New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-05
CONTINUED APPEALS FoR HELr

The representatives of various local
charitable associations having failed 20
receive satisfactory assurances from the
Howard Association, and unable to per-
susde the Secretary of War to order moro
rations to be distributed here, have sent
the following appeal to the great source Of
sovereign power in this country:
To our fellow citizens of the United States,
For more than two months onr city has
been afflicted with a most destructive
epidemic, and to all appearances it VIII
be many long days before it ceases its de-
vastating work.
population of over two hundred
thousand is confined to the close limits Of
city; the fear of contagion has caused
the outside world to close its doors against
US as against lepers Strong men, that
would gladly work, are forced to "sApd
all the day idle" for the workshops and
the marts of trade are closed
Our homes are being desolated by
plague which has thrown the shadow 81
its horror over the whole world. Even
beyond the Atlantic the vail of woe hal
been heard. Believing that an appea
would be favorably received if all fhs
organizations that have for many yeak
devoted themselves to doing good %
earth to their fellow-men whom ProFi
| dence has afflicted could be united in one
common effort, thirty of these repre-
sentatives of organized bodies met and
| selected the undersigned to take the
necessary measures for relief, and chOss
the Orleans Central Relief Committss 20
receive and distribute all contributions.
this committee having Just effected the
distribution of Government suppies
with general appreciation. The srro-
neous impression created by the pub
lished statement of the Howard Associa
ton, that they had sufficient funds for
their purposes-has arrested All efforts for
our relief-but this association has stated
in its published reply refusing our demlnd
upon them, that their statement doea
not and can not prevent any assoc ion
or associations from putting forth "
their own appeals for aid to relieve sh8
poor and destitute"
Whatever unexpended balance the ] ~
ard Association may have in its hs III
and of which we can obtain no knowlG
they declare ''that moneys SO intruste to
US (them) 'tsre held as trust fund NJ ar
the supervision of our" (theirl ''men q
ship" Therefore our humanitarian n ge-
ment failed in that direction. TheaI osaI
that we have just made to the Sscreta Of
War has failed, and for reasons ASST cd
by him as follows 81 am still of he
opinion that it is possible for you to get
relief from private sources, and that is
therefore not a case for the extensio 81
government aid in the absence OF an
thority."
You, who have already nobly respondei
to the calls Of others for relief, know ollg
that this city is filed with the plag Z.
smitten and dying; but another affilci a
scarcely less to be dreaded follows dis d
into many homes and smites the St n
and well. Hunger and want CLAIM ms 81
whom the pestilence spares. To the sk
is given medicines, to the dead burial, and
we appeal to the humane of our b
try to save from starvation those uh.
are well.
FRANK L. RICHARDSON, +
Chairman of Committee.
ISAAC N. MARKS,
President Firemen's Charitable Aasosih
ton.
AUGUSTUS REICHARD,
Vice President Louisiana Association AIM
of Tennessee.
YORK A. WOODWARD,
Commander Grand Army of the Republic