The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-22
LErTER YRoM THIBoDAUX.
TEE FEVER DID xo1 ORIGINATE T TEE con.
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E1. .tor Ncrr,ra GtI-.
Fit be rot ercrcschirg too much on your
valuable tine sud space, feigu would be a..
lowed ius. snug little nook in the columns
of tie STAR. to nestle few words in tie cause
Of j1sI:ce ard truth.
II would seem ,aat oar voithy Mayor hasre
ported il the city papers that the yellow fever,
our EOS. un=e.come guest 1T present, 90 origna.
ting here i tie Convent Of the Sisters OF Mount
Carmel, si:aa.ed jas, az o stones throw from
the lowe, corporate limits of OR town. Tha.
nsyor Grisanore should have been induced 70
sead sueh a repor. OF its mission to tie pablc,
through tie medium of the press, backed by
the weigh. Of his nsne, does not il tie least
e1c.ta cur worder, since it is jast =. report
tha, tas beea circulating in our community for
tie lass three or four weeks, and TIE opinion
tt q: yeAseneraily obtains.
do 10, entertain even the shsdo~ Of a
doubt thstSae Mayor has acted in perfect gooI
faith aad c+!y given expression TO VIA. fin
COMMON vita many Others, he siucere,7f be-
lieved, and perhaps still believes. 80 tie
pare, simple tr.rn. II justice to him, an to
these Of our :owasnen who entertain the sane
opinion, T~i!l add that circumstances weSe
81, ,zularly calculated to lead to sach q belie.N
Yet, Let rs not forget that circumstances are
often deeei.fal, and Judging from them solely,
i, ofssn times happers that when We think
oa-se!ws nearest TO the truth, il is even thea
| We are te farttesr removed from that psec:.
ous treasure. That such may be the case 10
she present instance, Is 10, only possible bu.
even highly probable, ss it is made apparen.
By tie sabjoined card of the Sisters Of Aocnt
| caruel, clipped from the colamrs of las: Sat-
81 -
uis,akable language, and tie Sisters are very
| emphatic il their denial of tie alleged origin
Of tie yellow fever in Thibodaux.
| We, Sisters of Moun: Carmel, will thank you
/ for ounun!catirg 70 the MoRSISG STAB and
| ether papers freely aad coIidentislly upon
| every topic on which you may deem i import
| ant for such papers TO receive Information.
Bat We ask of you, as the chief magistr ate Of
! our town, TO please remember the old stosy
about the Three BlIet CTo.cs. And we wish you
| ID distinctly uEderttAnd that we refute the
false assertion CT the yellow fever frss otis-
| mating in the convent. 1t WAS brought into Il
by Sister after 8 visit to sick person in the
| town Of Thibodaax.
Besides, it is falsehood to say four Sisters
| died in our Convent of yellow fever. We lost
the second Of consumption, aud the third cf yel'
low fever.
We avail ourselves of this opportunity to
thank those noble heroes of humanity who
bury our dead. Accept, gentlemen, pledge Of
our gratitude for your generors services. May
the remainder of your lives be as happy 81
your actions have been useful and glorious.
SISTERS OF MOUNT CARMEL.
ThibodGR1. S>pte|beT II, 1s.c.
| only wish to add, that the causes given IN
the Sisters card of three deaths in their inst
tuition, are the same causes assigned By their
attending physician, D.. Il. Dansereau, gen.
tleuan whose integrity of character and the
weight CT whose opinions as Q practitione:,
very few in our community are disposed to call
into question.
With tie hope that you will open your
columns to the cause Of Justice and give the
good Sisters Of Nour: Carmel of Thibodan1
the opportunity to set themselves ar ght in tie
eyes of your COMMIT unity where they have been
uuwit:ingly misrepresented remain.
Respectfully yours, P c.
In connection with the above We desire 70
state that the Sisters were mistaken in suppe'
sing that Mayor Grisamore had communicates
with tie STAR. his telegram was pubiished
in the Picdyane. AID as containing news OIL
; general interest was copied by us. at tie
time we had 40 doubts corcernin G the accufsc7
of the statements, bat upon the emphatic
denial of the Sisters, who certainly know
much more about the matter than Mayor Gfis'
smore does. we satisfied that be wss 81
greatly mistaken in stating that the yellow
fever originated in the convent as be was IN
his ether statement that fou- Of the sisten
had fallen victims to it.
The names Of the deceased Sisters are Misses
a. and E. Martin, oftae Parish Of Assumption
and Miss E. Thibodsux, Of the Parish OF D.
James. AS stated in the card of the Sisters u
Mount Carmel, one of these Sisters died Oh
consumption, another Of bilious fever s1d ''s
third, only, of yellow fever.