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VAN BUREN, Martin. ALS ("M. Van Buren"), to C.C. Bainbridge, Paris, 8 April 1832. 4 pp., 4o, on a folded leaf. VAN BUREN ON HIS EUROPEAN TOUR AND THE OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA.
"TWO PERSONS HAVE BEEN LITERALLY TORN TO PIECES BY THE POPULACE UPON SUSPICION OF BEING THE PERPETRATORS OF THE DEED"
"Dr. Macauley & myself arrived here yesterday & hope to leave it the day after tomorrow for Holland, with an intention of making a longer stay here or on return if the Cholera, subsides which is not very probable. Its prev-alence here at the moment is dreadful, & has provided a degree of alarm altogether unprecedented. The number of new cases yesterday was rising of 700 & deaths 279 reported. Paris has undoubtedly had a severe attack of the disease but in general it is confined to the poorest classes....You may judge of the state of the public mind from the facts that most masses of the population have been found capable of believing that the cholera is the effect of poison & that two persons have been literally torn to pieces by the populace upon suspicion of being the perpetrators of the deed... "
"TWO PERSONS HAVE BEEN LITERALLY TORN TO PIECES BY THE POPULACE UPON SUSPICION OF BEING THE PERPETRATORS OF THE DEED"
"Dr. Macauley & myself arrived here yesterday & hope to leave it the day after tomorrow for Holland, with an intention of making a longer stay here or on return if the Cholera, subsides which is not very probable. Its prev-alence here at the moment is dreadful, & has provided a degree of alarm altogether unprecedented. The number of new cases yesterday was rising of 700 & deaths 279 reported. Paris has undoubtedly had a severe attack of the disease but in general it is confined to the poorest classes....You may judge of the state of the public mind from the facts that most masses of the population have been found capable of believing that the cholera is the effect of poison & that two persons have been literally torn to pieces by the populace upon suspicion of being the perpetrators of the deed... "