Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-09
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Specially Reported for the Daily Globe
DIR. WENDELL.
Vhat HIS Enemies are Doing to HIM While
He is SnUing Life In. lIensp7tis.

IVhat HIS Enemies are Doing to HIM While
He is Saving Life IN Memphis.
letter was received in this city from DR.. A.
G. Wendell, yesterday, postmarked at Mem
phis, October Sd, in which he draws most
terrible picture of the suffering and destitu-
ton in that stricken city. The doctor says that
the physicians there are doing all that can be
done for the countless sufferers. and hoping
for the coming frost. 1t is expected that by
the middle of the month frosty nights will
commence, and then he will return immedi-
ately to his home in Minneapolis.
1t will be remembered that DR.. Wendell left
this city the fore part of last month, having
first rendered his services to the Howard asso-
citation, which were gratefully accepted by that
body. He proceeded Immediately to Memphis,
paying his own expenses and asking no assist
ance from any one. He had himself passed
through q seige of the disease, and recovered
after having been very close to the door of
death, and went to the South filled with the
disposition to be of service to those who were
suffering from the terrible scourge. At Chicago,
st. Louis, and again on his arrival at Memphis,
he notified friends of his whereabouts and
stated fully what he was doing. After ten
days in Memphis he was chosen secretary of
the Physicians association, and has been night
and day employed IN his work of mercy and
humanity.
1t would seem that the noble, self-sacrifcing
and courageous action of the doctor should
have been guard for his good name and
character, at least during the time he was en-
ployed in his philanthropic work. But it
seems that it has been otherwise. No sooner
is he heard from in Memphis than the rumor is
put ahoat that he has left Minneapolis,
not on an errand of mercy and use
fnllness, but to avoid his creditors, and defraud
those who had trusted him. Immediately his
office furniture and books were seized upon,
and an effort made to sacrifice them under the
hammer OF the auctioneer; though it was well
known that the property left here was more
than sufficient to douOly pay every obligation.
Fortunately, some friends that he had made
during his years residence in this city stepped
forward, and will prevent the sacrifice and
stop all further proceedings until the doctor
has fulfilled his duties at Memphis and return
ed to this city.
Under the circumstances the GLOBE hesitates
to properly characterize the proceedings against
DR.. Wendell. The disposition seems to have
been to destroy public confidence in the char
acter of gentleman whose latest action proves
him to be q man of sterling courage and I'M
bounded humanity. His one act of taking his
life in his hand and going to the heart of the
plague-stricken district, should have been q
sufficient reason for his creditors to wait either
Tor his death or return.
The GLOBE will not ask for a suspension of
public judgment until DR.. Wendell's return
The man who has offered his chance for life
when others have offered merely their money
and sympathy, or nothing, needs no ''suspen-
sion of judgment" His acts bespeak his in
born manhood, and though he may be ruined
in finances, he has yet storehouse filed with
that of value that will last when his con-
temptible enemies are resting in poverty and
obscurity. For inasmuch as we have done it
unto the least of these, My brethren, we have
done it unto Me p