The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-11
Letter from. William.
cESrRAL Texas. Sept ?. 1873.


now an object of universal sympathy.
Eagerly. all over this mighty com mon
wealth, the Galveston Daily News is sought
for its telegraphic column, containing ac-
counts of the ravages of a fearful scourge
that is upon your borders. Besides the COM
/ mon family hood of man, clearly demon
strated by the movements tor relief all over
the country, there is scarcely an intelligent
community, but has some membeF watching
| for the name of friend or kinsman in the
list of the stricken among your people
| When | saw that Judge Thomas Walton had
| fallen, 1 forgot all wherein we differed, and
shed a tear at the final absence of a man OF
/ intellect, of courage and OF power. He was
| a man who had worshipped at the shrine OF
The muses., had studied deeply the great
science of Jurisprudence, and had met death
and risked all that young lie holds deaT on
the field of battle. Then he met death face
tolace, as the soldier is wont to confront
the grim monster. He fell, however, in a
| a struggle with the same death coming in i
more hideous form, when he could have
honorably avoided the conflict. Moved by
sense of duty to his brother man, he met his
eud in the throes of terrible struggle that
made his body a frightful and dreaded spec
tacle. All honor to this heroic man! In
| him humanity claims a common legacy.
Nor minister of the gospel, nor sister OF
charity, who has yielded life in seasons OF
woe, deserve superior praise.
Painfully, 1 watched the dispatches for
the fate of Rev. c. B. Galloway, after l saw
| he was stricken down. How many times
| imagined his voice hushed and his good
wife and little ones whom l have seen
around his hearthstone, clad in habiliments
of unyieldiDg sorrow. Yesterdays dis
patches relieved my anxiety, and do pray
that this good news may be the forerunner
of general relief.
There exists no principle in nature but
can be met By an opposing and superior
force. Attraction of gravitation will bring
every stone to the ground, if elevated, unless
that stone is supported by some intervening
power. Acids, in the universe, would pro-
duce coTrosion, unless alkalies would meet
aud neutraliZe their effects. The Iightnings
of heaven would tear down the farest sruc-
lures and graudest ships to destruction but
tor the lightning rod, that leads them in
harmless paths. The smallpox would be
more terrible than the yellow fever, but for
the vaccination. There is some remedy for
yellow fever or some prevention. Nature
has been just and cannot be unjust. Her
secrets can all be found out, if sought for
properly. She must be wOoed assidiously;
and offerings, precious as that demanded by
CIlchas, for the return of the Greeks. must
be laid upon her affairs. Mr.. Jones
every malady; but his notions are so old
fashioned that L dislike sometimes to
mention them. Writing me on this subject,
he says: "Chills and fever, and ague and
fever, are themselves severe Affections but
nature almost uniformly furnishes boneset
to cure them, where they exist. William,
the doctors are scientific men, and many
times good men, and delight to cure people,
yet they have a hundred little pitfalls OF
powders and sugar-coated pills, and medi-
Gated perfumes, etc., for chills and fever,
when boneset and cold water are Natures
remedies for diseases generated by the vi
cinity OF swamps and the presence of MAS
ma. | know some people would rather
die than be cured by boneset tea, but Ma
ture has no sympathy with such fastidious-
ness, though doctors have respect for preju-
Dies. The king with the leprosy expected
to be told some great thing by the Prophet,
and despised the prescription TO dip seven
times in the river Jordan. That was worse
than drinking boneset tea, either hot or
cold, for chills and fever. The remedy lies
alongside It's cause, and must be sought
there, Nothing can exist without a cause.
In, ro1 itI, bI,l
8; % 49, has located a RENE
dy. II DIR. Walden or some other philan-
thropist, will offer SIC, 900 for a preventative
or cure for yellow fever, he will do more |
for the world than has yet been done by one |
man."
The very fact Mr.. Jones adds, that there
is not much liability to have the fever the
second time. establishes the con clusion that
the first attack destroys or eliminates some
principle that renders the system liable or
to its effects. If that principle
could be ascertained, and, as in the case of
small poX, some preventive could be applied,
the great secret would be reached.
Sc far as | know, there Is not case of
yell, W fever in Texas to-day, and we begin
o believe that there will be none. If YOU
L.
,pidemics, you will find that usually it has
confined itself to one side of the Mississippi
liver.
Crops of cotton here, though not large,
viii be good Corn crops are very abund
mt. The spirits of the people would rise
tut for the dark cloud lowering over your
ection. As before said, besides the genar-
i interest there is scarcely a community
hat has not special solicitude for some
ne walking in the sOmbre shadow of the
Hague. | had something to say about
ONE of the addresses in St. Louis last
lonth, at the meeting of the American |
Association for the Advancemento of Science |
ut prefer To hear from Mr.. Jones before [ |
lake a deliverance. Mr.. Jones and Bro. :
NTH both are opposed to coqueting with /.
and biologists and scientists \
hey say that the old religion and the old !
nth, they were felt and taught in Geor- !
ia fifty years ago, suit them and meet the /
nds proposed. The old Creator, the old
.rk, the cid Flood, the old He'll, and the I
Id Heaven, are all needed just as they q
ere then preached, and they should not be q
fecte1 by science. They are above :
,ience, in the region of taith--the unknow-
Dle y
This is rather a solemn closing for SOL
M letter. WILLIAM.
P. S. Green hackers have full State tick
in Texas. Tell Maj. Gibbs. G