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ROMANCE,  ISO  FICTIO.Y
BY   CHARLES  CALDWELL,  M.  D.
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   Fellow Citizens—I have often held intercourse
 with you, on the affairs of other persons individ-
 ually, of special associations of other individuals,
 and also, though  less frequently, on those of the
 pitblic at large; but never, until now, exclusively
 on my own affairs. The present is my first act
 of that dodcription. Nor would I trouble you
 With it now, were  I not impelled to do so, by a
 sense of duty to  you, as well as to myself.  Let
 me  then earnestly  but respectfully solicit your
 attention to a plain, naerutfve of  a few  things I
 have seen, done, meditated, and borne, within the
 lust 12 years, during wliioh I have beenaresident
 of the city, whose community you constitute.
   That you may feel therefore some affinity with
 it, and be on that account inclinexTto treat  it with
 the more indulgence, allow me to tell you, at
 this early period  of it, that the narrative, I am
 abont to lay before you, is to be A Genuine Tale
 of Louisville, in ail its essential elements, compri-
 sing its origin, matter,  agents,  and loculit) ; and
 that it will contain a fragment of my  own auto-
 biography, which is also, at present, a Louisville
 subject.   And  however unetherial and common-
 place il may lie, at a whole, it is intended to ex-
 hibit an  account  of one fowl,  which,  rescuing
 the reader from whatever of tnorphoan monot-
 ony and dullness may  otherwise characterize D,
 will, I trust, give somewhat of  life and interest .to
 it, and just cause of astonishment and reflection
 to you.
   It will  interest you, however, not because of any
 of its extraneous or incidental connexions or re-
 lations; but because of  its own  inherent and un-
 accountable strangeness and singularity—because
 it is believed to be DertecUy unigme—nud there-
 fore is as essentially fitted to gratify curiosity,as m
 the Eight of an amorphous, non-descript animal,
 wfctah  the beholder has nrvjjr  previously seen,
 and has po reason to beJieve witt ever again pre-
 sent itself to him.
  J-etme beg you, In a special manner.not to imag-
 ine that I consider any portion  of the interest,
 singularity or attractiveness of the event in ques-
 tion to arise  from  it- being a scrap of iny pwn
 history.  Re  fullv assured that  I do not—what*
r.ver el' intercalated attractiveness it possesses be-
 long!" to it.- own haturr, in lis abstract, indepen-
dently <>l person,  time, and place.  It it be int.
 mi tlii*- ground, worthy of your •" attention ami
'•.*n*-idcruli<'», it iaiiot worjtbv »f  them at all.
   The singularity of the event referred to, what*-■
 p\ <-r may be its amount, Ik composed principally^!
 the cause of my separation from the Medical De-
 partment of  the UnrrersUy of Louisville, 'trip*
 manner of  that separation, and the maHptdasf anqV7
 his character, by whose agency h was chiefly efO
 fected.  Of these elements  of the event,  each Jt
 being in itself  extraordinary and singular, they ^•^
 cannot fail, when united, to form, of their kind,
 an aggregate nonpareil.  Bat to come more inuite-
 dittfely to my purpose.
   I have beeu given to understand it, Fellow Citi-
 zens, to be thebeliefof inn ny, per bap* of "nearly all
 of you, who have ever paid any attention to the
 subject, that about nine mouths ago, I voluntarily ..
 resigned my professorship in the  medical  school
 of this city.  If such be your belief it is errone-
 ous.  I did  not resign.   1 was forcibly removed,
 by the Board  of Trustees.   And  the ground,
 manner, aud general character of my removnl
 constitute,  I say, the event I have denominated
 extraordinary and unique—a deed, in its princi-
 ples (if  itided it had any) altogether new, and in
 its oei.xg, unexampled in the acts,and unheard of
 in the history or legends of medical institutions.
   Is any one  inclined  to ask me, why  1   give
 publicity to the cause and manner of my separa-
 tion from the Medical S.hoo|,ot this period, in-
 stead of having done so, immediately  after its
 occurrence?  That my ground of action in th**
 case may be fully understood,  I shall, by way of
 episode, reply to the question as  if it were pro-
 posed.
   My silence on the  subject of my  removal,
 wheu the deed wasreceut, was owing chiefly to
 the following ennses.   1st. My reluctance to en -
 g ige iu a public exposition of any  of my  own
 personal afthirs.  2nd.  My belief that the cause
 and mode of my removal would reach the pub-
 lic through some other channel.   3rd. My  in -
soppresstble excitement and deep indignation on
 the suh;ect  produced in me an unwillingness to
 trust my pen, on the occasion, lest it might »•.-
sti.Hticeiy,  and without my conscious net*, intro-
duce iuto  the  narrative of my  injuries and
 wrongs, some  forms of expression improper im-
their emanation from me, however just might he
 their application to the offrtiding  nl.jtctt of them.
4fh- Not long after my removal from my Chair
 f If ft home, spent some  time i" a  neighboring
Slate intensely engaged in a  ':>:sh uuu 'tifrM ». 
 I„r mferprise, and, ..s fur as possible, throw from
 mv miiid'lhe odious remembrance of the outrage

 ' Secret leading Masons fjr not having
 told this  "Tale" six or eight months ago   And
 the following are my principle ones for telling it

 ^MThave been requested lo tell it.—2nd. I
 have not, until vAv lately,  had any just  coir*
 ception of the extent of the error hi relation to
 the subject of it, which  actually exists—an ex-
 tent which I  verily  believe  never  would have
 existed, had not pains been taken, not merely to
 smother the truth respecting it. by silence and
Secrecy; but by  the artjul propagation of msidi-
 *.<!$ JaUthood—li\   plainer and  more explicit
 tertns; the belief of my voluntary resignation of
 ■nyfShair would never have attained its present
 extent, had  not  some  of those who  had par-
 ticipated in the proceedings against me, (alarmed
 atthe consequences of  the deed  committed,
 5he«ld  it be immediately known) taken measures
 to ha-ye that belief widely, but furtively prop©-
 gated through the community
   That certain gentlemen  were  seriously  agita-
 ted, at  tlie  time, by  an  apprehension that I
 would divulge, through the press, the  transac-
 tion of my dismissal  from  my  Chair, I  have
 reason  to know.  And  the cause of their iin-
'casiness was,*the instinctive  dread  which few
 transgressors  escape, that they would be,  in
 some way disagreeably affected by the disclosure.
   And I further know,  that  when the plot  of
 my dismissal was in  progress, certain members
 of the Board of Trustees, as well as of the Medi-
cal Faculty, were exceedingly  anxious that  I
should resign my professorship.  This  I know,
because  they themselves  assured  ine  of the
fact—and had even the assnrance to urge me  lo
the measure—or at least to make, to  that effect,
an unbecoming overture, which  I sternly and
scornfully repelled.
   Urge  me  to resign my chair ! as if incompe-
tent to  the  discharge of the duties of it,  when
they  themselves  knew,  and when I was be-
sides in possession  of abundant  testimony from
the highest  and  soundest authority (as will  be
preseuily made appear)  that I was then as com-
petent  to teach  medical  philosophy,  as I had
been  iu  Jc*37, when,  by official  invitation,  I
laid the foundation of the Medical  Institute, and
caused  my colleagues to be  introduced into it
as Professors.
   True; the members of  the Board of Trustees,
and of  the medical Faculty,  who advised me to
resign, professed to do so, as  friends, lo prevent
my  reputation  from  suffering  by a dismissal.
To that insinuation  I disdained  to listen.   And
such was my reply  to my officious advisers.   I
told them, in a tone of positivenessand hauteur,
that  I  would not   resign—that I did not, and
could not receive their advice, as  an act of friend-
ship, calculated to benefit me.  On the contrary,
that, whatever might be their design in its be-
stowal, it wasol a nature to injure and degrade
me, should I comply with it—That it urged me
to  do what was as contrary to my judgment and
my nature, as oppositcs are to each other—That
to  resign would  be  cou-ardice in me.  And that
nothing but legal  force  or death should induce
me, through the  dread of a loss  of  reputation,
tamely  and spiritlessly to retreat from between
my family  and  mischief;  and  allow them  to
r-eeive  the  blow—from  whatever  quaittir it
might come.
  Toduie the interview. 1  haughtily added, that
 „,,- reputation was ...  no clam;er-l.ocause  hi
 nought thev could do, had theTWl ol  I r is oes
 the power 'to  injure it-und  tha, should they
 complete the transaction  they  had commenced,
 by mv dismissal from the school, they would, in
 the estimation of upright and  intelligent  men,
 blight their own reputation, instead  ol hi  nc. And
 1 finally added,  that, were the reputation 1 had
 boon  constructing and  consolidating,  lor half a
 century, so easHy, wind-shaken, or overthrown—
 no matter how soon the storm should  assail it,
 and  the,  catastrophe be  produced.  And,  with
 expressions to this effect, in substance and tone,
 the conference ended—But, without further pre-
 face,  save  a few  explanatory clauses, let  mo
 again solicit your attention to my narrative.
   I am now about to enter  on a portion of my
 story, which, though indispensably necessary, is
 unpleasant to me in the extreme.   In  the details
 to be developed, I shall  be compelled to  speak of
 myself in terms that may appear exceptionable.on
 account  of  their resemblance  of  self-applause
 But in such  terms I must speak,  as  the reader
 will  perceive,  or  surrender the ground  which J
 am determined to  maintain; because  a  sense of
 duty enjoins on me its maintenance.
  Between myself  and  the mixed body  of men;
 consisting of Trustees, accusers, and  informers,
 who removed me from my chair, without a trial,
 a serious issue is pending, and to that issue-1 am
 now about to plead; and  as  far as my powers
 and means may enable  me, to scrutinize it with
 severity.
  The issue  is to the following effect.  When,
 in its  sovereign pleasure,  the academical Court
dismissed nfe from the chair,  I was either deep-
 ly in fault, as a medical  teacher, or my dismissal
 was a flagrantly iniquitous act.   From these  al-
 ternatives there is no retreat.   One or "the other
must be  true.  Either I was an incompetent in-
structor; or the Court was a deeply unrighteous
and condemnable body
  The latter of these it is my settled purpose It
 endeavor  to  prove.  And that purpose I believe
 myself able to effect.  In the attempt therefore,
 while speaking condemnatorily of the proceed-
 ing of the Court, I shall employ,  of  cc  -s ,
 terms of justification and defence of myself. Ami,
 by foes  and  cavilers,   the  admissible attempt,
 merely to justify and defend, may,  through arti-
 fice and  intrigue, be construed into an act of
 self-applause.  But, whatever may be the. result
 of the contest, the motto under which I  purpose
 to contend, shall  be "Prevaleat verum. ruat
 C.emjm."  Nor, from thespiritaud intent of that
 nioito shall aught on earth induce me to swerve.
  In the  spring of 1^37, 1 removed  from Lex-
 ington to this city, by an express invitation from
 the Board of Managers, to lay the foundation of
 the Medical Institute, and aid in the up-rearing
 and establishment of it—and to act as premier in
 the  responsible, transaction.   The work I per-
 formed with industry,  fidelity, and all  possible
 expedition; and, as 1 have good cause to believe,
 with as much satisfaction to  all who felt a true
 interest in its success and prosperity, as can be
 reasonably expected in mi enterprise of the kind.
   In  the Faculty  of the Institution  I  was ap-
 pointed to a chair,  the  tabors of which, toward
 the consolidation and completion of the temple
 of professional science  a'ready erected,  I resolv-
 ed to perform, with all the assiduity, energy, and
 effect, of which I was  capable.  And from  the
 purport of that resolution I never departed. The
 enterprise moreover I meant to be the last of any
 moment, -in .which I should ever engage.   Noi 
:\
  **a> it  ny design !*> i-.-i.iv from the cliair 1 held
  <u the school, as long a  the Income of hi might
  Im*  necessary to the  subsistence of my funilv,
  and I competent to lb': discharge of tin- diuies'it
  enjoined.  Nor do those already  stated amount
  to all tin- services to the institution I endeavored"
  lo perform.
    In promotion of Its various interests, which
  were numerous and diversified, and to bestow on
  it, as far as practicable, distinction and  celebrity,
  I availed  myself of every opportunity  I could
  ►..•cure  or  create.  In furtherance of these pur-
  poses, I charged myself with  sundry extra  du-
  ties,  and  extra outlays,^n  which none'of my
  colleagues in  any degree participated.   Did tho
  school become the object  of obloquv, misrepre-
  sentation, or, of any  other form of  hostile  at-
  tack ?  I was the foremost of the members of the
  « stabliahincut to expose  myself in its  defence.
  And, in return  fortius, to annoy, and, If practi-
  cable, injure mo, I was selected as the principal
  wim. of  the poisoned missiles, which our enemies
  employed;  while my  harmless and  unharmed
  colleagues lay secure behind the defense of their
  own prudent dislike and  avoidance of strife and
  danger.   But amidst their freedom  from battle
  ;.iul its  effects, none of them,  save one whom I
  shall not name, (because  his dissimilarity to his
  colleagues sufficiently designates him) neglected
  lo labor assiduously in the more peaceful, lucra-
  tive vocations of their chairs.  And the School
  grow in its classes, and flourished abundantly in
  usefulness and celebrity.
    Under this head I shall only add, in corrobora-
  tion of a few preceding remarks,   that  my fre-
  iiuent,  and at times, warm contests, in behalf of
  ttio institution,  with those  who wore hostile lo
  it, produced  the attachment to me of  the appel-
  lations  of  the  "(Irand I.ania" and the  "Hot
  Spur"' of the school; and, in  contrast with my
  colleagues, that of '•(• ulliwr among the Lilli-
  putians,"—and other sobriquets, correspond  ng
  to the different fancies of different denominators.
  And though such titles, when bestowed by cue.
  mios, are  never intended  as symbols of repute;
  yet has it been suggested  to me, tin t their appli-
  cation lo me,  in the case referred to, excited the
  envy and jealousy of certain individuals, because
  it was regarded  as a mark of  distinction, above
  what they themselves had  received.
   Under those and  other favoring  circumstan-
 ces, and manifestations, I reposed at ease, and in
  fancied  security, in my chair, sedulously per-
 forming, to the best of my ability, its multiform
 duties, and, as I had  reason thou to believe, and
  vet believe  to  the entire satisfaction  of every
 one connected wild  the school, and frieudjy  to
 its interests.   And, as 1 had ne.ver intent.onally,
 or knowingly given cause of offence to a singl ;
 member of cither the Board  of Tiustees, or  of
 the  Faculty  of in -dicine, I dreamt n.t  of the
 existence of even a willingness, much less a wish,
 in  any  quarter   the  council  chambers  of the
 avowed  enemies of the s:hool  « veple!)  lo re-
 move me from  my cliair.  On the contrary, so
 confident was  I of having  performed, in  all re-
 spects, tho  part of a  faithful  and net ineflicieut
 otli.'er, that I verily believed i:i  tho readiness and
 even aeal of cv.-i \ member of cither body ,th'
 Facult v, or the Ti ustees; to iulerposc determined
 prevention of an act >o u:ijii-t and injurious to
 iiie-wio matter b\  whom,  or on  what groiin.i,  it
might bo nicliutod  or attempted.   Bit,  a- in*
aucli  cise-., uuMisjucioiu  men too often or. , to
tboir  disuppointineut and  detriment,  if  im: to
their runt,  I u<i-  mi-U-L-11
   From five to  even years ago  for I have kept
 no exact register of the time i I was informedto1 ^^
 n few fripuds, in succession,  that  Lunsford l\   K|
 Yandell,  M. D. of Tennessee  (whom it is well
 known  1 had rescued from obscurity, and eleva-    ^
 t-d to tlie chair he  then held, and, by my patron-
 age and unintcriiplcd favors, extending through
 nearly a.n Average life time,  had contributed to
 sustain him in it)—I was told that that being fin
 the guise of a.  man)  was  plotting against me, to
 remove me from my chair, and occapy it him-
 self!
   The information, thus  communicated, involv-
 ed a guiltiness so enormous in amount, and de-
 testable in kind,  that it was impossible for ma.to
 believe it.  The reason of my disbelief of it May
 be briefly assigned.   I could  figure to  myself
 no degree of human  depravity sufficiently.sWop,
 and irredeemably damning, to lead to its perpe-
 tration.  I therefore virtnallyresented the charge,
 and throw it from me as an odious slaudenou an
 innocent  man,  who,  hundreds of times,-both
 publicly  and  privately,  had  solemnly  a\;o*fed
 himself my devoted and unatonable friend* 'and
 pronounced it fnUe.  Nor,  though my sirt|»i-
 cions on the subject began, not long aftcrwisrd,
 to be awakened, did  I deem it necessary to take
 any action, or even precaution, iu relation to*it,
 until early in the year It*-I7.
   Finding then, that tho  plot to destroy me was
 ripening with a speed not altogether unalarming,
 (like a  native treed  from Acheron, under the
 ni-nial influence of its earth-born procurer and
 planter, and a  few  of his abettors.)  I considered
 it my duty to provide for  the safety of my fami-
 ly and myself against the ingratitude and tre«/:li-   ^
 cry, coupled with tho machinations, of  the mod-
 ern Iscaiuot!
   I therefore held immediately private interviews
 with the President and os many members of the
 Board of Trustees as amounted to a majority,
 and  made with them the following  compact—
 but unfortunately did not commit it  to paper—
 because, with socli men,  1 did  not deem  it ne-
 cessary.
   I stated to them, that, at a date  considerably
 anterior,  I had  resolved  to  retire from  public     j
 life, two, or at farthest, throe,  years from the
 date of the interview we  were then holding—a
 space that would extend to the month of March,    ^
 I>f>(l.   And that, at that period, or sooner, if I    $
 could, 1  would certainly resign my chair, for the
 purpose of devoting, subsequently, the whole of
 my time to the composition of a work (dr*signed
 to hi* posthumous) iu winch 1 was engaged.
   In oppos'tion to my proposal,  thus  submitted,
 au I  distinctly uu icrstool, no  n.armur  being
 uttered,  nor the *ha,'o*v  of an objection  to  it
 made,  I  considered  the difficulty adjusted and
 put to  rest, and  that  the tenure  of my chair,
 until March, InV.1,  whs secure.  The reason  is
 plain.   Ttrt  or th  ec  years,  subsequently  to
 .March, 1-17, extend to March, lt?50, as certainly
 as they do to  March, 1849.  And, according to
 my compact with the trustees,  it was  optional
 wiih me  to resign my professorship at either
 term—thnt of March, 1 c*4U or of March,  lt">0.
 1 doIV  the ingenuity and cavils of tho whole hu-
 man "rac" to put, in consistency with uprightae**
and truth, any other construction on ttie phrase-
o.ogy of the compii-t.  But such is not the con-
strut lion  that .-.iite-i  (he notion ot tho board of
t'r i.-lee.—-for what reason, <»oi  and them.-elv*-*i
ouiy know.   And no r-a-ou on  ri<**  subject hu*.
v ' i'*en  rendered hy them.   Nor do 1 bolieve   ^J
i'... Ihv w*H render  jii — ''ocaub-* they po^i.. i    ^ 
J
 .none,  which tiny  themselves  deem  valid—or
 even specious.                        ...  .1
    Thev did not disingenuously deny  that  ttie
 terms and conditions 1 have here stated  were the
 terms and conditions of the  compact ;  nor  did
 thev evasively pretend to have  forgotten them.
 Ou'the contrary, they expressly acknowledged
 the correctness' of  my account of the  whole
 transaction, as I have  here  detailed   it.   But
 thev could not be induced  to  admit,  that  the
 conversational interview I  had  held with them
 amounted to a bona fide and binding compact-
 but to a mere parlance negotiation, which might
 or might not be deemed obligatory, according to
 circumstances.
  "Very true;" said I, "but what are the  'circuni-
 Btances,' according  to which one party to a  ne-
 gotiation usually contends that a verbal contract
 may, at option, be  complied with or rejected?"
 . The answer is easy. They constitute  precisely
 the.relative oondilion which existed at  the time,
 between the board  and myself   The  Trustees
 were numerous and I was alone; they were  the
 framors of  the laws (the by-laws of the Univer-
 sity) by which alone my cause could be decided.
 1 And they were to be, on my trial, the  accusers,
 informers, pleaders, judges and jurors, by whose
 Jiat I was to be acquitted or cond med.  Hence,
 they were, in all respects, the stronger and I the
 weaker party.
   Such was the  array  of "circumstances,"  un-
 der the influence of which my compact with the
 Board of Trustees  was, at their option, *o be ad-
 mitted  or  repudiated.   And they, as rulers, se-
 lected the same alternative which arbitrary rul-
 ers whether of Schools, States, or Empires rare-
 ly  fail to select.  They  interpreted the circum-
 stances, in  their own favor; and, like other offi-
 cers, fond of influence, and free from responsibili-
 ty, they felt and appreciated power, and not  on-
 ly  forgot right, but arbitrarily subverted it—and
 that is  the most rational comment their conduct
 admits.  The final remarks, respecting  the com-
 pact, submitted by  me then lo the Board, were,
 in  substance, tantamount to those which 1 shall
 now respectfully submit to the public.
   Let the compact I observed, be judged of, in tl e
 High » ourt of Heaven, or in any court on earth,
 where  justice and  equity prevail, and  it will be
 held and pronounced as valid, as if, when nego-
 tiated, it had been  committed to paper, signed,
 sealed,  witnessed and  formally recorded.  And,
 what   I then  said, and have now repeated, the
 following statement will irreversibly ratify, in the
 sight of God, and of every enlightened and fair-
 minded reader.
    Finding the Board of Trustees thus hopelesslv
 stubborn  in their  resolution, and inflexible iii
 their course, I determined, in my  contest with
 them,  to intrench myself on ground, where noth-
 ing but  arbitrary and tyrannical force could
 reach  me.  And I further determined, that, at
 Bome expedient  time, I would  subnrt our con-
 test to the judgment of the community.
    Hitherto, I have  refrained from carrying my
 determination  into effect.  But, possessing no
 valid  cause of longer  concealment, I now dis-
 close the measure 1 resorted to, which was as fol-
 lows:   I communicated to the Board my positive
  resolution not to resign my professorship, except
  on one of  the two  following  provisos:
    1st.  That  my  resignation should  not  take
* effect  until a specified  day, in March, 1*50  Or,
  in case of that measure being unacceptable;
    2nd.  That 1 should be  admitted to a public
    ial, rwfore a tribunal  composed of accuser; and
examiners, and u body of competent and unpru-
judiced judges; and,  in case of failure to acquit
myself, on any point  or points, pertaining to the
Institutes of Medicine, or Medical jurisprudence
(the subjects,  on  which  it was my province  to
deliver instruction) as fully and ubly,  as could
the most  enlightened and popular of my col-
leagues,  011 uny of the subjects of his profes-
sorship—then would 1 forthwith resign my chair,
and no further complain—or in any way trouble
them.
  Both  of these proposals the BoarJ rejected—
an utterly  unrighteous and lawless-act, which
..lone furnished tcslimony abundantly  conclu-
sive of their determination to eject me from my
chair,  regardless  of  the  subsequent effects on
medical science, the  school, my family, or my-
self.
  The refusal to me,  by  the Board, of the trial 1
called for, I have pronounced ••unrighteous and
lawless."  And,  to  heighten  the  tone  and
strengthen the whole character of my allegation
on the subject, I unhesitatingly add,  that noth-
ing more  "unrighteous and lawless,"  in princi-
ple, presents itself to an indignant world, in the
whole desolating train of barbarities, inflicted by
Austria, on the people of Hungary.  1 say "in
principle" not in  atrocity. My  reason  for say-
ing so is irresistable.  It was the denial of a right,
recognized and granted, in every country, where
a single trace of freedom exists.  And that swells
and aggravates, in  a  manifold degree, its denial
in our own country, the  only abode of genuine
freedom—where even the vagabond and the felon
find, in^a trial, by enlightened and civilized free-
meif, a secure asylum from tyranny and wrong.
Yet, to one,  who  during a protracted lifetime,
had, faithfully and  zealously,  devoted  all his
powers to  the  duties of one  of the most bene-
ficient and useful of professions, was the highest
privilege of that asylum  denied, ty a  body  of
men, who were virtually indebted to  him, for
the very power they employed to his  oppression
and injury.  For, had not I established the Medi-
cal Institute, from which arose the University of
Louisville, never,  of course, would the body of
men referred to have been invested with the gov-
ernment of the Medical Department, or of any
other Department of that institution.
   Through honors and privileges therefore vir-
tually conferred on them, by myself, have they,
for the gratification of some propensity, sinister
in itself, and apart from  either sound principle,
necessity, or any imaginable form of usefulness,
deeply and permanent ly wronged and injured me.
In truth, whatever may be their relations to the
other Professors of thv University, and whatever
may be their feelings toward  mo,  on account of
the sentiments I am  about to express; academi-
cally speaking, they  are the creatures of my  in-
fluence—and their unfeeling and unnatural con-
duct compels me  to  add, and justifies me,  in do-
 ing so, that they  are a perverse and rebellious
 offspring turned  tyrants  and marauders against
 their progenitor.
   But, in refusing to institute the trial, requested
 of them  in the spirit of a challenge, the  Board
 acted  with  policy—if not uprightness.  They
 had in view the attainment of a favorite object.
 And they well knew that, should the  trial take
 place, they would be frustrated  in that view, by
 the overthrow and  disgrace of my prosecutors
 and examiners—and that their own cup of mor-
 tification  would be wormwood.
    However boastful  and  self-sufficient cavilera
 and condemned  may pronounce the  following 
                                              .1

assertion, I notwithstanding make  it fearlessly
md proudly, that, in  such a trial, no physician
in the United States, would hazard his reputation,
by becoming one of my examiners—I having the
privilege to reciprocate the process  by an exami-
nation  of him.  Nor need 1 reveal the cause of
his reluctance—To those who know me it is no
secret.   To  them therefore, let the curious on
the subject. If any such there  be, apply for in-
formation.
   When I requested  to lie apprized of the charge
 or charges, prefer ed against me by the Board of
 Trustees, as  the  ground on which I was to be
 dismissed from the chair I had oo long, and, as I
 had believed, satisfactorily occupied 1   The on-
 ly  answer  returned to  me  was, that  1  was
 thought to be "too old."   None  of the gentle-
 men, (as, several  years before, Professor Yandell
 had maliciously and  mendaciously done) declar-
 ed me   disqualified  for  the  duties of a public
 teacher, by  the decay of my faculties either cor-
 poral  or  mental.  They acknowledged, on  the
 contrary that I still possessed them in abundant
 soundness, strength, and activity.   Such at least
 was the promptly uttered  acknowledgement  of
 several individual members, to  whom I specially
 addressed myself on the subject.  Some of them
 even expressed themselves more strongly in my
 vindication,  by asserting their belief,  that I was
 instrumental in attracting to the  school a much
 greater number  of pupils, than any of my cot-
 leagues; and  furthermore,  that  my name and
 autograph, affixed to their diplomas, were far more
 highly valued, by the graduates  of the institu-
 tion, than those  of any of the other Processors.
 To scores moreover, if  not hundreds of persons,
 other  than  Trustees, graduates  had  made do-.
 clarations to the same effect.  Nor is this all.
 When, to  strike down the  falsehoods  of Dr
  Yandell and his co-operators, three sets of high-
 ly  laudatory and strongly expressed resolutions
 respecting my lectures, spontaneously left with
 me, by our three  last classes  of graduates, wore
 exhibited by me  to the Trusrees, several of them
 acknowledged to  myself,  that  they  believed
 them to be true.
   Notwithstanding  however  all  these testimo-
 nials in my favor, and various  others  to  the
 same purport, which I could easily adduce  (and
 not a single  whisper against  me,  except from
 the  slanderous  tongues of Yandell  and Com-
 pany,) the Board at  length  removed   me from
 my chair, and at the same  sitting, offered  to
 my  acceptance an  Honorary Degree!!
   An "Honorary Degree" in medicine, proffered
 to me, by a body of men, the very  existence of
 whose  academical honors  is  a creation of my
 own!—This was  indeed not even  a  propitiatory
 "sop to Cerberus"—No, it was a solemn mocke-
 ry.  A memorable exemplification of the poet's
 "world inverted,,,
     "Wherein the foot, designed the soil to tread,
    "Or hand to toil, aspired to be the head'."
   As a matter of course, the offer was promptly
 and haughtily rejected—the rejection being ac-
 companied by a declaration, characterized by the
 same air and tone, that the Trustees had nothing,
 either  to retain themselves, or  offer  to  others,
 that, to me, could bo  an Honor—That all  my
 honors, whatever might be their amount and
 value;  and whether, in their nature, profession-
 al, scientific, or  literary, were possessions  of
 my own creating—and that  it was beyond  the
 power  of the Board, to augment, diminish, or, tn
 »ny way, affect them.   And I was ou the verge
 of subjoining the sentiment just expressed—that
every ncudemical attribute of tho Board  wh*> an   ■*—-
iinatiatwn ftom my*<if.
 ■ Sot did I fail lo  meet, and  demolish every
pretense of the Board  for  their causeless  and
heartless dismissal  of  me  from the School.—
When alleged by them therefore, that I was -'loo
old" for the discharge of the duties of a public
teacher, I stated to them, lo dispel  their ignor-
ance of the history of medical schools, the ciimh
of Hoffmann, Bluinenbach, Cullen, and  other
celebrated  teachers, who, at ages more,  some
of them murk more, advanced than  mine,  died
Professors in Institutions, which  they }iad\ hatl
no agency in  founding—but into which they had
been  simply  elected—whereas,  of that, from
which  I  was  dismissed,  without  a real fault
alleged  against  me,  I had bceu  the  hmndrr
—a consideration which strengthened my claim
to  tlie  tenure  of  my  chair, to  a  mauifol.l
extent,  beyond that of a mere  election  into  it,
 when already establi he.1 and in a flourishing con-
dition.
   Such, fellow-citizens, is the  plain and unam-
 bitious  narrative 1 have been induced to lay be-
 fore you.  Introductory to  it, I promised  to re-
 veal to  you, in  it, a fact (more correctly  might I
 have said,  an aggregate of fart*,)  "unpncrdentrtl
 and unique."  Anil feel uo apprehension that,
 after having perused  it, you will  be likely  to
 charge  ine with a breach of my  promise.  Np
 I have fulfilled it already,though homethini; is yet
 wanting to complete the pietilre.   My dismissal
 from my chair in the Medical Department of the
 University  of Louisville, in the manner detailed
 to  you, is  & paraxon of outrage on  justice and
 right.  In the entire liistory of Medical  School*,  ~
 from the first in Cos, to the last in Mchigan,
 nothing equal, timilar, or even analogous to  it,
 is recorded.
  How it is possible for a deed so irreconcilably at
 war with every principle of justice, equity, th"
 christian religion, ami even humanity  itself, i<>
 have been  the work of u body of men,  iu other
 respects so sound  iu chancier and high  in stand-
 ing, as are the  Board of Trustees, constitutes mi
 enigma, whose  solution  is referred to casuist.-.
 and expounders  far  other than  myself.  Iu u
 task so repulsive, herculean, and hopeless, I shall
 not engage.  As soon would I  undertake  the
 noisome defecation of the Augean Stables.
   The  greatest marvel involved in the transac
 tion of my  removal from my chair, is, nut that
 the deed has been done, and done iu so reprehen-
 sible a  manner; but that it has been done by such
 a body of men—a body consisting, as the Board
 of Trustees  does, of two judges, two  lawyers,
 and I know not how  many fervid and fierce pro-
 fessing christians.  To  induce such a body ot
 men, deliberately and  officially,  to commit on
 the feeling and fortune of an individual of any
 description, such  irremediable  havoc, as  tha
 Trustees hove committed on mine, they ought to
 be able to  defend their proceeding by reasons ir-
 resistible.    Yet  have those gentlemen (high-
 standing in the community as some of them are)
 not a single valid  reason to urge in defence of
 their  proceeding  toward  me, more than  had   •
 Macbeth to justify, or even palliate, his assassi-
 nation  of  the  aged  and innocent Duncan, his
 king and guest, when, in his soliloquy, he  utter-
 ed the following  agonized and  half-repentant
 confession:
                     " Rest let, tlii* Duncan
    Hath homr hu faculties «i inrefc, hath been
   So f.!e*r  in rm gre*\ office, thai his virtoes
   Will plran like ansela. trumpet tongue.t, arain t
   1 he  d««p damnation of hi- taking off." 
G
     for  I can  with  perfect truthfulness declare,
  that, in the mouth  of April, I.--I-'. I was as I rec
  from the  slightest  degree of wrong-doing and
  wrong--inlending to tiie medical school.the board
  .,1' trustees and the faculty of  medicine, as was
  Duiie.-ui toward Macbeth, when the latter made
  the above avowal;  or when  he again thus ex-
  presses himself respecting the former:
            " He's here in double  trust;
    First, as I am lis kinsman and his subject,
    St:ong both against the deed; then, as his hist,
    Who should again-d his murder shut the door,
    Vol bear the Unite myself."
    Vol, under all  these agravations  was  my re-
  moval perpetrated !
    I am bound, however, to acknowledge that the
  whoie Board did not unite in the flagitious trans-
  action.   I  take peculiar pleasure in recording,
  without tlmir knowledge, tho exemption from it
  of the three following gentlemen—Messrs. Pope,
  llverettand Field.  As far as they are concern-
  < 4, the  administration of  -he school is unsoiled
  iiy it.   And I have been informed, through a
  channel, which I am unwilling to discredit, that,
. had the Board, in thoir  final vote, been equally
  divided, the President would  have decided in fa-
 '•vor of my retaining my cliair until March, 1850.
  And I have been  also  told, (I know not whether
  truly,)  that some  of the members, who  voted
  with the majority,  have  since expressed  their
  regret for what was done.
    Of Professor Yandell I have spoken in  this
  production with  deep and  intense, but justly
  merited, censure and  reprobation.   A  few ex-
  pressions, however, in relation to him, I  have
  not  employed without reluctance—but I cannot
  say regret.  Though 1  consider him in  many'
  respects, a  mass of  as unqualified odium and in-
  iquity as I have ever known; yet wou'd the  ema-
  nation from me, of the expressions referred to,
  he altogether  inadmissible, were it not for the
  correctness of their  application  to him.  When I
  adopted them, I coulu not call  to my mind any
  others that so  aptly characterized him.
 -  Things, whether  corporeal or mental,  deeply
  and thoroughly  vitiated  in  their  nature, de-
  formed  iu shape,  and  irreconcilably  otF-nsive
  in  color  and  odor, can be no more  truthfully
  described by bland and pleasing words, than thev
  can be'accurately portrayed by a graceful and
  symmetrical   outline, or  suitably  colored, and
  otherwise characterized  by the  hues of the rain-
  bow and the fragrance of the  roie.  There is an
  inherent and  natural power of descrlptiveness
  and  aptitude,  to  repreoont,  in  words  and
  sounds, as well as in forms, colors and smells.
    Hence,  I deem it less  faulty in  a writer to
  employ, under given circumstances, unattrac-
  tive and even  repulsive language, than to allow
  a  gross and  corrupt embodiment  of  perfidy,
  falsehood, ingratitude and treachery to roam at
  large, without its brand,and euact, undetected,
  the character of the wolf in the costume of the
  lamb.   And  when  to such an  incorporation is
  added  the  impiousuess of hypocrisy, our lan-
  guage n ;eds a new term,  adequately to express
  the hateful product.
                    APPENDIX.
  .  I  have stated, in  the  course  of the preceding
  narrative, that the three last classes of graduates
  of the Medical Department of  the University of
  Louisville  (the  classes  of 16-17-48—and-49)
  spontaneously left  with mo, on their departure
  from the city, each of them, a  document highly
  commendatory  of  my courses  of lectures, to
  which they had  listened.  And none of their
  i-ach-rs wni  dcny( tim tnoae were three Qf ^
ablest and  most  enlightened classes, that hov«
ever received the honors of the  institution. The
following is the document  left  by the last class.
And, in  matter,  style, and tone, the two prece-
ding ones are equally full, strong and decisive.
                 Louisville, March 6<n, 1849.
   "We,  the undersigned, members of the gra-
duated class of the  Medical Department—Uni-
versity  of Louisville, for session 1848 and'49,
unanimously adopt the following Preamble and
Resolutions:
   "Whereas, we  have attended the  lectures  of
our venerable Professor of the Institutes of medi-
cine for  two sessions;  and whereas,  in all hu-
man probability, he will not continue many years
longer to hold his place in the University, which
we are proud  to cherish as  our Alma Mater;
therefore:
   "Resolved, 1st;  That we feel it  to  be our
privilege, and take  great  pleasure in expressing
our high regard for him, as a man of profound
learning,  and  one  of the  ablest advocates and
most efficient teachers of the medical profession.
   "Resolved, 2d;   That  his  lectures  on all the
subjects, pertaining to his chair, have been able,
thorough, and instructive; and that the imputa-
tion therefore,  that he is superannuated, or that
his lectures are, in any  way, inferior to those of
the other Professors,  is unjust,  unfounded, and
false.
   "Resolved, 3rd;   That, in consideration of the
deep interest he has always manifested in our ad-
vancement in  the study  of the philosophy  of
njiedicine,, and his untiring efforts to promote the
same, we deeply regret the prospect of his vaca-
ting his cliair.  which he has so long and so ably
filled; and for his courteous and  affable manners
to us as pupils, and all the kind attentions we have
received from  his  hands,  we  tender to him the
grateful  thanks of his affectionate  pupils and
humble servants.
    Signed  in behalf of the Class by
                          W. W. McUomas,
                           J. Rodman,
                          T. L. Madden."
   Such is the document left with me, by a body
of young  gentlemen,  thoroughly   acquainted
with the  subject it involves, as testimony, to sus-
tain me against the proceedings of another  body,
in an  effort to wrong and  injure me, by action
on the   same  subject,  of  which  they  were
thoroughly ignorant.  The document therefore
speaks satisfactorily and  conclusively for  itself,
and bears a testimony, which, as the case then
stood, and still  stands,  can be neither strength-
ened  nor weakened, by comment or discussion.
Hence to bestow  it on either, would be a waste
of time.
   Neither are the sentiments I  have here  ex-
pressed extravagant,  nor the  language in which
I have clothed and  conveyed  them  too strong.
The subject  under  consideration was, and  is,
"My  fitness  or unfitness to communicate in-
struction, by lectures, on the  Institutes of Medi-
cine,  and Medical Jurisprudence.  And I repeat
my assertion—with  that  subject the testifying
classes (for the reader will remember that there
were three of them) were perfectly  acquainted,
and the Board of Trustees, their informers and
advisers, utterly  ignorant.  The reason of my
assertion, to this  effect, is obvious and  irrefu-
table.
   From  my didactic lectures alone could  my
competency or incompetency to teach be  ascer- 
7
tallied. And of them,the graduated and testifying
classes had, within from two to six years, heard
each of them, about  one hundred  and twenty;
while the prosecuting body, Trustees, informers,
and advisors, had never, as I verily believe heard
even  one.   Certainly  they had  hoard  none of
them within the last  ten  or twelve years.  A
few of ray Introductory, Valedictory, and pub-
lic lectures on popular subjects they may per-
haps have heard; but from them they could learn
nothing of my ability or  disability  as a dedactic
teacher of  medical philosophy.
   In relation to Medical Jurisprudence tlie  case
is slightly different.   On that branch of the sub-
ject of  my  professorship  I delivered  a  brief
course  of public lectures,  in  tho  winter of
l816-'47, a  few of which a few of the  Trustees"
heard, and spoke  of them in  highly  favorable
terms.   Hence I  have always  believed that that
course did  much  to frustrate the views and de-
feat  the  machinations  of my enemies at that
time.   Indeed I am confident it did.   And, as al-
ready intimated, had the  Board  of Trustees ad-
mitted  mo  to a public  trial,  iu the Spring of
 1849, I would have  triumphantly  defeated  my
enemies again.   And from a confidence of that,
 the  trial  was  denied,  by the members of the
 Board determined on my removal.  For I again
 repeat, and record the assertion, that  had they
 admitted me to  u fair public contest  with  those
 opposed to me, they would not have dared  to re-
 move me from my chair.  And  could I procure
 such a contest now, tho issue of it to be, a  res-
 toration to my chair, in case  of my success, the
 present incumbent of it  would soon be packed
 off, to resume his trade of snipe and rabbit hunt-
 ing on his farm in Tennessee.   And my lectures
 would consist, as they  have always done, of
 something else  than a mere monotonous  rstoila-
 lion of Liebegiun physiology, intermixed  witn
 geological gleanings,  und scraps of rhyme—as
 many members of Dr. Yandell's class  assert his
 to be.
    But I must bring this unpleasant contest to  a
 close.  To discuss any farther my  ability to lec-
 ture as instructively as any other member of the
 Kaculty, in April, 1840,  when  I was  dismissed
 from my chair,  would be not only a  waste of
 words and  time, but a measure unworthy of my-
 self—I might even pronounce  it  degrading to
 myself.
   My ability was abundantly  established at the
 time, by the strongest and most conclusive testi-
 mony the world  could furnish  on  the occasion.
 For the three graduated classes,  already men-
 tioned, consisting of two hundred young gentle-
 men, constituted  incomparably the most compe-
 tent body of witnesses in the pending case thai the
 world contained—in fact they  were as competent
 as they could be  rendered by  ample knowledge
 of the subject agitated, sound  moruN.nnd unim-
 peachable veracity.  They wen- not wanting in
 a single qualification which competent witnesses
 ought to possess; wh'lo, on the  opposite side of
 the question, the condition of  things wasdirect-
 I v the reverse.  N ol an individual could bo found
 there,  whoso  knowledge of the subject  under
 consideration was sufficiently extensive and cor-
 rect to cutitlc him to  testify on it,  in the lowest,
 most unenlightened and mostuiiscrupulouscourt
 of injustice in the United States. The  reason is
 obvious.   From niy  didactic  lectures  alone, as
 already stated, could  my fitness  or unfitness for
 the duties  of a  public teacher  be  ascertained.
 And, not for many years past,  if e>er,  had even
 one of them been heard by a single member of
tho body of men, who were  inexorably bent on
my removal from tho School.
  That this was the case with the Board of Trus-
tee then in office, not one of them  will deny.
Nor was it otherwise with tho  Faculty of medi-
cine; some  of whom (how many I, neither know,
nor shall trouble myself to inquire) were equal-
ly stanch in the plot for my dismissal.  Not oue
of them,  as I am thoroughly convinced, had
heard a single didactic lecture of mine, any more
than I had of hie,  for many years.   Except
from report,  therefore, they knew no more  of
my  ability, as a  public teacher, than  did  the
rhymester's silly boy,
  "Who trudged along, not knowing what he souchl,
  "And wawlled, as he went, for waiit of thought."
   It was equally as necessary, therefore, for them
to testify from report  (if they testified st all) on
the question at issue, as it  was for the Board  of
Trustees to adjudicate from report.   For, as fur
as knowledge derived from  their  own  observa-
tion  was concerned, both bodies were alike igno- .
rant of the state of the case.   Hence, it was
equally necessary for both to  seek  information
bv inquiry—if they were anxious  to possess  is.
   As the Board of Trustees, however, had before
them a deed which they had dot.  rmiuod to execute
and  as, in  relation to it, they "'ere all-powerful,
they, for the attainment of their end, needed no
information.   Hence they sought for none   but
pressed forwurd for the accomplishment of it,"by
theauthority of laws of their own enacting;  as
the prodaceous animal instinctively does toward
its victim, when already in sight—and its escape
impossible.
   The members of the Faculty,  however, who
were self-created  instruments in the  ploffor my
removal, needed  information,  or rather, some-
tiling in its guise, to serve the same  purpose.—
And there were  two sources  from  which they
weroubundantly dextrous in  the collection of it—
fabrication, iu which they were master-work-
mon,—and a certain class of pupils that is known
to exist in  every school of medicine.
   The first of these sources is unfortunately so
common and well known, that to devote  even a
moment to the explanation of it would be super-
fluous.   But, ol the second, a brief analysis may
 not  be amiss.
   It consists of those pupils who  look, listen,
and perhaps read; but who never actually  study,
and rarely think for themselves.  Pupils .of this
discriptiou resort to  medical schools,  not to
attain a kuow|edge of the  science of their profes-
sion.  For the kind and degree of mental exer-
cise necessary for that attainment they possess
 neither taste nor talents.  Their chief  object in
 repairing  to a medical school  is, to acquire a
smattering of medical terms and  technics, and
to attain the reputo  of having attended lectures.
 Heuce they are often jocularly spoken of as tho
'■rank and file pupils, who learn only the manu-
al exercise ef their profession."
   Young gentlemen of this cast possess  a sort
of parasitical existence.  So dependentjand J/rri-
ble are their minds, that an artful and intriguing
Professor may model them to his purposes  and
draw from them any opinion he pleases, respect-
ing the stauding and merit of any one of his col-
leagues.   AY iih youths of  this stamp and charac-
ter,  Dr. Yandell  is always popular and influen-
tial.  Nor is  there any doubt, that he has in-
duced them,times innumerable,to assure him.that
they learnt nothing from my lectures.   And the
a-surance  «.is no dourd'true; because, in form-
ing them,  me (Jod ol  nature did not will  or de- 
/
J
«ic.. thai thev should iicnmre a knowledge of the
                        dioine, or any  other
                                 eflbrt there-
*<■
 phil.Mopliv  of eith
 h-inch of" knowledge.  Noo.ntl.ly
 lore could impart it to them.
   Rut I *H nl defiance  Hr.  Vuiifell, and every
 .4h-*r man who took part iu my persecution >*»d
 rejection,  whether he be Professor,  Trustee, or
 individual otherwise classed,, to produce  a single
 pupil, of a  high order of miad and  attainment,
 who has listened  to my l.-ctures and will  not  de-
  l.iro that lie Ins  derived  from them as much
 gratification and instruction,  as from  those of
 uny of niv colleagues
   But I must bring Ibis hastily written produc-
 tion to a close.  And,mi doing so, I take, as my
 premises, the diversified body of matter  it con-
 tains, and unhesitatingly draw from it the follow-
 ing inferences—without the least apprehension
 ©^opposition to them, by fair-minded And intel-
 ligent men.wliether of my contemporaries or pos-
 teritv.  For, in case I survive until the comple-
 tion of my "Autobiography  and   Memoirs of
 mv own Times," posterity  shall have  a  knowl-
 edge of.the  entire subject—both  premises  and
 inferences.
   1st.  My removal from my Professorship is an
 event unprecedented,  for its  outrage  on right,
 Iuslice  aud academical decorum, in  the  history
 and legends of schools of medicine.
  2d. I am neither a "dotard" nor a "superan-
 iatkd iMBKcruc" as,  years ago,  Dr.  Yandell
 had the vulgarity and mendacity  to pronounce
 ine.   And, in further proof  of  the truth of  this
 inference,'to my  preceding matter of argument,
 1 now subjoin, as additional evidence,  the pres-
 ent production; which, though hastily written,
 amidst distracting avocations; and though I  s°t
 on  it an  estimate comparatively low; yet do I
 fearlessly assert, that that noted slanderer,  ansV
 ncnrtT retractor of his slanders (whon called
 to account for them) can  no more equal it in
 composition; than he can equal the recent suc-
 cessor to his chair, iu anualylitical chemistry.
  Is this assertion accounted a boast.'   I reply
 that it is not.  Because it only alleges that I can
 surpass in  composition a mental parasite  and
 squibster.
  3d.—I have satisfactorily  shown, that,  though
 unrighteously debarred from much of the profits
 of my thirty years' labor in  the Mississippi  val-
 ley, yet can nothing earthly  rob me of the honor
 of being the direct Jounder of the medical school,
 and, through it, the indirect founder of the (Jni-
 versitv of Louisville—and the pioneer  of medi-
 cal plilosophy in the West.
  From the deep and self-damning conduct  to-
 ward me,  of Dr. Yandell and some of his aids, I
am justified, if I  please, to close my narrative
 with the following lines:
 "Is this, then, the fate, future ases will say,
"When some men slia'l live but  in memory's curse;
"When the truth shall be told, and these things or a
       DAY,
"Be forgotten ss tools, or remembered as worse'.'
8"

    And the reader  may subjoin or lteghttt at np ,
  lion, the first line  of the next versa, of the sua*,

    But, be his view of  the  use I  have Mad* uf
  the preceding quotation what it may,. J feel con-
  vinced that he will concur  with me: in the co'*^,;
  redness  and propriety of the  following senUiT''
  vient, which will  be the last I shall express on *■%
  the present occasion.                          ;W
  • Considering  the amount  of services  I  lia,vof w
  rendered and attempted to render to^tbe prefeu-ftfti
  eion of medicine iu the  west  and <Msewhef»*-|^f
  that, in tho city of  Philadelphia, I was the first (to  "'
  deliver clinical lectures on it, in the city Alms-
  house—that in that place  I also lectured on it,
  scientifically and, practically  for ten mccessivo?.
 Winters,  to  priykfo classes—thai, in Kentucky,
  I have faithfully' and laboriously devoted to  it*
  highest interests, thirty years of my life— that I
  have been the  founder, and, for many years, the,
  chief supporter of the  two most  distinguished, ,\J
  medical schools that have been established in the, 4
  Mississippi Valley—that I  have contributed  to f
  the education of, I  know not how ieany  thoua*-,
  and, young  gentlemen, who are now abje njid;
  successful  practitioners  of their  profession ,iu
  the same region, as well as in sundry other places, '
  —that, notwithstanding these labors and services, <£
  I  have been unable, in consequence of losses. *
  and heavy outla)*. in  behalf of  the schools I, J.
  bad founded, to accumulate an estate, sufficient. **
  by its income to support my family, in. the mod'-.
  erate and unostentatious  style, in which they,
  have been accustomed  to live—that all this wan-
  well known to the  Board of Trustees, when, by.
  the tyrannical exercise  of the authority, for the
  possession of which they were indebted  to  my-
  self, they closed  against me the doors of. one of
  (Waybook of  mv  own formation  j—1 that: all,'
  tne indulgence  I  asked  in acknowledgement
  of  what  I  had  done  for the  profession, was
  permission  to  retain my  chair for  onk year
  longer—From  these numerous  and high  con-
  siderations, added to the attachment  to my per-
  son, and veneration for my name and character,
  which I confidently say, and am proud  to say,
  my thousands  of pupils manifest  to me—from
  all these considerations united, had  my. mind
  been, in reality, somewhat impaired, by my ad-,
  vancement in years—still does it appear to ma,
  impossible for  an enlightened, liberal, and high-,
  minded community not to  consider  me  amply
  entitled to the exceedingly limited  favor I solici-
  ted—and to be even indignant at a heartless de-
  nial of it.  Hence  am  I compelled to  bejieye,
  that, by  every one who may read my story, if
  he be not curtail d in  intellect, or depraved in
  morals, or, in some way, perverted in both, most
  my dismissal,  without mental impairment, or any
  other form of deficiency  or fault, be the more
  intensely and deservedly  condemned and repro-
  bated,  as a deed affixing, on  the  character and
  conduct of its inexorable  perpetrators, a deep,,
  disgraceful, and indelible stain. 
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