M4Mi£*tk*<- *.*- > ✓ : •V *** C_ ..->i. ^*' **?*< ■ii \ •"* &&■■(,;. . * '.•# SECOND EDITION OF AN t APPEAL TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF THE UNITED STATES: TOGETHER WITH AN ANALYSIS AND REFUTATION OF THE 'STATEMENTS OF FACTS IN RELATION TO THE EXPULSION OF JAMES C. "CROSS FROM THE TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY." BY JAlViES CONQUEST CROSS, M. D. FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF M^IRIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS IN THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO; LATE PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY; AND AT PRESENT PROFESSOR OF THE SAME IN THE MEMPHIS MEDICAL COLLEGE. LOUISVILLE. PRENTICE AND WEISSINGER. 1846. J /, PREFACE. The first edition of my '-'•Appeal to the Medical Profession of the United States" having been exhausted some days ago, and the demand for it contin- uing undiminished, I have determined to publish a second and much larger edition. In this will be found an analysis of the "Statements of Facts in re- lation to the expulsion of James 0. Cross from Transylvania University," published lately by Dudley, Mitchell, and Peter, as an answer to my "Appeal." If the reader should conclude a trio of more infamous scoundrels is to be found on record, then I am wholly ignorant of history. JAMES C. CROSS. Lexington, September 10th, 1846. A N APPEAL TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF THE UNITED STATES. I have been guilty of a great dereliction of duty, and have, in consequence of it, I fear, suffered much in public estimation. This has consisted in my forbearance towards a man whom it was always in my power to have de- molished, so far at least, as his intellectual, scientific, and moral claims have given him consideration with the reflecting and upright part of mankind. Of this he shall have no reason, so far at least as I am concerned, to complain in future, nor shall he congratulate himself that he has a license to perpetrate every variety of atrocious outrage without the apprehension of being held to a strict account- ability. To those familiar with the peculiar, I had almost said anomalous, and unpreceden- ted structure of Lexington society, my si- lence in relation to grievances, so diversified and aggravated, as to be quite sufficient to have forced the dumb to speak, may be a topic of animadversion, but certainly not a subject of surprise. I was born, reared and educated in Lex- ington, and have but little real or personal interest in Kentucky out of the county of Fay- ette, and have, therefore, been constrained to remain here long after inclination, could I have indulged it, would have prompted me to shake from my feet with indignant contempt, the dust of the city of my nativity. Nor is this the first time my heart has been made to feel emotions so unnatural, if not unworthy and discreditable. Twelve years ago I was driven into exile by the same malign influence that has pursued me with the most envenomed rancour ever since. I found refuge and was honored in a neighboring city. There I was not permitted to remain. The turpitude and treachery of the man whose sway is still unfortunately paramount in Lexington, had brought the Medical Department of Transyl- vania University to the verge of ruin. The Medical Faculty was dissolved, and he and his colleague, (for although he had two, one of them justly scorned to interest himself in the matter,) the prostituted remnants of a once flourishing institution looked around in almost hopeless despair for those who would co-operate with them in supporting its ancient grandeur and glory. Repeatedly were the chairs tendered and as often were they reject- ed, and finally it was feared they would be obliged to give them to three subordinate men. In this situation, after irresistible importunity, having already refused it once, I agreed to take the Institutes. The love I cherished, in despite of the most causeless and ungrateful persecution, for the place of my birth persua- ded me to fly, (at a heavy sacrifice,) to the rescue of my Alma Mater. When I joined my new colleagues, I found, to my great dis- appointment and dissatisfaction, that the whole responsibility of completing the reorganization rested exclusively upon myself. They were discouraged—had, besides prevailing on me to join them, done nothing, and evidently did not know what to do. Before I had been six weeks a member of the faculty I travelled two thousand miles on the business of the School, ,and completed, to the satisfaction of all, the reorganization. Thusbymy energyand enterprise, was the entire overthrow of the Medical Department of Transylvania Univer- sity in 1837 averted, and ever since, until the spring of 1844, was it enabled by the same means to maintain its ground; and I would have extended its popularity and usefulness, had not my exertions been thwarted by those who were too stupid to be enlightened by instruction, and too jealous to be indebted to my enterprise. Since 1844, its condition of progressive decay has been such as to mortify the pride instead of flattering the vanity of those concerned in it. This, and a brief his- tory of the events that led to my resignation in 1844, together with the incontestible fact, that those who rule and regulate public opin- ion in Lexington have transferred their hom- age from the omnipotence of truth to the om- nipotence of a name, and that name that of B. W. Dudley, will be regarded, by the pub- lic at large as sufficient apology for entertain- (i ing and expressing sentiments apparently un- grateful, and of which, under other circum- stances, I should be heartily ashamed. The necessity I was under, and am still, to remain in Lexington, was the reason why I did not, in 1844, give a full history not only of the events that led to my resignation but of my connexion with Transylvania University, and thus have placed myself, in my true po- sition, before the public. This would have been to render my situation as a citizen of Lexington less enviable and more intolerable than that of the fiends of hell, for these peo- ple have, on more than one occasion, solemnly determined to sustain Dr. Dudley per fas et nefas. When they rallied around and sup- ported him and drove from Lexington Drs. Caldwell, Yandell, and Cooke, in 1837, al- though it was established by testimony diver- sified, concurrent and irresistible that he was the arch-traitor to Lexington, who originated the scheme to remove the medical School to Louisville, they permitted no one to doubt their readiness and willingness to go any unau- thorized length in his defence. Such facts as these teach me with unmistakeable clearness that I shall be exposed to the bitter and heart- less baiting of the snarling emissaries of a bastard aristocracy, for daring to utter a word in condemnation of their pet and patron, but I shall derive great consolation for the fact that they, like Romish priests, are industrious to propagate a belief in a thing they have not the least faith in themselves—that their mad and desperate denunciations of me will be as insincere as their bombastic panegyrics of Dr. Dudley are hollow and deceitful; for it is a fact, that while they proclaim his alleged merits from the house-tops, they in stifled and secretly utterd whispers, pronounce him ade- quate to the perpetration of any moral atroci- ty—while by their injustice they drove from Lexington Drs. Caldwell, Yandell, and Cooke —three men, who, whatever may be their faults or defects, are as infinitely superior to Dr. Dudley, intellectually, scientifically and morally, as the vertical blaze of a tropical sun is superior to the faint and scarcely distin- guishable glimmer of the most distant star, they in private charge upon him the author- ship of the crime for which they made his colleagues suffer. I must be permitted to say this condition of things induced me to desire a postponement of this appeal until I should be able to j/lace myself in a community guided by a more enlightened sense of justice. In saying this, however, I do not wish to be un- derstood to chaise the conduct of the mass of the people to corrupt motives, but to a re- gretable lack of that intelligence absolutely necessary to comprehend the wants and inter- ests of a School of Medicine, but who in con- sequence thereof, have been scandalized as guilty, of a mean and servile sequacity to the behests of a man whose most enlarged views have always been stictly bounded by an exclu- sively selfish and individual ambition. What- ever his hollow-hearted friends may say of his liberality, for not one of them has any real respect for or confidence in him, he is a perfect petrifaction of selfishness, and all his charities are nothing more than the interest of the cap- ital of all sorts of iniquity. This is proved by the fact that in all the numerous difficulties in which he has involved himself with his col- leagues he has shrunk from his proper per- sonal responsibility by skulking behind the Medical School; thus persuading the citizens of Lexington that the issue was not between himself and those whom he had insulted and outraged, but between the latter and them- selves. Victory has crowned his policy on so many occasions with success that it would be absurd and preposterous to suppose he will not rely upon it in future with unwavering confi- dence. Now it is not surprising that in full view of this and the complete ostracism within uthe two miles square" that awaits me, I should say this Appeal is not made to the citi- zens of Lexington but to the Medical Profes- sion of the United States. I repeat, that while 1 am aware I shall have no more chance in this community than pain a discretion, in the hands of a French- man, I would have been content to suffer in silence, until my sppeal could have been made under better auspices, but this has not been permitted. The conduct of my tormentors and persecutors has been such as to make fur- ther forbearance on my part, a criminal and pusillanimous desertion of duty. Since I left it, the Medical Department of Transylvania University has sunk into utter insignificance, and promises soon to enable its enemies to ex- claim in insolent triumph Troja fuit: When it shall have ceased to be, and all knowledge of its existence shall have dwindled into a legend of tradition, I will be able to say, and with a clear conscience, to the deluded and betrayed people of Lexington: "Shake not your gory locks at me Thou canst not say I did it." The rapid decline of the Medical School, which I can prove I did not desire, my late colleagues know is owing almost exclusively to my withdrawel from it and their wretchedly stupid administration of its affairs, but which they endeavor to convince the public is owing to my misrepresentations. I defy them to prove that I have been guilty of a single mis- representation, or that I have spoken to a score of medical men out of the city of Lexington, on the subject. When I was in Tennessee and Virginia advocating the claims of Mr. I Clay to the Presidency, I had but little inter- course with medical men; and had enough to think and speak of, without, except incidental- ly and rarely, thinking or speaking of them or their school. If my withdrawel has injured the school, and this no intelligent or candid man will question or deny, the injury that has been inflicted upon it by their stupid adminis- tration of its affairs has been so great that it is now incurable. In proof of this allegation, I will advert to two facts only, although it is in my power to write a respectable sized volume on the subject. In the spring of 1844 they filled the chair of Theory and Practice with a man wholly incompetent, and in every respect unworthy. This I told them at the time, and labored with infinite zeal to convince them they were inflicting a wound upon the institu- tion, from which it would be scarcely possible for it to recover. In the face of facts, howev- er, that should have persuaded and convinced the most sodded and stubborn stolidity, every member of the faculty voted for his nomina- tion, except myself. My negative stands up- on the Minutes of the Faculty, and I desired it to be sent with the nomination to the Board of Trustees, in the hope that they would ask for the reasons that caused me to refuse sup- porting it. But this by a formal and unani- mous vote was refused. Thus proving they were conscious that although they, actuated by prejudice and opposition, had resisted my reasoning, the Board of Trustees would not prove impregnable to its assaults. The indi- vidual alluded to has been compelled, it is said, and believed, to leave the school, thus illustra- ting my foresight, and proving the truth of all I said on the subject. The chair of Midwifery was vacated last autumn, by the death of Dr. Richardson.— Forty-nine Physicians, we are told, applied for it, almost all of them Western and Southern men. The Class numbered a few more stu- dents, it is said, than the previous session.— What was the cause of this ? To strengthen their claims with the Faculty, each and all of them did what was in their power, to have themselves represented in the Class by as many students as possible. What, therefore, was the obvious policy of the Faculty?— Every rational man will say a selection from amongst the Forty-nine Western and South- ern men, for it is utterly absurd to say what they have imphedly asserted, that a competent individual could not be found amongst them. Did they select a Western or Southern man 1 No indeed—they were incapable of so ration- al an act. They gave the chair to a citizen of Baltimore—to a man, that it was said, but now denied, did not even apply for it, and what is worse than all, to one of but little if any rep- utation or importance in the profession.*—- What I said of their Professor of Theory and Practice was not believed, and I ask not the citizens of Lexington to believe what I now say of their new Professor of Midwifery, at least until the result testifies for or against me, or what is still more important, until they have obtained the cansent of Dr. Dudley to do so; for it is nothing but right that the serfs of the Autocrat should know his wishes be- fore they dare to consult, or express their own. But in view of these facts, what must neces- sarily be the feelings and sentiments of the forty-nine defeated candidates, aforesaid ?— Where will that phalanx of students be found, that gave some respectability to the Class in the city of Lexington last winter, but which the stupid vanity of Dr. Dudley and his jour- neymen ascribed to their extraordinary, but unrecognized and incognosible merit. Think you in the halls of Transylvania ? If so I am ignorant of men—They will be found in Lou- isville, Cincinnatti and the Eastern cities ; for it is impossible that the forty-nine should be satisfied with having their claims set aside, for those of a man superior to few, and inferior to many of them. When a Faculty is capa- ble of conduct so palpably stupid and irration- al, as to make it impossible for sophistry to obscure or disguise it, it is the silliest of all nonsense for them to seek in my alleged mis- representations, or in any other cause, the de- cline of the institution of which they are the unworthy and incompetent guardians. Their stupidity which was congenital, and their ras- cality, a disease they caught in early life, through all the stages of which they have passed with nosographic regularity, are the most formidable enemies they have to contend with; and when they subdue these, they will not find what I say or do, a cause of serious embarrassment. In this digression I have been lured by a desire to show that the rapid decline of the Medical School of this city, is ascribable to other more substantial and per- manent causes than my supposed misrepre- sentations, for I am unwilling to be charged with "throwing water upon a drowning rat." I now proceed to vindicate myself from a charge that I know will be preferred against me, at least in this city, which is, that I am making a wanton assault upon the Medical Department of Transylvania University.— Months before I left home in last September, r Europe, I was fully aware that my late col- *The appointee, (who it is said owes his election in some measure to the cause that I did—the Faculty is in a state of controversial insolvency, and needs some one who can write to defend it,) will, I trust, believe that I allude to him, not from personal dislike, but because the necessities of the case require it, and that when obliged to speak I must be excused forpreferring frankness ta flattery. s! ieagues were engaged in secret and insidious efforts to injure ine in public estimation, and I unavailingly endeavored to obtain satisfactory proof of it. When, however, I was four thousand miles from home, in a foreign coun- try, and the possibility of detection almost precluded, they were emboldened to tamper with my friends. Instead of acting an open, a generous and manly part, they with a base- ness of heart at which humanity will shudder, seized upon my absence, when apparently it was out of my power to know what they were doing, or to defend myself against their foul and infamons machinations, to destroy me. Besides the revolting nature of the atro- city of which they were guilty, and of which any man of common honesty would have been ashamed, they have put me to infinite incon- venience and trouble. As all my friends know, and the public prints repeatedly announ- ced it was my intention to remain in Europe eighteen months or two years, for the purpose l of cultivating the medical, and collateral sci- ences. Instead of that, I have been obliged to return home after an absence of little more than eight months, and that too, for the pur- pose of defending my character against the assassin assaults of my enemies. This being the fact, as I will presently prove, I shall stand amply justified in the course I am now pursuing, in the estimation of the public at large, although, that great public will be sur- prised, and probably not believe me when I say, that this consideration will have no weight with the little public of the village of Lex- ington. Instead of publicly assailing me when I was at home, and the facts fresh in the rec- ollection of every one, they took advantage of my absence to poison the public mind by epis- tolary communications made to the physicians of the valley of the Mississippi. They, dead to the remorseless atrocity of such a crime, dared to wield the dagger of the assassin in the dark. Considering the secret and covert manner in which they aimed at my destruction, to- gether with the circumstance of my great dis- tance from home, it is very wonderful that I should ever have learned any thing of the base and pusillanimous conduct of my enemies. But there is an overruling Providence. To suppose or believe that God could or would smile upon such villainy would be undeniable proof of the rankest infidelity, and this the sanctimonious hypocrites should have known. For such iniquity there is a sure and certain retributive justice, and this is discoverable in the fact that letters which they supposed would distil a poison into all ranks of the public mind and irrecoverably destroy me in public estimation, without the possibility of my know- ing what the heartless, soulless, and reckless assassins were doing, •were copied by their correspondents, and sent to me in the city of Paris, France. Here is an example, written in the month of December last, in Lexington, by a member of the Medical Faculty of Tran- sylvania University. His name I withhold for the present, as I wish him to writhe yet a little longer in the anguish of conscious mean- ness, in solitude and unknown : "As an alumnus of our school, I feel that you have a* right to know something of the official action in reference to the late Profes- sor of the Institutes in the Medical Depart- ment of Transylvania University, and being un- der the impression that you have been misin- formed in reference to this matter, I now give exact copies of the documents in that case, with necessary remarks : Lexington, May, 25, 1844. Professor Cross,—Sir: Circumstances having occurred relating to your private char- acter, which will hereafter prevent us from co-operating with you as a member of the Medical Faculty of Transylvania University, we feel called on by an imperious sense of duty to the Institution, to request you to send to the Board of Trustees your resignation of the chair you hold as speedily as possible.— We invite you to this measure, hoping that it may appear a spontaneous act of your own. B. W. DUDLEY, W. H.RICHARDSON, THOS. D. MITCHELL, ROBT. PETER. Medical Hall, Lex., May 28, 1844. Professor Cross,—Sir: I am authorized and directed by the members of the Faculty who signed the paper sent you on Saturday last, to request that you will make known your decision in the premises by Thursday at noon, of this week, in default of which, it will be their duty to lay the matter before the Board of Trustees. By order: THOS. D. MITCHELL, Dean. "On the receipt of the first note, Judge Wooley and Mr. Clay were employed to effect the withdrawal of the request to resign.* Finding that the efforts made could not suc- ceed, the resignation came to the Board May 29th. In place of being a voluntary resigna- tion, on account of the sinking state of the school, as was alledged by the late Professor, he'was actually and unanimously required to resign for gross obliquities of character. The factsf were kept secret, much to our injury, *A lie as false as perjury itself, and the scoundrel who penned the above letter knew it tWhat facta J Those which go to prove that the au- thor of this letter and his colleagues, have been guilty of all that is deliberate in lmlignityand of all that is depraved in crime ? 0 while he proclaimed a i-,ilse position entirely as the basis of a voluntary withdrawal.* I have not room here for details, but have judg- ed it proper that you should know thus much." The individual to whom the above letter was written, and who sent a copy of it to me while in the city of Paris, very justly remarks : "If 1, being an alumnus, had a right to know, &c., then every physician who has graduated since the school was first organized has—and has, of course, been fur- nished with the same documentary evidence which has been given to me," and further, he says tlie above letter, "the original of which 1 have in my possession, I have no doubt, is a faithful abstract of thousands which have been circulated through the West and South." Redemptionless as I knew Dr. Dudley and his tools to be, the reception of the above let- ter both shocked and ama/A-d me. They had already committed an act that bore the indel- ible impress of almost unimagined atrocity, and I, in mercy, supposed they must have so loathed themselves on account of it that they would • never venture upon its repetition or do any thing to provoke me to a public exposure of the enormous outrage of which they, in an extempore fit of mad and desperate depravity, had been guilty. But in this I was mistaken, and I am now ready to admit that I know not the excesses into which double-dyed, incar- nate exemplifications of turpitude are capable of running. I did not believe, I confess, that even they would dare boast of having sunk their souls into "A pit of iuk, that the wide sea Hutu drops too few to wash away." Without in this place entering upon an analysis of the above letter, which, as my cor- respondent correctly remarks, is a faithful ab- stract of thousands that have been circulated through the West and South," I will simply ask is there a living human being who can or will condemn me for making this appeal, if I shall be able to neutralize, counteract, or des- troy the force of the impression it was design- ed to make? Where is the shameless syco- phant that will attempt to fix on me the brand of public reprobation for standing on the im- prescriptible law of self-protection, to vindi- cate my character from an injury the most deadly that human wickedness could inflict?— Certainly not beyond the limits of the "two miles square," and I scarcely believe that que 60 lost to all sense of honor—so insensible to "This is a falsehood at which perjury itself would blush, as can be proved bv Professor Or<>*.<, of Louisville, to whom I wrote, and by Prof. Geo. MiClelland, of Philadel- phia, I believe, to whom I also wrote—by Prof. Smith, of Baltimore, and Prof. Bartlett of Lowell, to whom a friend promised and did write, and by the fact that I affected no concealment on the subject, and requested my friends when they should speak of my »csignation to give all the necessary facts. evei'y generous impulse of justice, can be found within them. Indeed were I willing, I think I might with safety confide in the de- cision of the people of the consequential little village of Lexington itself. As, however, I have not consulted their wishes on the subject, and as I do not intend to be disturbed by their sayings or doings in the premises, I proceed at once to give a history of the train of events that led to my resignation, and leave those to whom I appeal to determine whether my re- signation was voluntary or forced, and wheth- er or not my late colleagues had recourse to means so base that the most profligate and abandoned scoundrels upon record would have disdained to employ. The incompetency of Dr. Bush as a teach- er of anatomy was not a novel or an original suggestion of Dr. Pinckard, although he for- mally and publicly made it for the first time in the spring of 1844. It was an allegation that had been constantly made by certain members of the Faculty, particularly Drs. Mitchell and Richardson, ever since the ses- sion of 1837-38.* On this subject their com- plaints were uninterrupted, bitter and rancor- ous. A stereotyped remark of the former was, that Dr. Bush was the most ignorant and illiterate man he ever knew connected with any school of medicine. This opinion I endorsed, and I am fully convinced that any competent judge, personally acquainted with him as a teacher, would not be able conscien- tiously to do otherwise. Dr. Richardson was more emphatic and boisterous in his com- plaints against Dr. Bush than any other mem- ber of the Faculty, but his loose, disjointed way of.expressing himself, and his every day inconsistencies defrauded what he said, of much of its weight and influence. That Dr. Smith looked upon the utter incompetency of Dr. Bush as a fixed fact, I had the assu- rance of Drs. Mitchell and Richardson, and I may say also of Dr. Peter, for he informed me when I asserted that the Introductory Lecture of Dr. Bush, which had been pub- lished by the Class, would disgrace the School, that it would have been infinitely more discreditable had not Dr. Smith review- ed it in manuscript and made all the altera- tions that were possible without re-writing it. Although the relations that subsisted between Dr. Smith and myself were . of the most friendly character, I do not recollect to have heard him express himself in relation to Dr. Bush, but as he is a distinguished Anatomist *Dr. Richardson is no more, and the reader will believe me, I trust, when I assure him that it is with the utmost re- gret 1 find it impossible to make this appe.al intelligible, or indeed to make it at all without frequent reference to his name. Allusion to him is, therefore, absolutely necessary and unavoidable, being in no way whatever the result of inclination or choice. 10 and Surgeon, he could not have thought oth- erwise than was reported to me by Drs. Mitchell and Richardson. With Dr. Bartlett my intercourse was more intimate and confi- dential than with any other member of the Faculty, and his opinion of Dr. Bush, as a teacher, was substantially that of Drs. Mitch- ell, Richardson and myself. He was cautious in rtie expression of his opinions in the pres- ence of the two former, and not too commu- nicative in his intercourse with me. He had no faith in the veracity or candor of Dr. Mitchell—no confidence in the judgement or consistency of Dr. Richardson—much fear of my prudence, while I had every reason to be- lieve he relied upon my honesty, veracity and rectitude of intention. While there seemed to be no difference of opinion between Drs. Mitchell, Richardson, Bartlett and myself, in relation to the incompetency of Dr. Bush, the two former very frequently and obstinate- ly urged the necessity of decided action on the subject, while the two latter were oppo- sed to any movement, on the score of policy, unless the cheerful concurrence of Dr. Dud- ley could be obtained and of this they had no hope. With Dr. Bartlett I had frequent conversations on this subject, and at the last one that took place which was in my house just before the last time he left Lexington, he said : "Sir, to use your own language I do not believe there is any remedy."* This is the response frequently made by me to those who seemed anxious to make a move against Dr. Bush, independently of the consent of Dr. Dudley. I must explain here why I re- garded the concurrence of Dr. Dudley as, in some measure, indispensable. Firstly, judg- ing from the past, I believed his influence with the Board of Trustees sufficiently great to defeat any attempt that might be made against Dr. Bush, that should not receive his support: secondly, even were it possible to succeed in despite of his opposition, it would give him, in all probability, so much dissatis- faction as to cause him to resign, and thus seriously injure the School: and thirdly* I never had given and determined never to give a vote or promote a movement for the gratifi- cation of personal animosity, and this inter- pretation I knew would be put upon my con- duct by those who were impatient to find cause of complaint against me. The settled conviction of two thirds of the Medical Faculty, that Dr. Bush was wholly incompetent, cannot be made a subject of se- rious controversy. They expressed them- selves so fully and freely, both in and out of *Dr.Bartlett will pardon me for using his name in this connexion, and whenever occasion shall render it necessa- ry in the subsequent parts of this appeal, when he reflects that it is almost unavoidable. the Faculty, that it would be preposterous for them to attempt its denial. The necessity of his removal being admitted, it was however, very difficult to determine how it was to be effected. Both Drs. Richardson, and Mitch- ell, but the former particularly, urged me to take the initiatory step, assuring me at the same time, that I should receive their ener- getic and zealous co-operation. To thisl was earnestly pressed on the alleged ground of my srreater influence and popularity with the Class. To which I uniformly responded, that I was the last man in the Faculty to whom so important a measure should be con- fided, for however necessary the removal of Dr. Bush might be regarded, my conduct would be ascribed to motives of hostility to- wards Dr. Dudley, and that defeat would be the inevitable consequence. Had no other reason existed, the equivocal relations that had sub- sisted between Dr. Dudley and myself, ever since I became a member of the Faculty, was entirely sufficient to prevent my taking a leading or prominent part in the matter. But this was not the only cause of my declina- ture, for I could not easily be made to shrink from a proper degree of responsibility, in any case where the interests of the School were involved. I knew well, I thought, the men with whom I was expected to act. In the firmness of Drs. Mitchell and Richardson I had no confidence. That they would pusil- lanimously shrink from resposibility on the slightest indication of difficulty or danger, I had no doubt, and the truth of this appre- hension the result fully proved as the reader shall hear, although I took every precaution not to suffer myself to be placed in a leading or prominent position. When Dr. Richardson found his efforts to flatter me into open hostility with Drs. Dud- ley and Bush ineffectual, he changed his plan of operations. He pretended that in his con- versations with Dr. Dudley, he had ascertain- ed that it would not be long before he would ask for a separation of the chairs of Anatomy and Surgery, under the expectation that the Faculty would nominate Dr. Bush to the chair of Anatomy, which would be thus vaca- ted. He insisted that his colleagues should do nothing to remove this impression from the mind of Dr. Dudley—that the first ob- ject to be attained was the separation, and that when this should be accomplisheh, we could and would put into it whom we pleased, regardless of the wishes and expectations of Dr. Dudley. This is what he called diplo- macy. The incompetency of Dr. Bush was not the only ground of complaint against him.— His views and those of Dr. Dudley in rela- tion to the teaching of Anatomy, were highly 1 1 obnoxious to the aversion of every member of the Faculty. They contended, and perhaps persuaded some of the students to believe that it was altogether useless for them to dissect.— That by observing Dr. Bush dissect, they would be made good practical Anatomists in a shorter time than if they were to dissect them- selves; than which no sophism could be more perfectly absurd. As well might the ridiculous attempt, be made to teach a youth a mechani- cal art, without permitting him to use thdfcp- propriate tools, as think of making an Anato- mist without handling the scalpel. But the attempt to refute such an argument is wholly superfluous, as it evidently had its origin in a purely sordid and grasping spirit. The views however of Drs. Dudley and Bush ultimately became so offensive to certain memhers of the Faculty, to Dr. Mitchell in particular, that they absolutely refused to recommend the stu- dents to join the dissecting Class, in conse- quence of which the number that cultivated practical anatomy was very small, but the number, that we were obliged to graduate, but who had never dissected an hour in their lives, was very great. In looking over Dr. Yandell's Narative, I discover this is not a new complaint, for I find at p 21, the follow- ing remarks:—"That it was his (Dr. Dud- ley's) reiterated confessions—to which no honorable man, who knew the value of ana- tomical knowledge, could listen without feel- ings of deep humiliation—that students of medicine, in this Shcool, were lulled "into the delusion that dissections were not necessary, in order to keep out of sight the poverty of the dis- secting room." On this subject Dr. Caldwell remarks in his Tlioughts on Schools of Medi- cine, in relation to the provisions of the School of Transylvania, for the teaching of special anatomy:—"Certain it is they are ex- tremely meagre. The Professor of Anatomy even discourages them as to "dissection, if he does not openly dissuade them from it, as an unnecessary and useless employment. For this he has his reasons. He has no subjects to spare them for that purpose; and he is anx- ious to conceal the poverty of his depart- ment." What now, I ask, must be thought of the moral integrity of that man, who, after this public exposure of the very rep- rehensible subterfuge, to which he was, and is, in the habit of resorting, dares still to im- pose upon the credulity and unsuspecting sim- plicity of those who have a right, in as much, as they pay him for it, to expect solid and substantial instruction at his hands. I have given a plain unexagerated statement of the estimate placed by the Faculty upon Dr. Bush as a teacher of Anatomy.— This, humble as it was, and mortifying as it must have been to a proud and ambitious man, was not peculiar to them. Before much interest was taken in the subject by those members of the Faculty to whom we have referred, the students had with extraordinary unanimity pronounced him incompetent.— Their complaints were loud and often indig- nant, and more than once formal attempts were made to petition the Board of Trustees to remove him, and they failed, chiefly be- cause of the interposition of him, whom he and his master pertinaciously continued to re- gard as their greatest enemy. On one occa- sion in particular, and that was during the session of 1840—41 through my agency ex- clusively, a memorial addressed to the Board of Trustees, demanding his removal, and al- ready signed by more than one hundred stu- dents, was suppressed. This I say was done at my instance, and in obedience exclusively to my wishes, and I was induced to interfere because I did not consider it a proper mode of proceeding against him. Notwithstanding the obligations he was thus placed under to me, not only then but since, when similar attempts were made, the faction over which he ruled intimated in language that could not be mis- understood, that I was the instigator of the opposition to him, that prevailed amongst the students. Such conduct as was ascribed to me, I regard not only as disreputable but di graceful, and I would willingly have voted for the expulsion of any member who had been found guilty of it. While, however, I who was wholly innocent, was made the object of such unmerited persecution, another who was guilty was apparently looked upon in the light of a friend. In a publication made by Dr. Pinckard, the 20th September, 1844, we find this charge made against Dr. Richardson, in the following words: "Dr. R. did also approve last winter, as we are informed, by a medical friend of undoubt- ed veracity, of the Memorial to the Trustees, which was circulated by the medical students for the purpose of effecting a re-organizatiou in the anatomical department of the School. He asked why the students did not sign it ? as it was right that they should, for the good of the School." For such conduct no explanation was given— no apology made and no defence attempted and for the simple reason that it rested upon proof too palpable to be denied or obscured by sophistry. These statements are made not for the purpose of gratifying any animosity which I may be supposed to have against Dr. Bush, for I am incapable of cherishing hatred against such a man, but in justification of the course which events, over which I, at least, had no control, obliged certain members of the Faculty to pursue; and to correct the im pression that has been industriously propaga- 12 ted, that I was the cause of his unpopularity with the students. This I not only deny, but assert that I never, directly or indirectly, at- tempted to impair the standing of a colleague with the students, either while I held a pro- fessorship in the Medical College of Ohio or in the Medical Department of Transylvania University, unless the refutation of the ridic- ulous dogmas of Dr. Dudley be susceptible of that interpretation. In the spring of 1844, I visited with my family, the Eastern cities. During my ab- sence from Lexington Dr. Pinckard, with a view to a separation of the chairs of Anatomy and Surgery, and the substitution of a com- petent individual in the place of Dr. Bush, published in the Lexington Inquirer a series of articles, in which the wants of the school were freely, fully and fairly exhibited. I was in New York when the fact was commu- nicated to me by Dr. Sayre, of that city, and I expressed to him my gratification that I was not in Lexington, because if there, I felt certain I should be charged with being their instigator, and perhaps author. This circum- stance, which should have exculpated me in the estimation of every candid mind, was, how- ever, overlooked by Dr. Dudley and his satel- lites, and I was boldly charged with being their author. The publication of the three or four articles did nofc occupy more than so many weeks, and they were answered in the order of their appearance consequently the second, third and fourth of Dr. Pinckard were rejoinders, and dwelt mainly on .such topics as had been suggested by his respon- dent. This shows that while there is a bare possibility that I might have written the first article before my departure, it is utterly ab- surd to suppose that I could have written those that appeared subsequently. That I did not write the first is proved by the perfect uniformity of style that pervades the whole series. If Dr. Pinckard did not write them, of which however, I have no doubt, there was more reason to suspect Dr. Mitchell of being their author than any one else, for he was on the ground and so delighted with their contents that he could not wait for the ap- pearance of the Lexington Enquirer, but hur- ried the evening before to Second street to read them in proof, and the proof of at least one of them he aided in correcting. The day after my return to Lexington I saw Drs. Mitchell and Richardson, and the joyous countenances which they sported would have awakened the jealousy of Harle- quin himself. They declared that the articles of Dr. Pinckard were strong, efficient and -capitally timed—that they had brought Dr. Dudley to his senses—that he had become so alarmed for the School that he was willingihe chairs of Anatomy and Surgery should be separated and that if 1 would earnestly co- operate with them there would be no difficul- ty in removing Dr. Bush, and obtaining an able teacher of Anatomy in his place. This was all very fine and very flattering, but I confess L thought "it, and I told them so, too good to be true. But they were sanguine, and would listen to no discouraging suggestion, for when I told them they would find" Dr. Dudley like the^rishman's flea, which was not under his thumb though he thought him there—they charged me with timidity and an unwilling- ness to risk any thing for the good of the School. So satisfied were they that Dr. Dudley would submit to every requisite refor- mation, that they had actually, before my re- turn to Lexington, prevailed on General Combs to write to Dr. George McClelland, of Philadelphia, on the subject of taking the Anatomical Chair, which was, however, yet to be vacated. In the plenitude of their ima- gined power they made an informal tender of the Chair of Anatomy to Dr. McClelland. I endeavored to moderate their exultation, for I thought I saw plainly they had not won the victory of which they were so proud, and em- phatically told them they need not look for my co-operation in the enterprise in which they were engaged except on one condition, which was that Dr. Dudley should voluntari- ly submit to the changes contemplated and desired, for otherwise I thought it probable he would resign, an event which could not fail to injure the School in its then very precarious state. To remove my scruples on this point, Dr. Richardson not only assured me that he had it from the lips of Dr. Dudley repeated- ly that he would consent to the proposed changes but permitted me to read two letters that had been addressed to him by Dr. Dud- ley, in which he (Dr. D.) fully committed himself to the necessity of an immediate dis- junction of the Chairs of Anatomy and Sur- gery. In one of them I thought I discovered a very intelligible intimation that after the separation, he, (Dr. D.) would expect the Faculty to nominate Dr. Bush to the Chair of Anatomy. When I informed Dr. Richard- son that I did not believe Dr. Dudley would submit to the much desired separation unless the Faculty would give a pledge that Dr. Bush should receive the nomination, he flew into a passion, declared that I had misinter- preted the letter, but, .if not, before he would yield to such degrading terms, he would resign. This was very energetic talk, but the result proved that it was as unmeaning as the "tink- ling cymbal and sounding brass." The following memorandum, taken down about the time, has been furnished by a friend, from which the reader will be able to form 13 an accurate idea of the position occupied and the course pursued by Dr. Mitchell: "The day after the first article (of Dr. Pinckard) appeared, as well as I now remember, Prof. Mitchell was at my office and we were con- versing about the views of Dr. Pinckard, Dr. M. remarked in the course of his conversa- tion that he was just about to send off the catalogues which were to go out of the State, but that he would now keep them until a re- organization was effected, which he thought ought to be done by the 1st June. On an- other occasion Dr. Mitchell told me that he had gone so far as to write complimentary notices of the new Professors which were to be, meaning as I supposed Drs. McClelland and Watson. Prof. Cross had not then re- signed. Dr. Mitchell as fully concurred as a man could well do in the course advised and recommended by Dr. Pinckard. He express- ed himself unreservedly, at my office, with- out any regard, as it struck me, as to who was present at the time. He never enjoined se- crecy, nor said that he spoke in confidence. Indeed I admired very much the bold and decided stand which he took. He was deci- dedly opposed to the election of Dr. Bush to the Chair of Anatomy, and even expressed himself in opposition to his being retained in the School as Demonstrator." It was remar- ked by the writer of this memorandum, that "if Dr. McClelland had agreed to come here he would be a great acquisition to the School, and supposed that Dr. Bush might be allowed to retain the place which he originally held; but even that was objected to on the part of Prof. Mitchell." There is much more that is important and interesting in the memoran- dum that lies before me, which future events may induce me to spread before the public, but as I have already quoted enough to an- swer my present object, I shall merely say that the author closes his memorandum with the remark that 'I have avoided stating any thing except what was known to me person- ally and my own opinions." Thus the reader is put in possession of the views and purposes entertained by Drs. Mitchell and Richardson before I returned to Lexington, as far at least as they could be discovered from their actions and language; and I agreed to co-operate with them only after it was distinctly understood that I should not be required to take the initiatory step in any of the movements that were contempla- ted, and that my support of any measure which I thought would probably drive Dr. Dudley from the School must not be expect- ed. In a few days after my return to Lex- ington, I distinctly understood that Dr. Dud- ley was not so completely at the disposal of Drs. Mitchell and Richardson, as they had pretended to believe in their conversations with me. This was what I stongly suspected from the beginning. When Dr. Dudley com- mitted himself to a separation of the chairs he occupied, I presume he supposed his col- leagues would be satisfied, and would willing- ly give Dr. Bush the Chair of Anatomy.— He was however soon undeceived on this sub- ject, and went so far, as I learned from Dr. Richardson, as to require a positive pledge from the Faculty, that they would nominate Dr. Bush to the Chair of Anatomy, before he would consent to a separation. Our situation nqrvv was too palpable to be misunderstood— we must either submit to the insolent dicta- tion of Dr. Dudley, or appeal to the Board of Trustees. The former I was determined not to do, and so expressed myself to both Drs. Richardson and Mitchell, but particularly the former. I formally and emphatically de- clared that the matter had now assumed such a form, in consequence of the haughty aid imperious tone recently assumed by Dr. Dud- ley that if he did not submit, and that too by the 1st of July, to the changes which we re- garded as absolutely indispensable to the fu- ture prosperity of the School, I would leave it; and remarked that I could not see how any high-minded and honorable man could do otherwise, Never did I announce a determi- nation that was more sincere or irrevocable, for I would leave the most profitable and prosperous institution that ever flourished, be- fore I would be a tennis-ball—a shuttle-cock, or a scullion to any man on earth. Under this new aspect of the case, I urged Drs. Mitchell and Richardson to make an appeal to the Board of Trustees; and as an induce- ment to do so, proffered them my earnest co- operation.* I thought it due the Board of Trustees and the citizens of Lexington, that they should be officially informed of our rea- sonable demands, and if then they should not be granted, we would be justified in pursuing the only course that, I believe, was left, to men who were not disposed to be regarded as mere automata ready to execute the will of a master. That I had known these men for years, was now apparent—that I had rightly appreciated them could not be doubted.—I saw plainly they had rather submit to Dr. Dudley, than pursue a course, which in the event of failure, and of this I had but little doubt, would leave us no alteanative but an immediate and simultaneous resignation.— Thus they were for several days in a state of the greatest and most laughable irresolution. 'My readiness now to act without consulting the wishes of Dr. Dudley, arose from two causes, i. e.—his arrogannce and the humiliating position we should have been placed in, in the event of our abandoning the reforms spoken of To the achievement of them, Drs. Mitchell, Richardson and myself were fully committed, and this the physicians and people of Lexington knew. 11 The\ both strove with commutual zeal in acts of such bitter abuse of Dr. Dudley, as plainly to show that hatred and revenge are not solely endemic in the region of "The Pyrenean and the river Po " while at the same time the least sagacious could have seen that should he raise his bris- tles, they were ready to crouch to him, with a sycophancy at which oriental adulation would blush. While things were in this con- dition, and even before, I emphatically declar- ed to many individuals that I would not sub- mit to the dictation of Dr. Dudley, and that the moment I received positive proof that the proper concessions were not to be expected from him, I would resign. In a few days the irresolution of Drs. Mitchell and Richardson had vanished. Gen- eral Combs had received a letter from Dr. McClelland, which led them to believe that he would take the chair of Anatomy. This im- mediately transformed those men from timid sequacious agitators, into bold and blustering braggarts. They declared they were now perfectly indifferent as to the course Dr. Dud- ley might think fit to pursue—that should he determine to resign.sofar from regretting,they would be glad of it, for they would be thus rid of a despot, and obtain in his stead an abler man and better surgeon than he ever was. It was now their design to place Dr. McClelland in the chair of Surgery, in the event of the resignation of Dr. Dudley, and look out for a teacher of Anatomy. All this they consid- ered very practicable, and very expedient, and determined at once to call a meeting of the Faculty—to make known our wishes to Dr. Dudley, and in the event of his refusing to gratify them, to appeal forthwith to the Board of Trustees. Such a course without a further effort to induce Dr. Dudley voluntarily to yield to our demands, I considered not only inexpedient, but fraught with the most disas- trous cosequences. Instead of so summary a mode of proceeding, I recommended that be- fore any official action was taken on the sub- ject, Dr Richardson, whose intercourse was more intimate with Dr. Dudley, than that of any other member of the Faculty, should go to him and inform him of the intelligence which had been received through General Combs, from Dr. McClelland—in a courteous but decided manner communicate to him our wishes, and the course which his opposition would compel us to pursue, and ask his co-op- eration. To my surprise this proposition was at once indignantly rejected, by both Drs. Richardson and Mitchell declaring that they scorned to ask a favor of him, and would not have his co-operation, that they were able, and would effect the reforms desired, in des- pite of him. I asked—you surely do not de- sire to drive Dr. Dudley from the School? To which Dr. Richardson responded, and Dr. Mitchell assented to it, "We are willing to keep him, but we will not beg him to stay." To all of which I was opposed, not because I had any high opinion of the capacity or knowl- edge of Dr. Dudley, but because he had some how or other acquired a great reputation, and his loss would he a great injury to the School. After much vague and scarcely intelligible dis- cussion, it was determined that a Faculty meeting should be immediately summoned, for the purpose of adopting such resolutions as would embody our views in relation to the chairs of Anatomy and Surgery, it being dis- tinctly understood, at the same time that every precaution should be taken to prevent the in- telligence that had been received from Dr. McClelland", coming to the knowledge of Dr. Dudley. Their motives for this, I confess, were not very intelligible, but I agreed to ob- serve silence, in order to have officially com- municated to Dr. Dudley, our wish to have the chairs of Anatomy and Surgery separated, that he might refuse it in a formal manner, as I had reason to believe he would, from what Dr. Richardson had told me. This I desired, for as I had in an already avowed contingency, decided to resign, it was my in- tention to base my • resignation upon that cir- cumstance. On the 16th of May, 1844, a meeting of the Faculty was summoned, and for the purpose above indicated. All the members of the Faculty were present except Dr. Dudley. It was then resolved that the interests of the School imperiously required a separation of the chairs of Anatomy and Surgery—that the Dean be desired to com- municate this resolution to Dr. Dudley, and that he (D) be requested to give the Faculty an answer the ensuing evening. These reso- lutions were supported by Dr. Richardson, Mitchell and myself—Dr. Peter, I believe, vo- ted against them. The morning of the 17th of May, I met Dr. Dudley on Mill, a few steps from Main St. He seemed exceedingly gratified at seeing me, greeted me as my friend, and I at his request retraced my steps, locked arm and arm with him, towards his house. The only subjects of coversation, were those of the separation of the chairs of Anatomy and Surgery, and the nomination of Dr. Bush by the Faculty, to that of the former, when it should be vacated. His only object appeared to be to procure my co-operation for the achievement of the latter object. I informed him, that in all I had said and.done, I had been prompted exclusive- ly by a desire to promote the interests of the School—that I had no personal animosty against Dr. Bush to gratify—that the opposi- tion of Drs. Mitchell, Richardson and myself 1") to him, arose as far as I could judge from an honest and thorough conviction of his incom- petency—that even if I were disposed to sec- ond his views in behalf of Dr. Bnsh, it was now impossible, for my honor was pledged to aid Drs. Mitchell and Richn-dson in the achievement of the reforms at which they aimed, and that as all three of us had com- mitted ourselves in the fullest manner, in so many forms, and to so many persons, to re- treat from the position we had taken, without disgrace, was utterly impracticable. Fur- thermore, I declared, that even were it possible for me to be guilty of snch treachery as to de- sert Drs. Mitchell and Richardson, nothing could reconcile them to the elevation of Dr. Bush to a Professorship. To which he res- ponded in substance :—"I would rather lose my right arm than do, or suffer anything to be done, that would reflect on the character of a colleague,* but Sir, if you will agree to it, (make B. Professor of Anatomy,) I care but little what they (Mitchell and Richardson) think or do.f "Sir, said I, it is impossible, nor do I believe a single member of the Fac- ulty will agree to it, with the exception, per- haps of Dr. Peter. He immediately turned from me evidently much irritated, saying at the same time "good morning." Within a few hours afterwards I saw Dr. Richardson, and I communicated to him my accidental interview with Dr. Dudley—I told him that I was satisfied from what he had said that he would not submit to the separa- tion of the Chairs of Anatomy and Surgery without a pledge that Dr. Bush should be nominated for the former when vacated, and that this would be the import of the commu- nication we would receive from him that evening. Then, said he, in that event we will appeal to the Board of Trustees, and if they refuse to listen to reason you shall see that you are not the only member of the Faculty who will not submit to the insolent arogance of Dr. Dudley. May 17th. The Faculty met in the eve- nnig according to adjournment, and instead of receiving from Dr. Dudley a written commu- nication as was expected, he met us in person. The moment the object of the meeting was stated, Dr. Dudleyletus knowwithanair of as haughty self-importance and supercilious con- tempt as if he had been the Great Mogul him- self, surrounded with his guards, that "it was 'This idle and ostentatious display of affection for the reputation of his colleagues, is only equalled by the grati- tude which the dog feels for the bull that is tossing him, or the mouse for the cat by which he is worried ; and this amiable feature in the character of Dr. Dudley, we may find it necessary hereafter to illustrate and explain. tThe above do not profess to be the precisr words of Dr Dudley, but they embody his meaning, at least as I under- stood him. utterly impossible for him to resign either of the chairs he then held." At this announce- ment Dr. Mitchell bounced as suddenly as if he had been bitten by a tarantula—Dr. Rich- ardson shrunk back as if schorched by the glance of Dudley's eye—and Dr. Peter, his mouth like the apurturejof a poor-box, with a fawning, cringing, parisitical grin, seemed to say, "I told you so." After this avowal, which tome was not unexpected, Dr. Dudley paused for a few moments and then said in a more conciliatory tone that Dr. Bush had not had a fair chance—that he had always occu- pied a subordinate and consequently an em- barrassing position in the Faculty—that he- had been allowed to lecture but three times a week, and that he was convinced that if he were permitted to lecture twice as often, and thus be placed nearer on a footing of equality with us, he would be able to give satisfaction. Immediately after Dr. Dudley had closed his remarks, Dr. Richardson instead of moving, as was expected, an appeal to the Board of Trustees, to my surprise made a long rambling speech and if I understood him correctly he did not differ materially on any important point from Dr. Dudley. While this speech was being made exultation glisten- ed in the eyes of Drs. Dudley and Peter, the latter of whom believing from the sentiments to which Dr. Richardson had given utterance, that he had deserted Dr. Mitchell and myself, and that as we were now in a minority we would yield, had the unblushing assurance to propose that the Faculty should unite in con- demning the conduct of Dr. Pinckard, in con- tradicting his statements, and if this were done it would be easy to discredit all he had said and written. At this Dr. Mitchell took fire, and turning upon him asked him indig- nantly if he wished the members of the Fac- ulty to lie. Seeing no chance of an appeal to the Board of Trustees being made, and every chance of the evil of which wfe com- plained] being aggravated instead of reme- died I moved that the consideration of the subject for the present be dismissed, and that the teaching of Anatomy and Surgery be suf- fered to remain in statu quo. Believing that Dr. Bush had already lectured too often for the good of the School, my object in making the above motion was to prevent his obtaining the privilege of lecturing six times a week which seemed to be the aim of Dr. Dudley. The motion was adopted unanimously, and the meeting adjourned. May 23d. I met Dr. Mitchell at Phillips' corner, who, with a fluttering, anxious ex- pression of countenance that looked perfect- ly awful, the color of his face changing almost prismatically, informed me that he had just learned that it was the intention of Dr. Dud- 16 ley to have himself Dr. Richardson and my- self expelled the Faculty. This intelligence I treated with the contempt it deserved, for great as I believed his influence to be with the Board of Trustees I had no idea he could pre- vail upon them to commit so gross and inde- fensible an outrage. Jn the midst of this conversation, which I did not consider worth continuing, Judge Wooley passed and signi- fied that he wishsd to see me, when I abrupt- ly left Dr. Mitchell to the comfort of his gloo- my forebodings. May 24th I was followed into the store of Messrs. Boyd & Colwell by Dr. Richardson, who, with a most portentious and obstetrical cast of countenance, a sure indication that he was parturient with something prodigious, in- ] formed me that he wished me to go home with him as he had matter of importance to communicate. He began immediately to speak of the rumor that had evidently distur- bed the tranquility of Dr. Mitchell, and here I must remark that while both of them ha- ted Dr. Dudley with the utmost intenseness they dreaded his wrath more than the Gentoo's do a visit from Peshush, or than they did that of their God, whom they hypocriti- cally professed to serve. When I said to Dr. Richardson that Dr. Mitchell had impreg- nated him with his fears he responded that although he had spoken to him on the subject he had also heard it from other sources, and that he had reason to believe the subject was seriously agitated in a certain quaster. He also informed me that Dr. Peter had been to see him a few hours before on an errand from Dr. Dudley, who wished the two letters he (R.) had received from hiin (D.,) and which committed the latter to the reforms we desired, with the assurance that they (the letters) should be returned so soon as he had obtain- ed copies of them. When he told me that he had granted the request of Dr. Dudley, and that the letters were then in his posses- sion, I at once charged him with having been guilty of a most silly indiscretion, and told him that instead of sending the originals, he should have sent him copies of them only, that it was a shallow trick to obtain possession of them, and that he would never see them again.— Well, said Dr. R. perhaps you are right, for he is capable of anything, and if I had them again, it would take more than the jesuistry of Peter to dispossess me of them;" but like the chicken sliding in the egg down the Irish- man's throat he spoke too late. Now I ven- ture the allegation that those letters have not been found by those who have possession of the papers of Dr. R. while letters purport- ing to be copies of those written by Dr. R. to Dr. D. have and this I do, because I have had the most conclusive assurance that this was not the first time he (Dudley) had repossessed himself of his letters under false pretences.— Dr. Richardson then read to me the letters to which I have just referred, and which I have no doubt have been found amongst his papers, but which I had not seen before, in order to obtain my opinion of their contents, for he said he feared it would become necessary to publish them, and he wished to know if they contained anything that could not safely meet the* public eye. 1 did my utmost to tranquil- ize him, for he was very much disturbed, and indulged in the most intemperate denuncia- tions of Dr. Dudley. 1 saw plainly that he thought he was to be victimized, for he pro- posed that should Dr. Dudley attempt the ex- pulsion of either himself, Dr. Mitchell or my- self, the moment this should be certainly as- certained, all three of us should simultaneous- ly resign, and make a joint publication against Dr. Dudley. To which I responded: "Sir, you and Dr. Mitchell are at liberty to pursue what course you may think expedient—in re- lation to myself you are already aware of my determination, for I have repeatedly told you that if by the first of July Dr. Dudley does not recover his senses, and submit to such changes as the interests of the School demand, I will resign, and I now say in addi- tion, that I'll not only resign, but I will give to the public my reasons for doing so.* About 5 o'clock in the afternoon, I received the following notice : Medical Hall, May 24, 1844. A Facbxty Meeting will beheld in the usual place, to-morrow at 11 o'clock. A. M. THOS. D. MITCHELL, Dean. For Professor Cross. That the defection of Drs. Mitchell and Richardson was neither suspected nor feared on the 21st of may 1844, only four days be- fore their treachery bacame manifest, is proved by the following quotation extracted from an article of Dr. Pinckard, that was published in the Lexington Inquirer of that date. "At a faculty meeting a few evenings since, resolutions were passed by a majority of the Professors, expressing the necessity and urging Dr. Dudley to resign one of his professorships, giving him the privilege of retaining the one *This, although strictly true, as to what was my fixed purpose, was a most indiscreet publication of what I inten- ded to do after resigning, for it had, I am fully satisfied, a controlling agency in driving my colleagues to the adoption of an expedient, evidently full of diflicu/ty and desperate hazard. They might have been willing, perhaps, to- have suffered ine to retire in silence, but to permit me to leave the School under auspices propitious to an assault upon the insolent and arrogant assumptions of Dr. Dudley, was too much to expect, an I to betray my design to men of whom I h d someknowledge, and that too of a character not very flattering, was a great weakness. Besides the neces- sity which there was to deter me from an exposure of tbe conduct of Dr. Dudley, the recent defection of his col- leagues, Drs. Richardson and Mitchell, made it indispensa- ble thatlshould not be allowed to comment on their turpi- tude and treachery. 17 he should).refer (euppposing he would ivtaiu the chair of Surgery) so that a competent Anatomist might be appointed "What do you suppose was the result? And that, too. after he had expressed his willingness to do what bis col- leagues might think would be for the best interests of the School? "Dr. Dudley positively refuses to resign either of his chairs, unless the faculty will concur with him and appoint fas incompetent adjunct to the Professorship of Anatomy! Striving to make the School mo re objectionable than at pres- ent, and insulting the majority of his talented colleagues by such an offer, when they had expressed their belief that he was incompetent for the subaltern position lie now occupies. A majority of the faculty, with a dignity becoming the ele- vated position which they occupy, and that self-respect which should characterise all honorable men, and especial- ly when the interests of science are concerned, very prop- erly and promptly rejected his offer; nothing, then, has been done. " The result is, our School will go down, effectually down, unless the reorganization we have so frequently urged, is effected immediately. Who shall bear the odium of its wreck, its ruin? We unhesitatingly say Dr. Dud- ley—all the physicians say Dr. Dudley—three to one in the Faculty say Dr. Dudley, and you the Trustees, who are the guardians of the School, will, we know, when too late, have to uni e and join the universal cry, Dr Dudley. You, the Mayor and City Council will then properly inquire who promised that our Medical Class should double its number, at that time over two hundred; would you borrow and appro- priate the enormous sum of more than $50,000 for the ex- clusive benefit of Trannsylvania Medical School—you bor- rowed and appropriated that sum, believing in the promises of Dr. Dudley. [That Dr. D. made these promises we have the statement of several Councilmen.] "The Faculty, with the exception of Dr. Peter, have done all in their power to place the School in a position to command respect at home and confidence abroad, by their efforts to have the proper vacancies, so that they miglit ap- point a distinguished Professor and Demonstrator of Anato- my. For this they deserve the thanks of every frieud of our Profession and of Medical Science, and in an especial manner do they deserve the thanks of the citizens of our city, for doing all in their power to sustain our sinking School. Now, what shall bo done? Will you, the Trustees stand idly by, indifferent to the best interests of the School, not only as expressed by us, but by the Faculty and the physi- cians generally, which requires its immediate reorganiza- tion? Will you, the Mayor and Council and the citizens of Lexington, remain silent upon this subject of such impor- tance and interest to you? For whom have the citizens made so many pecuniary sacrifices, to benefit and to sustain the School? For Dr. D. Yet, Dr. Dudley is now doing all in his power to sacrifice your School, by preventing its re organization—although he said he was willing to do any- thing that was honorable to advance its interests. The Professors, his colleagues, the physicians of the city, the friends of science and of the School, unite in saying it is honorable, it is right, it is imperatively demanded by the sinking condition of the School, and for its future success, that he resign one of his chairs. "But he refuses. He still domineers, as he has always done, to the injury of our School, and thus prevents Pro- fessors Mitchell, Cross, and Richardson from filling one of the chairs, which he should vacate, with one of the ablest Anatomists and Surgeons in the United States. "Are you willing to see the School go down? The School that you have nurtured by the mostlavish expenditures and the greatest pecuniary sacrifices? If so, do nothing, and yoursplendid Medical Hall will lie dp>erted by the proud aspiring youth of the great valley of the Mississippi. We respectfully say to the Trustees, you should now act, and come to the aid of a majority of the Faculty. If you re- fuse, we call on the Mayor and Council and citizens gene- rally, to come to their aid, and say to Dr. Dudley, 'Sir, you have no right, either morally or officially, as an honorable man, to resist and oppose the efforts of your colleagues to elevate the Medical School and promote the true interests of the city of Lexington, by making the required reorgani- Z*"Beiter, far better, that he, Dr. B. W. Dudley, should leave the School, than that all the talent in it besides shou d leave it. What honorable man, what talented man would •tay in it, or what honorable or talented man would come in, if Dr. Dudley is still to be their ruler?" May 25th, 1844. About 9, A. M., I met Dr. M itchell on the side-walk before the Med ical College, when he told me there would be no Faculty Meeting that day—that it had been deferred. The cause of it I did not ask nor did he inform me. After having been about the public square two or three hours I turned towards home, and on the way I found before Dr. Darby's office Drs. Pinckard, Lewis, and others. The subject of conversation before I joined them was the difficulties in which the Medical School appeared to be involved, which was continued to be discussed after my arri- val, as will appear by the following letter ad- dressed to me by Dr. Lewis: Short Street, Lexington, ) ■ June 13, 1844. $ Prof, Cross—Dear Sir: I received your note of the 12th, (yesterday,) requesting me to give you the import of a conversation that took place on Saturday, the 25th of May, be- fore Dr. Darby's office, in which you, Dr. Pinckard, and myself were engaged. The subjects of conversation at the time referred to were briefly the reputed compro- mise in the Faculty by which Dr. Bush was to fill the Anatomical Chair the ensuing ses- sion on trial; the propriety of taking before the Trustees the resolution passed by the ma- jority of the Faculty, touching the impor- tance of separating the Chairs of Anatomy and Surgery; the qualifications of Dr. Bush to fill the Chair of Anatomy; and, lastly, the intentions of Dr. Dudley towards the majori- ty of the Faculty whom it was reported had passed said resolution. You distinctly denied a knowledge of the existence of a resolution by which Dr. Bush was to fill the Anatomical Chair on trial, the ensuing session, and stated that you had of- fered a resolution in the spirit of compromise, that the Chairs remain as they were before a re organization was proposed, and which reso- lution was passed unanimously. You re. marked that it would be impolitie to urge the reorganization before the Trustees as it could not be effected and would injure the School. My recollection does not serve me as to any remark made by you in relation to Prof. Dud- ley's feelings and supposed intentions towards the majority of the Faculty. You further stated, in the conversation alluded to, "that it was hard or you did not know why if Dr. Pinckard chose to write against the School, and get up a difficulty that you and others should be held responsible for it. I am, very respectfully, your friend and obedient servant, JNO. T. LEWIS. P. S.—Professors Richardson, Mitchell. and yourself were censured, by the company present, for not taking the resolution passed by a majority of the Faculty before the Trus- 18 tees. The opinion was expressed that Prof. Dudley intended making a clean sweep of all the Chairs occupied by those not in favor of his views, and you were told that the Trustees were ready to hear any complaints from the Faculty, but would pay no attention to the communication of "A Friend to Lexington." JXO. T. LEWIS, Immediately after the conversation in which the topics referred to in the above letter were spoken of closed, I resumed my walk towards my house as the dinner hour was fast ap- proaching. On my way I observed the Med- ical College door standing open, and thinking it probable that I should find Dr. Mitchell in the Faculty room, as he spent much of his time there, I entered for the purpose of tell- ing him what I had just heard. To my sur- prise, instead of finding hi in alone, he was in company with Drs. Richardson and Peter. They appeared about adjourning, but when I remarked that I wished to speak to Drs. II. and M., they remained and Dr. Peter depart- ed. I gave to them my understanding of the resolution that I had offered, in relation to Dr. Bush, which accorded exactly with the explanation I had just given to Drs. Pinckard and Lewis, and asked them if such was not their understanding of it. When 1 remark that this resolution had been a subject of con- versation with both Drs. Mitchell and Rich- ardson since its adoption, and that they agreed with me in regard to its import and inten- tion, the reader will be able to conceive of my surprise and disappointment when they both declared that the resolution merely dismissed the subject without any reference to the teaching of Anatomy the ensuing session. For a flat contradiction of this statement I appeal to the Minutes of the Faculty, and will abide by their testimony if they have not been dis- figured or defaced, for I proposed the resolu- tion. I then told them that we were much censured for not having sent the resolution in relation to the separation of the Chairs of An- atomy and Surgery to the Board of Trustees, and urged upon them the necessity of it. This they both opposed, and Dr. Richardson with great vehemence. Now it is a notorious fact that both Drs. Mitchell and Richardson had ap- proved of every step that had been taken by Dr. Pinckard, and boasted of the support of the physicians of Second street, against whom the latter inveighed bitterly on this occasion, denouncing them as agitators, meddlers, and disturbers of the peace of the town. The reader may well imagine my amazement at this announcement. Both Drs. Richardson and Mitchell appeared very restless and impa- tient to have this interview brought to a close, for they ran about the room like geese in the ggpnies of egg-laying; but this I did not in- tend to suffer, for I was now convinced, from what I had just heard, particularly when connected as it was in my mind with the con- versation I had had with Dr. Dudley on the morning of the 17th May, that they had been, by him,debauched from their allegiance to me, and were now traitors; and I fancied in look- ing upon them I realized something of the truth of the remark made by Pitt, that "there wire men in whose countenances villainy is so impressed it were impiety not to be. lieve it." I told them it was currently ru- mored and confidently believed that it was the intention of Dr. Dudley to have those who voted for the resolution demanding a separa- tion of the chairs of Anatomy and Surgery expelled the Faculty, and that if such was the fact, now was the time to act upon the proposition made by Dr. Richardson the day before, which the reader will recollect was that Drs. Richardson, Mitchell, and myself should resign and make a joint publication. The moment I reminded Dr. Richardson of this they both started for the door as if the aven- ger of blood was at their heels, Dr. Richard- son remarking, as he went out, that he should not, at least for the present, for he was not afraid of being turned out. Then said I, if they turn me out they must do it quickly. As I returned home from the Medical College, I met Dr. Dudley on the sidewalk, who greeted me with his usual stereotyped Macsycophant grin. That no doubt may exist of the truth of the account I have given of the conversation had with Drs. Mitchell and Richardson in the Faculty room, on the 25th May, 1844, I here give a letter addressed to me by Dr. Pinckard, with whom I had a conversation on the fol- lowing Monday, and which the reader will at once perceive could only refer to the discov- eries made by me in the one held with fhose men on the previous Saturday: Lexington, July 23d, 1846. Dr. Cross—Dear Sir: Yours of the 21st inst. (mailed at Louisville) was received to- day. You request me to send you at Cincin- nati my recollection of a conversation that ac- cidentally took place between you and myself near the First Presbyterian Church in Lex- ington, on the 27th of May, 1844. I recollect the date, as it was the Monday after the Sat- urday we had the conversation before Dr. Darby's office, in which Dr. Lewis partici- pated. On Monday, the 27th of May, 1844, I met Professor Cross on the pavement at the cor- ner of the First Presbyterian Church, and asked him why he and Drs. Richardson and Mitchell did not press the re-organization of the School, and stated that I had understood from Dr. Mitchell, at Dr. Darby's office the in week before, that he, (Mitchell,) Richardson, , and Cross had, by a resolution at a Faculty I meeting, forced Dr. Dudley toplace himself in the hands of the Faculty. I further stated that I knew tliey (Mitchell*, Richardson, and Cross) | were all unanimous in the be ief that the future j prosperity and very existence of the School i depended upon the resiguatijn of Dr. Dudley | of one of the professorships, and the removal j of Dr. Bush on the ground of incompetency; that although Dr. Lewis had stated a few | days before on the authority of a member of the Board of Trustees, with whom he had conversed, that they (the-Trustees) had threat- ened to turn out all those who opposed Dr. Dudley, I could not believe that they would be guilty of such enormous injustice to a ma- jority of the Faculty, merely for the purpose of ministering to the vengeance of Dr. Dudley. The reply of Dr. Cross to my interrogatory, and the remarks that accompanied it, was as follows: That all hope of effecting any reform in the School was extinguished; that Drs. Mitchell and Richardson had not only aban- doned him, but every position they had here- tofore taken in regard to the proposed reorgan- ization; and that they so far from again urging the necessity of Dr." Bush's removal from the School, for which they had been so clamorous, were now willing to vote for his nomination to the Chair of Anatomy, which Dr. Dudley was willing and would resign only on that condi- tion. This appeared to me incredible, and I asked him his reason for supposing that they (Mitchell and Richardson) could be guilty of such turpitude. He replied he could say no more at present, but requested me to recollect what he had said. This was before I knew anything about Dr. Cross' having been re- quested to resign, and before any one suspec- ted Drs. Mitchell and Richardson of such in- consistency and treachery as he plainly said they had been and would be guilty of. The night after this interview I was at Dr. Cross's house with Dr. Darby, when he ex- plained to us why he had spoken to me as he had, the day before. I then said to Drs. Cross and Darby that the hint which had been given by Dr. Lewis had not been lost on Drs. Mitchell and Richardson, for they, knowing how obnoxious Dr. Cross was to the arersion of Dr. Dudley, immediately deter- mined to offer him up as a sacrifice to propi- tiate Dr. Dudley's anger, and thus to obtain from him permission to remain in the School. Subsequent events proved the truth of all that Dr. Cross had predicted, for Drs. Mitch- ell and Richardson did vote for the nomina- tion of Dr. Bush to the Chair of Anatomy, and he was elected by the Board of Trustees. My predictions would also have been fulfilled had not Drs. Mitchell and Richardson proved traitors to their colleague Dr. Cross. For" this, and agreeing to support the nomination of Dr. Bush, they were permitted to remain in the School. T. B. PINCKARD. Many of the allegations embodied in the preceding history were presented to the pub- lic by Dr. Pinckard so long ago as the 20th of September, 1844. These particularly af- fect the conduct and character of Drs. Mitchell and Richardson. As neither of those individ uals have ever dared to answer them or attempt their refutation, the public is bound to believe that they are true, and insusceptible of refuta- tion. We therefore deem it perfectly legiti- mate to quote an extract from the article of Dr. Pinckard, which was published the 20th of September, 1844, in confirmation of what we have said. Dr. Pinckard remarks: Yes, Dr. M. and Dr. R. did approve and express an entire approval of all we wrote previous to the return of Dr. Cross from the East. They urged him by letter, as we are in- formed, to hurry home and unite with them in reorganizing the School. Ho did hasten home for that purposa, and to assist in filling the vacant Chair of Theory and Practice, and heartily united with them in the opinion that all we had written was true, and that the best interest of our city re- quired Dr. Dudley to resign one of his Professorships, either the chair of Anatomy or Surgery—the vacant chair to be filled with an experienced and able Professor of un. questionable abilities. Did not Dr. Richardson, after the publication of our fourth number and before the return of Dr. C. from the East, feel so confident that Dr. Dudley would be forced by public opinion and a majority of the Fa- culty, if not by the Trustees, to resign one of his chairs, that lie got a friend td write to Dr. Geo. McClelland, ex- PiolVssor of the Jefferson Medical School, Philadelphia, to get him to accept the vacant chair? These same Profes- sors, Mitchell, Richardson, and Cross, did alsd concur with us fully in the opinion that Dr. Bush was incompetent as an Adjunct Professor of Anatomy, and Dr. Richardson, as we are informed, addressed one or two letters to Dudley, in- sisting on the reorganization of the School, &c. "Do not these facts prove that Drs. Mitchell, Richardson, and Cross were as anxious for the reorganization of the School as we were, and that they made just the same effort that we did to put down the School—if desiring its re-organi- tion and the appointment of the ablest men in our land to fill the vacant Professorships, was an attempt to put it down? Yes, they went further than we did—*hey acted in a different sphere, in their official capacity, they passed, as we stated in our last article, a resolution at a, regular Fa- culty meeting, requiring of Dr. Dudley, for the benefit of the School, that he should resign one of his Professorships. "Will it not bo strange if we should be covered with shame and infamy, as the 'Professor's editorial' predicts for our agency in urging a reorganization of our Medical School, and these gentlemen go without a 'cover' iu these particulars, when they co-operated with us, and sustained us by endorsing all we said as true? We leave to the pub- lic to answer the question, and say what part of the 'cover' belongs to us, and what part to them. "Now, we again repeat that all we wrote was designed for the best interest of the School, and of our city, and if our suggestions had have been adopted which were sanctioned by these three Professors, which was to procure the most talented and experienced men in the nation, we may confi- dently ask the question would not our School possess at this moment more power to accomplish the great ends of its organization than it now has? "But it may be replied, it is not certain now that Dr. Bush is to be permanently Professor of Anatomy. Dr. Dudley has only placed him in that important chair this winter, o» trial, as we have been informed that Dr. Peter has stated; and that if he proves himself an able Professor, contrary to the opinions so frequently expressed by Profes- sors Mitchell, Richardson, and Cross, and the physicians and students generally, then he is to remain permanently as Professor of Special and Surgical Anatomy in Transylva- I nia Medical School; otherwise In it to leave the School 20 and give place to some man of acknowledged talents and experience competent to teach this important and primary branch of our profession. "Wc were not for making any experiments of this sort; nor were Drs. Richardson and Mitchell, while they were ac- ting in union with their talented colleague Dr. f'ro»<. But strange to tell, these same Professors, Mitchell and Rich- ardson, (from some cause or other—known doubtless to themselves, wc assert the fact, and leave them to explain,) changed their position. Abandoned not only us, but also proved traitorous to their brother Professor, Dr. Cross, by deserting him, and joined themselves to Dr. Dudley, who, by some peculiar operation, mesmeric or cabalistic, en- abled these very Professors at once—with the rapidity of 'presto change'—to change their opinions, long, deliberate- ly, and rationally made up, expressed time and again—that Dr. Bush was incompetent to teach Anatomy as an Adjunct; and now they say he is competent and well qualified to make an able Professor of Anatomy!!!" Immediately after the conversation above referred to, as having been held with Drs. Mitchell and Richardson, in the Faculty room, on Saturday, the 25th of May, 1844, I returned home. No sooner did I enter my office than I sat down and wrote a letter to M. C. Johnson, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Trustees, in which the Professorship I held in the Medical Department of Transylvania University was resigned. It ran thus: Lexington. May 25th, 1844. M. C. Johnson, Esq., Chairman, fyc.: Alarmed and astounded at some remarks which fell to-day from Drs. Mitchell and Richardson, but more particularly from the latter, I decided at once to put into execution an act which I had for some time determined on, and expressed to several individuals— which was, that, in the event of all hope be- ing lost of reorganizing the School, 1 would resign. You will, therefore, be pleased to consider the Chair of Institutes and Medical Jurisprudence as vacated. JAMES C. CROSS. This letter it was my intention to send to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees im- mediately after dinner. Indeed it would have been sent before, in which event I should have anticipated the precipitate vengeance of my enemies, but the servant who would have been the bearer of it was wanted in the di- ning-room—dinner being already served. I had scarcely risen from the table, after dinner, when the Curator, shaking like an aspen leaf and disclaiming with the most significant zeal all knowledge of its contents, handed me the following letter. The reader who knows that character is a Phoenix which can expire but once, and from whose ashes there is no re. surrection, will, after reading it, believe me, when I say that it not only astonished and confounded but overwhelmed me. Lexington, May 25th, 1844. To Professor Cross—Sir: Circumstau- ces having occurred relating to your private character,* which will hereafter prevent us from co-operating with you as a member of the Medical Faculty of Transylvania Univer- sity, we feel called on by an imperious sense of duty to the institution to request you to send to the Board of Trustees your resigna- tion of the chair you hold, as speedily as pos- sible. We invite you to this measure, hoping that it may appear as a spontaneous act of your own. B. W. DUDLEY, W. H. RICHARDSON, THOS. D. MITCHELL, ROBT. PETER. My feelings upon reading this infamous epis- tle, an epistle written during a vindictive parox- ysm of exasperated rascality, and designed, not only to rob me of every residuary hope or topic of consolation, but to condemn me to ever- lasting infamy, may be imagined but cannot be described. It struck me perfectly speech- less and motionless with the mingled emotions of terror, indignation, and contempt. Human depravity had resorted to# an expedient of which I had no conception, and in the exis- tence of which even the too prompt suspi- ciousness of my nature did not permit me to believe. I saw at once into whose hands I had fallen. Two of my colleagues, who for weeks had striven with me, with commutual zeal in a common and laudable enterprise, had but a few minutes before proved to me that they were cowardly traitors; but now they forced me to regard them, with their com- rades, as incarnate concentrations of the worst vices, and the perfect antithesis of every thing generous, benevolent, or ennobling in the human character. Knowing that I had determined to resign, and that too immediate- ly—that I intended to give my reasons for do- ing so to the public, and that if I should, it would blast forever the prospects of the insti- tution, they thought it necessary, if possible, to avert so dreadful a calamity, and therefore *This vague and general impromptu allegation was un- accompanied by a single specification, and, therefore, like a ghost-story or an avalanche, increases in horror as it goes. It would be stupid in me to anticipate my enemies, for "Mischief thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men, especially of those who know that "The world a willing stander by, Inclines to aid a specious lie." When the "gross obliquities of character" with which I am charged are specified, it will be time enough for me to no- tice them—it will be time enough then for me to appeal from the gossiping credulity of scandal to the justice of those who are far removed from the sphcro of personal feeling and personal influence. Cato may surpass me in virtue and St Paul in spirituality—my infirmities may be numer- ous and great, but they are those of an honest man who is not 6nly ready and willing to defend Rome but to carry the war into Africa. No man needs more the propagation of the sentiment embodied in the Spanish proverb, "Write the private faults of men in sand, their public virtues on brass " than Dr. Dudley. He should recollect that Phalurius roast- ed Perillus in his own brazen bull. 21 lu.ung "base counsel of their fears," they hes-] itated not to have recourse to an expedient, at which current scoundrelism would have blushed; they paused not at the commission of an act of moral assassination, from which the most cold-blooded and motiveless inhu- manity would have recoiled in terror and dis- gust, Here I ask the reader to pause and reflect upon the fact, that in the brief space of less than two hours, my private character had be- come so obnoxious to the aversion of my col- leagues that they were obliged to decline asso- ciation with me as a member of the Faculty. This declaration they had the daring effron- tery to make in the face of the facts that I had every day previously been in consultation with Drs. Richardson and Mitchell—had walked the streets, on the 17th of May, arm in arm with Dr. Dudley, though there was less honor than discredit in that—had late on the day before received a notice from the Dean of the Faculty that there would be a Faculty meeting on that very day, and had been, less than two hours before I received their written invitation to resign, with two of them, ex-officially, it is true, conversing on the business of the School. Never, and to this I am willing to testify on oath, had my colleagues, individually or collectively—direct- ly or indirectly, given me to understand that my conduct was in any respect objectionable, The first intimation 1 ever received from them on this subject was contained in the note of the 25th of May, 1844, inviting me to resign. Besides I had been present at every meeting of the Faculty since my return from New York, and had actively participated in their proceedings, as its minutes will most conclu- sively prove. Nor is this all; during the same week, a number of my brother practitioners of the city of Lexington paid me as high a tribute of respect and admiration as any rea- sonable man could desire. That my proof- less and unsupported dictum may not be re- lied on, I give the transaction to which I re- fer, in the language of Dr. Pinckard, who re- marks: "That the distant public may form a proper esti- mate of the standing and reputation of Dr. Cross, in Lexington, wc insert a memorial written by a Pnysi cian, and signed by ten of the most respectable prac- tising Physicians in the city, and others equally as re- spectable were willing and preparing to sign it, but thev had been informed that Dr. Watson had been appointed to the vacant chair the very day the memo- rial was circulated, and they were unwilling, very properly, to interfere after the appointment was made.* This memorial was gotten up and circulated *The most infamous means were resorted to to prevent the Physicians of Lexington signing the memorial, lo some it was said by one of my colleagues and another in- dividual connected with the University, who made them selves particularly active in opposing, for they could not without consulting Dr. Cross and without hi9 knowl- edge." The subscribers, alumni of Transylvania Univer- sity and others, informed of the fact that the chair of the Theory and Practice, in the Medical Department of the University, is now vacant in consequence of the resignation of the late Prof. E. Bartlett, would most respectfully recommend to the Hon. Board of Trus- tees of Transylvania, Dr. Jas. C. Cross, as a Physician and Gentleman, in our judgments every way quali- fied to fill that Chair. "Many reasons induce us to make this recommen- dation, among which are the following: "No chair in the School has perhaps changed its oc- cupant more frequently than has that of the Theory and Practice. Since the re-organization in 1837;it has been filled by three gentlemen, each one distin- guished and deservedly popular as a Teacher. Death removed the lamented Eberle. Smith and Bartlett have found greater inducements in an Eastern city. It now remains to be determined whether we will be more fortunate in obtaining the services of a man who will be more likely to remain among us. No one denies the importance of having a permanent Teacher in this most distinguished and useful chair. Nothing can more retard the onward progress of our School than frequent changes in the Chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine. "Physicians in the Southern and Western States are eminently practical men. The diseases which they have to treat are not such as are likely to recov- er without the aid of Medicine. Facts the most abundant prove this; nor are they such as will yield to a temporising or expectant course of treatment. Not only the Faculty of Doctors, but the people ave fully of this opinion. "How important, is it not, then, that the Physicians who have the first care of medical students, through- out the great valley of the West, should know who it is that fills this most important of all the chairs in any Medical School. Notwithstanding the annual announcement, the fact is nevertheless true, the changes in this chair have been so frequent that num- bers of Medical gentlemen are every year uninformed who fills the chair of Theory and Practice in the Lex- ington School. A Professor has hardly been here long enough to make himself known, through the stu- dents to the Doctors and people of the West and South, before he resigns ai»d goes elsewhere; carry- ing with him, of course, if he is a man of distin- guished ability, some of the Students, who would, oth- erwise, form a part of our class. "Who is more likely to be permanent among us than our fellow citizen Dr. Cross? Those early as- sociations and ties which induce other men to return to their early homes, all combine to induce him to re- main among us. "And when, we are able to say, as we can in strict truth, and without a shadow of flattery, that no Physi- cian is more favorably known, throughout the South- ern and Western States, as a man of extensive and critical knowledge of the Science of Medicine, and as a successful Practitioner, one, too, who has already acquired a most enviable reputation as a teacher, both in this and the Cincinnati School; we feel persuaded that the Medical Faculty and the Board of Trustees are bound to give due weight and a respectful consid- eration to our recommendation. "No Medical School in the West, as far North as Kentucky, or in the Eastern cities, so far as we are defeat the memorial, that Dr. Bartlett had not resigned, and to others that the chair of Theory and Practice had been already filled by the election of Dr. Watson, neither of which statements were true. Besides, it is believed the election of Dr. Watson to the chair of Theory and Prac- tice was precipitated to the great injury of the School, sim- ply to exclude me from it. ')'! informed, has ever been so fortunate as to have a teacher in this Chair who has ever practised in a Southern State. Is not this a desideratum? Dr. Cross practised for several years in a very sickly section of Alabama, and there learned, in the only manner it can be learned, the true character of Southern diseases. What has contributed so much to make Dr. Jas. John- son, of London, one of the most distinguished medi- cal writers of the aw, as his extensive and practical experimental knowledge of the diseases of hot cli- mates? His works are the Vade Mecum of every Southern Doctor. We want a man who has treated Southern fevers, to teach our students how to treat them. The practical lessons which Prof. Cross intro- duces into his physiological lectures are at this time practised upon by hundreds of Physicians through- out the Mississippi Valley. "As Physicians of the city of Lexington, we take pleasure in saying that there is no Physician more gentlemanly in his deportment, and whom we arc better pleased to meet in consultation than our fellow- townsman, Dr. Cross, and no man whose suggestions at the bedside we are more disposed to act upon. "In conclusion, we earnestly recommend him to tbe Board of Trustees, and to his brother members of the Medical Faculty of the University, to fill the va- cant chair of the Theory and Practice in Transylva- nia University." Lexington, May, 1844. Now, is it not strange and inscrutable that during the same week, and not more than two or three days asunder, I should receive from four of my colleagues, a letter in which I am told that my private character is such as to prevent their co-operating with me as a mem- ber of the Faculty, and be presented with a memorial signed by ten of the most respecta- ble physicians of Lexington, in which, amongst many other complimentary things, it is said: "As physicians of the city of Lexington we take pleasure in saying that there is no physi- cian more gentlemanly in his deportment, and whom we are better pleased to meet in consulta- tion than our fellow-townsman, Dr. Cross, and no man whose suggestions at the bedside we are more disposed to act upon." So detestable and diabolical a conspiracy was never perhaps formed for the destruction of any man. Having already committed a crime unre- lieved by a single circumstance of mitigation, I had no right to suppose or believe they would hesitate at the perpetration of any atrocity to com- pass their purpose. My situation can be readily imagined; instead of having, as I thought a few hours before, at least two professing friends in the Faculty, I found myself surrounded by and in the merciless hands of blood-hounds, of monsters in human shape, who were ready to signalize their zeal in the cause of a man whom they despised, by pouring the venom of a venal turpitude into the heart of one who had not insulted or ag- grieved them. Not only did I see that the influ- ence of my resignation was neutralized and de- stroyed, at least for the present, but that they had placed me in a situation from which immaculate purity would be unable to escape unscathed by the lightning of their vengeance. With feelings which this conviction was calculated to inspire, I determined to consult Judge Wooley. I laid the facts before him as intelligibly as I could, and he at once said, as lie then declared, lint 1 was uot ill a state of mind to act discreetly or prudently in the premises, and therefore insisted that I should speak to no one on the subject, but sutler him to take the control of the affair wholly into his own hands. Having the fullest confidence in his pru- dence, wisdom, and friendship, I surrendered the matter to his management. What he proposed to do or did, I knew not, nor do I now know. Three days after the reception of the letter above given, I received the following note from the Dean of the Faculty: Lexington, May 28th, 1844. To Prof. Cross—Sir: I am authorised and di- rected by the members of the Faculty, who signed the paper sent you on Saturday last, to request that you will make known your decision in the premises by Thursday at noon, of this week, in default of which it will be their duty to lay the matter before the Board of Trustees. By order: THOS. D. MITCHELL, Dean. I immediately saw Judge Wooley and exhib- ited to him this second letter, at which he ap- peared surprised and indignant, and declared he had never known a more outrageous proceeding on the part of men who claimed to be honest or respectable. I remarked that speedy action seemed to be necessary—that the course I in- tended to pursue I had long decided on, but that I did not wish to take the affair out of his hands until be voluntarily relinquished it. He advised me t otake my own time—that he would not be hurried—that it was preposterous in the Faculty to think of forcing me to decide before I had had am- ple time to consult with my friends—that Mr. Clay wished to see me at his house that afternoon at 5 o'clock, and that I must do nothing until I had heard his views on the subject. I saw Mr. Clay and had a conversation with him in relation to the two letters I had received from the Faculty, when he at once and emphatically declared the conduct of my colleagues to be an indefensible usurpation of authority. He proffered his interposition, and from what he said I left him under the impression that he thought it a difficulty which ought and should be easily settled. Reflecting on the sub- ject, however, it appeared to me that he had mis- understood my wishes—that he supposed I de- sired to remain in the Faculty, and that if he in- terposed under this impression, and should suc- ceed in effecting a settlement of the difficulty, I would be under an obligation to remain in the School, which, days before, I had determined not to do under any circumstances. I therefore ad- dressed to him the following note: Lexington, May 28th, 1844. Hon. H. Clay—Dear Sir: I should feel bound to remain in the School in the event of the success of the effort you propose making on my behalf. This is wholly irreconcilable with my feelings, and therefore I decided after I left you to take the course which I had marked out immediately after a conversation I had on last Saturday with Drs. Mitchell and Richardson, but which I was pre- vented pursuing by the reception of a letter from four of the members of the Faculty. While, therefore, I express my gratitude to you for the interest you are disposed to take ia the matter, I 23 must inform you that putting yourself to any trouble on the subject is wholly unnecessary. Yours, truly and respectfully, JAMES C. CROSS. The above note was written at a late hour on the 2-Sth, and sent to Mr. Clay at a very early hour on the morning ot the 29th. Ashland, 29th May, '44. My Dear Sir: Notwithstanding the honor of your note to me to-day I had this morning an in- terview with Dr. Dudley. He promised to en- deavor to have a conference with his colleagues this evening or to-morrow, and communicate the result. I shall be in the city between 11 and 1 o'clock to-morrow, when I can inform you what may have taken place, unless you have resolved finally to abandon the matter. Yours, respectfully, II. CLAY. Dr. Cross. I did not call on Mr. Clay at the time appoint- ed, for I had, before receiving hie note, sent in my resignation with the following explanatory letter: Lexington, Slay 28th, 1~11. M. C. Johnston, Esq., Chairman, 8fc: Dear Sir: Finding in a conversation I held in the Faculty Room on last Saturday, near the middle of the day, with Drs. Richardson and Mitchell, that I was abandoned by them in our joint attempt to effect a division of the Chairs of Anatomy and Surgery, I decided at once to do what I had several times declared to Dr. Richard- son, as well as other individuals, I would do; which was to resign my Professorship in Transyl- vania University, if the Chairs could not be divi- ded. I immediately returned home and wrote the letter of resignation, here inclosed, to you, which would have been sent to you during the afternoon of Saturday, the 25th inst., but for the reception of a letter from four members of the Faculty ask- ing me to resign, or, in other words, requesting me, terror stricken, to sneak out of the School. It has, therefore, been retained thus long only for the purpose of consulting my friends as to the course I ought to pursue under the circum- stances. At the close of the conversation held with Drs. Richardson and Mitchell, in the Faculty Room on last Saturday, and as we were passing out of the door I remarked that if they (the Trustees) turned me out they must do it quickly. This was suffi- cient—for they well understood what I had threat- ened to do, and they therefore determined to pre- vent my voluntary resignation, and avert its con- sequences, if possible, by asking me to resign, and thus have a feeble pretext to allege that it was the result of necessity and not choice. Consequent- ly, I received about 2 o'clock a letter from Drs. Dudley, Richardson, Mitchell, and Peter, to that effect. This was not, at the utmost, more than two hours after I left the Faculty Room. The letter from the Faculty attempts to put the aecessity of my resignation upon other grounds, but I am fullv justified in affirming that Drs. Rich- ardson and Mitchell fully concurred with Drs. Dudley and Peter in the letter to me, because ot the rumor that they, with me, were to be sacrificed by the Trustees to please Dr. Dudley, which ru mor they feared would soon prove to be a reah ty, all of which I can sustain, as well as that they concurred with Dr. Pinckard before my return from the East. Yours truly, and respectfully, JAMES C. CROSS. This letter closed my official connection with the Medical Faculty of Transylvania University, and it has been ever since, and it shall be through the whole future of my existence, my unceasing prayer to God to preserve me from derogatory association with any of his works that he has thought fit, from motives however scarcely intelli- gible to man's fallible and feeble powers of reason, to clothe in the form and lineaments of human- ity, so dead to every touch of compunction. That it had been my fixed purpose weeks before I ultimately resigned, to do so rather than submit to the high and domineering airs of Dr. Dudley, does not rest upon the declarations made by me to Drs. Richardson and Mitchell, but upon the tes- timony of those who may be credited, not only as impartial witnesses but as men over whom a sense of justice has a paramount and controlling influ- ence. The following letters, which were ad- dressed to me, (and they could easily have been multiplied, for my determination to resign in a cer- tain event was fully disclosed on frequent occa-^ sions, and to many persons,) are adduced in proof of the truth of the above allegation: Lexington, June 14,1844. Dr. J. C. Cross: I received yours of the 12th inst. yesterday evening. In reply I state that somewhere about the mid- dle of May last we fell in company, on our way home, and you mentioned the suhject of the dif- ficulties in the Medical Department of Transyl- vania University, and we continued the conversa- tion until we arrived at your steps. You in- formed me that a majority of the Faculty had re- quested Dr. Dudley to resign one of his Chairs— that he had refused—that the only alternative left was the action of the Board of Trustees, and if they failed to do anything the School must go down. You further stated that unless Dr. Bush's place was filled by a man of more knowledge and repu- tation, the School would sink, and concluded the conversation by saying, "You may rest assurred, sir, I will not sink with it." I understood your determination to be, that unless Bush was gotten clear of, and Dudley's Chair divided, you would quit the School. Respectfully, H. I. BODLEY. Since the question of dividing the Chairs of An- atomy and Surgery has been agitated, I have had frequent conversations with Dr. Cross, upon the whole subject, and came to the conclusion from what he said in these conversations that unless the reorganization contemplated was effected, Dr. Cross would leave the School. I stated my opin- ion as to Dr. Cross's course to Prof. Richardson, (I think on Monday, 20th inst.,) and to several other gentlemen. JNO. C. DARBY, M. D. Mai 28th, 1844. 24 Since Professor Crob/s return from the East, I have been confident he would dissolve his con- nection with the „\iudical School of Transylvania University, if the required reorganizatiou of the department of Anatomy and Surgery was not ef- fected. This opinion was founded on remarks made to me by him, and from my frequent con- versations with a friend who reported them to me. T. B. PINCKARD, M. I). Lexington, May 28th, lt'44. Lexington, Ky.,20th June, 1844. I met with Professor J. C. Cross at the Dudley House, the day after his arrival from the East, and in the course of conversation asked him what prospect there was for a reorganization in the Medical School, and at the same time remarked that I was impressed with the opinion if some- thing was not done speedily the School would be injured by the publications of "A Friend to Lex- ington." The Dr. responded that he did not know what would be done—nor did he care; that he had nothing to do with the difficulties that had arisen in his absence; but if something was not done in two weeks (or a short time) he knew what he would do. My impression was, that he intend- ed resigning, and so told Professor .Mitchell a few days afterwards, who seemed to concur with me in opinion. JOHN T. LEWIS, M. D. Soon after the return of Dr. Cross from the East, and sometime before his resignation as Pro- fessor in Transylvania, a conversation took place in the store iu which I live, in the presence of Mr. Thomas Grant. When the subject of the School difficulty was named—he said unless the School was reorganized he would resign. We insisted that he should not—he said he would, and told Mrs. Cross so on their way home. We still in- sisted on his continuing, that he as well as the School would be losers by his resignation, when he replied that the School was going down, and that he was independent of it. M. B. MORRISON. Lexington, June 18th, 1844. The above statement by M. B. Morrison is lit- erally correct. T. GRANT*. Besides the declarations made by ine in refer- ence to the difficulties that were the immediate cause of my resignation, the reader will discover from the following letter of Professor John T. Shotwell, that as early as March, 1844,1 desired to leave the Medical Department of Transylva- nia University: Cincinnati, June 15th, 1844. Prof. Cross—My Dear Sir: Your letter of the 13th inst. is now before me, and in answer I can state that your resignation in the Medical Depart- ment of Transylvania University did not surprise me. I was satisfied in my own mind, from our confidential conversation in this city, last March that you did not feel agreeably situated, and that you would relieve yourself of it at the earliest *The venal scribbler of the Transylvania Medical. Fa- culty has denied that the "sinking state of the Sehool" 'had anything to do with my resignation. The readers of the testimony of Messrs. Bodley, Morrison, and Grant will doubtless come to the conclusion that his title to truth rests on very apocryphal authority. opportunity. In fact you so stated but gave no par- ticulars. What the reasons of your dissatisfaction were, you did not state—neither did I ask. . Your letter to me of the 6th of February last, is, as you request, copied on the next page. I am, very respectfully, your obd't sevant, JOHN T. SHOTWELL. The letter to which Professor Shotwell refers is here subjoined, and is of such a nature as scarcely to admit of misinterpretation; but to preclude all doubt as to its import and design, I will say that I had become so dissatisfied with all my colleagues, with the exception of Dr. Bartlett, that I wished to leave the School, and learning that Dr. More- head was going to Europe, and did not intend to return, I wished to intimate to Dr. Shotwell that I was willing to take the Chair of Theory and Prac- tice in the Medical College of Ohio. Professor Shotwell wrote me that Professor Morehead had no thought of resigning, and consequently fur- ther correspondence on the subject was unneces- sary:* LExiNGTon, February 6th, 1844. Prof. Shotwell—My Dear Sir: I regret that it is not in my power to visit Cincinnati before the close of the session, but if it were to happen that I jcould see you, I doubt not that I could com- municate to you that which would be of much ser- vice to you in your official capacity, and in doing so it would not be disagreeable to me. On this you may reflect, but what I have said must be re- garded as strictly confidential. Yours, very truly, JAS. C. CROSS. P. S. Is it true, as I have heard, that Dr. More head returns to Europe in the spring and in- tends then to resign the chair of Theory and Practice? The following paragraph appeared in the Bos- ton Medical and Surgical Journal, for February. 1844: . " 'Mbdical School in TENNF.ssEE.-^From the Knox- ville Argus intelligence is received of an intention on the part of the Trustees of the University of Tennessee to organize a Medical Department. In connection with the project the name of Dr. Cross, of Lexington, Ky., is associated. Having the pleasure of a personal ac- qnaintance with the gentleman, we can bear full testi- mony to the suavity of his manners, and to his eminent literary and scientific qualifications, which would give character to any institution to which he might be-called. But why should the University of Trannsylvania allow ^Besides the reasons for wishing to leave the Medical School of Transylvania, growing out of my dissatisfac- tion with my colleagues, was the conviction that Dr. Bart- lett would not remain in Lexington. I do not mean to say that he told me so in se many words, but such was the im- pression made on my mind in my intercourse with him, al- though it is possible he did not design it. This impression I communicated to my friends, and the result proved that it was correct. His resignation was also one reason, why I, so soon after my return'from New York, took no pains to conceal my intention to leave the School. While I had him for a colleague, I felt in some degree secure from the machinations of Dr. Dudley and the venal baseness of his sequacious subordinates, and for his conduct on a memora- ble occasion I shall ever be grateful. When he ceased to be my colleague it required no (Edipus to see what would be the result. I was convinced that from the hands of those with whom he left me associated, I had no more chance of justice than a comet has of being known when in its aphelion, and therefore upon the slightest tempta- tion was willing to leave them. r 25 the suggestion t> sro abroad that Dr. f'ross might re- sign his chair. If there is a spark of that ambition still remaining in Lexington, which has been so eminently conspicuous for many prosperous years, the University will not allow such talent to be withdrawn.' "The paragraph above, says the Ediior of the Ken- tucky Gnzctieon the 16th of March, 1*11, is from the Boston Mpdiea I and Surgical Journal of February Inst. ■\\ hat authority the Knoxvi'.le Argus may have for this surmUe, wp know not, but we feel warranted in saying lhat Dr. Criss his not the slightest intention of leaving the chair which he so ably fills in our University. His tine talents, varied acquirements, and extensive Medical knowledge, are properly appreciated here ms well as in Boston and Tennessee, and Transylvania could not pnsi- ly be induced to surrender him to any other institution.'" This document is of no further importance than in so far as it proves that the impression was abroad that I could not desire to remain in an in- stitution where I was the object of constant, unre- lenting, and undeserved persecution. Every ses- sion, for the la-n four years that I was in the Medi- cal Department of Transylvania University, t'ie opinion prevailed in the classes that 1 intended to resign the ensuing spring, and scores of students, with expressions of regret, asked me if such was the fact. With the exception of the sessions of ]H41-'42, and the last I served in the institution, I invariably responded in the negative. On these occasions my responses were equivocal. My dis- satisfaction with my colleagues was, at the close of the session of ]^43-'41, familiar to Dr. Bartlett, and I am persuaded he will say he did not believe it was my intention to remain in the institution for any considerable length of time. That such, also, was the opinion deduced by Dr. Sayre, of New York, from the conversations I had with him, while in that city in the Spring of 1814, I am perfectly satisfied. Indeed, there has not been an hour since the spring of J ^42 that I would not have left the Medical School of Transylvania with as little re- gret as Baron Trenck experienced when he left his dungeon. Independently of the causes of dis- satisfaction that peculiarly affected me, the sincerity of the assertion just made will not be questioned, if the reader calls to mind the conduct of those Professors who had been summoned from beyond the mountains, for they, (and I beg to assure them that in saying so I mean nothing ofiensive,) Like pampered vermin from a falling house Retreated with the plunder they had cained. But one of them, it is said, will return. This I cannot but regard as resting upon apocryphal au- thority; but if so, it only shows that he does not consider discretion the better part of valor. The facts above referred to are sufficient to explain how the opinion got abroad that I was willing, if not de- sirous to breakup my connection with the Medical Department of Transylvania University. When the establishment of a Medical School in Nash- ville was contemplated, it was natural enough, in view of these undeniable facts, that my name should be connected with such an enterprise, without any direct agency on my part. I have friends enough in Tennessee who would have hailed such an event with undisguised satisfaction. On the 20th of September, 1844, Dr. Pinckard held the following language: "But to return to the causes of Prof. Cross's resigna- tion which we consider it our duty to give to the Medi- cal public, to correct the many false rumors that have gone abroad. Dr. Dudley's persisting to fill tw» profei- sort hips, to the evident injury of the School, had dissat- isfied Dr. C, as well a* tlis professors generally, ivith the organization of the School. He saw, as every intelli- gent Medical Min must have seen, (hat the Rival Sehonls properly and differently organized, must outstrip ours, and thai hr, as a professor, must decline in reputation as the rival Schools advanced and ours diminished in public estimation. All ihese anticipations and fears of the Pro- fessors were realized the past session ; the Louisville and Cincinnatti Schools had advanced so much in pub- lic estimation, as for the former to out number us twenty per cent., and the latter to l>ave more bona fide or pay students, as we believethan "O'd Transvlvania " Dr. Cross went East some time after thn close of the session, forthe purpose of remaning some months, but the publication of four of our articles, in quick succes- sion, showing the absolute necessity for the immediatere- organization of the School, the resignation of Dr. Bart- lett, with the opinions expressed by us, that the physi cians and a majority of the Professors, approved the views we published : and ;i's Dudley) use to extend and establish their influence, many worthy and good people are awed into silence, though '.hey cannot be made zealous and unscrupulous partizans. The mode in which Dr Dudley operates is well under- stood. If he finds one refractory and disposed to pur- sue an independent course, the shibboleth of the camp goes forth, and his social position is rendered as intole- rable as possible, or the prospects of the business iu which he may be engaged is palpably obscured, or alto- gether blasted. From this lattercause hundrpdssuhuiitto him in silpnee, who othei wise would I e rancorous and bitter opponents. While wiiting Dr. Dudley and his clique, ami the powerful influence they wield, and whieh they have taken a malignant pleasure in making me feel, were constantly present to my mind, and in my ardor to do them justice 1 inadvertently forgot that they did not constitute the whole of Lexington, and consequently find my remarks much more sweeping than was intended: The manner in which I have now qualified them, and I wish to be understood ns including every offensive expres- sion. I trust will prove satisfactory. On another subject I would make a closing remark. I allude to Dr. Richardson. Excspt under the most ex- traordinary and pressing circumstances nothing could provoke me to disturb the sacred and solemn stil ness of the grave. That, these exist in the present case I think cannot he doubted. He was so completely identified ab ovo usque ad mala, with the train of events of which I have endeavored to give a faithful histTy, that it was ut. terly impossible for me to speak of them without speak- ing of him. I was, therefore, obliged either to abandon my character to the exterminating vengeance of my ene- mies, or speak of the part that Dr. Richardson took in the series of events that led to my resignation. This I am persuaded the world will look upon as a more satis- factory justification of what I have said of him than I can regard it myself. He was my preceptor, and at one time my friend. The hours of pleasure I have enjoyed in his society will always be amongst my most agreeable remi. niscences, and the obligations I am under to him for the Favors I have received at his hands, cannot be wholly can- celled by the fact that his subsequent treatment of me was not of the most friendly or flattering character. Could I recall many expressions which were intended for Dr. Mitchell, every one of which he richly deserves, and; the bitterness of any one of which I could not be induced to abate in the slightest degrpe on his account, but which appear equally applicable to Dr. Richardson, I woufd. I repeat, that nothing hut a necessity perfectly irresistible irt its nature could have induced me to introduce the name of Dr. Bichardson into this Appeal. Cincinnati, August 7, 1816. AIALYSIS AM) REFUTATION "STATEMENTS OF FACTS IN RELATION TO THE EXPULSION OF JAMES C. CROSS FROM TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY. RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY DUDLEY, MITCHELL, AND PETER. BY JAMES CONQUEST CROSS, M. D. ANALYSIS AND REFUTATION. As was expected, when I published my ap- ?ieal, I have not been permitted to remain si- ent. Nor did I, as I then remarked, particu- larly desire it. But Dr. Dudley has disap- pointed me, not in the instruments he has employed to conduct his vindication, for with these I was familiar, but in the spirit and the manner in which he has suffered it to be done. I did suppose a regard for the public taste and common decency, if he had no respect for himself, would have made him exact from his subordinates at least a vulgar observance of the ordinary courtesies of written controversy. Of these he has shown himself to be igno- rant as well as totally insensible of the disgust which the coarseness of his conduct must in- spire in every mind in which there is an idea of taste, a sentiment of pride, or a sense of honor. An example in illustration and proof of the truth of this, the reader has doubtless seen in the card of W. A. Dudley, the son of Dr. B. W. Dudley, which was spoken of in the following terms by a writer in a Tennessee Journal: "The hero of the bil- lingsgate advertisement in your paper is a son of the professor; and, from the free and easy command he possesses of abusive epi- thets one is almost compelled to believe that a part, at least, of his education has been ac- quired at the "Five Points," or some other notorious school of scurrility and degradation. In the instance before us the defamer has so far overshot the mark of decency and proprie ty with his overloaded weapon, that the re- bound has done more execution than the dis- charge—more injury has been sustained be- hind the breech than before the muzzle." The only notice I took of the card alluded to is to be found in the subjoined address to the public, which was made more for the pur- pose of stating the fact that W. A. Dudley is the son of—and not B. W. Dudley himself— than any thing else: TO THE PUBLIC. Mr. W. A. Dudley, the son of Dr. B. W. Dudley, published a Card in the Observer and Reporter, of August 15th, full of abuse of myself. In my "Appeal to the Medical Profes- sion of the United States," I refrained from any attack upon the moral character of Dr. Dudley, except so far as the facts connected with his management of the Medical School compelled me to state. Should I now notice it, the Public, I know, will hold me excused. Those who have read or may read my Appeal, will be persuaded, I am sure, that no notice of it at all is required at my hands. My well established facts cannot be met by abusive epithets without proof. I am yet on the vantage ground, and until it is seen whether my character is to be formally attacked, I shall remain quiet. At present, as a direct answer to that Card, I say, that no act of mine shall de- prive me of an opportunity of presenting Dr. B. W. Dudley in his true colors, as he has never been presented before. The first thing for me to do, should I hereafter be compelled to have any thing to do with this man, will be to write his life. JAMES C. CROSS. August 15, 1846. This Card was misinterpreted, for many came to the unauthorised conclusion that it was my last word, and designed as a termina- tion of the controversy. This idea was hasti- ly seized upon by the friends of Dr. Dudley, and the opinion industriously propagated that I had, to use their own language, "backed out." This was what was wished by Dr. Dudleyt and those with whom he is associat- ed, for the following paragraph which heads the Card of his son gives the public the fullest assurance that nothing more need be expected from them: "The following Card which appeared in the 'Lexington Observer and Reporter,' of August 15th, is the only reply which it is thought necessary to make to the scurrilous pamphlet lately issued by James C. Cross." This information, however, the reader must understand did not herald'the Card when it originally appeared in the Lexington Observer and Reporter, of the 15th ultimo. A very large edition of this "only reply," some say five thousand copies, was afterwards printed on let- ter-sheets, and circulated throughout the Valley of the Mississippi. Although I had early in- telligence of this fact, my friends were unable to procure a copy of it for me, and I only ob- tained possession of it, at last, through the kind- ness of a friend in Memphis who enclosed it to me in a letter of which the following is an extract: "You may rest assured that nothing 4 emanating from the Transylvania clique will have the effect of injuring you with your col- leagues here, or with the profession at large." ] TO THE PUBLIC. It is with regret I find that I am again con- strained to address the public. In the discharge of this duty, I shall endeavor not to offend or dis- gust the reader by the lowness and vulgarity of my language, or the empty ridiculousness of my assertions. Immediately afterthe appearance, in the Lexington Observer and Reporter, of the 15th inst., of a Card, signed W. A. Dudley, in which my character was most foully and slanderously denounced, I said, in a Card of the same date, "until it is seen whether my character is to be formally attacked, I shall remain quiet." This declaration was made because it had been re- peatedly and boldly asserted by the friends of Dr. Benj. W. Dudley, while my Appeal was in press, that a publication was being prepared, in which, it was said, my life and character would be exhibited in the blackest colors; I therefore considered myself bound to wait a reasonable length of time before speaking more fully on the subject than I had in my Card of the 15th inst., which was designed not as an answer to W. A. Dudley, but to say to the public why I did not notice him. My position in relation to Dr. Benj. W. Dud- ley, was clearly defined in my "Appeal to the Medical Profession of the United States," in which I say, at page 29: "Having now laid be- fore the reader a broad and inexpugnable pha- lanx of facts which go irresistibly to establish the position that a conspiracy was formed for my de- struction, of which Dr. Dudley was the leader, I will not insult his understanding or offend his sensibilities, by indulging in vulgar and vitupera- tive comments upon the conduct of those who banded together for my ruin, and that too, for no other reason, than because 1 had resolved no lon- ger to be associated with such men. But I must remark, in closing, that taking it for granted that I shall not be suffered, nor do I particularly de- sire it, much as I am disposed to court peace with all mankind, to remam silent in future, those to whom this Appeal is addressed, must dis- tinctly understand that I 'fight not with small or great, save only with the King of Israel'—and that with Dr. Dudley I am ready to arrange all points of difficulty or difference. With his un- derstrappers I cannot and will not have any thing to do." That the public, and especially the distant public, who would not in all probability see my Appeal, might know why I did not condescend to notice the tissue of lies set forth against me by W. A. Dudley, the son of Dr. B. W. Dudley, I published the Card already alluded to, and for the reason assigned, determined to give time for the publication of the formal attack which was threatened. This delay, I considered it decent and proper to observe, for although I had the full moral conviction that Dr. B. W. Dudley had too great a regard for his own character to suffer any ■uch attack to be made upon me, and thus give me a full justification in the eyes of the world, and of the people of this city, whose favor is the "breath of Ins nostrils," to exhibit him to the public gaze in his true moral attitude, I couM not altogether discredit the boldly repeated a^ertiona of his friends in relation to the alleged forthcon> ing publication. No publication has been made, and if the assertions of the friends of Dr. B. W. Dudley are now to be believed, none need be ex- pected. Perhaps the matter would have ended with my Card of the 15th instant, but for a fresh exhibi- tion of the duplicity and deceit of Dr. B. \V. Dudley. To escape the odium, which must ne- cessarily attach to the father of a son, who, un- der existing circumstances, could write and pub- lish a Card, containing allegation} which the whole city knows to be gratuitous and unfounded, the friends of Dr. B. W. Dudley, asserted, imme- diately upon its appearance, that it was done without his knowledge or consent, and that he regretted and repudiated it. No one believed this, and the fact now become notorious, that the in- famous Card of W. A. Dudley, has been printed on letter-sheets, and extensively circulated, proves conclusively, that it is endorsed by Dr. B. W. Dudley, and that it is his final answer to my ap- peal. In this view of the case, I demand the publication of their pamphlet, and challenge Dr. B. W. Dudley to the proof of a single allegation brought against me by his son. Amongst these charges, are those of Seduction and Adultery. The hardihood and impudent audacity of these allegations, coming from such a source, have ex- cited the wounder and amazement of hundreds— charges, especially the latter, of which he has been so notoriously guilty, that his name has be- come a by-woid amongst the citizens of Lexing- ton, when they would signalize those who have become scandalously celebrated for their amours, but at thesametime, remarkably cunning in con- cealing them. To dwell upon such a subject, is not only disagreeable but disgusting, and the pub- lic taste must be excessively vitiated, if it should be encouraged or even tolerated. For this rea- son, and in meicy to those who muit suffer in such a controversy as this is likely to become, I shall refrain, for the present, from making spe- cifications or adducing proof. To the commis- sion of such an outrage upon public decency, no less cause can provoke me, than the attempt on the part of Dr. B. W. Dudley to establish by proof en a rges which he has suffered his son, in a ht of desperation, to prefer against me, but which he knows to be lalse. If he wishes to become as infamous abroad, as he is notorious at home, for the perpetration of every sensual iniquity, he has now an opportunity. In the meantime/the pub- lic should bear in mind what I have already prov- ed against him by facts that cannot be under- mined, counteracted or destroyed. t a . JAMES* C. CROSS. Lexington, August 28, 1846. This Card produced an impression in Lex- ington, at which I was not only pleased but in every respect entirely satisfied. It made mv position one of triumphant vindication, from the wrongs and outrages I had suffered at the hands of Dr. Dudley, unless he should furnish the public with satisfactory proof of the moral ,) delinquencies which he had suffered, and I have no doubt authorized, his son publicly to PROFESSOR CROSS. The history of talent and genius in all time is prefer against me, and which he fully endor-! more or le^ marked by the malevolence of inferior sed when he caused the Card embodying them, i beings wll0m circumstances, aided by the trickery to be printed on letter-sheets and circulated through the Post-Office. No one believed that he or his subordinates would think of entering upon so hopeless an enterprise, and the opin- ion spread abroad that the controversy had clo- sed. In this view of the matter I had no confi- dence. Silence on his part I had rendered utter- ly impossible. He must either speak or be for- ever disgraced in public estimation, as a ma- lignant calumniator and slanderer, as one who ferociously started his son upon a most ruf- fianly enterprise, and when called to account, instead of adducing proof, like the divers in of bad hearts, have elevated to an undue and dan- gerous position among men. The conciousness of inferiority, together with that rancorous envy which holds the place in cor- rupt minds of generosity and admiration, impels them to detract and defame those whom the God of Nature has placed higher in the intellectual and moral scale than themselves, and whom they can- not rival they attempt to destroy. There is nothing so dangerous to the purity and health of the moral and social constitution as the elevation to places of trust and honor of beings without ability, integrity and firmness. Not capable of brilliantly acquitting themselves in their foreign position, and unable to reach the proud summit of superiority, they use the gulf of Ormus, who when they see fish ap- all the means within their control to drag down its proaching to devour them, destroy the transpa- rency of the water by raising the mud with their feet, he endeavors to humbug the public with vague and unintelligible generalities. He knew he must speak or be lost, and the agonizing thought goaded him in every fibre of his heart. His position, even in his natural occupants to their own unenviable level. The history ot the period of the Professorship of Dr. Cross in Transylvania, shows an unbroken series of duplicity and wrong, directed against himself, scarcely parallelled in the records of chi- canery. Placed as he was in juxtaposition with those who lack the moral firmness to dare be hon- est men, and under the despotic sway of one who, Paradise, so rich in all the enjoyments in which < if judged by his conduct as detailed in the appeal he so much delights, began to be precarious.— of Dr. Cross, views subserviency and pliancy as When he saw that his sycophancy and his sup pers ceased to be invested with their usual, attractions, he was convinced that, without a ! struggle, he must sink at once and forever, to the very bottom of the great ocean of public contempt; and "Contempt," says Dr. John- son "is a kind of gangrene which when it seizes, one part of a character corrupts all the rest by degrees." My last Card, together with such notices of my appeal, as the following, which appeared in the Knoxville Standard, produced this conviction and forced him to break a si- lence which he had obstinately persisted in, amidst the fiercest and most deadly assaults upon his conduct and character, for more than thirty years* 'Happy would it have been for Dr. Dudley had he con- tinued to pursue his usual and heretofore successful poli- cv His obliging me to respond to the frantic calumnies of a venal confederacy, he shall repent to the last hour of h.s existence, for had I been sitting at the elbows of and dicta- tine to the Trio, the " Statements of Facts" would not have been made more vulnerable nor would they have answered my purpose better. So low-bred is the idle gossip and so frivolous and absurd are the calumnies which the THo have uttered and published, that the reflecting part of the public can scarcely fail to ask the question, are these menPresPonSible agents? So closely is what .^ey have sad akin to the unquestionable offspring of insanity, that it will Wdlv be permitted to claim any other paternity, and if the Board of Trustees would act sensibly, in future, they will take the advice Hamlet gave Orphelia, which was to lock her fath" up, that he might play the fool no where but in his own house. I would therefore, and it cannot at least, bv those who have read the "Statements, in. looked upon as a gratuitous recommendation counsel, ihein to close the doors of the College upou the Trio, that ihey may be allowed to render themselves ridiculous no where hut upon the rostrum, and for the amusement of the students exclusively. Indeed, nearly the whole of what ihey have asserted i< a* false as dicer's oaths, as I shall twiiclusively piove, lor ihey have done little- more than to essential attributes in his colleagues, determined in their sapient conclave not only upon the remo- val of Dr. Cross out of their iniquitous road, but his utter demolition. Their vile machinations re- sulted in the withdrawal of a man who was an ornament to old Transylvania. Upon the arrival of the proper time, Dr. Cross published an "Appeal to the Medical Profession of the United States," in which he gives a full and candid narrative of all the circumstances and events that led to his resignation. Written in a clear, bold and manly style, it carries the conviction to every candid mind that it is the truth, and while it stamps its author as a man of uu usual ability, it shows him to be magnanimous to even his dead- liest foe, for while he pours a burning torrent of invective on the devoted heads of his writhing vic- tims, he waives all the doubtful advantages which the usage and custom of written warfare would tolerate, and confines himself to plain, honest con- clusions drawn from fairly stated facts. He meas- ures the foils, gives the longest to his foe, and then vanquishes him in a manner that does credit to his head and heart. Every lover of truth should read this work, as it discloses a system of villainy and duplicity in high places which would shame depravity itself, and visits on the heads of the guilty an awful but just retribution. Though not a member of the medical profession and feeling no bias on the subject, yet I rejoice in the triumph of right over wrong, and believe that every true-hearted man will arise from the peru- sal of the "Appeal" with the conviction that mor- al obliquity never received a more just or manly exposure." q# jumble together an undigested heap of contrarieties, dis- graceful both to their heads and hearts, which will oblige me to commit moral when in fact it should'be physical murder, for they deserve the fate of poor Cinna the poet, who'wa* killed by Mark Antony's mob for making bad verses, * 6 The "Statements of Facts" in relation to what Mitchell, Peter and Dr. Dudley, slan- derously denominate my expulsion from the Medical Department of Transylvania Univer- sity^ I expected, at last appeared; but under circumstances calculated to throw the greatest discredit upon the work. Now, it is a fact, that more than teu days before I obt lined a copy of it, during which time the public be- lieved the controversy had ceased, I learned from a friend, that it was being printed, but could not ascertain by whom or where. Of the "St itcmenls of Facts," an edition of four thousand copies has been printed—one thou- sand of which was mailed at least a week be- fore I could obtain a sight of it. This silence and secrecy are conclusive proof that the au- thors of the Statements are convinced that what they have asserted, for they have not attempted to prove any thing, will not bear a sifting examination, but they were encouraged with the hope that, as 1 would soon have to leave Lexington, they would be able to keep me ignorant of its existence until so late a period that it would not be in my power to give them the licking, and flogging which the miscreants know they so richly deserve. So effectually did they conceal their operations, that I have no doubt at this very moment (Sept. 12.) there are persons six hundred miles from this place reading their "Statements" andyetagen- tleman informed me to-day that it was impos- sible for him to obtain a copy of it. This cowardly mode of seeking revenge or of an- swering what they impudently call calumnies, should notonly in the estimation of every candid and just man discredit the "Statements," but should disgrace their authors. Nor is this all. Doubtless for the purpose of lulling me into a feeling of security, the following paragra ph, of unequivocal import, was inserted in the Edi- torial department of the Western Lancet, for September. The reader should know that both of those works were printed in the same office. The editor of the Western Lanrrt says:—"Efforts from time to time have been made to detract from the well earned reputa- tion of this school; (Trans. Med. School,) but instead of entering into acrimonious contro- versy, and attempting to refute every idle ru- mor that may be circulated, the Faculty deem it more consistent with their duty to them- selves and the profession, to devote their ener- gies to the improvement of the departments committed to their care, and to the faithful instructions of those pupils who may attend the lectures." Tips declaration of Professor Lawson has been appealed to as conclusive proof that no further response to my Appeal need be expected, and that no notice whatever would be taken of my Card of the 28th of Au- propogated by the unscrupulous Trio for the* purpose of impressing me with the belief that I need not trouble myself nny further on the subject, and I am only sorry to think that Pro- fessor Lawson would even wink at such dupli- city. Immediately after the perusal of the "Statements," I issued the following Card :— TO THE PUBLIC. A pamphlet has been sent through the post- office, to the physicians of the South and West, entitled "Statements of Facts in Relation to the Expulsion of James C. Cross," for at least a week past, of which I could not get possession until to-day, and then only through the kindness of a friend, who, somehow or other, procured a copy and sent it to me. I applied to Mr. Moore, the binder, for a copy, in the presence of witnes- ses, which he refused, stating that he had receiv- ed positive orders not to suffer one to go out of his office. Here, then, these men, Mitchell, Pe- ter,* and Dr. Dudley, who would have the world believe they have a right to be regarded as honest ami honorable, have been secretly circulating, to my injury, what they know to be the most infa mous falsehoods—falsehoods of which peijured villains would have been ashamed. Their "Statements of Facts," &c, consist of nothing but the simple assertion of the most impudent and graceless lies that men who would be re- garded as respectable, ever uttered, and this Bul- letin is now issued for no other purpose, than to desire the public to suspend its judgment until the second edition of my "Appeal to the Medical Profession of the United States," ready for the press, appears, and which has been delayed only that I might be made acquainted with the con- tents of the pamphlet, which I have forced them to publish, after declaring at the head of the Card of W. A. Dudley, which B. W. Dudley has often and emphatically repudiated, but which they have circulated through the whole West and South, that "The following Card, which appear- ed in the 'Lexington Observer and Reporter,' of August 15th, is the only reply which it is thought necessary to make to the scurrillous pamphlet Lately issued by James C. Cross." In the second edition of my "Appeal," which in a few days will appear, I shall embody a no- tice of the "Statements of Facts," &c, by Dud- ley, Mitchell and Peter, and if I do not make Lexington utterly ashamed of them by documen- tary evidence, the truth of which they themselves will not dare to doubt or deny, I will agree never again to vindicate the truth, or refute a falsehood. If there is power in truth, or justice in Lexing- ton, I pledge myself to overwhelm the infamous trio, not by assertion, but by proof, with confusion and redemptionless disgrace. "Those whom the Gods intend to destroy, they first make mad." JAMES C. CROSS. Lexington, Sept. 10, 1846. 4----_ •The public will excuse this unceremonious use of the names of those men—their couducl sanctions any violation of the conventionalities of courtesy—from vulgar intellects gUSt. These notions I have no doubt, were ' nothing can be expe ted but vulgar villains. 7 til niy Card of the 28th August, I say: | "In. this view of the case, I demand the publi- cation of their pamphlet, and challenge Dr. B. W. Dudley to the proof of a single allegation brought against me by his son." In the letter of the 25th of May, 1844, signed by Mitch- ell, Peter, Drs. Dudley and Richardson, I urn told that circumstances relative to my private character induced them to request me to resign. In my Appeal I have conclusively proved, if it is proper to speak thus of any pro- position insusceptible of mathematical demon- stration, that this waS a weak and most un- principled subterfuge—a shallow but inhuman and cruel pretext for the commission of a most foul and unmanly outrage. But this so far from having had the effect to impress him with the atrocity of the deed—of which he had been, if not the author, at least a prin- cipal participator, only hardened a heart "full of blackest thoughts," for in a transport of vin- dictive passion he authorised his sox to prefer against me a series of perfectly gratuitous but excessively injurious charges, all having a di- rect reference to my private character. In my card of the 28th of August, 1 challenged him to the proof of a single one of them. The issue was thus clearly and fairly made up, the question and the only, question was the truth of the allegations that had been brought against me. He, with his three subordinates, having most cruelly assaulted my character, and he himself having repeated the assault through his sox, every candid and honest man will say that he should either have made a free and full recantation, or have freed his character from the imputation of being a heart- less calumniator by an attempt to establish by proof what had been asserted of me.* Neither of these alteratives has he thought proper to adopt, consequently I feel justified in assert- ing that he knows not how to make any bet- ter use of his own offensively rotten moral character, than to wield it for the oppression, and, if possible, the destruction of those who, would hate themselves with a deep and sovereign hatred if they could be made, by either fear or affection, to fawn on and flatter a man who has been for more than thirty years a plague-spot upon society. Having made me the object of the most abusive and provoking insults, and his crafty and perfidi- ous spirit having lured him from the adoption of a candid, liberal, or an enlightened course, every ingenious and undebauched mind will say that such conduct would "Have torn the sword from a craven's scabbard," and will fully justify me in the eyes of the world for any severity I may think proper to employ in order to exhibit this Janus-faced cheat in such a light that all may know and understand him. ► These preliminary remarks having been made, I propose now to enter upon an analysis of the "Statements of Facts" of which Mitch- ell, Peter, and Dr.' Dudley are the authors. This, I will do in a spirit of fairness and can- dor without offending, if possible, the public taste, but with a severity that must make the most hardened ruffianism feel. Although they have filled their "Statements" with the most im- pudent, empty, and rancorous of assertions that ever emanated from weak heads, or were ever sanctioned by incurably depraved hearts, I will respond to them with facts that cannot be de- nied or invalidated, that will, while they free me from the imputations with which they hoped to sully, if not destroy, my character, confound them with astonishment an'd over- whelm them with disgrace. They may p&s- sibly "Beat me to dust, I care not In such a cause as this, I'll die as a martyr." The first sentence of the preface contains an admission which must prove fatal to the credibility of the "Statements" in the estima- tion of every man of sense. Indeed it is a disclosure of so thoughtless a character that, I cannot deny myself the pleasure of remind- ing the Trio that I told Mitchell in my Appeal that "not only are the base and perfidious, false and treacherous in all their relations with men, but God has so arranged it for wise and good purposes that they shall not be faithful even to their own villanies." The authors of the "Statements," conscious that they were go- ing to give publicity to the grossest falsehoods which it was hardly possible could command *One of the trio asserts that I, "better than any one else, knew that to have stood an investigation before the Board of Trustees W3uld have utterly destroyed m \ and have made matters of history and record what another one says is already history." If there is any truth in these declara- tions surely it could not have been difficult to adduce such proof a- would have removed all doubt from the minds of the most incredulous—have justified t'lom in the judgment of all for having invited ine to resign, and havc at unce ended this controversy. Dr. Dudley was challenged to the task but declined it, while his cringing and contemptible associates have attempted it no further than to indulge in such vague unsupported assertions as prove that they are calumniators, and that they arc conscious the judicious part of mankind will think so. It is impossible to believe that men who have shown themselves capable of every ex- cess of fiendish malignity, would have hesitated, tht mo- G ment they ascertained that I would no longer continue asso- ■ ciated with them, to give to the public the proof that would have "utterly destroyed" me had it been in their power. They know it is much easier to conjure \ip in the public mind cruel suspicions, that have not the least foundation in facty than to succeed in establishing a proposition by adequate evidence, although there may be mauv plausible probabili- ties in its favor. This is all that Dr. Dudley and his accom- plices in crime expect or hope to accomplish, for having been reduced to a state of reckless desperation, they are willing that sensible people should denounce them as slan- derers, if they can, by a stale and shallow trick, but induce weak men and silly women to propagate their calumnies, whether they are believed by them or not It is upon the ignorance and credulity of snch people that' Dr. Dudley acts, and it is with such instruments that he has heretofore accomplished his purposes. s Ueliet, even with uususpicious and credulous men, were simple enough to imagine that they would give plausibility to and even strengthen their testimony, by making the fol- lowing declaration: "It is proper to apprise the reader, that the following statements of facts were audably read in the hearing of the persons whose signatures they bear, and ap- proved by all, as setting forth the true state of the case." This was absolutely necessary, lor as they were going to give a false version of facts, a careful camparison of notes was indis- pensible, otherwise the glaring contradictions of which they would necessarily have been guilty, would have rendered any refutation of their statements, on my part, a work of super- erogation. When lawyers suspect concert or collusion amongst witnesses they are examin- ed separately, and not in the presence of one another. Had they have read Starkie on Evi- dence, they would not, it is probable, have been betrayed into the commission of so egre- gious a blunder. But they do not read much, and what is more unfortunate, understand but little, should it be above the comprehension of a dull school boy, of what they do read. Had they read the work to which I have re- ferred they would have discovered the useful fact that a perfect correspondence in the evi- dence of a number of witnesses in regard to petty and unimportant details, tends to invali- date and destroy rather than es'abhsh the truth of their testimony. When the Trio con- sented to engage in so unprincipled an enter- prise they should undoubtedly have compared notes to exclude the possibility of a contradic- tion, but they should not so indiscreetly have betrayed to the public the precaution they had taken. After committing a blunder that casts a deep shadow of suspicion over all they have said, if it does not altogether discredit their statements, they have the dauntless assurance to say: "The medical profession may rest satisfied that the exhibition herein made, is based on irrefutable testimony." Where is it to be found? Not surely in their ''Statements," for I venture the allegation, without reluctance or the least misgiving, that a book of the same size, intended to be exclusively dialectic in its character, so entirely made up of empty and independent assertions cannot be found in any language or in any library on earth. Having disposed of the preface which every sensible man must censure as positively pro- ving that the Trio have no confidence in the intelligence of the public or respect, for them- selves, we proceed to an examination of the statement of Dr. Dudley. This production is perfectly characteristic of its source, for it is as full of duplicity and falsehood as a bad egg is of sulphuretted hydrogen gass and it is quite as offensive. But here it is. "In 1?.37, the Trustees rd Trun>)l\_nn;:i Uni- versity were called upon to fill ceitain viuant chairs in the Medical Department of the Insti- tution. A short time previous to that period, Dr. Cross began to practice upon the religious cre- dulity of our sociely, [Dr. Cross had not lived in Lt, but was too unwell to examine its contents, or to answer it immediately. Kor had I as you supposed, read the "Statements of \ Facts" by Drs. Dudley, Mitchell, and Peter, but! have since. You a~k if I did not visit Cincin- nati by authority of Drs Dudley and Richardson for the puipose of tendering you the Chair ot In- stitutes, &c., in the Medical Depariment of Transylvania University, and whether or not it was exclusively through my persuasion that you were induced finally to agree to accept it. Af- ter the dissolution of the faculty in March, 1837, efforts were being made to fill the va- cancies occasioned by the removal of Drs. Caldwell, Yandell, and Cooke, I suggested to Dr. Bush the policy and piopriety of tendering the Theory and Practice to Dr. Eberle, and the Institutes to you. Soon afterwards I had an interview with Dr. Dudley on the subject, who objected to you at first on account of the irra- tability of your temper. The matter, however, was fully and ably discussed by Drs. Dudley, Richardson, Bush, the Rev. N. II. Hall, my- self, and I think Dr. Peter. It was finally de- termined that the nominations should be made— Dr. Dudley not only having become willing but anxious that the matter should be speedily consum- mated. In consequence of this determination I was urged by Drs. Dudley and Richardson to go, and I went to Cincinnati with authority to tender the Chair of Theory and Practice to Dr. Eberle, with a guara tee of §5,000 per an- num for three years, and to tender you the Chair of Institutes, &c. When I arrived at Cincinnati, I visited you first, and made known to you the object of my visit. You at first s<-rmed pleased but soon began to make objec. tions. I used many arguments to convince you that it was to vour interest to accept, and you finally agreed to lake the Chair of Institutes, &c. Dr. Eberle po itively declined, but some- time afterwards sent his son over to Lexington to say that he would accept with a guarantee of £1.000. As I have said I have read the state- ment "f Dr. Dudley made on the authority of the Rev. X H. If'!!, and have come to the conclusio?i that both of them have forgotten many of the facts connected with the appointment of Dr. Eberle and yourself, for the matter was agreed upon long be- fore the action of the Board of Trustees. Yours, WM. PAWLING. P. S. In regard to some of the questions you ask me I have no distinct recollection. W. P. My colleagues in the Medical College of Ohio knew that Dr. Pawling was in Cincin- nati—knew the object of his visit, for they had been informed of it by both Dr. Eberle and myself, and consequently two of them immediately upon his leaving the city called upon me to ascertain the result, of his mission. I frankly told them that I had agreed to go to Lexington. Several days having elapsed, one of the same individuals visited meand asked that as I had determined to leave them why I did not resign. Regarding my election to the Chair of the Institutes, in Transylvania University, a mathematical certainty, 1 did actually re- sign my professorship in the Medical College of Ohio before I received any intelligence that I had been elected to the Institutes in Transylvania University. The first or second ot May I received a letter from Mr. Robert I Wickliffe, Sen., Chairman of the Board of Trustees, together with half a dozen or more from other individuals, all of which informed | me of my election. Here are the letters, and ! I beg the reader to mark their character and import, for he cannot fail to see that great ap- prehension was felt that I would not accept.* Lexington, April 29, 1837. James C. Cross, M. D.—Dear Sir: I am instructed by the Board of Trustees of Transyl- vania University to notify you of your appoint- ment to the Chair of the Institutes and Medical Jurisprudence in the Medical Department of Transylvania University, and to express to you the strong desire of the trustees that you will be pleased to accept, and to notify them that you do so as soon as your convenience will allow. To which I beg leave to add my own. Very respectfully, R. WICKLIFFE, Chairman B. T. T. U. This letter is given that the reader may ob- *Tliis is altogether incompatible with the idea that I electioneered for a chair in Transylvania University, and it proves conclusively not only that rather extraordinary pains had been taken to induce me to take a chair in it but that after all they were not fully satisfied with th* reluctant assurance I had given their mininer Dr. Pa«l in*. 13 serve the correspondence between its date and the dates of those of the following: Lexington, Ky., April 30, 1837. Dear Poctor: I have sat down to write to you as a friend, to give you frankly and candidly my views in'relation to the position you now oc- cupy in regard to the Medical School of Transyl vania, and in doing so I trust that you will at- tribute what I say to you to the veiy best feelings for you personally. The tiustees of the University held a meeting yesterday for the purpose of reorganizing the Medical School. This they did without much difficulty, although your friend Yandell, had some few advocates for reappointment in the board. When, however, it was understood that both I'r. Dudley and yourself had feelings towards that gentleman that rendered it impossible for you to go into a faculty with him, he went by the board without difficulty. The faculty, as reorganised, stands as follows: Dudley, Richardson, and Short, in the respective chairs heretofore occupied by them, hr. Cross, of Cincinnati, professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurispru- dence; Dr. Fearne, of Alabama, professor of the Theory and Practice; and professor Sillinian, of Yale College, professor of Chemistry. This, you must perceive is a remarkably able reorganiza- tion, and shows one thing at least, that even if they cannot procure some of the gentlemen, they are determined to make the very ablest selections. It is supposed here that Fearne can be induced to come; whether or not this is true remains to be seen. Now, Doctor, to the object of this letter, which is to urge you by all means to come. 11 is your best interest,. I sincerely believe, to join this school. I give you this as my opinion, because I believe that this school must and will stand upon higher ground than ever it has done. It cannot but succeed, and with its success yours of course follows. Your friends here are extremely anxious for you to join this faculty, and will do every thing in their power fot you should you come here. I know that I have warm feelings upon this subject, but I do not believe they in the least warp my judgment. This is the place for you; your family are here; your inclinations lead hither; and in a pecuniary point of view, you must be decidedly benefitted by the change. I give these views to you as your friend, and sincerely hope that you will not disregard them. Very truly your friend, i . C. WICKLIFFE. N. B. I have written this in great haste for fear I may not be in time for the mail. D. C. W. Lexington, April 29, 1837. Dear Doctor: We the trustees of Transyl- vania University have this day appointed a new medical faculty consisting of the following gen- tlemen: Drs. Dudley, Richardson, and Short, to the chairs they formerly filled; Dr. Fearne to the chair formerly filled by Dr. Cooke; yourself to the chair formerly filled by Dr. Caldwell; and professor Silliman to the Chemical chair. Your appointment was one in which some of us felt a deep interest; doubts were expressed by some whether you would come if elected. I pledged my- -ell that you would—Col. Combs and Gwin Tomp- kins stood with me for you like men. All appear tlelig ted with ihe facility we have appointed. Njw, sir. your friends are staked for your accept- ance and able performance. When you come among us I hope you will come with a spirit of amity and frien iship to all persons, who may hope to sec you breaking with some of your fel- low-laborers in the faculty. I hope you will come soon and be found at your post—I have much to say to you. Dr. Richardson is the only one of the faculty that I have seen since we closed our session—he is much delighted and wishes you to come as soon as practicable. I have much to say to you when I see you, which I Inistwill be very soon at my house. I feel that Mrs. Cross will be gratified, and that all your friends will be glad. Here, sir, is a triumph over prejudice, &c, that ought to gratify and humble you. I write in great haste. Your real friend, N. H. HALL. The following letter which I received at the same time from Mrs. Cross, has been sub- mitted to Mr. Joseph Ficklin, the postmaster of this city, and he has certified on the back of it that it has the usual Lexington Post-Of- flce. stamp, and therefore that it was written to me from this county and mailed in Lexing- ton, on the 30th of April, 1837: Fayette Co., Apiil 30th. 1337. My Dear Husb\ni>: Dr. Richardson called here last evening to inform us that you had been : elected to fill Dr Caldwell's Chair. A'oio their | greatest fear is that you will not accept. He said he would write to you as soon as he reached home ! and that I must write also immediately to prevail j on you to accept. But I hope there is no neces- ' >ity for persuasion on my part, as you already know nothing would gratify your father and my- self more than your compliance with their wishes if you should think it to your interest. I will not now write you a long letter, as you will have but little time to look at anything that comes from me, as you are to receive letters from Drs. Dudley,* Pawling, Holland, and Richardson, besides one from the Chairman of the Board. Now there is one thing I must insist on, should there be any dif- ficulty in your mind in regard to the propriety of accepting, which is, that you will not send in your resignation before you come over and see us. Dr. Richardson's boy has called for this letter— he is on his way to the Post-OHice. Let me know when to expect you. Your affectionate wife, AGNES A. CROSS. Canilland, April 30th, 1837. Dear Doctor: I should have written by yes- terday's mail, immediately after the adjournment of the Board of Trustees, but was carried off by Dr. Pinckard to see one of his patients, and did *Dr. Richardson had learned from Dr. Pawling, before he saw iMis. Cross, which was on the afternoon of the 29th April, that Dr. Dudley had written to me after persuading him not to write. 11 not return to the hotel in time to write before the mail closed. Drs. Dudley and Pawling, I learned, wrote you the result of the election for a new Fa- culty of the Medical Department of Transylvania by the Trustees, and that you have been called to the Chair of the "Institutes of Medicine and Med- ical Jurisprudence." I hope yon will find it com patible with your interests in all points of view to accept the station and return to Kentucky, where you have so many inducements to cast your for- tunes among those who have known you all your life. At all events do not decide against acceptance until you have made another visit to Lexington; and then and there take the council of tlwse you know to be your true friends. We hope to have your ap- probation to the other appointments made beyond those who were members of the late Faculty; i. e. Drs. Silliman and Fearne. Should we secure their co-operation, I have no fear of the result, or even without them we can surpass all other West- ern Schools of Physic. I need not urge upon you the importance of an early decision on your part, as it may alike address itself to your interest as well as ours. I am, very respectfully, your friend, W. H. RICHARDSON. Dear Sir: The Trustees have been in session this day and re-organized the Medical Department, introducing yourself, Dr. Silliman,and Dr. Fearne. j / hope the arrangement may meet your approba- tion and that you will promptly respond to the no- tification on the part of the Board of Trustees of your election. We are determined to make the School more acceptable to the community than it has been hitherto, as with its present organization it is certainly capable of being rendered more useful. Your position liere will be far more agreeable than where you now are; nor can I doubt about the movement being to your advantage m a pecu- niary point of vieic: We are desirous to hear from you as early as convenient and hope to see you very soon in Lex- ington. Respectfully, ydur obedient servant, B. W. DUDLEY. J. C. Cross, M D. Lex., April 29, 1837. Having finished the perusal of the above let. ters what must a judicions public think of the candor, fairness, or honor of Dr. Dudley? Will his timid, sordid sycophants have the as- surance to repeat again the silly charge that I electioneered for a chair in Transylvania Uni- versity? Must not every manly and generous heart loathe the touch of that man as pollu- tion and his contact as moral death, who, af- ter pressing me by those important consid- erations that generally influence human con- duct to relinquish an important, a profitable, and an enviable position in the Medical Col- lege of Ohio, in order to become his colleague, did not shrink With instinctive horror from the unblushing profligacy of the declaration that both •'before"' and during my connexion with the School he turned with sentiments of dis- gust and abhorrence from my conduct mux character? But this is not the whole or the worst of his odiohs and treacherous conduct. Soon af- ter I took up' my residence in Lexington, the following statement was made to me by Dr. Richardson, and to the truth of every word of what I utter on his authority I solemnly testify. He remarked: "You will be sur- prised, sir, when I tell you that Dr. Dudley, instead of supporting your nomination for the Chair of Institutes, as he assured you he would, did all in his power to defeat it, but succeeded in prevailing on but three of the Trustees (Jno. Tilford, Benjamin Gratz, and Spencer Cooper—the Board then consisted of sixteen) to vote against it.* After you were elected we left the University together, when he asked me if I intended to write to you, and responding affirmatively, he appeared to ob- ject to it, and said that he thought that the notification of the Chairman would be suffi- cient. After some further conversation on the subject, finding that it would give him dis- satisfaction, 1 promised him I would nbt write, but at the same time determined to request others to do so, for I was very apprehensive that you would not accept unless pressed on the subject and felt perfectly certain that, should you hear of his conduct, you would5 not.f After requesting several individuals to write to you, I accidentally met Dr. Pawling on the sidewalk of the Court-House square and urged him to do so also. He answered that he had written, and showed me a letter for you which he said he intended putting into the Post-office immediately. He then asked me if I did not mean to write also, and when I replied that such had been my intention, but, in consequence qf Dr. Dudley's opposition to it, I had promised him that I would not. Dr. Pawling apeared much surprised and replied that, not more than half an hour before, he had seen Dr. Dudley drop a letter into the Post-Office for you. At this announcement I was perfectly confounded—I thought I knew him, but his duplicity and meanness ex ceeds the worst conceptions I had formed of his" *Dr. Dudley's statement proves that he opposed my elec- tion, for he says, "the individual members of_the Medical Faculty, who were opposed td'his introduction into the Schdol." At that time there were but three members; i. e. Drs. Dudley, Short, and Richardson—as no hint has yet been given that Dr. Ricnardson was opposed to it, and as Dr. Dudley speaks in the plural number, he must refer to him- self as being one of the opposition. Dr. Pawling says that Dr. Dudley "became not only willing but anxious" that I should have the Chair of Institutes "long before the action of the Board of Trustees." t This accounts for the nnmber and character of the let- ters, and all of them have not hcen given to the public, that I received, dated Lexington, \pril 29th and 30tb, immedi- ately after my election. It is utterly impossible that no many letters should have been written lo me at the same time and upon the same subject, unless tome extraordinary came had prompted Ihefls-. ].") character; it appears utterly im|)ossible for him to pass a single day without engaging in some knavish intrigue to circumvent and injure some one."* Now, I ask the reader to pause and reflect a moment upon my situation, had Dr. Dudley succeeded in defeating my election before the Board of Trustees. Confiding in the assuran- ces 1 had received from Dr. Richardson and himself in person, while in Lexington and af- terwards in Cincinnati, through Dr. Pawling, it is evident that as I had resigned my Chair in the Medical College of Ohio, before hear- ing the result of the action of the Board of Trustees of Transylvania University upon my nomination, I would have been without a professorship altogether. Upon such attro- cious Machiavelian conduct I will not pause to comment, for every man in whose heart there is a sentiment of honor will say that it stands forward in all the harshness of unmiti- gated crime, without a single alleviating cir- cumstance to conciliate resentment or propi- tiate regard. Could such proofs of utterly hopeless prof- ligacy inspire a man of even the vulgarest no- tions of honor, with any other feelings than those of deep and rancorous animosity? Dr. Dudley had hardly escaped "unwhipped of justice," for an outrage which has caused him to loose the confidence of every honorble man, beyond the hope of condonation before his ma- *Besides the confidence inspired by the air of sincerity with which the above statement of Dr. Richardson was made, the conduct which he reported to me was so charac- teristic of the man that no one who knows him will think of questioning its accuracy. His life having been wasted in intrigue and stratagem, and having bei'ii obliged as a consequence to re.-ort, at one time or other, to the almost endless subterfuges of hypocrisy, for the purpose of at- taining his ends or concealing his delinquencies, all sense of justice and all respect for truth seem to have been completely obliterated from his mind. So true is this that he has adopted a peculiar and dangerous phraseology—he has substituted the pernicious word policy for those old, time honored and decisive terms truth and justice. He was never known, so far as my researches have extended, and they remount to the period when he was a salesman in a dry-goods' Store, to defend or inveigh against a pro- position because it was just and proper, but because it was politic to do so; and I have in consequence been ob- liged to hear the word policy fall with priggish owlish gravity so often from his lips that I became as tired of hearing it as the Athenians were of hearing Aristides called the Just. But the word policy used for the pur- pose of bringing truth and justice into discredit was par- ticularly ofF.'iisive because of its pernicious moral influ- ence. When the young mind hears those of standing making by-words and jests of things that cannot be too deeply revernnced.no surprise need be felt should it cease to respect them or sufTer them to become high and hon- orable motivis of human action. I have not been an in- attentive observer of the influence which the example of Dr. Dudley has exerted over the principles of those by whom he is immediately surrounded, and I feel fuily jus- tified in asserting that, like the fabulous Upas that over- shadowed and poisoned the land, it has corrupted the sources of just thought, correct feeling, and independent action. And I havc been surprised and mortified to see men of sense pretend to believe that by so paltry a ma- noeuvre they justified a falsehood and excused or pallia- ted an injustice. Such sophistry will for a while only stifle the cries of conscience. 7 lignant and crafty spirit became restlessly im- patient to involve him in fresh acts of turpi- tude and treachery. Like Melpomene, who it is said begat her children merely to divert her melancholy, Dr. Dudley, sneakingly and fraudulently, attempted to ruin my professori- al prospects, merely for the purpose I sup- pose, as the boys say, "to keep his hand in." This inference is utterly irresistible, for at that time it is impossible for him to have had any just cause of complaint against me—indeed he seemed to smih upon me with peculiar com- placency. But I have since learned that when most bland, that smile is least trustworthy.— Ever since my resignation or expulsion, if the reader prefers the language of the Trio, his nepheiv in an article in response to those writ- ten by Dr. Pinckard, refers to a pamph- let of mine, published more than twelve years ago, in terms that prove that Dr. Dudley was not only proud of my approbation, but consid- ered himself under obligations to me. His nephew, after quoting what I had said of him in 1834. and the reader, could he refer to it, would see that itwasas much theresult of pru- dence as of principle, exclaims :—'High hon- or to the generous heart that prompted such feelings, and knowing Dr. Dudley as I do, I believe this unbought and unexpected homage of a man of genius gave him more sincere pleasure, thim those whose bosoms are stran- gers to such impulses can imagine." For ever dealing in subterfuge and stratagem —in contrivances and craft, as the last display ofhispeculiarfaculties had been wantonly made for my special benefit, it was impossible that I should feel for him any other than that deep and enduring animosity which "wisdom holds unlawful ever." His turning from me with sentiments of disgust and abhoirence, he knows full well was the result of necessity, not of choice; for although I was unfortu- nately his colleague and thus obliged to keep my feelings undera painful subjection, I could not always refrain from expressing my opinion of him.* Often have I thought, when obli- ged to take his hand, for the sake of appear- ances, that had it been dangling from a tainted corpse, I would have shrunk from it with less abhorrence. It was useless for Dr. Dudley to say that "The ceremony of installation was scarcely *Tliis Mitchell says happened so early as 1838, and I have no doubt he speaks the truth, but it is a wonder, for had he supposed I would thus admit it, he would have solemnly testified that I had eulogised Dr. D. from the first to the last moment of my connexion with him. I not only told Mitchell, I suppose, for I told others, rather sub rosa however, and mtrely for the purpose of keeping the world from knowing what it had no right to know, at least from me, that he not only exerted an influence to which he was not entitled, but insisted on measures inju- rious to the School, and was guilty of conduct that render- ed his character odious. i(i concluded, before reasons for regret at his ad- mission into the School began to accumulate," for he knows well that before I gave a single lecture in the Institution, my hatred for his sentiments and his principles had become deep, envenomed and implacable, while my regret at being associated with him, awkwardly disguised, was intense and abi- ding. With his treachery towards his col- leagues, Drs. Caldwell, Yandell and Cooke, I had been made acquainted; of his false and fraudulent conduct towards me, I had became satisfied; with his bold and defying libertinism. the town had become so familiar that it had almost ceased to be a topic of remark or a subject of censure;—with his contempt for Christianity or any other self-denying religion, not only the Priest but the public was shocked; and of his unscrupulosity as a medical wit- ness, I had the most convincing proof on more than one occasion. These facts made him so odious in my sight, that it was with difficulty I could endure his presence. Our intercourse for years was, therefore, uniformly civil and distant, but like those mathematical lines which appear to be taking all possible pains to approach one another, but never get a jot the nearer for it. Indeed, instead of getting near- er, the divergence after the session of 1841—2 became daily more and more obvious, until the formal and repulsive courtesy that charac- terized it bordered upon actual hostility. Hav- ing at an early period of my association with him lost all confidence in his integrity, and respect for his principles, it was impossible for him to conciliate me by his hypocritical pro- fessions of friendship, or to deceive me by his cunningly devised arts. Finding, as at least one, if not more of my colleagues did also, that "True reconciliation could never grow, Where wounds of deadly hate hadpiereed so deep." he determined through his "painted Jes- abels" to undermine and destroy my char- acter in Lexington, and then to drive me out of the School on the first opportunity.* At page 5,1 assert that by my energy and en- terpise, the complete overthrow of the Medical Department of Transylvania University, was avertedin 1837. This, if not formally, has been impliedly denied. What are the facts of the case ? The letters addressed to me while in Cincinnati, informing me of my appointment to the Chair of Institutes, prove that at the same time Dr. Fearne was elected to the *It is in my power to prove that he resorted to a most disgraceful expedient to injure and, if possible, to destroy my standing and that of another individual; an expedient of which no other man would have dreamed, but himself and which very few would believe, unless established by the most satisfactory testimony. But this is postponed, for the present, from prudential considerations exclusively! Chairof Theory and Practice, and Dr. Silli- man to that of Chemistry. These gentlemen declined with mortifying promptitude the prof- fered honor. We had it meeting ofthe Facul- ty some time in May, I believe,and although Dr. Dudley always turned from me with disgust and nhhorrence, I was elected Dean. This was a trifling distinction, it is true, but as all the members of the Facully are obliged to have more or less intercourse with that officer, it is surprising that Dr. Dudley, with the sentiments he professes to have always entertained for me, should have suffered it. This, without difficulty, he could have pre- vented, for he and Dr. Short could easily have out voted Dr. Pvichardson, and upon the support of Dr. Short he could have confi- dently relied, for they always,I believe, acted together, except in that disgraceful transac- tion when Drs. Caldwell, Cooke and Yan- dell were sacrificed. Having learned that neither Professor Sil- liman nor Dr. Fearne would accept, the Fa- culty met on the 13th of June, 1837, to con- sult upon the means of filling the two still va- cant Chairs. The efforts that had hitherto been made having proved unsuccessful, both Drs. Dudley and Richardson became discour- aged and obviously began to despond. I was asked to whom the ('hairs should be tendered next, when I responded to no one, at least in the way that had been adopted. I remarked that the Institution had already suffered on ac- count, of the difficulties that had been encoun- tered in filling the vacancies; and, as the im- pression had gone abroad that the School was irrecoverably ruined in consequence of the dissolution of the Faculty, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to procure the co- operation of men of reputation and im- portance in the profession—that the only safe and successful plan, consequently, would be to send some member of the Faculty to consult in person with such individuals as we should desire for the vacant Chairs, and not to make any appointments until after we had received satisfactory assurance that they would be ac- cepted. The prudence and propriety of this suggestion was at once admitted, and, after I all three of my colleagues had positively re- fused* to go on the mission, they united in ur- "The refusal of Dr. Dudley to go on this mission no one will l>e surprised at, when he reflects that, he had just been guilty of an act which would have made a very uncommon etl'ort of assurance on his part necessary in order to en- able him to propose to any honest man to become his col- league; and the fact that he is the "lirst individual who made a tender of the Chair of Institutes to me, is tho onlv circumstance, independently of his duplicity, that has i., tluccd ine to suspect that he did not think as well of m» » he professed at that time. Be that as it may I have al ways regarded the proposition as a gross persona! insult for which I have not forgiven him, and I probata never shall look upon it wn.i more indulgence than 1 do at present. 17 ging me to assume the responsibility of filling ( the vacancies. This was not what i expected; i a little reflection will convince the reader that 1 it was both improper and unreasonable. It was improper to send on such a mission a; man who had not been more than a month a' member of the Faculty; in fact it was impos- sible for such an one to speak of the situa- tion and prospects of the Institution in sucli a way as to influence the judgments of those who had been already, by the representations of a certain individual, seriously prejudiced against it. I urged the unreasonableness of the request on the ground that, as I had not us yet derived any advantage from the Institu- tion, no obligation of the kind rested on me. Besides, I was called to a Chair in which I had never taught, and therefore it was reasonable to suppose there was little enough time before the opening of the course for preparation. These considerations seemed to have no weight with my colleagues, and, seeing that nothing would be done unless I agreed to take the re- sponsibility of filling the vacancies, T deter- mined to go on the mission. I had impru- dently put my hand into the lion's mouth and thought it wise to take it out as easily and as speedily as possible. I was in the School and was compelled, from a regard for my profes- sorial reputation to do all in my power to sus- tain it. Here is my commission and the rea- der will perceive that it made me not only Minister Plenipotentiary but actual Ambassa- dor of the Transylvania Medical Faculty, for it bound my colleagues to ratify any act of mine in relation to the filling of the Chair of Theory and Practice. The reader will ob- serve, also, that it bears the autographical sanction of that finished intriguer and arch traitor who has had the frontless audacity to say to the public, in his Statement, that he has always turned from me with disgust and ab- horrence. Not only have I proved out of his own mouth that he professed (he is entirely innocent of sincerity or honesty, and a truth has never been traced to him, that I could hear of, since he was a school boy) to be ear- nestly desirous to have me for a colleague, but this Qpiimiissiou conclusively establishes the fact that he was also willing that I should se- lect a colleague "of the same sort" for him in a Professor of the Theory and Practice: "The undersigned is directed by the Medical Faculty of Transylvania I'niversity to authorize and request Professor Cross, one of their col- leagues, to proceed to Philadelphia and elsewhere, with as little delay as possible, in order to secure a suitable individual as Professor of Uie Theory and Practice in .said School.* 13. W. DUDLEY, Chairman. Lkxinoton, Ky., June 13,1K57." VI have said that the object of lny niisiiou was to lill the Without delay I hurried to the Atlantic seaboard and found to my mortification and disappointment that difficulties beset my path numerous and almost insurmountable. The fatal impression had been deeply made in the minds of the most of those with whom I had interviews that the recent dissolution of the Medical Faculty had utterly and forever blast- ed the prospects of the School. This im- pression it was impossible for me entirely to eradicate, although I did much to weaken its influence. Little progress, however, was made with such men as were able, by their character and standing, to strengthen or re- flect credit upon the Institution. When I began to fear that my mission would prove wholly unproductive, I met, in the cityof New York, an old colleague, who informed me that he wished to be appointed to a certain Chair in the University of the State of New York, and that I could, if I would, be of great ser- vice in the furtherance of his views. The idea'at once struck me that while I was pro- moting the interests of a friend, 1 might ob- lige Dr. Eberle to take the Chair of Theory and Practice in Transylvania University. It was also stated to me by the individual to whom I have just alluded that it was more than probable the incumbent of a certain Chair would be removed, und that Dr. Cobb, another old and highly valued colleague, would be his successor. These facts lead me to believe that the game was now, in a great measure, in my own hands. While I was in New York, the individual to whom I refer, chiefly, as I have reason to believe, through my agency, obtained the situation to which he aspired, and immediately afterwards I wrote to Dr. Eberle. I depicted to him the dis- couraging prospects of the Medical College of Ohio, with two Chairs vacant, and the proba- bility that a third would be in a short time in the same situation. My arguments prevailed, for before I returned to Lexington he had in- timated, through his son, to my colleagues that he would take the Chair of Theory and Practice in Transylvania University. After vacating two Chairs in the Medical College of Ohio, with the prospect of a third one losing vacancies; i. e. of the Chairs of Theory and Practice and of Chemistry, but the above commission empowers ine with authority in relation to the former only. The verbal un- derstanding was that I should fill both, but when the com- mission was drawn up, and it was by himself, and signed by Dr. Dudley, it was found that it gave me authority to act in relation to only one of the vacancies. This is ea.-ilv un- derstood. The moment it was ascertained that Prof. SiHi man u ould not accept, Dr. Dudley turned his attention to Peter, und he did not relinquish him until after Mitchell's election. It was foreseen by Dr. Richardson and myself that no matter who might be offered to the Board of Trustees, the name of Peter would be prcsented-and this turned out to be the fact. But this did not deter me h-om attempting to fill the Chemical Chair, in which I,,,-. ceeded, but most unfortunately with a heartless scouu- 18 its incumbent soon, I could speak with confi- dence of the almost certain success of the School in which I hademlurked my fortuues, for the former, our most formidable—indeed,! at that time, our only rival—was, by the j events to which 1 have just referred, reduced, j at least for the present, to rather an unpromis- i ing state. My more confident tone and man- ner, which arose out of this circumstance, en- j abled me finally to prevail on several able men to become condidates for the Chair of Theory and Practice. Although I had full power to give that Professorship to whom 1 pleased, I went no further in my negotiations on the subject than 1 have stated, for 1 was al- most certaiu that Dr. Eberle, after the recep- tion of the letter I had written to him from New York, would consent to come to Lex- ington, and I knew that, should this happen, his reputation and the fact of his having been located in the West, and having taught sev- eral years in a Western Institution, would ren- der him more acceptable to my colleagues than any other individual. The result realized my expectations.* Thus, had 1 not accepted the Institutes, Drs. Dudley and Richardson never could have prevailed on Dr. Eberle to join them, and consequently three very subordin- ate men. and 1 knew them well, the arrange- ment was already made, would have been ap- pointed to the Chairs vacated by Drs. Cald- well, Cooke, and Yandell, and the School would have sunk, long before this, into its present insignificance. One of that brilliant trio is now a member of the Faculty. Nor is this the whole ol my personal agen- cy in the re-organization of the Faculty in 1837. The Chair of Chemistry, as has been stated, was also vacaut. After the declinature of Professor Silliman, the attention of Dr. Dudley was directed to his sequacious protege Peter, which filled the little animal with so much delight that he skipped and frisked about as if a horse-fly had him to break. The de- sign of Dr. Dudley was, I suppose, to reward him for his servility in the nefarious affair to which I have repeatedly alluded, but more particularly, I presume, for a reason that it would not do to whisper into "ears polite." Let us not pry too closely into the nice and se- cret springs of action of this upright and im- maculate character—this "curled darling" of *My conduct towards the Medical College of Ohio de- Berves a word of explanation. I was not prompted by any feeling of hostility towards that Institution; on the contrary, I have every reason to be gratified and proud of my connexion with it, for I believe I was associated with high-minded and honorable men. My conduct is to be ex- plained upon the principle that I felt bound by every fair and honorable means to advance the interests of the Insti- tution with which I was connected. This I did while in the Medical Collesre of Ohio—this I did while in the Medi society—-or we may peradventure irrecovera- bly sully the purity of somebody's honor. But reallv there is no need for such scrupu- losity, foi- the object of Dr. Dudley's munifi- cent" patronage is like the Roman Emperor who found no unpleasant odor in the money that proceeded from a disgusting and disrepu- table tax. Dr. Short supported Dr. Dudley in his partiality for Peter, while Dr. Richard- son and myself were irreconcilably opposed to him. We believed him utterly unprincipled (and every subsequent act of his life has proved that we were not mistaken) and but indiffer- ently qualified for the position to which he had the vanity to asp re. 1 suggested the name of Mitchell, but to him all my colleagues seemed to be irreconcilably opposed. My only hope consisted in bringing Dr. Richardson over to my views. I had ascertained from the students who had attended the Medical College of Ohio, the session before he was ' expelled,* that he was a tolerable lecturer, and from other sources that he was a respectable chemist. These considerations did not satisfy Dr. Richardson, who charged him with being a narrow-minded, bigotted, presumptuous pu- ritanical Presbyterian. On these points 1 had nothing to say, for at that time I knew nothing, i never believed that he would be more than a respectable acquisition; but I understood that he had agreed to take the chair of Chemistry in the Louisville Medical Institute, and while I believed that he would answer our purposes, an opportunity to em- barrass our Louisville enemies thus presented itself, provided we could induce him to break the engagement he had entered into. They had not yet been able to complete the organi- zation of the Institute Faculty, and I felt it to be important to us that they should find as much difficulty on that point as possible, and so soon as I communicated the fact to Dr. Richardson that by drawing off Mitchell we would probably cause those whom he hated much inconvenience, he not only ceased to oppose him but became a warm advocate for his appointment to the Chemical chair in our school.f On my way East in search of a *One would suppose that a man who had been unceremo- niously driven out of one Institution would have spoken more modestly and less flippantly on the sore sufject of expulsion than he has in the "Statements of Facts." But he knows how it afflicted him. and as he was never known to impart pleasure when he could inflict pain, he foolishly imagined, when speaking of it in the coarse manner he has, that he was torturing me. He should, however, have re- collected that I am in no way dependent on Schools of Medicine for such a support as should satisfy the ambitiou of a gentleman—while he, when I took him out of a dirty drug shop in Cincinnati, was on the point of taking the ad- vice Grumio gave to Catharine—which was, to sup on the mustard with lie beef. Poverty is no disgrace, for it was the glory of Fabricius; and no other man would I have the cal Department of Transylvania University—and this I will | inhumanity to remind of it but one who is so malignantly do in regard to any School of Medicine with which I may I ungrateful as Mitchell. in future be connected tit is said that "revenirc is the most delicious morsel th 10 professor of Theory and Practice, I passed , disqualified—he had seen little or no practice, through Cincinnati, where Mitchell resided,' and unless he changes his language and man- and soon prevailed on him to become a candi- j ners he will not see much more. Besides I date for the Chemical chair. Supported by thought it was infinitely presumptious in him Dr. Richardson and myself, and the name of' to desire to be transferred to the most import- Peter, his competitor, being presented by Drs. ' ant chair in the school, when he had served Dudley and Short to the Board of Trustees, he but a single session in it, and had been called was easily elected, Peter having received but a | to it only the year before, not because he was single vote. The following letter conclusively ! a celebrated physician, but because he was be- proves that it was the opinion of Dr. Cald well, at least, that Mitchell had violated a so- lemn engagement with him, and when he tells lieved to be a tolerable chemist. As a conclu- sive reason why he should be transferred to the chair of Theory and Practice, he informed the me as he does in this letter that he had "no j class of 1837—'38 that his old preceptor, Dr. Rush, who for so many years held that chair with the most distinguished ability in the Pennsylvania Medical School, commenced his professorial career in that of chemistry. Be- tween the preceptor and the pupil he imagined there was a most remarkable resemblance, while every one else thought that they were no more alike than a horse is like a hand-saw. Certainly the burlesque extravaganza of this man's pretensions presents one of the most incomprehensible delusions that is to be found in the eventful records of human imbecility. There was at least one reason of a different kind altogether to explain my opposition to Dr. Short. I did not believe him a friend to the School. This conclusion was deduced from the following facts: I understood it had been stated during the fall of 1837, in Cin- cinnati, by Dr. Yandell, that Dr. Short would not remain in Lexington more than another winter—the conversations of Dr. Short with the students during the session of 1837—'38, as reported to me, imparted plausibility to this assertion, and a remark which he made in my presence in the Library at the close of a con- versation in relation to the comparative ad- vantages and prospects of the Lexington and Louisville schools, removed all doubt from my mind of its truth. With the mildness and modesty peculiar to him he rather plainly hinted that the advantages and prospects of the former were not so great and flattering as those of the latter, and when this opinion was rather earnestly opposed, he terminated the conversation by remarking "time will show." From the moment these words escaped his lips 1 determined to oppose every movement qualms of conscience on the subject," no one will doubt him, but all would be surprised to hear that his conscience had ever reproached him for the commission of any atrocity. Cincinnati, July 29, 1837. Dr. Cross—Dear Sir: On my return (he had been in Lexington) I found a tremendous epi>tle from > r. Caldwell, wailing for me. It is full of contradictions and misrepresentations, and I have given him a very brief reply in the mildest syle I can employ, and yet with all needed firmness. He has been terribly discompos- ed as you may judge from the fact that hecalled on my father and brother in Philadelphia to get them to remon.sttate with me. Should any one at all favorable to him in Lexington be disposed to say aught against me in this matter, just assert if you please, that I am quite willing to submit my conduct to the judgment of any three disinterest- ed gentlemen in Kentucky. My movements were based upon the council of Judge Burnett and Rev. Dr. Agdelott, (who as you know is an Episcopalian,) and I have no qualms of con- science on the subject, i r. Caldwell seems to desire a controversy, but he shall not be gratified. Yours, THOS. D. MITCHELL. The facts now spread before the public will enable the reader to determine whether or not I averted the complete overthrow of the Transylvania Medical School in 1837. But the postponement of that "ill-stared and un- blessed catastrophe," for it must come, and it cannot possibly be prorogued much longer, does not comprehend any thing like the whole of tlr* servicesrendered by me to the Medical School of Transylvania, nor will it enable any one to judge of the full extent of its obliga- The following statement will tions to me. prove this During the session of 1M37--'3d that should be made for his transfer to the we had the misfortune to loose Dr. Eberle by chair of Theory and Practice. I was satisfied death, and it is said that both Mitchell and Dr. Short wished to be transferred to the chair thus vacated, and that 1 resorted to very unjustifiable means to prevent either of them obtaining the object of their wishes. My motives for wishing to defeat the hopes of Mitchell are easily divined. He was wholly Devil ever dropped into the mouth of a woman" but, cer- tainly it is not more relished by them than the indulgence of hatred \r by «ome men. that no man with the sentiments he entertain- ed could desire to remain in the Lexington if he had any hope of an invitation to join the Louisville school. My opposition was successful, but I ask the question, what would have been, in all probability, the result had it failed? In my humble judgment a fatal blow would have been inflicted upon the In- stitution. It was already in a precarious state, for we had lost Dr. Eberle by death, and had 20 Dr. Short deserted us, as I firmly believed that he would, even after being placed in the chair of Theory and Practice, the school would j have been irrecoverably ruined. But this, my colleagues, blinded by passion and biassed by prejudice, could not see. We had, and my old colleagues still have, an iudefatigably in- dustrious and a decidedly able rival in the Lou- isville Medical Institute to contend with, and ) I ask, is there a single human being out of the j Transylvania Medical faculty, so incurably stupid as to believe that had Dr. Short left us, after having been transferred to the chair of Theory and Practice, our enemies, at Lou- isville, would not have proclaimed, and with every appearance of plausibility, if not of truth, that the Transylvania Medical School was ruined beyond redemption—that it had lost two of its ablest men—one from death, and the other from desertion? Thus, by my foresight and management, I shielded the In- stitution u second time from a fatal blow, that the infatuation and folly of some of my col- leagues were willing, and would no doubt have exposed it to.* Mitchell in his statement says: "When it was announced that Dr. Eberle was no more, the ex-professor commenced his secret efforts to procure the vacant chair, and hearing that Dr. Short and myself were named as candi- dates, [the latter certainly by nobody but him- self,] he publicly denounced us to the class, as unfit for the place; called on the pupils to dis- countenance every thing of the sort, alledging Yhatour appointmentwoulddisgrace theschool, and consequently disgrace its pupils. This, and more, 1 heard with my own ears, in the Chemical Hall, immediately below the place where this most brotherly harangue teas made- There are facts in abundance to prove that du- ring the session named, he was perpetually endeavoring to depreciate the labors of his col- leagues, and to elevate himself." I vainly and *The infamous Mitchell says that Dr. Short left the Medi- cal School of Transylvania because he was unwilling to be associated with me, when he knows it was because he could not endure to remain in the same institution with his broth- er-in-law, Dr. Dudley, on account of his scandalous treache- ry towards men for whom he had respect, and in whom he had confidence, and this is proved by the fact that he volun- tarily abandoned the former in a great emergency, and fol- lowed the latter when their prospects were,"in the general estimation, any thing but bright or promising. Besides Dr. Short knew, or might have known, for Dr. Richardson in- formed me of it, that Dr. Dudley hated him with so deep and malignant a hatred, because he would not testily falsely on the occasion of the sacrifice of Drs. Caldwell, Yandell, and Cooke, that he refused to have any thing to do with presenting his name to the Board of Trustees on the 29th of April, 18:17, when the faculty was reorganized. This was done, if I was correctly informed, by Dr. Richardson. Be- sides, if my informant did not mislead ine, Dr. Short very rarely entered the house of Dr. D,:dley after the day of the dissolution of the faculty. For this information I am in- debted to an individual who also told me that after the re- signation of Dr. Short, Dr. Dudley boasted that he had not suffered the former to enter his house except on extraor- dinary occasions, and then only for the sake of appearan- ces. Dr. Short knows whether this is true or not. foolishly thought 1 had in my Appeal so firmly nailed this counterfeit to the counter that he would never again attempt to foist himself into circulation, even where only 11 spurious coin circulated. But in this 1 was mistaken. He has still the assurance to look honest men in the face with the frantic and desperate hope that with "His weapons holy saws of sacred writ," he may be rescued from the fathomless depths of contempt into which he is precipitately sinking, while he silently and secretly solilo- quizes: "Thus I cloathe my naked villainy With old odd ends stol'd forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when wursi I play the Devil." Did J not believe that it would be wantonly provoking Providence I would Miller this hy- pocritical cheat and base counterfeit to pass tor what he is worth, and that is what in algebra is called a negative quantity, something worth less than nothing. But this he has not permitted—he has rendered forbearance im- possible—it would prove me incapable of con- ceiving a generous sentiment, or of perform- ing a worthy action, were I even to wink at a reversal of the infallible and eternal de- cress of Divine wisdom by shrinking, when such an opportunity is presented, from the palpable exposure of a man who has sto- len "The livery of the court of heaven To serve the Devil in." Mitchell knows that in preferring the charge embodied in the above extract he was doing noth- ing more than revamping an old, exploded and a disgusting falsehood, that had been trium- phantly refuted eight years ago. The con- ceiver is no more guilty than the shameless reproducer and propagator of a falsehood. But this Mitchell sticks at nothing—his soul, although he affects to be making ample pros- pective provision for it, is like that of the li- centiate Pedro Garcias which lay among the ducats in his leathern bag, is in his breeches pocket among the ragged bank notes that he has dunned out of the students, one of whom was never known to have a moments rest from his importunities so long as he owed him a cent. Indeed his cupidity is such that the telescopic shadow of a dollar in the moon j would make him, Judas-like, betray his Saviour, even should he have transferred his homage and devotion, as everyone believes he has, from the immaculate Being that suffered and died on the cross, to the maculate and poisonous reptile that glories in the name of B. W. Dudley. From the multitude of deponents who are hurrying to the witness-stand to pro- nounce the sentence of condemnation upon the retailer of this foul and infamous slander, 21 who shall I summons first? Let us hear what Professor Lawson, his colleague, has to say on the subject: Mavsville, Ky., August 20, 1838. Professor Cross—Dear Sir: The first charge which particularly demands my attention is, that during last winter, youplav- ed off a continuous round of manoeuvring, and intrigue to entrap the students, and to u>e them m furtherance of your ambitious views; that you were as obsequious as the Janitor; and that you entered into schemes, to injure two of the Facultv. These reckless and profligate assertions, bear the image of falsehood, on their front. All who were acquainted with your conduct, last winter, will unite in one general exclamation of contempt and indignation, upon reading these diabolical charges. That you attempted to manoeuvre, or to entrap the students, for any purpose is, accord- ing to the best of my knowledge and belief, utter- ly false. Nothing of that character, was discov- ered last winter, and if not then, when and where was it made? By Dr. --------, in--------'. Doubtless, it originated there, and like its au- thor, is a tissue of meanness and falsehood. That ''he was as obsequious as the Janator," is an in- significant charge. Your intercourse with the students, so far as I observed, was open, famil- iar, and courteous, yet noble and dignified. I be- lieve it is false that you entered into schemes, to injure two of your colleagues. Again, you are charged with attempting, by the basest means, to obtain the chair of Theory and Practice. This charge, is as false as the heart of him who made it. At the time the me- morial, signed by 163 students was circulated, you expressed publicly and privately, a desire to remain in your present chair.* My recollection of your opinion is, that you did not believe that any of the professors should be transferred to that chair, that it should be re- served for some one not then in the school; but if any of the professors were to be transferred, you did not object to your claim being laid be- fore the Trustees. The charge, that you summoned pupils to Bacchanalian revels and plyed those with wine that loved it, is at once, a libel on yourself, as well as the students. I neither saw, nor heard these revels spoken of, nor do I believe, they ever had an existence. I believe the 163 names were willingly and voluntarily signed. When the balloting took place among the stu- dents, for a professor of Theory and Practice, I was absent, but on my return I was informed of the circumstance, and also that Professor Short received but one vote. It was a matter of curi- osity with us to know who this minority of one was, who could be so simple, as to wish Dr. Short to lecture on Theory and Practice.* Of the letter complimentary to Professor Mitchell I know but little. As Dr. Short, how- ever, signed the diplomas, as professor pro. tern., it would seem that he had claims over others, but no one seemed disposed to pay him that com- pliment. Your own lectiues, were fewer in num- ber than either of the others, but their charac- ter was such as to delight and instruct all who heard them. I think I risk nothing in saying, that they were received by the class as a desider- atum. The last sweeping denunciation which caps the climax is, that the fortunes of the school will be fatally sealed, if you are permitted to remain in it. Fortunately for the school and yourself, the author of this discovery can have no agency in effecting your expulsion. The friends of the school prize loo highly your services to listen to such an idle declaration. Doubtless the envious author of that paragraph, would delight to see one whom he cannot rival, removed farther from him. In conclusion, permit me to say, that I believed your governing principle to have been to make yourself useful to the class. That such was the case last winter was obvious to all. The general character of the charges which have been arrayed against you, proves that they must claim as their author an envious, desper- ate, disappointed, and uncompromising enemy; one who will not scruple to herald forth any charg- es which his corrupt nature can fabricate, and for which the English language can be a vehicle. Yours, very respectfully, L. M. LAWSON, M. D. [From the Kentucky (Lex.) Gazette.] We observed in the -, of the *A word of explanation in relation to this memorial. Immediately after the death of Professor Eberle, the trans- ference of either Mitchell or Professor Short, to the chair of Theory ami Practice, was spoken of, and the idea ex- cited great ili-satisfaction, and much opposition in the class. When this contemplated movement came to the knowledge of the students, a memorial requesting the Board of Trus- tees to transfer me to the chair of Theory and Practice, was, without any agency on my part, drawn up and circu- lated through a cluss of two hundred and twenty-seven students, the number of which that of lc37--'38 consist- ed; one hundred and sixty-three of whom signed it in the course of a few hours. 27th alt., a violent attack upon the character of Professor Cross. This article appears under the editorial head, but judging from its phraseology, as well as from public rumor, we have no doubt that Dr.--------is the author of the article—and had he only heaped his slander and misrepresentations on Prof. Cross, the article would have passed un- noticed by us, as we know that gentleman is am- ply able to defend himself. But the author, not satisfied with his denunciations of Dr. Cross, has implicated, in his libellous productions, the 163 students that signed the memorial referred to, charging them with being his ready accomplices in crime, and compliments them by saying, before his personal appeals were successful, they were brutalized by bacchanalian revels in his own rooms. As we are a part of the students that signed the memorial, we feel it our duty to pronounce this charge a gross and palpable violation of truth, and should bring down upon the author of this illiber- al and slanderous production the execration of the *I trust Dr. Short will not suppose any feeling of hostility to him causes his name to appear in this publication in con- nexion with a matter that should be forgotten. If it should hewever, give him dissatisfaction he ought to blame his ci-devant or rather soi-disant friend Mitchell for attempt- ing to revive a stale and an exploded calumnv O) whole community. The nieuiorial originated i with the students, and was voluntarily signed by | them; and so far as we know, or are informed, it was voluntarily signed by all those whose signa- tures were to it. As to the charge of bacchanalian revels in Prof. Cross's rooms, it originated from the same foul source that has continued to pour a flood of falsehoods upon the friends of Transyl- vania ever since Dr.--------was expelled from the Institution. Who, but this old and hardened offender, would thus unfeelingly drag innocent and unoffending young men before the public, and attempt to brand them with infamy.' Dr.------ a day of fearful retribution is at hand, you may yet be undeceived, and find that all your wicked machinations will recoil upon your own head. ALEX'R NICHOLSON, DAVID WALKER, J. B. COONS. S. T. NEWMAN, S. W. COONS, A. M. McKINNEY, JOHN A. NORTH, C. A. PI.NKNEY, M.D., JOHN G. BAKER. W.M. II. ATKINSON. WM. B. WOOD, PEYTONT JOHNSON, WM. CAMPBELL. Dr. Samuel E. Evans, of West-Rushville, Richland township, Ohio, wrote on the 19th of August, 1838, on the same subject, in the following manner: In relation to the "memorial got up last winter, praying the Board of Trustees to transfer Dr. Crossover any other member of the Faculty, after the decease of Dr. Eberle, to the Chair of Theory and Practice, I know all about it. I was one of the prime movers in that affair, as Drs Short and Mitchell know; and whom I met, by invitation, with the late Mr. Gordon, of Mississippi, with my views frankly and openly given, explanatory of the causes which impelled me, with others, to pro- ject and prosecute it. We parted satisfied with each other. Professor Cross had nothing to do in effecting or ultimatingthe memorial in question, for when he understood that such was contempla- ted, he requested the attendance of six or eight of us, and at our meeting we were distinctly in- formed that he was averse to occupying the vaca- ted chair; that he wished to remain neutral; and had no doubt the Trustees would make a suitable and efficient disposition of it. It was clearly un- derstood, and by myself in particular—for I had on a previous occasion suggested his acceptance as the expressed wish of a majority of the Class- that he did not desire the Chair, but to remain where he was. No, my coadjutors will testify, he is totally absolved from any participation in its or- igin or conduct; indeed, it was a matter of sur prise, when we presented him with the entreaty, he should direct it in the event of any of the Fa- culty seeking the vacancy, in his own favor. Such was the design of this famed memorial, and it was upon these terms alone that he consented to hold it as a check to the supposed aspirings of two of his colleagues, for whom he expressed a cherished personal regard, and only hostile in this, their pre- sumed ambition; still declaring, is before, that il was for the best interest of Transylvani;> the Chair should be filled from abroad, by one of known re- putation, whose name might balance the popular- ity lost in Dr. Eberle. I am free to say, that in nothing did the moral or professional standing of any member of the faculty suffer by Dr. Cross, from expressions made by him in my presence, or in that of others with whom I held intercourse; and as that was very general and'open. I should have been apprised of it had such been the fact. I therefore knowingly pronounce all the charges preferred against Professor Cross, the sessions above understood, of plotting with the students, false; that by him we were withdrawn from our studies to join in the glass, thereby to subserve his ends, equally false; that never in my hearing, or mv fellow-students, was the character of Drs. Mitchell and Short traduced or under-valued, for the promotion of this business in question, but that, on the contrary, he always spake as became their co-laborer in the same vine-yard, the friend and gentleman. And now a word or two touch- ing the balloting spoken of by the class; for I was there, and must be acknowledged a competent wit- ness—and moreover, a Teller for the occasion. It is asked, "upon what authority is the statement made?"' I reply, by my authority, with the connec- ted testimony of all present. Dr. Cross speaks truth when he says there was a note for him on his table, calling on him to perform the duties of the Chair of Theory and Practice; that he returned for answer, he could not meet them, and earnestly desiring that our votes might not, in the pending election, be thrown for him. I was the individual who penned that note, and, at the conclusion of his lecture suspecting the autograph mine, he sent for me to stay their interference in the coming contest; to remain quiet, deeming it ill-advised and precip- itate; that the Trustees, he was assured, would act wisely and for the general interest. Thus much for the ballot-box. Dr. John James Speed, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, thus testifies: In reference to the memorial gotten up by the Students and signed by 163 of them, the writer in the Journal remarks that, "in the midst of the plots of the Students, his active selfishness was busy at work, and scarcely had the accomplished Eberle descended to his tomb before Dr. Cross commenced howling like a hyena around his grave for the Chair of Theory and Practice." A baser and more unprincipled charge than this could not be brought against the most abandoned wretch by the most unscrupulous falsifier. So far as one man can hecome acquainted with the sentiments of another, I am capable of knowing and fearlessly stating that Prof. Cross positively objected to being placed in that Chair, stating his preference, decided preference, for the Chair which he then occupied; and is it npt strange, if he desired the place—if he howled like a hyena around the grave of the accomplished Eberle for the Chair of Theory and Practice, that not even those who desired him to receive it should have heard and listened to his cry? If Prof. Cross de- sired the Chair, he was most successful in conceal- ing it from his friends. Passing over a number of 23 remarks equally hii-nii and uufounded, the writer say>: "Thus, by taking time by the forelock, by working without opposition, by making false statements to the pupils, and by plying those that lond it with wine, he succeeded in getting 163 names to his paper, and, after all this scheming and meanness, with the entire game in his own hands, and without a competitor for the Chair, he has the effrontery to claim the memorial as an honor to hini.'and holds it up as a mark of dis- grace to Prof.---." Here he is endeavoring to produce upon his readers the impression that the whole course of conduct of Dr. Cross was di- rected to securing the Chair of Theory and Practice—that every step he took, and every thought he uttered," tended toward the memorial praying his transfer to the Chair. He succeeded! I am one of those who assisted in getting up and dictating that memorial, and I deny that Prof. Cross knew of its existence or its contemplation till ap- prised by one of the Class. Here the writer has manifested the same malignant and unhallowed spirit, and the same reckless determination to crush, by any means, him whom he has just cause to dread. Dr. James M. Dean, of Lynchburg, Ten- nessee, wrote me on the 1st August, 1838, on the same subject, to the following effect: The memorial that is so much harped upon by Dr.-------was got up from choice. The class was induced to believe that efforts were making to elevate Dr.---to the Chair of Theory and Prac- tice. They were well aware of his incompetency and intended to prevent his appointment by every exertion; for this reason they got up the memorial to the Trustees, presenting to them their choice. These were the motives that induced me to sign the memorial, and these the motives that a 1 ex- pressed that I saw sign it. With regard to the statement made by Dr.-----, that you made ef- forts, assisted and influenced the students to ge' up the memorial, I pronounce to be an unfounded falsehood. I well recollect the circumstances un- der which the memorial was got up. 1 also re- collect the substance of the response you gave to the note which was placed on your table, asking you to accept the Chair of Theory and Practice. You stated that you were opposed to being ap- pointed—that the Chair you then occupied re- quired your whole attention You also stated that the Chair of Theory and Practice was the most important Chair that belonged to the Institution, and would be a greater inducement to a man of talents than any other Chair. Your answer to the note was satisfactory, showing that you did not desire the appointment, and that you did not want the School to loose talents by your elevation. The following is an extract from a letter of the 11th September, 1838, written to me by Dr. H. King, of Greensborough, Georgia: Your deportment last winter, instead of being low and vulgar, was considered extremely digni- fied and gentlemanly. Though repeatedly at your apartments alone, and in the company of other members of the class, I can conscientiously say. I never heard von give utterance to a single expres- 8 sion calculated to injure any one of your col- leagues in the estimation of the class; on the con- trary, when you spoke of them, it was always in terms of commendation. The morning of the day on which the bullotting took place, in answer to a note, requesting you to lecture on Theory aud Practice.you earnestly entreated your friends, m the presence of the whole class, not to cast their votes in your favor. In regard to your agency in getting up the memorial signed by 163 of the stu- dents, and the'disreputable means said to be em- ployed by you, I am prepared, from personal knowledge, to say that in no respect does the speak the truth. On the subject of your standing with the class, it could not have been better. Your Chair was filled with distin- guished honor to yourself, and to the entire satis- faction of the Class. Yours, with great esteem, H. KING. Testimony in refutation of the allegation that I desired the chair of Theory and Prac- tice after the death of Professor Eberle, and that 1 attempted to injure the standing of my colleagues with the students during the ses- sion of 1837—'38, could be increased to any extent, for the. above has been selected from what was furnisned me by at least fifty indi- viduals all of whom were competent to testify. The number and character of the witnesses I have summoned will be regarded, I trust, as fully sufficient to satisfy the doubts of the most scrupulous or incredulous.* But Mitch- *TIiat I did at any time, either during the session above referred to or since, intrigue with the students for the pur- pose of injuring the standing of any colleague I ever had in the Transylvania Medical School or Httempted by any means to defraud him of his popularity is foully and grossly false. Never in my private and social intercourse with the students, nor in the public discharge of my official duties did I drop an expression that did not bre;ithe respect for them as men and confidence in them as teachers. Of some of them I rarely, indeed, I may say I never expressed an opinion in the presence of the students. I had nothing good to say of them, and to have spoken disparagingly would have been not only to injure the school but to have acted in violation of a ruling principle of my conduct. No bitterness of hostility could pro- voke me to this while I remained in the Institution. In confirmation of the truth of all I have said in this note I ap- peal to the classes to whom I have lectured iu the Transylva- nia Medical School. No individual who belonged to either of them, will s;iy he ever thought the less of any colleague I ever had on account of any personal or didactic remarks to which I guve utterance, with the exception perhaps of Dr. Dudley. If 1 ever said any thing of him that limited his in- fluence or impaired his standing with the classes, it was ex- clusively of the latter character. In consequence of daily wandering out of his department, and for what purpose no one could ever guess except it was to betray his ignorance, into that of mine, and he invaded those of some of his oth- er colleagues almost as frequently, I was compelled to han- dle some of his opinions rather roughly. But even when this was the case it was never done in connexion with his name, and if a stranger had come into the lecture-room while I was engaged in the refutation of one of his ridicu- lous vagaries of fancy, he would not have known whether the author of it lived in the United States or iu Europe, sn strictly did I forbear making any personal allusion. The I students, however, knew to whom I referred, for they, per- haps, had heard him lecture on the same subject not twenty- i four hours before. As an honest man and a faithful teacher it wis impossible for me to shrink from the responsibility of teaching what I believed to be the truth, although Dr. Dud- lev might hnpp< u to differ with Ine m opinion.- 1 uaviir M ill eves-dropped it as he lias had the giiueless effrontery to admit, and asserts upon the au- thority of information thus disreputably ac- quired that "This, and more. 1 heard with my own ears in the Chemical Hall, immediately below the place where this brotherly ha- rangue was made." If what this reckless im- postor says be true, which, however, is utterly impossible, then are his colleague Professor Lawson and the crowd of wit- nesses I have summoned and examined low, vulgar, and suborned liars. Who believes this? No body but Mitchell, and he should be hissed out of all company for uttering the gratuitous calumny. He knew it was a lie when he uttered it, and knew also that his colleague would testify against him. It is very painful to be brought, under any circumstances, into collision with men, who, while they are incapable of placins,- a just value upon others show that they have no respect for themselves. Degraded beyond the hope of redemption in their own estima- tion, as they have been long since in that of every man of sense or sensibility, they think they have full license to slander and malign in the fact, that no one will condescend to con- tradict them or compromit his honor by holding them to a strict accountability. As a general rule, Mitchell, being as he is, a star of the first magnitude among men who belong to this category, might confidently reckon upon being suffered to indulge, unmolested, the vicious propensities of his nature. Had he not been my colleague, I would not flatter him by making another remark. But even this circumstance, together with the provoking manner in which he has tried to insult me on a point susceptible of satisfactory refutation, will notexcuseme I fear, for what I feel inclined j to add in relation to him. My reputation, as a ! teacher, is almost as dear to me as the blood that gurgles through the arteries of my heart. The scrupulous reader will, therefore, I trust, excuse me, should he think I am giving too ! much time and devoting too much attention to a work of supererogation. "A stranger! might suppose," says Mitchell, "that he\ (Cross) was the very soul of the Institution, that it had its being in him, when in truth, his teaching as well as his example was all the while exerting a pernicious influence on went out of my department to attack his views, while he i every winter, consumed much time unprofitably in the dis- ! cussion of subjects of a speculative nature that did not lie- j long to him. This time would have been much more u«c fully employed in the teaching of surgerv, upon which he I never gave any thing like-a complete course of lectures in i his life. Of this the classes constantly complained, and Dr I Richardson was wont to say that he belived one of the i principal reasons why Dr. Dudley was so unwilling to re- linquish one of ins chairs, consistcil in the fact that his ] knowledge of surgery was not sufficiently thorough and comprehensive to enable him to lecture upon it six times a week for four months in succession. I the profession.'* W'ithoul claiming niorr1 than respectability as a teacher, which I might without being charged with arrogance or presumption, if the profession ut large knew 3iitcliell as well as those do who are or hive been immediately around him, it would be regarded as a sufficient response to this ebullition of slander to say that, with the ex- ception of Dr. Rush, he was never known to speak in other than the most disparaging terms of his colleagues or men of distinction in the profession. He is incapable of the conception of a liberal thought, or the perfor- mance of a generous action. Restless, un- quiet, and miserable at the moderate but just estimate which the profession, so far as he is known to it, has placed upon his nbili- ties and learning, and the mortifying reflec- tion that no labor can raise him to a high degree of intellectual eminence, have made him an Ishmaehte. The humble position fate has decreed him to occupy amongst men of reputation and importance, has rendered him as dissatisfied and querulous as an old maid verging on the desperation of six and thirrj . But thus it is with those in whose bosoms the fires ofambition burn,but who,unfortunate- ly, have not more capacity than fits them for the humblest intellectual functions of vulgar life. "Base envy withers at another's joy And hates the excellence it cannot reach." Mitchell instead of repining at the decrees of Providence, should recollect that talent s, like the spirit of Owen Glendower, though conjured with even so loud a voice, "} et will not come when you call for them." With the request that the reader will refer to p. 24—25 of my Appeal and p. 10 of this work, for what illustrates the point under considera- tion, I take the liberty of adducing the testi- mony of Peter as about a fair counterbalance of what his co-slanderer has uttered. In the midst of the difficulties that ultimately led to my resignation, and when of course 1 was still a member of the Faculty, he said, in an article in response to one previously published by Dr. Pinckard, "In conclusion, 1 will repeat that, so far as the Faculty of the Medical De- partment can judge, we never had man reasm to be proud of our Institution."* This was *But such declarations amount to very little, thej are stereotype:! egressions of the Transylvania Faculty— When uic School was re-organized in lr.'j7, the Chaiiman of the Board of Trustees said to the public, "Such arc the men who now compose the Medical Faculty of Transy va- nia University—>uch are the teachers we present to the pnblie in redemption of our pledge," which was thai the School should be made stronger than it was liefore the Jis- solution. When Dr.Smith succeeded Dr. Eberle in Theory and Practice, it w;i» asserted in the public prints that it hud never been so efficient at any former period. W ten Dr. Bartb'tf succeeded Dr. Smith in the same chair, it wns said the School was stronger than ever; when Dr. Waitnn wis appointed to the Chair of Theory und Practice il ,vas pnblicly inserted that the School v, u« infinitely stronjei • and now having an equivocal assurance that Dr. I? r.lett will taUehis "oldChair," in the " Statements of Fact. " a 25 grossly false, if one of its members was such a man as they now represent me to be. In the letter of Professor Lawson, already quo- ted, (p 21) he says in relation to the lectures on Theory and Practice, which I delivered in the winter of 1837-38, after the death of Dr. Eberle, "Your own lectures, were fewer in number, than either of the others, but their character was such as to delight and instruct all who heard them. I think I risk nothing in saying that they were received by the Class as a desideratum." Again, hesaid, and much more recently, "Professor Cross whojus;ly ranks among the ablest medical philosophers and writers of the age, has kindly consented to become a correspondent of the Lancet." One of the ablest writers and most distinguished teachers in the United States, wrote me as follows;—"That you should be slandered is not. at all surprising, you have enemies, and they will spare no pains to injure you. If you were a man of a more passive or nega- tive character, this would probably not be the case; but you have talents, energy and repu- tation, and are therefore a fair target for the malevolent shafts of those whose interest or desire it is to impair your influence and stan- ding. Your character as a teacher and writer is we'l established, and my opinion is, that the Lexington School has no particular cause to congratulate itself upon your resignation." The pupils of the two Institutions in which I have taught, are now the Physicians of the West and South, and being uninfluenced by undue prejudice or partiality, are doubt less the most competent judges of my claims as a teacher. The following notices are taken, at random, from a great mass of testimony of the same import, which, if adduced, would occupy space without rendering the refutation of the charge preferred against me, more complete or successful. "Dr. Cross is well known to the Medical world as a teacher and writer of the first grade. His mind is keen and analysing: he separates facts from theory —the real from the imaginary—building upon the solid basis of experience and observa- tion."—Boonslick {Missouri) Democrat. "Pro- fessor Cross is well known throughout the Valley of the Mississippi, as one of the most able aud eloquent teachers now laboring in the cause of medical instruction.—Shawncetown is said that "Thefiiends of the School are assured, that at no point in her (I suppose the Transylvs nia Medical School is meant) history has she offertd such strong claims upon their patronage as she does at present." Ha\ing found th;it the frequent changes in tho Chair of Theory and Practice have been productive of so much invigora- lion, it is wonderful that the Trustees have not suggested the propriety of imparting strength to the Institution in a reduplicating ratio, by effecting changes in some of the other departments—the Chemical for example, as the risk of tho experiment would not be great, nor would it cost much. (111.) Republican "As a lecturer, Professor Cross stands unrivalled in popularity, and may be deemed the pillar of Transylvania Univer- sity."—Edgefield (S. C.) Advertiser. The moment it was ascertained that I was appointed to a Chair in the Medical School at Memphis, Tennessee, the following com- plimentary notices appeared in two Ten- nessee Journals—the first in the Standard, and the second in the Tribune. The writer remarks: 'In running my eye over the list of Professors I find the name of James Con- quest Cross; it is a host in itself, and its weight will be felt sensibly at Lexington, Lou- isville, Cincinnati and St. Louis. Dr. Cross is extensively known, particularly in the West and South, as one of the most success- ful medical teachers in the United States.— Being a man of great labor, erudition and ge- nius, he will at once give the School a res- pectable standing." "At the head of the list (of the Professors of the Memphis SehooD we find the name of James Conquest Cross. It would be useless to say one word in relation to the character of this gentleman as a Medi- cal Philosopher or Teacher. He is well known in this State: and not only here, but wherever great men are known. He is an independent Medical Philosopher—while he pays proper regard to the opinions of others, thinks for himself. He was at one time Pro- fessor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical College of Ohio, after which he was Professor of the Institutes of Medi- cine and Medical Jurisprudence in the Tran- sylvania Medical College at Lexington.—■ With due respect for those who filled the dif- ferent Chairs in that University, I must be permitted to say that I viewed him as the brightest star in the galaxy. As as inde- pendent (and generally correct) Medical Phi- losopher and practical teacher, James Con- questCross, has not a superior."* The indeli-. " I may add, I trust, without offence, that the conduct of' my late colleagues was anything else than a confirmation of the opinion expressed by them of me as a teacher in the- " Statements of Facts." No public effort was ever to be made on behalf of the Institution, that was not devolved on me. When we lost Professor Eberle, } was selected to pronounce his eulogy; when the new Medical Edifice was, to be dedicated, I was summoned to the rostrum; when the Medical Convention of Kentucky met in Frankfort in the winter of 1841--42, I was appointed in conjunction with Dr. Dudley, to represent the Transylvania Medical School in- it; was elected by the Convention one of its Vice-Presi- dents; was invited by and did lecture to the Convention on the "Antiquity of the Earth;" an-l was afterwards appoin- led to deliver the annual address when it should meet in the winter of 1842—43. During the whole of the session of the Convention, Dr. Dudley's lips were hermetrically sealed, he leaving me to cope in all the discussions, and they were numerous, that arose single-handed with Profes- sors Caldwell, Drake and Yandell. When it is recollected that it was believed the deliberations of the Conven- tion w ould have a very importaut influence on the future prospectsof the Schools of Lexington and Louisville, this was entrusting mc with a very responsible duty. When Committees of the Legislature or distinguished strangers racy of parading such notices before the public is obvious, and the impolicy and impropriety of it, except under very peculiar circumstan- stances, very great. That these exist on the present occasion, I think the reader will readily admit, and this consideration will, I trust, induce him to regard my conduct with indulgence. Perhaps I ought to have felt se- cure in the judgment and decision of those to whom I have given instruction, rather than have given the malicious an excuse to charge me with arrogance or egotism. Lexim.'Hi.v, September 13, ll~l(>. Dr. Cross—Dear Sir: In looking over a pam- phlet entitled "Statements of Facts,'' in relation to the expnl-ion of James Conquest Cross from Transylvania University, the joint production of Professors Dudley, Mitchell and Peter, I ask the privilege in your forthcoming publication, to cor- rect some misrepresentations and falsehoods there- in contained. Dr. Mitchell in his statement, says:—"As he (Dr. Cross) and his tools have made much ado about Dr. Bush, I may say here, that all the difficulty and objection to Dr B , that I ever heard, originated with him, (I Jr. C.) and those What Mitchell under his influence, &c." Now as it is generally has said of my conduct known that I am the author of the articles that ap- towards, and feelings for, Dr. Bush, is un- graced by a single sentiment of honor, for it is known to several individuals to be not only gratuitous and unfounded, but maliciously false. On this point, after the production of a single document with an explanation of the circumstances that gave rise to it, 1 will turn him over to the tender mercies of those whom he has wantonly abused and deceived, or betrayed and slandered. At the time the memorial was circulated in the Class of 1843—44, to which I have already referred at p. 11 of my Appeal, and which had for its object the removal of Dr. Bush, it was stated by those immediately around Drs. Dudley and Bush, that I was the instigator or author of it. This was wholly false, and as I had never made an extemporaneous explanation to the Class without its being misrepresented, I drew up the following paper, to exclude the possi- bility of misconstruction on the subject, and read it to the Class. Previously, in the Fac- ulty-room, I had read it to Mitchell. "Gentlemen : My name has been connected, I undi rsand, with a memorial that has been circu- lated in the Class, in relation to the Adjunct Profes- sor of Anatomy. This I wish to say is wholly unauthorized. Conscious from the peculiar cir- cumstances of my position, that my motives would be, as they have heretofore been, misrepre- sented, 1 must be permitted to assure you that I am the last man in the Faculty, who would do any thing calculated to disturb the harmony of the Faculty—that of the Class or that would expose my motives to misconstruction. From a proper degree of responsibility. I never will shrink when- ever a proper subject shall he brought before me, in my official capacity, for deliberation,-ind when I decline action under other circumstances, it is either because I feel no interest in the matter, or because I hold it to be incompatible with my rela- tions to my colleagues, and the obligations I am under to the Institution in which lam a teacher." peared in the Lexington Inquirer, during Tie months of April and Any lf-14, ■ feel called on by the base falsehoods of Dr. Mitchell, to state the facts in relation to the origin of the attempt made by me, in L-'M, to re-organize the Medical Department of Transylvania University. From the time the School was re organized in ]H37,1 took a deep interest in its prosperity. This is well known to many of the Physicians and most respectable citizens of Lexington, as well as to some of the present Professors. Being my Alma Mater, I was particularly desirous that, it should not be surpassed in respectability and usefulness, by any School in the great Valley. From year to year, complaints were made that Dr. Bush was incompetent to teach Anatomy, and that Dr. I ud- ley for want of time, was unable to give as full a course of instruction on Anatomy and Surgery as was given in the Schools of Medicine at Louisville and Cincinnati. In the spring of 1843, I acci- dentally met with Dr. Mitchell in Pr. Darby's office, and mentioned to him the complaints that were made against Dr. Bush by the students, ant*. also stated to him that the physicians considered him incompetent, and that the School was suffer- ing much injury from the fact that Dr. ' udley held two professorships. Ho concurred fully in all I had said, and remarked, that the evils com- plained of, ought to be speedily remedied by a re-organization. He spoke so earnestly and sen- sibly on the subject of the defects of the School, that I was fully persuaded he was correct, when he asserted that unless they were removed, "the School must go down." When I asked hiin if nothing could be done to avert its.threatened ruin, he responded, that he thought not, for Dr. Dud- ley was inflexibly resolved to retain possession of two professorships, and that he would not sutler I r. Bush to be turned out. The latter, he denoun- ced in a manner that has never yet been presented to the public—he complained of the undue influ- ence that Dr. Dudley exercised over the Board of Trustees—said ineffectual efforts had been made by himself and others to induce Lr. L udley to agree to a re-organization. This conversation with Dr Mitchell (and he ia j the first Professor I ever spoke to in relation to in the Library 'the defects0.f \hc Scho°') made a deep impression and Museum until the clock struck eleven, when they were hurried into my lecture-room, where they remained until I and Dr. Bartlett had lectured. The de,ign of this manoeu- vre, the most stupid can understand Indeed, I am convin- ced I had colleagues that no Committee of the Legisla- ture ever beard give a single lecture, at least, while 1teas in the Institution. upon my mind and produced the conviction that a re-organization was absolutely necessary. From a sense of duty to the profession and a desire to protect the interests 0f Lexington, I determined at once to use every effort to avert the threatened ruin of our School, but soon ascertained that no- thing could be done so long as it surpassed the brought before the Trustees, which they (Drs. R. Schools of Cincinnati and Louisville in the num-1 and M.) determined should be done unless Dr. her of its pupils, and therefore said but little on j Dudley should agree to resign one of his profes- the subject until the next session, that of lM:i-H, | sorships, and to the removal of i r. Bush. when it was found that it had fallen considerably Dr. Peter, in the "Statements of Facts," says in the rear of the Louisville Medical Institute, ' "the next issue of the Inquirer brought another of and barely numbered as many pay students as j the lugubrious articles of the 'Friend to Lexing- were to be found in the Medical College of Ohio, j ton,'in which was a garbled and distorted account This, I state, on the authority of Dr. Mitchell, of this Faculty meeting—a meeting at which none The students being clamorous during the session but the Faculty were present and the proceedings of HI3-4 I for a re-organization, and believing. ! of which were known to none but the Faculty. fiom what Dr. Mitt-hull said to me in the spring of This publication at once identified Dr. Cross with 1 ~13, that a majority of the Faculty u ere dissatisfied not even excepting Drs. Bartlettand Peter,(though the former was too prudent and the latter too pol- the nefarious publications which done so much in- jury to the Institution: proved him a traitor to the School," &c." .Now the following are the facts itic to commit them-elves.) I determined to ap- .in regard to my means of informatiw in relation proach the late Dr. Richardson on the subject. He to the proceedings of the Faculty: The meeting fully concurred with his colleague, Prof. M., as to to which I >r. Peter refers took place on Friday, the the necessity of a re-organization, but, not being 17ih of May, and the next publication day (if the able to advise me how to proceed to ellect it, dis-1 Inquirer was the following Tuesday, the 21st of conraged the attempt The next day after my in-, May. Dr. Mitchell had previously informed my terview with Prof. R,, I met Dr. Cross on my way to his house and immediately introduced the sub- ject of the defects of the School, lie was very reserved, and, although I informed him of the opinions of Drs Mitchell and Richardson, he de- clined giving any opinion on the subject at that time. I proposed that Dr*. R., M., and himself should represent the defects of the School to the Trustees; to this he positively objected, and said that any move of tiiat kind would be attributed to him, in consequence of the equivocal relations that subsisted between Drs. Dudley and Bush and him- self. Besides, he said the School might go down, for none of the etfotUha had made for it had been appreciated or attended to. He advised me not to interfere with the re-organization unless I friends that at this meeting very important action mg'.it be expected on the part of the majority of the Faculty—that Dr. I udley was expected to re- sign one of his Chairs, as he had been requested by a majority of the Faculty. I, of course, was very anxious to know the result of this meeting, as I was preparing an article to press forward the re-organization for the Inquirer of the next Tues- day. I therefore repaired to Dr. Darby's office before bed-time, supposing Dr. Mitchell would call there, as was his custom, on his return from the Faculty room, and communicate to us the re- sult of the meeting. He did not come, however, as usual, and a little after 10 o'clock I returned home. The next morning I agaiu called at Dr. Darby's, and, not finding him in, was about re- could procure .the co-operation of the Trustees, turning, when I met Dr. Mitchell in the street. 1 and that he thougnt impossible, as they would be ; asked him about the meeting of the Faculty of the unwilling to do anything without the consent of (evening before, when he, without hesitation, in- Dr. Dudley—but concurred fully with Drs. M. and ; formed me that Dr. Dudley had refused to resign R. in regard to the de'ects of the School I had no further conversations with any of the Professors on the subject until after the publica- tion of my first article, and before a line of it was written Dr. Cross had gone East. On the day of its appearance Dr. Mitchell was at the office of Dr. Darby and expressed himself freely—saying that the positions taken by "A Friend to Lexing- either of his Chairs, although he had two evenings before professed his willingness to his colleagues to do anything for the interest of the School—that they had accordingly passed resolutions, by a ma- jority of three to one, requesting him to resign one of his professorships which resolutions had been sent to him—that the Faculty had met, ex- pecting him to send in his resignation, but, instead ton" were correct. When informed that Dr. Pe- | of that, he had appeared in person and refused to ter intended answering it, he seemed much dissat-, comply unless Di. Bush was appointed to the va- isfied, and, after his article appeared, he com-1 cant Chair, and, as that could only make the School plained particularly of the defence set up for Dr. weaker, Dr. Cross had proposed to let things re- Bu-h, and informed my friends that, in my rejoin- der, I was at liberty to say that Dr. Peter formerly thought with a majority of the Faculty, both in re- lation to the incompetency of Dr. Bush and the main in statu quo—that Dr. Peter had had the as- surance to propose that the members of the Fa- culty should oppose "A Friend to Lexington," by denying the truth of what he had published, injury which the School was sustaining from Dr. i which he (Dr. M.) indignantly resented by asking Dudley's holding two professorships, and it was ! Dr. Peter if he wished the Faculty to deny the on his authority that these statements were made. ; truth. Dr. Mitchell took great credit to himself After the controversy commenced, I r. Mitchell | for his boldness and independence in this matter. was in the habit of visiting r. Darby's office for The whole of the above facts he not only commu- the purpose, as I believed, of communicafnii:, for my benefit, anything which hi; thought would aid in effecting a re-organization. During the publi- catiau of the first three or four of my articles, i r. Cro>s was from home, and both • rs. Richardson and Mitchell wrote to him to return home imme- diately for the purpose of aiding them in the pro- •The insolence of Peter is perfectly insufferable. After havii g proved conclusively on p. 12 of my Appeal that it was utterly impossible for mc to have had any agency in the articles publishrd by Dr. HincUard during my absence from Lexington, he has the effrontery still to identify me posed re-organization, when the matter should be with them. nicaled to me without hesitation, but stated them more than once, that I might not misrepresent ■js them in my next publication, which appeared on I The "S.'a'vnents of Fads" make the broad the following Tuesday, (the"21st of .\F;n .) It was assertion that I was expelled from the Medi- Dr. .Mitchell and not Dr. Cross who communicated | caj Faculty of Transylvania University. A to me the proceedings of the Faculty, and I feel J m.jef eXil,1Hnation will convince the reader called on to make this statement in order to free that this irmimoug allegation so far from res a much-injured individual from the slanderous im- < put itions i falsely call men momduai . torn me sianae ons, ,u.- j ,d pounds of direct p.o- ast on hun bv Dr Peter in what they! ll &» ' r. * , . ' . "Statements of Facts." | bation, has not been invested by the 1 no with even the plausibhty of a special pleaders so- phistry. Let us see, in the first place, what they have said in relation to the origin of the letterof requisition to resign. Both Mitchell thought proper, without excuse, to refer to my of- i and Peter charge this upon Dr. Richardson. fice in a most offensive manner, and has impliedly This they can now do with perfect safety, for laid upon my shoulders charges made against him ( ne js jg^^ anj unfortunately has not left a byothersJfejU bound togive lae following testimo- • ,e coilen? ' . . . . ,. Dr. T. B. PINCKARD, M. D. Lexixctox. Ky., ~-\l September, 1846. Onoss—Dear Sir: As Dr. Mitchell has very well that what he thought proper to say to me, and in my presence, was not at niy seeking, but of his own accord, unasked by me J. C. D'AIifiV. M. D. "Dear Doctor: In reply to the interrogatories con- any interest or inclination to shield his name from reproach. The fact that both of them repudiate the suggestion of the letter reques- ting me to resign, and attempt to throw it upon Dr. Richardson, proves conclusively tained in your letter of the l.'tli of September, I \ that they think it a most disgraceful transac- would state, that I was a student in your office du-. tion, and hope to escape some of the odium nne.the spring and summer of 1844. 'Until the pub-, necessnrily attached to it by claiming to have lications of Dr. Pinckard commenced, Dr. Mitchell • " .- • .. • ..i, , ,i,,„ ,i,„ was not in the habit of visiting your office; but from \ been ,,1! re participators iu, rather than the the commencement of said publications, he did not, to | authors of it. JNow had their conduct been the best of my knowledge, miss being iu your office | just or creditable, they would have squabbled one single cvenim.' on which br. Pinckard'.s articles ' were to m;i';r their appearance-. His auxiety was so great that 1 have known him to go to tho printing-of- fice two or three times to get the proof sheet; this lie would read aloud in your office, correct it, laugh heartily over it, and make suggestions as to what might have been inserted. I have known liini to do this not only in your presence, but in that of Dr. Pinckard, and I think of Dr. Lewis and others. He would frequently call in the forenoon and sit for nn hour or more, during which time his conversation scarcely ever varied from the Medical School—the propriety of Dr. Dud'cy's resigning the Chair of An- atomy, and the election of a competent man, &c. He amongst themselves for the honor and credit of originating the suggestion, rather than seek to charge it upon the dead, in whose de- fence no word could luve been said by any one but themselves, had not accident placed it in my power to prove that Dr. Richardson was no more to blame, if, indeed, he was as much as acertain other individual who hasafair chance of going down to the grave as a most infamous and reckless liar. To me, it is of no consequence whatever who originated the approved of everything Dr. Pinckard said, and hesi-1 letterof requisition, and although I have but tsted not to denounce Dr. Bush as cVc, and Dr. Dud- j ]jn]e jnterest- jn (](,fenrlino- the memoi-v of Dr lev as a perfect tyrant, [I omit th3 strong expressions „'. , m\el eSr' ,n aael™mg «»e memoiy Ot Dr. Kichardson from the slanders of his quon- dam friends and associates, I feel bound to say on the authority of a letter received by me a few weeks ago, while in Cincinnati, that . perfect tyrant, [I omit ilia strong expre which Dr Robinson sa\s Dr. Mitchell used in refer ence to Dr. Bush, as 1 have no object in having them repeated.] "One would infer that Dr. Mitchell was quite fa- miliar in your office, from the fact that about the time he was negotiating with Dr. Watson to take the Chair of TiiL-ory and Pru"iicj in Transylvania University, I kuew and you "Dr. Mitchell certainly made the matter of die dif- ficulty in the School more public than either Dr. Cross* or Dr. Richardson, for he would frequently speak of what was done at the Faculty meetings, a thing I never heard either Dr. Cross or Dr. Richard- son do. It Dr. Mitchell denies the above lie is cer- tainly not incapable of denying anything. Yours, respectfully. G. P. KOBI.WSOX, M. D. Near Louisville, 20th Sept., 1*4U.'' Mr.— had asserted that when Dr. Richaidson understood he had been accused of suggesting .vhim to bring Dr Watson', letters to your office i the letter of requisition, he not only denied read quotations to you and otlierj, to convince it- nn.;,;.,.],. i ,•.' i 7 ... at-^ i n * that he was a man of talent*. '* Posl|lvely, but charged it upon Mitchell.*— JNow it is plain, that although Mitchell and 'If it had been my custom to speak of the proceedings of the Faculty it is very singular that Dr.Rohiiison did not bear me, for not a single day passed after my return from the East that I did not speud more or less time in Dr. Der- by's office, and there I said more iu regard to the difficul- ties of the School than I said publicly anywhere else. "The name of the individual referred \n, is suppressed, in consequence of the reception of the following note from Dr. Darby since my arrival in Louisville:—"J called on ----, and mentioned to him what you hud to say of Dr. Richardson on his authority. Il>- is not willing that his name should be referred to. I endeavored to show him the propriety of doing so in justice to Dr. 11., I,,it he de- cline!: said that what he said to me was in con|i,iRiice anilth.it ho did not wish to appear to !'■• p.n-t cm ,'tinJ in the controversy. I hope you will M(. 11,e ,„■„,,,-„., v „f not referring to — .now that he Inc.- /;»-/;,,,/,/ refu-c'l — I cmnotconsent to your doing so" The supprtss-ion'of the name of the individual alluded to, due, ,lot elf-ct the truth or importune-of the fact, for he iaU man of high in- telligence and great respectability, and I have no doubt , if it were absolutely indispensable, he would permit his name to be used. >9 Peter have taken great pains to exculpate Dr. Dudley, and to repudiate the infamous net themselves, the public is as far as ever from knowing upon whom should be reflected the honor of authorship. There is, however, one fact which conclusively proves that all that has been asserted by Mitchell and Peter, as to the origin and cause of the letter of requisition is a gross and clumsy fabrication. Mitchell says : "The proposition came from the late Dr. Richardson, as a means of aver- ting an act of expulsion on the part of the Trustees, which Dr. R. declared to be in con- templation." And Peter asserts "That Dr. Richardson having understood that the Board of Trustees were about to take the case of Dr. C. into consideration, called on Dr. Mitchell and proffered to him, as the best mode of pre- venting the probable expulsion of Dr. Cross, that the Faculty should request him to re- sign." The reader will recollect, that Dr. Richardson denied having suggested the letter of requisition, and here let him observe, that Mitchell and Peter say he recomended it in consequence of what he had learned were the intentions of the Trustees in relation to me. Observe also, how carefully both of them j avoid saying that they had ever heard any such ; intimation. The reason is very obvious—they could safely blame Dr. Richardson with it, but had they asserted on their own authortiy, that the Trustees had any such intention, the proof would have been required, and this they could not have produced. Moreover, is it riot very remarkable that Dr. Richardson should have been the only member of the Faculty who had heard any thing of the in- tentions of the Trustees? If further testimo- ny were wanting, to prove that the statements of Mitchell and Pet°r are not only grossly false, but a foul and infamous slander upon the memory of Dr. Richardson, it is to be found in the* fact that never until the "State- ments of Fads" appeared, was it ever hinted that the letter of requisition resulted from an intimation that the Trustees designed ex- pelling me from the Faculty. I have made extensive inquiries ou this subject personally, and through my friends, since the appe-.rance of the "Statements of Facts," and find that this is a perfectly novel version of the affair— no one ever having heard of it before. No matter what Mitchell and Peter may have said to the contrary, I am perfectly satisfied that Dr. Dudley gave the cue, and they, like the sheep of Panurgus caught it. Obviously the work of fancy, like Jonah's gourd, which sprang up in one night, it was invented after the appearauce of my Appeal, and alter too, it was found to be impossible to remain shVut. This is almost as evident as an axiom in Euclid. This, therefore, taken in connexion with the fact stated by Dr. Lewis at p. 17 and IS of my Appeal, proves conclusively that both Mitchell and Dr. Richardson had a better and more persuasive reason for writing me the letter of requisition than is to be found in the new version given by the former and Peter— they were obliged to do it as Prentice re- marks : "to save their own necks." This Mitchell, who, in his language and manners, shows that he is as ignorant of the common courtesies of genteel society, as a filthy and offensive Hottentot, and who, besides has habitually given such unbridled license to his tongue, that his name is generally men- tioned with the complimentary cognomen of "the liar," has the insolent ellrontery to per sist in and reiterate the charge, that 1 employ ed the Hon. H. Clay and the Hon. A. K. Wooley, to have the request of the Faculty revoked. The reader will refer to the letters of those getlemen, to be found at page 26 of my Appeal, and then read the following vul- gar tirade of Mitchell:—"And in regard to any letter imputed to me, touching the expul- sion of the Professor, (for, so his friends called it here,) [a greater untruth was never penned, and I defy him to mention any friend of mine who ever used such an expression] I have only to say that my written statement of the interviews with Judge Wooley, made at the time, and a note having the .signature of a more distinguished gentleman, fully justify every iota contained in that letter. And lest there should be any misconception on this point, I now aver distinctly, that the Ex-Pro- fessor was required to quit the Faculty, and that he substantially and virtually did employ the instruments referred to, in order to have the Faculty act revoked." This proverbial falsifier, has the impudence to start a question of veracity between himself and Messrs. Clay and Wooley, and it was doubtless only from sheer modesty that he did not give them the lie direct—indeed it looks very much as if he had—but the "hungry will dare any thing." With this I have nothing to do, further than to say he has told a most unpardonable false- hood, and when the character of the wit- nesses, whose veracity he has impudently im- pugned is considered, the public will say so also. There is also a question of veracity be- tween Pqter and Judge Wooley on the sub- ject. The former asserts, that "we (the Fac- ulty) were visited individually by Judge Woo- ley, who came on the part of Dr. Cross, and interceded for him," while Judge Wooley tells me in his letter, that "You consulted ii!c as a friend, and I determined, wiOiout your knowledge, to have conversations with the Professors, and ascertain, if practicable, if any honorable adjustment could be effected."— :u) When the public reflects that Messrs. Clhy and Wooley could be influenced by no other motive than a desire to state the truth, while Mitchell and Peter had every reason that ■could operate on the hearts of dishonest men to induce them to lie, it will not pause or hesitate a single moment in relation to who should he believed. A letter purporting to be from the Hon. H. Clay, and addressed to Dr. Dudley, finds a place in the "Statements of Fads," but for what reason I am sure no one can tell, unless it is for the purpose of throwing discredit upon the statement made to me by him in his note of the 29th June 1844. Just refered to, and perhaps also to intimate to the pub- lic that he is a man unentitled to belief. I might, with propriety, ask if this letter is a forgery, for Mr. Clay gives the reader clear- ly to understand, in his letter to me of the 29th June, 1844, that all the agency he had in the matter was one interview'with Dr. Dudley, and that was prompted by his own feelings. But this idea is utterly incredible, for reckless as the infamous Trio evidently are, it would be absurd and preposterous to suppose that they would dare to take so un- authorized a liberty with the name of so dis- tinguished a man. How then are we to ac- count for its publication? It was evidently confidential, and the conduct of the authors of the "Statements" proves this conclusively. This letter was addressed to Dr. Dudley, but in his statement he does not drop < vvn a hint that he has any knowledge of its existence; Mitchell seems to know there is such a letter, and evidently-alludes to if, but Peter, to whom it was not addressed, and who seems not to think it necessary to tell us howheobtained pos- session of it, without heralding it with excuse or apology spreads it before the public. Now what is the inference? Why that Dr. Dud- ley, to whom the letter was addressed, knew that if he were to publish it he would be denounced as guilty of an outrage that no man of honor would ever pardon; and there- fore foolishly supposed that by suffering Pe- ter to do what he knew would forever dis- grace him, should he do it himself, he would escape all blame or responsibility. What wretched umbrella morality!* i Hut confidential or not, I ask what does the I letter of Mr. Clay prove? Nothing more than that he 'feared 1 had acted indiscreet!'//. | This I have admitted, and I gave in my Ap- 1 peal a fair and candid account of the circum- stance referred to, although one of the Trio ! has the assurance to denounce it as fraudu- lent, but prudently refrains from attempting j to prove it to be so.* Why did Mr. ("lay fear that I had acted even indiscreetly? Lc- cause he formed his opinion from information communicated to him by Judge Wooley, and *That the letter of Mr. Clay was confidential there can- not be a doubt, for when I wns in Cincinnati superintending the printing of my Appeal, Dr. Bush stated on Cheapside, in this city, in the presenc of several individuals, that there was such a letter in existence, but that it was confiden- tial—that last winter Mitchell urged the propriety of pul> lisbing it, but Dr. Dudley indignantly remarked to him thai it was confidential, aud that he must never again mention the name of Mr. Clay, or that letter, in connexion with my leaving the school. This was said in the presence of those who, it was known would inform me of it immediately, and it was said for a two-fold purpose. It was intended to im- press the public mind with an exalted idea of Dr. Dudley's honor and magnanimity, for although he had a document in his possession which, it was intimated, if published would seriously injure me, ho would not use or .-utl'.-r it to bo used against me, and also to deter or ne^-iale mo from j being severe upon him in my fo.-t'i< o:iiiiig .'.jipeal. How | fur he was sum's.-f.il in the attainment of the former object it would certainly be very presumptuous in me to pretend to say, for John of Roanoke, asserted that there were two things the Almighty himself could not forestall: the verdict of a petty-jury, and the result of an election, and 1 say there is a third, which is, the transparent deception | that Dr. Dudley cannot practice on certain folks in this , city, who seem to have an instinctive sense of their inability to think for tbenisrhes. His emphatic assurance either in person, or through Peter, or Dr Bush, for what they say is as certain* a forerunner of whit he would hive the people ( believe he thinks, as the pilot fish is of the slnirl;, (but soon- er than perform such a function I would "be a dog and bay the moon." "I'd rather lie a toad And live 111 the vapour of a dungeon,") seems fo have the power of the white roses of Alnaschar to charm away all uneasiness of thought or reflection; for when 1 he is in trouble or in difficulty, no matter what may be the I cause, his tribe of parasites, at his signal, flock aiound him as if by iiiatii , as the Highlanders did at the summons of j Roderick Dim. I In relation to the latter object, however, th 5 speech of I Dr. Bush had just no effect tit all, for I spoke of Dr. Dud- ley us freely and as fully, after I heard what ho had said, as was my original design. But mutters have taken such a turn that the implied pledge of Dr. Bush could not be re- deemed. Fighting now vith the frantic energy of undiscip- lined desperation, Dr. Dudley lorgetting every sentiment of honor, and acknowledging no obligation of secrecy, even in regard to the most private and confidential transac- tions, suffers an individual, in whom is mingled every pos- sible variation of ragainuulanisin, to publish to the world the letter of his illustrious correspondent. Besides the in- famy of the act, which cannot fail to challenge attention and provoke censure, it is amusing to contrast the air and manner of the author and that of his automaton. While the former is as mild and apparently as innocent as a "suck- ing dove," although, in fact, there is more humanity in a vulture, the lugubrious loquacity of the latter reminds ino of a squalling and lubberly goose attempting with mighty exertions to get out of a duck-pond, but the more he flaps his wings aud flounders about the faster he sticks, and the deeper he sinks. j "The brutal and ungentlemanly billinirsgate of Mitchell and Peter, in relation to iny use of ardent spirits, is two foul and contemptible a slander to merit a serious notice. They say it was witnessed in the greeu-room and on the | rostrum by the students. To the Alumni and students of | the Transylvania Medical School 1 therefore appeal. By their verdict 1 will abide. But a few days ago I heard an Alumnus of the School, who had taken, I believe, four or I five courses of lectures in it, and two of them before I left | it; assert, in the pre.-euce of witnesses, that the only Pro- fessor that he ever saw disguised by liquor, on the rostrum, was one of those who signed the letter requesting me to re- sign. The gentleman to whom I refer has always been re garded as a great admirer and paiticular friend of Dr. Dudley. While I know that Peter i., qualified for any work of infamy I ought not to be surprised thit tho ma- lignitv of Mitchell should cause him to denounce me an an inebriate when ne hyena-like pursued the late, lamented | Eberle into the grave, declaring with a fiendish delight that , he had been exposed to the cross-fire of brandy and opium I nearly all his life, and had at last fallen „ victim to rn.-m. 31 Which" he (Judye Wooley) had previously de- rived from my late colleagues. The fo'llow- iug facts establish the truth of this declara- tion. Judge Wooley tells me in his letter of the Kith July, 1846, that, he had "conversa- tions with the Professors." Mr. Clay's let- ter is dated the 28th of May, 1814, and on that day Judge Wooley had a conversation with Mr. Clay, as he told me himself, and also informed me that he (Mr. Clay) wished to see me at Ashland that evening, at 5 o'clock P. M. Judge Wooley in his "conver- sations with the Professors" doubtless learned from them their pretended grounds of com- plaint against me, and these he communicated to Mr. Clay, for the latter in the first sen tence of his letter to Dr. Dudley says: "/ havc heard to day for the first time, and with the deepest regret of the difficulties which have arisen between the Medical Faculty and Dr. Cross," &c. Thus it is perfectly clear that the fear expressed by Mr. Clay was the result of intelligence furnished by my ene- mies. It was not deduced, as it should have been* from the facts of the case as they actu- ally existed, but from the exaggerations, mis- representations, and falsifications of those who, like enraged fiends, were seeking my destruc- tion. When the reader reflects upon this fact, So far from being surprised that Mr. Clay should fear I had acted indiscreetly, he will be surprised that he did not have much worse apprehensions.* *Here I think it proper to remark that, in regard to my conduct, as a man, having rendered me obnoxious to aver- sion, it Is impossible for me to extort from my accusers the assertion of a single fact, and therefore it is utterly impos- sible for me, on that point, to make a direct defenee. Iu my Card of the 28th of August, I challenged Dr. Dudley to take the responsibility of preferring a single charge', and df attempting to establish it by proof. This he has declined ab- solutely, and he and his associates hope to destroy me by such vague allusions as the following: Dr. Dudley speaks of the "odious stains upon a (my) character;" Mitchell of "the perpetual delinquences that we were compelled to conceal," and Peter of the "odium of a crime." This is obviously so inhuman, atrocious, and cruel, especially whetl it is recollected I demanded specific allegations, that no one who has not predetermined to aid and abet my ene- mies in their infernal crusade against me will sufifer what they have said to have any weight in enabling them to make up anopinionastothemeritsoftlliscontroversy. Like the lowest class of lying and irresponsible gossips, whose daily employment, in a little village, is secretly and insidi- ously to undermine private character by vague but signifi- cant hints these men have the impudence to attempt in a written controversy, addressed to the public, to accomplish their nefarious object, in the lame way. They should, how ever, have recollected that the moment they summoned the press to aid in the propagation of their slanders, they ap- pealed to the judgments of sensible men, and not to the ignorant prejudices of stupid men, and gossiping women. The former will see, at once, that all the Trio have said is malicious cant—and cant is unanswerable for "True no meaning puzzles worse than wit." This is absolutely the case when speaking of my private character, but when arguing another point the "Statements of Facts" become, inadvertantly, a little more particular, nud embody a disclosure that exposes to view the nefarious transaction in a most disgusting light. This disclosure must prove that my late colleagues notwithstanding the os- tentatious parade they have made on the subject, had no This letter of Mr. Clay has a very import- ant bearing on another matter. If the ver- sion given of the cause of the request to re- sign be not a fabrication, why should Mr. Clay address himself to Dr. Dudley instead of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees? Be it recollected that both Mitchell and Pe- ter assert that the suggestion of this letter was a friendly act on the part of Dr. Richardson de- signed to enable me to escape the disgrace of an expulsion by the Trustees. The difficulty therefore was with the Trustees, and not With the Faculty, and consequently the letter of Mr. Clay should have been addressed to the Chairmah of the former, and not to Dr. Dud- ley. But if "confirmation strong as proof of holy writ" be required by the reader that the statements of Mitchell and Peter in regard to the source and cauae of the letter of requisi- tion are false, he Will find it in the second let ter addressed to me by the Faculty, in which the Dean says "I am authorized to request that you will make known your decision in the premises by Thursday at noon, of this week, in default of which it Will be their duty to lay the matter before the Board of Trustees." In their Statements they tell the public it was wished that I should escape the disgrace of an expulsion by the Trustees, but in their se- cond letter they threaten to hurry me before just ground of complaint against me, hut had decided right or wrong, on my sacrifice "for no other reason," as I have stated in mv Appeal, than because 1 had resolved no longer to be associated with such men." The blundering Peter in his superserviceable zeal to convict me of expulsion says: "The note requesting him to resign was written by myself and submitted, and was amended by Dr. Richardson by the addition of the words 'touching yOur private character.' " The reader will remark this amendment which, however, Peter in his precipitancy, and he. reminds me, if little things may be compared to great, of Bunjan's giant Pope, "biting his nails that he cannot come at mei" Has quoted in- correctly, for it is "relating to" and not "touching." as he he's it. Now how would the note read without (he amend- ment ascribed to Dr. Richardson? Infinitely more vatruely and ridiculously than it does at present. But for Dr. R. it would have read thus: "Circumstances having occurred which will hereafter prevent us." ilad this continued to b'e the wording of the note who on earth could hate clearly understood what was meant? To request me to resign with- out assigning somo reason was very preposterous, and yet this was exactly what they were about to do.- If any good reason hud existed for such a procedure it is utterly impos- sible to believe that it would not have been the leading idea in the letter of" requisition. According to Peter there was not the vagueist sort of allusion to any impropriety of con- duct on my part—no charge whatever was preferred in the original draught of that fetteY, and for the obviou's reason they had no just ground «f corilplaint-»they had it not in their power to bring a specific allegation against me. This appeared to Dr. Richardson, if P'ete* tells thfc' irilth, too palpably unprincipled, too outrageously absurd; arid there- fore he trumped up,en |he spot, the general accusation against my private character. This was consequently an after thought. They decided to sacrifice me, and this they at first intended to do without assigning a reason for it, but afterwards found it necessary to fabricate some justification of their conduct. There is no cause to believe that his ac- complices were more conscientious than Dr. Dudley him- self, and he has admitted that he had no reason whatever to urge in excuse or palliation of his conduct. Was there over so gross and shameless an exhibition of incurable ignorance, unblushing impudence, and undisguised profli- gacy? 32 that body even before I hnd hnd time to con- sult with my friends, or to ascertain the spe- cific grounds of complaint against me. "FaNo, false, false! F.et all untruths stand by thy stained name, And they'll seem glorious." Decidedly as I am of opinion that my char- acter and standing do not depend on the breath of any man's nostrils, however distin- guished, I cannot in justice to myself, from motives of delicacy, as the Trio have appeal- ed to Mr. Clay's name against me, refrain from giving the public the following letter: Asht.asd, s n.,,d '44. Now what are the facts? Upon the death of Dr! Eberle, which took place in the winter, Mitcheli nominated himself for the vacant Chair. The en- suing spring he was still resolved to be the succes- sor of Dr. Eberle, although be received no encour- agement from any quarter, aud became so refruc* 35 tory tint Dr. Dudley, irritated at his pertinacity, remarked to me, "We must get rid of him." We had already lost two professors, and, having no de- sire to see a third Chair vacated by such harsh means, [ proposed to Dr. D., and afterwards to Dr. Richardson, that we, to satisfy and quiet Mitchell, had better transfer him to Materia Medica, and that, a* he fancied he would be of immense importance to the School, if in a practical Chair, that we add Therapeutics to it. To gild the pill, for Dr. Dud- ley did not like him, I suggested that such an ar- rangement would probably enable Peter to reach the Chemical Chair. Dr. Dudley at once acceded to the proposition—the transfer was made, and Mitchell was silenced. I solemnly aver that I am the author of the project to transfer Mitchell to Materia .Medica, and to give him. in addition, Therapeutics. Before H;H the Chair was enti- tled Materia Medica and Medical Botany—ever since that time, Materia Medica and Thera- peutics.* One of the Trio makes the ridiculous assertion, that before the appointment of Dr. Bartlett, I persecuted him with my pretensions to the vacant Chair of Theory and Practice. This is impossi- ble, for I am very sure I did not speak to the indi- vidual who made the above observation, from the time Dr. Smith resigned, until several weeks after Dr. Bartlett was elected, and the facts will sustain me in this allegation. Dr. Smith resigned imme- diately after Commencement, and I went to New Orleans and St. Louis, and was absent six weeks, *IIere is another illustration of the extent to which I was capable of sacrificing my personal feelings to promote the interests of the School. Notwitb landing Peter called on me several times after I settled in Lexington in 1637 and endeavored to make himself as amiable as possible by apologizing in the most submissive terms for his conduct in 1834 to which he now insolently refers, and begged me to forget it, I determined, if possible, to prevent his election to the Chemical Chair, and, in conjunction with Dr. Rich- ardson, succeeded. In the spring of 183d circumstances had changed. The School was in a very precarious state; we had lost, as 1 havc stated, two Professors—Mitchell was disposed to multiply instead of remove difficulties—1 felt it important that the Faculty should present an unbro- ken front as speedily as possible, and therefore suggested to Dr. Dudley the project above referred to. Nothing but the emergenrics of the School could ever have persuaded me to submit to become the colleague of Peter, and very frequently afterwards I was deservedly reproved by Mitch- ell, Drs. Richardson and Bush for the ageucy I had in the matter. They threw the whole blame upon me, and justly,saying that, had I not have united with Dr. Dudley on Peter, they could have procured Dr. Bird, of Philadel- phia, which, I believe, was the fact. But I was governed by the desire not to suffer the idea to 1:0 abroad that the Faculty was in a state verging on disorganization, and therefore acted perhaps too precipitately. Never, without my consent, could Peter have been a member of the Facul- ty, for both Mitchell and Dr. Richardson were irreconcila- bly opposed to him. When I say that I agreed to the ele- vation of Peter for the sake of the School, the reader will not be surprised that I was opposed to the adoption of Mich measures as would have probably driven Dr. Dudley out of it, although I hated him. The prosperity of the In- stitution was always uppermost in my mind, and the gratifi- cation of any feeling, whether of personal like or dislike, was never suffered to interfere with it, and had Dr. Dudley been prompted bv the same motives, the Transylvania Medical School would now be in a flourishing condition. But his unconquerable and irrepressible propensity to en- ?uge in some vile stratagem to injure or destroy his col- leagues, like the wrath of Achilles has brought upon the Institution innumerable calamities. In this unruly passion i> To b.- found the mournful Iliad of Transylvania's mis- lortunos, for being sleeplcssly vigilant, it caused him, like Virgil Harpies, to spoil whatever he touched. | I remained at home not more than a week, when i set out for Philadelphia, and did not return until the middle of June, two weeks after the election of Dr, Bartlett. If, therefore, I persecuted the little man in relation to the Chair of Theory and Practice, it must have been done at a very respect- ful distance, Mitchell >nost stupidly remarks:—"He feared as a consequence of his misconduct, that the Chair of the Institutes would be vacated, and intimated as much to the late Dr. Richardson, as a reason why he desired the Chair of Theory and Practice." Did mortal man ever see so gross a specimen of transparent nonsense, or were ever men reduced to such desperate straits to find excuses for their infamous conduct? If I dreaded what is here al- ledged, how could this manoeuvre have saved me? Would not my misconduct have caused the Chair of Theory and Practice, even after my tranfer to it, to be vacated as readily as that of the Institutes? Undoubtedly, and in this view of the subject, which is the only rationally one that can be taken, like the ghosts of Ossian, the force of his argu- ment vanishes. "Often and again," says Mitchell, "did we wish him out of the School." Why then did Profes- sors Richardson and Bartlett interpose to prevent my resignation in 1842? Besides, it is in my pow- er to prove that, in December 1844. at the Funer- al of my then, last and only child, when it was feared my bereavemeuts, which had been numer- ous and severe, would extinguish in me all interest in Medical Schools, or indeed, in any thing I else, Dr. Richardson, unawedby the solemnity of the occasion, asked an individual who he thought might know, if I intended to resign, and added, that if I entertained any such purpose it must be prevented, for it would ruin the School. Let me remind Mitchell when he speaks so glibly of having wished me out of the School, that I more than once saved him from the vengeance of those who will yet sacrifice him.* Mitchell asks;—"Was not that gentleman (he means Peter, but if he had not given us his name, I should never have suspected to whom he allu- ded) on the eve of bringing that man before the Trustees for his scandalous interference with, and depreciation of the Chemical Chair." To which I answer, yes; but what was this "scandulous in- terference? The republication in the Western and Southern Medical Recorder, of which I was the ed- itor of an article from the London Medical Gazette, in which the necessity and importance of a Chair of Chemistry in a School of Medicine was ques- tioned if not denied. Peter was afraid that if I *It is a gross offence against the peace and pleasure of social intercourse, to be guilty of retailing gossip or scandal, but as he is perfectly notorious for it, and on this account, as 'much as any thing else, has become odious, he wiil not be shocked when I tell him there are those of his colleagues and have been ever since the first session he served in the School, ''who wish him out of it!." Since I left it, if I have been correctly informed, and of this I have no doubt, Dr. Dudley denouueed him as the first individual who lead the Faculty into the difficulties of the Spring of 1844, and the first cowardly scoundrel who backed out when danger impended, or in other words, when he began to fear he would be turned out. Even within the last six weeks, an individual who knowsthe sentiments and feelings of his colleagues, em- phatically declared that so long as he was in it, he would be involving the School in difficulties. Be ready to walk it Sir, for the plank is being nrenarcii for Vmi. "• 36 was permitted to enli»hted the public mind on the | subject, his chair would be not only vacated but| abrogated. The perade, however,that the fussy little creature made about it, was ridiculous and contemptible, and this Mitchell and others thought and asserted at the time. Mitchell, who has no more bowels than a bear, and but little more brains than an ass, says that my Appeal "was really gotten up, not merely as an attack on Transylvania, but as an electioneering document to help the fortunes of a new Medical School." The man who makes this assertion, knows perfectly well that it was gotten up, to speak in his own coarse language, to defend my charac- ter against assaults made upon it by himself, while I was in Europe. So untrue is his allegation, that the necessity I was under to make an Appeal, con- stituted the principal reason why I doubted the propriety of accepting a situation in the School to which he refers, and why, also, 1 did not decide to do so until the 12th of August, two months after it had been offered to me. They say they knew nothing of my intention to resign, although fully aware that Dr. Darby told Dr. Richardson, and Dr. Lewis, Mitchell, that they believed such was my determination. (See p. '2.5--*24 of my Appeal.) Mitchell boasts that in ].*:?H I eulogised his "moral character." This I do not believe, as I have no recollection of it. But if I did, he has given abundaut proof that it was without authority. The people need not be alarmed at the bluster he makes on this subject, for there is not the least danger that the world will be turned up side down by this moral Archimades, unless lying should become a cardin- al virtue. Peter speaks of Cross's specific for Gonorrhoza—there is no such medicine of which I have any knowledge. But all this and much more, to be found in the "Statements of Facts," is mere twaddle, which no man of character would acknowledge himself to be the author of, for any consideration. I have already intimated, there is yet one topic upon which I have not dwelt, that seems entitled to some consideration. In the "Statements of Facts" it is remarked:—"hi his atrocious pamph- let, he has thought proper to throw the odium of* his expulsion upon Dr. Dudley, against whom the vial of his gall is more especially poured out: but he better than any one, knows that Dr. Dud- ley has never given him any particular cause of offence, and that he has no cause of quarrel with him more than with any of his late colleagues."— Peter, although as true to Dr. Dudley as the mag- netic needle is to the pole, aud although the for- mer stands to the latter, but not vice versa, in the relation that the waters of the Alpheus and Ara- thus did to one another, for nothing was thrown into the one without being seen very shortly after- wards floating upon the other, cannot be permit- ted to obtrude his sneaking and disgusting form be- tween my bitter foe and myself—he cannot by so shallow a trick be suffered to shift the onus pro- banda in this dispute. As well might the tiger at- tempt to unlock the curl of the Boa, as for this Pylades—this Pytheas—this second self of Dr. Dudley, think by his senseless bowlings—his gloomy attempts at being facetious, or bis friv- olous, meaningless and absurd calumnies to pro- voke me to unfasten my bold upon bis master for the purpose of giving him notoriety. IIn has more than once endeavored to emerge from obscurity by a similar manoeuvre, but he has always been foiled and defeated, and such shall be his fate now. Could he involve himself in a quarrel with a man of any consequence in the profession, he would think his fortune was made, and like the Svthian Abaris when wounded by Appollo, heed- less of the pain and the disgrace of the wound, plucked the arrow from his side and exclaimed in triumph, that the weapon in future would enable him to deliver oracles. The little Teneerniay, if it be a means of gratifying his malignanity, skulk behind the shield of his Ajax Telemon and fire his darts at me, but he will only have bis trouble for his paius, for like the javelin of Priam, they will fall harmless at my feet. Were I however in a fit of indiscretion, no matter from what cause, to gratify the vanity ofthis little compound of repugnance, prejudice and disgust, by magnifying him into an object of sufficient importance for serious or special notice,the notoriety he would gain would he nothing more than a temporary phosphorescence, like that which surrounds a decomposing carcass in the dark, that is dispelled by the first beams of the rising sun, and exposes to view the disgusting source of the mephitic radiance.* No, I cannot, ♦When Peter reflects that I know how he fawned and cringed, afi.l meanly acted the bepgar in 1837, and then looks upon the following picture which every artist will recognize as his, and painted to the life, he will himself confess that it would b-j too great a degradation to at- tempt to disturb the equanimity of his sweet temper. "Dr. Peter is the pitiful tool of Dr. Dudley, as such, he figured some years ago in assailing the private and professional characters ol the professors who left Lex- ington, to establish a Medical School in this city. Dr. Dudley found his services invaluable in that occasion__ Falsehoods and slanders, which Dr. D. was ashamed to publish himself, were farthered and circulated by this hirelins, with the greatest alacri:y. The fellow proved himself to be as unscrupulous as he was servile. He stuck at nothing. No falsehood gave him a qualm, whether he uttered it, or was compelled to retract il.— He published his lies and his recantations of them, when fear obliged him to take them back, with equal coolness. When Dr. Short forced him to withdraw one which he had put forth on Dr. S's. alle'dged authority, he went about it with all theromposure of a veteran to- per gurzzling his mint-sling His reward for his mendaci- ty was a Prolessor's Chair in the School by the side of his master. Dr. Dudley could not do lessforhim. As Dr. D. was afraid to trust his own feeble pen upon paper, his creature had performed a task for him to which lew men could be ffound base enough to stoop. No one be- lieved him lit lor the place, but he had brought Dr. Dud- ley under obligations which nothing but a Chair in the School could satisfy. It is true, that, in addition to thin private claim upon Dr. Dudley's gratitude, Dr. Peter preferred the strong public one of having been a vender ot quack.medicines. Thee secured him the place which he now disgraces, and where one cannot see him withou/ being reminded of certain parasites, described by ento- mologists, which are found sticking to the bodies of large animals. He is the laughins-stock of his pupils, and an object at which all sensible and honorable men in- stinctively point the finger of scorn. He holds his office at the mercy of Dr. Dudley, whose smile he couits with more than a lover's assiduity. His sycophancy knows no bounds. In this respect we can think ol none who approaches him, uuless it be John Jones of Ihe Madisoni an, and he does it by flying to rhyme. The court-fool deals in poelry, while the Lexington driveller writes in unadorned prose. Dr. Peter's adulation is essontiallv and excessively prosaic; he scorns the graces of art and iq anxious only to bespatter his master w ith sufliciert r.r»t J. And this is the creature who undertakes to read' lecture^ I to gentlemen on''disnity." His charge against the Pio" 37 and will not, he diverted from my purpose by such men as either Peter or Mitchell, for I look upon them as nothing more than two Tom-tits twittering upon an Eagle's back, or, perhaps, it would be more proper to say, that Dr. Dudley stands reeling iu the '■Sl'ttements of Facts," be- tween t\\ o insignificant characters, like a common noun between two contemptible and conflicting adjectives. As it has been denied let us sec whether or not I have any "particular cause of offence" against their master. Was not his faithless conduct in attempting to defeat my election after he had for- mally tendered me the chair of Institutes a "par- ticular cause of offence?" Was not his letter addressed to me at Cincinnati a fraudulent at- tempt to deceive me into the belief that he had redeemed the pledge voluntarily made to me in the conferences I held with him, fir.it in the pre- sence of Dr. Holland, and afterwards in con- not the fact that after debauching three of hii colleagues from their duty, he harangued the students from the rostrum, and vainly attempted to set them against me, a "particular cause of offence?" Was not the fact that he has never failed, when he had an opportunity, to poison the mind of every stranger who came to this city again.it me, a "particular cause of offence?" Way not the fact that ever since I settled in Lexington he has kept the arrows of envy, ha- tred, and malice, flying in showers around me until he seriously affected my standing, and previously interfered with my peace, a "particu- lar cause of offence?" Was not the fact that for the purpose of diverting public attention from his own debauched morals, he kept his tribe of college parasites constantly busy in the propa- gation of the most injurious calumnies against me, a "particular cause of offence?"! Was not the fact that to screen an infamous person junction with Dr. Richardson, in Keizer's Hotel, (from complete social ostracism, and himself a "particular cause of offence?" Was not the | from disgrace, he alleged the certainty of pros- fact, perfectly notorious to every class, that he I pective but premature abdominal rotundity as arrayed his private pupils against me, and ! the result of acquaintance with me, a "particu through them endeavored to injure my character:" and standing with the students, a "particular cause of offence?" Was not the fact that his covert hostility to me became so rancorous and deadly that he set one of his private pupils, an individual whom I had not injured or insulted, upon me in the street, immediately after I had left the rostrum, a "particular cause of offence?" Was not the fact that after the commission of this outrage the identical men who joined him in requesting me to resign were induced by him to withhold from me all justice until it was extorted by the indignant remonstrances of the class, a "particular cause of offence?" Was Tessors of the Medical Institute is agraVeone. He says they go to the taverns and steam boats to see medical students, and "even animadvert upon the qualifications of the Lexington professors." This is very serious, and we will here do Dr. Peter the justice to say, that we be- leve he is never guilty of any such indiscretion. His col- leagues are much complained of by students who pass through Lexington, on their way to this city, for their annoying civilities and importunities, but we have not heard Dr. Peter charged with any attempts to election- eer with Louisville pupils. His brother professors are too shrewd to let him enter upon that dedicate office.— They are too well aware of his repulsive tendencies to suffer him to go where studentsare before they have ta- ken their tickets and engaged lodgings. He is not per- mitted to show his silly lace, or open his stupid mouth, until the class is made secure. He is kept carefully con realed in the darkest corner of his laboratatory, until they are obliged to bring him out to deliver his introduc- tory, which is postponed aslong as possible. Still, he is said to possess cei tain facilities even in this business of bringing students to that school. Though as great a bun- gler at telling a lie as at delivering a lecture, he is con- sidered rather expert at fabricating one. It seems native to him. He has the credit of originating many ot the falsehoods in relation to the Medieal Institute, which swarm along the road, every autumn, from Lexington to the Alabama line." After saying that Dr. Dudley would "be neither coaxed nor scaredinto giving up one or his chairs,' although the school was suffering from his obstinacy, the writer goes on to say:—"Now the improve- ment we hive to suggest in the organization cf the Lex- ington concern, is the substitution of Fabei's caout-couch man for this automaton of Dr. Dudley." As a lecturer, we have no doubt the inlia-rubber thing would be the more agreeable, and Dr Dudley could afford to do a little talking through its wind pipe at half the price they charge for Dr. Peter." lar cause of offence?" Was not his suffering the letter requesting me to resign to be addressed to me, a "particular cause of offence?" With these numerous particular causes of offence "Who that had reason, soul, or sense would bear it?" On the subject however of this last inquiry I must speak in detail before a response is given. But the reader should in the first place hear what he has said in relation to it himself: "In the last act of the Medical Faculty, prepara- tory to his removal from the school, I can claim neither honor nor participation. Without my knowledge my colleagues consulted together, and united in sentiment on the necessity of the mea- sure. When the result of their consultation was communicated to me, I need scarcely add, that the measure not only had my approbation, but re- ceived my humble, yet firm support." Did a sane man ever make, except under the gallows after having received clerical comfort, so dis- graceful and self-condemnatory a confession? Every desert has its oasis—the darkest night has its gleams of star-light—the most abandoned libertine is sometimes moved to pity, and thoughts of repentance, but Dr. Dudley seems not, even occasionally, to feel any remorse of conscience. Without investigating or even a.iking for the grounds of complaint—without inquiring into the truth or falsehood of the charges, if indeed any were made, which no one believes, the mo- ment he ascertained that Mitchell, Peter, and Dr. Richardson were ready and willing to in- tLike Alcibiades, but only in one respect, for it would be foul calumny to attempt to run a parallel between them, who cut off the luxuriant tail of a most beautiful dog that all Athens admired, to draw off attention from his more disreputable infirmaries, Dr. Dudley believed that wHile he could keep the public mind engrossed with the injurious gossip, he and his minions had sent abroad on the wings of rumor against me, it would hardly condescend to think of him or his iniquitous doings. Like tho jewels of an ugly dowager that kindly diverts attention from the inspection of her face, he hoped to convert the fashionrble follies of a man fond of society into suoh odious vices that the public criticism would be lured from a strict scrutiny into his own gross moral delinquencies. 38 suit and disgrace me, it "not only had his appro- bation, but received his humble, yet firm sup- port." An honest, a generous, or a magnanimous foe would not have treated his deadliest enemy with such injustice and inhumanity, while the greatest scoundrel that ever disgraced his race, so far from boasting of it, would have been al- most ashamed to have made the profligate con- fession even to a priest In speaking of his par- ticipation in this last act, as he calls it, of the Medical Faculty, he has furnished an example of the most astonishing effort of unflinching assu- rance that the world ever witnessed. During the reign of terror, even those revolutionary butchers, who flooded France with blood, thought it necessary to plead the existence of proofs of guilt against their victims in defence or extenuation of their sanguinary conduct, but Dr. Dudley more remorseless makes, without the least hesitation, the bold and atrocious dec- laration that he gave his "firm support" to the sacrifice of a man without knowing why or wherefore, except that he hated him. Had no other "particular cause of offence" existed, this confession of Dr. Dudley not only justifies all that I have already said of him, but fully au thorizes me to pour upon his devoted head all the bitterness and vindictivencss of my nature. His colleagues might have thought they had some shaddow of excuse for their conduct in the idle and ridiculous gossip set afloat in the commu- nity by the satellites of Dr. Dudley, but he, ac- cording to his own statement, had none what- ever, for he has the audacity to inform the public that when the result, not the means, by which his colleagues had arrived at it, was communi- cated to him, he, with the utmost cheerfulness, signed the insulting letter in which I was re- quested to resign.* Further proof surely cannot be required to establish the fact that Dr. Dudley was so anxious for my dishonor and disgrace that he was ready and willing to resort to any means fair or foul, honorable or dishonorable, to accomplish it That such was the state of his feelings towards me for five years before I left the Institution, I did not doubt, but low as he had sunk in my estimation—deep and abiding as was the contempt I felt for him—bitter and ran- corous as was the hate which his dark and treacherous conduct had implanted in my breast, I did not believe he could so far forget those motives of policy, which throughout his whole life have regulated his conduct, as to venture upon the above heartless declaration. What respect, I ask, can such a man have for the public intelligence—or confidence in the public judgment—or regard for the public honor—or sympathy with the public sensibility? I will not pretend to say, for I do not know, and I would rather undertake to discover the philosopher's ♦When I recollect what Dr. Dudley said to me on tha 17th of May, 1844, in relation to Dr.Bush, (p. 16 of my Appeal,) and compare it with his conduct towards me, as portrayed by himself, as well as with that which has characterized his treacherous deportment towards very many of his other colleagues, I am reminded or Winder- nostrils in Rabelais, who dieted ordinarily on windmills, but who was at last miserably choked by a pat of butter swallowed the wrong way at the mouth of a hot oven. stone or find out tne squaring of the circle thnrl attempt even to conjecture tho block depravity of his feelings—the unutterable atrocity of his thoughts, or the hopeless baseness of the motive* by which he is actuated. The Spartans be- lieved that the crime was in the detection and not in the depredation—but Dr. Dudley not sat- isfied with the perpetration of every outrage that can disgrace humanity, has the shameless audacity to publish his own infamy. What hope is there of the reformation of such a man? Is he one of God's creatures who can be hu- manised by philosophy, or reclaimed by raligion, or converted by any sort of miracle? I think not. You might as well cram food down the gullet of a Famese Hercules which has no ap- paratus to digest it, as expect to regenerate I r. Dudley by such means, for he has less con- science than a French financier. For truth and candor, and justice, he has no more use than a ghost has for a lantern, and any effort to change his nature or ameliorate his conduct, would be like sinners attempting to draw water from the wells of Jacob, for they would only reap the toil. Having lead a life of the most stubborn infidelity, habit has so confirmed his bad principles, and strengthened his vicious pro- pensities, that you might as well extol the charms of a beauty to a eunuch, or "forbid the sea to obey the moon," as think of awakening his impenetrable and selfish heart to a sense of its deep and desperate depravity by holding out to him a hope of a bright and glorious immor- tality beyond the grave.* *The reader may think me unju-tif ably severe, but he would not be of that opinion had he suffered what I have at his hands. Hear what a man said of him in 1837 who had been his colleague and had known him intimately fur nearly twenty years: "I have wrilten nothing for the sake of vengeance Far from it. My object has been to teach, by trhlh, a pro- titable lesson to those who trade in falsehood and defa- mation. And such is Dr. Dudley. Scandal of some son is his "heart's delight;" and he sips it in and pours it out with the deep gusto of the savage at his "fire-water," of the ravening tiger at his banquet of blood. Even in Lex- ington, his social paradise, there are few persons whom he does not, in his moments of fitluluess, abuse and ta- lumiate. This 1 know to be true, because I have wit- nessed it. Yet the last word of censure has scarcely es- caped him, when, If he meets the subject of it, he takes him by the hand, smirks and smiles in his face, locks arms with him, and, as he walks along the street, whis- pers something bland and friendly in his ear!—or slanders to him the very individual whom he had just regaled with hit own slander. "As hit weapons have been falsehood and a language scarcely superior to Billingsgate, has he a right to ex- pect from me in return anything more than plain truth, and decorous language? On a spirit so rancorous and ignominious as his, lenity would be thrown away. He would not feel its awakening influence. It is on the head of the benevolent and the magnanimous that for- giveness of injuries, or good in return for evil, operated like "coals of fire," softening their temper, and reform- ing their conduct. And Dr. Dudley is not of that caste, If he can be reformed at all, i* must be by castigation and terror—by the actual application of the scourge, and by being given fully to understand that 'even-handed jus^ tice is almost sure to return the poisoned chalite to the lips of the murderous wretch who has drug«ed it ' "Let him, however, repent of his malefactions, adhere to truth, abandon duplicity, throw from his lips a slan-< derous tongue, and lead hereafter a lifeof Ingenuousness, and, whether 1 'forget and forgive''oHnot, the evening of his days will be not only more commendable and hon or&ble to him but immeasurably more placid and com 39 But this Analysis and Refutation must close. It has already encroached too much on the time and indulgence of the reader, while it has been expanded to an extent more than commensurate with the necessities of the case. But before I part with him, let me ask him in all candor and truth, if I have not redeemed my pledge? I •aid in my Card of the 10th of September: "If there is power in truth, or justice in Lexington, I pledge myself to overwhelm the infamous trio, not by assertion, but by proof, with confusion and redemptionless disgrace."* Have I not conclusively proved that the in- famous Trio have been guilty of the most revolt- ing delinquencies of which unprincipled men are capable, that they are deep, designing, dissem- bling, hypocrites, and scoundrels? If this be the case of which I think there can now be no doubt, will not every man who has a manly regard for his own character despise them with a vehem- ence of scorn that will leave no room for pity? As it is impossible for any society to abide such fortable than have been their morning and meridian. For, assume what calmness and gaiety he may, and make what professions he may of his enjoyment of plea- sure, Dr. Dudley it an unhappy man, because he feels him- self a degraded one! During the mock-tiial by the Board of Trustees, a friend of his declared his sufferings to he i such that he was 'bleeding at every pore,' and even im- plored clemency Inwards him from his injured colleagues. And, were the truth known, he is 'bleeding' still. He lias no sense at justice and of honorable pride, else his con- scientiousness and self-esteem are the curses of his eiis- 4 tence. I would not be the possessor of his solitary thoughts and midnight visions for his pecuniary posses. ■fi lions four limes loldl" f; ,*Ii this demoustratiou (for thus I am obliged to denom- " tnale it) does not open the eyes of the people of this city to the tiuo character of Dr. Dudley, and cause him to be left alone in his glory, "with none so mean as to do him homage," then they must excuse me for taking the liber- ty of reminding them of a celebrated interview that once took place between one Polonius and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: anointed wickedness "if there is power in truth or justice in Lexington," they must for the fu- ture, even in this city, be shunned like a pesti- lence. "The wounds of honor never close," and as the Trio have been convicted by proof unchallengably authentic of absolute and glar- ing contradictions—of the utmost excesses of unbridled malevolence and calumny—of being thoroughly versed in all the menial offices of de- pravity—of having been actuated by a polity in their conduct towards me, corrupted in all its channels with the foulest venality—and of hav- ing been guilty of an infamous trick, for the pur- pose of silencing and disgracing me, of which the lowest wretch in Newgate would have been ashamed, the world will instinctively exclaim: "On their own bed of torture let them lie Fit garbage for the hell-hound infamy!" Lexington, Sept. 21, 1846, Hamlet —Do you see yonder cloud, That's almost in shape of a camel? Polonius.—By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. Ham.—Methinks it is like a weasel. Pol.—It is lacked like a weasel. Ham.—Or, like a whale. Pol.— Veiylike a whale. It is very far from certain, however, even after hav- ing gazed upon the festering mass ( f iniquity I have laid bate, that a particular set of people in Lexington will be ashamed to truckle to and defend Dr.Dudley. Undera lalse impression in relation to what would prove conducive to the prosperity of this city iu gentral, and the Medical School in particular, there are those who can easily be persuaded that it is still to their interest to sustain and defend him. That such should prove impregnable to my Appeal or to this "Analysis and Refutation" of the "Statements of Facts," is not surpising, for, as Hobbea says, there are many people who would doubt the truth of Euclid's Elements if it was to their interest, "What damned error, but what some brow Will bless It." APPENDIX. On the 10th of September, I wrote to Dr. Holland i mony is iniportant,if not indispensable; besides.I do not *nd requested him to say whether or not, about the ! think he has any right to withhold it. Moreover.two middle of April 1837, I had an interview at his in- friends who heard read what I have said in this publica- atance, and in his presence, with Dr. Dudley at Kei- tion, in connexion with the name of Dr. Holland, saw zer's Hotel, and whether or not, on that occasion, Dr. him in Lexington a few days before he came to Lou- Dudley tendered me the Chair of Institutes &c, in the isville, and informed him of what I expected to prove Medica! Department of Transylvania University. To by him. In their letters to me on this subject.they say this letter no answer was returned, but on the 27th that he refused to give a written statement, but tesb- inst., I saw Dr. Holland as he was goine; on board the tied to the truth of what I had recorded from recol- Kentacky steamboat,aad extorted from him the follow- lection. Without his consent, therefore, I publish ing statement:—He remarked, "When I saw you in the above statement fully satisfied however,that should Lexington, immediately after the death of your daugh- it ever be indispensably necessary, he will cheer- ter, you bitterly complained to me of Dr. Richard- fully confirm it. son's having neglected her, [he, Dr. R., was her phy- j September 30th, 1846- sician, originally, and through the greater part of her | ---------------------- illness, but abandoned her to go to Cincinnati, to | In confirmation of the statement made at pages 17 see Dr. Kberle and myself on the subject of taking ' and 18, in relation to the condition to which the Med- Chairs in the Transylvania Medical School. Dr. ical College of Ohio was reduced, by the resigna- Lewis having been called to see her not more, I be- tions spoken of. I take the liberty of quoting the fol- lieve, than two or three days before her death,] I ad- lowing extracts, from the report of Morgan Neville, monished you to say nothing more on that subject, as Esq., President of the Board of Trustees, dated the I bad understood it was intended to otter you the llth December, 1837, to the General Assembly of the Chair of the Institutes. Supposing Dr. Dudley did State of Ohio. "Soon after Professor Locke left the not know you were in Lexington—I' informed him of country. Professor Cross resigned. Shortly before the the fact, and advised him to see you. He requested usual period for issuing the annual circular, while me to say to you, that he would be pleased to see you Professur Locke was still absent in E urope, Professors at his house. When this invitation was delivered to j Eberle, Smith and Cobb resighed, without previous you by me, you declined going to his hous3, but re- . notice; Drs. Eberle, Cross and Cobb accepting! hairs marked, that you were at Keker's Hotel, where he in Medical Institutions in a neighboring common- could see you if he wished. An interview took wealth. These resignations left the College with but place that day, between you and Dr. Dudley, in my | two Professors, Dr. Locke in Europe, in the service resence, at Keizer's Hotel, at which, I distinctly un- of his brethren, and confiding in their support, and Dr. erstood him to offer you the Chair of Institute*. Af- Morehead at home. Left thus in the charge of the ter your appointment by the Board of Trustees, I had College, the Chairs vacated, the session about to com- a conversation with Dr. Pawling, and we both ex- ' mence,and sevral of the Professors transferred to other ressed great astonishment, that Dr. Dudley should i and neighboring Institutions, the Turstees doubted ave attempted to defeat yotfr election." | their ability to fill the Chairs, and organize a suitable This is substantially the statement written out by | Faculty in time for the usual course of lectures and in- me from recollection, (See pages 10 and 11) which ! struction this season." In consequence of the facts was in thehand9of the compositor, and I believe, set i above stated, the Class of the Medical College of up, before 1 saw Dr. Holland on the 27th inst. He Ohio fell at once, from 178 to 80 students, of whom, could not, however, be induced to put his statement J three only were from Kentucky. But that Institution, in writing, and for particular reasons, was very desi- i I am gratified to know, has recovered from the disas- rous that I should not say any thing on bis authority, j tessof 1837, and now may look forward with confi- But his wishes cannot be gratified, because, his testi- ' dence, to a bright and prosperous future, 5 ERRATA FOR APPEAL. Page 7, column 2, line 21 from bottom, for In read Into. Page 26, column 1, line 4 from top, for had summoned read has summoned. Page 31, column 2, top line, for had not read has not. ERRATA FOR ANALYSIS AND REFUTATION. Page 9, column 1, line 31 from bottom, for mendicity read mendacity. Page 10, column 1, line 23 from top, for was read were. Page 18, column 2, line 5 from bottom, for with the read without the. Page 20, column 1, line 3 from bottom, for the former read him. Page 24, column 1 line 31, from bottom, for not hjten read not have been. *J $! . ' *'> #;« , . -4 fj* ■•';V- /■''. * A - ' Vv\ *r-;4 -, t~