The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-09-17


and obligations on the verge Of insurrection.
The neglect with which IL is alleged Irishmen
have been treated In the disposition of offices
has left that portion Of the party little reason
to maintain their allegiance to Tammany, and
they are not slow to admit that fact Again:
leading paper among the Germans evidences
the discomfort Of that element by suggesting q
separate independent organization. Looking
at these omens, together with the general de-
sire among those who are not the slaves Of par
ty to elect faithful men to all the city offices,
In order that the system Of plundering and ras-
cality may be abolished, who can say that there
is no limit to the tyranny Of faction and that the
demolition Of party rule in this city, with all
its odious consequences, is not at hands
The Quarantine Dinicuities-yXay to Make
Short Work Of Them.
The determination Of the Health Commission
ers to permanently reconstruct the old Quaran-
tine establishment at Tompinsville, promises to
give rise to more trouble than any measure or
question which has agitated this State for years.
The infection Of martial law, in defiance Of all
constitutional authority, on county which has
made no sort of resistance to the mandates Of
the regularly organized tribunals, is difficulty
that can be soon got over. The impeachment
of Governor King and his agents, and the per-
sonal redress provided by law against them,
will speedily set that matter right but, in the
meantime, what is to be done to calm the ex-
cited feelings of population already outraged
to point which admitted of no further COM
promise with legislative delays? Are the re-
solves Of q clique Of foolish and pertinacious
individuals, armed with little brief authority,
and backed by an executive not only incapable
of defining the limit of his own powers but de-
void Of the discretion necessary to their judi
cious exercise, to be suffered to drive q whole
community to acts of ungovernable violence
and perhaps of bloodshed! No one acquainted
with the feeling which pervades the population
of Staten Island on this question, can regard
this determination of the Board without the
greatest anxiety and alarm. The Commits
sioners must be influenced by stronger and more
tempting considerations than those Of the pub
lie interest not TO see that in arriving at this
decision they have undertaken to wage a long
and uncertain war against an entire community,
and that no amount of military force which
they can summon to their aid can succeed in
perpetuating nuisance which has been doomed
to extinction by the popular will.
In attempting to explain the motives which
have prompted them to their present extraordi-
nary course, the Commissioners have only made
their case worse. They say that no other option
is left them than that Of rebuilding the Quaran-
tine buildings on the old site, because the con-
duet Of the Staten Islanders will raise similar
spirit of resistance wherever they attempt to
remove them. Undoubtedly this will be the
case 30 long as TO further personal interests and
to put money in the pockets Of corrupt political
partizans, they seek to plant the Quarantine
establishment in populous neighborhoods. But
how does this argument apply TO spots like
Sandy Hook, Coney Island or other bleak and
fitted for the purpose. How does il meet the
suggestion Of q floating lazaretto, or even of q
permanent construction run out from some
point Of the coast remote from human habta-
ton? IL is easy to see, Messieurs. Commits
sioners, that the motives which you assign have
no sort Of affinity with those by which you are
really actuated. We are sorry TO say il, but we
are compelled to arrive at the concluion that
the same influences which secured that impossi.
BILE and improbable Quarantine location at
Seguine's Point have decided you 10 continue
on that equally impossible site at Tompkins-
Vile.
In this never ending conflict between the in
for onfs Ind 81 IL al ~ A
q point which We believe 10 be Of no earthly
utility In the prevention OF the spread of cpl
IDENTICAL disease, It seems to us that only one
course now remains TO be pursued. As long as
the Quarantine is recognized as q necessary
evil, VIC will be saddled, not only with an ever
present source Of anxiety, but with a pack of
extortionists who win continue to bleed
us on the old Sangrado principle. Whether
the Quarantine I've continued at Staten Island
or at Sandy Hook we shall have TO pay
for our plethora Of health and money as long
as we trust 10 the traditions of what is called
medical science. People forget that medical
men are largely interested in keeping alive this
dread Of epidemical disease, and that, more
over, not ono out Of hundred practitioners in
reality know anything about the treatment Of
yellow fever. Besides, how frequently does it
happen that after centuries Of obstinate perse-
verance in particular course Of treatment the
faculty discover that nature is the only effective
remedial agent, and that drugs merely accele-
rate the progress Of the malady' The facts
brought out on the examination Of DR.. Dissell
before Judge Metcslfe on Wednesday last, 90
far TO establish the truth Of The opinion which
We expressed the other day, that the ouaran-
tine establishment is q delusion and bumbug
70 far as the public health is concerned, and
that II would be better TO do away with IL alto
gether From what the Doctor stated on this
occasion--and he was not likely to lean TO the
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