Earlier text: THE BIBLE A GOOD DETECTERA STRANGE DISEASE IN IRELAND.
“For more than fourteen months a mysterious disease has been displaying rapid and fatal activity in Ireland. The first case occurred as far back as the 18th of March, 1866. An apprentice to a surgeon in Dublin had felt unwell, and remained indoors during the day, taking his meals, however, as usual. He had a bad night, and complained of headache in the morning, and his master then remarked some spots upon his chest. Dr. Stokes, an eminent Dublin physician, was immediately sent for, and saw the patient at 11 A. M. He found him perfectly collected, and in apparently ordinary strength; but the left arm and left breast were covered thickly with large purple patches of the deepest hue. Both medical men recognized that they were in presence of a case which, if an attack of typhus fever, was certainly such as neither of them had ever witnessed before. When Dr. Stokes returned two hours later, a great change had taken place. The patient was as self-possessed as before, but the left arm and breast were now completely black. At half-past one the young man was sitting up in bed, discussing his case with his master; and as he complained of great thirst, the latter went from the bedside to mix a cooling-draught, but upon turning round almost instantly he saw, to his horror, that collapse had set in, and by 2 P. M., within little more than twenty-four hours of the first sign of indisposition, within eight or nine hours of the appearance of any formidable symptoms, and within half an hour of being in full possession of all his faculties and of a considerable amount of muscular strength, the patient was dead.” “A few other cases occurred during the spring and early summer, all presenting the same general features, and all fatal; but with the appearance of cholera in August, this strange disease vanished. With the approach of spring, however, it re-appeared. One of the earliest of the new cases was that of a healthy child about five years old. Here the first symptom of illness was noticed at 8 A. M.; at 11 A. M. a small purple eruption appeared, generally diffused over the body; at 1 P. M., the whole body was covered with large purple patches; coma gradually supervened, and at 2 P. M. death. The last audible utterance of the child were complaints of cold.” “Another case occurred at the Portobello Cavalry barracks on the 17th of April. An officer had complained on the previous morning of feeling slightly unwell. He got feverish toward night, had little sleep, suffered headache, and was occasionally incoherent. In the morning, about 9 o’clock, purple spots appeared, which spread rapidly both in size and number, until the whole body became covered with them. Collapse set in with the usual suddenness, and at 11 A. M., he was dead. Within ten minutes after death the superficial purple hue had given place to a rose red. “In the following week a boy about nine or ten years old was attacked in the same rapid way. When seen at 1 P. M., his body was dotted with purple specks; the pulse was scarcely perceptible at the wrist, but the action of the heart was perfect; he was in full possession of muscular strength and mental faculties, and felt so little ill that he complained bitterly of being kept in bed. At 7 P. M., he was dead. “In the beginning of April the first provincial cases were noticed. They were connected with the troops who had been engaged in pursuit of the insurgents through the Galtee mountains. Two or three soldiers, a married woman, and a couple of children were attacked; the woman and one of the soldiers recovered, the others died. The fatal cases were remarkable for great suffering, which no skill seemed capable of relieving. Indeed the children appear to have screamed themselves to death in the violence of the pain which no efforts could mitigate. In all these cases there were indications of considerable inflammation of the brain and spinal column. “A special interest attaches to these military cases, as throwing some light upon the question of contagiousness. The mother of the children washed for some of the soldiers of the flying column, among whom we have just mentioned the attack of the disease occurred, and in this way the disorder may, it is conceived, have been communicated. At this moment a woman is in the Meath Hospital in Dublin with her young child, both suffering from this malady; and Dr. Stokes, who has them personally in charge, has declared his conviction that this is an unquestionable case of contagion. “It appears, then, that a strange and terribly fatal disease exists in Ireland, and as yet chiefly in Dublin. The general features of the preliminary stage are bilious vomiting and sometimes purging, and usually headache of unparalleled intensity, with incoherency. Then comes the purple eruption, accompanied, in most cases, by great debility, and followed by collapse and death.” Shall We Have a State Church?
We have already referred to the astounding fact that, contrary to the clear spirit of our Constitution, the Legislature of this State and the municipal authorities of the city of New York have appropriated large sums for the support of sectarian establishments, and—still more astounding—almost exclusively for the benefit of the Roman Catholics. We have since received a fuller and more detailed statement; and, looking over the list of donations—all extracted from the official reports of the Comptrollers of this city and the State—we find it difficult to comprehend how such a violation of one of the fundamental principles of American institutions in favor of the most implacable enemy of these institutions has been possible. How men who were brought up as American Protestants, and still pretend to be American Protestants, could be induced to vote thousands of dollars for supporting the sect which still prohibits the erection of Protestant churches, and even the profession of the Protestant creed, in Rome, in Spain, in Portugal, in almost all the countries of South and Central America, and in every country in the world where it has the power to do so, we cannot understand. The Protestant sentiment of this country has been lulled to sleep, and our worst enemy has availed itself of this moment, and insidiously appropriated the money of Protestant people for the purpose of building up Popish institutions. It is time that every Protestant in the country, and, indeed, every man who is not willing to restore the spiritual despotism of Rome, should fully appreciate the grave significance of these facts. The following are the main points in the statement above referred to: From the official report of the State Comptroller, it appears that during the year ending September 30, 1866, the Legislature of the State appropriated $50,525,49 for sectarian churches, schools, asylums, and hospitals, and of this sum $45,674,14 were received by Roman Catholics. In addition to this sum, a special donation of $78,500 was made, in 1866, to the “Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Orphan Children,” and since the beginning of the present year, a second appropriation of $80,000 has been made to the same Society. Thus, the sum of $129,025,49 was appropriated by the Legislature of the State of New York during the year 1866, and the first month of 1867, and of this sum $124,174,14 was given to the Roman Catholics. In the city of New York, the Common Council, in62 1863, appropriated the sum of $97,522 for sectarian purposes, and all, with the exception of $5,522, for the benefit of the Roman Catholics. The aggregate amount of donations from 1850 to 1865 was $578,145—most of them for sectarian, and, in particular, for Roman Catholic purposes. Nor is this all. Extensive donations of land, ill-concealed under the guise of cheap “leases,” have been made to the same Church. Thus, two entire blocks of ground on Fifth avenue, between 51st and 53d streets, have been “leased” to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum for ninety-nine years, at $1 per annum. These lots are at present worth about one million of dollars, and the Roman Catholics to such an extent regard themselves as their lawful possessors, that they have begun to erect on one of these blocks a cathedral of capacity to seat 15,000 people. The facts to which we have referred have not been known as they ought to be, or public opinion would have prevented such donations, if not in the city of New York, at least in the State. The only effective remedy for the future is an explicit law forbidding any such appropriations to be made by the State Legislature, or by municipal, county, or town authorities. We are glad, therefore, to see that a petition is being signed to the Constitutional Convention sitting in Albany, praying that body to insert a clause in the new Constitution of the State prohibiting all such appropriations.—The Methodist. DR. NATHAN ALLEN, of Lowell, recently delivered an address before an agricultural society, in which he contended that the native population of Massachusetts was running out. He said that the population was decreasing in many towns. This fact may be accounted for by the absorption of the lands by the few, and the emigration of the people to the West. Population has decreased in twenty counties of Ohio during the past fifteen years from this cause. But when he states the fact that for several years the births in American families is far less than the deaths, he perplexes us very much in attempting a reply. Then when he says that such is not the case with the foreign element, but on the contrary, their families have two or three times as many children as the same number of American families, he again states a fact on which he can defend his theory against all assaults. We quote the following passage from Dr. Allen’s address; The records in Lowell show that for some time, among the American population, there has been every year more deaths than births, by about one hundred. In the town of Dunstable, made up almost wholly of American families, the record for five years shows more deaths than births, and within twenty-five years the population has been reduced by over 150 persons. On the other side of us, in the town of Wilmington, made up mostly of American families, there have also been more deaths than births, and this town reports less inhabitants now than it had fifteen years ago. It is about 200 years since the settlement of these towns, and their history will include some six generations. Now from an actual examination, it is found that the families composing the first generation had on an average between eight and ten children; the next three generations average about seven to each family; the fifth generation four and a half, and the sixth generation less than three for each family. The generation now coming upon the stage is not doing so well as that. What a change as to the size of the family now and in those old times! Then large families were common—now it is the exception; then it was rare to find married persons having only one, two and three children, now it is very common. Then it was regarded as a calamity for a married couple to have no children, but now we find such calamities on every side of us—in fact, they are fashionable! Every one who will look about him and a little into his family records for two or three generations past will find abundant confirmation of these statements. We know that the same tendency to small families is manifest in the West even now—in Ohio, even before completing three-quarters of a century from her first settlement. No one of a native family who is sufficiently intelligent to investigate the question, can fail to establish the fact that in the first generation of our population large families of children were numerous, and that the average per family was somewhere between eight and ten, while the average of the present generation is not and will not be more than four per family. It is evident that we in Ohio have become almost as respectable and nearly as weak and barren as they have become in Massachusetts during two hundred years of education and degeneracy! The reason why we have made so much more rapid progress in refinement is because of the fertility of our soil that has enriched us so much more rapidly. Besides this, the multiplication of machinery, the discoveries of precious ores and metals, the enlargement of manufactures and commerce, during the past half century have greatly hastened the work of civilization as compared with the three previous half centuries. Bad luck to us in these latter days that our boasted improvements have been so great! We have become wiser and weaker. Our refinement is but the synonym for physical delicacy and mental weakness! Our civilization means the exhaustion of the human race and its extinction very soon after, and in the same proportion as it becomes civilized! The facts show it. Facts, well defined, are stubborn things. But, it may be said that the merits of a people are not to be rated with the number of children they have. There might be circumstances under which a limited number of births would not indicate physical degeneracy, but such is not the case with our native American families. Formerly all women, with few exceptions on account of physical weakness, were proud of motherhood and rejoiced in the increase of their little realms in population; now many women sigh and whine and cry in view of this distinction, and thousands of constitutions are shattered and early death insured by desperate attempts to prevent it! Does not this prove a lack of physical vigor? All the functions of a perfectly healthy person demand exercise and the individual is happy in proportion as they are fully employed. One becomes “lazy” because of bodily unsoundness, and so does one shrink from any natural office or duty for the same reason. It may be said that our young wives so earnestly desire to improve their minds and enjoy the exercise of their higher faculties, that they have a disgust for the merely animal, and hence their anxiety to escape the bondage of motherhood! We do not see it. The desire to cultivate their minds we find displaying itself in a new bonnet for every change of the moon, in such shoes as are a certain receipt for a cough, in dressing up to fifty thousand dollars worth a year, and in all the wishy-washy small talk and flimsy reading that obtains in fashionable circles. We cannot perceive in this the desire for science, art, philosophy and genuine learning. On the contrary, it is sacrificing all the joys of earth and the race itself in an idolatry more abominable than ever was symbolized by gods of wood and stone. A genuine love for science would not be followed by colds, coughs and consumption, tooth-ache, sick-headache and every other ache that the doctors hear of, together with a terrible dread of those results which are surely indicative of sound health. The woman who rambles over the hills and through the plains and prairies in search of the knowledge of nature’s most beautiful exhibition, inhales health with the free air, and establishes solid vigor by the exercise. She could surround herself with a little colony of her own, and they would all share in her love for science. So of the acquisition of knowledge in any other department of science. True civilization, therefore, is not distractive of health, happiness and of the race itself. On the contrary, it is the only conservative power we have. It means science, the laws of health and obedience to them; duty and its performance; justice and its establishment in our institutions; progress and its dependency upon physical perfection. The Boston Journal makes a very lame attempt at a reply to Dr. ALLEN’s arguments. It says as to the excess of deaths over births in 1864, that that was an exceptional year, and that the excess is due to the deaths of soldiers in the field and hospitals. In reply, let it be said that the excess is seen in other years, and will continue to be seen until the native Americans mend their manners, and break loose from their fashionable and enervating habits. In 1864 there were six thousand more deaths than births in the American families of Massachusetts. To show how this is exceptional, the Journal says: The whole number of Massachusetts soldiers known to have died in the service during the four years of the war was 12,978, an average of 3,244 yearly. This average was probably exceeded in 1864, which was one of the bloodiest years of the war. That the number of births should fall below the number of deaths in such a year is not surprising. An annual average of 3,244 deaths in the army, or as 1864 was “one of the bloodiest years”—say 4,000 deaths of soldiers that year—still there are 2,000 excess of deaths over births to account for. Besides this a large, indeed the principal part of these deaths of soldiers were from the foreign element, as the natives largely “played out” and procured substitutes. In addition, the births should have been just double the number of the deaths, which would leave at least ten thousand more to account for; so that in fact the Yankees of that State are rapidly going into extinction. Who are filling their places? The facts tell us—for, in 1860, 260,000 foreign families produced more children than nearly a million Yankees! At this rate, how long will it take the Dutch to capture all Yankeedom—indeed, all of the “Universal Yankee Nation,” clear to the great lakes, the Gulf, and the Pacific?—Cincinnati Times. The Publishing Association.
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—APPEAL to Men of Reason on Immortality.
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—STATE OF THE DEAD, Brief Thoughts. Author unknown.
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—INFIDELITY and Spiritualism, shown to be of like character.
—WAR and the Sealing, an Exposition of Rev. vii.
—WHO CHANGED the Sabbath? Roman Catholic Testimony.
—PREACH THE WORD: An Argument for the Sabbath.
—DEATH AND BURIAL; or, Scriptural Baptism.
—MUCH IN LITTLE: A Collection of Choice Extracts on eternal misery.
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—SPIRITUAL GIFTS: An Argument to show that the Gifts set in the Church, 1 Cor. xii, Eph. iv, &c., were to continue to the end of time.
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