The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1875-01-23
Christian Charity Exsmplided.


Gle in the Rapidcs Gazette OF last
week which demands some notice
ut our hands in justice to the CON
munity from which we derive our
support. We were disposed at
first to pass over this malignant ii
rade rs we have done other slnrs
and ISLANDERS from that source, IN
contcmptuous silence =; but the ami
mus OF the writer is so apparent
and Ills petty hatred Of all that is
decent shows itself so plainly that
We cannot refrain from telling him
Of it.
We have good reason to know
that but few persons will sec his
mcndacionS effort for to our knowl-
edge f'ro quircs Of printing paper
published his last two issues on
half sheets, making the total for
each week forty eight pnpcrs, but
still this is no excuse for the pub
LEGATION Of ISLANDERS, to call them no
harshcr names, on n whole commu-
nifty noted for its hospitality and
"christian charity"
The burden Of complaint Of this
pit,lul scribblcr whose .jaundiced
vision conjurcs up y mountain Of in
hospitality ont Of II molcl,ill Of un-
intentional neglect, is that the wife
Of one Of the soldiers in camp in the
Court House yard had or Jld under
20 Il certain trial in q tent, at the
time the Annual Conference of the
Methodist Church was being: held
in the Court room up stairs, and
with this for u text he proceeds to
read the Conference in particular
and the community in general a
moral lesson on Christian Charity.
He lashcs himself into fury Of vir-
:aous Indignation and finally winds
up with Il quotation from the Scrip
lures which has as much appiica
ton to he case as common sense
has to do with his own imbccility.
Tho facts arc that the members
Of the Conference knew no moro Of
the matter than We did and had
they known I'LL about it, they were
themselves Strangers here, depend
emit upon the hospitality OF our cit
liens and without the information
as to vacant houses that would have
enabled them to have rendered any
assistance had they known all about
the circumstances and been ever so
ready to have given the necessary
aid. Ola the other hand, Mr. Nosc,
the soldiers, has been here since
October, and has had both the OPP
por!unity and ample time to have
made all tho necessary arrange,
mcnts long in advance of the first
week in January, at which time
there is y demand for houses for
the whole year and Il Discrimination
on the part of landlords to rent
houses for a short time, for the very
obvious reason that by renting for
orc month they might lose the
lease for the o,hcr eleven months.
We know to whom reference is
made as cone of the most promi
ncnt and wealthy members of the
Methodist Church," to whom APP
plication was made "for Il room in
one OF his vacant buildings" and as
we had but Il few days before NOV
cd our office ont Of the same build
ing We arc thoroughly acquainted
with all the facts. The gentleman
referred to, refused to lease us the
whole of the upper story of his
brick building for all of the next
year, much less ''for a few days on
~" because he haze propositions to
rent the whole building ans! he
could not, as matter of course,
lose the rent of the whole to rent
tho upper story at much smaller
price. "Thc ''fr,cnd who intcrccd-
ed" has a very comfortable room
that he might have given up "for
q few days only" at much less risk
of loss than the owner of the build
inc would have incurred by renting