The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-02
MORE PAOKARDIsM.

Some of the friends of Packard are dis
pleased at the comments of this journal on
the extract we printed Monday from letter
written by Mr.. Conrad Kressner, now in Liv-
erpool, to friend in this city, in which the
late Louisiana Fraud was charged with hav-
ing made statements in Liverpool which pre-
vented larger subscriptions for the yellow
fever infected districts In the South. One of
these indignant parties Is Mr.. Woolhey,
who vehemently denounced Mr.. Kressner's
statement, and sent us the following letter
from Packard to disprove it. Here is Pack
ards epistle to Mr.. WoolHey: ..
u.. LIVERPOOL, September &c, 1878.
Dear WoOlfey-I intended in my last to in
quire as to the demands for relief existing ut
New Orleans, and to request you to pay to
such relief funds or to such charity as you
such demand be that urgent as to have a
claim upon me. While don't feel able to give
for the Sake of giving" las have such drafts
upon me here to aid destitute Americans, and
here. as all Americans apply to me, that
are destitute) still can not shut my eyes to
the great suffering that must exist there and
unless large contributions have been received
feel that / ought to contribute the amount
stated above-therefore leave the matter to
your Judgment, and IL you think the amount
stated Is needed to relieve the. suffering
please apply it and inform me and I will
promptly remit the amount to you In repay
ment, Or you. may have that much of my
sure by any means. Regards to all.
Yours truly, s. B. PACKARD.
We do not see that this letter betters Pack
ards case before this community. 1t will be
seen that he superciliously and eontemptu-
ously ignores as unworthy Of belief or Of the
slightest title to consideration, all the state
ments and appeals which have been made by
the first and most honored men of New Or
leans, Memphis, Vicksburg, Grenada and
other Southern cities. The voices Of woe and
restitution that have reached Europe from a
stricken people; the appeals Of the self-sac-
riticing men who have dropped at the post Of
duty, ministering to the sick and dying, and
Of those OF them who still survive in their
labor of mercy, have fallen upon the ear and
heart Of this brute without awakening any
other emotion than that Of hate He even
doubts the truthfuness Of the people it
has been his habit to insult deride and
cheat, and he writes to Mr.. Woofley to the
effect that ''if those Louisiana dogs are not
whining, and whimpering and begging with
out cause, scatter fifty dollars amongst them
In my behalf. Public opinion requires this,
and the miserable creatures may have it,
So satisfied is this modern American Consul
that the people he claims to be of-thank God
his claim is false-are mere whining men-
dicants, that, as MI. Kressner informs us, he
told the Liverpool people that the stories
from here were all balderdash, sensational,
exaggerated, and that aid was not needed
Packard's letter to Wooltiey confirms just
what Mr.. Kressner charged and we doubt if
Woolfley has done Packard much service in
printing it.
A query here suggests itself. Whence
come that vast army Of destitute Americans
who in Liverpool are swarming around Mr..
Packard s headquarters to receive his bounty?
Generous Consul! He scatters his private
salary with g. lavish and. we fear, indiscrim-
mating hand; and like prince in the Ara
bian Nights, relieves all the destitute OF his
native land, though they be millions, and
clothes them III purple and fine linen. Noble,
generous, princely Packard!