Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-08-23

pa ssengers of the ship Albany, which
came into Newport some three weeks
since, on fire. A brig took the passen-
gers off on the back Of Long Island, and
they were never ordered on board me
ship after her arrival in the frarbor or
were to remain on board the brig, but
had free permission to land at Rose-Is-
land, where other persons, all in good
health, were quarantined. They were
not permitted to come to town, nor can
any good reason be shown why they
should have been.
These are the cases referred TO by the
Courier & Enquirer, and SO grossly mis-
represented by the Editor Of that paper.
In estab lishing her quarantine regula-
tioBs, the authorities Of Newport have
done no more than what they believed
the health Of the town required, and III
we mistake not have only followed the
example set by the city Of N.-York long
before the cholera made its appear ance
on this continent. The wisdom Of the
measure can only be ascertained by the
result. Thus far the only cases Of chol-
era in Newport, can be distinctly traced
to New Y ork, and from those two import
ed cases to individuals who attended on
the deceased. Some time since, we
think in September 1891, the Board Of
Health of New-York, recommended to
Newport and other towns, the establish
ment of rigid quarantine regulations to
prevent the introduction of the cholera
from Europe. They were accordingly
adopted; and surely If such regulations
were then necessary, they became doub-
ly so, when the pestlence was raging in
u peighboring State.
Every thing was done by the State
and town authorities, to render the situa-
tion Of those who were ordered to per-
form quarantine, ,as comfortable s. healthy
as possible. Two Of the most skiliul
ply ysicians, viz: Doctors Waring and
Dunn, were employed, the former by the
State, und the latter by the town. to at
tend the sick and minister at all times to
their wants. H
Rose Island was during the last war
fortified by the United States, and the
barracks are sufficiently extensive and
capaciOus to accommodate comfortably II
four hundred persons. Those persons
ordered TO perform quarantine by the
own, were allowed to use the qnnrters
formerly occupied by the United States
,ficers and their fatailies. These are
he facts, and can be substantiated by
he most incontrovertible testimony. :
Where then is the cruelty at which hu- +;
naniiy shuddcrs? Where the proceed Il
ngs that the wise and the good with one
oice execraAci The better feelings of t
ur natures have not been disregarded, ) Ilt
lor has any sacrifice been made ut the /,
hrine ofseifishness. llE
We cannot but consider the attack
made on Newport, by the Editor of the
;ourier s, Enquirer, the most wanton and
rofigute ever made by malignity, on n'an Il
heightened and benevolent, community.
hat it was founded in error, is no ex- o
use for its author; he should have learnt a
lcts before pcnning and publishing 50 n
ross libel. 81
Major Noah, one of the Editors of that :,
aper,. is nov enjoying the hospitality of n
iewport; he was absent from New >,
ork when the article was published,
nd ought not to be held responsible for I,
Yet, as a conductor Of that extern
ively circulated paper, he might, in n .
,easure, atone for the injury by pub y
shing the facts as they exist. ;,
Association for p,ufuifO,ss attendance up-