Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-02-24
HEALTH.

The most important lesson the world has
to learn is. that man is a unit-that what af
fects the good of one directly, effects the good
of all. more or less, indirectly.
There is paradoxical saying. that moth
my is ours till we give it away" This must
he illustrated: Suppose that know tla'
impure air is injurious, ard my neighbor does
not know this fact. Nov may clear my
house and my grounds of impurities, bur my
nrighbor, in his ignorance sees no reason why
he should make himself, or his premises,
clean. breathe the impure air which is gen
Grated from his filth, and my truth is not my
own tilI give il TO my neig hbor, nor is it his.
TIL he gives it 10 ms neghbor and So on til!
tue earth is encrcled by intelligence; for
whilst there is one being in the wide world
who exhales moral and phy sicaI corruption, all
beings are, more or less, affected BY 1t.
There is no knowledge more needed than
the knowledge Of this truth. It's not enous sh
that we partition off dungeons in this word,
Or another, for offenders, and threaten them
with wears. or an eternity of punishment.
This shutting men up for punishment, or safe
Keeping dors not make them good. or happy.
Cerlaln material evils, such rs dirty, unvrn,
tiI"tcd buildings, crowded y sick aud filthy
wIethes, whose brotherhood 10 the more ur-
tunate, every body has forgotten. are clearly
seen. though their influence upon others is
seldom perceived. An impression sufficiently
deep ior perception is made when the conccu-
traleJ evl! "i some wretchrd location has
e"gendered iyphu', or yellow fever, or some
other plague.
Plague spots cannot get on the globe with,
out producing effects near and remIte. The
atmosphere IA ound the earth circulales as the
blood In the body, and a, morbid matter i,
carried by the circulating blood all over tn
body, 81 is an evil in one part of the globe
carried to DINER parts.
Let Us read briefe extract from one Of Mrs
NIchUlSon's letters from ireland. and let u,
rem mber that this Gud-sppuinled missionary
knows and has seen what she tells US, and
then let US think moment whether all This
putridily of evil will not travel over the world
IL may be visited on US in the shape Of chul'
era, or some other not yet named disease
iiis. N says:
IL have seen malliludes of houseless crea
lures within few weeks, living by the sides
Of dllches, and eating turnip tops for weeks
TIL I'll lr legs and bodies b came swollen, ant
lh y die in the most dreadful manner. Now
all this Is in operation as kind ol disciplin,
10 drive them into the poor-house; promising
that whrn that Is filled, all the remaining nun
cry ones shall be fed out of doors BY the week
These pour-huuses. before the famine, wer
the abhOrence Of the poor-nOD, they hav
become frghtful, for last winter they were 81
packed that when mu tiludes were SICK b.
pesilence, they put two three. and somelime
four in the same bed. and when they diet
they were placed in "a box of rough boards. st
prep red that they could be sid off into
common pit, and tiese were put upon q cart
sometimes with naked feet protruding. AnC
carried to the pIce of burial, and the boxe
returned for more bodies This. as may b,
supposed, struck such a panic into all VIII,
saw. or ever heard OF il, that il is next to i'm
possible TO get any willing 10 20 to it.
Government says she will give no relief I'll
these ponr-houses are filled, and then his re
lie is to be loaned to ireland. II be made ou
Of such unheard Of taxes as can only be equal
led by Shy locks pound of flesh. In tn
meanwhile muIlitudes are dying. many ar
. shooting the agents and landlurds-micnigh
a.sassnaIions and MONDAY shoolings are in
creasiog rearfully,"
, Let no one suppose that material evil alon
aztec! he health of nation. or the world
These are the body Of which moral evils max
the life, and though the moral discords tina
jar the great soul Of man may not as percep
; libly affect the health ofindivduals as nateris
! causes. they just assuredly underlie disease
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