New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-22

under d million Of dollars before IL WAS Ihisneu'
end could not be- made available for Quarantine
purposes in less than two or three years. And no
one could ssy how our Harbor and the access to II
would he affected by such construction.
VIII There = just one place on all this EARN
which fulflls al the present requirements OF
Quarantine ststion-and that Is Sandy Hook. IL
i. Just about the same distance practically, from
our CITY TO-DAY that staten Island fifty years
ago: il is completely isolated from all clusters OF
population: it is too far from any other land 10
spread Infection ia view of the fact that east winds
do not aud cannot carry i; and il IL so located
that not one Jerseyman even, could b. annoyed or
endangered By Quarantine establishment on thst
tongue Of sand where twenty are by the present
location. The Quarantine will never be located
properly or permanently till it is fixed on Sandy
Hook, and money spent on building for It at other
points viii mainly BE- thrown away.
TX. For the selfish, dastardly contemplate
csmor and prejudice now rampant in New-Jersey
against a location at Sandy Hook Though much OF
the camor is sheer hypocrisy or electioneering
trick the blame must rest primarily on certain OF
our Shipping Merchants. who ruised money and
sent agents to Trenton TO tamper with the New
Jersey Legislature and defeat the deliberate resolve
and snxiou. desire Of their own State, lest the
proposed location should cost them few dirty
dollars; and if these merchants were 10 be- the
chief sufferers by the recent outrages there would
b. few tears shed in their behalf. But it IS hard
that the State which has done it, utmost to satisfy
and relieve Staten Island, should be treated by her
people a. public enemy.
X. Next to these intriguing shippers, the Staten
islanders have themselves mainly to blame. They
have made the Quarantine such a bugbear that
they have no right TO complain or be sstonished
that the people OF other localities resist its location
among them. 1t might be possible to justify the
recent 0utrsges By the fact that the Quarantine
buildings are located amidst dense population,
and therefore monster nuisance and peril; but
what shall We say Of the destruction Of the tenn
pOrary pest-hospitals at Seguines Point, where
they were surrounded BY spacious farms and with
hardly half dozen houses within q mile ? If you
say that was the act of few vagrant Oystermen,
We ask, Did the People of Staten Island ever
earnestly condemn it, Did they really try to
ferret out the offenders and bring them to justice
Remember that, but for that cowardly outrage, it
would not have been necessary to land fever
patients at Castleton this Summer. And if now
it shall prove impossible to procure Sandy Hook
for Quarantine station, the repeated acts Of mob
violence and arson perpetrated on Quarantine
buildings on Staten Island, without rebuke from
and apparently with the appreciation OF the
Islanders, will be the main controlling causes of
that misfortune.
Finally, we are utterly opposed to rebuilding
the Quarantine buildings at Castleton, or putting
up any other than temporary structures there. If
the People of Casteton have done wrong, let them
make good the damage and punish them for the
crime, if crime there be; but injecting them with
yellow fever, or exposing them to il, isnot proper
punishment We urge the removal Of the hospitals
TO some isolated location at the earliest possible
day