Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-01-11
Rapid Progress of the Cholera, South.

1t will be seen by our Geographic des-
patches from New Orleans, that, consider
ing how far winter had advanced, the ChoI-
era is spreading there with alarming rapid
ty From the Goth to the Odd instant, sew
enty.nine cases and several deaths had been
annouced, officially, by the Board Of Health;
and when we state that the New Orleans
papers Of the 10Th were congratulating the
public that the disease was fast disappear
ing, and expressing doubts even that it was
tnf4 rehl Cholera Asiatic, some idea may be
clons, therefore as to the true character Oh
the malady are by this time unhappily at an
end, and we shall await with painful anx.
iety further tidings, moi only from New Or
leans, but the South generally; for we OBJ
serve the disease has broken out in Mobile,
too, and even as far up the Mississippi as
Memphis, Tennessee. Intelligence Of this
character, of course, created a profound
sensation in this our city, when the mail
arrived yesterday afternoon-a feeling quite
natural, it may be remarked, when we
know that the peStilence is lurking at our,
own doors, and seemingly waiting only for
such a change in the weather as will give
us an atmosphere as mild as they have in
New Orleans at this season. Thus it will
be seen that the scomge has made its APP
pearance on this continent at different points
almost simultaneously, and under circum-
stances strikingly similar, at least so far as
its introduction into New York is concern
ed. The complaint which carried off so
many of the immigrants on board of the
packet ship New York, from Havre, on her
passage to this port, was unquestionably the
same as that which created like havoc
among those ON board the ship Swanton,
from Havre, at New Orleans; and that it
has not progressed so rapidly here may be
Justly ascribed only to our northern Iat
tude, and our early frosts.
We did not, however, take up our pen to
announce the mere arrival of the pestence
which every man expected to visit the Unit
ed States in its progress over the globe,
nor to chronicle its progress in the cities of
the South; there will be found carefully
recorded, copied from the New Orleans pa
pers, in another part of our paper; but we
trust that our citizens and our municipal
representatives., no longer sceptical, with
such melancholy proofs before them, of the
Cholera's presence in our midst, will do all
that rational Christian men can do, to put
the city in proper state of clearly prepare
ton before the incoming of spring Now
now is the time to put our homes in order
and not moment should be lost Mean
while, eschew all cowardly and unmanly
; fear-let there be no manifestation Of pue
rile panlc-but firm reliance on God
mercy, and a dutiful submission to His will
let US be prepared to meet, without muir
a muring, what His wisdom may ordain AM
E as the New Orleans Picayune remarks:
: Admitting that the Asatic Cholera i
: here, whefole the excitement and alarm
, which some manifest If it comes as
/, scourge who can escape it! Where shaI
r we flee ? 1t is disease which visits alik
the city and the country. 1t tops the LOTT
: est mountain in its flight; it leaps tn
ocean at bound. 1t traverses continent
> with unwearied step, and is alike found il
regions of perpetual snow, and the atitud
b of perennial flowers 1t wades througl
= marshes and rests in dry places. Where i
: it mott tits in vain we seek safety in flight
= for it is faster than we. If I'VE hide in tn
: mountains, it is there; if we walk the cen
ter of the vast plains of the West, it is wit
: us. 1t travels upon the sightless courie
8 of the wind" and its approach is unseen c
man. Why then run from it Z or wherefor
fear itl We are born and live and gro,
old, surrounded by thousand dangers "a
5 fatal as this one, which, if now in our midst
y is less dangerous than the revels of the sea
h son, and is harmless in comparison with tn
= guilty pleasures in which it seeks its vic
G Tins A sober, upright, and cheerful lf