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Domestic News
May 18, 1816
Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
What is this article about?
Communication regrets and refutes claims of an epidemic in the City of Washington causing visitor deaths, particularly Mr. Dexter's, praising the city's healthy climate and criticizing unfounded libels.
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[COMMUNICATION.]
It is with much astonishment and regret, that we notice the occasional mortality of our annual visitors attributed to an epidemic "raging" in this city. It would seem that those who visit the seat of government, expect to be exempted from all the diseases and complaints most common to our nature, and that a seat in Congress entitles a man to enter immediately on a state of perennial existence. There has perhaps no district of our country been so peculiarly spared from local complaints and epidemics, as the City of Washington, and no spot of earth been more traduced, and even whose climate has been so much libelled.
The decease of Mr. Dexter, has been announced throughout the United States, with an exaggerated & unpardonable account of the prevalence of a contagious fever in this city, no less illiberal than unfounded. We did not before think it necessary that the eligible situation and salubrious climate of Washington required a vindication. We hope that the error will be corrected wherever it has prevailed.
It is with much astonishment and regret, that we notice the occasional mortality of our annual visitors attributed to an epidemic "raging" in this city. It would seem that those who visit the seat of government, expect to be exempted from all the diseases and complaints most common to our nature, and that a seat in Congress entitles a man to enter immediately on a state of perennial existence. There has perhaps no district of our country been so peculiarly spared from local complaints and epidemics, as the City of Washington, and no spot of earth been more traduced, and even whose climate has been so much libelled.
The decease of Mr. Dexter, has been announced throughout the United States, with an exaggerated & unpardonable account of the prevalence of a contagious fever in this city, no less illiberal than unfounded. We did not before think it necessary that the eligible situation and salubrious climate of Washington required a vindication. We hope that the error will be corrected wherever it has prevailed.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disease Or Epidemic
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Washington Epidemic
Mr Dexter Death
Contagious Fever
Climate Libel
Seat Of Government
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Dexter
Where did it happen?
City Of Washington
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
City Of Washington
Key Persons
Mr. Dexter
Outcome
decease of mr. dexter
Event Details
A communication expresses astonishment and regret at attributing occasional mortality of visitors to an epidemic raging in the City of Washington, defends the city's salubrious climate and lack of local complaints or epidemics, and criticizes the exaggerated account of Mr. Dexter's death as unfounded and illiberal.