The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-08-18
Evspins Post.
Il From ~ ~~,4 4 Evepng Post.
The sIave Tr..sS l-sidered rs the Cssse %
axes,Aw Fever.

Xei,sw Fever.
The following extract from memoir oy :"
Audouard, published in the weekly Journals o.
the slitings Of the Academy Of Sciences ID
Paris, presents and snforces, with striking pau
sibility. novel and curious hypothesis respect
ting the origin Of the yellow fever;
aT,s orlsn of the yellow fever cannot %
,,.cad 40 ,ny .oartcular county. Warm ell
mates are favorable to the Co ase when Pio,,
duces it-a cause which 1t Is in the power =,
man to do away with, because u RESIDES IN .sa
infection peculiar to certain structures 10. w
recen-ion Of negroes. To give an idea OF thi'
injection. II Is sufficient TO observe, ina. On
MANY occasions slave ships have been seiISa "
which the slaves sroulaienf as m'hsn as 'eaIS
odures.'e From thence followed coirsPuon
wood, of tar, and Of everything In the ln.oO of
Of tho ship, and the production OF : ios
infection which was not exungusnea M "a.
having run through all the degrees OF Pu'rid 90
compssitlon. Lett be added that for snen ex-
tinction. DAYS and months even have net ooen
sufficient
"The last two epidemics Of yellow fever .na'
b.va afflicted Snaip, and of which the sutnof
of mi. paper was witness, that Of Barcelona,
| in 1872. and that Of the PORT da Fassaye' IN
| 1891, came from ships which had serveu IN VIC
slave trade before being laden with colonial pr
ducts from Havana. AT the time Oh 'neI 10.
parture from the port, the yehow ie'ei u'u
prevail there. They did not export, therefore,
! a morbific production from that country; YET
thew gaye the yellow fever at Barcelona and al
| the Passage And what demonstrates clearly
| that thew had the cause of 1t within their Sides
| is, Mat the carpenters employed 10 repair 'nein
died. ussrly ali of them, of yellow fever, In a
very lew DAVIS, and were the hrst victims oil
these Two epidemics. Their operations d's,
closed the putrescepce concealed In the Sizes Vi
the ships, aud the heat of August and SePtsm'
her eaniributss r.~arfnlly TO disengage the
"Thi, single fact, that the ships sailed from
mint of the western continent at which the
yellow fever dii not exist, and conveyed TINS as
ease IN two ports of Europe, overturns ali re-
ceIyed notions Of the origin Of yellow fever
For the disease Is not due to the American eh-
mate, since tits produced In Europe oy ships
from Havana, At time when u did not Prevaii
There It hasnot Its origin In Europe because
lSpaiu never suffered from II before the diseove-
nv of America, and America itself has not been
afflicted with for over two hundred years
The disease row called yellow fever, was at hrs'
n.med the sick ness of SIAM because its APP
loearauce AT Martinique, in 1894. coincided with
1.-The preseuce in the ports Of that island OF some
Ishlps which had come from the Gulf OF siam;
| an error in the denomination OF the disease
which the layse OF time rendered manifest. Inc
proba bilty b. that at this time began to be iei'
the effects 81 the slave trade, because al lni'
lepoch it began to be carried on very scuvey,
lgoyernmenls encouraging and even authorlsine
In. by letters patent 10 certain companies, 70
lcarry II on On a grand scale. These companies
however, engaging in a commerce which the
laws protected, and disposing OF large capital
were very soon able, enlightened by experience
10 incur the necessary expenses for receiving
the slaves on board in such manner as to Sc
cure them from The loss Of as many as possible
on the voyage. Interest thus imposed the
necessity of observing certain rules OF hygiene
"The Revolution having brought on the wal
between England and France, the lsbors oi
these companies ceased, and the trade was con
Quoted by ships of commercs, which were moi
CO Instructed for the purpose. Indeed, tnose
which have since been constructed, expressly
for the trade, have been worse STILL because, ths
better to escape cruisers, they must be hne sail
ers, aud consequently untitled for ships o.
transport In some instances, the avarice Of
those engaged, slowed the slaves In great num-
bers below, with few keepers, who did not sui
, fer them 10 come on deck to relieve their neees
stiles, but chained them in crops, in which, Il
a man happened 10 die, the survivors had often
to remain q day or more in contact with the
corpse. Such was the trade during the mari
} time war; and from 1893, IL appears that tbs
foci Of infection derived from it, becoming more
| numerous and deadly, rendered the yellow fevel
more frequent In America, and especially in
Spain, where IL had scarcely been known unit
r then. From the year 1900, the date Of the grea'
epidemic, which carried of 81 1862 Of the In
habitanis Of Andalusia, the yellow fever pre-
yss,ed nearly every wear in Spain till 1873, the
date Of the yellow fever at the Passage In
s. 1924, the author of this memoir maintained, be-
fore the Academy Of Sciences, that the yellow
fever of Barcelona, and Of the Passage, came
= from ships which had Just been employed in
. the trade IN negroes-ships which he eesigratec
as foci Of specific infection, producing sPe'
ciiic maladJ, which was the yellow fever
) whence he concluded that the climate Of ethel
q continent had but a secondary action, which
. was confiued to giving greater activity to the
foci of Infection created by the trade. Tit
" event has justified these assertions, because
q since 1894, Spain has not suffered from the vel
q low fever whilst during the twenty EIGHT year
anterior, this malsdy had carried off 10000 o
its inhabitants. Hut Il must be known, in con
nection with this fact, that that country hal
P from that time, been on its guard against ships
10 which have been employed In the trade"
q Ia addition to the above remarkable extract,
u will mention, that / recollect, about ten year
ago, having heard distinguished physician, re
}. siding in The neighbOrhood Of hatcher, sine
o known asths author Of an able work on tn,
n History Of the Valley Of the Mississippi, say
:. that no hsd taken much pains to investigate thu
d cause of yellow fever, and was satisfied that !
& was neverproduced by vegetable decomposition
. but arose IN some way from human bodies.
? Whether the slave trade be the cause Of vel
{ low fever or not, It is impossible to resist tn
q force Of the evidence presented above. to show
{ that it is one of the causes; and conviction o
y this may serve to mitigate the horrors Of tn,
, traffic, by the necessity which 1t will create o
maintaining healthier state Of the slave ships
in order to gain admittance at the posts to which
they are bound. c. W. II.
OFThe following is the official vote of Thu
District at the Congressional election, 1S47-
Many will desire to have it, TO compare with tn,