The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-09-24
A GLOWING TRIBUTE
WHAT An ENGLISH JOURNAL HAS
SAY OF YELLOW FEVER AND
TME SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
ELf1ndon Standard ]

resh cases in the Crescent City-Whieh, not
'ort, Is not half The Size Of Liverpool of 50
eaths there; showIng & mortality graetates eater
ns0SF e q Read fta6as thas a g
amous during the war. but Of altogether sec
hirty-six patients died on the same day; and
1t Memphis, subordinate centre of the cotton
nd < nd nsad Z pert h9fg on which
he Mississippi, no fewer than eighty-four died
yithin the same period Of tWenty-four hours.
after o city many dead have BEEN % found % anbrisd
ID their. houses A loss Of eighty, ,four. per diem
partly through terror ami consequent .aights
partly through the actual loss, remembering
hat each death represents three or four cases
Of helpless and dangerous Illness. In the less
wholesome streets the mortality must be such
rs to leave numerous houses without inhab-
Itants.
The country upon which this awful pestilenee
has fallen is of O. semi-tropical eharacter--hot
and wit WITH 1qFnriaaat y%sgetation %
in vast forests and extensive swamps; in short.
cursed with every limatic condition. every So
could afford advantage to the pest. All fevera
are favored by heat acting upon decayinR vege~
faee or % mhr bs Mhed a the a
quickly carried off This desert ptfon fits the
ley Of the Mississippi in particular, and It can
not but suggest to every man. even eighty
with the course OF malar1al and
climatic feverS the idea OF u country sure TO
indeed, is the characteristic OF the South. Ths
and ioWglands often p wholly uninhabitable during
the warmer months OF thee, year; SO that white
farmers having to. reap their harvest Of rice,
to huts built In the pine forests Tor. as they are
the st frost gives i've token that The low Country
is safe. On the lower Mississippi, the natural
evils Of swamp and half ultivated land, owing
Its richness to deep deposits Of bali. u .deeayed
ASssSeS fsE p a
ievees % ana analogous ' to the dykes Of Holland
would be always uninhabitable and period
iealy flooded SO es to render its oultlya
iImmediately around it are worse situa cd gtill.
rne bed % ae az II or no
above the city to the utmost extremity Of the
de u has bsen 9Tod by the ds1S Fl
doubt cemeated BY quantities 9f drift wood and
stream and iniermixed with its lighter and less
parently solid. under which the digger inds
Of ''Gt feet no or % So Below the he's surface. fhe
graves of, the surrounding cemeteries are
a5ve a6 sqpk IL rbs esGH Darts the 81 the city 3a es
the the traffic chiefly gathers. whore vessels
are loaded with the produce brought down from
disorderly. The fact that the lower classes are
In o lsh bat % t6a 6sy Adfsan aind
OF slavery, has 10 doubt added very materially
to the unhealthines OF these quarters NeH Orr
coasts. at least, as far as Charleston Is so reg
| ularly visited by the yellow fever that the cid~
zens regard It as sure and inevitable conai- I
malaria oyer the Roman Campagna. But un-
| like the Roman peasantry the people of the
| South will venture, whore profit is to be made
| largest crops o., cotton and tobacco, sugar ana
t6reatened ss, Manhattsn.S onee once familiar e al ali
marked marked that terrible as s he yellow fever, Ii Ii
| not on the whole half 50 destructive as the ner-
mapent maarIe called the eoqnfry a
destroys forever the constitution of numbers
who nominally recover. Such is the character
which has fallen this. year one OF those awful
visitations with which England Is acquainted
only through history and books Of travels.
| more resembles In horror and destructive
ness the pestiillenee now a affiieating Iadng our our
n 'nS scnaep1 sssnbss % nsas
| smallpox as 1t was knoWn-the !ever-oVer-
hanging +ka terror OF families an syl far ers
Stuarts. As yet the evil has not run its course
There are no signs OF any relaxation In IFS vio-
l
before the change of climate which serves the
| Southern States for q winter can be expected ID
check Its course; and by that time It may we'll
plague as known in the Leyans and at Constan-
| tinop1e, or as it once visited London and left
behna it tad a G s Ip9aaa and eF9b
Death Of the middle ages left her .sother- land.
| reft OF one-third of her population
| The younger among US cannot perhaDs. res.
member the keen, warm sympathy With which
the English Of 1se1,e5 witnessed The heroic
against six-fold odds of numbers. and odds Of
position; resources vantage ground simply IN
with the Northern States we're unfavorable to
the cause OF great nation reyolting against q
real tyranny & e3pd not but fee m groud 9I our
SO designated by their enemies which. ON ffty
battle-helds, maintained contest such aa M no
tained, sii "a and d. at last, whom ali hope was
gone, held for six months, with forty
rsd asd z sSaisst eaasr Ina
Of earth works thirty miles in length: VINO
marched out 5000 strong. and after six days.
overwhelming artillery and Infantry pressing
them on all sides, surrendered at last but 5000
bRayonets and sabFe9 of It Is s pgbopl the
whom q more terrible, more mereiless enemy
has now fallen. There can be now no division
and Keep up the he courage 3 needed m for the ocea
sion. Yet the men and women OF the South are
| true to the old tradition. Her youth volunteer
to serve and die In the streets of plague
stricken cities as. readily as they went forth
| boys and, gray haired men, TO meet the
threatened surprise OF Petersburg-as they
| volunteered to charge again and again tho
Ecannon- crowned hills OF gettysburg, and w
enrich with their blood, and han0r With the
mond. Their sisters. nnofffers. wives and
daughters are doing and suffering Now. as they
| suffered from famine. disease. Inesasant ankles
civil war. There may be among the various
nations Of the, Aryan family one Or two wlls
troops like those which followed Lee and John-
ston, Stuart and Stonewall Jackson. But We
| doubt whether there be ore race beside our own
i that could send forth It's children by hundreds
/ TO lace In towns desolated By the yelIoW fever
i the horrors Of nurses life, and the imminent
terror of a martyrs death.
|
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