Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-09-10

81 One Oh the newspapers sayS the contributions
from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing.
ton and Boston, amount To the sum Of $40 OOO-that
is TO say, the other cities contributed SOS 900 and
Boston $4,000. This reminds us Of a story we
heard many years ago, OF the celebrated Cobbet.-
This man was very fond Of hunting. but was in
Different shot One day in he autumn, he went out
with Philadel pha lawyer 60 take some sport at
partridge shooting. On their return homewards,
CObbeit met friend who asked hin-what luck!
Goblet replied, we have killed twenty six patridges
that is, | killed one, and Mr.. H. Killed the rest.
NetO Ofleans Courier, Aug. "a.
There are some things so essentially and intrin.
scay mean,as TO excite universal disgust, Is not in.
dignalion, every generous bosom, and, of all the
and contemplate articles, that ever Tell under
our observations the above is one of the meanest.-
The idea Of people, suffering under the terrible
Scoulge which has decimaed the population OF New
Orleans, stretching forth their hands to suppIicale
charity the hour OF their distress, and. at the
same time, making ingdious, illibera aud unjust
comparisons between those who contribute to their
relief, is some,hng could not have conceived Of,
had 1t not been io ced upon our notice.
Whatever else may he charged upon the people Of
Boston, tue want Of Iberay in works of charity,
for any public purpuses not one>o their charac.
AS'ieNiNS' vi RhE iltbudtY give ulOle
according 10 III to their population and means Than
any other city in America. Their own city and The
whole country is full OF the evidenuies Of their mum
hcence. On all all occasions Of public calamity, at
home or abroad, they pour out from lhtr resources
with princely beralily, and it III becomes a New
Orleans editor TO make such remarks as the above
Would the New Orleans D leans Courier provoke
other comparisons han those it has made, This is
not the first nor the second time that Boston has
contributed freely, aid the cities Of the south and
west, 10 the lime Of public calamity still, we trust
that the people Of tina. city will not be provoked,
even by such paragraphs as the above to retort by
inquring when New Orleans, for the first lime,
raised public contribution for the relief of the
suffering in Buston,or even in all New England
But, the injustice Of the above paragraph con-
sis,s, IN a considerable degree in its falsehood.-
The contribution of Boston is more than double
the amount therein stated, while the amount as
signed to the other cities is greatly exaggerated
Cities and towns throughout most of The North
ern States have contributed, and RENTED 10 the
New York Relief Committee, and all these sums
go TO the credit Of New York. Some two or
three Thousand dollars of the Boston contribution
went that way; and, in the same assigned to
New York City was included one thousand dol.
lars,g generously given by farmer in the western
part of the State, who, were he 10 appear in the
streets of New Orleans, would probably be mob.
bed, and might think himself fortunate if he es-
capped with bis life. We allude to Gerrit Smith.
After all, we think the New Orleans editor has
been equalled by the New York Times, for that
paper, knowing all these facts. has copied the
New Orleans article, and, by sending it forth
without comment, virtually endorsed it.