Relief for the People of France

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Excerpt from Relief for the People of France: Report of the Committee Appointed by the Chamber of Commerce of New-York, for the Relief of the Suffering Population of France, May 1872 "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It is twice bless'd, It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." In a recent national emergency, when the misfortunes which afflicted the people of France were awakening the sympathies of every American heart, the sensibilities of the members of the Chamber of Commerce of this city were deeply enlisted. The questions relating to the results or duration of the war which was then raging between two nations, with each of which we had always enjoyed relations of amity and good will, were in no sense involved in the movement which had for its object the relief of distress which had overwhelmed the population of one of them, but it was especially recognised and gratefully remembered, that the feelings of friendship existing between France and the United States had grown up from traditions the most sacred in the history of both countries. It was well considered, therefore, that in ministering to the wants of an impoverished people, our action would affect no question of nationality, while it would promote and elevate the principles of beneficence and humanity. The Chamber of Commerce could scarcely fail to recall the circumstances under which on previous occasions its kindred efforts had been blessed in behalf of other nations suffering from great and sudden calamities. The famine in Ireland, five and twenty years ago, was shorn of a portion of its terrors by the entrance into the waters of that country of a noble barque laden with the means of preserving human life, while at a later day the smitten population of Lancashire, in England, welcomed a like intervention in the advent of the "George Griswold, " freighted from the same considerate source. It is proper in this place to recur, for a moment, to the condition of the opposing forces in the recent war between France and Germany during the mid-summer and autumn of the year 1870. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.