Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-29
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Dr. SaOvden-I beg leave to take little no.
ice Of communication, in your paper of We'd
nesday last, over the signature OF " Precau:ion.'
By giving the following place in the Gazette,
YOU viii Oblise some Of your subscribers:
''Thou contest in such questionable shape.
That VIII speak to thee."-SHAKsPEARE.
The writer alluded to begins by saying that the
place in which the color ed people worship rs a
nocturnal rendezvous for the diSSOlutc and de-
yrayed." lie SAYS this cannot be denied: per-
haps he knows more about the matter than the
Minister in charge OF the congregation; for AN
sure, If he Was advised that this il the case. he
would have the night meetings discontinued -
But | suppose the public will hardly believe it
upnn the ipss dirit of ali anonymous writer. He
next intimates his Discrimination to meddle with
the religious devotious Of any class. He thinks
he would be the last one to meddle, but takes
care to quality the assertion with perhaps: he
evidently was not confident of the sincerity OF
his own profession of tolerant principles. He
finds his Justification, he thinks, in the fact that
those meetings are Nuisance. In reading the
piece, was AZ loss To tell whether he vas most
dispeased with the dissoluteness of the deprav-
ed, or the degenerate exercises OF the religious.
PrecautiOn" thinks 1t the duty Of all (who are
interested for their families) to interpOse in re-
moving this nuisance. His patience seems quite
worn out: so much SO, that federation and for
bearance, when exercised towards these repre-
hensibe meetings, in his judgment are highly
criminal MIR Editor, / think he must be firm
believer in the doctrine of Contaeioa-in oppo.
stOn to the great mass Of the Medica Faculty:
1t 50, we wonder that he should expect the Che
Terra 10 come from the kitchen into the parlor: If
as II is sad) fear be predisposIng cause, IL is
quite as likely that IT will come in at the front
door hrst What Precantion" aIludes to, when
he saws certain "meahs have secured US from
rhe late o our sister cities" IL is hard to tell.
D'es he mean that the citizens are less prudent
IN eating and drinking than when there was less
danger? Surely in tins he is greatly mistaken
ior IN this respect, there is not an increase Of
"temerlty with the Increase of danger" II is
evident there IS, at the present, more than ''cOm-
n"h prudence and self protection employed by
or FELLOW citizens. Does he mean that we have
more night meetings than formerly in Alexan
d'a: La this, also. he is much mistaken: for It
Is Known. that for two months past there have
Oeen meetings almost every night, by Protestant
anu Episcopal Methodists, as well as by other
See's; during which time the health of the city
'a' oeen very gnod-and, at the present, the
meetings are not SD numerous as thew were four
"eeSs ago. lie has missed the mark widely in
searching tor the cause OF nur safety from tue
ta'ases OF the Angel Of Death: for he strongly
ioumates that the absence of night meetings has
oeen the cause; whereas, the truth is. there have
oeen more nigh; meetings here than in any city
" thefsame size on the Continent visited by the
pesIence.
what he means to prove by the extract from a
london paper published ten years ago) it is hard
4" ~''' Tor there is a marked discrepancy be-
"een The extract and his subject Those Siam.
ese assembled on the sea shore, in open day light,
a a o4a not their lives endangered by an 9 i'm
pure and nnwhOlesome atmosphere for two or
.'ee hours IN close house. But it is iptmat-
81 mat their religious notion contributed greatly
%e rulnous result: that is to say, the death of
.SDo OF them IN one day. Query:-What cape
.""Cs hdS "Precauiion" TO help ms faith, ,riih
;oSara 10 the era effects Of Sian,ess superstition,
80 saPerna"c'ns Npasmodic Cholera? If he had
T,u''su Drs. Granville or Lafever. or others of
Ioe. .acSIty OF Europe or America, he could have
carried The rationale of the rayages of Cholera in