. Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools, giving a brief account of the origin of the late civil war, the rise and progress of the orhpan system . phans of soldiers, as the special wards of theState, had matured. Abandoning his original purpose, he nowrequested the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad to allow thefifty thousand dollars, offered but not accepted, to be paid into thetreasury of the State, for the purpose of creating a fund to be usedin educating and maintaining destitute soldiers orphans. That thecase might have a warmer advocacy than letter-writing would admitof, he twice se
. Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools, giving a brief account of the origin of the late civil war, the rise and progress of the orhpan system . phans of soldiers, as the special wards of theState, had matured. Abandoning his original purpose, he nowrequested the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad to allow thefifty thousand dollars, offered but not accepted, to be paid into thetreasury of the State, for the purpose of creating a fund to be usedin educating and maintaining destitute soldiers orphans. That thecase might have a warmer advocacy than letter-writing would admitof, he twice sent one of his official staff to Philadelphia to personallyurge its adoption. The Company finally consented to permit themoney to be used in accordance with the cherished wishes of theGovernor, reserving the right to pay it in instalments as it might beneeded. The generosity of this concession will be appreciated, whenit is considered that making grants for equipping troops in a timeof danger was but making provision to guard its own extensiveinterests; while giving money to aid helpless children was a mostunselfish and purely beneficent
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