The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-30
THE PACKARD ERUPTION.

the yellow fever 10 MI occasional visitant
md Heo,,rEe Of our city; but 1t runs its course
IN n few months and disappears or is checked
Nv d frost Or d freeze. TheEblaoR deabh aha
cbnlera occasionally carry Consideration aau
death throughout Asia and Europe. but
when these plaques have performed thelr
auuuirted work they leave the communities
they have afflicted IN pence, they pass away
in fhe aame inpenetrable cloud OF mystery In
.shtrh thay whither-4God alone can
sstl The mournsrs dry their tears. Loving
hands plant flowers over the graves, which
Ii, good time grow and blossom with beauty
which seem Il mysterious prophecy Oh the
nussape Of the dead into brighter ana
fetter world. The soil yields again lts rich
abundance: trade revlves, and TAG BWelilhg
Aida ri human life heals the wounds and
,inllteratas tho traces Of tho pestilence Men
forget tho past In the living present, and
hone. happiness and prosperity revisit thelr
t1aaolatnd "Reminiscences. After all, an epidemic
Id n passing cloud, laden, indeed, with the
aepds of deaths, but IL Ia speedily swept
away.
There are worse things than epldemios.
There are more deadly vlsitants OF Our unfor-
tunate people than the yellow fever. The
neatilence OF human malevolonce hate and
ranneity la far more potent to ruin or
snourre II community than even the Black
Death II Ii n pestllence more unconquef-
able than cholera OF yellow fever. IL may 90
repressed. but 1t will break out again In one
form or another to revolt and disgust man
Kind. Ii liz not governed by the law OF pc
riodioty, aud neither frost nor freeze Will klll
It. For nearly ten years the people OF this
eity and State have boon scourged by
this pestilence. From 1868 to 1873 it
ragged Under the name OF Warmothsm.
From 1879 to 1877 IL ruthlessy scourged the
state In the shape of Kelloggism complicated
with paekardism. We knew that the plague
had not been entirely exterminated. but the
neople had INDUCED the hope that IL had
been 40 far reduced and brought under
control that II would not again develop any OF
its malignant features. They have been
mistaken. Kellogg liz III the North, social
nutlaw In the State ho claims to re-
uregent, and frightened fugitive from
!, nlapue less OBNOXIOUS than himself.
Packard, under the workings OF Hayes
wonderful civil service reform, is In Liver
nool. American Consul to that city. New
Orleans might reasonably have hoped to be
afflicted by them no more. But, alas HUI
man malevolence, meanness and cowardice
are more far-reaching than the diseases
which scourge us with death. The first
appeal of our afflicted people for aid for the
5 tleatituts from our own and other Southern
cities had scarcely fallen upon the ear OF the
country when Kelloggs heart and tongue,
axuding the pestiferous poison OF human
malevolence, began to wag, and the country
was told that the charitable associations OF q
e.ity agonzed with death and struggling In
the cruel coils OF an epidemic were Quarrelina
about the distribution OF tho charities sent
them.
Our indignation and disgust at the meanness
re this reptile crawling through the country
IN his belly and spewing out his venom. hat
scarcely subsidized when we learned that Boss
Packard was way over in England play
inu the same game. Saturday evening gen
slernan brought us the following extract IRON
a letter written by Mr.. Conrad kressner' one
nY oalr cotton merchants, now In Liverpool, IL
d friend in this city:
rivernool feels for New Orleans, and sub
srriptions, SO far as Mr. ken tola me
smnnnfinr to g2500, would be a great dea
i s.arsar. INIT for the misstatemeht Of our rep
ssntaf live the American Consul Of this place
Nh stsphen Is. Packard. This individual
4 s Sat nnenly stated that all the accounts In
s,a a to The yellow fever in the South Were
fuy and that no of sc
~ Ament many Of our leading cotton brokers
ss.sll snerchants have not yet subscribed and
sa N, ut be convinced that this misstate
s,sa.st serig nates with Packard outo1 all III
a a.sTss hatred OF the Southern people.
The letter speaks for ITSELF ana comment Is
.,nnaeeasary. From the far North and frofn
England the venom of these two Wle NC ~
NO have wronged, robbed aud degraaea Vhe
asaonle Of Louisiana, reaches oat 20 ln'aEe -