Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-09
A Short Mode of Settling the Guar.
antine Question.

/" 1t seems to us that there has been a great deal
more difficulty made about the location of the new
Quarantine than there was any occasion for. In
view of the obstacles raised by the New Jersey
men to the appropriation of Sandy Hook, the cor
rupt influences which sought TO remove it to Ssguine's
Point, and the improbability of any honest decision
OF the question by the Legislature, an appeal might
have been made to the general Government to take
the matter into its hands. Constitutionally it has
the power to appropriate any spot within the con-
federation which it may require for military or COM
mercial purposes, giving, OF course, a fair compen-
sation to the property holders. Now, when we con-
slider the valuable commercial interest involved in
the Quarantine dispute, we know no question in
which this constitutional right of the general COVER
ment can be exercised with more propriety. 1t
woald be perfectly justified in taking possession of
Sandy Hook and appropriating it at once to the ex-
igencies of the sick arriving in inflicted vessels -
We will go farther and say that if Governor King
and the municipal authorities had any pluck and
vigor which are looked for in persons in their posi-
ton, In great emergencies, they would anticipate
this action of the general government, and at once
proceed to occupy the Hook for hospital purposes.
There are moments Of peril when it becomes neces-
sary to supersade the slow operation of the regular
ly constituted powers, and even of the law isself.-
If ever there was an occasion of this kind the pres
ent is one of them, for with the facilities of conta-
gion afforded by the late unfortunate occurrences at
Staten Island and the present peculiar condition of
the atmosphere, there is no knowing but that the
yellow fever may be wild ely disseminated among us.
In such a case the authorities should act at once,
s sSa eqfqRs s eW at5nhHbr da,est It will be t tipe Jesrseymen
when we shall have averted from both our shores
dangers of infection.
We clip the above from the editorial columns
of the New York Herald Of the 9th inst. Was
ever such impudence heard? James, you are
wrong this time. Had this counsel to Gov.
King to Immediately proceed to our shore and
take possession thereof for the purpose of there
erecting a nuisance, that his own States men
Will not tolerate, been given by som hot
headed landowner on Staten Island, we would
not SO much have wondered at it; but when
we find it proceeding from the mouth of James
Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of one of the
leading papers in the country, and who, from
his very position, should be the first to turn
his face and his influence against all such
works of imposition and demonstrations of mob
law, it strikes us Will establishment indeed.
This is not the first move made by the Herald,
although it does not, in SO many words justify
the proceedings of the rioters, who so shame
fully and inhumanely attacked and burned the
Quarantine buildings with the sick and dying
who were sheltered in them. Yet it takes the
ground that there was such great palliation
for their conduct, that they are to be wholly
this position paved the way, it would now have
the State of New York with all its force rush
down upon the eastern shore of our county,
wrest it from our hands and our State govern
ment, and erect thereupon the vile plague
houses of its Ito u.s. foreign commerce. We
cannot stop to speak of the unkindness, the
uncharitableness of endeavoring to put npon
us even by the most gentle negotiations, such
a scourge. This thought is merged in that
other, that these things are to be forced upon
US. If the people of Staten Island and those of
New York, interested in the removed of Quar-
antine to the Jersey Shore, had desired TO
make such a measure impossible, they could
have taken no surer step to accomplish their
desire than by the present threat to compel US
to receive this dangerous nuisance within our
territory. We are sma1 IN rnstts aud fou IN
numbers compared with our friends across the
bay, but we will, upon this their first intima-
ton to visit us, assure them that, if they come
with such intentions as they express, as long
as our numbers hold outage, as long as there
stands a man or woman in Monmouth, they
will meet with a reception warm to uncomfort-
ableness And when our feeble, though brave
band shall be subdued by their overpowering
host, when we shall be so reduced that we
may no longer stand before them sin battle
array" they may find that the cunning hand
can do what We could not as a body, and NAV
have occasion to palliate the action of JERSEY
ineendiaries as they do that of their own citi-
zens. In the early struggles of our country,
New Jersey was never behind in resistance to
oppression, or in a display of bravery when
called upon to resist oppression. The spirit as
well as the blood of our ferefathers is still with
US. We are able, not only, but willing and
determined that their honor and names shall
suffer no disgrace at our hands, and New York.
or any other State or country, will find that if
we do live, we qoiU Avc FREE. No foreign foe.
whether in the shape Of armed brigades. or a
pestilential ~dead-house, shall, while we hold
that reason and power bestowed by our Maker,
stand upon our soil. Let those who would
TINS impose upon the weak. take heed of the
lesson just taught them by the Stateu-Island-
ers. Fire burns as well upon the Atlantic
thore as upon that of New York bay and if
the sWord is found to be incompetent to the
task Of prevention, we will do the next best
thing, and find a fire that will effect a famiga-
tion cure. Should the cancer, after the first
removal, again break out in our side by a Sc
cond erection of the dead-works, the blazing
torch will be ~effectual upon the second as the
former application. In short, we mean to say,
come if you will, come if you dare. We will
either drive you into the sea, or burn your sty
over your backs. We will first try you with
our new General, Staff, Uniform, Saddle and
all and if these do not terrify you and you
persist in building your hospitals upon US, we
will try what virtue there is in friction matches.
James, haul in your horns.
8a~ A party of four fishermen from Long