Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-06
THANKS WE'LL EXPRESSED.
The Citizens of New Orleans Meet to Ex-
tend Their Thanks to Those Who Came to
Their Relief When They Were Distressed
IAN Eloquent and Patriotic Series of

The Citizens of New Orleans Meet to Ex-
| tend Their Thanks to Those Who Came to
Their Relief When They Were Distressed
IAN Eloquent and Patriotic Series of
| Resolutions.
New ORLEANS, Dec. 5.-A mass meeting was
held tonight at the Varieties Theatre, composed
mainly of leading and influential citizens, pre-
sided over by Gen. Fred w. Ogden. After
prayer by Rev. DR.. Palmer and an address by
the chief justice the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted:
| WHEREAS, During the summer just past
New Orleans, in common with many of her
sister cities of the South, has been scourged by
q plague which closed all her avenues of trade,
drained her resources, and utterly dried up her
means of sef-help; and,
WHEREAS, In her impoverishment multitudes
OF her sick and suffering citizens, from lack of
| food, clothing and medical care, must have been
exposed to the extremity of human misery and
| have persisted without remedy had it not been
for aid received from abroad; and,
/ WHEREAS, 1t is becoming that the recipients
of charity free and Astounding should make
due acknowledgment of their unalterable
gratitude to the hearts that felt for and hands
| that saved them in an hour of direst calamity.
| RESOLVED, By the people of New Orleans, in
mass meeting assembled, that the annals of
human suffering and human sym pathy show no
|
all classes from our fellow countrymen towards
the city of New Orleans in the late affection.
Not merely were the naked clothed, the starv-
ing fed and the sick and dying ministered to,
but our darkness was cheered and our sinking
spirits sustained by charity which descended
like some heavenly messenger bringing healing
on Its wings to them that were ready to
perish. The first wall of distress had hardly
gone up from terror-stricken COM
munlty, tefore the agonizing cry for
help was answered ACROSS the broad expanse of
u vast continent. From North and South. and
East and West the tributary streams of benif-
| cence rolled in one unebbing tide of OVERLOOKING
generosity. Into the valley of the shadow of
death in which We walked, it poured its life
giving waters, fresh, gushing springs of human
affection. Never has any people before been
recipients of so grand charity; never can it's
impressive lesson of humanity be forgotten.
| HesolUed, That in this universal testimony of
| our fellow country men that we one forever
more In woe as in veal we recognize the be-
nignant voice of great people which should
silence with stern rebuke the evil utterances
of wicked men who, for ignoble and selfish
| ends, would arouse once more the clamors of
| sectional discord, and we declare as our unan-
imous sentiment, with unaffected sincerity of
grateful hearts, that no difference of political
creed can weaken and no evils of designing
politicians sever the ties of brotherhood, one
and lndissoluble.
Resolyed, That in the keroism and self -sacri-
flee displayed by the physicians and nurses
who, at the cost of many gallant spirits, faced
the deadly terrors of the pestilence in their
mission of humanity, and in the utter self
abnegation Of that gallant soldier. the late
Lieut.. Benner of the United States army, we
acknowledge, with tears for their fate and graf
itude for their devotion, the surprising love
of whose depth and sincerity they gave the
highest proof, that they laid down their lives
| for us.
RESOLVED. That to those friends, in foreign
lands, who SO freely contributed to the relief
of our people, whether of kindred or alien
nationalities, our most fervent thanks are due,
and are hereby rendered.
I RESOLVED, That all societies. corporations and
| companies, and to communities, and to ind;
viduals unnamed, who, in our great distress
aided us by word or act. the people of New
Orleans. as with one heart, feel gratitude un-
speakable.