Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-27
THE FALSE RUMORS FROM NASH
VILE.
What Rev. DIR. HaygOOd Has to Say
ON the Subject

ON the Subject.
We find in the Atlanta Constitution of
the 18th inst, letter from Rev. DR.. Hay.
good, of this city, from which we make the
following extracts:
Editors Constitution: For the sake of
some of your readers who have friends In
Nashville, allow me to say lew words
about the cholera.
1t has been and is bad. Many have died
and many more have been sick. The best
informed physicians and citizens believe
that it reached its climax last Saturday, and
that it is now really abaLiDg.
Tie regular reports furnished 10y the
UNION AND AMERICAN and by the Repub-
licGn BGnner-our two excellent daily pa
pers-are reliable No reports furnished
by individual guessers, or by travellers who
hurry through, or by citizens leaving the
city can De exact. The regular reporters
get their information from the only persons
who can be informed--the undertakers and
sections. No doctor can give more than
guess from what comes under his personal
observation.
l see a statement by the special reporter
of city paper that the board of health sup
press the facts, and that on a given day 112
died. So bis family physician informed
him, What does his family physician know
about it, except as he is informed by others,
unless as to the few cases that he had the
misfortune to lose? Did he see one hun
bred and twelve people die ? No; the reg
ular reports are the only ones that deserve
consideration.
The cholera has attacked peopl of all
classes who have defied the advice Of our
physicians and the dictates of common
sense. But am safe in saying that nine
tenths OF the victims have been furnished
by three localities, whose Oh lracter your
Atlanta "Shermsntown," and other such
places, may help you to understand.
find in your issue Of Sunday morning
the following paragraph. 1t has caused
much unnecessary distress:
U~"The senior editor of the C0nstitu-
ton passed through Nashville last Friday.
He says that the half is not known. The
courts, schools, banks, and nearly every
other place of business, are closed. Silence,
disease and death reigns supreme in the
once happy and prosperous city. Not less
than $1,000 people have fed from its fatal
precincts, and the rest are going as fast as
they can gan transportation"
Allow me very respectfully to say that
lOul CASCA1ClAb 6OhlO1 DD1ub lulpOScu
upon him. l believe not only that the
Nashville dailies have told fhalf," but the
whole, to the best Of their ability to get the
facts. And they are certainly to be trusted
TO these gulpers who stand on the corners
of the streets retailing sensational stories.
l heard of one court that adjourned. The
schools of n :shville and vicinity are all now
in their annual vacation, and completed
their terms-Omitting only the annual ex-
hibitions, cOmmencements, etc. The banks
are not closed. Our Publishing House
does large banking business daily.
"Neariy every other place of business
closed" Isaw three closed yesterday after
driving round the Square and through half
doZen streets-three fruit stands.
Business has suffered greatly, but ali this
about "SilenCe, death and disease relgning
supreme" was on the mart of the Col0nel's
informant, as sayeth Mr.. Arp, ''a metaphor
of speech" L don't know of machine
shop, or factory, or any large establishment
that has closed. Half of 1900 is a large
estimate of those who have left and yery
few are leaving now.
If Nashville had done as much 10 prevent
in April as she is now doing to arrest chol-
era, it is believed that we would have es-
capped the pestilence.
ATTICUs G. HAYWOOD.
June %, 1873.