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<2S Eliot Strert,)
LAHOY SXTIsrX3JE:iIX-A.NT>.
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BOOK BINDING.
BLANK ACCOUNT BOOKS
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Courts and Counting Houses,
cJ n-initc-printed n the p£* without extra
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Magazines, ‘lii>ic.and Law Books
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.LEWIS,
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J2j & Groceries,
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CARPETINGS!
Floor Oil Mm,
mattin a-s,
n?J9S & WATS!
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V ‘.<• ~. fa; h wt!. *ld at tei
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Damask,
LACE and MUSLINS
Irtclow C* trtaiax.
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Perfumery.
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MACOX, GKOKGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1860.
THE BEST PIANOS MADE.
VV Ejir# now reeefvlm, to ov already aelected obxk of
f T Planoo, the eslehrated
Steinway Pianos.
7V* i; struirent* have■]ay. taktn U.eflnrt prize, tn all
UK wberevrrexhtbitrd. and are the only Piano* u>s-d and
re maended by the h,t art lot a. and Eutical CeleUriira, as
I no®, hch-trtei.ber*. Ail la, halter. Eialirid. Q< tthalk, Wol
r.hjti ■t. and a host of other*. They use onlysnU-inway's
for j>. 1 kc and private ure.
W e do not ;-m*cs gas enon<h to endeavor to create an ex
citenwct by mshin* a “great cry with wry little wool.” or
t'-yir* to shove i If in the ?*outbera market wtiat they ktdi
ci i.i at the North ; neither would we he a*eut, for Patent
Pian which live one day and die the next, as we had an
example in the VSolisn Attachment” Piano*, which w, re
the “ro” a few years hack, and which no one wauts now;
i it we keep an article which all must acknov dge to be
the bc-t who profess to know the b*st.
Persons who know us will, we flatter oorselv.a, acknow
ledge us to be judge*, and to ,'ran*trs we say lhat we will
j".event any per. m with One iiundied Dollars wiio can prfe
dice a pianist, Amsh ttr or profess.tr, resitlinc in Oeo'iria.
who is superior as icachcr or player to our H L. hchreiner ;
and further, alike ,omi w pp.p.ie toanv per* n who will
liisprovpthat we now have a pupil that is superior In Music to
nil. ’enihsof ailthe professors tn the htate of Georela.
A I Pianos ,o!i at New York prices. freixM only added
ds -17 ly JXO. C. SCHKKINEH * 50.,8.
aUMTE M HAUL
OPPOSITE THE LANIER HOUSE.
rp IIE Subscriber has opened the above Hall for theaccom
JL modation f Day !<• arders and Transient Customers.—
This House ir nowofft red as inferior to no other first Class Ho
tel in the South, and Inna Its central location, its large and
tiry r .oms, otf* r- ereat inducemeh’s and accommodations to
miles and Transient persons. The public may expectfrom
this House, all the luxuries and comforts to be round in any
at tier hotel. b. P. DENSE,
apr US -ts Let* of the Floyd House.
Oysters, Game, &c.
C. H. FREEMAfJ, t CO,
* RErr-w rrjuiy to Pi rve Cuntomera iu every atyle of the
Xa. :irt. with
FISH, FLESII, AND FOWL,
attjieirTatii z Saloon. Cotton Avenn*, Nfacon.
The will have supplies of Kish and Oysters, by every train
from the Seaboard a, well a,of beef,'Tame, &c.,from Fulton
market, New York, by every M earner.
I iicv have also made arrangements for regular supinliesol
chicki ns,Turkey*. Ac..from Cherokee Georgia, and Tonnes
ree during the season, and solidta cail from lueir friendiand
the public. no?. 19—ts
BOOTS AND SHOES.
AT THE SIGN Ol
THE 810 BOOT,
No. 3, Cotton Avenue,
OLiurs* ■■’caai a ’tb.-imaS
WasluHsrtoii lilock,
Macon, Ga,
fTVHK Subscribers would re
a. turn tbeir thanks fur the rE
very liberaland lnnp continued
nj fly manufutured, to our
WEEKLY JMlIlslII
Additir ns will be mitde, of all the different stylos and patterna
• n ■ BEffbo itore,and wouldtTttefluxwUl
: it urch:i-o. \o ill and and examine our stock, as we are
prepared t< aeiiaatow an any house in the city or State,
out. *,-tt MIX A KIRTLAND.
DLAITIfG,
jL Scroll Sawing,
Turning,
Carving,
Bracket ami Or
namental Work,
Oct. 1 ts M!e to order by T. A O WOOD.
Plantation Brogans.
N r OW in store* he Wt rsnortnaent of Kegro Shoes, we hmre
ever offered iuthis Market. Men's double soled peg and
ai'kandruamtts; do. hemvy NngieaoledblackmmlnM
•: !, } .< A voutlr* black ard nipetts, all of w.iich we
selliuffvery low. MiX & kI&TLAKP*
Land Agency.
THE subscriber* ire prepared to make locations
Land in all of the North-western States—lowa
Wincesota. Wisconsin and the Territories of Nebraska
nd Kansas, and solicit consignments of fnads or war
rants. far terms apply to JNO.H LONGLIY,
Macon, Ga.
JNO. B. DWlNNELL,Lodi,Wisconsin
aprlT d-ts
MARBLE WORKS!
]. B. ASTOFE 1 SOS,
Mannfacivrtr t of and Dealers in
rOUEIOT ATD BOYIKSTfC
MARBLE
monuments,
tomb stones;’ - .
MANTLES,
FURNITURE,
SLABS, An.,
Corm*r of 3rd anti Plumb Sts.
MACON , OA.
apj 11—ts.
HACO.\ & WESTER! R. HOAD.
i \N aLd iklter n trains will be run as
V 7 ftoliosrs:
Leave Mecm at 13n!#bl. Arrive at Atlanta 7.15. A. M.
Leave Msconat 1C A. M„ Arrive at Atlanta 4.00. F. M.
Leavt A ’a-taat IJr.i#Lt.Arriva at Macon 7.18A.M.
Leave A ii.taai 11A.M.. Arrive at Macn 8.00 F.M.
Tte 1C . nr. train from Macon connect* with the Western
h ’ ■.t at 6 <O, n. m.; connects with the _<ioorW*
Lt 13 at Land Atlanta* “cat IV.! nt Road at 13 sa. rn.
r >, rilslitv*'. will n<*be rvn ‘>n Sundays. „ ,
‘two nr...-!’ ti of the Vlr<ii..a and Tennessee Rail Road
. then ( *t pleasant and direct route to the
VIRGINIA SPRINGS,
‘ ‘Further ISEwHmmaj- be had in relation to this Route,
DWELLIHG HOUSE FOR SALE.
WITH ven toons and all necessary <ut buildlnfS for
-iSSsf* dr&’itrairo.
BOOTS.iii
A FULL asssortmeiito<Gat'sflne French Calf f
Boots, nuinp soi*. welted and water proof, of
various kinds and qualities, both sewed ami pegged. Just re
oeivedand for sale low by MIX * KiRTLAND”
ct, B,—tf
PLANTER’S HOTEL,
Broad Street,
Columbus, GUa.
undersigned liega leave to infom hi* old
X Maoi.n friends and the public generally that
lie has taken the PLANTER'S HOTEL, Broad Ht-
Coluiiilaifs where he will endeavor to maintain his
long established reputaUon of keeping the t>est Ta
ble and tin- liest aoeomodation which the country
affords. His house is in the oentre of business and
hr will always le ready to see the Planter and Tra
veller and treat him in a way that will give satisfac
tion to the most fastidious.
P. B.—turn ibus Will convey passengers to Planter's HoUl,
free of charge.
T. 8. KILPATRICK,
Columbus, Feb. 10—ts
Wantod Immediately,
1 iX O’ OD Tinners. 10 Roofers and Job Workmen, can
1” have steady employ ment, nd good wage*. None but
Good Workmen ne. and ajudy. W. J. McELROY.
Macon, Ua.. hept. Jl. d4w.
Hpectacles,
JN Gold and Steel frames, Gold, Silver, Steel and
Common Specks.
A splendid assortment just received, by
E J. JOHNSTON * CO.
NEW FIRM.
THE
c-arrylng on tne business in alllts bmnebes. We shall always
keep Phaetons'Carriages, Buggies and Horses, to hire on as
good terms as anybody. We also have the most ample ac
commodations for Drove Stock.
We would say to the public that we have taken the iff into
our mouth in earnest, aud can always be found with our har
veer on ready to serve you: we intend t.y keeping a straight
tongue, pulling together, and by buckling down eloseto bus
Iness, to succeed or break a trace. We shall never tin- fellow
inhltchln t u for you so long as you tome up lo the lick log
and settle Now if you want usto vag on,to rock-a-way ana
riot he sitlkg, in fact if you don't want us to check up too
close, put your shoulder to the wheel, give us a sbsre, audit
you And a ringle trace of ingratitude you may halter us.
Very respectfully, ADERHULD St JEFFERS.
Opposite the Passenger Depot avinraj.
rown's Hotel. apr 29—ts.
National Police Gazette.
THIS Great JoumalofCriraeand Criminals is In Its 19th
Year, and is widely circulate.', throughout the country
It contains a#the Great Trials, CrlmlnalCases.andapprop.'i
ate Editorials on the Bame, together with information on Cri
minal Matters. not to be found in any other newspaper.
tW~ Subscriptions, *9 per Annum,; $1 for Six Months, to be
remitted by Subscribers, (who should write their name*and
the town, county and State where they reside plainly,)
To K. A. SEYMOUR,
Editor A Proprietor of the
Nationr.iPolice Gazette,
Snr"9* d— ft Vew Tork
//'Consumption & Asthma Cured.
Dr. 11. JAMES discovered while in the Fiits
Indie*, a certain cure for Consumption. Asthma
Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, and General Debilits
The remedy was discovered by him when his
only child, a daughter, was given up to die. Hiy
child wa* cured and is now alive and well, l iesirou.
of benefitting his fellow mortals,he will send to those
who wish it, the recipe containing full directions I
for making and successfully using this remedy, M
free, on receipt of their names with stamp for W
return postage. Address, M
<). P. BROWN & CO., 32 &34 John St. /
dec 23 6m w * /
I>r. . A. WliiSOH’S
FAMILY PILLS.
Asa Family PiH, Wilson's are particularly recom
mended—simple and harmless, but highly madkinal in
their combiuation. One Pill a dhee, with mild but
certain effects. The robust man and the delicate child
use them alike, with every aesur.no. of entire safety.
With Wilson’s PiUs, every Mother In the land taw
cooiee her own physician. They have proved themselve*
a SMcinc. and stand without a rival for the following
affections:
MiIDAOHB, FEVER 4 AGrE, DISriPSIA, LITER POIPLAWT,
OEAIIACHK, FETRR 4 AGUE. DYSPEPSIA, LIVER OOIPLAIST,
HEADACHE, FEVER 4 AGUE, DYSPEPSIA, LIVER COIPLAIHT,
REIDAfHE, FEVER 4 AGII, DYSPEPSIA, LIVER COIPLAIIT,
Costiveness, Bilionfness, Neuralgia.
Costiveness, Biliousness, Neuralgia.
Costiveness, Biliousness, Neuralgia.
Costiveness, Biliousness, Neuralgia
IMIOTiaiIEIfcS,
Watch well your children, and when their troubles arise
from that great bane of childhood, W nrms, aarrib.
their lllneea to Ita true eanse, and remove it by prescribing
B. L. Fahnestock’s Vermifnge*
A sate aid sere remedy, prepared from the purest'maie
rlala, and has proved itself the meet effective antidote
for Worms ever offered to the public.
For sale in Macon by ZEILIN h HI'NT, an
GEORGE PAYNE, and sold by dealers everywhere,
jan 13—ly w
ATTENTION MECHANICS.
Fishlst Irov Works, >
Macon, December 17th, 1868. /
\No. 1. PATTEN MAKER. AND FOUR GOOD
Machinists, accustomed to Hteam Engine work,
can find steady employment by immediate applica
tion to the undersigned.
General laborers also wanted.
J. N. A 0. D. FINDLAY.
Servicing Partners of the late Firm R. KIND
LAY A 80 NB.
Telegraph Copy one month.
Dec. 17, 1869.
LONGSTREET, BRADFORD k CO.
MAXI’FACTL'RERS OF A!D WHOLESALE DIALIRS Tl
Or,
87 Chambers St., & 09 lieade St.
Between Broadway and Church St,
NEW YORK.
f.T. LONGOTRKKT, G. P. BRADFORD, G. H. WILLS,
W 2m *• P* GILBERT,
SIXTY KEGROES FOR SALE.
T HAVE JCST RECEIVED a lot of likely young
I Negroes from Maryland, and offer them at rea
sonable prices ; purchasers will please l'avor me|
with a call. Also, wish to purchasers good men and
women for the Western market, for which I will
t ade women and children or pay cash. Office on
the corner of Third and Poplar Street, near Harde
man A Sparks’ Ware House.
W. R. PHILLIPS.
Macon. Dee, ?L ’.M>.
VYDO IMpoalxs
AGAINST THE
dtuggs pianop
Not one of those who have purchased them, or
any disinterested person who knows anything
about them, but those interested in the manufac
ture or sale of other Pianos ara working against
Them for dear life. They know that when these Pi
inos are known, they will supercede all others as
sure as the sun shines. Those who purchase these
Ihatios. and disinterested persons who know what
constitutes a good Piano, are the proper ones to en
quire of, and not he Lr.r astrat hy the ridiculous lie#
told l>v the manufacturers ot other Pianos. We hav*
sold six of these Pianos, and any one wishing to
know how they are liked, can find out the names
of the purchasers hy calling at the Messrs. Virgin's.
We invite all who wish to buy or hearafine Piano to
call and see them. jn2t>tf9waw O. B. RICE.
For Sale*
1 AA BOXES CANDY.
I IM7 10 Boses Loaf Mn*ar,
HO Barrels Sugar,
too Sacks Coffee,
lUO Boxes Tobacco,
to. ooo Clears,
100 Grose Matches.
Joly t4_4C .L Jt. * W A. rtffftS.
For the Georgia Citizen.
ADDRESS
OP PROF. O. A. YOU HR AYE,
On the occasion of the Presentation of
the life-size. Portrait of the illustrious
Samuel Thomson, so the Reform
Medical College of Georgia, at Con
cert Hall , Macon, on tbe evening of
March l<rf, 1 *6O.
This is it great and gloriou* oecitaion. The
hopes that have lit up our pathway along
the summit of years, in this hour find their
triumphant and glorious fruition. We be
hold him whose very name the wave of pop
ular opinion submerged for nearly half a
century, to-day rise up, in memory, before
us, and on that canvass live again for pos
terity.
When men first fell in prostrate devotion
to the sun, it was not when clouds hung up
on the sky and obscured bis lustre, but when
in all the blaze of his glory he lit up the
immensities of space, and the grandeur and
majesty of his presence was felt as the eye of
God, watching over the universe. It was
when the streams trickling down the hills
smiled in his beams, and tbe trees and grass
and flowers warmed into bloom and beauty
at the touch that rippled with light the laugh
ing air as it played with the landscape.
It was then that men fell in idolatrous ado
ration. And as, with the benighted and
uncivilized of the centuries that have long
since slept, we find human nature still re
tains her laudatory appreciation* of brilliant
displayg, still choriihes her admiration for
splendid and triumphal greatness, and is still
blind and perverse to the merit that walks
along in humility.
The pomp and vanity of the long looked
for Jew's Messiah, was not more contradic
tory of reason anc intelligence than the pre
dicated judgment of mankind on the glory
of an action by the brilliancy of the effect
and success that attends it.
Truth never regards the locality, the hu
mility or the glow and glory that gives birth
to immortal things ; with the eye of Philos
ophy she estimates human nature in every
condition by the test es her own integrity
and intelligence, whether “buttoned up and
laced in the forms and cereraonios of civiliza
tion, or at her ease and unrestrained in the
light and feathered costume of the savage.*’
She came to earth in Lo light of glory, no
“medals, ranks, ribbons, lace, embroidery or
scarlet” glittered upon her brow, there was
no diamond decorations, no triumphal entry,
no bombastic harangue, but silently, when
“The sun went down n> ouuu. _..i 4
mourn,
The sad necessity of his return,”
when the starry shade fell in solitary loveli
ness over the plains of Bethlehem, did the
first living representative of truth open eyes
upon the world. Thera was no emblematic
purple, there was no kingly court, no Olym
pian Jupiter to thunder forth its arrival, no
guns roared in the park, no pealing bells
gave evidence of rejoicing ; beit the little
stars alone watched the hour, and pausing on
their journey, folded up their wings to sleep
’till morn.
What an impressive lesson to the public
opinion, that now sways and rules the world,
and yet what is this public opinion tbat im
peratively demands the auxiliaries of wealth
and power to challenge its attention or ven
eration. It has no limits, nor has it any do
mains, it takes its own illusion for senti
ments and fools make (hem maxims; like
the rain, opinions are born in high places
and soon fall down to mingle with the earth.
To breast this public opinion, to trample
on its pretensions and authority, to show my
disregard for opinions born in high places,
my contempt for exploded dogmas, my utter
detestation of every dictation that clips the
wings of discovery, so that it can neither
walk nor fly, I am hero this night to avow,
publish and declare my veneration and es
teem tor the memory and services of Samuel
Thomson, whose likeness brings back the
discoveries he made in Medical Scienco, and
inspires his disciples with new seal and new
aspirations in the great and glorious cause
which he bequeathed to the men who are
here around me, to be transmitted down to
posterity. I do not care whence he
sprung; who was his lather or his mother,
whether be toiled for his daily bread, wheth
er he was learned in the schools, or had ben
taught by naturo. If wealth had nunedhim,
folly played with him, vanity clothed him,
he would have left no tracks in the path of
scienco, he would have proclaimed ao prin
ciples to rally us around Reform, ready to
shed the last drop of blood in vindication of
its truth.
When wo gaxe in raptura at the picture of
Mirabcau, when we tee him “hi# breaet di
lated with an impetuous breathing, hie lion
sac become wrinkled and contorted, hi# eye#
shoot forth flame, when he roared and stamp
ed and ahook the fierce matt of hit hair whit
ened with foam, tbat trod the tribune with
the supreme authority of a master and the
imperial air of a King who would ask hit
origin or hi# authority. Surely God makes
some men that rise up like mountain! and
conceal from view the anceetry that lie
shrouded behind them.
Look at Napoleon, that made for himself
an alphabet of battles, every letter of which
was a victory ; ace h*m as amid the thunder
and lightning of war he issuee the decrees of
fate, regulatee, organise#, establiahea and in
•titutee law, order and government over ter
ritories still wet with blood. Bee the nation#
as they lift their head# In wonder and bew
at hi# approach. Who cam irhenca ha
sprung. The eye can scarce reach the sum
mit of his glory, and is toe much daasled to
discover the base from which it grow#.
at Washington l In Aha language
of another, “his fame is eternity, his resi
dence creation.” See him he stands on
the arch of fame, his arms entwined about
liberty, having washed the blood es battle#
from her face in the waters of glory and then
risieg up to the embrace of immortality.
But I might exhaust your own patience
and myself in multiplying these examplM of
greatness, so inspiring as tomakeyou forget
the source of its origin. To me the propo
sition is so self-evidently sustained- that I
shall not consider the birth or other early
associations of Dr. Samuel Thomson, in pre
senting to your miDds the reasons for which
we consider him eminently entitled to this
mark of our public veneration and esteem.
As this will require of me a review of
Medical Science and the proper illustration
i of his discoveries, by bringing them promi
. nently forward. It may not be regarded
unnecessary to bespeak your attention and
i patience. I am aware that many regard
medicine as a dry subject, as one not calcu
lated to awaken interest; but let me here
ask such if they have ever reflected on the
fact that it is among the most important sub
ject* in which you can find human interests
implanted—it is associated with death ; the
solemn hour approaches us all, when medi
cine at which we have, in the pride of health,
laughed and jeered, must be rseorted to f>r
the purpoao es restoring health, or saving u*
from a premature death; when the wife
stands, agonized, by the bed-side of some
suffering husband, one whose 7 ery look was
life to her, whose smile brought sunshine to
her heart and whose presence wae as summer
to his household, as her eyes fill with tears
that silently steal down her cheeks and make
the future look cheerless and hopeless ; think
you, has ske no interest in the subject of
medicine; or the husband, as he eeee the
face that lit up smiles at his approach, now
writhing with pain, feels the little hand as
soft as velvet now hot with fever, hears the
voice that once With merry laugh flung down
a shower of sunshiny thoughts around his
heart, now scarce articulate and feeble, and
her lips like heated coral, with no dew of
health upon them, think you, as he sees day
and night drag by their weary and saddened
hours, and he begins to feel death’s shadows
creeping from the walls, and all of earth ha
loved mt: t soon be tsrn from his side, his
hopes bleeding, his heart broken, amid hi*
sighs and tears has he no interest in this
theme. The most absorbing intereet clings
around this subject. Atsueh an hour as I
have described, imagine aomo one enter and
say, dry tnoac tears, let tny Peart cease its
sighs, let thy spirit be gladdened. I can re
store this sweet and lovely form to health;
she shall pillow her head upon your breast;
her heart shall beat responsive to your own ;
her voiee shall sing again with merriment,
and away down the hill of life, when the
suns of many a year shall have risen and set,
you will stand with her, pleased with the
contemplations of the past and cheered by ,
the anticipation* of the future. For such a |
scene language is tonguelese; though it went
upon its knees and begged for words, it would 1
still rise up mute with tears and silence.
Many a scene like this the Reform Physi
cian has had transpire ; many a time has the
reward of many a weary journey been found
in the pleasure of such a moment; and sure
ly a single instance of such ought to entitle
the father of the system to merited honors.
I see around me men who love that form;
who glory in Thomson, because their own
hearts beat fast as they think on loved ones
saved, whom they know must have perished
save by the use of the very means he has set
forth, discovered and defended ; and is it not
natural that when this has happened until
over four millions of people are believers in
his system of medication, have used his treat
ment and have preserved liveedear to them,
that they should rejoice in this scene and re
gard it aa appropriate and proper. The
statesman may save a sinking Empire; the
warrior carry ita flag to victory ; the lawyer
expound ita laws; but the physician is the
preverver of the life of ita paople. The
statesman, with his arguments, may over
power opjioeition to his country, the warrior
go out and crush ita foes, but the physician
goea forth to meet pestilence, welcome peril,
and, in tho discharge of his duty, shake hands
with death to preserve the health of the citi
zen ; honors are heaped upon men who kill,
and seldom on men who cure. The Captain
who captures an Indian gets mtfre credit than
the Doctor who cures a camp; and yet aay
Allopathic friends, for whom I have the
highest respect, and who think with me, this
public opinion is wrong, outrageously wrong,
will, in the very instant of the acknowledge
ment, urge ita evidenee in favor of the prac
tice they puraue. Now, I care hut little for
a cause only sustained by the majority of
public opinions; it is the minorities that
have planted the flag of victory when dan
ger’s hreaea throat gaped widest; minorities
have been the oppressed, while majorities
have aa invariably been the oppressors; mi
norities have lod along the path where revo
lutions for the peoples right’s have si umber
ed and waked them into power; minorities
have been first to light the torch of liberty,
and will be last at the spot when minorities
may ex nguish It.
I have no desire to deal in the utterance
of vituperative epithets against my Allo
pathic friends. I shall not abuse honsaty of
opinion or of purpose, though I may bs
forced to smile at the ignorance with which
they are assooiated ; net ignorance in the
classic literatura of the dgy, not ignorance
of the learning of the books, but ignorane*
of ’he laws of life and the means by Whioh
diseMe enn he snfely and speedily eared.—
That the honow of state nod country seldom
come tc the profession of medicine is 100
true to admit of serious discussion. “Why
has all the antiquities of the past, on which
they to largely boast, failed to gain them a
single honor in the present. Is it that the
people have learned how ridiculous is such a
claim, and that antiquity, no matter how
much paraded, fails to attract tbe attention
or respect of mankind. lam not opposed
to things that are old when they are venera
ble for qualities apart from age. But while
I could glow with enthusiasm, standing in
the shadow ot the Pyramids and dreaming
of the greatness of these immortal founders,
I could but smile to see some lover of antiqu
ity, for hourr, endeavoring to deevpher a
grecian coin or indulge in transport over a
button off a Roman’s breeches. Is it this
growing disregard for antiquity, or is it that
the intelligence of this century can but smile
at the principles and practice of the antiqua
ted and ancient physicians. Who, but feels
a smile steal upon his lips, as he thinks of a
donkeys brains “dried in the smoke of certain
leaves” as aprescription for falling sickness,
or the blood of a weaxel pulverised with
snail shells, or tying to the arm the little
stones taken from the gizzard of young swal
low* for the same disease ; or what would s
patient earo for your antiquity, if you wer®
to prescribe for him Vulturs'i flesh ‘especial
ly when be hath eaten hi* full of man’s
Aceh’, or give him a broth made of a sea
scorpion, or make him go out and consult a
Hyena, or carry about you the top end of a
mouses’ ear, or a cat* rpillar, or swallow cob
webs, goose-greaee and spideri.
I ask you if you would not laugh at the
antiquity of medicine and ay, “Gentlemen
you must reform your practice, you must be
come Reform Physicians before you can pre
scribe any of your folliee forme.” I have
but glanced at a few of the commonest pre
scriplions of antiquity, and such as I could
use without offending the e*r or taste of this
audienc*.
Surely nesaults on the ignorance of Samuel
Thomson come with a bad grace from men
whose boasted origin is thus steeped in ab
surdities so great as to shock the lingering
intelligence of an imbecile.
It is the pride of Reformer# in Medical
Science that they trace their origin to a
Christian and civilized century, and to a man
whose likeness, on that canvass, brings back
a form that nobly stood up in thia century
to stem tbis current of antiquated folly and
turn it back to the ages of the dead. Im
stream was not destined to overflow tho
channels of investigation in which intelli
gence began to anticipate the rise of princi
ples that would bear upon their breset the
weal and welfare of mankind. Too long had
men slept upon their rights and let this sub
ject of medicine droop and die with tho
weight offolly their vanity and preemption
had forced hsr to carry. Every other science
had sprung upon its feet and was marching
over tho battlements of error and supersti
tion.
Newton had established his legislation over
the minds of Europe, and tne systems of
Physical Astronomy, illumined by the genius
of a Kepler, Descartes and Hamsted, the Car
tesian philosophy of Mechanics, Optics, Hy
drostatics and Formal Astronomy, all gave
way before the law of universal gravitation
a# the ruling principle of all cosmical phe
nomena, and anew light overflowed history
that has ever since continued to rise and shine
mere brilliant in its various applications to
the complexity of subjects in which ita sub
lime aad glorious inspiration has been in
voked.
Thermatics and Atmology have received
the illustrative investigations of some of the
most distinguished Reformers in physical
science, the laws of polarization, the radia
tion of heat. Atmology in its phenomena of
vapor and air and the elastic laws of stesm
as applied in practical to the
engines that cross our plains and the ship*
that walk our waters, have been steadily ad
vancing into more important usefulness by
the reform of old opinions, and the establish
ment of new discoveries that contribute to
the intelligence, the greatness, the civilisa
tion and the happiness of our race.
Law has moved forward with tho advanc
ing tides of improvement; human liberty
hae become more sacred, the claims of justice
become more fully recognised. Tho citisea
feels the protection that lives around him
and manifests ita powers for tho guardian
ship of the press and the independence of
speech. No iongercan religious persecution
lilt ita arm in the presence of the law to crush
out thought and enforce obedience to its un
intelligible dogmas. No courts of accleaias
tical commission sits in judgment on the
creeds or conscience of men. No longer
can antiquity give sanction to inquisition,
and no longer partisan judges ini ct punish
ment on God-smitten conscience*. The light
of improvement has dispersed the cloods, sn4
the sun of a terener sky shed ita lustre oa
the world. No fires kindle around opinioas’
martyrs; no women with clinging arms are
dragged to the stake. A law of justice hoe
been born into the world and asserts the dig
nity of ita birth by the clemency with which
it administors the judgments of the law.—
The people have felt the glory of ita mission
end bow with acquiescence to the riadie**
tion of its decrees.
In government, too, we find there has brtn
# glorious reformation ; the tyranny that
has bound gallant nations and trarapfle4 on all
their aepirations for freedom, has been Stated
to relax ita hold ; collared peers and liveried
courtiers have been forced to reoognias the
majesty of the people. Ministers m ist how
to the will of a majority, and the veiea af
the sitiswa moat be rejected c pedfltapi pew-
