The Columbian fountain., 1846-01-13
PESTILENCE AND FAMINE.

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tutig PESTILENCE AND FAMINE.
Friends, Countrynaen and Brethren
When the tidings reached you that new,
terrible and incomprehensible disease was
devastating Asia, which set at naught the
science and defied the skill of the most
learned and experienced practitioners, you
read the accounts Of its ravages with won
der, and, no doubt, felt thankful that you
were many thousands of miles distant from
the scene of its ravages, and Of course be-
yofid the reach of the fatal disease. BY and
by, news came that the pestilence was desc
lating France, and was hurrying thousands
into eternity across the channel, and it was
feared that, ere the next arrival, the scourge
would be depopulating our own cities, and
hurrying to their last account hundreds of
your countrymen, citizens, and relatives.
You bccame alarmed for your opn safety
and that of your family-the CONSERVATION
became general Yet little while, and
you heard that the dread visitant had reach
ed our shores, and was carrying death and
desolation through the streets of New Y ork
The scoarge had come-you felt his pres
ence--for the daily bulletins announced the
Fearful increase of his victims. You fell
your own insecurity-the fell destroyer
might be at your door-ere the lapse Of
ri Il
an hour you might be in eternity, "The
pessilsnce that walketh in darkness, and
wasteth at noon day." was in your streets,
in your dwellings, and all around and about
you. y What did you do' You closed your
doors--ventilated your dwellings, abstained
from every article Of food pronounced in
furious, and did all that could be done to
counteract its influence, and preserve your
household from infection.
As you then acted in view of the pres
ence of desolating scourge which had ex-
tended its ravages from the extreme east to
the extreme west and north and south,
feanully destructive in every climate, so, it
is TO be presumed you would again act,
could you be made sensible Of the presence
Of another whitening, blightng, desolating
pestilence, which was annually hurrying in
to eternity tens of thousands Of immortal
beings, your countrymen, citizens, neigh
bors, friends and relatives. There is pes
thence among you, which is daily, yea hour
ly, sending to the tomb some one, who, but
for it, influence, might have lived life of
usefalness, and died death Of hope. Has
il not come home to you YETI Do you be-
hold it afar off! Think you it will never
reach you! At this instant of time, some
msmber of your family, or some dear friend,
may be under the influence of this fell de-
stroyer. The premonitory symptoms, (for
there are pfemonitory symptoms in this dis
eass, ~ in the cholera unnoticed by your
sell, or if noticed, no precaution taken, may
give place TO confirmed disease-tacn, all
too late, yon take the alarm.
Intenpesance, the sconrge and bane of
man ~ psstilence that walketh in dark
ness and ,wasteth at noon-day--may have
singled out another victim--and your wrung
heart may feel the bitter pang which only
those can know who have followed TO a
drssskard's grave the corpse Of some loved
frisnd who lived a life Of wretchedness and
dieA death of shame. You are not inlal-
liblS Be warned. Take the necessary
pessanionary measures to auoid the pes
tilsnee. Purify yourself. Administer the
only rsmedy--tLe rLEDcE--the temperance
plsdte 10 every member Of your family,
snd yon will have saved them from a life