Name/Title
Clipping, NewspaperEntry/Object ID
2017.9.1R.17Description
Newspaper clippings associated with the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans School. All are glued to an 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper and consist of three articles.
At left is a clipping from the March 21, 1876, edition of the Daily Telegraph, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, expressing concern to the state legislature that the Bridgewater, Bucks County school has a population too small to sustain it, and that the school needs state funding for it to survive. It argues that the closing of the school will have significant adverse impacts to the education of the children then currently housed there. This is the same article glued to the previous page of newspaper clippings.
In the center are is a single article, with the header "A Natural Dilemma," and was published in the March 1 [presumably 1876] Philadelphia Bulletin. It begins with "The Legislature has a practical question before it which it evidently recognizes as a delicate sort of dilemma, as it has not yet determined which horn is the best to take hold of. We refer to the action which it is necessary to take for the future treatment of the colored soldiers' orphans under the charge of the State. There was a considerable number of these colored orphans, who were gathered, after some delay, several years ago, into a school at Bridgewater, in Bucks County. This school, which was, at first, very unfortunate in its management, was subsequently put into very good shape, and has been kept up by the exertions of a few patriotic and philanthropic citizens of Philadelphia, producing excellent results in the training of a large number of orphan boys and girls. These gentlemen collected and contributed twenty thousand dollars, bought the old 'Bristol College' property, fitted it up, collected these waifs of the war and brought them under the care of the State, about four years later than the period when the white soldiers' orphan schools were opened."
The third article, oriented horizontally at the bottom of the page, was published in the March 13, 1876, edition of the Pittsburgh Gazette, and discusses the plight of the Bridgewater school, as noted in the other newspaper clippings included in this collection. It does so by making its arguments through a series of five points. The authors are unknown, but the "we" mentioned at the end of the letter presumably is in reference to the Trustees of the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans School, which included Edward S. Buckley, Benjamin P. Hunt, William Still, James A. Wright, and William W. Justice.Collection
Pamphlet Box Collection