New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-29
JUST TRIBUTE HANDSOMELY REM
DERED.

/ 1t affords rs sincere pleasure to be able to publish
the following Just and beautiful tribute to "New Or
leans and her People, It appeared in the Baton
Rouge Advocate Of the 26th inst, and it IS worthy
The bead and heart Of the writer. While it cannot
fall to be gratifying to those to whom it audes, we
can safely saw and are warranted BY practical expe
renee in saying that it does our resident population
nothing more than simple, sheer Justice. Whatever
/ may be spoken against New Orleans and her people
in other respects we unhesitatingy venture the as.
sertion that there is no city in Christendom where
snch open-handed charity prevails; where such I'M
bounded benevoence rules where such Christian
philanthropy exists; or where the stranger needy,
destitute homeless and sick are cared for with such
fidelity, excellence and solioitude as they are here
during seasons Of the pestience. We may be very
ugly on election days--may fight dues and buy lot.
terry tickets have celebrations on Sundays and theat
rical exhibitions On Sunday nights-may quarrel and
fight promiscuousy among each other-but, let the
plague come, our better traits are brought out in
plain relief ana brethren and sisters, no matter of
what cline, creed 81 kindred, are attended to and
aided with skill, care aud beraIity We now append
theartiele from the Advocate above referred to:
NEW ORLEANS AND HER PE0PLE.-Pe stilence
may rayage, and hlighting woe lay its iron handupon
our peerless Crescent City pale death may be borne
~ every wooing zephyr which inces the INSPIRATION
OF stricken humanity; sorrow may hold her brood,
ing court amid her foWery gardens and vineelad
bomes but these with ali the concomitant horrors
of CHASTITY plague, cannot subdHe or queneh that
light which beams from the gorions CHARITY Of her
most glorious heroic and humane people. BY these
we do not include that migratory hock which only
knows New Orleans when the halo of her winter sea-
son attracts thither the beauty brianCy, refine
ment wealth and commerce OF the continent; but
that class of resident citizens who stand up to face
az,
when the summer plague dashes its deathy missiles
among them cutting down with Temorseless fury the
eminent, the rich, the proud indiscriminately with
the lowy aborer the old and the young of all circum
stances and conditions.
Our metropolis has her rogues her vagabonds and
loaierS she has her supply OF vampires who feed
upon her body and her prosperity sucking the warm
rich blood from the arteries Of her gigantic commerce
while in health and plenty but who desert her when
the day of suffering comes and HE to other Gmes to
watch at q distance her agonies and hear with indf
ference the sobs of her wailing children. New Or
leans we say has her proportion of these and it is
probably we'll that she has their company no more
than i've or SIX months out OF the twelve but then
in contrast to them, she can boast of that godlike
element of population, herown fixed resident citizens
whose highsoned generosity and unbounded phian-
thr0py bring into existence and usefulness in times
OF distress her immortal Howard Association and
those numerous private societies whose selEsacrcing
devotion to the pestent-strcken victims place her
first on the list for benevoence, unsesh deeds
o. charity and true Christianity among the communi
ties Of the world
No better illustration of the truth of what we say
Of the stayathome citizens of New Orleans is needed
than their responses to the late call Of the Towards
for aid to continue their mission of nursing the sick
and alternating tie pressing necessities of the needy
Here ia the list of contributions see the names of
business firms whose summer transactions did not
probably realize houserent there are also little sums
donated by employees Y ffties and twenty fves are
sent through drop letters, the donors remaining
unknown, while numerous Sums find their way into
the humane fund accompanied BY nothing to indicate
the identity of the giye but an initial now and then
bat more frequently not even SO much. No phari-
saea aid should beaccepted to minge with the pure
ugpoluted gold which this boundless generosity
pours into the Howard fund 1t is indeed such
charity that preached by the Savourand practfsed
BY the most illustrious Of his genuine followers.
If such Christianity receive its reward hereafter,
what compensation is being prepared for New
0rleans and her People,