Last summer. as all will remember* a foreign steamship company sent one of its vessels from an infected port. and with a living sepulcher beneath her decks. with flying colors. entered the harbor of New York. utterly regardless of the sanitary laws of that Commonwealth and of the hundreds and thousands of human lives being imperiled at the port of destination. Had it not been for the heroic conduct of your sanitary officer in that city there is no foretelling what disaster might have been inflicted on our population. The master of this ship was willing to tie his vessel to the dock and actually to distribute his cargo and steerage not only in defiance of the laws of New York. but in disregard of the maritime code of nations. This instance. Mr.
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