Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-10-13
ALEXAND RIA GAZETTE.
lcoMMuNlcATED.
CHOLERA CONDUCTORS.

CuOLERA SONDUC l OkS.
IS Dr,mkards are Cholera Conductors"
A letter from Albany, published in the Ruches-
ter Observer, says:
bave been here during the whole time since
the cholera first appeared. with the exception of
few days at the commencement Of the disease,
and three days week before last, and my oppor.
,uni,ies for investigation have been as good as
could have wished, and do not hesitate to say,
that had it not been for incorporates. the chole.
I'd would not have visited Albany, it it had. it
would have oeen in ITS mildest form. This is not
only my opinion, but II is the opinion OF many of
our most we'll informed and distinguished citizens.
And have now before me letter from distin-
guished and highly respectable gentleman in
New York, in which he says, that he does not
think that there would have been 90 cases of chO-
lera in that City, had it not been for drunken.
ness and dssoute habits. OF all the deaths in
this city by cholera, five sixths Of them were spi.
ritdrinkers, This is the opinion of several OF
our most distinguished physicians, as expressed
to me personally. And anotherfa fact is verify of
notice, and may he relied upon as authentic, at
least So far as digcnt inquiry can establish au-
then,icity. Ofthe 5000 members Of Temperance
societies in this city only one rs knoWn TO hare
died Nth ca lera. This man neglected the pre-
monitory symptoms, ill he was past relief. One
Young man, who was a member Of temperance
society ii Utica, but residing here, died with the
cholera, It is true; but his death was caused by
eating pine apples, Immediately after taking me-
dcine, as was noticed in the papers at the time
There nav have been oher cases of death among
the members of temperance societies. but have
not been able to learn of any, and Ihave made
diIisent inquiry. Aud the following facts are
-, Tn hn,y he vOnd
effects of 'o'al aDstlnenoe from ardent ir, and
Of regular employment, where the cholera IS rag
ing. A contractor who is digging down the clay
banks near the city, and who has from 90 to 70
men in his employ, permits no ardent spirit to be
used BY any Of them Not a single case Of cho-
isra has occurred among these sirtyor Setenfy, or
among their families.
A very large building is being erected on the
corner OF Beaver aud Greene streets, on which
from SO to 60 men have been employed several
months-sav since April. No ardent spirit is
permitted to any, and but one has died Of the
cholera, and he would obtain liquor and drink it
at home.
Messrs Packer, Prcntiss & Co. Cap Manu-.
facturers, employ from 600 10 700 persons OF
both sexes, aud no ardent spirit is used by any.
and not single case of cholera has occurred a.
mon9 the whole.
The CITY Hall, one IF the most elegant struc.
ture. in the STATE has been built thus far, and 1t
is nearly completed. without any ardent spirit
being used, and what is worthy Of notice, not an
accident has occurred, and not one Of the men
employed has had the cholera.
All these facts, and many others which have
not room 10 mention, are, | think, OF great i'm.
portance to the community; and their truth may be
relied upon, for the inquiry has been personally
made OF thoSe who are fully Competent to testify.
From what has transpired at New York, we are
fully justified in saying that drunkards are chol-
era conductors an let the good people of any
| town or village know, that every drunkard who
walks their streets, is not only tit subject for
| the plague. but generator at it. This class OF
persons may say, as one Of them said to one OF
the members of the senate of New York, few
days since, $. And what if do have the choe.
raf Is that an, thing to youi" Yes, it is some
thing for every man in our country to ponder
Must then these conductors Of pestience walk
our streets, and endanger the lives Of our wives
ADD children, and the lives Of our worthy and
useful cluzens? The people Of Boston, are in
my view, acting the part of wisdom. in laving vi
client hands upon every drunkard they find reel
ing, and sending them to an island in the harboI
| to hew stone and tread mortar.
| If men will endanger communities BY their
worse than beastly conduct, let them be at once
excluded from society; let them be removed, as
being what they really are, public nuisaOees.
Look at Albany,-iOck at New York-alI bust
ness suspended IN both for weeks, their citizen!
fying, and some Of their valuable members o.
society diving, because some few hundr ed mise
rable wretches must crafty their appetite. Hal
a million Of dollars, would not begin to make
good the pecuniary injury doae to these two CT
ties, by this loss Of business and this alarm and
distress.
How long will an insuIted community slum
Der, and slumber too, upon volcano OF death
for depend upon It, that in every place where
there is drunkard. there is mark for the cho
lera. Remove filth as much as you please; bu
~ your towns and villages IN chlorides, and at
ter all. if there are drunkards there, the cholers
will come. The cholera feeds on spirit-dr,nk
ers, and is nurtured in grog shops. 1t is tn
child of intemperance and filth. For one, d.
not believe that the cholera will end its worl
till it be done-tiH every drunkard is dead Of
reformed; and that will soon be. And VIVA