Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-08-27
A Would-be Contributor,

An anonymous scribbler over the signature Of
&C. addresses us communication headed 1.-The
Council and Quarantine" commenting on our
article in last weeks issue entitled The Getty
Fathers" and defending the solons in not having
passed any regulation for the safety of our cit
liens from the spread Of yellow fever among us
from New Orleans. Had the writer of the ar
ticle above referred to, taken the trouble to in
form himself of the conditions under which
communications are admissible in our columns,
he would have either accompanied his wise effu-
sion with his real signature, or kept his remarks
to himself, to undergo further distillation in the
alambc ofhs prolific imagination, i. e., his brains
If he has any-before he submitted them
Junius-like to to the public.
The author, though he has evidently endeav-
ored to disguise his scrawl, his languag aud mi
ltial, are too well known, for us to be mistaken
in his person; and had he searched the whole
alphabet from Alpha to Omega, he could not
have taken more appropriate letter with which
to have signed his communication. Cupidity is,
or should be, the authors name. We would
most respectfully inform Mr.. Cupidity, who in
this instance has given more evidence of the
length of his ears, than the quality or quantity
of his brains, that we recognise no obligation to
insert communications wherein exceptions are
taken to our editorials by anonymous scribblers
like himself, and more particularly when they
deal in disrespectful innuendoes, which we can
not but classify as gratuitous insults. 1t is not
to be expected that the opinions Of an editor
should in every instance be an exact transcript
Of the views and opinions Of all, much less meet
the appreciation Of an Old Fogy like C.
Had Mr.. C. confined his remarks or COM
ments to the true state of the case, they would,
at least, have possessed one merit-tlat of deal
ing in the truth. We will not wilfully charge
him, however, of dealing in falsehood-for like
ourself, he may have acquired his information
from second hands. When we stated that the
town Council had been called together on two
occasions to adopt quarantine regulations, we
did so from information derived from the Board
itself, by those who we had every reason to sup
pose had no interest in making a misrepresen-
tation; and, moreover, the subject of quaran-
tine was fully discussed and argued in the
Council. This information we have from two
of the Aldermen, and, therefore, puts beyond all
cayil our position on this point.
1t is not our intention here, to 90 into an elab-
crate argument TO defend quarantine regulations
for the safety Of a community against the spread
Of contagious or infectious diseases Arguments,
arguments, may be advsolced pro
and con. But, we would ask, is it not always
the most proper that where there is doubt, to
give safety the preference. Prudence is the
mother Of surety; and We feel certain that the
community will sustain us in the opinion that it
is better to deprive ourselves of some of the ples
ures and conveniences Of life, for short season,
than to leave ourselves open to the attack of
disease which at this time is consigning to the
+" bourne from which no traveller returns oyer
three hundred souls day in the city Of New
Orleans and enyirons.