Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-10-12
From the ". Y. Journal of Commerce, of Or,

From the ". Y. Journal of Commerce, of Oct. g.
TIE CHOLERA IN VIRGINIA.--The pestilence, we
regret to say RACES with undated violence in Rich
mend, carrying off from thirty to thiriy-6vc per-
sons daily. This mortality, in proportion to the
populaticn,# has not been exceeded any where in
the United States, with the exception, perhaps of
Norfolk and SInthfcd. The majority of the vic
Tins are, might have been expected, slaves and
free people of color, whose habits of life expose
them to the disease, while their aversion to
I medical treatment renders recovery almost
hopeless. Many worthy and respectable cit-
zens have also fallen before the destroy
er. The progress of the pestilence hitherto,
renders it extremely probable that every town, set
Element, and even plantation on the Potomac, RapA
pahannock, James, and other rivers in Virginia,
will be visited by it, Humanity shrinks from tho
contemplation of the vast amount of human suf-
fering which must ensue The cities, during the
prevalence of this plague the places of safety.
There we may find thousand appliances and
means Tor pnlliatng aresting the disorder, which
In tho county are necessarily wanting. There
cannot be physician to every settlement, and ma
ny hours and even days must generally clapse be-
lore medical advice can be procureJ,-a delay
which, in many cases, is longer than the interval
between the aggression and the fatal termination
OF the disorder. N o human means will, we trust,
be neglected by our Southern friends, through tho
uso OF which the pestileDce be stayed. They
have the results of experience before them
communicatedn the Jestises ofthe most omine, t
physicians of this city and Philadelphia. The
Southern press will do well to afford more space
TO extracts from those Observation-Disclosures
the pressure of ciectioneering articles this juno
ture. No plantation should be left ignorant of tho
practice which has been found successful hero and
elsewhere. We cannot avoid directing their atten,
ton particularly to- the precautionary measures re-
commended by Dr. Y atos in relation TO the negroes
Zoo much stress cannot be laid upon the expedicn.
cy OF multiplying the number Of tho negro cabins
on every plantation.
| The manner in which the Cholera, in It's char
acter and progress, Knocks all human foresight and
experience, cannot DO better exempted than by
two circumsan ces suggested 10 US by tho title OF
this article. We well remember how positively
and with what plausbility too, Senator Tazewcj
gave his opinion of the Cholera in the debate in
the United State Senate Mr.. C1aY's resolution
for public Fast on account of the approaching
pestlopoe. Mr.. TTzewoll said there was no pronnd
for alarm There no danger of an invasion
| of the Cholera. 1t was dicease which originated
IN the old world from tho peculir condition of the
laborIng classes depressed, they were bv povor
! y and vice, and To those classes. in tho old
woEld' u must forever DO confined II could
never prevail in the United States until our popu
! ,aton became equally degraded and debased How
1tte did the learned Senator then imagine that thu
Peslonso wos at that moment on the wing charp
va WIN ITS deadly messages for hundred both Of
'"c ,,oHy ana The humble, of his own friends
heignOoTs and constituents! The other croum-
stance OF which we are, in this come xon remind.
eo' was mentioned by gentleman who passed
Thirty deaths day, in a population or16. 900. i.
eqlal TO more than 400 day for the population ef
TINS city. The greatest number Of deaths IN this
c''y IN any one day, was less than 2o0.