Identifier: lifeofbenjaminfr00holl (find matches)
Title: The life of Benjamin Franklin
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Holley, O. L. (Orville Luther), 1791-1861 Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : G.F. Cooledge & Brother
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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made everything for a particular use,and to that use it should be put; that when he maderum he said, Let this be for the Indians to get drunkwith, and that it must be so. The defence was as valid,perhaps, as any yet urged by the white man to this point. About this time, Dr. Thomas Bond, one of Franklinsintimate friends, proposed the establishment of a hospitalfor the sick poor, whether inhabitants of the province orstrangers; and made an earnest effort to procure sub-scriptions for the purpose. Meeting with little success,however. Dr. Bond came to Franklin to engage him inthe undertaking, telling him that he was the only manwho could insure the accomplishment of the project,inasmuch as almost every person to whom he applied,inquired whether Franklin had been consulted, and whathe thought of the plan. Upon learning Dr. Bondsviews, and being convinced that the proposed institutionwould be useful, Franklin became a subscriber, and co-operated zealously in promoting it. Before making any
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II A HOSPITAL POUNDED. 267 personal application for other subscriptions, however, heresorted to his usual mode of preparing the way for suchapplications, by explaining the plan to the public inprint; and when the people generally had thus been ledto an intelligent consideration of the subject, subscrip-tions were more freely made. But it soon became evident that the aid of the as-sembly would be needed ; and a petition for such aidwas circulated, which Franklin took charge of. Thecountry members were at first averse to the petition,alleging that the benefits of the institution would accrueonly to the inhabitants of the city, and that the funds,therefore, should be wholly supplied by them. Frank-lin, however, obtained leave to introduce a bill, so drawnas to make the proposed grant conditional; that is tosay, if the sum of two thousand pounds should be raisedby private subscription, then a like sum should be drawnfrom the provincial treasury. This condition had a two-fold operation in

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