the pastor ' s ) are gratuitously rendered . factories In the was year stopped 1861-62 for want almost of all the manufacturing raw material . in Thousands the cotton found
themselves out of employment . Many fathers , husbands last sons , _, Lowell and brothers has been were one in the of the army first ; for places , from to the furnish first her call quota to the . ,
It was predicted by our Southern people that when this time should arrive , the starving operatives would rise in mobs and excit
the operatives e a civil war went in to the their _ISTortli homes . Instead in the of country such , a while result , the many State of
enlisted whose granted s . upport a bount The soldiers was y of e from ven allotted partiall 4 to 12 a y dollars part dependent of per their week upon income to one each to who be pers paid had on to tlieir families
the this second way nearly , 100 and , 000 the dollars first year , and of probabl the war y a [ Lowell much receive larger d sum in g the iven corporations in some year cases , , rents as and more were fuel troop reduced furnished s had to gone almost to such from nothing wive the s * and , cit and y . mothers wholly Upon
, of mission of the the soldiers , and the as benevolent needed and destitute the institutions aid . The , have city government quietly met , all the wants city
unemployed . And besides thisthousands of dollars have been raised for the benefit of sick and , disabled soldiers , and busy hands have worked in numerous Aid Societies in
held preparing ( amounting by the comforts , ladies after pay for for ing three both the days sick expenses and in February well , to in 4 , the 884 last army dollars , and . the , A ) tendered fair recei was pts
to the Sanitary Commission of the army . And indeedLowellfor its generous contributions to the soldiershas been , termed , the " banner town " of New Englanda section , of the Union that has
poured out money and blood liberall , y in the great war . The dreaded time for Lowell has come , and there are no unusual
have indications been raised of destitution by white . women Whatever in Slave bread Sta riots tesand have " all taken is quiet place 11
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398 Ilowekli And Its Operatives.
398 _ILOWEkli AND ITS _OPERATIVES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/38/
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