The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1853-10-06

and that steam boats have transmitted it
10 our river towns. The regions. so en-
dangered will naturally Surrender trade
in the preservation Of their lives; but
the variety of ways of even now reach-
ing every important point on our sea
board from the interior woald render
the sacrifice of such commerce only
important 10 Us. With such drawbacks
on our prosperity, which must increase
with the development of national re-
sources how long we shall be enabled
TO contend with our sister cities on the
Ailantic-all of which are stretching
out their iron arms for the trade of the
great West-how long we shall be ena-
bled 10 maintain even our present rank
Whenever tdff1als dfTeF5lsyl e 81 h6 oPini9ou snf9 may
continue TO exist as 10 the efficacy of a
quarantine in guarding US from yellow
fever. there ought 10 be q general con-
currence in the expectancy of trying
it. All other means of averting the
malady have been tried without sue
cess; and we are now left not mere
ly without relief, but without the hope
of relief, except in this way. The
advocates of a quarantine are conf
dent that the establishment Of one
here, a, a cost less than that incurred
in paving one of our streets, would for
ever keep off the pestiIence Were
the evidence of lis importation less de-
cisive-were the fallacy of its indige-
nousness less palPable-were medical
opinion on the subject less divided
were the interests involved less impor-
lant-lhe believers in the foreign oIi.
Gin of the disease might claim the co.
operation of all who continue TO be
doubtful, from the simple consideration
that doubts on such subjects should in
cline to the side of safely. And the
man who, while admitting his inability
to afford US relief. would prevent US
from accepting the relief offered by
another, subjects himself TO the suspi-
cion of referring his prejudices or his
interests to the manifold public bless
ings which the reprlsion of yellow fe-
yer would bring In lis train.
Those who cry humbrg. folly. etc, at
the mention of quarantine. do so either
with or without reflection If the for
mer il proves they have nothing better
TO offer. But if the latter, it argues an
indifference or recklessness on sub.
ieet of incompatible graveness and i'm
portance, moi very creditable 10 their
moral feelings II does more than this
Ii places them in the eqnivocal position
of showing contempt for views which
are recognised and acted on by every
civilized nation on The earth, including
nearly all the Atlantic States of the
Union. Contempt under such ciIcum-
stances is only telling in the recoil.-
The wise man will doubt his own iudg.
ment, rather than impeach that of the
community. We laugh a, the 18th
member of the jury who rallied against
the obstinacy of his II colleagues in
the box. But surely the self-suffieient
juror is modesty itself, compared with
those who not only reject the settled
convictions Of the civilized world, but
pronounce them the emanalions of
wrong headedness or imbecility.
AT the time this series of articles was
commenced, the epidemic was at its
height 1t had not reached the towns
OH the river and in the interior. In the
brief period which has since elapsed,
it has unfortunately appeared in many
of those towns How far ii may spread
abroad and around in its fearful mission
of death and desolaiion, as it did in
1889, al, AT, and in less degree in
some OF the intermediate years, time
only can tell Ii is 10 be lamenied that
Natchez, and other towns on the river
that had experienced for years the hap
o4o <f ho
should on this occasion have neglected
to put it into operation until the disease
was in their midst May spirit of
common sense actuate the inhabitants
OF those places which ate exposed to
such visilations, but which as yet re-
main healthy. Let them place an i'm
passable barrier between themselves
and the infection.
Awful as has been The spectacle pre-
sented 10 Us by the epidemic OF This
season-g gloomy as is the prospect be-
fore us-l feel presentiment that our
past suffeFings viii be productive of ul.
innate good, and that New Orleans will
never again experience so dreadful
blow. | feel assured that the people
of Louisiana, al length aroused 10 Sc
rious and thorough consideration OF the
subject, and perceiving the fatal error
under which they have SO long labored
and suffered, will no longer submit to
The control which private interest and
professional bigotry have SO long and
so despolically exercised over them.
The succeeding six months will, it is
10 be hoped, bling about the establish
r.. .xb;
this event, time will fully realize the
expectations so generally held regard
ing it, Thus we shall see exemplifed
the truth of the following declaration
of the French Medical Commission
who reported in favor of the insulation
of MaTseil!es when the yellow fever
was introduced there in 1889. No.
thing can resist the authority of facts,
and the good sense of the public often
takes the advance of the hesitations