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Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
spasmodic; only here and there was there any settled system of doing. The generous enthusiasm for the freedmen pushed the eager home people further still. Unsatisfied with present facilities, they organized new commissions, societies, associations, leagues. The following names of a score of them bear their own interpretation: The Educational Commission of Boston. The Port Royal Relief of Philadelphia. The American Freedmen's Aid Commission. The Freedmen's Aid Commission of Western Pennsylvania and adjacent parts of West Virginia. The Western Freedmen's Aid Commission. The Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission. The National Freedmen's Aid Commission. The National Freedmen's Relief Association of New York. The Emancipation League of Massachusetts. The New England Freedmen's Aid Society. The Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association. The Baltimore Association of Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People. Delaware Freedmen's Association. The Ladi
Porto Rico (search for this): chapter 2.13
herto always contended against by our leading statesmen, even when providing for the Indian Bureau. The Nation, as something to love and cherish and to give forth sympathy and aid to the destitute, began then to be more pronounced than ever before. Our attitude toward the Indians in General Grant's peace policy and in giving them land in severalty; our intervention in Cuba and our subsequent neighborly action toward the people of that island; our national efforts to lift up the people of Porto Rico, and our sending instructors in large numbers to set in motion the work of education in the Philippine Islands: these and other benevolences suggested by this reference make the people of to-day feel that at last we have a Nation which cares for its children. A martinet system always suggests bones and sinews which make up the form of a man without a soul. It was always hard to love a Government which, theoretically, was a mere machine and which could extend no sympathy to people in disa
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
ion of a Commissioner of Freedmen's Affairs. His powers were to be large. All matters pertaining to freedmen, all laws enacted or prospective concerning them, and all rules and regulations for general superintendence and management were committed to him. 2. All officers, military or civil, having to do with freedmen's affairs must report and be governed by him. 3. He was especially instructed to give protection to the freedmen in their rights, and to care for the interests of the United States touching them. 4. He was able to organize departments of freedmen to be placed under assistant commissioners who were to report to him. 5. These assistants were to allow freedmen to occupy, cultivate, and improve abandoned lands; assist them to labor properly compensated; aid them to obtain their wages duly earned, and arbitrate all troublesome controversies except in those localities where existing legal tribunals could receive the cases at issue. 6. The commissioner himself wa
Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 2.13
leases. This sort of legislation, in 1865, was quite new to our Government. It was the exercise of benevolent functions hitherto always contended against by our leading statesmen, even when providing for the Indian Bureau. The Nation, as something to love and cherish and to give forth sympathy and aid to the destitute, began then to be more pronounced than ever before. Our attitude toward the Indians in General Grant's peace policy and in giving them land in severalty; our intervention in Cuba and our subsequent neighborly action toward the people of that island; our national efforts to lift up the people of Porto Rico, and our sending instructors in large numbers to set in motion the work of education in the Philippine Islands: these and other benevolences suggested by this reference make the people of to-day feel that at last we have a Nation which cares for its children. A martinet system always suggests bones and sinews which make up the form of a man without a soul. It was a
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
reedmen's Aid Commission of Western Pennsylvania and adjacent parts of West Virginia. The Western Freedmen's Aid Commission. The Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission. The National Freedmen's Aid Commission. The National Freedmen's Relief Association of New York. The Emancipation League of Massachusetts. The New England Freedmen's Aid Society. The Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association. The Baltimore Association of Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People. Delaware Freedmen's Association. The Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia. Friends' Relief Association. Besides these our large church bodies formed, each within its own community, what they called a Freedmen's Department; so that there existed for many years Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, Catholic, Presbyterian, and Unitarian Freedmen's Departments. The Congregational churches, as well as many individuals from the outside, habitually used the American Missionary Association for their channel
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
a score of them bear their own interpretation: The Educational Commission of Boston. The Port Royal Relief of Philadelphia. The American Freedmen's Aid Commission. The Freedmen's Aid Commission of Western Pennsylvania and adjacent parts of West Virginia. The Western Freedmen's Aid Commission. The Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission. The National Freedmen's Aid Commission. The National Freedmen's Relief Association of New York. The Emancipation League of Massachusetts. The New England Freedmen's Aid Society. The Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association. The Baltimore Association of Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People. Delaware Freedmen's Association. The Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia. Friends' Relief Association. Besides these our large church bodies formed, each within its own community, what they called a Freedmen's Department; so that there existed for many years Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, Catholic, Presbyterian, and Unita
Indianapolis (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
g central, with its main office in London, was fed by numerous other freedmen's aid societies in the United Kingdom. Its contribution to us exceeded $800,000. It is not possible to sum up with any accuracy the generous gifts for the indigent classes found in the South and Middle West prior to the operation of the Freedmen's Bureau Law. It had reached about $1,000,000. A convention of freedmen's associations, with a view to secure concert of action, assembled during the war in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 19, 1864. Their proceedings give a slight indication of how the people felt the responsibility pressing them and how they proposed to meet it. The convention was made up of seven Western associations or branches. There had been overlapping and interfering in their previous operations, and their field agents had had troublesome rivalries and contentions. Again, in some places cooperation with the army officers in command and with Treasury agents sent from Washington under spe
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
ional Freedmen's Aid Commission. The National Freedmen's Relief Association of New York. The Emancipation League of Massachusetts. The New England Freedmen's Aid Society. The Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association. The Baltimore Associatiits weight with that body in securing the final enactment of the Freedmen's Bureau Law. The Emancipation League of Massachusetts, as early as January, 1863, had likewise sent to the Senate an earnest petition, asking for the creation of a Bureau homes by the operations and consequences of the great war. The Honorable Thomas D. Eliot, member of the House from Massachusetts, whom, after personal acquaintance, I learned to love and honor, was early made chairman of committees which had undeed. It was the long, patient, and thorough examination of emancipations like ours in other countries by Mr. Eliot of Massachusetts, and his singular perseverance in bringing his bill, every time improved, again and again before the House, which at
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.13
lave, came to an official in the War Department and said she had been a long time in want of a bureau, and that she understood that there was one there waiting for her. By a few well chosen lines the cartoonist Nast, before his audiences, frequently represented on a blackboard a sizable bureau with the drawers open and little curly-headed colored children jumping out from them. The serious people of the country, however, were rejoiced that the representations of their delegates in their Indiana Convention had at last resulted, through the President and Congress, in providing a benevolent system for those just freed from slavery, and for those, white and colored, who had been driven hither and thither by the operations of the Civil War. The first provision, however, was for only one year after peace. It committed all subjects relating to the classes named to the care of the new Bureau, and it put the responsibility for the operations of the Bureau upon the President himself. The
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2.13
copal, Catholic, Presbyterian, and Unitarian Freedmen's Departments. The Congregational churches, as well as many individuals from the outside, habitually used the American Missionary Association for their channel of freedmen's work. In Great Britain there was in operation for some years the Freedmen's Society of Great Britain and Ireland. This society, being central, with its main office in London, was fed by numerous other freedmen's aid societies in the United Kingdom. Its contributiGreat Britain and Ireland. This society, being central, with its main office in London, was fed by numerous other freedmen's aid societies in the United Kingdom. Its contribution to us exceeded $800,000. It is not possible to sum up with any accuracy the generous gifts for the indigent classes found in the South and Middle West prior to the operation of the Freedmen's Bureau Law. It had reached about $1,000,000. A convention of freedmen's associations, with a view to secure concert of action, assembled during the war in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 19, 1864. Their proceedings give a slight indication of how the people felt the responsibility pressing them and
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