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ITALIAN LADIES' PHILANTHROPIC ASSOCIATIO...
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We Have Received, From Mrs. Salis Swabe,...
minded foreign ladies , viz ., the necessity of improving the moral and material condition of the lower orders of our countrymen .
They say : the political liberty acquired by the greatest portion of the wise Peninsula physicall , does not partake suffice of for its the benefits great and mass attain of the that peop degree le ; they of must education
likewhich alone can y emancipate them . Sufficient food , work and education , these are the ends which benevolent souls aim to obtain for the people .
Woman , with her innate tendency to educate a family , is more fit for such a purpose than man ; she is more delicate in feeling , more generous . There exist already among us societies for mutual aid , societies of the
working classes , and these institutions are much to be praised . J 3 ut do the upper classes mix with the sons of poverty ? Do they go to visit the hut to " become acquainted with its privations and sufferings ? So . These societies
composed mostly of men of worth , but without wealth , carry words of com- , fort and sympathy to the couch of the infirm , to the hovel of the hungry , but often nothing else than words of comfort and sympathy . Let the powerful
of the earth approach the poor ; let them , comfort , educate , assist them . Then will disappear from human society that immense gulf which separates the poor from the rich ; which often makes them enemiesand in many parts
of Europe makes the laboring classes desirous to . subvert , social order , pointing at the destruction of the upper classes as the sole means of mitigating the misery of those below them .
I have that profound faith in the good feeling of Italian women of all classes , that I venture to address them , and to invite them to realize this noble end . In the hundred cities of Italy let there be formed committees of ladies , with
the object of collecting means of every kind in Italy and other parts of the world , to assist the needy and to establish schools for their education . We certainly cannot reach perfection , denied to humanity ; but by
improving the condition of the poor , and ennobling them , we may prove that the title we assume of a free and civilized people is deserved , and that mankind , according to the law of Christ , should have no other members than
brothers and sisters . G . Garibaldi . PHO GRAMME OF THE ITALIAN ULDIES * PHIIANTHEOPIC
ASSOCIATION . General . Garibaldi ' s appeal to the Italian Ladies indicates the aim of our
lower Association classes . , Our "b y supp obj l e y ct ing will the therefore wants of be the the most car neg e for lected the portion welfare of of the the population , alleviating their sufferings , and imbuing them with religious and
patriotic feelings , with respect for the laws , love of labor , cleanliness , and temperance hearts dictate . To and achieve we shall this accept aim we any shall suggestion employ s from all the all means whoin which Italy our or
abroad , wish to , serve our charitable enterprise ; and at once sh , all accept the personal co-operation endeavors of , our we Eng have lish the sisters intention , so rich to form in experience , with the . least Besides possible our
delay Destitute —1 , Orp Ragged han Daug Schools hters ; 2 of , Provident the Italian Societies Liberators ; 3 . , We Institutions wish to for extend the our endeavors over all Italy ; butamong the population of this landthose
who have been most injured by unbridled , despotism are the people of South , - ern Italy . Until therefore we are enabled to extend our labors , we shall concentrate our activity on _Naples and Palermo . There , liberty is new ;
there , the people are most destitute ; there , the exertions called for by General Garibaldi are most ardently needed . boroug We h appeal to form to loc the al ladies comm of ittees Ital , y to and collect request all the them offeri ng every s , as well town of our
fellow-citizens as of foreigners , to transmit them to the Turin committee ,
Italian Ladies' Philanthropic Associatio...
ITALIAN LADIES' PHILANTHROPIC ASSOCIATION . 247
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1861, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121861/page/31/
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