Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-06
The REGISTER and our surgeon.GeperaI.

The Register ana our SUPERINTENDENT
: The Editor of the Register, who is never happy
except when he is assailing and scolding some one,
attempts to show in of his late issues that Sur
geon General Warren labors hard to find something
to do and that the Legislature acted very improp-
erly in appropriatIng 100000 for the benefit OF
our sick and wounded soldiers, and $4,000 for the
purpose of preventing the spread of the small pox.
Soon after Dr. Warren accepted the Office Of Sur
geon-General he was able, by going in person to
Virginia, to be of immense service to our brave
boys who had just been wounded in the battles of
Sharpsburg and Antietam. He found hundreds OF
them in a most destitute and distressed condition;
but with the energy and kind heartedness which
so emnently characterize him. he addressed himself
to the work before him, and the poor fellows were
soon in a much more comfortable situation, and he
left them with their blessings on him and on Gov.
Vance, by whose directions and in whose name he
acted Since then he has been interchangeable in his
efforts to relieve our sick and wounded. Instead OF
laboring to find something to do" as the Register
charges, work requiring his attention has crowded
upon him He has already rendered invaluable SER
vice his Office. Tho "prncely sum of 5000 ,00o,"
mentioned by the Register, was we believe, undTei-
nopsly placed in his hands by the Legislature; and
the bill approPriating this amount must therefore,
have been supported by the Registers own friends.
We do not entertain the fears which the Register
seems to do, that the money will not be properly
expended.
So far as the appropriation for vaccination is con-
cerned we concur with Our friend of the Salem
Press that it is wise and proper measure. 1.-The
wise man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself but
the fool paSSeth Oil and is punished" The Press
| says:
at is well known fact that the smallpox that loath
and often fatal disease is spreading throughout The
cuuntry-havng been and still beng introduced by soldiers
returning from camp and the hospitals and 1t Is right and
that precautionary measures should be resored 10
mitigate aud its progress and the beneficial ell cts
of the appropriation particularly the poorer LASS
of the people who might otherwise have been exposed To
the ravageS Of the disease, without the least pruectnn
NAV prove ncalcn,ab'e we much surprised to
any opposition raised TO this humane appropriation
great many sacrificed in the prosecution OF this
and shall adopt - protect those from
disease, who remain ut home US much Us possible inut
they may the better and abundautly provide for
| themselves and those in the army
But these appropriations-the one to succor and
relieve the sick and wounded soldiers who have been
fighting. our battles, and the other to prevent the
spread, especially among the poor, of lOathesOme
disease-are denounced BY the Register as useless
and extravagant, and an attempt is made to manu-
| OUT Ol tneIn 1HeTe -
so humane or sacred to be against the
sauts of that journal 1t seems to revel in its ex
hibtiOns Of malice against the Legislature, because
that BODY, actuated by motives of humanity ant
policy, made provision for. our sick and wounded
soldiers and endeavored protect the people against
the small pOX. It's attempts at wit at the expense
of our excellent Surgeon General are as pointeS:
as they are cold hearted and malicious. Our brave
soldiers, covered with wounds and Frustrated by
disease contracted IN camps, may anguish and die
without the Slightest attention being shown then
by our State government; and the small pox may
spread from house to house, and decimate the grea
body of our people, and no hand must be raised t.
arrest it. This is the position occupied by the Reg
/ lister in the article which are noticing. W,
would not be cursed with the heart of the man $ht
penned that article for all the hOnors in all this
try. Why, even dumb beasts feel for each othe
in distress but here is journal which scruple
about expending little money to save the lives o
our brave defenders and endeavors to make capita
for the poor faction which it represents by ohjectn!
to an appropriation designed to arrest the spread
loathsome disease! Great God Are we, indeed
in the midst of civilized society?