The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-30
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ANNUAL MEETING
QUARANTINE AND SANITARY CONVENTION.

The second annual meeting of the Quarantine and
Sanitary Convention composed of delegates from
the various sections of the country was commenced
in Masonic Hall yesterday morning.
Pursuant to a resolution adopted by the last CON
vention, the President of that body, DR.. Wilson
Jewell, of Philadelphia, took the chair and called
the convention to order.
The secretaries of the last convention Dr. Ed
ward Hartshorne, of Philadelphia, and Homer
Franklin, Esq, of New York being abscnt Chas
II. Haswell, Esq, of New York, was appointed
President pro tenn.
DR.. William NJ. Kemp, of Baltimore. Chairman
of the Committee of Arrangements, read list of
the delegates in attendance after which he delivered
the following
ADDRESS WELCOME.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen:
Having been honored by my colleagues with the
position of Chairman of the Executive Committee
1T becomes my pleasing duty to extend to you a
most cordial welcome to our city and its hospitali
ties.
Being just able to leave my sick chamber shall
be able to express but imperfecty and feebIy the
sentiments which actuate the delegations from our
city, and which are entertained by the community
at large, all OF whom have responded with encouI-
aging alacrity to the call for the appointment of
delegates, and for extending to stranger friends
the hospitality and privileges of our city.
Delegates are here from the extreme points of our
Atlantic coast; from the chilly North and from the
warm and sultry south; you have come to Join
friends from mid portions and to engage together
in harmonious 9nd profitable discussions to examine
subjects of great social and commercial Importance
and to make another step towards the accomplish
ment of the high ultimate purpose of this body,
viz: the developing of a code of Quarantine and
Sanitary regulations which shall embrace every
necessary safeguard for the security of health in
commercial communities and at the same time offer
as little embarrassment possible to the ever ac-
tive spirit of commerce.
When this or future Conventions shall have at
tanned this point, it can scarcely be doubted that
Congress will see the benefits connected with the
appreciation of your work, and the circulation and
diffusion of the results of your abors and that it
will lend to you all the influence and aid which can
be properly extended by that body. 1t will then
become entirely invested with its true character of
nationality, in which national pride NAV be
Justly INDUCED.
/ congratulate you, gentlemen, that you have all
met for discussion unfettered by instructions and
unembarrassed by fear of any discord, the seeds of
which may lie hidden in your sub ject. You have
al prejudces to be gratifed. You of the North,
need know no North; you of the South, need know
no South; we of the middle, however, must be al
lowed to enjoy our happiness in knowing both the
North and the South and extending to one and
to the other alike our 'both hands, of welcome.
| congratulate you upon the miscellaneous char
acter of the delegations constituting this Conven-
ton, embracing gentlemen from almost every de-
partment of mercantile and professional life and af
fordng a very pleasing evidence of the general in
terest which this sub ect akenng in the nation
1t must not be that the members of the Medical pro-
fesson shall be alone in prosecuting this matter to
the end. All who have any connection with the
great shipping interests, must be brought to see
that the pecuniary advantages resulting to
merce will revert to the merchants and shippers
alone, while the men of the Medical profession, who
may nave helped to inaugurate the contamination
OF your hopes, can be repaid only by the conscious
ness oil having made the facts and science OF their