New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-29
MEETING AT THE MERCHANTS Elk.
CHANGE.

The largest meeting ever known of the
merchants of New Orleans was held last
night, the twenty-eighth of September, al
the Merchants Exchange, ON Common
street, to take into consideration the action
| of the governor Of Texas in instituting q
quarantine between New Orleans and Gal.
weston. James j. Day was called to the
chair, and L. H. Joseph appointed secre-
tary. All kinds of business had their rep
Notwithstanding, bankers, cotton
and tobacco factors, and, indeed, almost
every branch of trade in the city. Among
the number present we're B. NJ. Pond, John
NJ. Payne and L. NJ. Joseph.
The following letter from prominent ply
sicians was then read, amid profound at
tention:
ORLEANS INFIRMARY, September q, 1871.
GENTLEMEN-In reply to your cOmmuni-
cation of this date, we beg to say that We
have, tor several weeks past, been cog
infant Of rumors to the effect that yellow
fever exists in New Orleans. For obvious
reasons, we have taken especial pains to in
vestigate the subject, and we can, in all
candOr, aver that neither of lis has seen
anything approaching the disease; that we
have not encountered a ply stefan who has
seen case and that we have no good and
valid reason to believe there is a case in the
city. Indeed, the health Of New Orleans
this season, and at the present time, is re-
markable.
Very respectfully,
ID. WARREN BRlCKELL,
SAMUEL CHOPIN,
C.. BEARD.
J. DICKSON BRUINS,
ID. c. HOLIDAY.
A committee was then appointed to take
the sense of the meeting.
The following are the resolutions pre-
sented by the committee, which were unani
mously adopted:
WHEREAS, The governor of the State of
Texas, and the board OF health of the city
of Galveston, have, in their united WISDOM
and through some sudden inspiration,
thought proper to declare the city Of New
Orleans an infected port. and to establish
against it a quarantine, as uncalled for by
existing facts, "a it is commercially detri-
mental in its effect: and, whereas, the
doubtful expedient of quarantine, upon
the utility of which the scientific world
is so much divided. should never he resorted
to- Except under the confirmed existence Of
v8lent contagious epidemics, and with
indubitable proofs in possession Of the au-
thOrities sustaining the same; and
Whereas. The commercial intercourse
between the city of New Orleans and the
State of Texas, 80 materially advantageous
to each, should not be wantonly trified with,
cemented, as it is, by years of friendly in
terchanges and trade, and by the geOgrarh
zeal ties of contiguous territory: and
Whereas, The city of New Orleans is
to-day entirely exempt from any epidemic
disease, and as healthy as any city of its
population. in the Union. as confirmed by
its weekly mortuary reports, be it therefore,
Resolred. That the merchants of the city
Of New Orleans, in public meeting as
sembled, solemnly condemn the course pur
sued by the governor OF Texas and the
board OF health of the city OF Galveston,
and pronounce it singularly unnecessary.
ineXplicably uncalled for, and CONNER
cially detrimental to the interior towns of
the State OF Texas and the city OF New Or
leans.
Resolred That due regard to existing
facts and the sanitary condition of this city,
as declared by the Board of Health, the Gov
ernOr of Louisiana, the Mayor OF the city.
the Collector of the port, the physicians of
the city aud the unanimous voice OF the
public press, imperatively demands. and we
therefore earnestly request as neighbOrs, of
the authorities of Texas the immediate re-
vocation of the proclamation of quarantine.
Resoieed, That a copy Of this preamble
and these resolutions be Immediately tele-
graphed to the governor of Texas.
There was great unanimity of feeling ex
hibited by al! classes of business men, and
it was the general sentiment that no such
earnestness in the mercantile community
had ever before been exhibited in New Or
leans.