The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-12-26
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BAYOU SARA. Dec a, 1910.
Eds Crescent MY last scraw informed you that since
the receut Presidential election all had settled down peace
and quietude-and each individual felt satisfied that ne had
conscientousy performed the duty required OF him as Tree
and independent citizen but sooner had one excitement
ceased and settled down in the ordinary channel OF every
da life than another of more fearful and distactng char
acter presented itself to the bedeed senses OF the good
people of this section, in the shape OF that devastating
soouree the Cholera The fear engendeed in this commu
itv from the mere declaration that the disease exists in your
civ i beyond the power Of human expression. Every
coupenance more or less index to the internal feelings
Of its possesor True it that fewvey few-vew the
disease as contagious and yet the ewest number will ap
pToach the subject laborng under the pestience
remember well the fall and winter of lS2the first time,
within my knowledge that the country was afflicted with
this most dire of all dsessehat many Of the most wealthy
and intelligent planters of Louisiana were SO completely
conquered by fear emanatng from knowledge OF tne
existence of the Cholera that they determined possible
10 arrest its approach to their possessions by erecting bar
cades around their estates and yet when you questioned
them in relation the character Of the disease they nva
aby answerc that they viewed it atmospheric and not
contagious Then why the vain and useless means TO
keep off the disease which about to resort to The
answer was Because wish not that any member OF our
family shall hold any personal communication with the IN
eced dsct-and by such in land quarantine we hope 70
escape the of the destroyer strange inconsistency
Won 40 doubt will think-and yet It's Tueand more Per-
NIT me to remark that large plantation not exceeding
fifty miles from New Orleans, between which and the city,
or any other infected part OF the State there was htte II
any cOmu1uncaOn-one cares OF the disease arose, anu
more deaths on the same plantation occured-as was fully
and salts factoly verified upon subsequent nquHy-tnan
transnireEupon any plantation the city, or any other
portion Of the State where the disease ragged the heces
smpy mention the above facts to show that the Choies
Is moi endemic or in other words not peculiar to any
patieular locality and in the opinion hold respecting TINS
feature Of the disease fully supported by past expert
The foregoing remarks materially present 10 me mind
the following nterogato. If the disease termed Cnoea
is not endemic. then why should we change our oeahty
with the hope Of escaping it The unhesatng and lmme
date answer to the above query BY the individual pe e
an attack OF the disease, would unquesonaby be, IN
am not the least alarmed but then under the Iupre
sion that prudence is the better part of vsoand therefore
shall leave this infected fearing ay''may what
may be seized a0-i-t the Ch-oe-r-aP' Mark thai
these persons who not the least alarmed the
very first ~; and though they seemingly bold and
strong Of heart. and have appehenons Of ham, arr
among the first 70 die. Flight viii one from th,
destroyer The victim by flight only Hvets the chains
death firmly. Already has he inhaled the deadly poi
son from the infected amosphere-h blood is tained-h
carries the disease in his veinsand learns alas too late
that in agng from his home for personal security he ha
m behind him all the means Necessary that whic
he g suddenly fled to save This tbs true. faint pictuf
Of ssous instances fresh in the memory Of many OF you
| readers residents q yOuE city in 1882
Business here extremely dull, and no doubt the case
smphaealy the with yop from the accounts We haE
received from your city. Planters in this seeon OF eonnfr
extremely tmid about sending their negroes. upon an
occasion whatever to he river and consequently little co
ton o. sugar hrough, in from the interior to this point
and hence but little shipping done: and. IN TACT d
little win b done until the people satisfied that the Cho
ss hsa entirely snhsidsd.
sTassss n tAs eennaqnasnsus Of thus communication