The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-12
FNsprsicxsBuRe. IVA. } March u Is.


FKsprslogsBuRc, Va.) March 27 Is4s
DssR SIR willingly comply with your request 10 add
humble mite % the nuated testimony favor of
yOaT o0nicsl vcntlalor.
TIE value OF pure arr and change Of ar-nay anything
~ prevent -isgnaon of air and damp arr and therefore
IL BAL Az. OF infectious and contagious hh-is OF
ne b~i demonstrated facts IN Hygiene That your yau
abs uvsnton vii speedily and efeoualy accomplish all
hA. - no longer an experiment 10 De made the proofs
have aifea3y been bad, and upon testimony satsiac
,o aad convincing TO leave nothing further TO be de-
slfed and IL benefits should not be llmed by narrow
philanthropy, 10 cut ships OF war they should be ex-
zen I'D o The mercantile MARINE passenger ships part.c-
aiaTyD 70 hospitals. nnrmaries, pals, penitentiares
mDes. public and pfsale establishments of all kinds,
sh s'axnani and lsmosi fsosfors) Infectious air is
Ffeladcia 70 health fad wasrs not The price is
achipg Tor who can give peeasiary caiue to health
and is 'sd particularly N great national emergencies,
a. ls-' sannsi when noble fellows counted not the
cost ~ thsm-~ves when their country called. and breast
ed the Presidential climates Of the tropics on sea and on
land Nay. look al The suffering OF our gulf squadron
ether yaoPhs aoc measures al Vera Cruz Blu, iorbear
b. state isn~ns well knosa to every medical and
tea man. and wish 700 success. speedy success Pres
hoaiseols IN the Chamber OF Depu,ss) II may be .too
las Legislation. IN iis hating gate. Is iarjy for
the ~gils ~ The age What lives might not have been
saved had his improvement been generally adopted
years ago What sams-nsy, wha, miliions-might
have been saved 10 the nation, u the electric telegraph
had then been esiended 10 New Orleans and esewh here
And what shall say OF that great mon band that is
destined Tus long belt this continent and bind
this Unon together forever Ike the beautiful links with
which the snrsbic Nstenafe s connecting the scientific
world together mean Whineys railroad to the Pacific
which, with Maury's demonsrably short cuts, great
circle roues here and 10 China aud elsewhere, puts
City years 70 advance Of limemakes the centre
OF The woTdihe great Ehway OF nations commanding
the commerce, almost now doing the opinions,
of all "uactvity" then. is ''wise" 1t may have
suited other times and other people; bu, II Is not appca
BILE either principles nation IN the great
Of advancement, "a which Kind and benevolent Prov
dence has evidently assigned us the foremost rank, not
only in the spread OF HIS truths aud the extension of
moral and political science bat IA the necessares for the
comforts and the arts for the ameoration of
PRooRrss then. the great ids Of The age and the fate
OF Lots wife Is destined 10 be his who looks Qags) be-
hind and in the eoquen language of Bossuei, apdnces
touIoars foI taUfaetbe sasraine ne fdut ia
retourney pas, al faut foujours auanoer"
With my congratulations to you for your discovery,
which is soon TO benefit our eoantrymen much, and
lain so much credit for yourself,
remain, very respectfully,
Your obedleni servant
T.. II. BARTON.
Professor EspY