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PREFACE
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TO  THE   CITIZENS  OF  OHIO.
Feeling  a~"deep  interest,  as every  citizen should, in the  honor aricT
prosperity of our State, I  have devoted  a portion of my time, within the
ast few months, to the examination of the history and present condition of
your only State Institution for the instruction of youth in the  Science of Med-
icine.   The followiDg pages, which were originally  published in the form
of numbers, in the " Daily Cincinnati Whig," are the result of my labors ;
and I trust that they will  be found to have been  written with that calm-
ness and deliberation, which  a subject  of  such vital importance to the
community, demands.  The science of Medicine, since it proposes to remove
or mitigate those evils which are incident alike to the whole  human family,
is a subject which nearly interests every man in the State; and especially if
he be the father of a family, or in any other way  have the guardianship of
others, is it his high duty to see that proper men  are chosen to teach  ihis
science—and when chosen, that no obstacles be thrown in the way"<.'<' their
usefolness.   In the performance of my task, I have had access to all^ the
papers, records and other public documents, in any wise connected with tlie
subject;  and for the extension to me of this courtesy, I am indebted to se-
veral of our citizens, who kindly volunteered their  services on the occasion.
I beg them to accept my thanks.  The Medical  College of Ohio has had to
encounter difficulties, such as, perhaps, would have  destroyed any similar
institution in the country.   These difficulties have been created, chiefly, by
the agency of one man, who, intent upon his own aggrandizement, has adopt-
ed roktormeans were best calculated to work out his own ends.   So long
as the people permit this man to practice upon thqjr  credulity, so long will
their  institution have to contend with the  same difficulties.   That they
may all know how much it is to their interest to come forward, in a body,
and sustain the Medical College of Ohio, their common school of Medicine,
and now under the auspicies of one of the ablest Faculties  in  the United
States—in opposition to the selfishness of individuals, who would  p:  >strate
it, to build their private fortunes on its  ruins, is the design  of these puges.
which are respectfully submitted to their consideration.
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V
V. 
AN   INQUIRY ..«&&.
The College is not, Iwzoevcr, a private, but a public Seminary; and as such, I have the
 same right as any other citizen of Ohio to desire its prosperity and expose the abuses
  that have retarded its progress.—Drake's Letter to the Aenia  Committee^,
   Mr. Editor:—Your paper  of the third
 inst. containing the "manifesto"  of the
 Cincinnati College lies before me.  From
 this paper I learn, that a new  medical
 school has been established in our city, for
 the purpose of delivering regular courses
 of lectures, and conferring diplomas upon
 its graduates.  To  the establishment of a
 new  institution  for the advancement of
 literature or science, if it be established
 wholly for these purposes, and be likely to
 conduce to these ends, I have no  manner
 of objection.  I agree with the mover of
 this measure, that there should be no such
 thing  as a monopoly  of science  in any
 country, more especially  in  a free one,
 whose very institutions depend upon the
 intelligence and virtue of its citizens; but
 that  the doors  of  her temple should be
 thrown open alike to the "peasant and the
 peer."  When  I say, that I agree with the
 mover of this  measure, I  mean  merely
 that I adopt a sentiment which he professes
 to believe.   That he entertains any such
 opinion in reality, I am inclined to doubt;
 at all events I shall be able to show, that
 there was a  time, when  he held no such
 belief.  But  that the Cincinnati  College
 was brought into existence with a view of
 advancing  the  ends of education,  and
 thereby benefitting  this city or the state,
 I deny; and I shall  prove that it was not,
by showing the  real design of the individ-
ual who conceived the plan, and by whose
agency it was mainly carried into execu-
tion—the motives of himself and associ-
ates, in raising  up a systematic opposition
to the  regularly organized  institution,
 known as the Medical College of Ohio.—
 But it may be  asked, why not give the
 Cincinnati College a fair trial] if both in*
 stitutions can flourish, so much the better
 for the city!   I answer that its faculty do
 not wish a fair trial  themselves, and that
 nothing is farther from their  intention
 than  a permanent competition  with the
 Medical College of Ohio—their institution
 was not organized for this purpose,  but
 was gotten up as the ultimatum of.a series
 of efforts, to "reform" the existing school;
 and that when this object shall be effected
 —when Dr. Drake, and his associates shall
 become seated in the chairs of the Medic-
 al College of Ohio, which they are  now
 striving to reach through the instrumen-
 tality of the Cincinnati College, the latter
 institution being functus officio,  will  like
 the Miami Faculty on a former  occasion,
 be suffered to dwindle into its original no-
 thingness.  That I am correct in this po-
 sition I have or.ly to refer intolidem verbis
 to one or two expressions  used  by  Dr.
 Drake, the mouth-piece of Ihe Cincinnati
 College, in a late publication bearing on
 this subject!  "In making," says the Doc-
 tor, "their appointments, the Board acted
 with fidelity to the principle on which they
 had started, (reform])  Selecting Dr.  Eb-
 erle, Dr. Cobb, and Dr.  Gross,  from  the
 Medical College of Ohio, they united with
 them in the completion of the Faculty, no
 gentleman who had not been strongly rec-
 ommended to the Board  of Trustees of
 that institution, by itsown committee,  and
 thus sought (to repeat the expression of an
idea) to finish what the trustees of that in- 
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 stitution had begun (reform]) but had been
 unable to accomplish, although an actual
 majority of the board were in its favor.—
 Thus it was not the design of the Cincin-
 nati College to set up a permanent rival,
 for their professors were at liberty  to re-
 sign, and the whole of them, had they all
 accepted, might by a simple resolution of
 the trustees of the  Medical  College of
 Ohio, be transferred to that institution."
 Here we have  a confession from the august
 founder of  the Cincinnati College, him-
 self, of the design for/which that institution
 was created, viz: not to become a perma-
 nent rival of the Medical  College, but to
 force the trustees of the latter, nolens vo-
 lens  to  invite Drake and his associates, to
 occupy  those  chairs which their vaunted
 talents, aided  by plotting, and intrigue,
 had been unable to procure for them. Thus
 instead  of our citizens  having  cause to
 congratulate themselves,  upon  the acqui-
 sition of a new medical school, which is
 speedily to enter the lists,  as a competitor
 of the one  already in existence, for  the
 public favor and patronage, they have only
 been called, by this flourish of trumpets,
 to witness a struggle for the "loaves and
 fishes"  of office—to behold  a party warfare,
 waged by the "outs" against the "ins."—
 Drake  and his party having been driven
 from all their covert places, and by-paths,
 in which they sought to  surprise the ene-
 my, have at last been obliged, as a forlorn
 hope, to assume the lance and buckler.
 Unfortunately  however, for the strategy
. of the gallant  leader, his system of tactics
 is now  too well known, and the people are
 no longer to be gulled—they recollect his
 having played the same game, once before,
 in the "affair"  of the Miami Faculty.  The
 Cincinnati College, says Drake, is to con-
 tinue in existence permanently "unless
 they (the professors)  should  be invited  into
 the other institution, and wish to go.''''  On
 the  happening of this event, what is to
 take place]  Why, theCincinnatiCollege
 must necessarily cease to exist; because
 its faculty being resolved into the Medical
 College of Ohio, cannot continue in exis-
 tence antiquo  nomine—the faculty  being
 gone, the college will be  gone also;  and
 the good people who have been inveigled
 into the project, and who shall have ex-
 pended their  time  and money, on the in-
 stitution, will be left as they have been on
 former occasions, to reimburse themselves
 in the best way they can.  Dr. Drake  and
 his adjuncts having leaped out, will leave
 the poorram,who innocently became their
dupe, in the well where they found him.—
A man who has to resort to subterfuge, to
sustain  a bad  cause, never makes a plain,
straight forward tale; sophistry is ever tor-
tuous, and continually contradicting itself.
As  an illustration of this  I  have only to
refer to the same pamphlet of Drake's
from which 1 have  already  made an  ex-
tract; the reader  will find upon  its peru-
sal, that it is a tissue of contradictions;
the wily writer varying  his facts to suit
whatever point  he is endeavoring for  the
moment to carry.
  For instance—we  have  already shown,
out of Drake's own mouth, that  the s,ple
object for which the  Cincinnati  College
was established, was to carry out  the work
of reform, which he had piously begun, in
relation to the Medical College of Ohio,—
that the former was not  designed to  be-
come a permanent rival of the latter, but
that so soon as he had coerced the trustees
to invite him and his colleages to  fill  the
professorships in the Medical  College, he
would abandon the Cincinnati College to
its fate; the reform for which it was insti-
tuted having been effected,  and  it being
therefore of no further use.  He  is  here
the  reader will observe, labouring to  ex-
hibit himself as the champion of reform;
now mark, as he  goes on  a  little farther
and finds it convenient to make use of ano-
ther set of facts, to carry a different point,
how prolific his imagination  is,  in produ-
cing those facts, and (strange to say of so
good a tactician as Drake  thinks  himself)
how completely, and  palpably they con-
tradict all that he had previously advanced.
Some one alleges that the Cincinnati Col-
lege is a mere  ephemera, as it really is,  and
that therefore the people ought to take no
notice of it; Drake in his hurry to repel
this charge, and forgetful  that he had in
another place, made the  same allegation
in effect himself, uses  the  following  lan-
guage: "But it is said here in the  city by
those interested in keeping themselves in   I
the college that the new project is ephem-
eral, and designed merely for effect.  I
reply that it is ephemeral, but in the same
sense, that a nation is ephemeral compared
with the'human race;" that  is to say, the
new college  is designed  to be as perma-
nent, as human institutions can be, in the
ordinary  course  of  nature.  Now  bring
these two variant statements, divested of
the  rhetorical flourishes of  the learned
professor, side by side,  and  behold   how
they harmonize together.
  1st statement.  "Thus it was not the dc- 
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sign of the Cincinnati College to set up  a
permanent rival, <Xc"
  2nd statement.  Thus it is the design of
    anicl rake to make the Cincinnati Col-
lege as permanent as it can be.   When  a
witness is called to the stand in  court, and
tells two different  tales  about  the same
transaction, the Court generally advise
the Jury not to believe him—he is not a
credible witness.
  I propose to pursue this question in a se-
ries of numbers, and shall show by docu-
mentary evidence in my  possession,  that
the efforts of Drake and his associates are
directed to the demolition  of the Medical
Cellege of Ohio, to  effect their own  pri-
vate purposes, regardless of the interests
of the community—that the Medical  Col-
lege of Ohio,  notwithstanding  the  slan-
ders  which  have been circulated to the
contrary, stands high in the confidence  of
the people—that its present depressed state
is attributable mainly, if not wholly to the
machinations and intrigues of Drake and
his party—and that it is only necessary for
the people to remove these incubi by the
force of public disapprobation, from a sit-
uation to do harm, in order to  insure the
existence among them of a flourishing Med-
ical school, which shall do  honour to the
state.  In the mean time it is  not my in-
 tention to be drawn into a newspapercon-
 troversy; my sole object is to strip off the
 mask  from designing men and  give infor-
 mation of such facts to  the  people  as it
 nearly interests them to  know. I  shall
 therefore not notice the  communications
 which may be written in reply—but pro-
 ceed continuously, and without  interrup-
 tion with a plain statement of facts, and
 the legitimate  inferences which flow from
 those facts; uninfluenced by fear or favour-
 itism—In the mean time my name is with
 the Editor, and may  be given up,  at  his
 discretion, to any person making a proper
 application and having a right to demand
 it.
   Since the first number of these articles,
 was published, Dr. Joseph JV.  McDowell,
 and several other gentlemen of this city,
 have  demanded my name of the Editor,
 and it has been given up to them. If these
 gentlemen suppose, that I am to be deter-
 red from pursuing the course I  have mark-
 ed out for myself, in consequence of any
 demonstration of hostility on  their  part,
 I beg leave here, to assure them, that they
 are very  much mistaken.  At the   same
 time I deem it a duty I owe to  myself, and
 the public, distinctly to  state,  so that my
position may not be misunderstood, that
with the  private character (except so far
as that private character can  be drawn
from their public one) of Dr.  Drake, or
Dr. McDowell, or any other individual, I
shall not intermeddle—it is foreign to my
purpose.   The Medical College  of  Ohio is
a  public institution, and belongs  to the
state;  all those individuals, who are now,
or ever have  been connected  with that
school, are, quoad this connection, public
men ; and their views and objects, as such,
are as legitimately the subjects of remark,
by the public press, as is the political creed
of any other candidate for the  public  fa-
vor.  If an individual misdemean himself,
in office,  and when out, seek from im-
proper motives to  destroy that  office, shall
he screen himseif from public censure, by
incasing his public character in the man-
tle of  the private gentleman]  I shall not
however seek to throw off any responsibil-
ity, with which gentlemen may  think prop-
er to  charge me.   I only make these re-
marks to vindicate my motives to the pub-
lic.   A  word in relation to the Trustees
of the Cincinnati College.  I  should be
very sorry if any gentleman  of the board
apply to  himself any portion of this dis-
cussion, which could, in the slightest de-
gree wound his feelings; so far as I am ac-
quainted with the  Trustees generally, I
 entertain  a high respect for them—at the-
 same time, I regret that  they have  not
 studied more diligently the medical histo-
 ry of  their city.  Some of these  gentle-
 men I am  happy to number among my per-
 sonal friends.  But  to proceed.
   I shall in this, and the subsequent num-
 bers,  take little  other notice of the new
 Cincinnati College, than, barely to allude
 to it occasionally, in the light in which I
 have already shown it to exist; to wit: as
 a mere implement in the hands  of its mas-
 ter.   It is Daniel Drake then, the master
 of  this  machine,  and not  the machine
 itself, with whom  I shall  chiefly  have
 to do.   And in  the first  place  I pro-
 pose  to  show, by  a strong, and well
 connected chain of  evidence, that  this
 man has sown all the discord, that now ex-
 ists in the medical  community;  that  he
 has never placed his foot within the thresh-
 old of the Medical College of Ohio, with-
 out a blight's following in his train; and
 that when he has been hurled from his pro-
 fessor's chair by the indignation of his as-
 sociates, or his own ungratified passions,
 have induced him to resign it; he has de-
 voted a sleepless  vigilance, a zeal that 
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 never tired, and an industry and perseve-
 rance the most indefatigable, to ruin the
 fortunes  and  reputations  of  those high
 minded  and honorable men, who had too
 much integrity, and self respect to become
 the minions of his power;—that  he has
 concentrated all his energies for the attain-
 ment of a single object, and that object is
 the  prostration of a school he could not
 control;  that he is resolved to effect this
 end at the sacrifice of any and every thing;
 the interests of the state;  the interests of
 the city; the noble ends of education even;
 and  all  this to gratify his insatiate  and
 morbid appetite for rule.   As the first link
 in this great  chain  of evidence, I shall
 briefly notice the origin,  and sketch the
 eventful.history of the  Medical'College of
 Ohio—the alternate idol  and  martyr of
 Drake's love and hatred;  and I desire ev-
 ery reader of these articles, to fix well
 the important facts in his mind, as  I shall
 frequently have occasion to recur to them
 in the course of my remarks.  The Medic-
 al College of Ohio was incorporated by
 the state, in the year 1819; in the  act of
 incorporation,   Samuel Brown, Coleman
 Rogers, Elijah  Slack, and  Daniel  Drake,
 were named  as corporators, and the same
 individuals are also constituted the Facul-
 ty.  Thus besides being members  of the
 Faculty, these four persons had  the entire
.control of the  school—were  empowered
.to remove and appoint professors, and other
 officers;  to make all  necessary  rules and
•regulations for the government  of the in-
stitution, &c. &c. &cc.  In the mean time,
 until  the Faculty should exercise this  au-
 thority to elect officers, the following per-
sons are designated as  such, viz:  Daniel
 Drake, President, Coleman Rogers, Vice
 President, and  Elijah Sleek, Register and
Treasurer.  There was no time fixed by
 the Legislature when  an appcintment of
officers  should  be made—so that the gen-
tlemen  above named, would continue to
be the officers  of the  College  until the
 Faculty, that is the officers themselves,
together with Samuel Brown, the remain-
ing member of  the Faculty, should other-
wise ordain,  Here we  have the organiza-
tion of the Medical College of Ohio, under
the control of four persons with Daniel
Drake at their head.  If at any  time, the
 number of professors ever exceeded three,
it  was speedily reduced to  that number,
and from that to two.  On the 30th Decem-
ber, 1819, an amendatory act was passed,
providing that no professorship  should be
created nor  abolished  nor professor  or
 lecturer, elected or dismissed, without the
 concurrence of two thirds  of the  whole
 Faculty.  Under this last act, the Facul-
 ty, then  consisting of three members,  to
 wit: Doctors  Drake, Slack, and Rogers,
 held a meeting, and Rogers was expelled
 by the votes of Drake and  Slack.   At a
 subsequent  period, Dr.  Jesse Smith, was
 elected a professor, and a member of the
 Faculty; peace however not long contin-
 uing, another  Faculty  meeting was  held,
 and Doctors Smith and Slack,  in turn ex-
 pelled Drake.
   During the whole of this  period the in-
 stitution was under the control of the men
 above named.   Lectures were delivered in
 the school by the professors, in  1820 to a
 class of 25 students; in 1821 to a class of 30
 students, and in 1822 to  a class of 18 stu-
 dents—while according to  Drake's   own
 showing, the rival school at Lexington, had
 in  1820,  ninety three students; in  1821,
 138 students, and in 1822, 171 students—
 this institution being only two years old-
 er, than theCincinnati School.   In  1822
 four  years after the  Medical College had
 been in operation, and that too, for a great
 er part of the time, under the especial au-
 spices, and management of Daniel Drake,
 the number of students instead of having
 increased, as was the case with the Lexing-
 ton School, had divindled to eighteen; the
 professors were in a  state  of continual
 warfare with each  other, and  Drake was
 busied in sowing sedition among the stu-
 dents, and abusjng his colleagues.   In this
 condition of things, the school was finally
 abandoned by the professors, and entirely
 broken up.
   "The Stvgian council thus dissolved ; and forth
   In  order c.iiiih, tlie s> and infernal ppers;
   Midst came their iniglily paramount."
  The patriotic Doctor Drake, who  now
 prates  so learnedly,  of the dignity,, and
 welfare of Ohio ; and who pretends to have
 the interest of this people, so much at heart
 —where was he then] Hark! -'/will tell it
 softly; yon crickets shall not hear it" Where
 was he] I repeal—Why,  he  had been in-
 vited  into the rival  school at Lexington,
 and seeing an opportunity to jump into  a
 good fat office,  beat a retreat from the late
■scene of his inglorious  discomfiture,   and
 decamped  into  the State  of Kentucky,
 bearing his  patriotism in his nocket, and
 leaving the  scientific  and  literary re-
 reputation of your city which he is now so
 anxious to buildup, toshift for itself. Thus
 ends the first act of the  Drama.  Let us
 pause  here for a  moment, to consider the
 agency Drake had3  in  the origin, and de- 
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slruclion of the Medical College of Ohio;
not the present  Medical College, because
that is a distinct institution, acting under
a different charter which repealed the for-
mer one,  granted  to  Drake,  and his as-
sociates.  We behold him then, the prime
mover of both these events.  He selected
from the whole state, three  men whom he
preferred as associates—men of whose in-
tegrity, and abilities he of course enter-
tained a high opinion; otherwise it is to be
presumed he would not have united with
them—applied for,  and obtained a charter
—was appointed President of the board of
controul, and at the same time made a pro-
fessor; thus he had the whole institution,
in a manner in his sling.  Now  it has fre-
quently been  said in this community that
Drake ought to  have a fair chance shown
him, to do  something for the  College, be-
fore he is denounced  as a turbulent, fac-
tious man, and a disorganizes—was there
ever a more glorious opportunity, to build
up a great Medical school in Ohio, than the
period of which I have been speaking] and
if this was not done, whose   fault  was
it]   Drake and his associates essayed that
result under a combination of circum-
stances, the most favorable—Ohio  had al-
ready grown into considerable importance
as a state, and was annually sending her
young men to the East, to  be educated.—
There was no rival of any consequence in
the  long valley of the Mississippi—the
Lexington School,  now the most impor-
tant, being then in its infancy, and having
but ninety three students.  Cincinnati had
sprung up, as if by  the inspiration of ma-
gic, and was rapidly becoming a great com-
mercial,  and  manufacturing  city—emi-
grants were flocking in from all quarters,
and  men of capital were settling herewith
their  families.  Why then  I repeat, was
not  Drake able, at this auspicious moment,
and  under these favouring circumstances,
to do that  which he confesses to have been
the day—dream of  his youth, and the hob-
by of his old age]  Why were the reason-
able expectations of the city, and the state
disappointed]   Why (to filch a little of his
own smooth rhetoric) were not the halls of
his college "vocal with the accents of in-
struction]"  Let the  history of his short
reign answer—lei the history of his whole
public life speak—and speak itshall too, in
the course of these papers,  and that, in a
language, not to be misunderstood.  Soon
after the college became defunct, in the
manner above described—it was reorganiz-
ed under different auspices, and in the year
1833 an investigation  «'ae '.iad by the pro-
per authorities, of cartain matters, touch-
ing this institution—in  the course of this
investigation,  among other things, the
cajses were  developed, which led  to its
destruction in the year 1822; it is these
causes I propose  to consider  in my next
number—in tho mean  time I will here re-
mark that its decay, and dissolution were
owing wholly to Drake.
  In my last  number, I alluded to an in-
vestigation, which  had been made by a
committee appointed  for this  purpose, in
relation to sundry matters connected with
the Medical College of Ohio, and  stated,
that among other things, the causes were
developed which led to the destruction of
this  institution in 1822. This investiga-
tion was in the nature  of a judicial pro-
ceeding, and therefore comes to us in the
aspect  of deliberation, impartiality and
truth; the  evidence was given in,  under
the solemn and impressive sanction of an
oath—the most  respectable  men  in the
community, who were in any manner con
nected with  the  College,  or who,  from
their position in society, were supposed to
know any thing of its concerns, were ex-
amined.  The mass of testimony  thus ta-
ken,  and which  consisted  of upwards of
three hundred  octavo pages,  was  trans-
milted  in 1833, together with  the re-
ports of the  committee, to the Legisla-
ture of the state; and the  Senate of this
body,  appointed  another special commit-
tee, to  discharge the  duties of a jury, in
finding what facts were proven by the evi-
dence submitted to them.  The object of
the Legislature was to ascertain whether
the reform, which was loudly called for,
by a certain  medical parly in this city, at
the head of which was Dr. Daniel Drake,
was in  reality demanded, by the interests
of the people, and the ends  of education.
The chairman of the select  committee,
Judge Hitchcock, now on the bench of the
Supreme Court, and  whose  integrity and
patriotism are  too  well  known  in this
community and elsewhere,  to need any
eulogy from me, made a report, which was
adopted by the whole Senate, present, with
the  exception of a single member—this
member was Mr. Ellsworth, whose motives
for dissenting I do not mean to impeach;
but it may be  as well to state here, that
he and Dr. Martin, the prosecutor of the
charges against the College, were from the
same village  and in some  way connected
together.  Now, if in the course of human
transactions, there is  any such  thing  as 
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 credible testimony, surely this report—the
 verdict of thirty-four senators, out of thir-
 ty-five, is entitled to be considered in that
 light.   It is from this report then, and the
 evidence on which it is based, that I pro-
 pose to sustain the allegation made at the
 close of my last number, to wit:  that the
 destruction of the Medical College in 1822,
 was effected by Dr. Daniel Drake.  The
 following extract is  to be found in page 4,
of the Report; "Under this act of  incor-
 poration, the  institution  was organized,
 and continued to exist, until  the close of
 the year 1822. But if we are to  credit
 the testimony before us, its history is lit-
 tle more than a history of strifes and con-
 tentions.  The number of students was not
large,  and  if at  any time its  number  of
professors exceeded three, it was soon re-
duced to that  number, and from  that to
 two."   Again from page 5.  "An institu-
tion, which it had been hoped, would have
done credit to the state, was held low in
the public estimation,  in consequence of
 the almost continued quarrels of its profes-
sors.   The number  of matriculated stu-
dents, was but seventeen.  It was without
funds,  and to use the expresion of one of
 the witnesses, it had "become a by-word
and a hissing stock."  Dr. Drake in a late
pamphlet has adopted a mode of  praising
himself not unfrequently resorted to  by
gentlemen of his calibre; and which con-
sists in putting his own opinion of himself
into the mouths of third persons, and then
speaking it out for them, to wit: The Doc-
tor says, "I have been erected into  a phe-
nomenon—a   teacher able to raise  the
school into immediate distinction, but still
 unqualified by my talents and sagacity, to
judge whether its organization was such as
 would be successful!"   We find  it here
 announced to the wondering community,
 and that too, modestly, from the  trumpet
 of the  individual himself, that he  is the
 only man capable of raising the  Medical
 College of Ohio into immediate distinction.
 Oh ! for the ancient days of the Republic;
 when instead of fighting one's way to office
 by vaunting of our talents, and boasting
 of our patriotism—real merit was wont to
hide itself from  the scrutinizing gaze of
 the public—when the father  of his coun-
 try declared himself unfit to be the Pre-
 sident   of  the United  States,  but was
 willing to accept the trust from motives of
 public duty.   Who these persons are, that
 entertain this exalted  opinion  of Dr.
 Drake, I have not been  able to learn.__
 Whoever ihey may be, let inc propose  to
them a few plain questions.  Who had the
almost  exclusive  control  of the Medical
College of Ohio for  nearly four years!—
Was it not Dr. Drake?
  Who was at the head of the school, which,
(in the words of the committee,) at  the
expiration of four years, " was held low in
the public estimation, in consequence of
the almost continued quarrels of the profes-
sors'!" Was it not Daniel Drake?  Whose
school was it,  that struggled on "without
character," and which had, in the words of
the same committee, "become  a by-word
and  a hissing stock?"  Was it not Daniel
Drake's?  Is Daniel Drake then, the fitter'
man, to raise a school into "immediatedis-
tinction," or to  deprive It of its character,
and  sink it into such utter contempt as to
become a " hissing stock" for the people ]
It is not my province to answer  these
questions; Judge Hitchcock has done it, as
I have already shown, by the  extracts I
have made;  and which will more fully  ap-
pear by the  record itself.  The charges a-
bove alleged against Doctor Drake, are
of so grave and serious a nature, viewing
him  as  a professional man,  that I should
not have dared to make them myself, un-
less  they had been sustained by evidence
of the highest nature: and it is upon this
evidence I give them to the  public: "re-
cords can't lie."   I have another extract
from the  same paper, bearing upon this
point, and which sustains my positiovn more
completely, if  such  a thing  can be, than
those already published—but I think prop-
er to reserve this until I come to treat of
Dr.  Drake's second exit from the Medical
College of Ohio, after the amalgamation of
this  institution  with the Miami Faculty.—
But  it may be  said, that although I have
proven discord  to have existed in the Fac-
ulty  of the old College, and that it was  de-
stroyed  in consequence,  yet I  have not
shown Drake to be the man who threw  the
firebrand—inasmuch a3 there were  three
professors, and  it might as well have been
either of the other two—that  although I
have shown Drake to have failed in build-
ing up a Medical school, when  he had an
opportunity of so doing, I have not shown
but that he might have been impeded, by
the quarrels or  incompetency of his asso-
ciates.  These  are objections which might
reasonably enough be raised, and as I wish
to argue  the question, in  all fairness and
candor, I shall proceed to obviate them.—
First, then, as to the  incompetency of his
associates.  It  will have been  seen from
the pveviny  numbers of these papers, that 
i   9  )
those gentlemen were Doctors Slack and
Jesxe Smith, and a part of the time Dr Ro-
gers; and that they were chosen by Drake
himself.  If therefore, they were incompe-
tent, Drake ought to have known it; and
if knowing it, he chose them, he practised
a fraud upon the public—if they were not
incompetent, the objection is overthrown.
Was Drake then, a peaceable, public spi-
rited, well disposed member of the  Facul-
ty, or was he on the  other  hand, the dis-
turbing power, which kept it  constantly
embroiled]-the proof under this head con-
sists of two kinds; the first, is the positive
testimony given  before the committee ;
and the second, is the amiable  and quiet
dispositions of Drs. Smith and Slack.  The
positive testimony, is that given in  by Dr.
Jesse Smith, who. it will  be  recollected, at
the time this  investigation  was held, had
ceased to be a member of the Faculty, and
was therefore no more  interested in its
concerns, than any other citizen ; from this
fact, connected with  the private character
of the man, we are warranted in our con-
clusions of his veracity.  I extract from
page 229 of a manuscript copy of  the re-
cord, in my possession.   "Witness. When
I first came to the institution in  1820, the
fall of the year, there were four professors,
who  united with me in giving the first
course of lectures,—during that sessions/or
two or three weeks, there was considerable
harmony.  A schism of  a serious  nature,
then occurred---an effort was  made by
Doctor Drake to get all  the professors out,
[the reader will remark, that this was after
he had already turned out  Dr. Rogers, in
less than  a year  from the commencement
of this school,] which led to his expulsion;
his operations were such  as to lead to a dis-
severment of all the professors—and he was
expelled."  Thus we see that Dr. Drake
not being able to agree  with Dr. Rogers,
prevailed on Dr. Slack to assist in turning
him out.  Dr. Jesse  Smith comes into Dr.
Rogers' place, and in two or three weeks,
Drake not being able to agree with him
either, sets the different members  of the
Faculty by the ears, and "full fraught with
mischievous revenge," endeavors to  turn all
hands out, but got turned out himself.
   Now, for the circumstantial  evidence—
 to wit: a presumption that Drake instigat-
 ed all the quarrels of the Faculty, from the
 fact, that the other members were peace-
able men. Soon after the dissolution of the
College in 1822, it was reorganized, Doc-
tors Smith and Slack, Drake's old associa-
 tesbeing retained. In the winter of 1824-5,
lectures were delivered,(Drakebeingnow
in Kentucky, out of the way), and from
this period until 1831, when Drake again
entered the school,  continued  to flourish;
each year increasing  the  number of its
students.  Extracts from  the record, "Dr.
Rodgers iDentist Cincinnati)  called,  and
testified—had  attended courses, no dissa-
tisfaction in class, in 1824-5 and 25-6, with
any of the Faculty &c" Dr.  Killough is
called  "Attended the M.  C. O. in 1827-8,
acquainted with  the  opinion  of the class
as to the  competency of the professors-
there was general  satisfaction as far  as I
know."  From the report of the  Senite
committee, page 19 "It is with pleasure
that the committee learn, that the institu-
tion, (M. C. O.) during the present session,
is in a  flourishing condition ; that the num-
ber  of students is  respectable,  and that
harmony prevails in the faculty."   {Drake
was not a member.) Thus it appears, that
although Smith and Slack could not agree
with Drake, they could  agree with other
men—so that the proposition, as sustained
by circumstantial evidence, resolves itself
into this.  A. B. and C.  cannot  agree to-
gether, but A and B agree  very well with
D—now whose fault is it that there is no
harmony among  A. B. and C,] that of A.
and B, who agree so well  with D, or that
of C, who can't agree at all with A and B]
Let C  represent  Drake  and  you have
the  application  of this syllogism.  We
have then both positive and circumstantial
proof, that Drake  destroyed  the Medical
College in 1822 by  fomenting  "quarrels
among the Faculty."
   Although I have proved in my last num-
ber, and that, as I apprehend, by  irrefra-
gable  testimony, that the  troubles which
existed in the Faculty of the Medical Col-
lege of Ohio, under its first organization,
and which led to the destruction of that
institution, were attributable  to the dicta-
torial bearing, and factious and intriguing
spirit of Doctor Daniel Drake, yet I  can-
not take leave of this  part of my subject,
without adding some further corroborative
evidence in support of my position—this
evidence consists of sundry extracts taken
from "a transcript of the  Records of the
Medical College of Ohio,  up  to February
10th 1823."  "Thursday, March 7th 1822—
The  Faculty met"  "on  motion  of Dr.
Smith, which was seconded by  Professor
Slack  it was voted, nemine contradiscente,
that Daniel Drake, M.  D. be  dismissed
from  the  Medical College of Ohio."  A
short time after this dismissal,, there was a 
C  l0  )
board  of Trustees  appointed  composed
of the most respectable citizens of Cincin
nati, for the purpose of aiding the Faculty
in the management of the College; the fol-
lowing gentlemen,  were the members of
the Board, viz: Hon. Wm. Burke, Samuel
W. Davies Esq., David K. Este Esq. (now
President Judge of theCom. Pleas of Ham.
county) General Wm. H. Harrison, Nicho-
las Longworth Esq.,  Rev.  Martin Ruter,
Rev. O. M.  Spencer, Ethan  Stone Esq.,
Micajah T.  Williams.  The  President of
the M. C. O. the  Governor of the  state,
and the Pres. of the Med. Con'n. "January
1823—the Faculty of the Medical College
of Ohio convened at Dr. Smith's, and un-
animously voted,  that  a  communication
which was then read, and which exhibited
some features of the History of the Col-
lege, its present state, and the policy con-
templated by the Faculty of the institu-
tion, be officially transmitted by the Pres.
to the Board of Trustees of said  College,
and that a copy of said  communication be
put on file.
            (// is as follows.)
Gentlemen:—
   Being- advised by report, and the news-
papers, of the  transfer of  corporate pow-
ers recently vested  in  the Faculty of the
Medical College of Ohio, to your honorable
body, we avail  ourselves  of the earliest
opportunity, to offer congratulations, for
the  confidence reposed, in delegating this
responsible trust.  We  would also express
our pleasure in the reflection, that whether
reorganized or not, hereafter, as profes-
sors, the institution  will  rest on  the ab-
solute and independent board, to whom its
direction, and interests are entrusted.—
Disclaiming every wish to  renew our late
responsibility, and the exercise of your
present prerogatives; or even a desire  to
continue in the  professorial chairs of a
school, which has stood, and  is  now  ad-
vancing despite of its adversary, [Here we
observe, that so soon as Drake was  dismis-
sed,  he had turned  his battery, on  the
school] and which we believe may become
one of  the most useful and flourishing Sem-
inaries of the  West.  We here  transmit
those  particulars  of its history,  present
state, and policy, which will enable you to
receive it from us, as it is, a personally un-
profitable, though  hopeful concern.  "In
the summer of 1820, Benj. S.Bohrer,M.
D. and one of the subscribers were enticed
by a statement  of prospects, which  have
proved delusive, to quit their homes—to
sacrifice their profitable business,  and in-*
cur a heavy  expense  of travelling, pur-
chasing books, instruments, various anato-
mical preparations &c, for as yet,  little
else, but the privilege of being slandered,
and of labouring most  assiduously, in the
institution; which  they have done, to the
entire satisfaction of every member of their
classes.  On  entering  upon  the duties of
their  respective  departments, they were
soon  compelled to observe,  that  the ob-
stacles to the  success of the  College, were
not merely a depreciation of currency—a
want  of pupils,  a library, Chemical and
Anatomical  Cabinets,  and  commodious
buildings.
  The fetters which bound it, were those
of the Inquisition.  The half of the Facul-
ty could not  even reciprocate the civili-
ties of social life, without censure, and en-
dangering  an  intestine quarrel.   They
could not employ the  little  leisure  from
College avocations, in abstract specula-
tion, which might chance to  be uttered  or
read, without abuse, and the imputation  of
unworthy motives.   They are stigmatized
as "young,"  inexperienced and imbecile,
[duery—were they any older when Drake
chose them, some  time before]] save  on
the subjects of their departments in the
lecture-room.  The very men whom slan-
 der had not before ventured to assail, were
 reproached with the  blackest calumnies,
 by a colleague; a colleague who had sought
 and proclaimed their unexceptionable repu-
 tation; and who under guise  of a hypocritic
 sanctimony, was endeavoring at  the same
 time, to excite the disaffection of his class,
 {Here is the sedition I mentioned in a former
 number,'] towards a third associate,then his
unsuspecting friend.   In this state the  In
stitution continued till the autumn of 1821,
when  John D. Godman,  M. D.  accepted
a professorship.  For a time the reputation-
slaughtering demon of envy and malice,
courted his friendship ; but the spirit which
could not  rest one short  term in a sister
Institution,  (Lexington school]) without
occasioning  a  duel—a  challenge  for
a second—the  application  of  whatever
is opprobious to a third—of  imbecility
 to  a  fourth,   and   subsequently,   the
 most  open  and  undissembled  hatred of
 a partner, could not long be concealed;
 and Dr. Godman openly avowed to his col-
leagues and others, that no person had eve r
 before so grossly imposed  upon him; and
 on this account,  that he should resign  his
 professorship—but would accept  a  re-ap-
 pointment, if the subject of his  remarks
 would leave the institution. 
(  11   )
  Thus the College struggled through a se-
cond term, languid, sick, and palsied, from
the fountain of the ever active principles
of moral corruption, which unceasingly
preyed upon all  the  vital organs of  the
Corporate body, till at last  the expiring
effort of the vis medicatrix natural expelled
the venom  of  the constitution.  In this
way was the school  rid  of a man, some-
times respected by those at  a distance, and
who knew him not; caressed by a few whom
hejiallers, and whose interests  never in-
terfere with his secret intriguing machina-
tions ;  and  almost universally contemned
and despised by every honorable competi-
tor, partner or colleague."  The above is
spread at large on the records of the Col-
lege, it was written in 1823, and I give it
to the public with a single remark :  a late
traveller in India, informs us that the de-
scriptions of the country and people, giv-
en by the Journalists of  Alexander  the
Great's expedition, would answer just as
well for the present day; so invariable are
the face of Nature, and  the maimers  and
customs of the people.
   Lest the character and standing of  Dr.
Godman, whose name is mentioned in con-
nection with Drake's treatment  of him,
should not be known to all  my readers, I
give the following  extract  from  one of
Drake's letters, [see Xenia pamphlet,] "In
the following summer I  succeeded in  ob-
taining  the co-operation  of the late dis-
tinguished and  lamented Dr.  Godman,
then a young man; [the reader will  recol-
lect the passage relating to young  men,]
and I fearlessly assert that the institution,
young as it was,  had then  an abler Facul-
ty than  belonged to  it f©r the succeeding
ten years," &c.   Doctors Slack and Smith
who sent the letter to the Board of Trus-
tees, which  I  have given in this number,
were members of the Faculty here  allud-
ed to.
   It  is  gratifying to remark, as we pass
through life, that the  secret plans, concert-
ed for the destruction of others, almost in-
variably recoil upon the heads of those
who  originate  them; to compare small
things  with great, the final operation of
Drake's plot, for turning out Dr. Rogers,
resembled not a little the guilotine of the
noted revolutionist,Robespierre; which in-
strument  had  the honor, in  due  time, of
taking off that worthy's head.  It will be
recollected that one of Drake's first acts,
after entering the old school, was to quar-
rel with Dr. Rogers, and  with  the  assist-
ance of Slack, to expel him.  Now  this
could not be  done without altering  the
charter of the institution, because under
that instrument  it required a majority of
three fourths, to displace a professor.   Dr,
Brown never appeared and took his seat,
having his  eyes opened  no doubt to the
character of the man with  whom he  bad
unwittingly associated himself—so  that
there were  but three  professors.   Drake
when he  had determined upon launching
one of the  thunder-bolts  of  his immortal
prototype at the head of his antagonist,
was "sorely puzzled" to  find out, how he
and  Slack  could make  three  fourths of
three persons; he ultimately "gave it up"
in despair, and forthwith petitioned  the
Legislature to alter the refractory charter
aforesaid; so that two thirds, instead of
three fourths of the  Faculty, should have
the  appointing  and  dismissing  power;
which was accordingly done.  Rogers was
turned out, and  the very act  which  had
enabled Drake and Slack to do this, after-
wards empowered  Smith and  Slack  [Oh
rank treason!) to expel Daniel Drake '.—
he was dismissed •' according to the statute,
in such cases made and provided."  Here
we behold  too, the  commencement, or
rather the  first outbreak (in this state) of
that indomitable spirit of revenge and per-
secution, which  characterises  the man—
when his enemy cannot otherwise be reach-
ed—laws must be enacted—the aid of the
Legislature must be invoked.  1 will now
pass  on, to  the  consideration  of what I
shall call the second era of the College;
that is, the  period of its  re-organization
after it had been destroyed by Drake; and
here for  a while, we  get  once  more into
smooth water and plain sailing, after hav-
ing been tossed  to and fro on the boister-
ous ocean of Drake's love of power and in-
trigue;  but let us not rejoice too soon in
our deliverance, for as we shall presently
see, our  bark is destined again to buffet
the waves of strife and contention—again
to bend to the fury of the storm—again to
be  lured by the  Syren,  and again to be
dashed on the rocks.  When the  tumult
and confusion which preceded Drake's de-
parture for Lexington, in thecharacter of
professor in the Transylvania University,
had subsided into order, and the communi-
ty was left  once more in  repose, public
attention was directed to the wreck of the
College.

  " O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give ear
   To that false worm, of whomsoever taught
   To counterfeit man's voice;" 
(   12  )
The Legislrture renewed its labors—took
the subject again  into  consideration, and
appointed a Board of Trustees;  transfer-
ring to them a portion of the power which
had before been lodged in the hands of the
Faculty.   The preamble of the statute
making this alteration, gives the reasons
for the change: "Whereas the visiters from
the Medical Convention to the Medical Col-
lege of Ohio, have represented to the Gen-
eral Assembly,  that it is necessary that a
board of trustees be appointed," &c.   The
Trustees who were to perform the duties
assigned to them by this act, without fee
or emolument, and who therefore accept-
ed their office with an eye single to the
public good, commenced their labors ear-
ly in the year 1823; and at the same time
the  former organization of the  College
ceased.  These gentleman had to contend
with innumerable difficulties—to use the
words of the Senate's report: "An institu-
tion was thrown upon their hands, without
funds,& perhaps it might with propriety be
said, without character.  To organize  it,
and put it again in  operation,  the Com-
mittee  believe, was  attended  with  more
difficulty than would have been experien-
ced  from the  establishment of an entire
new school."
  One would suppose, from his previous
history, that the people had already seen
too much of Doctor Drake's moral unfitness
to build up a Medical School among them,
again to  entrust him with power; such,
however, was not the fact, and one of the
first acts of the new Board of Trustees,
was to  invite  him to take  a chair in the
College, which he refused.  Dr. Drake was
at that  day, as he is now, at the  head of a
party;  a small but determined band, who
waged uncompromising  war against the
"ins."   The Board of Trustees  saw this,
and they saw too that Drake's talent was
of that peculiar kind, which if it  could not
enable him to build up, yet gave him pow-
er to pull down; and they therefore, no
doubt sought to buy him, rather than pay
any merited compliment to his professional
attainments; but they came into the mar-
ket too late, a higher bid had been offered
by a sister state; and there was then a
treaty on foot for its acceptance. This is
one of the dark deeds in Drake's life,—it
strikes more directly  than any other, at
that feeling upon which he most prides
himself-his love for Ohio; and he has hence
devoted page after page to palliate it.  In
the first place  he denies most positively
-fiat the Board sought to engage his servi-
ces, until  after they had held one session,
and  made arrangements  for  appointing
three of his enemies—that he had already
engaged to go to Lexington, and therefore
could not accept.  Now in order that both
parties may speak, I will here give the al-
legation and denial, verbatim.
  Allegation:—" One of theirs* efforts of
the Board was to induce Doctor Drake to
return to  the school, which he  refused to
do, choosing rather to give the weight of
his talents and character to the rival in-
stitution of Lexington.  Although disap-
pointed in this  calculation, and sensibly
alive to the consequences that would nat-
rally result from the opposition of Doctor
Drake, and the exertion of all  his powers,
with the weight of his character, in favor
of a rival institution;  the  board did not
despair.                 (Signed.)
  William Corry, Oliver M. Spencer, Sam-
uel W. Davies, Alexander Duncan,- Na-
thaniel  Wright, William Burke, Jacob
Burnet,George P.Torrence, Joseph Gest,
Bellamy Storer, Daniel Gano,
                           Trustees."
  Denial:—"The new body met early in
1823, and  as a considerable  re-action had
taken  place in  the public  mind, I  was
credulous  enough to expect that their first
act would be, to reinstate me in the places
from which I had been violently expelled;
but they  adjourned  without considering
my case, and left me to speculate on the
future.
        (Signed.)      Daniel Drake."
  In which of these statements, the truth
is to be found, I  leave the reader to deter-
mine.  If the  word of Daniel Drake is
worth  more than  that of the  eleven men
above named—you must believe  him—if
on the contrary, you should  be inclined to
think, that his  word is  not worth quite
so  much—you must believe them.   Dr.
Drake then notwithstanding  the efforts
made to retain him—very fortunately for
the school, as its  prosperity  during the
time  he  was  unconnected  with it, will
show—was bought up, by the larger price
put upon his services, and left the State.
Such was  the bad odor into  which Drake
and his partisans had brought the school,
that the Trustees, notwithstanding their
zealous and indefatigable exertions, were
unable to  organize a  Faculty, until the
summer or fall of 1824.  In the fall of that
year, the  following gentlemen, viz: Drs.
Cobb, Smith, Slack and Moorhead, having
been.chosen professors, a course of  lee- 
(   13  )
tures was  delivered  to  a  class of fifteen
students.   In the next succeeding session,
the class increased to the number of forty
eight; in the session  after, to eighty, and
in  the session of 1827-3, to one  hundred
and one!   Thus in four years,  from  the
second organization of the school, the num-
ber of its students increased from fifteen
to one hundred  and  one;  while  during a
similar period—as we have  already seen—
when the school was  under the manage-
ment and  control of  the great lion of the
West—the skilful architect of our scientific
fame—the number of its students]----dwin-
dled to eighteen!  " What  a fall was there
my countrymen!"   Facts  speak louder
than the railings of the demagogue, or the
half famished  cries  of  the revolutionist,
who seeks to overturn the existing state of
things, in order that  he may batten  on the
fragments, which his  pernicious doctrines
have scattered  around him; in order that
he may riot on the ruins of other men's for-
tunes.  If the "continued quarrels" of the
first school, as  Judge  Hitchcock has de-
clared, were the causes of its destruction,
and  the second school, up to  this period,
was not only in existence but flourishing
beyond anticipation, it follows that there
 must have been harmony in its Faculty.—
 Independently  of this presumption,  we
 have positive testimony of the  fact;  that
 testimony I have already given to the pub-
 blic, for the purpose of sustaining another
 point, and need  not repeat it  here; but
 who ever heard of the quarrels of Dr. Cobb
 and Dr. Moorhead, or of Dr. Cobb and Dr.
 Smith, or of Dr. Smith and Dr. Slack?—
 whereas,  the first thing a stranger  will
 hear, upon landing at the quay, will be Dr.
 Drake's quarrel with  Dr.  Some-body-else.
 The prosperity of the  school did not stop
 here, but continued to advance until 1831,
 in the  fall of  which year, the  number of
students was one hundred and thirty one—
its  increase, however, for the  last  four
 years, was only thirty, while for the pre-
 vious four, from 1824 to 1828, the increase
 was seventy six.  Now here is a result for
 which a cause must be sought.   The Med-
 ical College of Ohio, during the first four
 years of her second life, was making rapid
strides to distinction; suddenly, in 1828,
these strides become less rapid, her vigor
is less apparent, and she is evidently strug-
 gling under the weight of some incubus
that sits heavily upon her.  What can  it
be]  Does the reader  recollect that for
the first four years alluded to, Dr. Drake
was out of the  state,, rendering  his servi-
ces for his pay—identifying himself  with
the prosperity of Kentucky, and had there-
fore neither time  nor motive  for  bat-
tering down our own College, with the
hope of reforming himself into it;  and that
from causes, which  I shall explain hereaf-
ter, he left his  new domicil, in 1827, and
to the good city of Cincinnati,
   "Full fraught with mischievous revenge,
   Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies."

   We have seen, in my last number, that
the Medical College of Ohio, so  soon as-
that institution and the state had rid them-
selves of Dr. Daniel Drake, was re-organ-
ized,  and immediately began to rear its
head, proudly on the ruins of its predeces-
sor—that  its  prosperity kept  pace, pari
passu, with the prosperity of the city; the
increase of its students  being 76- in the
space of four years; and we have also seen,
that when the said Daniel Drake again put
his foot upon our soil,  and raised  the war-
cry of opposition, a blight was thrown on
its promise, and its career of prosperity
was checked.  In order  that the chain of
our history may be more complete, I shall
find it necessary to track the principal sub-
ject of these papers  to  Lexington, and
there take a short review of his connection'
with  the  Transylvania  University.  We
find him here for the first time, iu 1816; in-
that year he says,  " I had the honor to be-
elected Professor of Materia Medica and>
Botany, in the projected medical depart-
ment  of the Transylvania University; and
in the autumn of the next year entered on
my duties. A winter's residence in Lex-
ington, convinced me,that Cincinnati even
then was, and in future would more  deci-
dedly be, far preferable to that town, for
such an institution; and in the spring o£
1818, I resigned, with the determination.
of attempting to found a Medical school ia-
this place." (See the Xenia pamphlet.) Dr..
Drake here tells us, that the cause of his
leaving Lexington, the first time, was his-
being convinced  that Cincinnati was  a
better place to establish a Medical school
in.  Indeed!  How strange, that  this dis-
covery was not made before he left Cin-
cinnati, and that it was made the very first
winter of  his residence in Lexington !—
Was  it necessary to visit Lexington, to
learn its locality, and  compare its advan j
tages with those of Cincinnati]  Could not
Dr. Drake have prevailed on some school-
boy to loan him his Atlas and statistics, for
the purpose '?   But  no, this  was not the
cause, and Drake knew it  was not, at the- 
(  14  )
lime he made the declaration.  It so hap-
pens, unfortunately for the statement of
Dr. Drake, that I have seen and conveis-
ed with several  gentlemen, (their names
can be given if required, )who are acquaint-
ed with the circumstances under which he
left Lexington, in 1818; those circumstan-
ces are such as  the reader has no doubt
anticipated.  Dr. Drake,  as the whole
course of his professional  life will show,
being  unable to live harmoniously  with
any set of men, very soon after  taking his
seat,  quarrelled with his new associates,
among the rest  with Dr. Blythe, and left
the institution in consequence.
  Thus we see,  that in  the  course of  one
short winter, after Drake's installation in-
to office, he succeeded  in setting the  Fac-
ulty "by the ears," and when the storm
was at its height, returned into our own
state;  where as the reader has already ob-
served, the same drama  was acted  over
again, in the Medical College of Ohio—the
only difference  being a partial  change of
the dramatis personal.   It is needless  here
to remark, that the Medical department of
the Transylvania University, was entirely
broken up by this event, and that it did not
recover from the shock it had received,
until by a manly effort it threw the incu-
bus from its own bosom upon that of the
Ohio College; where it sat with the fatal
ity of Brutus' evil genius at the battle of
Phillippi. When by these means the Tran-
sylvaniaschool was destroyed--when Drake
had returned to Cincinnati, and in  like
manner the Medical College of Ohio was
destroyed—he, notwithstanding the  won-
derful  discovery he had  made  four years
before, that Cincinnati was preferable to
Lexington as  a location for a Medical
school, returned to the latter place, as a
professor, and re-entered the Transylva-
nia University;  which  during his absence
had begun again to flourish.  In this second
connection with the Lexington school, Dr-
Drake remainedybwr long years! In 1824,
the institution had 234 students; in 1825,
281, and in 1826, 190; this was  the  last
year  Drake remained  in Lexington, and
if the falling off of the  class, from 281 stu-
dents to 190, indicates  any thing, it shows
very clearly, that the  same fire-brand of
discord was  thrown among the Faculty,
about this period, which Drake had hurled
with so deadly  an effect, on two former
occasions.  Now mark the following con-
trast :—from  1825 to  1826, the  class in
Lexington was  reduced from 281 to  190;
while during the same  period, the class in
Cincinnati had increased  from 80 to  101;
Drake was in  Lexington prostrating that
school, and  the Medical College of Ohio
being freed from  his trammels,  was  fast
rising into reputation.  In order that the
reader may sec more clearly,  and at a
single glance, the influence which Doctor
  Dr. Drake was connected four years with
Drake's connection with a 3IedicaI school
is calculated to exert upon  its destiny, I
will here briefly recapitulate a few state-
ments, which are  spread passin  in these
papers:
the Medical College of Ohio; at the ex-
piration of this time, it was broken up.
  Dr. Drake  was  connected  four years
with the  Lexington school, from 1823 to
1827, during the last of which years, the
number of students decreased from 281 to
190.
  Dr. Drake  was  reconnected with  the
Lexington school for four years, from 1819
to  1823, during which time its number of
students increased  from 93 to 200.
  Dr. Drake  was  reconnected with  the
Medical College of Ohio for  four  years,
from 1824 to 1827, during which  time the
number of students increased  from 15 to
101, &c. &c.
  For the accuracy of the above state-
ments, I refer to the  " Western  Journal
of Medical and Physical Sciences," edited
by Daniel Drake,  M. D., No. 30, Vol. 8,
page 313.
  Now  although  it  might happen, in a
single instance, that there might be an in-
crease or decrease of students without the
fault of any of the  professors, it can hard-
ly be, that a result of this  kind could be
produced, so uniformly, and so frequently,
under the  same combination of circumstan-
ces, without the maker of those circumstan-
ces being the cause of  the  change.  Dr.
Drake then left the Lexington  school a
second time, and why ]  Let him speak first,
and then  let facts speak: "After passing
four winters at Lexington,in uninterrupt-
ed harmony with  my colleagues, and the
different classes, I  became tired of librat-
ing between that city and this, from which
the treatment I had received  had never
alienated my affections, {Oh! amor pair lor,']
and I resigned for the  purpose of making
this my sole residence." (Drake's election-
eering pamphlet to the Xenia committee.)
1 have already  shown  that the harmony
here  spoken  of, reduced the  class of the
Lexington school  from 281 to 190; in ad-
dition to  this  it is  notorious, and there are
twenty physicians in this  city who know
the fact, that Dr. Drake quarrelled inces-
santly with his associates in the Faculty, 
(  15  )
 and among the rest with Dr. Dudley—that
 he occasioned a duel between this gentle-
 man and Dr. Richardson,*and that in con-
 sequence of these difficulties he was oblig-
 ed to abandon for the third time  his pro-
 fessor's chair. Being again out of employ-
 ment, he was patriotic enough  to return to
 this  city, in  1827, and immediately com-
 menced t\\2X system of efforts to reform him-
 self into the Medical College, then a pros-
 perous institution, which with a short  in-
 termission, (the cause of which will here-
 after appear,) he  has followed up to  the
 present time. Let every citizen of  Ohio,
 for it is his solemn duty, calmly review the
 history thus hastily traced in these papers,
 and  ask himself the  question, whether he
 is again  willing to entrust any portion of
 the honor and prosperity of the  Medical
 College of Ohio to the keeping or building
 up of Doctor Daniel Drake ]—whether  a
.. man whe has torn down two colleges, and
 thrown a third into confusion, is likely to
 build up a fourth]  In my next number I
 shall continue the history of the College;
 in the course of which my  readers will be
 even more  surprised than they yet have
 been, at the disclosures I shall make.
    We have seen in the last number, that
 Doctor Drake having resigned his profes-
 sorship in  Lexington, in  consequence of
 difficulties in the Faculty,returned to  this
 city.  At that time the chairs of the Med-
 ical College  of Ohio were all  full;  Dr.
 Whitman having been elected to fill  the
 newly created chair of Obstetrics   Under
 this state of things, what would have been
 the first suggestion which would naturally
 have presented itself to  a  wily politician
 intent on securing aportion of the "loaves
 and  fishes]" Why, the very one which  Dr.
 Drake proceeded forthwith to carry into
 execution;  "reform."  He saw  that  the
 Faculty was  complete—that the institu-
 tion was prosperous, and  that  the only
 hope he had of gaining admission into it,
 was by the forcible displacement of ore of
 its incumbents.   To this end  then, he ad-
 dressed himself.
   "On some great change employed, he seemed,
   Or fixed, in cogitation deep."
    Prima facie, the  prosperity of  the Col-
 lege proclaimed  the ability and harmony
 of the  Faculty;  and upon  further inquiry
 he found, that it  stood  as  it deserved to
 stand, high in the estimation of the pupils,
 and Trustees.  In order to effect  a reform
* See Note—end of the work.
then, or rather a change, as no reform was
necessary, Drake found himself under the
necessity of waging open and undisguised
war.  The means by which this war was
prosecuted,  will appear in  detail, in the
course of these papers;  but that the read-
er may be enabled to connect the various
parts of them into one  uniform system, as
he progresses, it may not be amiss here to
give a brief outline of the  campaign, on
which we are about to enter. We must
bear in mind, in the first place, that  the
main object which Drake had in view, was
a seat in one of the chairs already filled—-
but as he could not carry on the war alone,
he was obliged, secondly, to guaranty seats
to his allies, for their contingents of labor
and  faithful co-operation in his designs.—
To show that this was the fact, I have only
to refer to  Drake's testimony before the
committee,  in 1833: "I told one of the
Trustees that I could not  enter the Col-
lege, unless my colleagues  entered also.—
That Dr. Henry was  unprovided for; [a
partisan unprovided for!]   That I was un-
der guaranties to them." page 111, Test.
   This preliminary contract being settled,
among the  belligerents, the next step is,
the adoption of such measures as will ena-
ble them to  carry it into  execution.  In
order to vacate one or more of the  Fac-
ulty, It was  necessary, First, to gain over
the Trustees and induce them to create
the required vacancies, from personal con-
siderations; or  secondly,  to  destroy the
individual reputation  of the incumbents,
and  effect their removal under pretence of
the public good; or if both these  schemes
should fail,  thirdly, to  prostrate the whole
College and then point to its wreck, as.
imperiously demanding the interposition
of the Trustees, in  effecting a re-organi-
zation  under different auspices; to wit:
under the auspices of those, who having-
won the victory were entitled to the spoils.
And finally,  if  the  Board of Trustee*
should, notwithstanding the endeavors of
the party to  coerce them  into measures,
still  prove  refractory—if they should be
possessed of sufficient intelligence  and
tact, to discover the true motives of Drake
 and his men; and if they should  be too
honest and independent  to  become  the
dupes of their artifice and intrigue—they
must themselves be  sacrificed—the  Legis-
 lature must be appealed to, and in the last
 resort, the people, their  constituents, to
"reform" the Board of Trustees which re-
fused to "reform" the Faculty, which re-
fused to vacate its chairs voluntarily, to 
(   io  )
gratify Doctor Drake  and his [adherents.
Here we perceive a deep-laid scheme of
policy, one worthy of the best days of Tal-
leyrand himself, and which, as I shall here-
after show, was but too faithfully carried
out in all its details.  The reader may start
with surprise and exclaim, can it be pos-
sible that the people of Ohio have allowed
themselves to be  so grossly imposed upon
—have permitted their best interests to be
sacrificed to the Moloch of party, for the
gratification of private ends]   I answer—
they have;  but it was  because they  have
not been permitted to know the true state
of things;—the public press, whose duty it
was  to  give  them such information, has
been recreant to  the high trust confided to
it—the sentinels  of public opinion  have
slept at their posts, and during their slum-
bers, the secret process of mining has been
carried on.  I shall pass over the  attempt
of Dr. Drake to gain the  Trustees to his
interest, by the arts usually employed on
such occasions, and  proceed to consider
his efforts to  depreciate the  character of
the  Faculty  of the Medical College of
Ohio.  To effect this object, numerous let-
ters were  written, and  pamphlet  after
pamphlet was published, and industriously
circulated among the people.   In this way
it was attempted  to create a counterfeit
public opinion, which coming back to the
centre, from  which it  was originally dis-
seminated, was asserted to be a legitimate
cause for reform.  At the  period of which
we are  writing, the  Faculty consisted of
Drs. Cobb, Smith,  Slack, Moorhead and
Whitman;  these  gentlemen  were all in-
cluded, in one sweeping charge of incom-
petency.  This charge was  not made di-
rectly  to the  Trustees, but in the  cir-
cuitous manner I have already mention-
<ed.   Dr.  Drake was not  the  engine
'brought to play against the Board, but the
^engineer who put the machine in motion.
The reader will recollect  that we are now
reviewing  the transactions which  took
place in the  years  1827-8-9-30, and that
the charge of incompetency was reiterated
through the whole  of  this period.   It is
this charge which I shall now seek to dis-
prove, and that out of the  mouth of Daniel
Drake himself; how far I  shall succeed in
the attempt,  I leave the public to deter-
mine.  First, then: with regard to the al-
legation, as it relates to  Drs. Smith and
Slack, we have seen that Drake selected
them himself, as  suitable  men to be  asso-
ciated with him as colleagues, in the first
.organization  of the  college.  They  were
•then  comparatively young and inexperi-
enced men, and if they were fit to be pro-
fessors, they were surely not the less fit, in
1827, eight years afterwards.   Dr.  Drake
has not only by this act proclaimed their
ability,but so long as it suited his interest,
bulletin after  bulletin was sent forth to
the people marking the  same declaration.
Speaking of the obstacles which the citi-
zens of Cincinnati had thrown in his way,
for the purpose of preventing him from
building up a Medical school, and in order
to show  that  these obstacles must have
been insuperable, sicce they crushed him
and  an able  Faculty beneath  them, he
says, (I have had occasion to quote this be-
fore,) "In the following summer, I succeed-
ed in obtaining the co-operation  of the
late distinguished and lamented Dr. God-
man, then a young man, and fearlessly as-
sert, that the institution young as  it was,
had then an abler  Faculty than belonged
to it  for the  succeeding ten  years;"—
(Drake's electioneering pamphlet  to the
Xenia committee.)  Drs. Smith and Slack
were the able men, or atleast two of them,    <
here spoken of.
  Thus we have the admission, that these
gentlemen, were not only members of an
able Faculty,  but  were fit associates  for
Daniel Drake himself!   Now let us see how
prettily, the said Daniel Drake can asperse
the character of these men when it is no
longer his interest to sustain them, and he
is trying to drag them from their chairs, for
the purpose of filling them himself.  Drake
it will be recollected was turned out of the
College by Professors Smith  and  Slack,
and speaking of that event, and the re-or-
ganization of the Faculty, he says, "After
my expulsion Dr.  Smith and Mr. Slack
were the only members of the corporation.
They immediately proceeded to an elec-
tion of officers, and the former was chosen
President, and the latter Registrar. They
then cast about among their friends, & the
friends of those physicians, who had labour-
ed at my overthrow, and selected a body of
thirteen counsellors, whose office it was to
sanction, whatever they might do; and who
I believe seldom disappointed the specula-
tions under which  they were chosen."—
Here we  find  Smith and Slack,  who were
such honest and able men, so long as they
submitted to be made use  of, as catspaws,
by Dr. Drake, charged—itisgenteely done,
it is true—but still charged, with the basest
motives in their subsequent official acts.—
Is any man to be believed,  who can thus
"blow hot and  blow cold,"  in the same
breath]   Nor is this  all, the same reflec-
tions are  cast upon the  "thirteen counsel- 
(  u   )
lors," whose names I have  in  one of my
previous numbers, given to the public, and
whose integrity in this community is known
to be above reproach.  So  much for the
charge ofSmith's and  Slack's  incompe-
tency.  Now let us proceed to investigate
that of  Drs. Cobb, Moorhead, and Whit-
man.  Dr. Cobb although first appointed
to fill the chair of the Practice of Medicine,
was very soon removed to that of Anato-
my.  Dr. Drake says  "Soon after my de-
parture for Lexington in  1823, instead of
casting about, for some developed, and ex-
perienced man, to fill the chair of the Prac-
tice of Medicine, the Trustees on the re-
commendation of Dr. Smith who had mov-
ed my expulsion, assigned it to Dr. Cobb
of the  State  of Maine, who had  been a
student in the same office, with Dr. Smith,
and had just graduated."   Now here are se-
veral reasons, why Dr.  Cobb was thought
to be incompetent.  The first  is, that he
was recommended by Dr. Smith, who was
a bad man, because he had assisted in turn-
ing  Drake out of the College.  This is
really so powerful an objection to Dr. Cobb
that I am utterly at a loss how to reply to
it.  I leave it to the sagacity of the read-
er.   The second objection is that Dr.Cobb
is from the State of Maine.   Howinfatua-
tuated the Trustees must have been, to sup-
pose, that  any  person  from Maine  or
Georgia, or  any  other  State, than that
which gave birth to the great Drake, could
be a man  of talents  or acquirements!   I
must confess, that little  as  I am disposed
to view Dr. Drake with  a favourable eye,
I did not suppose him to be  a mere man of
latitude and longitude.  The very fact of
his belonging to a liberal, and enlightened
profession—of his being a labourer in the
cause of science which  is  omnipresent.,
had given me a better opinion of him. But
I find him, instead of looking from  the
eminence, which he is supposed to occupy
in this community, over ourwhole country,
and priding himself upon being an Ameri-
can citizen, drawing lines of demarcation
between the several States—endeavouring
to excite the local prejudices of the people
against a man, whose reputation being un-
 assailable, could be  reached in no other
 way.   If a man's worth  in these United
 States  is to be tried by the touchstone of
 soil, then let each State go to work, and
 pass her alien laws.  We  are here in a new
 section of that same country, which  the
 united  exertions of ourcommon ancestors,
 without distinction of North, or South, or
 East, or West, rescued from  oppression,
and rendered free and happy—we have as-
sembled from all parts of the ifnion; have
become citizens  of Ohio—identified our-
selves, with her interest and honor, and are
we to be told by a man who preceded us a
few years in emigration that he is Lord of
the manor and we his copyholders]  It is
time, that these things should beputastop
to—it is time that those persons, who have
no better claims on the  community, than
such as arise, from their having been Chain-
ed a little longer to  the  soil, should be
made to give place to  better men.  I do
not of course mean any disrespect to those
of our older residents, who have too much
good sense,  to surround themselves, with
the narrow minded prejudices, which dis-
tinguished,  the ferocious,  and ignorant
clans of Scotland, some three  centuries
ago ; my remarks are  only meant for such
as would if they had the power, renew the
old feudal relation of vassal and Lord, and
sell a  man  on the soil, on which he waa
born, as "appurtenant thereto."
   But to proceed, Dr. Cobb  is  called  a
young man,  and therefore incompetent.
Was Dr.   Godman  a  young man when
Drake invited him to become a colleague]
"Grey hairs are  venerable," but  I have
not  yet learnt that a man's brains are to
be measured by his years.   Besides, this
objection was made  to Dr. Cobb several
years after  he had been in the chair of
Anatomy; and this is a chair which a man
who has been well educated in the dissect-
ing room, may fill with credit to  himself,
and  his school, without ever having been
by the bedside  of a patient.  Dr. Moor-
head was  objected to  because he also was
not born in the right place, being a native
of Ireland; although he has  been in this
country a long series of years, and has be-
come  heart and  soul, as  the  noble Irish
generally do, an American.  But let lis
see how nimbly Drake can leap over these
objections himself, when he has no longer
a motive to urge them.  Drake towards the
close of the  late war in 1831, having made
a breach in the Medical College of Ohio,
found an opportunity  of entering with all
his colleagues, on condition that Drs. Cobb
and Moorhead were retained.  Now  the
reader  will perhaps suppose, that in as
much  as  Drake, thought these men in-
competent, he could not of course,  con-
sent to  associate with  them.   No  such
thing; he had no longer any object to gain
in holding out; he had secured  seats for
himself and his  colleagues, to whom he
had given guaranties,  and Dr.  Cobb and 
(  18   )
Moorhead, being no  longer in the way,
suddenly became endowed in his eyes,
with all  the qualities of first-rate  profes-
sors,  as the  following letter from Drake
to the Trustees will show :
            Cincinnati, July 7th, 1831.
   Gentlemen:—In further  reply to  your
note offering me  the professorship of the
Institutes and  Medical Jurisprudence,  in
the Medical College of Ohio, I beg leave to
suggest the following plan of  consolida-
tion, as the only one, as far as I know, that
can leave me at liberty  to accept a chair
in the Institution.
         PLAN  OF  CONSOLIDATION.
   Anatomy, Dr. Cobb—Institutes of Medi-
cine and Medical  Jurisprudence, Dr. Pier-
son— Theory and Practice of Medicine, Dr.
Moorhead," &c.  &c.  Here we see the
man, who in 1830, to suit certain views,  at-
tempted  to  ruin  the  reputation of  Dr.
Cobb and Dr. Moorhead;  in  1831 to suit
certain o//ier views, recommending those
very gentlemen to fill two of the most im-
portant  chairs in  the  Medical College.
Thus  I have shown  that Drake's opinions
of Smith, Cobb, Moorhead and Slack, have
like the  sails of a ship,  been trimmed  to
suit every breeze  of selfishness  and inter-
est—that he has  pronounced these men,
honest or dishonest, competent  or incom-
petent, as the one allegation, or the other,
was  calculated to  serve  his  purposes.
In relation to the charge  against  Dr.
Whitman,  it is sufficient to observe, that
this gentleman was  associated  with  the
four persons above named—that he stood
high with his colleagues, who were com-
 fietent judges  of his merit—and that he
 abored diligently and efficiently in assist-
ing to raise the school, to that prosperity,
which we have  seen it once enjoyed.
   The objections  to Dr. Whitman,  belong
to the same genus,  with those  preferred
against Drs. Cobb  and Moorhead.  The
first named gentleman it seems had been
guilty of the unpardonable sin, in the eyes
of Dr. Drake,  of having studied his pro-
fession,  together  with  Drs.  Cobb  and
Smith, in  the office of a New England
Physician!  Oh ye Gods, what  sacrilege!
that the soil of Ohio  should  be stained
with the talents and  learning of  New Eng-
land!  Drake says "Thus at the same time
three of the professors of the Cellege had
been the private pupils of one New Eng-
land Physician."—(Drake's electioneer-
ing pamphlet  to  the  Xenia committee)
I Call the especial attention of my Eastern
friends in the state to"  this passage, and
the others above quoted to the 6ame point.
It behooves them to oppose  a  determin-
ed and united front, in the outset, to the
promulgation of such doctrines, as if car-
ried into  practice, threaten to  disfran-
chise them as American citizens—to ren-
der them incapable of holding an office of
honor or profit, in the state of Ohio.  One
would think, that Dr. Drake was  a  man
possessed of too much  knowledge of hu-
man nature; and too ambitious of popular-
ity,  thus  openly  to avow his  prejudices
against  particular portions of kour coun-
try,  to the world, however he might hug
those prejudices to his bosom  in private—
but the reader  must recollect that when
Dr. Drake made these impolitic disclo-
sures, he was writing an  electioneering
letter (published afterwards) to  a Medical
Society for the purpose of cheering  them
on in the good work of reform—that un-
der the impulse of strongly excited feelings
himself, he was endeavoring to operate
upon the passions of others with the  hope
of infusing new vigor in  the lungs, and
strength in the arms of his agents—so that
they might throw up their caps higher, and
shout longer,  and  louder,  hurrah! for
Drake and  reform!!! down with the Medi-
cal College of Ohio.  Dr. Drake, aware of
the injury which was likely  to  result to
his cause, from having permitted his pas-
sion to run away with his discretion, seeks
in a late pamphlet, Gazetting the new col-
lege, to palliate the unguarded out-pour-
ings of his  heart  by  putting a plausible
construction  on his intemperate language
—it is true he does  not refer  to  that lan-
guage, and offer to  explain it  away, but
he asserts de novo, that the  reason why
professors should come from  a  particular
section  of country, is,  that  they  may
bring influence with tnem.  This is all ve-
ry ingenious, but it reminds  me of a lit-
tle incident I once witnessed, and which
as it is a good illustration of an idea I wish
to convey to the reader, I will here relate.
A Captain  of one of our men-of-war, cal-
led up a seaman,'on one occasion to pun-
ish him for abusive language to  his offi-
cer—the seaman when he was ordered to
prepare himself  to receive  the  usual pun-
ishment, pleaded in defence  that, he was
"drunk," hoping to get off, under the old
maxim 'when wine is in, wit is out.'  The
captain very coolly replied, "that plea
won't answer my lad, I have some how or
other taken up the notion, that when  a
man is drunk,  he is very  apt to say what
he really thinks, but is afraid to say  when 
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he  is sober—go on  Boatswain's mate;"
and the man was punished.   The  reader
of course perceives, the similarity in the
conditions of Dr. Drake and the seaman;
the only difference  being that the  former
was thrown  off his guard by the excite-
ment of his feelings.   Subsequent to the
appointment of Dr. Whitman, another pro-
fessorship  was  created, being  the sixth,
and Dr. Pierson was added to the Faculty.
So soon  as this gentleman had taken his
chair, he came in,  as a matter  of course,
for a portion of Drake's  denunciations;
but as usual, when Drake found it to his in-
terests,  to sustain  him, he trimmed his
sails, on the  other  tack,  and recommen-
ded him, as we have seen in my last num-
ber, to  the Trustees, as a  proper appoint-
ment, to  the chair of Institutes of Medi-
cine, and Medical Jurisprudence*.  We
have now  arrived  in  our History at the
winter   of 1829—30.  The war we  have
seen, has lasted three years, and has been
prosecuted with vigor and  ability, by the
assailants.  Notwithstanding the fame  of
the engineer, at the head of the besiegers,
the  rebellious College still holds  out;  no
breach  is  made in its walls, nor is there a
prospect of its soon capitulating.  The
troops  are clamouring for  their pay, and
affairs  are growing  desperate.  The  in-
genuity and skill of their  leader, have so
far, been exhausted in vain, and  some
new expedient is rendered absolutely ne-
cessary.  One more  effort  must be made,
before  resort is had to the "forlorn hope"
—the Miami Faculty.  The students of the
College must be gained—sedition must be
sowed among them, and they must be  ar-
 rayed in phalanx against  their teachers.
 This is a deed of such "high emprise" that
its execution   can only be  entrusted  to
 their leader, who forthwith declares
 " Wherefore do I assume these royalties, and
       not refuse
 To reign,  refusing to accept as great a share
 Of hazard,  as of honor, due alike to him
 Who reigns."
 Will my professional readers believe, that
 Dr. Drake in the winter of 1829-30, in vi-
 olation of all etiquette and propriety,  en-
 tered a debating society of the pupils of the
 Medical College of Ohio;  and  might have
 been heard  during their sittings, haran-
guing  its members,  who were generally
 youths  of, from seventeen to twenty one,
 on the  different subjects  connected with
 the administration,  of their school; and
 with which he had  no  sort  of concern.
Will  they believe that Dr. Drake, whose
motives are always so disinterested, during
these  nocturnals,  vented  his  spleen,
against the different members of the Fac-
ulty,  and induced the  class,  to petition
the trustees  to make him a professor, in
tie College]  And yet he did all this. We
thus have seen, that Dr. Drake in waging
"war to  the knife"  against the Medical
College of Ohio, laboured to remove  the
professors, by destroying their reputation,
as honest men, lecturers, and  men of sci-
ence ;  preferred  charges of  corruption^
against the Board of Trustees—ingratiated
himself with the students of the College,
and detatched them from the Faculty; cir-
culated,  by letter, and otherwise, such re-
ports of the  sinking  condition  of  the
school as  were calculated  to keep stu-
dents aloof from it; and all this, to deprive
men of their chairs, whom  he  had before,
or has since,  sustained, and recommended
to the public, as persons worthy of their trust,
and confidence.  Nay more, he has from
time to time convened Medical Societies,
in various parts of the State to re-echo his
denunciations—he has assembled them to-
gether in general convention and has caus-
ed them  to send memorials to the Legisla-
ture, to induce that body  to  remove the
independent board of Trustees, whom^he
could not make  plastic enough, to carry
out his measures;  and to  appoint Drake-
men in  their  stead.  To show that  this
was the  case, I extract from,  vol. 7,  No.
28, page 624 of the Western Journal,  edi-
ted by Daniel Drake, M. D., and devoted,
not as the reader might-suppose,  to poli-
tics, but to Medical Science. "As far back as
the year 1827, [the reader will recollect this
was the  first-year, Drake took the field]
the Third District Medical Society [which
subsequently, as  the  reader will see,  be-
came the pack-horse to the party,] sent a
circular [by whose  order the deponent
sayeth  not]  to the other societies of the
State, expressing  the  opinion, that   the
professorships in the College were not ad-
equately filled.   In  1828 the  Medical
 Convention, consisting  of delegates from
 the District Societies, passed a resolution,
desiring the  General  Assembly, to  do
something  for the improvement of  the
school"  &c. &c.  &c.  Now  how does it
 happen that these societies slept so quiet-
 ly during the four years of Drake's absence
 in Lexington, and were suddenly aroused
from their slumbers, for  the first time,
immediately on the  return of that person
 to our city]   The same men who held pla- 
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ces in the College, in  1827, were in in 1824,
and  if there was cause  for complaint in
1827, there  was the  same cause in 1826-
5-4—but no, we hear not  a  syllable—the
repose of these District gentry is as sound
and complacent, as though  there  was no
such  institution  in   existence.   These
things are too plain  to be misunderstood;
no man can look at the facts, without be-
ing convinced how these  afiliated socie-
ties were strung  together,  and who was
the author  of the concert  among them.
Thus  we see, that Drake being unable to
destroy the Faculty—failing in his  efforts
to prostrate the school, by keeping away
its students; by means of his  emissaries,
stump orators, and societies, made a bold
attempt to "reform"  the  fountain head of
"reform," the  Trustees.  Will it  be be-
lieved, that  the College,  not  only with-
stood all these assaults, but was actually
advancing in prosperity,  and  yearly in-
creasing the number of its  students]  It
is even so—but Drake succeeded  at  last in
making [his  way  to  the  faculty,  when—
farewell prosperity.
  When a man quarrels with  every body,
if there were no othe:- evidence than this
single fact,  the presumption  is  that  he
must be wrong; and I have shown that Dr.
Drake has been at "swords points" with
every set of men with whom he has been
professionally connected, from the com-
mencement of his  career to the  present
period.  To recapitulate  briefly, and not
to go out of our own state,  he  has quar-
reled  (the reader will recollect I am  not
speaking here of the trcnsactions, subse-
quent to  1830") with Professors,  Smith,
Slack, Bohrer, Godman, Brown, Rogers,
&c, of the  old school;  with  Professors,
Cobb, Smith, Slack,  Morehead, Whitman,
Pierson,, ofthe second school; with these
baiter gentlemen, he was not  connected,
but was quarreling for their places, (I am
speaking of course  of  the  professional
quarrels  of  Dr. Drake; with  his  private
matters I have nothing to do.)  He quar-
relled vvith  two Boards of Trustees, com-
posed of Messrs. Burke ,Davies, Este, Har-
rison, Longworth,  Ruter, Spencer, Stone,
Williams, Corry, Duncan, Wright,  Bur-
neti Torrence, Gesl, Storer and  Gano.  He
has not only quarreled with the gentlemen
last named,  but he has impeached their
integrity, and abused them to the public,
as the  following extracts from his elec-
tioneering pamphlets, together with those
already given, will show.   Speaking of the
appointments  made   by  the  Trustees,
Drake says "The  simple fact was, that
each  of the Professors was the favourite,
family physician, personal friend or rela-
tive of some one or two of the Trustees;
and as the former were equal to a majority
of the latter—six to eleven—a majority of
the Board  were  at all times ready to re-
sist changes in the Faculty.  A  sort of
feudal relation  of  vassal and  lord  was
established; and as long as  the Professor
recommended himself by personal con-
siderations to the Trustee, the latter owed
him protection." {Xeniapamphlet.) Now
I request my readers to put these charges,
together with  the name  of Doctor Daniel
Drake, in one scale, and the names and
known standing of the Trustees in the oth-
er,  and ask themselves in a spirit of in-
quiry, after the truth, as to  the motives of
the former, and  the honesty  and  public
spirit of the latter, which of the two scales
will  preponderate.  Are our  public  of-
ficers, who  quoad their particular duty,
represent the sovereignty of the State, to
be assailed in this manner by an individual,
and when an attempt is made to parry this
assault, and others, and cast  back  the
arrows on the  assailant himself, is the  cry
of "personality" to be  raised, as  it  has
been, with the hope of detering the citi-
zen from a discharge of his  duty?   But to
proceed, Dr. Drake not being able to  ob-
tain seats  in  the Faculty for himself, and
his  partisans,  notwithstanding the  nights
of vigil and toil he had spent by the lonely
glare  of his  lamp—notwithstanding  the
letters and  pamphlets which   were con-
cocted in secret, and distributed, "far and
near" among the people—notwithstanding
his  plots and intrigues to revolutionize  the
Trustees, when all other  means had failed,
once  more  takes leave  of the idol of his
heart—once more deserts that fair city,
which he would fain have the people now
believe, has ever been hugged to his fond
bosom, with the enthusiasm  of a lover.
In 1830 Dr. Drake was elected a professor
in the Jefferson  College  at Philadelphia,
(this being the fourth college  he had  en-
tered in the course   of twelve years,)  ac-
cepted  the appointment, and forthwith
repaired  to his post.  In doing this,Doclor
Drake either designed to become  a  per-
manent resident of Philadelphia, or he did
not.  If he did, then he has misrepresented
the fact, for he  expressly says "Finding
that by this event [his removal to Phila-
delphia]  I should  soon  be placed under
favourable  circumstances  for selecting
Professors, for a new Western  Institution, 
(  21   )
I applied to the Trustees of Miami Univer-
sity for a  warrant."   Here  Dr.  Drake
plainly states, that he had projected a new
medical school in the West, and that  the
only object he had in accepting a profes-
sorship in the Jefferson College, was, that
he might have a better opportunity of se-
lecting professors for his new school.  If
he did not  design to become a permanent
resident in Philadelphia, then he deceived
the institution he was about  to enter, as
the following extracts will show.  Extract
from the letter of Dr. Ely, secretary to
the Board, informing Dr. Drake of his ap-
pointment ;"your acceptance will complete
our  arrangements, and much  gratify us;
while  it will  afford  you, we  flatter our-
selves, an extensive field  for usefulness,
 and even  for increased celebrity."  Here
 we find,  that the Trustees looked to a
 permanent union of Dr. Drake with their
 institution,  because they  say, that when
he accepts their arrangements will be com-
plete.  Dr. Eberle also in a letter to Dr.
 Drake says  "I  have just  received your
 favour of the 3dinst., and am exceedingly
 gratified  with its contents.  Be assured,
 that  we all  rejoice, at  the  prospect  of
 having your valuable services in our insti-
 tution, and we trust that your connection
 with it, will turn out as satisfactory, and
 advantageous to yourself, as we believe it
 will to us."   Now what could Dr, Eberle
 have meant, when he spoke of the advan-
 tages to be derived  from Dr. Drake's  con-
 nection with them; and  what sort  of a
 connection could he have alluded to]  He
 could not surely have meant that the Jef-
 ferson College was to be benefited, by Dr.
 Drake's making  a  convenience of it for a
 few months, while he could select profes-
 sors for a Western School;  and then aban-
 doning it.  Dr.  Drake did not,  he says,
 accept unconditionally, but sta'ed that  he
 was to be at liberty to resign, at the ex-
 piration of twelve  months if he saw fit—
 now this condition was perfectly nugatory,
  and was put in no doubt, for the sole pur-
  pose of making it appear,  that he was not
  over-anxious for the appointment—a com-
  mon rule with some  great men, when they
  know they have their appointments secure-
  ly in their pockets.  His letter  of  ac-
  ceptance  containing the condition, could
  not alter the expectations of the Trustees,
  as to the permanency of his  connection
 with them, because every professor has the
 right to  resign, whenever he  may think
 fit, independently of any stipulation; and
 if it did produce this effect upon them, he
must have written a letter  of a different
sort, to  Dr. Eberle, as  this gentleman's
answer  shows plainly, that he  at  least,
looked to a  permanent  union  with Dr.
Drake.  Thus we see, that Dr. Drake when
he accepted an appointment in the Jeffer-
son College, held out the  idea to the Trus-
tees, that he was a about  to become a per-
manent member of their institution, at the
same time that he  tells us, in  effect he
meant only to make  a  convenience  of
them.   View this  matter which  way we
will, Dr. Drake  has been guilty of  one of
two things, either of expatriating  himself
from his dear Ohio, or of insinuating him-
self into  an institution under the garb of
friendship, with the secret design of draw-
ing off the members of  its  Faculty,  and
thus breaking up the school—to serve his
own purposes.  It is  my own opinion—
drawn from all the circumstances attend-
ing the transaction—that he has been guil-
ty of both.  I believe that Dr. Drake de-
signed to take his final  leave of Cincinnati,
when he  accepted a professorship  in the
Jefferson  College;  but  that  in  a  few
months, finding that he could not play the
Dictator  in that institution, and that he
was not so great a man as he had imagined
he was to be—he then resolved to  gratify
his restless prosensity for change—by com-
mitting a deed which  I will  not name.  I
 will give the facts however, and my read-
 ers will by this means be  enabled to as-
 sign it  that  nomenclature,  which it  de-
 serves.  Dr.  Drake, as we  have  seen, re-
 paired to Philadelphia  in 1830, and entered
 upon the duties  of his  chair—he,  having
 accepted, the arrangements were  complete,
 and the lectures  commenced.  While he
 was thus engaged, advantageously for him-
 self, and  the College, as  the Faculty be-
 lieved, he conceived the design of making-
 one more effort to revolutionize  the Med~
 ical  College  of  Ohio—this effort was to
 be made by means of a  new school—the
 celebrated "Miami Faculty." Now I have
 elsewhere stated  that this institution, was
 gotten up by Dr. Drake fir the express
 purpose  of  serving  him, as a  " spring-
 board,"  from which he and his party were
 to take their grand leap into the chairs of
 the Medical College  of  Ohio—and here I
 must exhonorate those gentlemen  front
 Philadelphia,  whom Drake inveigled into
 his project,  from any  participation in his
 real designs; they were not informed of
 the true state of  things.  Drake  told hi*
 own story in  his own way, to them, as he
 has to every one else.  To  show that  I am 
(   *2  )
  not in error, as to Drake's object in estab-
  lishing the "Miami Faculty," I shall re-
  fer to one  of his own letteis, written  to
  the Xenia Committee; here it is: (he is
  speaking of the " 3Iiami  Faculty")  "I
  believed if an  able Faculty  could be or-
  ganized, one of two  consequences would
  ensue—IheGeneral Assembly would either
  reform  the  Trustees  of the College, and
  appoint men who  would bring the new
  professors  into that  institution;  or they
  would turn over the College edifice, and
  other property  to the  University (Miami)
  in trust  for its  Medical  department; and
  by vacating the Board of Trustees, and
  Faculty of the former, terminate  all its
  operations •-—either of which results would
  benefit the public,  as  far as  the new
  Faculty might be  superior to  the  old."
  We have it here declared in  as plain lan-
  guage as a man can use, that the sole design
  for which the new  school was organized.
  was to effect the prostration of the Medi-
  cal College of Ohio—that this  was to be
 done  in one  of two ways—either, the
 Trustees were to herqformed, and new men
 appointed in their stead, who would give
 Drake and his partisans professorships, or
 the Legislature was to  h->.  frightened, or
 coerced into annihilating Trustees, Faculty
 and all, and giving up the college  edifice,
 library, apparatus, &c,  to the said Drake
 and his colleagues. When  I  alluded  to
 this institution in my first number, I stated
 that   the  present  Cincinnati  College,
 brought into existence under the auspices
 of the same men,  was intended to effect
 the same object; and to prove this allega-
 tion I quoted Drake's own  words, taken
 from a bulletin, announcing  his  new pro-
 ject to the people.  Now if any man has
 x.cill a lingering doubt as to the justness of
 this allegation, let  him  compare the cir-
 cumstances  under which the two institu-
 tions  were created.   He will  find  from
 these  papers, that  the  circumstances  in
 both cases were precisely the same: and if
 he believes that the "Miami Faculty" was
 designed to effect the object which Drake
 declares it was, he must also  believe that
 the Cincinnati College stands in consimil-
 casu—because it accords with our experi-
 ence of human nature to believe, that if a
 man under certain circumstances,  does a
.certain act, with a.particular design—when
 he does that same act under similar circum-
 stances, he is actuated also by the same de-
sign, lnshortwe have nootherway of judg-
ing of men's motives—there  is reason to
giejieve that if a man under the influence
 of revenge stab another,  under the same
 influence, the same result will follow; and
 it is upon this rule, that our whole code of
 presumptive evidence is based.  Dr. Drake
 finding of late that the new school  "wont
 take" as a battering ram, has endeavored
 to dress it up in the borrowed clothes of a
 rival—the wind blows thus, and the weath-
 ercock,  has shifted  its  position.  Hear
 him, "It is the policy of the State, to en-
 courage salutary  emulation, to  multiply
 the places and  means  of instruction, and
 to raise our young men above a depend-
 ence on a single institution, which becom-
 ing defective may disappoint their hopes."
 (Supplement to  the Western  Journal &c.
 edited by Daniel Drake, M. D.)  Dr.Drake
 applies these remarks to bis new school, in
 order to show that a "salutary emulation"
 between it, and  the Medical College of O-
 hio will be the consequence of its creation,
 and that we ought, to have at least two per-
 manent schools, so that if  one  should  be-
 come defective, the other may supply its
 place, until the  defective  one gets under
 way again.
  Before I leave this part'of  my subject, I
 must connect Dr. Dake's entry into the
 Jefferson  College at  Philadelphia, with
 another transaction, to which I  have al-
 ready alluded.   It will be recollected that
 in 1817 Dr. Drake removed  to Lexington
 as a Professor in the school at that place.
 Of course the gentlemen who invited him
 into that institution, expected, as did the
 Trustees of the Jefferson College, that Dr.
 Drake was to become a  permanent mem-
 ber of their Faculty, and was to identify
 himself with their interests.  Now  what
 was the fact.  Will it be  believed,  that
 Dr. Drake in the year  1816 after he had
 consented to become a co-labourer in the
 Transylvania University,  formed a  part-
 nership in this city, with  Dr. Rogers  for
 the purpose  of establishing a school in
 Cincinnati]  That he was full of this pro-
ject when he left the city! and that he went
 to Lexington with the design  of breaking
 up that school, and that when this should
 be done, having  no longer a rival, he was
 to return here and carry out his  project
 with  Dr. Rogers?  Dr.  Dudley in a pam-
 phlet bearing on this'point, expressly char-
 ges Dr. Drake with this treachery, and  I
 refer my readers to that publication.
  Dr. Drake having obtained  permission
 from the Trustees of the Miami Universi-
 ty, to  establish  a  medical  department in
 that institution, and being  himself made
a professor, and  charged with the selec- 
(  23  )
tion of the  remaining  members of the
Faculty, departed, with this commission in
his  pocket to Philadelphia.  (See Drake's
letter to the Xenia Committee.)   While
here, employed  as a professor  in the Jef-
ferson College, and looked upon of course,
as a co-labourer in  the institution, he was
secretly at work, endeavouring to  effect
a schism between his colleagues, with the
view of drawing off a portion  of them, to
fill  chairs  in  his newly projected  college
in  Cincinnati.  By misrepresenting  the
actual condition of the Medical College of
Ohio, and  painting in imaginary colours,
the bright  prospect which  awaited  his
new undertaking,  and by alienating  the
professors  from  each other, by means of
those little arts, which he knows but too
well how to use, he succeeded  in effecting
his   object---the Jefferson College was
thrown into a state  of disorganization, and
Dr. Drake returned to Cincinnati, with
several of its professors.  Upon his return
to  the state, the Trustees of the Medical
College of Ohio, anticipating, what could
not fail to be the result, of the establish-
ment of a new school in Cincinnati, under
the auspices  of Dr. Drake, and with the
avowed purpose of making war upon  the
old one,  to  wit: the deterring students
from entering either, offered  for sake of
peace and harmony to compromise  mat-
ters, by vacating one half the chairs of
the old Faculty, and filling them with Dr.
Drake  and  two of his colleagues.  This
proposition however, was  rejected;  not
because Dr. Drake had  any objection to
entering the old school, and  abandoning
the new one; not because  he was unwil-
ling to give up arival, which by engender-
ing "salutary   emulation" might  confer
benefits on  the  community; but because
he  could not go in, full handed;  some  of
his   colleagues  to  whom he  had  made
pledges, would  remain  unprovided  for.
"While the subject was under considera-
tion, its chairman, [the chairman of  a
committee of  the  Legislature] and  the
agent of the Board, requested an interview
with me,  when, they jointly proposed as a
compromise, that myself, and  two  of my
colleagues, Drs. Eberle  and  M'Ciellan
should leave  the Univerity, and enter the
College ; three of its (able and lauded) pro-
fessors  being displaced  to make way for
us.   I told them at once that I felt myself
pledged, both publicly, and privately, not
to  desert  any  of my  colleagues,  for  the
purpose of entering the college; that Drs.
Mitchell,  Staughton,  and Henry would re-
main  unprovided  for, and  that nothing"
could induce me to leave them  behind;"
&c.   (Drake's letter to  the  Xenia  Com-
mittee.)  The Board of  Trustees, now
added another chair to the  Faculty, ma-
king seven in all;  and in order to effect a
reorganization which would  please all
parties, and thus put an end to  the strile
and contention in the medical community,
declared all  the  professorships vacant.
The revolution which Dr. Drake had la-
boured so zealously to produce for years,
was   thus  partially  accomplished—the
Faculty  which stood between  him, and
the gratification,,  of  his  desires, was thus
overthrown, and the next step to be con-
sidered was  the  order,  and  manner  in
which he and his  adherents, should take
possession of the vacant chairs.  We per-
ceive in all these transactions, an earnest
desire on  the part of the Trustees of the
Medical College of Ohio to do every thing
in their power to advance the  interests of
medical education in the state.  They felt
that if they could conciliate  the enemies
of the college by blending the two institu-
tions in one,  in addition to securing the
combined talents of both, they would put
an  end to those  feuds, which  are ever
destructive of that peaceful atmosphere,
which Science must breathe, in order to be
healthy.   But, although  the Trustees were
actuated by the best  of motives, they erred
in taking  the steps  they did, as no doubt
every member of  that Board is  now con-
vinced.  They did not know the  man with
whom they were about to unite, or they
never would have permitted him to re-en-
ter the college.   The institution,  at the
period of this proposed amalgamation, had
about 130 students—it had set Dr.  Drake
with all his influence  at defiance, and was
yearly increasing in  reputation;  but in an
evil  hour he is permitted to vault into one
of its seats, and in less  than six months
afterwards, it is almost entirely broken
up!!!  But the Trustees having gone so
far  as to  vacate  all the  chairs in the
Faculty, went  a  step farther, and made
Dr. Drake in effect their agent for the se-
lection of  the new professors.   To  oblige
him,  they created another  professorship,
and  not only  permitted him  to bring in  all
his colleagues, but gave  him the privilege
also of assigning to them such chairs as he
thought proper.   Dr. Drake consented to
go into the college, on condition, that the
Board would  adopt, a plan  of consolida-
tion, drawn up by  himself,  and  not  other-
wise.  This condition was acceded to, and 
(  24   )
he  accordingly  entered.  The following
letter will  show  how  he  disposed of the
chairs.
            " Cincinnati,  July 1th, 1831.
  Gentlemen,—In  further reply to  your
note, offering me the Professorship, of the
Institutes,  and Medical  Jurisprudence  in
the Medical College of Ohio,  I beg leave
to suggest the following plan  of consoli-
dation, as the only one as far  as I know,
that can leave  me at liberty to  accept a
chair in the institution.
        Plan of  Consolidation.
  Anatomy.—Dr.  Cobb.
  Institutes of Medicine and Medical Juris-
prudence, Dr. Pierson.
  Theory and Practice of Medicine, Dr.
Moorhead.
  Surgery, Dr. Staughton.
  Obstetrics,  and diseases of women and
children, Dr. Henry.
  Materia Medica and Botany, Dr. Eberle.
  Chemistry and Pharmacy, Dr. Mitchell.
  Clinical Medicine, Dr. Drake.
  I would prefer the chair to which I have
affixed my name, to the one offered to me
by  the Board;  bu,t  if the friends of Dr.
Pierson, would prefer to place  him in that
chair, I will acquiesce.  If the Board fear
an injurious augmentation of  expense,  I
will accept either of these chairs, without
having it obligatory on the students,  to
take my ticket.   I  am induced  to make
this suggestion,  by the  hope that it will
promote  that  consolidation, which  your
honorable body have expressed a desire to
effect, and which could not fail  to prove
beneficial to the interests of society.
    I have the honor to be, respectfully
            your obedient servant,
                      DAN. DRAKE.
  To the Hon. Board  of Trustees of the
Medical  College of Ohio."

  Thus it appears that Dr. Drake in en-
tering the Medical  College of Ohio, not
only chose his own  chair, but designated
that of every other professor.  This is a
fact which I request my readers, particu-
larly to note, as it will have an important
bearing on the subsequent part of this  in-
quiry. On  the  same  day, on which the
Board of Trustees, received Dr. Drake's
letter,  his  plan  of  consolidation was
adopted, and  the reorganization of the
Faculty, rendered complete.  At the same
time, the "Miami Faculty"  being fundus
officio, died naturally.  The Medical Col-
lege of Ohio being  revolutionized in this
manner, we find Dr. Drake occupying the
same position  in relation  to it, which  he
stood in in 1819-20-1—he is once more a
member of its  Faculty, and associated with
colleagues of  his own choosing.   Here
then I  repeat  the question which I asked
in one of my previous numbers.  Why did
not Dr.  Drake, whose friends now claim so
much for  him, build up, when he had so
favourable an opportunity, the splendid
medical school, of which he is incessantly
declaiming to  the people]   Could circum <
stances have been more auspicious]  Gould
his friends have asked more for him] Could
he have  required more himself?  The col-
lege was  as effectually changed by the
revolution it had undergone, as thongh it
were a distinct institution—the old order
of things  was  broken  up, and the  new,
established—in short the  reins of  reor-
ganization were placed wholly at  Doctor
Drake's disposal, for the express purpose
of giving him  another opportunity, of do-
ing  that,  which  he had  boasted  of his
ability to  do, for the previous ten years.
Let those  friends  of Dr. Drake, who still
insist that injustice has been done him in
this community, recur to the period (1831)
of which I am treating, and ask themselves
if ever the will of one man, was so humbly
bowed to before.   If Dr. Drake had been
forced into the Medical College of Ohio,
with colleagues who were obnoxious to
him, personally,  or who were  men  of in-
ferior talents, and a  quarrel  had ensued,
there would have been no great cause to
complain.  But when we see  him  on this
occasion, as on previous ones,  choosing his
men, and in less than six  months setting
them all "by  the ears," and breaking up
the Faculty in confusion, there is cause to
complain—there is reason to believe, that
Dr. Drake is so unfortunately  constituted,
as to be incapable of living harmoniously
with any set of men—that he is a disturber
of the repose of society, and  unfit to  be
entrusted with power.
   In 1831 Dr.  Drake took his  seat as  a
professor in the Medical College of  Ohio,
under the circumstances above  stated; of
his conduct after this event I propose to
speak in  detail.   In the   mean time the
following extract  from a report made to
the Legislature, by the Board  of Trustees,
composed  of  Messrs. Burnet,  Spencer,
Storer,  and others, will   show  in a few
words, how speedily his brilliant career in
the  College  was  run.   (Among   other
things, they are speaking of the efforts of
the  Board  to conciliate him.)  "In proof 
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of that, we refer to  the minutes  of the
Board,  which show, that in 1823 he was
appointed  by  the Trustees to the chair of
Theory and Practice [the highest chair
in the school]  which he refused.  In 1827,
when he left  the school at Lexington,  a
committee was appointed to invite him to
become a member of our Faculty, by of-
fering hiin a chair, which he also declined,
and in the year  1831, for  the  purpose of
accomplishing this  object,  the  Trustees
vacated all the chairs in the school—cre-
ated two  new ones, and appointed to each
chair, the person mentioned by him, and
gave to himself the  chair he had selected.
When  this arrangement was  completed,
we had reason to believe, that further op-
position would cease, and that the institu-
tion would enjoy repose, but to  our great
surprise,  before the close  of the first ses-
sion the Doctor became dissatisfied,  with
his own arrangements, instigated the class
to apply to the Legislature, to change the
government of the institution, and having
failed in that project, resigned his chair,
and resumed  his opposition.  Thus it ap-
pears we  are doomed  to meet the oppo-
sition of  men, who are resolved,  not to be
satisfied with any thing, short of the un-
limited control of the destinies of the
institution."  This paper comes from high
authority,  and  I would particularly im-
press it upon the mind of the  reader.   It
appears then, that although Dr. Drake had
guided the course of the revolution, which
he had himself  brought about, to its final
termination, he  no  sooner found  himself
out of the excitement, and  turmoil   of
intrigue in which he had been engaged so
long, that it had become  a second nature
to him, than  he insisted upon tearing up
his own foundations—turning out all the
Trustees, and involving himself, and the
school "head and  ears" in another  revo-
lution!  The reader will naturally suppose
that there must  have been some adequate
cause   to  produce  these  disorganizing
movements, in so short  a  time—that Dr.
Drake must have discovered some flagrant
abuse, calling loudly for reform.  No such
thing—the whole secret is, that Dr. Drake's
 dissatisfaction, arose from his inability to
 take away another man's  chair; for the
 purpose  of adding  its  perquisites to his
 own!!!  This allegation,  however unwil-
 ling the  reader may be to believe it, will
 be amply sustained by  the  proofs.  Here
 they are.  Dr.  Drake not finding his chair,
 that of Clinical Medicine, as profitable as
he had imagined it would be, soon became
dissatisfied with it, and charged the Board
of Trustees,  with  favouritism,  in having
given  Dr. Pierson the chair which they
did,  in preference to giving  it to him
(Drake) as they ought to have done! "Soon
after this the session opened; and although
the Faculty was in a state of decomposi-
tion, till after the  time, when a circular
should have gone forth; and I was placed
in a station, which my intelligent medical
friends could not fail  to perceive, would
not admit of my doing much, and therefore
the little  attraction I might have exerted
on the pupils was  greatly reduced, still
the class was larger than the College ever
presented before."  (Xenia pamphlet.) Dr.
Drake is here telling  the public, that  he
was  placed, in a chair, in which his genius
was cramped—that he had not  that op-
portunity given  him,   of reflecting  honor
upon the school, which he ought to  have
had—that, in fact, he had been assigned to
a chair, in opposition  to  his own wishes,
and  those of his "medical friends."  Now
who placed  him in the chair of which he
is complaining]   Did he not choose  it
himself]   (See his " plan of consolida-
tion.")  Does it become him to say, after
having 6tated in his letter to the Board,
that he would rather have the chair, which
was ultimately  assigned to him, than tha
one which was offered him by  the Board,
that he was forced into a chair, not of his
own choice]  When he makes this state-
ment does he notcontradict theplain fact,
as it is proven out of his own mouth]  Dr.
Drake in  another part  of  his Xenia
pamphlet, informs us,  by way of reconci-
ling his contradictions, that circumstances
induced him to pretend a desire for his
chair, when in  reality he was averse to
occupying it.  (Page 31.)  What! circum*
stances induce a man  to dissemble!  Cir'
cumstauces drive a man from the paths  of
rectitude, and plain-dealing!   Why, this
is the palliating plea for every crime that
is committed in the country.   Admit that
he did mislead  the Trustees  in his "plan
 of consolidation," how were tbey to know,
 that they were  deceived, and that Dr.
 Drake had made a misstatement to them]
 They took him at his word and gave him
 the chair he asked for, and when he finds
 them disposed to gratify him, he rails  at
 them for being so stupid as not to discover,
 that he did not mean what he said!  This
 was the first link in the chain of measures.
 forged by Dr. Drake for the  purpose  of 
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dragging another man from his chair—he
endeavoured to bring odium on the Trus-
tees,  by convicting  them of partiality.
He next proceeds to  state that  his chair
did not afford sufficient  employment  for
him, and that therefore the duties of some
other  chair  ought to be added  to  it.
The lectures  commenced, and  the first
three weeks were sufficient .o establish
the unpleasant fact, that Clinical Medicine
c uld not be sustained as a separate chair."
{Xenia Pamphlet.)  If it could not be sus-
taided as a separate chair Avho was to blame
for its establishment]   Did not the Trus-
tees create  it at  the suggestion  of Dr.
Drake]  These two positions being assu-
med to wit:   1st,  That the Trustees did in-
justice to Dr. Drake by appointing  him to
an inferior chair, and secondly, that there
was one chair too many; the next thing to
be done, was to decide on  whose  chair Dr.
Drake would rather have added to his own.
Let him speak for himself. "Dr. Pierson
had no claims upon them, to  allow  him a
year for preparation ;  one  third of that pe-
riod would actually elapse,before he must
lecture; by refusing his request, and uni-
ting the Institute to Clinical Medicine,  I
Would have a good professorship, and  the
number would be reduced to seven, which
the Board had professed to regard  as  the
most suitable."  (XeniaPamphlet.)  Now
such language amounts in effect to this—
Gentlemen of the Board  of Trustees, my
chair is not quite as profitable as I could
wish it, but if you will take Dr.  Pierson's
chair away from  him  and give  it to me,
why then, 1 shall have a good fat office, and
be a more important  man in  the Faculty.
You may think this will violate your com-
pact with Dr.  Pierson,  gentlemen;  and
perhaps it would not be strictly  honest to
deprive that gentleman of his bread, with-
out any cause of complaint  against him;
but you must recollect, that 1 am the great
Daniel Drake of the Mississippi valley;—
that I have  revolutionized  more medical
schools, than any other man in the United
States—that I have been elected six times
a professor, in various institutions—that I
have founded Hospitals, Orphan  Asylums,
and Infant schools—that I am an old man
—that I have been twenty five years in the
"Backwoods"—in fine that  your   school
cannot possibly do without me, and there-
fore, gentlemen, you  must come into my
measures.  If you do  not,  I'll instigaate
the class to  apply to the Legislature to
turn every man of you out; and if I fail in
this, I'll turn the  school  "upside down,"
and leave it; both of which  threats, the
reader will find, he put faithfully in exe-
cution.  Before Dr. Drake, however, pro-
ceeded to this extremity, he endeavored
to effect his object by other means.  With
this view he wrote a letter to Dr. Pierson
in which he endeavored  to  "bully" that
gentleman off the course, by frightening
him  into a resignation.  He knew  very
well, that   every honorable man would
prefer saving his feelings, by resigning, to
being turned out of an institution, and he
therefore told Dr. Pierson very plainly in
this  letter,  that if he did not resign,  he
(Drake) would use all honourable means to
turn him out.  I wish the  reader particu-
larly to recollect, that  the  chair of the
Institutes which Dr. Pierson held, and from
which Dr. Drake was  thus  endeavoring,
honourably to oust him, was, during the or-
ganization of the Faculty, offered to Dr.
Drake himself, who declined it, and insis-
ted that Dr. Pierson should have it—saying
that he preferred the chair  of Clinical
Medicine for himself. That in  order to
gratify Dr. Drake, Dr. Pierson was removed
from the chair  he  originally held,  to the
one  thus designated by Dr. Drake.   That
Dr. Pierson lest he  should  interrupt the
harmony of Dr. Drake's "plan"  consent-
ed to the removal,at an immense sacrifice,
of time, and labour, on condition that the
Trustees would give  him time to prepare
for his new duties, which was agreed to by
them.  The  reader will naturally be anx-
ious to know, what objections, Dr.  Drake
had to Dr.  Pierson.  None  in  the  world
save that the latter gentleman stood "be-
tween him and his ambition," and did not
come from the right part of the country—
New York.  It is true, he very indelicate-
ly accused  Dr. Pierson  of incompetency,
which he has disproved himself, by recom-
mending him for a chair; in  addition  to
which Drs. Eberle,Cobb,Moorhead,Mitch-
ell,  and others have stated unequivocally,
that they conceived  him,  every way qual-
ified to discharge the duties of his station.
  Dr. Drake having failed  to force  Pro-
fessor Peirson's resignation, next addresses
himself to  the class, and endeavoured to
enlist their  prejudices  in his  favour, by
making them believe, that the  Trustees
had dealt  unjustly by him, in giving him
an inferior chair in  the  school.  Here we
behold another attempt on  the part of Dr.
Drake to sow sedition  among the pupils,
and  array  them in  opposition  to   their 
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teachers.   Now I would particularly call  copy of this memorial, I refer to page 21
the attention of every candid man, in the  of the Xenia pamphlet.   To show that Dr.
community, more  especially  those  who  Drake  instigated the class to  petition the
have children  to educate, to this transac-  Legislature, on  this  occasion, and the
tion.   Are our citizens willing that their  Trustees  on another, I shall extract some
sons should become the arbiters of all the  portions of the evidence, which was given
disputes  which  arise  in  their  various  be'ore  the Senate-committee in 1833. Dr.
schools]  Are  they willing to pay their  Drake  is on the stand  as a witness.  "Dr.
money to make theirsons, partisans of this  Drake—I was privy to both petitions.   1
professor or that professor.  Is it dignified,  knew the terms of both, and encouraged
in a member of a Faculty—a man of some  them."  Page 165  Copy of Record. Dr.
fifty years of age, and of abundant experl-  Ford is on the  stand, as a witness.  "Dr.
ence in the world,instead of endeavouring  Ford—Great excitement, and memoriali-
to heal the little  wounds  of himself, and  zing by the class—much stump oratory—
his brother professors—instead of hiding  the course of instruction was impeded by
their  little bickerings from the gaze of it—was present at the Hospital,  [this is
their  pupils—instead  of endeavouring  to  another institution,withdistinctTrustees,
reform abuses, if any exist, by making a  against whom Dr. Drake had  also prejudi-
proper representation, to the  constituted  ced the class,] Dr. Drake rather influenced
authorities, who are  legitimately charged  than otherwise, the passions of the pupils,
with the matter—to win over by attention, and recommended them to  petition the
and flattery, the youth whose education  is Trustees."  Ibid 367.   Notwithstanding
confided  in  part  to  his  care,  for the all Dr.  Drake's  threatening letters, and
purpose of effecting indirectly, and  by stump  oratory,  he was unable either, to in-
rerolution, that,  which  an   enlightened duce Dr. Pierson to resign—or to  coerce
body of men—the  representatives of the the Trustees, to violate their faith by re-
people, and sustained  by them, refused to moving him, or to memorialize the Legisla-
 do]  Are the halls of our Colleges, instead ture into  reforming  the Trustees.  The
 of being "vocal with the  accents of  in- Legislature very properly  treated the me-
 struction," to become the  arence for juve- morial as it deserved to be treated, with
 nile politicians, where by the  midnight- contempt.  Having failed thus far, what
 torch, they are to be  harangued on im- was to  be  done next] It would not be
 portant points of state policy, and taught  Drake-like—it would  not be heroic,  to
 to forget  their studiei, in party conflicts,  abandon an enterprize, however unholy,
 to serve the interest of him who instigates in medias  res. No,  another effort was
 them to revolt]   Every enlightened and  made, which as we shall see,  resulted  in
 judicious parent, must unhesitatingly avow  the final overthrow of Dr.  Drake himself,
 his disapprobation of such proceedings—  instead of Dr.  Pierson.  It will be recol-
 he sends his son to a medical school, to be  looted, that five of the professors of the
 taught the science  of Medicine by those  Medical College  of  Ohio, including Dr.
 persons who purport to teach it by the cir-  Drake,  were taken from the Miami Facul-
 culars, and not to  become an instrument  ty. The latter gentleman,  therfore, cal-
 in the hands of one  professor to deprive  ciliated  on  the  adherence to him,  of  his
 an obnoxious colleague  of  his seat.  A  old associates,  in  any  movement   he
 large  number of the young men  being  might think proper  to  make.  Believing
 gained by these means—and  what profes-  that  by the  withdrawal  of himself and
 sor may not  gain  his  pupils, by the same  colleagues, at  any time from the school,
 arts of flattery, and declamation, coming  he  could  compel  the Trustees  into his
 from one who is their superior in age  and  measures, there  is no doubt, that he de-
 standing__they were  induced  to send a  liberately formed the project of turning
 memorial to  the Legislature, praying, that Dr. Pierson out of his seat, at the same lime
 a change might be made in the Board of that he  recommended this gentleman as a
 Trustees—that men from a distance  might proper appointment—he had been his bit-
 be appointed, (because, as in the words of ter enemy  for the  previous  three or four
 the poet, " 'tis distance lends enchantment years, and had never ceased to persecute
 to the view," they would  have  a better him, until he found it necessary to dissem-
 opinion of Dr. Di ake,) and that men should  ble, and put on the garb of friendship the
 be chosen, who would abolish one of the  more  effectually to destroy his victim. Dr.
 professorships, (Dr.  Pierson's]).   For a  Drake then, being un&ble, as I have be- 
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 fore stated, to "reform" the Boaid of Trus-
 tees, determined as a last resort to resign,
 and if possible to  draw off his colleagues
 with him.  He says "Thus all  hopes of a
 radical reform, and a just, impartial and
 liberal administration of the affairs of the
 institution were blasted. [The same insti-
 tution which he had revolutionized to suit
 his own fancy but a few months before; tha
 is, if we may believe what he says in his
 "plan  of consolidation."]  The Trustees
 were elected for three years,  unless the
 Legislature shouldplease to supersede them
 with others; and not  choosing  to remain
 for that length of time a supernumerary of
 the Faculty, [in which  he had  had the
 choice of seats.]  I saw  that no alterna-
 tive was left me, but to resign—" &c.
 [Xenia Pamphlet.)  He accordingly ten-
 dered his resignation to the Board of Trus-
 tees, and with  a clear-sightedness (if  I
 may be allowed the expression) which that
 Board  have manifested  ever since,  it was
 promptly accepted.  And Dr. Drake was
 as promptly disappointed, as to the course
 he  expected his colleagues to  pursue.
 These  gentlemen with an independence
 which does credit to them, refused  to  be-
come participators in Dr.  Drake's unholy
scheme of persecution, and  when  he re-
signed they permitted him to  retire alone
to his closet—where he  might review the
past transactions of his life at leisure, and
*'hatch new plots"  for  the destruction  of
harmony and order. How does Dr. Drake's
conduct on this  occasion, comport with
the professions which he is continually ma-
king viva voce, at the corners of our streets,
and distributing in electioneering pam-
phlets, all over the State, of his disinterest-
eddevotion to the interests of Medical ed-
ucation, and more especially of his patri-
otic efforts to build up a great school in Cin-
 cinnati]  If he had been so desirous of ad-
ding to the honor and prosperity of the
Medical  College  of Ohio, independently
 of personal  considerations, why could he
not have contributed bis portion of labour
 and skill, in the chair of Clinical Medi-
cine, although it d;d not turn out, to be so
important as he had supposed it would when
he first chose it]  Although the  chairs of
Clinical Medicine, and the Institutes might
have been  less profitable or respectable,
when sustained  as separate chairs would
their duties have been less ably performed
by  Dr. Drake  and Dr. Pierson, jointly,
than by Dr.  Drake alone]  And if the two
chairs could be  better filled, by  the united
 exertions of Ihesegentlemen,  than by (he
 sole exertions of either of them, was Dr.
 Drake likely to advance the prosperity of
 the school, by insisting upon Dr. Pierson's
 dismissal]  A plain  answer to  these ques-
 tions will convince us that  Dr.  Drake
 could have been  actuated  by none other,
 than the most selfish motives, in endeavor-
 ing to depiive  Dr. Pierson  of his chair;
 and  that therefore,  when  he  talks of his
patriotic exertions to build up the Medical
College of Ohio, we must henceforth un-
derstand him to mean—his honourable ef-
forts to build up himself, by  pulling down
another.   Dr. Drake  having resigned his
professorship, in the words of the Trustees,
"renewed his opposition."   Nor ought we
to be surprised, at the Doctor's being in a
bad humour with himself and every  body
else, in consequence of his recent discom-
fiture.  He had not anticipated such are-
sultofhisschemes,and may therefore be sup-
posed to have been exceedingly chagrined,
and mortified.  He had like all other-adroit-
tacticians, outwitted himself—he  had run
beyond the "length of his  line," and was
thunderstruck when the Trustees accepted
his resignation,  which  he, in his good o-
pinion of himself never dreamt  they would
have the moral courage  to do.  There is
something too, so humuliating in dropping
a man's  title, more especially if he has
been fighting for it all  his life—the unex-
pected descent from Professor, to plain
Doctor Drake  was enough  of itself, to
have induced him, to rear high the banner
of opposition, and gallantly resolve to con-
quer, or die, beneath its folds.  Soon after
Dr, Drake retired from  the school, the pro-
fessorship of Clinical Medicine, which as I
have before stated, wa; created at his  sug-
gestion, was abolished.
  The Trustees still believing, that there
were too many professorships in the  Col-
lege, consulted  most of the respectabl e
physicians in the city as to the expediency
and propriety  of reducing  the number to
its  present standard.    Dr. Drake gave
his opinion among others, but as he had left
behind him in  the Faculty one of his espe-
cial  proteges,  whom, as he had acknowl-
edged him to  be an "untried man," he
was  fearful the Trustees would dismiss, in
the event of a reduction, he professed  him-
relf  decidedly opposed to such a proceed-
ing.  (See  Xenia pamphlet,  page  23).
Now behold the inconsistency of the man.
We  here  find him contending for seven
 professors.   How many professors were 
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there in the Medical College of Ohio, from
1819 to 1822, when it was under Doctor
Drake's  control!  How  many professors
did Dr. Drake choose to  associate with
him, when he applied for the charter]  I
extract from  the Senate-report, page  4.
"Under this  act of incorporation, the in-
stitution was organized, and continued to
exist, until the close of the year 1822. But
if we are to credit the testimony  before
us, its history is little  more, than  a history
of strifes and contentions.  The number
of students was not  large, and if at any
time, the number of professors exceeded,
three, it was soon reduced to that number,
and from that to two."  How  does it hap-
pen,  that in  1831  seven professors were
requisite to  teach a science, which  in
1822, three were  thought competent  to
teach]   The great science of Medicine
had undergone little  or no  change, and
therefore could not have required a great-
er number of teachers,  at the onetime,
than at  the other.  True,  but those cir-
cumstances, which  formed  Dr. Drake's
opinion  in 1822, did not conspire to form
it, in 1831—At the former period, he was
"in,"  and President  of the  school, and
therefore the fewer men, he had associa-
ted with him, the better he could control
them, and  play the master.  But  in  1831,
he was one of the "outs," and being fear-
ful that one  of his men, would be turned
out  also, if a reduction took place,  we
have seen that he opposed that  measure.
We have seen also that prior to his enter-
ing  the College, in 1831, he recommended
that the number of professorships,  should
be increased to eight, so that all his Miami
colleagues might be provided for, but that
he and his  associates  were no sooner seat-
ed, than he insisted, that one of the chairs
should be  abolished, for the  purpose ^of
getting  rid of a man, whom he could  not
control, and seizing  on his chair himself.
Thus whenever Dr.  Drake has been out,
and  it was necessary to create  a chair,
to bring him in, the  College has had one
professor too few,  but  whenever he  has
been in, and one or more of the professors
stood between him, and his dominion, then
the College  has had too  many.  In short,
it appears, that Dr.  Drake believes for
the time  being, just what it is his interest,
to believe, and no more.   It being  the
opinion  of disinterested men, that there
was a supernumerary  chair in the Faculty,
it was abolished.  As a matter of course,
one  of the  chairs  beipg removed, there
was a professor to  be removed  also, and
the Trustees, dismissed Dr. Henry.  This
gentleman immediately  enlisted in  the
ranks of the opposition, and in accordance
with the Drake-system of tactics, wrote
a  pamphlet, abusing his  late  colleagues
and the Trustees,  and administering flat-
tery  in large doses to Dr.  Drake; which
doses were not lost on  the patient,  as
they gave  him the  nerve,  forthwith, to
take up his pen, and return the compli-
ment—so  that our good  citizens had an
opportunity of witnessing, on this interest-
ing occasion, the "laughable farce of You
tickle me, I tickle you."  In the  fall of
1831 the college had 131 students.  In 1832,
it will  be recollected, that the Cholera
spread its terrors  throughout the United
States, and among  other places, visited
Cincinnati, with  its desolating breath.
The  prevalence of this disease, not only
shut  up, most  of our schools, but suspen-
ded,  or greatly impeded the operations of
commerce.  The Medical College of Ohio
partook of the general stagnation, and in
in the following session, the  number of
students,  was  reduced to 72.  The  next
year however, when the alarm  had subsi-
ded, and the people were resuming their
occupations, the  class rose to  102.   In
1833 Dr.  Staughton, the Professor of Sur-
gery  died, and Dr.  Alban G.  Smith, of
Kentucky,  was elected  to  the vacant
chair.   During all this time Dr. Drake
had been unrelenting in his enmity to the
College—he paused for a  while, it  is true
on the death of Dr.  Staughton, and con-
descended to apply for the vacancy, which
that  event had  created, but being  foiled
by Dr. Smith's being chosen, he resumed
his opposition  with more  bitterness, than
ever.  I  wish the reader to remember
this disappointment  of Dr. Drake's, as it
will  serve to  show whence a portion of
that gentleman's spleen and ill will for Dr.
Smith, proceeds. There are few vain men,
whose friendship, can survive, the success-
ful competition of a rival, however wor-
thy that [rival  may be.  There is another
light in which I wish Dr. Drake's applica-
tion  for an  appointment, in the Medical
College to  be viewed.  This gentleman
had heaped unsparing abuse on most of the
members of the Faculty; he had denounced
them, as incompetent to  discharge their
duties—he had accused them of the most
dishonest transactions, and  when he saw
an opportunity of re-entering the College,
from which he had  so unintentionally hurl-* 
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ed himslf, he solicited  to become their as-
sociate.  Yea, he asked to  be associated
with  Dr. Moorhead,  against whom, in  a
late pamphlet, he has reopened the flood
gates  of detraction.  What will  those
persons at a distance say, who have heard
the auto-biographic notes of  the Drake-
bugle, when they learn, that the Doctor's
neighbours—those  who live  in  the same
city with him, refused to give him  a va-
cant chair, in the Medical College]  If  a
man is not known where he resides, he  is
not known any where, and  that man who
is no longer  considered worthy of  confi-
dence, by his  neighbours, ought  not cer-
tainly to be  confided in, by  his fellow citi-
zens at large.  The avenues of approach
to the College being  all  closed,  and Dr.
Drake seeing no other means, by  which
he  could regain his lost seat, resolved  to
impeach the  Trustees of  various  high
crimes, and  misdemeaners, to the Legisla-
ture.  For this purpose he drew up a num-
ber of charges and specifications,  and as
he  is rarely the  visible agent to do any
thing himself,  he put them  in the  mouth
of a Dr. Martin  of Xenia,  who with an
amiable  docility permitted himself  to be-
«ome the prosecutor. The  Legislature,
anxious for the prosperity of their school,
and consequently willing to reform abuses,
if any should exist,  promptly appointed  a
committee of investigation, who forthwith
proceeded to  Cincinnati, to  execute the
trust confided  to them.  I  have already
made extracts from the report, which was
tbased on the evidence taken by this com-
mittee, pointing  out Dr. Drake's course,
during  his  early  connection  with the
Medical College of Ohio, and I shall  there-
fore, now confine  myself  principally  to
such parts of it and the evidence,  as re-
late  to recent transactions.   I have else-
where stated  that Judge Hitchcock, now
on the  Bench of the Supreme  Court of
this State, was chairman of the committee,
who made the report to the Senate, and
that it was adopted by thirty-four  out  of
thirty-five Senators.  Dr. Drake had been,
for some time, complaining  of the apathy
of  the  Legislature, but was at length,
about to be  gratified by a judicial investi-
gation, of what he supposed to be a  rotten
system  of policy, pursued by those  in of-
fice, since that system had of late  exclu-
ded  him from  a participation in the  affairs
of the College.  How he was gratified we
shall see. Extract from the Senate re-
port, page 8.  "The first charge  is,  "That
for several  years past, the general policy
of the Trustees of the Medical College of
Ohio, in the city of Cincinnati,  has been
marked by  partiality and prejudices, and
indicates an indifference to the reputation
and  welfare  of  said College, and to the
advance  of  medical  science  therein.'
"This charge is a grave one, and if sup-
ported by the evidence, must operate very  ,
much to the disadvantage of the Trustees.
Under it are fifteen specifications.  It will
be impossible for  the committee to state   j
them minutely, nor is it necessary,  as   ,
many of them  contain substantially the
same accusation,  although  expressed 'in   '
different words.  The evidence relative to
these different specifications,is to be found
principally in the depositions of Dr. Dan-
iel Drake, and  Dr."John F. Henry,  or
rather the  evidence, which is intended to
sustain thsm.  In  the  first  specification,
the  Trustees, from their appointment in
1822, are charged with having employed,
unknown,  and  incompetent professors,
[the  same charge, which Dr. Drake is still
reiterating,]  in defiance  of the interests  J
of the Institution  and of public opinion,  1
and of continuing  to uphold them,  until  "
forced by a rival institution to abandon
them in 1831.   The committee find from
the  evidence, that the Trustees had diffi-   ,
culty,  in the first instance, in organizing
a Faculty; nor  did they,  for some  years,  t
organize one to  consist of more than four  »'
members.   They  appear to  have  been
anxious to  engage the services of Doctor
Drake, but he  refused.  At length  Drs
Slack, Moorhead,  Cobb, and Smith, were
appointed, and commenced lectures.  Dr.   'i
Drake in his testimony, speaks of the in-
competency of these men, or rather states
his objections  to  them.  His objections,
however, do not go so much to show, that
they were destitute'of qualifications, a3 that
they were not just the men he would have
appointed; as for instance, it is objected  l
to Dr. Cobb that he was a young man, but   \
more particularly, that he did not  come
from the right section of country, he be-
ing a native of the State of Maine. To
Dr, Moorhead it is objected, that he is a
foreigner,  having been  born, and educa-
ted  in Ireland.   Drs.  Slack and  Smith
had  been first introduced  to the school by
Dr.  Drake himself,  and if  they were in-
comptent,  the Trustees might have been
deceived  by  his  recommendation.  Let
this  be as it may, the  committee are in-
duced to believe  from the evidence, that 
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 the Trustees did the best they could, under
 existing circumstances, and that the gen-
 tlemen  appointed professors,  were well
 qualified to discharge the duties  of  their
 appointment.  They do not believe, that
 because a  man  is born and educated in
 one of the New-England States or in Ire-
 land he is disqualified from being a pro-
 fessor, in a medical or any other college."
 The substance  of this extract has  been
 stated by way of argument before, but as
 it belongs more appropriately to  the peri-
 od of which I am treating,  1833,  I give
 it the reader in  the words of Judge Hitch-
 cock himself.
   Another of the charges ? gainst  the Med-
 ical College of Ohio, was, that it educa-
 ted  its pupils  too cheap.  Dr. Drake is
 called to the stand as a witness, and inter-
 :alia, testified as  follows;—"I believe a low
 price to be calculated, in the estimation of
 the profession, to disgrace aschool.  It is
; regarded  as a means of drawing pupils.—
 I believe from what I have seen and heard,
 and  known, that it creates  an impression
 that  the  Trustees  believe the professors
 cannot attract students but by saving them
 money.  Students  Who have  means, have
 gone to other  schools,  from pride.   It
 draws poor people who do no  credit to the
 school."  Now   let every citizen  of  the
 state mark well this language, and draw
 from it  the character of the witness who
 used  it, and his notions of the utility of  a
 medical  school. Instead of rearing  up
 among us  an institution which would dif-
 fuse its usefulness throughout all classes,
 and  ranks of society, we are told, that we
 ought to confine the benefits  of medical
 education  to the rich. We are  told that
 the rich man's son, must'notbe associated,
 in the halls of our Colleges, with the poor
 man's son—that if  we admit the honest
 farmer's or mechanic's son,  to the ben-
 efits of instruction,the  rich  man's son,will
 from pride seek some other institution,
 and  that our school will  be disgraced in
 consequence!   Are  our  people  prepared
 to tolerate the distinction of ranks and
 orders among them] and are they willing
 to contribute to the support of an  insti-
 tution,  within  whose  aristocratic  walls
 none but  the privileged can enter]  Who
 are the ' 'poor people who do no credit to the
 school]"  Are  they  not  the majority of
 our  hardworking population] men who
 till the soil, and drive the loom, and wield
 the  instruments of their trades] and are
 all  these  to be  counted as  nought] Arc
their sons less intelligent, less honest, less
worthy  of the patronage of the state than
those  of the rich Banker, who perhaps
has built  his palace  on ground moistned
by the tears of the widow and the orphan]
Is the poor  man to  have the privilege of
paying  a  lax to  educate  the rich man's
son,  while  the doors  of the  institution
which be is taxed to support, are forever
barred against his own]  I put these ques-
tions to a sensible and discriminating peo-
ple—believing  that they have heretofore
been  duped  into supposing a man their
friend,  whose every interest is opposed
to theirs; who to gratify his insatiable
ambition  for power undfame, is striving
to build up a splendid school, whose halls
shall  be  the resort of wealth and influ-
ence  to the  exclusion  of our own honest
citizens.  When  I  speak  of Dr. Drake's
desire for fame, I do not mean that sort of
fame  which  a successful prosecution of
scientific  or literary studies betows upon
a man—no,he does not seek such fame as
Dr. Eberle for instance, has acquired, by
making his  name  familiar alike  to  the
American and the European student of
medicine,  as  the author  of one of their
most  valuable  text books—if he did,his
course would be different—he would speak
and  write less of himself and more of his
profession; but he is ambitious  of being
at the  head  of an  aristocracy  of young
men, who returning home from their stud-
ies will carry  his name with them—who
will speak of him  as the great politician
and master spirit of the West.  Hear what
Judge  Hitchcock says on this subject; he
he is speaking of the  testimony  of Dr.
Drake, as above quoted:   "The commit-
tee cannot agree with the witness, in this
opinion upon  this  subject.  They  sup-
pose  that  it  depends upon the attain-
ments of a student, whether he does credit
or not to  a school, and not upon his pecu-
niary   means.  They have  yet  to learn,
that a good scholar disgraces aschool, be-
cause he  is  poor, or  that a bad scholar
adds credit to it, because he is rich.  Nor
do  they believe  it is desirable  to retain
a student whose pride is such as to  induce
him to leave  a schooj merely because he is
not charged an extravagant sum for  tui-
tion."  Let  the  poor man ponder well
on these sensible remarks  of the commit-
tee,  and ask himself if he will longer hes-
itate  betwe«n Judge Hitchcock and Dan-
iel  Drake—between  a man who would
educate the  sons of the people, and one 
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who would  make them  "hewers of wood
and  drawers of water" to the sons of the
rich.  The reader will recollect that soon
after Dr. Drake took his  seat in the Fac-
ulty, in 1831, he conceived the  idea of de-
priving Professor Pierson of his chair, but
that having failed in  this,  he  resigned
himself.
  In 1833 Dr.  Drake  alledged  that  the
Trustees had forced him  to  resign.  The
committee say, "In review of them [the
facts] they find no evidence, that Dr. Drake
was compelled to  resign.  On  the  other
hand, the resignation appears to have been
voluntary, and to have been made, because
the Trustees, would not suffer their ideas
of propriety, to be  controlled by one of
the professors in their  employ.   This ac-
cusation then, is notsustained by the proof,
but on the contrary, it  is  completely dis-
proved."  The  report goes on  to remark,
"The next accusation in order is, that the
Trustees, expelled one  of the Faculty
without cause, thereby giving offence to
the students.  To sustain this charge, the
facts are simply these.  After the resigna-
tion of Dr. Drake, the Trustees, after con-
sultation, with the Faculty, were induced
to believe, that the interests of the institu-
tion required, that the  number of profess-
orships, should  be reduced  to six, which
reduction was made.  After the reduction,
there was one  supernumerary  professor,
and they selected Dr. Henry, as the one
who should be discharged.   This is term-
ed an expulsion.   The Committee view it
differently, and they have  seen nothing in
the evidence, to satisfy them, that this ar-
rangement, was inconsistent, with the best
interests of  the  College.   In  the  next
place the Trustees are charged, with hav-
ing improperly abolished  one of the pro-
fessorships.  From the testimony, the com-
mittee are induced to believe, that in abol-
ishing the professorship  alluded to, the
Trustees acted, not only properly, but dis-
greetly, and wisely.  The next charge  is,
that the  Trustees employed incompetent
professors, and retained them, when more
competent ones could ha\ e been employed.
The committee suppose this accusation to
have referred to the professors  employed,
at the time of, and subsequent to the amal-
gamation of the Miami Faculty, with the
Faculty  of the Ohio  College.   Of these
professors, three were taken from the old
Faculty, or  the Faculty  of the Ohio Col-
lege.  AlthoughDr. Drake doubts the com-
petency of these  professors, the commit-
tee are incUi.,,; <  to believe, by the whole
evidence, that there is in truth, no cause to
doubt.  The  other five were taken from
the Miami  Faculty, and although the same
witness, has some  doubts, with respect to
part of these, it is worthy of remark, that
with the  exception of himself, they are
men of his  own choice, and received their
appointments, on  his  recommendation.
The committee are  not informed, when
the Trustees  could have employed better
professors,  unless they had continued Dr.
Drake himself.   They have no doubt of his
qualifications, and believe he is capable of
doing honor to any medical school.  But
they are compelled to say, from the facts
disclosed in this case, that it is extreme-
ly problematical, whether peace and har-
mony could prevail for any length of.time,
in a medical institution,  with which he
should be connected, unless it was entire-
ly under his control,  and management."
I call the attention of the reader,  partic-
ularly to  the  closing paragraph of the a-
bove  extract. He will  remark that the
whole state senate, with  the exception of
a single member areofopinion, after calm-
ly reviewing, the whole  of Dr.  Drake's
professional career down to 1833, that this
gentleman  is incapable of living in harmony
with any set of men unless they are tame e-
nough to become his puppets.  If Dr. Drake,
in 1833, was the turbulent factious and o-
verbearing colleague, which the senate re-
port represents him to have been, is there
any reason, to suppose him altered for the
better, in 1835.   That Dr. Drake may an-
swer this question himself, I will  give an
extract from  one  of his late letters to the
Board of Trustees.  He is speakiDg of his
aversion, to  being associated  with  Dr
Moorhead,  with whom, the reader will re-
collect, he solicited,  to be associated in
1833.
  "When ex necessitate, I  was associated
with him in 1831-2,1 carried myself in ev*-
ery official  interview, with whatever dis-
cretion, moderation, decorum and courte-
sy [ahem!]  I posses; but in the spring of
1833, when he gave testimony to  the com-
missioners  appointed by the Governor, he
represented me as overbearing, unjnst and
tyranical.  [After all which, in the follow-
ing summer,  I begged to he again  associ-
ciated with him.]  If such was my deport-
ment then, it would be  bad hereafter; and
the peace  and dignity  of the  College re-
quire  that I  should  not come into it, in
connection with  one [with whom I in vain 
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solicited,  a connection in 1833 after all the
above circumstances had transpired]  who
is strongly predisposed [as he was in  1833
when I  made my application]  to recognize
in me those unamiable qualities."  {Sup-
plement to the  Western  Medical  Journal
page 12;)
  The report continues "In the fourteenth
and fifteenth specifications, the Trustees
are charged with having  improperly abol-
ished one of the professorships, to wit that
of the Institutes, and also with having mis-
managed  the library.   The  first  of these
charges has been already considered.  To
sustain the latter,  there is  no sufficient
proof.  In the second general charge, it is
alleged, that the Trustees have  been guil-
ty of gross negligence, in the  management
of the  funds of the State, committed to
their hands, for the benefit of the College.
The committee  have  sought for proof to
sustain this charge, but have not found it,"
&c.  "The fourth  general  charge, is a
reiteration  of the charge of favouritism,
contained in one of the specifications un-
der the first,—which has been already con-
sidered, with the additional  accusation a-
gainst the Trustees, of having unjustly per-
secuted, able, respectable, and unoffending
individuals,  whom they  were  bound  in
good faith to protect.   Under this charge,
there are ten specifications, which it is un-
necessary to report, as there is no evidence
applicable to them, which goes to  prove
any impropriety of conduct, on  the part of
the Board of Trustees." &c. &c. &c. The
reader will by this time, be able to judge,
how Dr. Drake  was pleased  with the re-
sults of his investigation into the  affairs of
the College; and from the triumphant ac-
quittal of the institution in 1833, he may
form  a  tolerably correct estimate of the
truth, or  falsehood of the charges, alleged
against it at the present day.  The report
concludes—"The committee have  been
thus particular, with respect to the charges
made against the Trustees of the Medical
College, because, if those gentlemen had
been guilty of the improprieties, attribu-
ted, it would seem to  be necessary, that
there should  be  Legislative  interference
to correct the  evil.  Further,  the Trus-
tees are peculiarly the agents of the State,
andbeing such agents,theirconduct should
be closely scrutinized.  With tha minor-
ity of the committee,  appointed by  the
Governor to visit Cincinnati, we must say,
however,  that the charges against these a-
gents of the State are not sustained by the
evidence." &c.  One  would  think  that
Dr. Drake after being thus pointedly re-
buked, by the Senate of the State, would
have silenced his battery against the Med*
ical College, but so far from this being the
fact, he is daily  dressing up the same char-
ges which were "not sustained" by the evi-
dence, and sending them in their new ver-
biage, all over the  State, with the forlorn
hope of carrying his point) in spite of pub-
lic opinion.  Having given  a synopsis of
the report, I shall  now proceed to notice,
some items of the evidence, on which it
was based.  I have alleged in sundry pla-
ces in the course of this inquiry, that Dn
Drake's effoits are directed  solely to the
building up, of his own fortunes; whatever
may be the result,  to the interests of the
community.  I  believe that  an impartial
review of Dr. Drake's  professional career
will convince the unprejudiced, that so far
from giving his bona fide, and disinterested
aid to the Medical College of Ohio, he has
invariably, whenever the interests of that
institution have conflicted with his own
private views, abandoned the formerto ad-
vance the latter.  If any individual in this
state, still has a doubt of the justness of
this conclusion,—if he still believes that
Dr. Drake in a  twelve years war against
the Medical  College,  was right,  and  all
those against whom he warred were wrong
—if he  still believes  patriotism  to have
been  the  main-spring of his actions, let
him read, and read carefully the following
additional testimony,  as  to the motives of
the man, and the passion as well as inter-
est, by which he has been actuated, in his
toilsome, unwearying,  and relentless war-
fare of half a life time, to pull down,  our
only State Medical  Institution.  Extract
from the Record—"Dr.  Mitchell testified
—That his recollection of the conversation
with Dr. Drake in Dr.  Eberle's presence,
on the  subject  of Dr. Henry's removal,
was not vague, but as distinct and fresh as
if it had occurred  yesterday;  and as Dr.
Drake has denied it on  oath, he would now
repeat what he said  yesterday.  At the
close of the conversation which I detailed
yesterday, the  circumstance  which  has
been denied took place.  I stated  yester-
day that Dr. Drake brought Dr. Eberle to
my laboratory some days previous to the
close of the lectures, early part 1832, and
previous to the day of Dr. Drake's resigna-
tion.  The subject  in  conversation was
mainly relative to Dr. Henry.  I  mention
this, because I was told,  I was misunder- 
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stood yesterday.  That Dr. Drake was u-
sing arguments and persuasions to us, to
use our influence, for the retention of Dr.
Henry in the Obstetrical chair. As I knew
he was speaking for  effect, I made a single
reply—that we had quarrels enough in the
Jefferson College [Phila.,] and that we did
not expect to  have more, upon  coming
here.  That Dr. Drake would get nothing
out of  us, but that we  had made  up  our
minds.  He then said  that if he did not
succeed, or bring about, or accomplish his
views in regard to this matter, he would
tear down [or blow xip] the Institution, if he
perished beneath Us ruins." The same in-
stitution, which Dr. Drake affirms he  has
been near twenty years of his life, patriot-
ically endeavoring to build up!  The  wit-
ness proceeds—"This was his substance,
or his words—the latter part of the decla-
ration is verbatim.There is agentlemanin
this house who will  swear, that  this  was
communicated to him by  me, that very  af-
ternoon.  Dr. Drake was  frequently  in
my laboratory using arguments  and per-
suasions to this  effect.—This  was before
the 19th of January, the date of his resig-
nation."  Dr. Moorhead is called.  "Wit-
ness testified, that a very short time  after
that conversation, [alluding to the above]
Dr. Mitchell took occasion to repeat the
terms which he has related  here,  and at
the same time coupling them with  cer-
tain observations, as to the impression they
had made upon his mind."
   Dr. Eberle is on the stand.  Dr. Eber-
le  testified  that the facts occurred under
his observation, and that they varied  no th-
ing from Dr. Mitchell's statement, "except
 that I regarded it  as  a  threat  by  Dr.
 Drake to induce Dr. Mitchell and myself
 to abet in keeping  Dr.  Henry in  the
 school, or prevent a removal.  Dr Drake
 came  to my  house or  office, and said he
 had  understood the Trustees were taking
 measures to remove Dr. Henry—that Dr.
 Mitchell and I could prevent it if we spoke
 to the Trustees in behalf of Dr. Henry.—
 He called on  us to' exert ourselves in be-
 half of Dr. Henry, arid said  that if we did
 not do so,  and prevent the removal, he
 would ruin the school—he would blow it
 up if he perished beneath its ruins.  I then
 requested him to go to Dr. Mitchell's lab-
 oratory.   There the  same  conversation
 took  place, and he there made the same
 declaration, "that if the Trustees did remove
 Dr.  Henry,  he [Drake) would  blast the
 school, if he perished  beneath its ruins,"
and called  God to witness.  This circum-
stance is distinct on my mind—my recol-
lection  of it is  as fresh, as if it occurred
yesterday.  It made an impression on my   j
mind at the time."  Since Dr. Drake has
denied under oath the statements made by
Dr.  Eberle and  Dr. Mitchell, I will here
introduce  testimony,  as  to  declarations
made by  Dr. Joseph  N. McDowell, for
the purpose of corroborating the evidence
of those  two gentlemen.  And although
it  is a good rule in law, that one man is
not to be prejudiced by  the declarations of
another,  generally, yet it is a rule  equal-
ly  well established,that when you connect   I
men together in a conspiracy to do a cer-   ]
tain act—the declarations  of one of the   I
parties, quoad that act, are the declarations   I
of all; and it is under  this latter rule that   j
I  offer  Dr. McDowell's declarations—he   i
and  Dr.  Drake  have  for some  time past   1
been striving in the  same   work of "re-   f
form,"  and are at this time, members of   1
the  same institution,  got  up avowedly,   }
with the  design of reforming the Medical   j.
College of Ohio.  Dr.  Cox is on the stand ;
"During  the session I attended a regular  ff
private  course,  by  Dr.  McDowell,  on
Anatomy and Surgery.  I was anxious to   %
obtain all  the  knowledge  of  Anatomy
and Surgery possible,  and in conversation   |
with Dr.  Cobb, asked if he would have a   •
private class, he said his  health  would  -
not permit it, and advised  me to attend . j
Dr. McDowell's course.  I knew  that
members of the Faculty have encouraged
students  to attend Dr. McDowell's course
also, and that his class was enlarged by it.   £|
Dr. McDowell on various occasions, both   L
in and out of the class, used a great many
 hard expressions against the Faculty, and   jg
 particularly on  one evening, he spent the
 whole evening,  instead of  lecturing,  in
 abusing them.  He  swore  he had waged
 eternal  warfare against them, and would
 never cease his efforts  till he got  Dr.
 Cobb's  chair, and that he was in combi-  ^
 nation with other individuals against the
 College."  Question  by Dr. Mitchell.—
 "Do you remember his words on that oc-
 casion]"  Answer. "Not  circumstantial-  t
 ly—he spent the hour  usually devoted to  '
 lecturing, in this sort of harrangue. He of-
 fered  to bet any sum of money, that the
 next  winter the class  would not amount
 to more than fifty.  That he had a combi-
 nation with his brother  or cousin in Ken-
 tucky, a practising  physician,  and a man
 of  great  influence,  in that State,  aud 
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 would  spare  no pains to  injure the Col-
 lege.   He  would blow it to hell.  Where-
 upon  I and  several  other friends  of  the
 Faculty,  withdrew.'-   Question  by Dr.
 Mitchell.   "What  relationship is   there
 between Dr. McDowell,  and Dr. Drake]''
 Answer.  "Dr.  McDowell is brother-in-
 law to Dr. Drake."   The public will be
 surprised after the foregoing, to read the
 following  testimony given in, under oath,
 by Dr Daniel Drake.  Dr.  Drake is on
 the stand  as a  witness, and among other
 things testifies  as  follows.  "I told them
 [Drs. Eberle and Mitchell,] the expulsion
 of Dr. Henry,  would  be attended with
 very serious and embarrassing consequen-
 ces.   / never did say that if the Trustees
 did not comply with  my wishes, I would
 shake the  institution, iflburied myself be-
 neath its ruins."  Which  of these state-
 ments under  oath is the true one—and one
 of them must be false, I leave the public
 to decide—the witnesses are before them,
 and they have heard the evidence.
   I have stated in another place,  that in
 1831-2, Dr. Drake induced a part  of the
 class to send a memorial to the Legislature,
 relative to the affairs  of the  College, and
 that in order to  effect  this, he held meet-
 ings, and  harrangued the students;  here is
 the evidence.  Dr. Cox  is on the  stand :
 "Witness—I did hear Dr.Drake harrangue
 the class,  considerably on the subject, in
 public; and thought the Board of Trustees
 ought to be enlarged, by gentlemen in the
 country, at a distance from the city,"&c.
   In prosecuting this measure, Dr. Drake
 engendered dissensions of  the most bitter
 nature among the  students—they were ar-
 rayed against each other, under distinc-
 tive party names.   The Drake  parly war-
 ring against  the constituted authorities,
 and setting the rules and  regulations of the
 school  at  defiance.  The studies  of the
 more peaceable, and well disposed, were
 interrupted by the disorderly  conduct of
 the "reformers" and it was not uncommon
 to behold  the spectacle of young men sit-
 ting with  arms in  their pockets, and dis-
 trust and  watchfulness  depicted in their
 features,  while  listening  to the abstruse
 lessons of science.   Extract  from  the
 -Record.  Dr. Cox is on the stand.   Ques-
 ion "b  -jpr.  Mitchell—"Were there not
 threats*67 suck a.  nature,  as if resistance
   ould lead to violence]"  "Yes;  I was
« alarmed myself."  Question  by the same
 —"What  was the  cause  of  these  distur-
 bances?"   "Witness—The opposition a-
mong the students, upon the memorials.. I
had much talk with the students, it was my
opinion, and  that of others, that we came
here to study—not to memorialize—but to
learn.   They opposed the  memorials and
had a meeting to put them down, and stop
them—they thought them altogether out
of place.  But the memorialists  were de-
termined to  carry  their  point, by fair
means,  or  by force of arms."   Question
by Dr. Mitchell :  "Were not many of the
class, in the habit of coming to the lectures
armed]" "Answer.   They  were, I was
obliged  to do  it in my own defence, for I
felt seriously afraid," &c.  Question by
the same.   "Were not the prime movers
of this  agitation, the  special friends and
students of Drs. Drake and Henry]" "An-
swer.  They  were."  The father or the
guardian, who may hereafter send his son,
or ward to receive his diploma, a-t  the
hands of Dr.  Drake, or to attend a course
of lectures in an institution, with which
that gentleman is connected,will find itnec-
essary ,from the foregoing statement of facts
to add to  the usual equipment of the stu-
dent, a  brace of pistols, or a Spanish knife,
to serve him ia the parly feuds, which  he
will be destined to encounter.  And if the
student  should have the good fortune to es-
cape, being shot or  stabbed,  he will still
run the  risk,  of being caught under some
huge fragment of the college,  when Dr.
Drake, Sampson-like, shall  "bury himself
beneath  its ruins."    The  investigation
which I have been reviewing closed, by
the  Senate committee's negativing each
and  every charge preferred by Dr. Drake
against  the  Medical College  of  Ohio.
There were other charges brought against
the Hospital  Trustees, which as they are
not relevant to my subject I will not intro-
duce ; it may  be as well to remark, howev-
er, that  they  were likewise found not to be
sustained by the evidence.   From what mo-
tives these various charges  could have
sprung,  the reader must determine for him-
self.  Dr. Drake, nothing  daunted by his
signal failure in this attempt to reform the
Trustees, continued his exertions to bring
the College into disrepute.   If this  could
be  done—if  public  confidence  could be
destroyed,  in the institution, his object
would be equally attained, because then,
public opinion would work out the reform,
which he and his  Third District Medical
Society, with all their charges, and specif-
ications had been unable to do.  Nor was
this any new  device;  he had practiced it 
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as often, as he had been out of the College,
and found no  other means 01 getting  in.
We recollect his efforts of a similar char-
acter, after his dismissal  from the school
in 1822.  We recollect  his efforts,  after
his return from Lexington in  1827,  and
his efforts prior to the amalgamation of the
Miami Faculty with the  Medical Oollege
of Ohio, in 1831.  Dr.  Drake, growing
desperate, in consequence of  the failure of
all his previous projects,in 1834  called in
a new engine to his aid.  He had been, as
he states, the editor of the Western Jour-
nal, of the Medical  and Physical sciences,
for the previous seven years.  During this
period he had sufficient respect for his char-
acter as a public journalist, devoted to the
advancement of science,  not  to permit his
pages to become the instruments of a par-
ty warfare.  In the March number of this
work, for 1834, Dr. Drake holds the fol-
lowing language.  "This  forbearance for
which,  no sufficient reason  could at any
time be given, has kept the readers in ig-
norance of the  policy and progress of the
school; when one object  of Medical Jour-
nals should be to disseminate correct infor-
mation  concerning medical  institutions.
The editor is determined, hereafter, to ad-
vise the distant reader, from time to time,
of the  character  and  advantages of our
Medical College; and to gratify  their cu-
riosity as to  recent  transactions, he pro-
poses to  devote a  portion of the present
number to the publication, and examina-
tion of several documents."   Accordingly
we find, several pages taken up with a re-
iteration of the same charges and specifica-
tions, which we have seen were negatived
by the Senate committee.  From this pe-
riod  henceforth, the editor of the scientific
Journal has faithfully adhered to his rule,
of gratifying the public curiosity, and  his
periodical has been almost monthly,freight-
ed, with the proceedings  of District Med-
ical societies, arguments, essays, and ora-
tions, all intended of course to disseminate
correct information concerning medical in-
stitutions."  The following are specimens
of the elegant, and courteous language of
the Editor, and the "correct information"
which runs from time to time, through this
scientific common sewer  to  the  people.
Speaking of the Senate-report which told
so many hard truths  of  himself, and  the
party, he says.  "From beginning to end
the Report is laudatory of the  Trustees and
the various  Faculties—commendatory of
the establishment-r-and abusive of the ed-
 itor of this Journal, whose name is intro-
 duced more than twenty times! [what pro-
 fanation!]  It is certainly quite  a distinc-
 tion to be made thus, the subject of an e-
 laborate and lengthened state paper, by a
 committee  of the most dignified branch of
 our Legislature!  Towards  the close of
 this Report on the conduct and character
 of "Drake" as the committee courteously
 designated  him, they declare, "That the
 charges against the Agents of the  Slate are
 not sustained by the evidence, consequent-
 ly the "Agents of the State"  are acquit-
 ted, and one of fifty witnesses singled out
 for calumniation,  within the very  walls,
 where he [the great Daniel Drake  of the
 Mississippi Valley] once made those  [great
 and luminous] explanations to the General
 Assembly,  which  led  to the establish-
 ment of both the College, and the Hospi-
 tal, [immortal founder! that he should be
 thus disgraced!]"  "What influence could
 have induced the committee to palm upon
 the senate a declaration, so foreign  to the
fact, as that in the quotation just  made,
 will perhaps, never be found out."   Veri-
 ly, we must admire the spirit and tenacity,
 with which the Doctor wars. He first abu-
 ses the Faculty, next the Trustees—endea-
 vours to reform the latter—fails—then ap-
 plies to the impartiality aud justice  of the
 Senate ;  an investigation is ordered—a
 report is  made,  but  as it is not just such
 a  one as  he wished—he turns round and
 abuses the Senate, accusing them of having
 made a report "foreign to the fact."   That
 is to say, he denounces the Legislature as
 a  pack of corrupt liars, for  upholding a
 still more corrupt set of Trustees and Pro-
 fessors—and yet this is the man who com-
 plains of his being called " Drake," and
 talks learnedly  of " couitesy."  We have
 here another cause  to wonder, that the
 Medical College of Ohio has so long con-
 tinued to weather the storm.  It would be
 strange  indeed if a  man of Dr. Drake's
 talent for political pamplet writing, could '
 not succeed, with a press  at his back, in
 creating a prejudice in the minds of a large
 portion of the profession, against any in-
 stitution ; especially if that institution had
 no similar means to  counteract his  mis-
 statements.   When statements •«. - -repeat-
 ed, day after day, in  a respectable period-
 cal,under the imposing caption of "Facts,"
 the readers of that periodical,  who  have
 no opportunity of inquiring into the truth
 or falsehood of such  statements, naturally
 imbibe, after a time, the prejudices of thq 
(  37   )
 writer.  These readers are generally me-
 dical men, and  when they  are  taught to
 believe, contrary to the fact, that there is
 no respectable school of Medicine in Cin-
 cinnati, is it not to be expected, that they
 will advise their students to attend courses
 of lectures in other and more distant insti-
 tutions]  This is the reason why Ohio, un-
 like  Kentucky, has  not patronised her
 own school.  And this is one of the causei,
 which  Dr. Drake,  after  having created
 himself, adduces, of the  necessity of " re-
 form."
   I will give another specimen of the style
 and matter of Dr.  Drake's Court Journal
 of the Medical and Physical Sciences, and
 then I will dismiss, the thing from my pres-
 ence.  I extract from the  same number of
 March 1834.  The Doctor is gratifying the
 curiosity of his  readers,  by  publishing a
 letter from one  of his "thousand and one
 correspondents," tending to disseminate
 "correct information concerning medical
 schools."  The letter writeris commenting
 on thelecturesof the Medical College of O-
 hio. He says, "The broad slang and low vul-
 gar tales of Moorhead, reminded me of some
 of the discourses I  had  heard in the va-
 grant cellar of the  Philadelphia Alms
 house.   Cobb, for an introductory, read a
 translation of  a description,  of  a painted
 paste board man he bought, during his sev-
 en-day sojourn in France, and after that,
 the report of the committee, of the House
 of Commons in  England, on  the subject
 of dissection."  Oh!  for  the courtesy of
 "Drake!"   While  the Western  Journal
 was thus manfully performing its duty, its
 Editor was trying his hand at another spe-
 cies of warfare. He had seen,  that  in
 1832, the prevalence of the cholera in Cin-
 cinnati, greatly reduced the number  of
 students, and as he is logician enough  to
 know,  that cceteris  paribus, like  causes,
 produce like effects, he saw no good rea-
 son,why a reporiofcholera,  industriously
 circulated,  should  not  operate  in  1834,
 as it had done in 1832.   This  conclusion
 being drawn,  the citizens of Cincinnati,
 were delighted every few  days, by the sight
 of "DAN. DRAKE" in large letters, ap-
 »»ni?.-.y ,& aWletinof  serious, and grave
v^   port, announcing to  the world abroad,
 .tjri, the^feTI destroyer" had made his re-
  .ppearance, and Cincinnati, was  become
 uuce more, a charnel house.  Now, what
 was the fact]   It is true that there were a
 few cases of Cholera here, and so  there
 were at almost all the towns on the Mis-
sissippi   and  Ohio, but then  it is well
known, that the disease was not contagious,
and that therefore strangers  could run no
risk in visiting us.  W herefore then, this
alarm] it might operate seriously on the
commercial prosperity  of the city, and
could do no possible good—it might fright-
en some poor people to death, but certain-
ly could not save any. Besides,where was,
our Board of Health—the proper sanitary
guardian of the city, that Dr. Drake, should
usurp its powers, and  declare himself the
DICTATOR to this community]  These
questions are hard to  be answered, but
there are others, more easy of solution.
There are two reasons which prompted the
Doctor  to this course ;  One was, the effect
which his bulletins  would produce on the
class of the College, by operating  on the
fears, of parents, and guardians; and the
other was an effect of a very different na-
ture,  but one which is well understood, by
persons, who  are skilful architects, of a
certain  species Qf reputation.   People a-
broad, when they perceived by our papers,
that no  other man in Cincinnati, dared o-
pen his mouth, naturally enough, conclu-
ded, that the said Daniel Drake, must be
at least,  Surgeon-general of the city. And
I am not quite so sure, if any of his proto-
cals, reached the Island of Cuba, tiie good
people of Havana, did  not imagine,  that
we, like themselves, were ^.garrisonedtown,
and Dr. Drake our Captain-General.  The
newspapers in various parts of the country,
seeing our prints come to them, by every
mail, in the lugubrious garments of mour-
ning, caught up the  alarm,  and re-echoed
the dismal notes "far and near."  The few
persons who did vkit  us, came with  fear
and trembling, and it was not until  they
had actually  arrived, within the precincts
of our city, that they found the report of
the Cholera, a bug-bear devised to "warn
them off."  Notwithstanding the efforts of
Dr. Drake, and his  Journal, aided by the
newspaper panic, the number of students
decreased, but inconsiderably, and 92 were-
 matriculated ;  being within thirty nine of
 the largest number the College  had  evee-
 had.  The following session of the Legis-
 lature, the term of  service of the board of
 Trustees expiring,  anew  election was ta
 be held ; and as it was all important to the
interests of the party,  that  Drake-men
should  be chosen, great exertions were.
 made; every man and boy who could shoul-
der a musket, was called into the field, and
 proclamations were issued, ordering a ge« 
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neral rendezvous of the troops, at Colum-
bus.  The army  being  assembled there in
great numbers, it  was intended to draw
fines of circumvallation around the State-
house, when it was anticipated as a matter
of course, that the members of the Legis-
lature would surrender, atdiscretion. The
following is a notice of the proclamation,
and the  assembling of the  convention, in
obedience thereto, "Pursuant to a circu-
lar letter, addressed to "all Scientific Prac-
titioners of Medicine  and Surgery, in the
State of Ohio." recommending a General
Medical Convention to be held in the city
of Columbus, on the  5th day of January,
A. D. 1335, for the purposes therein men-
tioned and  expressed, the following per-
sons assembled, in  the basement  room, of
the Presbyterian church, in said city, on
the day and year aforesaid, at  10 o'clock,
A.M. to wit." [Here they were mustered.]
The Medical  College  of Ohio foreseeing
the tendency of  these movements,deputed
two of her Faculty Drs. Eberle and Mitch-
ell, to be present for the purpose of con-
tradicting such  false  statements as might
be made, in relation to her condition, gov-
ernment, &ic.   Dr.  Mitchell  a few days
previous to leaving this city for Columbus,
had the honor to  receive the  following
-"courteous" and polite note, from Dr.Dan-
iel Drake.
      "Cincinnati, December 30th, 1834.
Dear Sir—
         I understand that you  are about
to  attend the Medical Convention at Co-
lumbus. If such be the fact, let  me advise
you as  a friend, to  curb your propensity
for telling lies,  so that you may not  dis-
grace yourself among  strangers,  and bring
discredit on  the Convention.   I do not of
course  [here  a word is omitted in the copy
which I have—it is probably the word sup-
pose] that you  can refiain entirely—but
a strong resolution may enable you to hold
in a little; I hope  this advice  will not be
lost upon you.
           Your Obed't. Serv't.
                  DANIEL DRAKE."
   Prof. Mitchell.
Comment on this note is unnecessary, it is
-sufficient to excite the indignation of eve-
ry man in the community—more especial-
ly when we look at the circumstance's un-
der which it was  written.   In ordinary
cases, a note of this kind coming from an
individual whose  standing in society, en-
titles him to be looked upon  as a gentle-
man, would have been noticed in the way,
in which such matters are generally set-
tled, but Dr. Drake knctowhcn he sent this
vulgar production to Dr.  Mitchell, that
the latter gentleman was an officer of the
Presbyterian church—was  conscientious-
ly opposed to duelling, and  had frequently
expressed himself to  that  effect.  The
reader will  scarcely believe that the au-
thor  of  this note, as an  additional means
of drawing students to the new Cincinnati
College, proposes to parents, to  preach io
their children every Sunday!  The follow-
ing extract  is taken from a "Supplement
to°lhe Western Journal of the Medical and
Physical  Sciences,"  edited  by  Daniel
Drake, M. D. and containing the circular
of the new College.  "In conclusion, the
Faculty will add, that every Sunday morn-
ing,  of the three lastmonths of the session,
the professor of Theory  and Practice, will
deliver  a discourse  on  the social, moral
and  religious duties of students  and med-
ical  men, which of course the members of
the  class will be at liberty to  attend or
decline,   according  to  their respective
tastes."   The professor of Theory  and
Practice, is Doctor Drake.
  The convention  met, and the proceed-
ings run somewhat as follows—On motion
of Dr. Drake----On  motion ofDr------
On  motion  of Dr. Drake------On motion
of Dr.------On motion of Dr. Drake-----
&c.   Dr.-----moved  that Dr. Drake be
requested to deliver an  oration,  "and that
both Houses of the Legislature  be invited
to attend;" which motion  was  carried—
Whereupon, the next day to wit: the----
day  of----cometh  the  said Drake in his
 proper person, with the oration aforesaid
all "cut and dried" for  the  occasion—and
delivereth the said oration  to the unspeak-
able delight of the people  there assem-
bled—and the said oration  was printed by
the  Convention, the better to enable the
said Drake, to  rehearse it occasionally,
for  the  delivery thereof at other places,
&c.&c.&c. When the election of Trus-
 tees came  on, the Legislature, "reform-
 ed"  the  old Board,  and with but two or
 three exceptions,  installed new men in
 office; of whom the party expected better
 things, to wit:—"loav'es arfd"fife. ^"**
 alas! delusive  hop'e,  the *ne_w.  me5 \i   l¥-.'
 found to be made of the same stern £\*A
 which charactensed the old, and the flee
 ing  prospect of promotion, like the shad-
 ow  of the butterfly, kept retreating before*
 them. 
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  The new Board of Trustees was composed of
the following gentlemen viz:  John  C. Wright
Calvin Fletcher, William Burke,David K.Este,
Morgan Neville, Jeptha D. Garrard, William
Stephenson, George Lucky, Willie S. Hatch,
John Cotton, Joseph Carter.  But two of the a-
bove named gentlemen had ever served in the
Board of Trustees  before, so that  Dr. Drake
was apparently about to be gratified, so far at
least, as an almost entire  change of men, indi-
cated a change of measures.   Dr.  Drake had
unceasingly vented his complaints against the
former Trustees, accusing them as we have seen
of almost every species of dishonesty, and when-
ever a change would take place, if he found the
new members as difficult to be controled as the
old ones, he would say that the same "animus"
directed the movements of the Board.  If Dr.
Drake's views  in relation to the Medical Col-
lege of Ohio, had heretofore been correct, and
those of the various  Boards  of Trustees, with
whom he had been  at war, were erroneous, he
had now, an opportunity of testing his measures,
by nine new members, out ©f eleven.   How they
have given their verdict remains to be seen. Im-
mediately after the  appointment of the New
Board.  Dr. Drake took such steps towards win-
ning them over to his interests, as he flattered
 himself, could not fail to prove successful.   Itis
 well known that this gentleman, has, like  every
 other disorganizer, who possesses sufficient tal-
 ents to assume the lead of a party,  a number of
 men enlisted in his ranks, who on all occasions,
 when it  is necessary for the  interests of their
 cause, yield themselves up, the implicit instru-
 ments of his will •  To these men scattered  in
 various parts of the State, he  addressed letters
 of "instruction" requiring them to suggest  to
 the Board of  Trustees, such measures, as they
 in their wisdom, thought  it expedient for them
 to adopt. These letters were almost unanimous-
 ly in favour of retaining at least three or four
 of the Professors—from which we may infer, ei-
 ther,that the writeisdisobeyed their instructions,
 or that Dr. Drake was willing to come into the
 school, and be associated with the old Professors,
 whose retention was insisted upon.   If they dis-
 obeyed their  instructions, then it  shows that
 there was still some freedom of opinion  left  a-
 mongthem, and that their duty  to their  fellow
 citizens, and the State  was not wholly merged
 in their allegiance to the party.  It shows that
 notwithstanding the  mandate of their leader,
 they had still enough  of remaining virtue,  to
 shrink from the proposal of sacrificing, able and
 honest men, to the insatiable  revenge  of their
 great Moloch. If, on the  other hand, they wrote
 such letters as they were directed to write, then
 it appetvrs'that Dr. Drake, at the  commence-
 ment of his late warfare against the  opinion
 and independence of the  Board of Trustees, did
 not require that two thirds of the Faculty should
 be sacrificed to make room for him and his par-
 tisans, but  that this requisition was  an after
 thought, taken up, because  he thought he saw
 at one time a disposition on the  part  of the
Bo?<rd to waver in their determination of retain-
ing one half the Faculty at least and probably
two thirds, as they eventually did.   The Board
read these partisan letters, but as  most of the
numbers had been in a political life themselves,
they knew how such things "were got up," and
put a proper estimation upon  their value,  as
the legitimate and unbo^ght expression of pub-
lic opinion.  One of the first acts of the Board
was the dismissal of Drs. Pierson and Mitchell,
not because these gentlemen were unworthy the
stations they held, but they (the Trustees) believ-
ed, that the interests of the school required that
theyshould make an effort to conciliate DrDrake
and his party.  Tney knew  that  this person,
was waging a war of  extermination against
them, and that, from causes which I have in part
already pointed out, he had considerable influ-
ence in the State, among a cei tain set of phy-
sicians, who being small men in the other party,
were anxious to become "little great men," in
th c party. They knew too that Dr. Drake was
mentally  capable of making a good professor,
and they  thought, that  by putting  him under
proper checks in the Faculty, his unfortunate
propensilj, might be kept under such control, as
to render  him incapable of doing harm.   They
 accordingly invited him and Mr. Shepard to oc-
 cupy the  two vacant seals; which Dr. Drake re-
 fused to do because the Trustees would not turn
 out tivo-thirds of the old Faculty, to enable him
 to bring in two more ofhispartizans,with whom,
 having a majority, he could control  the Faculty.
 To show, that Dr. Drake, himself did not be-
 lieve that the  interests of the school demanded
 the extensive reform in the Faculty for which he
 latterly contended—he  endeavored in  the first
 place,to  take away Dr. Cobb's chair,  in  order
 to create a vacancy for his (Drake's) brother in
 law Dr. McDowell, and by this means  to enable
 that gentlemen, to put the disinterested  threat
 in execution, which the reader will recollect, to
 have heard him  make a short time since—but
 finding that Dr. Cobb was too strong for him—
 that his reputation as one of the first lecturers
 on Anatomy, in  the Unittd States, added to his
 personal worth, and the consequent determina-
 tion of his friends to adhere to him,  rendered
 his removal a "forlorn hope"—he secondly, di-
 rected his efforts against Dr. Smith, whom he
 supposed  to be less firmly seated, and  therefore
 more easily overthrown.  Although this  latter
 result, would not suit the  views of Dr. Drake so
 well as the former, yet he found himself ex ne-
 cessitate obliged to turn his arms in this direction,
 intending, after the dismissal of Dr.  Smith should
 be brought about, to take away apart of Dr.
 Cobb's chair,  and assign it, together with apart
 of the chair of Surgery, to his  bantling Dr.  Mc
 Dowell.  With this object in view he wrote seve-
 ral letters to the Trustees, insisting as a sine qua
 non to his entry into the school, that all the
 professors should be removed except two, and in-
 dicated indirectly, that  these two should be
 Dis. Eberle and Cobb.
    He of  course  assigned various  reasons for 
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fhis proceeding; but as most of them have been
noticed already in the course  of this inquiry,
I will  not here repeat  them.  Tne Trustees
nftcr calmly  reviewing  the condition of the
College, and  listening to  the objection?, and
arguments  of Dr.  Drake and his  partisan*,
came to the conclusion,  that it was  their duty
to retain at  least four  of the old Professors.
Having decided upon this measure, and hav-
ing unbounded confidence in the talents and in-
tegrity of the four  gentlemen thus  retained,
they gave them the power, to  choose  suitable
men to fill the two vacant chairs, and adjourn-
ed.  Dr. Drake finding that he had  failed  in
this, his hundredth  and  last attempt  to gain
the Trustees,  forthwith wrote  a pamphlet,  in
which  he  lavished the same abuse upon  them,
that he has done  upon all their  predecessors,
and  every  other  man, who has had  sufficient
penetration and firmness, to detect his unprin-
cipled  schemes,  and  expose them  to public
view.  I shall notice  but  few of the points
treated of  in this pamphlet,—it is  a perfect
prototype  of  a hundred others  that Dr. Drake
has written, with  the same view, to wit: that
of glossing  over facts,  and working  upon the
prejudices of the people, by making false charg-
es, and sustaining them by  plausible, sometimes
ingenious,  but always  fallacious  reasoning.
Supposing  that the people are unacquainted
with his previous acts and writings, he has ta-
ken the liberty to  forget them himself, and con-
sequently  involves himself in  a  maze of con-
tradictions, never dreaming,  that his farmer
misdeeds, will be raised up in judgment against
him. As a specimen, he asks, "But what should
be thought of the policy of attempting to com-
bine Dr. Moorhead and Dr. Drake in the same
Faculty]"  He is here accusing  the Board, of
duplicity, in inviting him to become  an associ-
ate of Moorhead, when they knev,  that  he
(Drake) would not accept.  Now the Doctor
must have forgotten, that  subsequently to the
difficulties,  which took place between Dr.
Moorhead and himself, and  which he alleges
as the  reason, why the  Board ought  to have
known that he was unwilling to be associated
with that gentleman—he applied to become his
associate—as  the reader  has already seen.  A-
gain—he says, "But Dr.  Drake's [writing in the
third person]  refusal to serve  with Dr. Moor-
head, arose only in part from the fear  of being
involved by  him in  dissensions. He wanted
confidence in  Dr. Moorhead as a professor,'" &c.
Now see how completely, one of  his former
declarations, contradicts  this.   It  had been
stated before the committee of the Senate that
 Dr. Drake had  said,  that Dr. Moorhead was
the strongest man in the Faculty.  Dr. Eberle is
on the stand, and Dr.  Drake is cross-examining
him.   "Drake.  Did  I make a distinction, be-
tween the members  of the College]"  Eberle.
"Yes! you dwelt particularly on Moorhead,
 who was at  the  head of the  institution,  and
spoke as to his qualifications."  Drake.  "Did
 you state yesterday,  that in  riding v ith  you
 I  said, thnt Dr. Moorhead was, after all, tlic
 strongest  man  in  the  Faculty?"   EbL-rJe.
 "Yes."
   Dr. Drake in his pamphlet, takes an oppor-
 tunity to assail  the reputation of Dr. Smith—
 this being the same species of warfare, he  has
resorted to, in the case of every other professor,
with whom he  has  ever been at enmity.   He
asks, "who is Dr. Smith]"   Without  stopping
to throw back the question upon the querist and
inquire, who is Dr. Drake,I will refer the public
to the late circular of the  Board of Trustees,
for an answer to his question.  The  Board  say,
"Of Dr. A . G. Smith, as a surgeon, a nd accom-
plished operator, there is but one opinion in the
West.  He enjoys an equal reputation with  Dr.
Dudley of Transylvania,  and it is but justice to
genius to say,  that such a teacher, would be an
acquisition to any school in the Union.  His ar
dent devotion to the  profession prompted him,
some time since, to visit Europe, and after spend-
ing between two and  three years on the Conti-
nent, and in England, he returned, enriched with
the"fruits of much observation and  research."
One of the  charges against Dr. Smith is that he
brings  no influence with him to the school, his
professional  reputation,  being confined to the
State of Kentucky.  If this were the fact, how
was it that Dr. Smith, was  sought for by  the
Trustees, and invited to enter the school?  Dr.
Smith was notpersonally known to any of them,
and so far from having made tin application for
the chairof Surgery as Dr, Drake did—he  was
invited by  a  gentleman  sent for the  purpose,
 without the slightest  previous knowledge of the
 steps which had been taken by the Board, to fill
 Dr. Staughton's vacancy.
   He was pursuing an extensive  and lucrative
practice, in Louisville, and it was at a great
pecuniary sacrifice, thathe consented to accept
the chair, which was offered him.  His practice
was not confined  to Louisville, but extended
throughout the whole Mississippi Valley.   The
States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Ten-
nessee, Missouri, Kentucky,  Illinois,  Indiana,
Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, annually sent
subjects to Dr. Smith in Kentucky, to be opera-
 ted upon, for the various, complicated and dan-
 gerous diseases, which usually come within the
 Bphere of the  Surgical knife.  Several of Dr.
 Smith's operations, were noticed, twelve years,
 ago, in the North American  Medical and  Sur-
 gical  Journal, in  terms  of  the highest com-
 mendation, and were translated from this pe-
 riodical, into the various  languages of Europe,
 and extensively circulated. Dr. Drake has him-
 self, in his Journal of the Medical and Physical
 Sciences,  frequently, spoken of Dr. Smith, in
 connexion  with different Surgical operations,
 and always in  terms  of approbation.   Five
 years ago,'Dr.  Drake wrote Dr. Smith—uwho was
 not known out of Ky." a  letter  inviting him to
 this place,  to  practice  his profession.   But the
 reader must recollect that then Dr. Drake had
 no object to gain, by withholding, merited com-
 mendation.  Quere, has he any object to gain, 
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 now J   Dr. Drake in order to carry his point__
 by prejudicing  the  T ublic mind against  Dr.
 Smith,..asserts, directly contrary  to  the fact,
 that the  number  of students  from Kentucky,
 has  considerably diminished,  since Dr. Smith
 has been connected with the school; and heat-
 tributes this to Dr.  Smith's want of influence, in
 his own State.   Now the fact  is thus   In  the
 fall  of  1832—3, the year before Dr. Smith en-
 tered the  Medical College  of Ohio, the whole
 number of students,  was 83; from Kentucky 4.
 In the session of 1833—4,  the first year after
 Dr. Smith's  entry into the school, the whole
 number of students was 114; from Kentucky 13.
 Now let the school-boy take his pencil, and nay;
 If 8:2:4:114, answer, 5, and a fraction;  but
 we have seen that the increase vtas more than
 double  this—was the proportion from Kentucky,
 therefore  less or greater after Dr. Smith's entry
 into the school!  Again. In the session of 1834-5,
 the whole number of students, was 92; from Ken-
 tucky 15. Now let  us here, make a similar
 statement.   If 82: 4:  92, answer, 4 and a frac-
 tion—Whereas we see, that instead of 4 there
 were 15;  the increase in two years, being near-
 ly fourfold.   For the truth of  the above I refer
 to the Records of the College; and for the falsi-
 ty of Dr.  Drake'e statement I  refer to the pow-
 ers of comparison of the reader—if increase is
 decrease,  Dr. Drake  speaks the truth—but if
 increase  is increase, then he docs not speak the
 truth.   All those  persons who have  read Dr.
 Drake's veracious  pamphlet, and who shall  not
 see this refutation of the slander I have been no-
 ticing, will conclude of course, that Mr. Smith
 has not contributed to the increase of the school.
 And if  they believe the  other stories told them,
 they will  conclude also that Dr. Smith has no
 professional  reputation.  Now let us pause for
 a  moment and view the character of a man,
 who could thus wilfully  and maliciously aim  to
 destroy the hard earned reputation of another,
 because that other holds an office, which he co-
 vets.  I  have  shown on a former occasion that if
 we believe the testimony of Drs.  Eberle, Mitch-
 ell, and Moorhead, whose  veracity has never
 been impeached, Dr. Diake,  has  deliberately
forsworn himself, before a judicial committee,
 whether knowingly or not, so as to constitute the
 crime of perjury, I will  not say.  I have just
 proved  by figures, which every man can  exam-
 ine for himself, that he has uttered a deliberate
 untruth, in relation to another  matter; and I
 have shown in sundry places, and by proofs fre-
 quently under his own hand, that he has contra-
 dicted (I will not use a harsher  term,  although
 I think it  false modesty, not to  call  things by
 their right names) himself, as  often,  as he im-
 agined, he found it to his interest to do so, and
 believed there was no hand near toexpose him.
 And is such a man to be tolerated in a virtuous
 community!—is he to be permitted to stab the
 reputations of honest men, in  distant parts  of
 the State,  where he knows there is no one, to  un-
 mask him, and prevent the effects of his mal-
 ice, by exhibiting his naked  deformity to the
 public.
   Dr.  Drake asks triumphantly, what claims
 has Dr. Smith, on the Medical College of Ohio.
 Here I take the  liberty of making an answer
 for Dr. Smith, which I know that gentleman
 would make-for himself, and which every good
 citizen ought to make, in reference to public
 office.  Dr. Smith has no claims—he makes none
 —his services belong to his state, or the state of
 his adoption, and the people may claim him to
 be their servant, but he does not claim to be
 the servant of the people—he does not boast of
 his long residence in the West, although he has
 been a Western man for the last fifteen years—
 he does not boast of his numerous exploits, and
 of the obligations under which  he has placed
 the people—but he does boast of his profession-
 al reputation, however small that may he—be-
 cause it has been the work of his own  hands—
 because he has not waded to it through the ru-
 ined prospects of other  men—because he  can
 lay his hand on  his heart, without feeling the
 writhings of his conscience.  Now that I have
 been  obliged to allude to reputation, let mo
 ask of this community a plain  question—In
 what does Dr. Drake's reputation consist]—
 How has he  made it?  Where are his Medi-
 cal works? Where are his operations—his cures]
 He has made it by thrusting himself continual-
 ly before the public, and if he could not come
 before  it in the character of a physician, he has,
 Proteus-like, assumed that of  the politician,
 the school orator—the 4th of July stump speak-
 er, the founder of female schools;  in  short, he
 has sought, and  gained that sort of notoriety,
 which  every man of tolerable talents may at-
 tain, by laying aside  the  garb of self respect,
 and propriety, and interfering in every body's
 business, without any body's permission.—Dr.
 Drake charges Dr.  Smith with having spent
 no money on  the school.  It  is not expected,
 nor is it necessary  at the present time,  that the
 professors should  expend their private funds on
 the institution, and Dr. Drake is well aware of
 this, at the same time that  he endeavors to cre-
 ate a  contrary  impression.  The State  has
 granted an annual income, proceeding from the
auction duties, amply sufficient for all its wants.
 But there was a time, when the school did stand
in need of pecuniary aid—during that time of
 want, Dr. Drake was connected with it, and
 did he then, when there was a necessity for it,
 expend money  on the  school? So far from
 this being the fact, it is on record in this county,
 that he sued Drs.  Slack and Smith, after he was
 turned out of school in 1832, for  the paltry
 sum of about  $150, for  house rent.  The
 professors having held their meetings or deliv-
 ered their lectures  in a house over which Dr.
 Drake  had the superintendence.  We will not
 enter into the comparative merits of Dr. Smith
 and Dr. Feme.  The latter gentleman  may no
 doubt be a good Surgeon, but wc refer to the re-
 putations of the two men, to designate the cele- 
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i-rityof eacTi.  in conclusion 1 will remark, that  "'tis  wriltciHUihs in  the Bond," and that the
the Medical College of Ohio, so far from being  least he sayslhe better.  I have understood that
disorganized and  broken up, as Dr. Drake al-  I am not to bo answered because I am a 'you ng
lCges—is now  as  flourishing, and has brighter  man, and a new comer,  and Dr. Drake an old
prospects before it, than it has ever had.       "  man,  and  an old resident.  But my system of
  I am told that Dr. Drake intends to treat me  Logic does not teach me to believe, that  these
with "silent contempt." Now  this is prudent  considerations have any influence whatever up-
in the Doctor—he knows as well as I do, that  on the merits of the case.

  Note—The  duel between Drs,. Dudley and  Richardson, which Dr. Drake  was
charged  with  having  occasioned,  occurred  immediately  after   Dr. Drake's first
connection with the  Lexington school, instead of the second, as erroneously stated
in page 15. 
 
 
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