Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-29

for bread.
The pestilence struck down men, women
and children. Food, medicines, attention
were all needed and wanting; the living
were TO be fed, clothed and cared for, and
the dead TO be buried. To meet these
wants engendered by the pestilenee, to
mitigate its dire evils, the people Of the
United States, North and South, with q
genuine and active sympathy, furnished
the means in profuse and ample abund-
ance. No State in the Union failed or
omitted to contribute her portion to this
grand act of charity. From Maine to
California, from the lakes to the Gulf, all
| aided the kind work.
Seven hundred thousand dollars in
money were sent to Memphis TO its vari-
Gus societies, and of this over S50O,OO0
came from the Northen cities and States,
and near 100000 from the Southern cities,
towns and States. Besides this enormous
sum of money, hundreds and hundreds of
car loads of provisions, of clothing and
medicines were contributed by the people
of the various States, towns and cities, and
brought by the railroads free of charge.
Contributions also came from Cauada,
from England, from Germany and from
France. and several of the cities of those
countries. Without this aid what must
have been the horrors and sutferings of
our pestilence-stricken city? Starvation
and unbridled crime would have added
their desperate and poignant terrors to
those of the pestilence, and our people
must have been left a helpless prey to dis
ease, famine and crime.
With this abundant aid, the heroic band
of men, physicians, Howards, Citizens
Relief, Masons, Odd Fellows, knights of
Honor, Knights of Pythias, United Order
Of Workingmen and volunteers from a
distance and abroad were enabled to care
for the sick, to bury the dead, to feed the
3 starving, to clothe the naked and to miti-
3 gate and control the pestilence.
What does such Samaritan sympathy
and charity demonstrate? 1t demonstrates
the unity and mutual love Of all the peo-
pie of the Union, North and South. 1t
2 demonstrates that the people of the North
r have buried the animosities and prejudices
engendered by the late wal toward the
: South, and are friends equally with our
friends ofthe other Southern States. They
4 have forgiven their brothers their sup
. posed tresspasses. 1t demonstrates that
the people of the South and North are
friends whose adoption has been tried, and
d whom we should grapple to our souls with
: hooks Of steel. 1t demonstrates that the
people Of the North, no less than those
ofthe South, are of q quick, warm and
5 deep sympathy; that their actions keep
: pace with their sympathies, and that as we
d found them brave, determined and skill
:, full in war, we have likewise found them
, ~magnanimQus, noble and generous in
peace. In return, the people of Memphis
and of the entire South will cherish In
, lasting memory their deed Of kindness and
/. liberality.
We, too, have abandoned the prejudices
and animosities of the war; and we will
cultivate that fraternal regard for the peo-
pie of the North, rs well as Of the South
that their noble acts merit, and that {
u common country, common traditions anc
, a common destiny demand.
The foregoing speech was listened t
with the closest attention, only interrupted
s. by applause. At the conclusion this brok,
out into a prolonged storm all over tn,
n. house. After it had subsidized the com
r. mittee reported and by request Captain
&c W. c. Fowlkes read the following
81. RESOLUTIONS:
II. Colonel A. j. Kellar, chairman of tn
committee on resolutions, then said:
Mr.. Chairman: l am instructed by tn
committee on resolutions to submit tn
report and request that it be read by Cap
X. w. G. Fowlkes.
Ill Captain Fowlkes then read the resolr
tions, which were as follows:
SCI We, the citizens of Memphis, who wer
absent during the recent pestilence, minC
full of the individual heroism displayed i
III behalf Of our ~deeply-aflicted people, an
r. of the generosity, consideration and al
extended to them by a sympathetic wOrlC
he desire to testify our appreciation in
G. manner which will not only prove mos
nj acceptable, but in a way by which it wi
be sure to reach all those to whom we ow
III so much; therefore on this, the 18th da
as Of November, 1878, a day set aside by I'll
Wis President of the United States as one
ess thanksgiving and prayer, we deemin
such day and such time as most appropr
TO- pirate, and being in solemn mass meetin
assembled, do hereby publicly express oil
gratitude
st l.. To the President ofthe United State
lao the Secretary Of War, and other membe
of his cabinet.
2. To the governor and treasurer of Il
to State Of Tennessee.
rg 3. To the municipal authorities, Me
70 chant exchanges, Chambers of commerc
Ion Cotton Exchanges, bankers and Unde
writers Associations Of the United Stat
The and the Canadas.
10 4. To the commercial bodies of Euro
and the representatives abroad Of d
W American government.
lrts g.. To the churches, Sunday-schools al
ny benevolent associations in all sections
the Union.
6. To the press Of the United States.
Z. To the theatrical managers and mel
mel bers Of the dramatical and musical prof
we'd sions.
con g. To the officers, members, nurses al
employees of the Memphis Howard As:
citation.
ney 8, To the Howard medical corps, its
led. fcers and members.
ing 10. To the volunteer physicians al
nurses from other sections.
II. To the officers, members and q
j. ployes of the Citizens Relief Associate
;. S.. II. To the officers and employees of {
,sea commissary department Of the CitizeI
~ Relief Association.
NJ 10. To the clergy and religious orders
ial- Memphis, and volunteers from abroad.
Z. a. To the employees in the Memp'
mn postofice.
nm Is. To the Memphis daily press.
16. To the working committees Of
eral Odd Fellaws, Masons, knights of Hon
,een Knights Of Pythias, Ancient Order
uoa Workingmen, Independent Order of N
~ llVu tual Aiders, and Others benevolent org
Inc i%Zations.
,ded H.. To the mayor and city officials, q
to tho police and fire departments
Memphis.
V IS. To the military companies, WI
and colored, who remained on duty d
lmi- ing the pestilence.
this 10. To the Memphis and Louisville,
, Of Memphis and Charleston, and other n
aces way lines, and TO the Memphis and o
,und river and the Anchor Line packet C