Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-06
GRATEFUL NEW ORLEANS.
Gives Thanks In Terms Of Unmistaka-
BILE Enthusiasm and Sincerity to
the Charitable World.
A Meeting Composed of the Leading and
Influential Citizens of New Or
leans-ResOlutiOn Eloquent
of Gratitude.

New ORLEANS, December 5.-A mass
meeting was held tonight at the Varieties
theater, composed mainly of leading and in
fuential citizens, presided over by General
Fred N. Ogden. After prayer by Rev. DR..
Palmer and an address by Chief Justice
Manning, the following preamble and reso-
lutions 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 plague which closed all her revenues of
trade, drained her resources and utterly dried
up her means of self-help; and
WHEREAS, In her impoverlshment multi
tudes of her sick and suffering citizens. from
lack of food and clothing and medical care,
must have been exposed to the extent of
human misery and have persisted without
remedy had it not been for the aid received
from abroad; and
WHEREAS, 1t is becoming that recipients
of a charity so free and Astounding should
make due acknowledgment of their unalter-
able 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 sympathy show
no parallel to the active benevolence exhibit
ted by all classes of our fellow countrymen
toward the city of New Orleans in her late
clothed, the starving fed, and the sick
and dying minlstered 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 dis
tress had hardly gone up from our terror
stricken community before the agonizing cry
for help was answered across the broad ex-
panse of vast continent. From north and
south aud east aud west the tributary stream
of benevolence 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 freely from
gushing springs of human affection. Never
has any people been before the recipients of
60 grand charity; never can its impressive
lesson OF humanity be forgotten.
Resolved, That i'll this universal testimony
OF our fellow countrymen that we are one
forevermore, In woe as in veal, we recognize
the benignant voice of great people, which
should silence with a stern rebuke the evil
utterances of wicked men, who for ignoble
and selfish ends would arouse once more the
ciamors of sectional discord; and we declare
as our unanimous sentiment with affected
sincerity of grateful hearts that no difference
of political creed can weaken, no evils of de-
signing politicians sever the ties which bind
US by the most sacred and tender memories
in bonds Of national brotherhood, one and
indissoluble.
Resolped, That in heroism and self-sacrl-
fce displayed by physicians and nurses who,
at the cost OF many gallant spirits, faced the
deadly terrors of the pestilence in their mis-
sion of humanity, and in the utter self abnega-
ton of that gallant soldier, the late Lieuten-
ant Benner. of the United States army, we
acknowledge with tears their fate, and with
gratitude their devotion, the surprising love
of whose depth and sincerity they gave this
highest proof, that they LAID down their lives
tor us.
ResOlred, 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 profound thanks are
due and are hereby rendered.
Resolrsd, That to all societies, corpora
tions and companies, communities or indi-
vidual unnamed, who in our great distress
aided US by word or act, the people of New
Orleans with one heart feel gratitude IN,
spoken.