The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-07-15
!, INA Y,e,,ow-Fever.

me Yenow-F
!. I, i. ,r,,lfy,ns 40 know that tue scare
- = rs,,ow.seyer has found q decrcastne
eooas - .ms,epance since. fts drst mani I
s . .,,on. ma j. Is 10 be hoped that in TINS
IL. the tendency will continue. we NO
lice that the Impulse excited On the instant
10 very lsgI strong. It ran u brownsville,
nam. to the madness 81 threatening the
dsstruc,ion 81 the Louisville and Nashville
rs,lroad bridges 10 cur OF communication
with Memphis. The people Of BrownoVll'e
promptly met and pledged themselves 70
defend The. bridges and property Of the
compaay.
galveston, Little Rock, Ark, Greenvii'e,
Miss, and Montgomery, Ala. have estae-
lishcd quarantine against Memphis. Tncre
is something horrible in all this, and We
cannot doube that its folly VIII be manifested
ia time, and that it Will beploycd that Siie5
idea that communities are to be protected
from the liability Of humanity to epidemic
polson bsuuarantine Is IN greet degree a'mls-
take, while quarantine Itself, in some Of It's !
phases, is cruel and inhuman as vel, IS IN
effertual. We had osce experience in this
sort oil quarantine, where lit Eas absurd,
vet itaiid not fail to maEe THOSE sub ected
TO ftsgreat sufferers.
We earnestly trust that tke high 'cSpec'a-
ticns OF an exciting time with yellow-feVer
will not be realized. We regret the TOO
sanid manner in which our peopleseem sus-
Az oSio
mot think that that sort OF CONDITION. OF Tue
nnLlic mind promises BEST for the treatment
.and management of the disease, should u
,appear ia violent form. Excited and agl-
tated people are not the best persons TO ACT
!, In time OF danger aud perlt-at time
! when life is to be protected and comfort ana
subsistence to be dispensed amongst suffer-
Ing and exposed people.
We have our own ideas about The gene
ral discussion and measures elected by Inc
apprehensions Of that most dreaded form OF
contagion, yeliow-icver. Much the lesser
part Of the United States is properly con.
sidered in the yellow.fever zone, and the
experience OF the country is too protracled
: in time and thoroughly decisive to permit
us to suppose that there is danger OF the
spread OF the disease In that part OF the
Union. Yet we see The whole Congress e.
cited and persons in regions not at all III
danger prominently active ia philosophis
ing and advising about yellow-fever. Com
mittees and boards and agents were bar
snessed and equipped and didacsic es'
says and counsels were diffused with
an energy that might have suggested
to the minds OF suspicious persons that
there was something to be made by many
who would probably never be in sight OF
ycuow-fever. 1t was not unlike the Paw
nee war;" so we'll remembered in Rich
mond. There was such 4 demonstration at
that time that had our northern friends be-
held it there would probably have never
been any war at all. But when the war
did come the heroes oi'the Pawnec war did
not make any very decided impression.
We arprehend that many who have made
very much notoriety. in expatiating on last
years history will preserve secure posi-
zion when, danger comes to the front.
What the country wants in eXigency is
Gglas sStl-l)oSSCSSSA, cAlCl iCHSCu hheh i1l' -
OF courage and Of heart, men OF sympathy
aud sound judgment and practical inge-
nuity. We must al feel that there's a Pro
violence above us whose ways are in
scrutable and whose course we cannot con.
troll. We cannot prevent the calamities it
allows to occur, nor can we escape the duty
those calamities deEelye on US. We are all
4amenable to the same laws, and in project
Jug and relieving our fellow-men in such
calamIties we are in fact securing to
ourselves like assistance and sympathy
when we, too, are victims ef un-
foreseen and unavoidable disasters. II
it be possible to keep we'll together such
men in places Of danger, or from which
the proper succor can he promptly Afforded
TO those most liable to peril aud alniction,
that would be well, and that is what should
be. But we have no idea OF good to come
from the headquarters Of what might be
scalled carpet knights" ut the time when
real and active and brave and skilful and
-deeply-sympathetic action is demanded.