“For a time, we in this quarter will be EXEMPT, but it will surely reach us at last. For the rich, the whole world is a safe asylum, but for us, indigent.. If the disease spare us, we must perish by neglect & famine. Alarm will be far & wide diffused. Fear will hinder those who supply the market, from entering the city. The price of food will become exorbitant. Our present source of subsistence, ignominious and scanty as it is, will be cut off. Traffic and labour of every kind will be at an end. We shall die, but not until we have witnessed and endured the horrors that surpass thy powers of conception”