The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-09-27
sLANDEROUg STORIES,

UDdeE Uhe heau1ng More Than Enough
| Money In New Orleans the Washington
Eneat'1g tStar of September 20 states that the
| several associations have more money than
| they need, and further, in italics says that In
many cases this money is put to peyu bad
| USES The writer says he will not speak about
the abuse Of Northern charity.
The Informant Of the Washington Star is O.
gross slanderer. We believe that never, In
any season OF calamity, was the aid sent for
sufferers more honestly, inteIligently and
energetically applied. OF late the Northern
press has been teeming with slanderous and
outrageous statements about this city. and
this one which the Star has given circulation
to Is the most inexcusable and scandalous Of
them all. Who gave the Star it's informa-
tlonf On what sort Of testimony has that
journal ventured to thus outrage and SLAM
der d body Of men who, for nearly three
months. have abandoned their business al
most their homes and without pay or ex-
pectation OF compensation devoted their days
and nights to the care of the sick and dying
A number OF ignorant and malicious crea-
lures In our own midst have industriousy
circulated defamatory reports about the ad-
ministraton Of the relief funds by the How
ard and Peabody Associations; and bad and
unprincipled correspondents have, without
investigation, and for the mere miserable pur-
pose of creating sensation, gobbled them up
and send them North to be circulated through
the press.
And the members of these associations are
not the only persons who have been slam
dered. The ghouls Of the press have made
the prevalence of the fever here an excuse to
attack our government, our politics and our
people. Recently special dispatch was sent
to the Chicago Tribune, charging that the
corruption and incompetency of the State and
city Democratic governments were the cause
OF the epidemic. Another correspondent sent
a lying and brutal dispatch to the St. Louis
paper owned and edited BY
q penitentiary convict, defamatory of Gov.
Nichols, who was charged with utter indif-
ference to the sufferings of his people.
The Chicago Times OF the twenty-third in
slant contains an account Of the manner In
which the dead are buried here which is re-
Voting in the extreme, and in which there is
not word Of truth. In short, not o dav
passes that we do not read in some of our
Northern exchanges the most horrible and in
false stories about the epidemic,
our authorities and our people,
The dirty rascal Kellogg attempted early
IN the action to set afloat for political pur-
poses falsehood about the relations of the
several charitable associations here toward
each other. Kellogg, however, Is now SO
known throughout the Union as
imposter and unmitigated falsi-
Ter that his new venture in lying was easily
Then q ring of Radical negro
politicians, instigated by Tom Anderson d.
Jo, made desperate effort to create the i'm =
preston that the Howards and Peabodys and
he Young Mems Christian Association were
discriminating against the colored people.
t was Immediately shown, however, that
he trouble with the Senagambian phian- !,
hropists and statesmen was that the associa- :
ions entrusted with the distribution of the =
harities OF the country would not permit =
hem to "get their fins in and scatter money :
nd provisions intended for the sick and :
destitute amongst a multitude of black DO
ltlcal vagabonds, whose only disease was ;.
aziness. On this exposure the Senagam- =
ans subsided.
ALI these schemes Of vicious and unprinci-
lied GROWERS having been defeated. wide
pread effort Is now going on to create the inn q
ression that the money sent for tie relief OF d
he sick Is being misapDlied. The Washington "
tar has lent its columns to this dastardly
7ork and the editor of that sheet ought to :
I've his authority for the charge he has cir :,
ulated or hide his head in shame. An editor &
newspaper who gives circulation to such
lie without full and responsible information q
as culpable as the informant. ?
We cannot expect, of course, to check all
1e falsehoods that are being sent abroad a
bout our people; but we advise honest
'urnals abroad to scan narrowly the highly a
ensational reports derogatory to this city =
hlch their correspondents may send them.
o fact or incident Of any consequence rea- r
We to this epidemic has been concealed by
le press of New Orleans. Everything has v
zen printed, and the sensational stories
rinted In the specials from New Orleans, and
hich do not appear in the New Orleans =,
apers are simply faIsehoods.