Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-19
NEW ORLEANS.
The Crescent city Wants a Fair Deal,
NothtHg more.

10 the Editors of the Memphis Appeal:
New ORLEANS, July ia reference to
the columns OF your paper of October 5
and 6, 1873, will show a csil by the then
mayor OF your city and others of your good
people, for a meeting Of cilizens a, the gen.
tlemen's parlor of the Peabody Hotel, TO
devise measures for the relief of the dis
tressed people of Memphis, and the subse.
quent report of the result OF said meeting.
The report OF that meeting will show that
in that time Of fearful distress to your peo-
pie New Orleans was represented there,
uniting with your authorities and ~citizeus in
d~evising measures which allayed the pre-
vailiDg panic, restored confidence and great
ly mIiigate6 the horrors of The epidemic,
all through which New Orleans was sending
parties 10 the relief of your sick on the call
OF your representatives., such being constant
ly going and returning.
In 1878, when both Memphis and New Or
leans we're suf ring with the same dread
visitations, at Grenada, Miss, lahere ysur
heroic Butler Ander ,on yielded up his life),
and at other points, representatives from
your own city and from New Orleans stood
shoulder-to-shoulder in the work of minis
tering to the relief of the sick and suffering
at said poiuts. These occasions should unite
land, L think, have uuited) The good people
OF Memphis and New 0 leans in the bonds
of a strong sympathy in the fello Fship Of
q fferiDg.
1 refer 10 them, not TO found any argu-
ment for your authorities to relax one whit
of their vigilance TO protect your people
from the inro ads of the terrible scourgs, but
to ask that while they are thu. vigilant in
every reasonable way, that they be st least
reasonable, and that your good people frown
down the unreasonable aed malicious at
Temps made by tnoughtless lin SOM cases,
perhsps) or evil-disposed persons to Willy
and lnjure our authorities and people. New
Orleans has, to say the lessi, as great an in
terest as Memphis in keeping out yellow
fever. Toe lives of their children sre Just
as dear to moghers and fathers here as in
Memphis, and the business of our merchants
would suffer Certainly as much as yours. The
Avalanche, some three weeks ago, publish. d
what purpcrted 10 be a telegram from this
city, that there had been forty-six
deaths from y~ellow-fever mere during
the previous iwenty-four hours. II
the Avalanche got such a dispatch,
1t was simply a lie, ef which it could have
satisfied iiself very easily by telegra phiug
here 10 the sanitary officers or to the HoSard
Association for the facts. We have not oniy
net had a single case of yellow-fever here
thus far. but not one to which suspicion al
tached, and have had even less than usual
OF the common fevers which occur during
hot weather. There il a little sheet here do
ing all 1t can to throw discredit on the Board
of Health. l think the doubts which OBJ
tain as TO its honesty and iruthfulness en-
tirely without just foundation; but if your
health authorities and the press OF Memphis
dlstrust the Board of Health they or anyone
else can always get the truth from the Sani.
tsry Association or the Toward Association
Urge them to get the truth and give New
Orleans q fair deal.