The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-22
/ ISLANDER DENOUNCED.

1 ISLANDER DENOUNCED.
The New Orleans Times and Its Attack
Upon Mohl1e-Ietter from q Former
Gulf City Physician.
Mobile Register1
Mobile has already contributed $4,000 for
the yellow fever sufferers, and money Is still
being subscribed by her people daily. This Is
an admirable exhibit by q city, q large por-
ton Of whose Weather classes are absent,
and whose resources need outstanding for q
contingency which we hope to avert by the
blessing OF God and Of o strict quarantine,
sat WHICH R pa 2g hfRRea city s q pec 81 pfGa
credit for what she has done, except before
that Tribunal which ever gives unerring
justice.
No one has acted malieiously towards Mo
one who knows the history OF that journal
would hesitate to accept any statement of
fact from 1t without first subjeeting 1t to the
most rigid examination. That journal was
born In fraud, founded upon plumber seized
conducted originally by one who changed his
name, and is at present published by those
who were closely allied with the most cor
rupt of the robbers of the Warnoth and Kel-
logg regime. No justice can be expected
bone than an empty sack. and no more prin-
ciple than @ Washington claim agent. But
even such o journal has it's bad
uses and its evil influences. It can dissemin--
truth will be slow to overtake 1t. It has as
sailed Mobile with malevolenee which only
those foreign to the sympathies of our South
ern people would dare to exhibit. 1t seems to
tiyes, the most senseless Of actions and the
meanest Of selfishness. The pretext for. this
hostility was our quarantine of the Mobile
and New Orleans Railroad When the result
proved that our action was wise and that Ii
other cities had initiated our prudence multi
tudes Of lives and much treasure might have
been saved the Times did not confess It's error
No mean-spirited person ever confesses an
error. The little soul which finds 1t has done
injustice becomes angry because it feels that
tended a crime, and therefore has the
conscience of O convicted thief. Justice can
never be expected from those who are cast in
the mould of Beast Butler, Warmoth and Eel
become second nature to them. When they
cease to Lie they lose whatever consequence
attaches to them. On the broad plane of
truth they feel that they are utterly insslgni-
ficant and left behind In th6 race. ThB fH1tto
has not only stated what was utterly and
VIGOROUSLY untrue, as regards Mobile but
when its rnisstatements were expressed 1t re-
sorted to the lie by inuendo, the lie inferential
the lie by suggestion, the lie by incomplete
ness, the lie by insuffieiency, and the lie by
trrelevanoy.
One of the lies by suggestion which owes its
origin to the maleyolence OF this bird which
was begotten by Beast Butler, Matched by
Warmoth and nurtured by Kellogg, Is that
to know what pay the fever-strieken place
will give the nurse. The idea sought to be
conveyed Is that Mobile Is acting not from
humanity, but from selflshness; that she
makes money out Of the calamites of her
neighbors, and then claims for her action the
stnH nj fnvf tn n sharrn
be greater than this. Any people who would
thus sell their good offices would be deserving
Of far greater contempt than that which is SO
generally entertained for the New Orleans
When the fever first appeared in the interior
and applications were made to Mobile for
nurses, it became necessary for our relief
club to find proper nurses, to provide for
their transportation and to secure to them
and to their families adequate remuneration.
The club had but little money on hand. When
an application was made for nurses it be-
came necessary to know what provision was
made by the applicants to defray necessary
expenses. II no provision had been made, our
club went to work to make full provision. It
partial provision had been made by the appli-
can't, our club prepared TO make good the de-
fcft. Hence 1t was essential to know what
the Infected places, through their clubs and
committees, could do in the matter Of defray-
ing expenses, otherwise no certain provision
could be made here. Upon this simple fact
we find constructed the inferentia1 and sug-
gestive lie to which DIR. Fulton, once loved
citizen of Mobile, alludes III the following let
ter which we find in the Milwaukee Sentinel:
MILWAUKEE. September II.
Some time ago dispatch from Holly Springs
was sent throughout the country to the effect
that Mobile offers to send nurses, but wants to
know what we will pay for them" It is very
likely that some poor people accustomed to act
an inquiry, Small shame to them # they did;
o # tine s rsasd and Sndr a Vg
fever does not deserve reward, know no SER
vice that does. Certainly I never paid $50
poor kind hear}e liza faithful man Who n 10 s
me IN Mobile seven years ago, and to whose
family the , moneey so paid was perfect God
auiry; and simply because the good works
Mobile has done have been done quietly. and un-
ostentatiously, and as o mere matter Of course.
and Of peope e have BEEN
fully misrepresented everywhere. Mobile is
perhaps the poorest city in the South. and yet
GAIT n Get Away val Club that Mobile. though very
likely ere long to need all her nurses. physi-
sl neighbors. Permit me to add that i
am acquainted with the. persons named IN the
note. Judge Williams Is an intimate and dear
had entire charge at Grenada, was the first
man ever visited ID yellow fever. Major
Walthall IL. q perfect hero, Ia times Of Dest,i.
(whers he nearly diedj, and In, Mem
Dhis before as we'll as now sufficiently
rant, whom have seen going until he dropped
among the poorest Of the poor. In places Which nt
turns my stomach to this day to think Of Or
carries on the life labor of an honored father
who has treated thousands Of yellow fever suf-
ferers during forty years, and never was known
to turn away his face from any.poor man. 1t il
not right that slur should be cast upon people
like these; and when suffering on one side anc
heavenly compassion on the other, are at las
thank GodI drawing the hearts OF all our coun
trymen together let Justice e be done to the poo
I ask leave to express my deep sense OF tht
humane and generous course of the Sentinel
which has so largely inspired the enthusiasm
of benevolence which Is to- day irradiating th'
entire population Of our own city,
MIR. BEAREs TO Mg. sAgOURHN.
NEW ORLEANS Sentember a. 1873