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and exacting reality, and a long and intimate acquaintance with 
the lung plague has enabled England to pronounce without 
hesitation on the existence of the same disease in cattle exported 
from our shores. 
To come back to our own case, our self-appointed judges 
should have gone to the east and given some attention to the 
facts of the case before rendering their decision and visiting us 
with wholesale condemnation. They should have stood with us 
in the yards of the Blissville distillery in 1879, when the veter¬ 
inarians who had been hired by Messrs. Gaff, Fleishmann & Co., 
and who had denounced us in the public newspapers, and pub¬ 
lished a certificate that there was not a case of lung plague in the 
distillery stables, were invited to select from the cattle we had 
condemned those that they considered sound, and were furnished 
in every case on dissection, with the evidence in the lung exten¬ 
sively and most characteristically diseased. They should have 
stood with us in the field of J. E. White, of Sagg, Suffolk Co., N. 
Y., where nine cattle, infected by a bull calf from Brooklyn, stood 
ready to be shot. They should have seen the darkening faces of 
scores of the inhabitants, and heard the denunciations and the 
warnings that we would be held responsible for what they con¬ 
sidered a grave error and a high-handed outrage on property. 
They should have seen the urging necessary to get the executioner 
to do his duty and they should have seen the restoration of uni¬ 
versal confidence and support when the chests were opened and 
the masses of loathsome and characteristic disease exposed. They 
should have accompanied us in the rest of our inspections and heard 
the men who had been the foremost to denounce us offering to 
pay out of their own pockets the value of the animals we con¬ 
demned in case they should not be found after death precisely 
as we had pronounced them. They should have attended us in 
our work in the east end of Long Island, and seen that wherever 
a farmer had taken in a calf out of the infected herd brought 
from Brooklyn by Billard, there the malady had broken out and 
decimated the herd. They should have visited with us the fine 
Jersey herd of Mr. Watrous, Perth Amboy, N. J., where an in¬ 
fected cow, brought from a sale in New York city, introduced 
