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OF THE
"STATEMENTS  OF   PACTS
IN RELATION TO THE
EXPULSION  OF JAMES  C. CROSS
FROM TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY.
  RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY DUDLEY, MITCHELL, AND PETER.





         BY JAMES CONQUEST CROSS, M. D.

FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS IN THE MEDICAL COLLEGE
   OF OHIO; LATE PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE AND MEDICAL
       JURISPRUDENCE IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSYLVANIA
           UNIVERSITY; AND AT PRESENT PROFESSOP. OF THE
               SAME IN THE MEMPHIS MEDICAL COLLEGE.

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        LOUISVILLE!,

P P. E NTICE AND  WEISSINGlEK.

              1816. 
 
ANALYSIS AND  REFUTATION.
   As was expected, when I published my ap-
peal, 1 have not been permitted to remain  si-
lent.  Nor did I, as I then remarked, particu-
larly desire it.   But Dr.  Dudley has  disap-
pointed  me,  not in  the  instruments he has
employed to  conduct his vindication, for with
these I was familiar, but in the spirit and the
manner in which he has suffered it to be done.
I did suppose a regard for the public taste and
common  decency,  if he had no respect for
himself, would have made him exact from his
subordinates at least a vulgar observance of the
ordinary  courtesies of written  controversy.
Of these he  has shown  himself to be  igno-
rant as well as totally insensible of the disgust
which the coarseness of his  conduct must in-
spire in every mind in which there is an idea
of taste, a sentiment of pride, or a sense of
honor.   An  example in illustration  and proof
of the truth of this, the reader has  doubtless
seen in  the card of W.  A. Dudley, the son
of Dr.  B.  W.  Dudley,  which  was  spoken
of  in  the following terms by a  writer in a
Tennessee  Journal:  "The  hero of the bil-
lingsgate advertisement, in your paper is  a
son  of the  professor; and, from the free and
easy command he possesses  of abusive epi-
thets one is almost compelled to believe that a
part, at  least,  of his education has  been ac-
quired at the "Five Points," or some other
notorious school of  scurrility  and  degradation.
In the  instance before  us the defamer has so
far overshot the mark of decency  and proprie
ty with  his overloaded weapon, that the re-
bound has done  more execution than the dis-
charge—more injury has  been sustained be-
hind the breech than before the muzzle."
   The  only notice  I took of the card alluded
to is to be found  in the subjoined address  to
the public, which was made more for the pur-
pose of stating the fact that W. A.  Dudley is
the son of—and not B.  W. Dudley himself—
than any thing else:
             TO THE PUBLIC.
  Mr. W.  A.  Dudley, the son of Dr.  B. W.
Dudley, published a  Card in the  Observer
and  Reporter,  of August 15th,  full of abuse of
myself.  In my "Appeal to the Medical Profes-
sion of the United States," I refrained from any
attack upon  the moral character of Dr. Dudley, '
 except so far  as the facts connected with his
 management of the Medical  School  compelled
 me to state.  Should I now notice it, the Public,
 I know, will hold me excused.  Those who have
 read or may read my Appeal, will be persuaded, I
 am sure, that no notice of it at all is required at
 my hands.  My well established facts cannot be
 met by abusive epithets without proof.  I am yet
 on the vantage  grou nd, and until it is seen whether
 my character is to be  formally attacked,  I shall
 remain quiet.  At present, as a direct answer to
 that Card, I say, that no act of mine shall de-
 prive me of an opportunity of presenting Dr. B.
 W. Dudley in  his true colors, as he  has never
 been presented before.  The first thing for me to
 do, should I hereafter be compelled to have any
 thing to do with this  man, will be to write his
 life.                  JAMES  C.  CROSS.
  August 15,  1846.

   This Card  was misinterpreted, for many
 came to the unauthorised conclusion  that it
 was my last word, and designed as a termina-
 tion of the-controversy.   This idea was hasti-
 ly seized upon by the friends of Dr.  Dudley,
 and the opinion industriously propagated that
 I  had,  to  use their own language, "backed
 out."   This was  what  was wished  by Dr.
 Dudley, and those with whom  he is associat-
 ed, for  the following paragraph which heads
 the  Card  of  his son  gives the public the
 fullest assurance that nothing more need  be
 expected from them:  "The  following Card
 which  appeared  in the 'Lexington Observer
 and Reporter,' of August 15th, is the only
 reply which it is  thought necessary to  make
 to  the  scurrilous  pamphlet lately issued by
 James  C.  Cross."
   This information, however, the reader must
 understand  did not  herald the Card when it
 originally appeared in the Lexington  Observer
 and Reporter,  of the 15th  ultimo.   A very
 large edition of this '■'•only reply" some say five
 thousand copies, was afterwards printed on let-
 ter-sheets, and circulated throughout the Valley
 of the Mississippi.   Although I had early in-
 telligence of this fact, my friends were unable
 to procure a copy of it for me, and I only ob-
 tained possession of it, at last, through the kind-
ness of  a friend in Memphis who enclosed  it
to me in a letter of which the following is an
extract:  "You may rest assured that nothing 
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emanating from the  Transylvania clique will
have the effect of injuring you with your col-
leagues here, or with the profession at large."

             TO THE  PUBLIC.
  It is with regret I find that I am again con-
strained to address the public.  In the discharge
of this duty, I shall endeavor not to offend or dis-
gust the reader by the  lowness and vulgarity of
my language, or the empty ridiculousness  of my
assertions.  Immediately after the appearance, in
the Lexington Observer and Reporter, of the 15th
inst., of a Card, signed \V. A. Dudley, in  which
my character was most foully and slanderously
denounced, I said, in a Card of the same date,
"until it is seen whether  my character  is  to  be
formally attacked, I shall remain quiet."   This
declaration was made  because it  had been re-
peatedly and  boldly  asserted by the friends of
Dr. Benj. W. Dudley, while my Appeal was in
press, that a  publication was being  prepared, in
which, it was said, my life and  character  would
be  exhibited in the  blackest colors; I  therefore
considered myself bound to wait  a reasonable
length of time before speaking more fully  on the
subject than I had in my  Card of the 15th inst.,
which was designed  not as an  answer  to  W. A.
Dudley, but to say to the public why I did not
notice him.
   My position in relation to Dr. Benj.  W. Dud-
ley, was clearly defined  in my "Appeal  to  the
Medical Profession  of the  United  States," in
which I say, at page 29:   "Having now laid be-
fore the reader a broad  and inexpugnable pha-
lanx of facts which go irresistibly to establish the
position that a conspiracy was formed for  my de-
struction, of which Dr. Dudley was the leader,  I
will not insult his  understanding or  offend his
sensibilities, by indulging in vulgar and vitupera-
tive comments  upon the conduct of those who
banded together for my ruin, and that too, for no
other reason, than because I had resolved no lon-
ger to be associated with such men. But  I must
remark, in closing, that taking it for granted that
I shall not be suffered,  nor do  I particularly de-
sire it, much as I  am disposed to court peace
with  all mankind, to  remam  silent in  future,
those to whom this Appeal is addressed,  must dis-
tinctly understand that I 'fight not with small or
great, save only with the King of Israel'—and
that with Dr. Dudley I am ready  to arrange all
points of difficulty or difference.   With his  un-
derstrappers I cannot and will not have any thing
to do."
   That the public,  and especially the  distant
public, who would not in all probability  see my
 Appeal, might know why I did not condescend to
notice the tissue of lies set forth against  me by
W. A. Dudley, the  son  of Dr. B. W. Dudley, I
published the Card  already alluded to, and for
the reason assigned,  determined to give time for
the publication of the formal  attack which was
threatened.  This delay, I considered  it  decent
 and proper to observe,  for although I had  the full
 moral conviction that Dr. B. W. Dudley had too
great a regard for his own character to  suffer any
auch attack to be made upon me, and thus give
 me a full justification in the eyes of the world,
 and of the people of this city, whose favor is the
"breath of his nostrils," to exhibit him  to  the
public gaze in his true moral attitude, I could not
altogether discredit the boldly repeated assertions
of his friends in relation to the alleged forthcom-
ing publication.  No publication has been made,
and if the assertions of the friends of Dr. B. W.
Dudley are now to be believed, none need be ex-
pected.
  Perhaps the matter would have ended with my
Card of the 15th instant, but for a fresh  exhibi-
tion of the duplicity and. deceit  of Dr.  B.  W.
Dudley.  To escape the odium, which must  ne-
cessarily attach to the father of a  son, who, un-
der existing circumstances, could write and pub-
lish a  Card,  containing allegations which  the
whole city knows to be gratuitous and unfounded,
the friends of Dr. B. W. Dudley, asserted, imme-
diately upon its appearance,  that  it was done
without his  knowledge or  consent, and that he
regretted and repudiated it.  No one believed this,
and the fact now become notorious, that the in-
famous Card of W. A.  Dudley, has been printed
on  letter-sheets, and extensively circulated, proves
conclusively,  that it is endorsed  by Dr. B. W.
Dudley, and that it is his final  answer to my ap-
peal. In this view of the case,  I  demand the
publication of their pamphlet, and challenge Dr.
B.  W. Dudley to the proof of  a single allegation
brought  against me by his son.  Amongst these
charges, are those of  Seduction  and Adultery.
The hardihood and impudent audacity of these
allegations,  coming from such a source, have ex-
cited the wounder and amazement of hundreds—
charges, especially  the latter, of which  he has
been so notoriously guilty, that his name  has be-
come a  by-word amongst the citizens of Lexing-
ton, when they would signalize those who  have
become scandalously celebrated for their amours,
but at the same time, remarkably cunning in con-
cealing them.   To  dwell upon such a subject, is
not only disagreeable but disgusting, and the pub-
lic taste must  be excessively vitiated, if it should
be encouraged or  even tolerated.  For this rea-
son, and  in mercy to those who  must suffer  in
such a  controversy as this is likely to become, I
shall refrain,  for the present, from  making  spe-
cifications or  adducing proof.  To the commis-
sion of such an outrage upon public decency, no
less cause can provoke me, than the attempt on
the part  of Dr. B.  \V. Dudley to establish by
proof, charges which he has suffered his son, in a
fit of desperation, to prefer against me, but which
he knows to be false.  If he wishes to become as
infamous abroad, as he is notorious at home, for
the perpetration of every sensual iniquity, he has
 now an opportunity.  In the.meantime, the pub-
lic should bear in mind what 1 have already prov-
 ed against  him by facts that cannot be under-
 mined, counteracted or destroyed.
                        JAMES  C.  CROSS.
   Lexington, August 28, 1846.
    This Card produced an impression in Lex-
 ington, at which I was not only pleased but in
 every respect entirely  satisfied.   It made my
 position one of triumphant vindication, from the
 wrongs  and outrages I had suffered at the
 hands of Dr. Dudley, unless he should  furnish
 the public with satisfactory  proof of the moral 
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delinquencies which he  had suffered, and I
have no doubt anthorized, his son publicly  to
prefer against me, and which  he fully endor-
sed when he caused the Card embodying them,
to  be printed on  letter-sheets and circulated
through the Post-Office.   No one believed that
he or his subordinates would think of entering
upon so hopeless  an enterprise,  and the opin-
ion spread abroad that the controversy had clo-
sed.  In this view of the matter I had no confi-
dence. Silence on his part I had rendered utter-
ly impossible.  He musteither speak or be for-
ever disgraced in public estimation, as a ma-
lignant calumniator and slanderer, as one who
ferociously started  his  son  upon a most ruf-
fianly enterprise,  and when  called to account,
instead  of adducing proof,  like  the divers in
the gulf of Ormus, who when they see fish ap-
proaching to devour them, destroy the transpa-
rency  of the water by raising  the mud with
their feet, he endeavors to humbug the public
with vague and unintelligible generalities.
   He knew  he must speak or  be  lost, and
the  agonizing thought  goaded him in every
fibre of his  heart.   His position, even m his
Paradise, so rich in all the enjoyments in which
he so much delights, began  to be precarious.—
When he saw thathis sycophancy and his sup-
pers ceased to be  invested  with  their usual
attractions, he was convinced that, without a
struggle, he must sink at once and forever, to
the very bottom   of the great ocean of public
contempt; and  "Contempt," says Dr. John-
son  "is a kind of gangrene which when it seizes,
one part of a character corrupts all the rest by
degrees."   My last Card,  together with such
notices of my appeal, as the following, which
appeared in  the Knoxville Standard, produced
this conviction and  forced him  to break a  si-
lence which he   had obstinately  persisted in,
amidst the fiercest  and most deadly  assaults
upon his conduct and character, for more than
thirty years*

  *Happy wouM it have been for Dr. Dudley had he con-
tinued  to pursue his usual and  heretofore successful poli-
cy.  His obliging me to respond to the frantic calumnies of
a venal confederacy, he shall repent to the last hour of his
existence, for had I been sitting at the elbows of and dicta-
ting to the Trio, the " Statements of Facts" would  not
have been made more  vulnerable  nor  would they have
answered my purpose better.  So low-bred is the idle gossip
and so frivolous and  absurd are the calumnies which the
 Trio have uttered and published, that the reflecting part of
the public can scarcely fail to ask the question,  are these
men responsible agents?  So closely  is what they have said
akin to the unquestionable offspring of insanity, that it will
hardly be permitted  to claim any  other paternity, and if
the Board of Trustees would  act sensibly, in future, they
will take the advice Hamlet gave Orphelia, which was to
lock her father up,  that he might play the fool  no
where  but  in his own house. I would  therefore, and it
cannot, at least, by those who have  read the " Statements,"
be looked upon as a  gratuitous recommendation counsel,
them to close the doors of the College upon the Trio, that
they may  be allowed to render themselves ridiculous no
where but  upon the rostrum, and  for the amusement of
the students exclusively.  Indeed, nearly the whole of what
tb«y have  asserted is as false as  dicer's oaths, as I shall
exclusively prove, for they have done little more than te
           "PROFESSOR CROSS.
  The history of talent and genius in all time ie
more or less marked by the malevolence of inferior
beings whom circumstances, aided  by the trickery
of bad hearts, have elevated to an undue and dan-
gerous position among men.
  The conciousness of inferiority, together with
that rancorous envy which holds the place in cor-
rupt minds of generosity and admiration, impels
them to detract and defame those whom the God of
Nature has placed higher  in  the  intellectual and
moral scale than themselves, and whom they can-
not rival they attempt to destroy. There is nothing
so dangerous to the purity and health of the moral
and social constitution as the elevation to places of
trust and honor of beings without ability, integrity
and firmness.  Not capable of brilliantly acquitting
themselves in their foreign  position, and unable to
reach the proud  summit of superiority, they use
all the means within their control to drag  down its
natural occupants to their own unenviable level.
The history of the period of the Professorship  of
Dr. Cross  in Transylvauia, shows an unbroken
series of duplicity  and  wrong, directed  against
himself, scarcely parallelled in  the  records of chi-
canery.   Placed as he  was in juxtaposition with
those who  lack the moral firmness to dare  be hon-
est men, and under the despotic sway of one  who,
if judged by his conduct as detailed in the appeal
of Dr. Cross, views subserviency and pliancy as
essential  attributes in his  colleagues, determined
in their sapient conclave not only upon the remo-
val of Dr.  Cross out of their iniquitous road,  but
his utter demolition.  Their vile machinations re-
sulted in the  withdrawal of a man who was an
ornament to old Transylvania.
   Upon the arrival of the proper time, Dr. Cross
published an "Appeal to the Medical Profession of
the United States," in which  he gives a  full and
candid narrative of all the circumstances and events
that led to his resignation.  Written in a clear,
bold and manly style, it carries the conviction  to
every candid mind that it is the truth, and while it
stamps its author as a man of unusual ability, it
shows him to be magnanimous to  even  his dead-
liest foe,  for while he pours a burning torrent of
invective  on the devoted heads of his writhing vic-
tims, he waives all the doubtful advantages which
the usage  and custom of written  warfare would
tolerate, and confines himself to plain, honest con-
clusions drawn from fairly stated facts.   He meas-
ures  the  foils, gives the  longest to his foe, and
then  vanquishes him in a manner  that does credit
to his head and heart.  Every lover of truth should
read this  work, as it discloses a system of villainy
and  duplicity in high places which would shame
depravity  itself, and visits on the heads of  the
 guilty an awful but just retribution.
  Though not a member of the medical profession
and feeling no bias on the subject,  yet I rejoice in
the triumph of right over wrong, and believe that
every true-hearted  man will arise  from the peru-
sal of the  "Appeal" with the conviction that mor-
al obliquity never received a more just or nismly
exposure."                               G.
j umble together an undigested heap of contrarieties, dis-
graceful both to their heads and hearts, which will oblige me
to commit moral when in fact it ehoulcl be physical murder,
for they deserve the fate of poor Cinna the poet, who.wa*
 killed by Mark Antony's mob for making bad versee. 
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   The  "Statements  of Facts'" in relation to
 what Mitchell,  Peter and Dr. Dudley, slan-
 derously denominate  my expulsion  from the
 Medical Department of Transylvania Univer-
 sity^ I expected, at last appeared; 'but under
 circumstances calculated to throw the greatest
 discredit upon the work.  Now, it is a fact,
 that more than  ten  days before I obtained a
 copy of it,  during which time the public be-
 lieved the controversy had  ceased, I learned
 from a friend, that it was being printed,  but
 could not ascertain by whom or where.  Of
 the "Statements of Facts,'1'' an  edition of four
 thousand copies  has been  printed—one thou-
 sand  of which was mailed at least a week  be-
 fore I could obtain a sight of  it.  This silence
 and  secrecy are  conclusive proof that the  au-
 thors of the  Statements are  convinced that
 what  they  have asserted, for they  have  not
 attempted to prove any thing,  will not bear a
 sifting examination, but they  were encouraged
 with  the hope that, as I would soon have to
 leave Lexington, they  would be able to keep
 me ignorant of its existence until so late a period
 that it would not be in my power to give them
 the licking  and flogging which the miscreants
 know they so richly  deserve.   So effectually
 did they conceal their  operations, that I have
 no doubt at  this very moment (Sept. 12,)
 there  are persons six hundred miles from this
 place reading their "Statement," andyetagen-
 tleman informed me to-day that it was impos-
 sible  for  him  to obtain  a copy of it.   This
 cowardly mode  of seeking revenge or of an-
 swering what they impudently call calumnies,
 should notonly in the estimation of every candid
 and just  man discredit the "Statements," but
 should disgrace their authors.   Nor is this all.
 Doubtless for the purpose of lulling  me into
 a feeling of security,  the following paragraph,
 of unequivocal import, was inserted in the Edi-
 torial department of the  Western Lancet,  for
 September.  The reader  should  know that
 both of those works were printed in the same
 office.  The  editor of the  Western  Lancet
 says:—"Efforts from time to time have been
 made to detract from the well earned reputa-
 tion of this school; (Trans. Med. School,) but
instead of entering  into acrimonious  contro-
versy, and attempting to refute every idle ru-
 mor that may be  circulated, the Faculty deem
it  more consistent  with their duty to them-
 selves and the profession, to devote their ener-
 gies to the improvement  of  the departments
committed to their care, and to the faithful
instructions of those pupils who may attend
the lectures."  This declaration of Professor
 Lawson  has been  appealed  to as conclusive
proof that no further response to my Appeal
need be expected, and that no notice whatever
would be taken of my Card of the 28th of Au-
gust.   These notions I  have no doubt, were
 propogated  by the unscrupulous Trio for the1
 purpose of impressing me  with the belief that
 I need not trouble myself any further on the
 subject, and I am only sorry to think that Pro-
 fessor  Lawson would even wink at such dupli-
 city.   Immediately after the  perusal of the
 "Statements,"  I issued the following Card :—

             TO THE PUBLIC.
   A pamphlet  has been sent through the post-
 office, to the physicians of the South and  West,
 entitled "Statements of Facts in Relation to the
 Expulsion of James  C.  Cross,"  for at least a
 week past, of which I could  not get possession
 until to-day, and then only through the kindness
 of a friend, who, somehow or other, procured a
 copy and sent it to me.  I applied to Mr. Moore,
 the binder, for a copy, in the presence of witnes-
 ses,  which he refused, stating  that he had receiv-
 ed positive orders not to suffer one to go out of
 his office.  Here, then, these men, Mitchell, Pe-
 ter,* and Dr. Dudley, who would have the world
 believe they have a right to be regarded as honest
 and honorable, have been secretly circulating, to
 my injury, what they know to be the most infa
 mous falsehoods—falsehoods  of which  peijured
 villains  would   have  been  ashamed.   Their
 "Statements  of Facts," &c, consist of nothing
 but the  simple  assertion  of the most impudent
 and  graceless lies that men  who would be  re-
garded as respectable, ever uttered, and this Bul-
letin is now issued for no  other purpose, than to
desire the public to suspend  its judgment until
the second edition of my "Appeal to the  Medical
Profession of the United States,"  ready for the
press, appears, and which has been delayed only
that  I  might  be made acquainted with the con-
tents of the pamphlet, which I have forced them-
to publish,  after declaring at the head of the
Card of W. A. Dudley, which B. W. Dudley has
often  and emphatically  repudiated, but which
they  have circulated through the whole West and
South, that "The following Card, which appear-
ed in the 'Lexington Observer and Reporter,' of
August 15th, is the only reply which it is thought
necessary to  make to the scurrillous pamphlet
lately issued by James C. Cross."
  In the second edition of my  "Appeal," which
in a  few days will appear, T shall embody a no-
tice of the "Statements of Facts," &c, by Dud-
ley, Mitchell and  Peter, and  if I do not make
Lexington utterly ashamed of them by documen-
tary evidence, the truth of which they themselves
will not dare to doubt or deny, I will agree never
again to vindicate the truth, or refute a falsehood.
If there is power in truth, or  justice in  Lexing-
ton,  I pledge myself to overwhelm the infamous
trio,  not by assertion, but by proof, with confusion
and redemptionless disgrace.
  "Those whom the Gods intend to destroy, they
first make mad."
                      JAMES  C.  CROSS.
  Lexington,  Sept. 10, 1846.
 *The public will excuse this unceremonious use of the
names of those men—their conduct sanctions any violation
of the conventionalities of courtasy—from vulvar intellects
nothing can be expected but vulgar villains.  " 
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  In  my  Card  of the 28th  August, 1  suy:|
"In this view of the case, I demand the publi-
cation of Oieir pamphlet, and challenge Dr. B.
 W. Dudley to the proof of  a single allegation
brought against me by his son."   In the letter
of the 25th  of  May, 1844, signed by Mitch-
ell,  Peter,  Drs.  Dudley and Richardson,  I
am told that circumstances relative  to  my
private character induced them to  request me
to resign.   In my Appeal I have conclusively
proved, if it is proper to speak thus of  any pro-
position  insusceptible of mathematical demon-
stration, that this was a weak  and most un-
principled subterfuge—a shallow but inhuman
and cruel  pretext for the commission  of  a
most, foul  and unmanly outrage.   But this so
far from having had the effect to impress him
 with  the atrocity of the deed—of which he
 had been, if not the  author,  at least  a prin-
 cipal participator, only hardened a heart "full
 of blackest thoughts," for in a transport of vin-
 dictive passion he authorised his son to prefer
 against me  a series of perfectly gratuitous but
 excessively injurious  charges, all  having a di-
 rect  reference to  my private character.  In
 my card of the 28th- of August, I challenged
 him  to  the proof of a  single  one  of them.
 The issue was thus clearly and fairly made up,
 the question and the only question was the
 truth of the allegations that had been brought
 against  me.  He, with his three subordinates,
 having  most cruelly assaulted  my character,
 and  he  himself having  repeated  the assault
 through  his  son, every  candid   and honest
 man will  say that he should either have  made
 a free  and full  recantation, or have freed his
 character from the imputation of being a heart-
 less  calumniator by  an attempt to establish by
 proof what had been asserted of me.* Neither
 of these  alteratives  has  he  thought  proper
 to adopt,  consequently I feel justified in assert-
 ing that  he knows not how to make any bet-
 ter use  of his   own  offensively rotten moral
 character, than to wield it for the oppression,
 and,  if  possible, the  destruction  of  those
 who, would hate themselves with a deep and
 sovereign hatred  if they  could  be  made, by
 either fear or affection, to  fawn on and flatter
 a  man  who has been for more  than thirty
  *One of the trio asserts that I, "better than any one else,
knew that to have stood an investigation before the Board
of Trustees would have  utterly  destroyed mj, and have
made matters of history and record what another one says
is already history." If there is any truth in these declara-
tions surely it could not have been difficult to adduce such
proof as would have removed all doubt from the minds of
the most incredulous—have justified them in the judgment
of all for having invited me to resign, and have at once
ended this controversy.  Dr. Dudley was challenged  to the
task but  declined it,  while  his cringing  and contemptible
associates have attempted it no further than  to indulge in
such vague unsupported assertions  as prove that they are
calumniators,  and that thoy are conscious the judicious
part of mankind will  think  so.  It is impossible to believe
that men who have shown themselves capable of every ex-
cess of fiendish raalignilv, would have hesitated, the mo-
years  a plague-spot upon  society.   Having
made  me  the object of the most abusive and
provoking  insults,  and his  crafty and perfidi-
ous spirit having hu'ed him  from the adoption
of a  candid, liberal, or an enlightened course,
every ingenious and undebauched mind will
say that such conduct  would
    "Have torn the sword from a craven's scabbard,"
and will fully justify me in the eyes of the
world  for any severity I may think proper to
employ in order  to exhibit this Janus-faced
cheat in such  a  light that all may know and
understand him.
   These preliminary remarks having  been
made, I propose now to enter upon an analysis
of the "Statements of  Facts" of which Mitch-
ell, Peter, and Dr. Dudley are the  authors.
This, I will  do in  a spirit of fairness and can-
dor without offending, if possible,  the  public
taste, but with a severity that must make the
most hardened ruffianism feel.   Although they
have filled their "Statements" with the most im-
pudent, empty, and rancorous of assertions that
ever emanated from weak heads, or were ever
 sanctioned by incurably depraved hearts, I will
respond to them with facts that cannot be de-
 nied  or invalidated, that will, while they free
 me  from the  imputations with which  they
 hoped to sully, if not destroy, my character,
 confound them with  astonishment and over-
 whelm them with disgrace.   They may pos-
 sibly
      "Beat me to dust, I care not
      In such a cause as this, I'll die as a martyr."
   The first sentence of the preface contains
 an  admission which  must prove fatal  to the
 credibility of the "Statements" in the estima-
 tion of every man of sense.   Indeed it is a
 disclosure of so thoughtless a character that,
 I cannot deny myself the pleasure of remind-
 ing the Trio that I told  Mitchell in my Appeal
 that "not  only are the base and perfidious,
 false and treacherous  in  all their relations with
 men, but God has so  arranged it for wise and
 good  purposes that  they  shall not be faithful
 even to their own  villanies."   The authors of
 the "Statements," conscious that they were go-
 ing to give publicity to the grossest falsehoods
 which it was  hardly possible could command
ment they ascertained that I would no longer continue asso-
ciated with them, to give to the public the proof that would
have "utterly destroyed" me had it been in their power. They
know it is much easier to conjure up in the public mind
cruel suspicions, that have not the least foundation in fact,
than to succeed in establishing a proposition by adequate
evidence, although there may be many plausible  probabili-
ties in its favor. This is all that Dr. Dudley and his accom-
plices in crime expect or hopo to accomplish, for having
been reduced to a state of reckless desperation, they are
willing that sensible people should denounce them as slan-
derers, if they can, by a stale and shallow trick, but induce
weak men and  silly women to propagate their calumnies,
whether they are believed by them or not.  It is upon the
ignorance and credulity of snch people that Dr. Dudley
acts, and it is with such instruments that he has heretofore
accomplished hit purpeses 
belief, even with unsuspicious and credulous
men, were  simple  enough to imagine that
they would  give plausibility  to  and  even
strengthen their testimony, by making the fol-
lowing  declaration:   "It is  proper to apprise
the reader,  that the following statements of
facts were audably read in the hearing of the
persons whose signatures  they bear, and  ap-
proved by all, as setting forth the true state of
the case."  This was absolutely necessary, for
as they were going  to  give a false version of
facts, a careful camparison  of notes was  indis-
pensable, otherwise the glaring contradictions
of which they  would necessarily have been
guilty, would have rendered any refutation of
their statements, on my part, a work of super-
erogation.   When lawyers suspect concert or
collusion  amongst witnesses  they are examin-
ed separately, and not in the presence  of  one
another.  Had they have read Starkie on Evi-
dence, they would not, it is  probable, have
been betrayed into the commission of so egre-
gious a  blunder.  But they do not read much,
and  what is more unfortunate, understand but
little, should it be above the comprehension of
a  dull  school boy, of what  they do  read.
Had they read the work to which I have re-
ferred they would have  discovered the useful
fact  that  a  perfect correspondence in the  evi-
dence of a number of witnesses in regard to
petty and unimportant details, tends to invali-
date and destroy rather  than  establish  the
truth of their testimony.   When the Trio con-
sented to engage in  so unprincipled an enter-
prise they should undoubtedly have compared
notes to exclude the possibility of a contradic-
tion, but they should not so indiscreetly have
betrayed to  the public the precaution they had
taken.  After committing a blunder that casts
a deep shadow of suspicion over all they have
said,  if it does not  altogether discredit their
statements,  they have the  dauntless assurance
to say:   "The  medical profession may rest
satisfied  that the  exhibition herein made, is
based on irrefutablfc testimony."  Where is it
to be found? Not surely in their ''Statements,"
for I venture the allegation, without reluctance
or the least  misgiving, that a book of the same
size, intended to be  exclusively dialectic in its
character, so entirely made up  of empty and
independent assertions cannot be found in any
language or in any library on earth.
  Having disposed of the preface which every
sensible man  must censure as positively pro-
ving that the Trio have no  confidence in the
intelligence of the public or respect for them-
selves, we proceed to an  examination  of the
statement of Dr. Dudley.  This  production
is perfectly characteristic  of its source, for it
is as full of duplicity and  falsehood  as a bad
egg  is of sulphuretted hydrogen gass and  it is
quite as offensive.   But  here it is.
  "In 1837, the Trustees of Transylvania Lm*
versity were called  upon to fill certain  vacant
chairs in the Medical Department of the Insti-
tution.  A short time previous to that period, sDr.
Cross began to practice upon the religious  cre-
dulity of our society, [Dr. Cross had not lived in
Lexington but three months  for the ten years
previous to his appointment to a professorship in
the Transylvania Medical School,] in order to
wipe  away the odious stains upon a  character
[and which Dr. Dudley should not only have re-
collected in  1837, if indeed such stains existed,
when he entreated me to become his colleague,
but the sensibility he now  affects  should have
admonished him  of  the  necessity there was for
doing something 'to wipe away the odious stains'
with which  his  own  character was  as thick-
spotted  as is the body of  a leopard] he  had
formed for himself,  and to open thereby a new
career to foul ambition.  In the exercise  of  this
piece of stratagem he  succeeded so far as to se-
cure the confidence of the  Rev. N. H. Hall,  one
of the  clergymen of our city, and  a Trustee of
Transylvania University.
  "Actuated by none other than honorable  mo-
tives, Parson Hall presented the  name  of Dr.
Cross to fill one of  the vacant Professorships in
the Medical School, and urged his appointment,
with those of the individual members of the Medi-
cal Faculty who were opposed to his introduction
into the School; also with  Mr. Gratz and other
members of the Board of Trustees,  the Rev.  Mr.
Hall made every effort with a view to concilia-
tion and union upon Dr. Cross; pledging himself
at the time to Mr. Gratz and other members of
the  Board of  Trustees, that he  (Parson Hall)
would be among the first in  moving for the ex-
pulsion  of Dr. Cross whenever he should prove
himself unworthy  of his place.   Upon  the
strength of Parson  Hall's  influence, and his
pledge given,  Dr. Cross was elected.  Within  a
few days past, the Rev. gentleman, at my door,
re-called to my mind the above particulars re-
garding the introduction of  Dr. Cross into the
School; [and I beg the reader to recall this de-
claration to mind when he reads the two letters
of Mr. Hall to be found on subsequent pages;]
nor is it without authority [the reader will think
otherwise before long] that this allusion is made
to the  facts in the case.
  "The ceremony of  installation was scarcely
concluded before reasons for regret at his  admis-
sion into the  School began to accumulate;  and
when  the odiousness of his conduct [as was
evinced at the trial of  Connet, when I  proved
that either Dr. Dudley knew nothing of the sub-
ject of which he spoke or was determined not to
tell the truth] admitted no longer of toleration,
and his removal became an imperative duty, the
action of the  Board of Trustees was unanimous
in dissolving  the connexion, [because I had re-
signed before they knew anything on the subject,
if my late colleagues are to be believed in what
they say to me in  their letter requesting me to
resign,  and  that,  too,  under  circumstances
which precluded the  hope, if even they  desired
it, that I would suffer the connexion to continue,]
a unanimity well calculated  to check the career 
9
of vice, and also to protect society against the
arts and devices of the Pretender.
  "I have always turned with sentiments of dis-
gust and  abhorrence [particularly when,  moTe
than ahundredtimes,invitedto his entertainments
which  I  sometimes  attended  from  policy but
never from  inclination] from the  conduct and
character of this individual; and neither before,
nor during his connexion with the School, have
my feelings of self-respect  allowed me, on any
occasion,  to enter his dwelling as  an associate;
[but  made every effort to make  me the  asso-
ciate of those who were his guests.]
  "In the last act of the Medical  Faculty, pre-
paratory to  his removal from  the School, I can
claim neither honor nor participation.  Without
my  knowledge,  my  colleagues  consulted  to-
gether and united in sentiment  on the necessity
of the measure.  When the result of their con-
sultation  was communicated to  me,  I  need
scarcely add that the  measure not only had my
approbation, but received my humble, yet firm
support.                   B. W. DUDLEY.*
   A  hasty perusal  of the statement of Dr.
Dudley,  will convince  the reader that he de-
signs to make the impression that I  played the
part of a  hypocrite  with the Rev. N. H. Hall,
for the  purpose of  obtaining his  support  in
furtherance of my project of "foul  ambition,"
to  be  admitted to a chair in   Transylvania
 University, and that I owed my success to his
interposition,  and denies by  implication,  for
he would  not have  dared the responsibility
of the   broad and unqualified assertion, that
he had  any agency  in  the  matter.   Both
positions  are  wholly   indefensible,  and it
is  because  he has  contracted  the  invete-
rate  habit of  giving an  undue  latitude  to
his tongue, that his  name has passed  into
a by-word, being commonly used  as a  para-
phrase for  mendicity.  To prove  that I do
him no injustice, it is necessary  that I should
give  a history of  my introduction into the
Transylvania  Medical  School.  The  details

  *I said in my Appeal that Dr. Dudley, is the "very ideal
of self-sufficient folly and vulgar incapacity," and the above
statement proves that I spoke of him in more flattering
terms than  he was entitled to.  If there is one word of truth
 in what he  has said in relation to his opinion of and senti-
ments towards me, it  conclusively establishes the fact that,
instead of  being a Corinthian of the  first water amongst
fashionable and polished people, he is a gross, impudent up-
start who, believes he is moving in the society of those who
have no more abhorrence for such as he describes me to be
than he has himself. The terms on which I was received at
his entertainments are familiar to the  people of this city,
but he seems wholly insensible of the  inexcusable outrage
he committed in inviting me into the society of those who
frequented them.  The public has therefore been requested
by  himself, to take notice that, the fact of meeting »n in-
 dividual in his drawing-rooms, in the midst of the elite oi
 Lexington, is no sort of guarantee that it is meeting with a
 gentleman.  The aristocracy of the Athens of the West
 will consider this avowal very frank, but  they will hardly
be  so stupid, as to esteem it very flattering.  Indeed, so
 powerful was the impression made on the mind of one ol
 the most enlightened men  in Lexington by the statement
 of  Dr. Dudley,that he  declared after reading  it, that no
 consideration could induce him to be  the bearer of a let-
 ter of introduction from him to any man whose acquain-
 tance he desired.
which this history necessarily  involves, shall
be established either by direct and positive tes-
timony or such convincing corrobarative facts,
as must exclude all doubt of its strict accuracy
from the mind of the candid reader.   Before,
however, I engage in this history, it is neces-
sary that I should show that Dr. Dudley has
taken  a very unjustifiable  liberty with the
name  of  the  Rev.  N.  H.  Hall,  the only
authority upon which  he speaks.  When I
read the statement of Dr. Dudley, I was sur-
prised  to find that Mr.  Hall had so  wantonly
trifled  with my character, as represented  in
that document.  It did not, however, disturb
me in the least, for besides a letter, in my pos-
session,  dated April  29,  1844, that  will  be
found on a subsequent page, which was written
to me  by Mr. Hall, which not only proves that
so far from having had  any assurance from me
that I desired a chair in the Transylvania Medi
cat School,  he was seriously  apprehensive I
would  not  accept even  after  having been
elected, I received   a few days ago from Dr.
Wm.  Pawling, of Danville, Kentucky, a letter
that will also be found on a subsequent page,
in which he says :—"As I have said, I have
read the statement of Dr. Dudley made on the
authority of the Rev.  N. H.  Hall, and have
come to  the  conclusion that  both of them have
forgotten many of the facts  connected with the
appointment  of Dr.  Eberle and yourself, for
the matter  was agreed upon  long before  the
action of the Board of  Trustees."    But  ad-
ditional  and  more  conclusive  proof of the
guilty readiness with which Dr. Dudley mis-
represents  and falsifies, will  be found in the
following letter, just received from the Rev.
N. H. Hall  himself.

                       September 26,  1846,
   Dr. Cross—Dear Sir: In answer to your
enquiries whether you ever  spoke or wrote to
me as your friend or agent to use my efforts
as Trustee of T. U., to obtain for you a seat
in the  Medical  Department of said Institu-
tion, I state  that to the  best of my recollection
you neither spoke or wrote  to me on the sub-
ject.  My  efforts to have you appointed to a
professorship, were the result of my convic-
tion that you would  be  of great importance to
the  Medical  Department.  This  conviction
was  strengthened by  frequent conversations
with Dr. W. H. Richardson, who assured me
that your medical attainments, with the opin-
ion I had formed of your talents, would emi-
nently qualify  you for a professorship in the
Transylvania  University.   The  good of the
Institution,  was the paramount motive with
me  in all my  efforts with  reference  to the
whole subject.
              Yours, very respectfully,
                           N. H. HALL. 
10
  Immediately upon my return from Europe
in 1835,1 was called to the chair of Materia
Medica and  Therapeutics,  in the  Medilcal
College of  Ohio.   That  I  was an advan-
tage to that Institution, as the Trio broadly as-
sert I have not been to the Transylvania Medi-
cal School,  is proved by the great increase in
the number of students that resorted to it for
instruction, during the two years I held a pro-
fessorship in it.  During the session immedi-
ately preceding the first that I taught in the
Medical College  of Ohio,  there  were but  82
pupils, the  next we had  131, and 25 of them
were from Kentucky.   During the winter of
1836-37, we had 178, of whom 39 were from
my native  State.  As  a compliment to  my
services  during  that  session, a  magnificent
gold snuff-box was presented to me  by the
Class, which I have, and wear, still, and which
I shall continue  to regard  as  precious evi-
dence that  I hnve rendered some service in
the capacity of a teacher of medicine.  When
my conduct  and character was attacked in
1838,  somewhat in the  same way that it is
now,  Drs.  Chambers, Hazlett,  Young  and
Gutherie, of Zanesville, Ohio, graduates of the
Medical  College   of  Ohio,  came forward
in  the midst of a cloud  of other witnesses,
and defended me in the following manner:—
   "Those who are acquainted with the progress
 and advancement of the Ohio  Medical College,
 must perceive that after  the acquisition  of Dr.
 Cross to the Faculty, (and this we say without  any
 disparagement to  the other members, for we love
 and esteem them all) that  it numbered among its
 students more than it had ever done during any
 previous  session; and the large increase in the ses-
 sion  following, shewed clearly that some  cause
 was operating powerfully to increase the reputa-
 tion of that Institution.
   "For these salutary effects we conceive the School
 was  chiefly indebted to  Professor Cross, not only
 for the strong interest which he took in its pros-
 perity, but for the warm and devoted attachmeut
 which he  manifested in the pursuit of Medical
 knowledge,  aud the charm of novelty and origin-
  ality of thought, without neglecting the opinions of
  others, which so emininently characterized his lec-
  tures.  With regard to his intercourse with the
  students, we ever found  him gentlemanly, urbane
  and dignified; not stooping as  has been  char-
  ged, to any littleness, for the purpose of courting
  popularity, but always ready to assist and encour-
  age us ouward."

    Such was my position  and such my pros-
  pects in the Medical! College of Ohio in 1837,
  when the  dissolution of the Medical Faculty
  of Transylvania University took place.   Mrs.
  Cross and  our children  left Cincinnati about
  the middle of January, and resided with my
  father, in this county, for several months.  Im-
  mediately after Commencement in Cincinnati,
  I visited,  them and  remained  in  Lexington
and  its  neighborhood  until  the afternoon of
the 25th of March 1837, when  I returned to
Ohio.   On  that day the Transylvania Medi-
cal Faculty was dissolved,  and  the public be-
ing invited to attend the mock trial  which ul-
timated  in  the sacrifice  of Drs.  Caldwell,
Cooke, and Yandell,   I was repairing to  the
University, when  I  met at  Dr.  Pinckard's
corner, Dr.  Richardson.  He asked me if it
was my design to attend the trial, and when I
responded affirmatively, he remarked :—"That
he did not think  it was  delicate or proper,
that I  should—that  as I was a Professor in a
neighboring  school,  my presence  would- be
looked upon  with suspicion, and I would be
regarded  as a spy."  Though I did not believe
any such interpretation could be put upon  my
attendance, I  at  once  assured  him  that I
would  not be  there.   Thus, although I was
in Lexington during the day of the trial, I was
not present.   This I have ever since deeply re-
gretted, tor I now fully understand the motive
that prompted  Dr. Richardson  to desire me
not to attend.   He, I have  no doubt, had his
eye on me at  the time  for  one  of the chairs
which he knew to a certainty  would be that
day vacated, and correctly enough concluded,
that should I  see  and  hear publicly revealed,
as was the case on that occasion, the falsehood
and treachery of which Dr. Dudley had been
guilty, it would be  perfectly useless to address
 me on the subject of taking a chair  in the
 Medical School of Transylvania.*
   I returned to Lexington about the middle of
 April.  I had received from Mrs. Cross a letter
 stating that, my daughter, Mary Lyle,   was
 dangerously ill, and that Dr. Lewis was her
 physician.   Immediately upon   my reaching
 Lexington, which was after dark, I called on
 Dr. Lewis and learned from him that she had
 been interred  the  day before.   Before I left
 him  he  suggested the  propriety of my not
 returning to Cincinnati until I had seen those
 interested  in  the  Medical  School,  for  Dr.
 Richardson had gone to Cincinnati  to consult
 Dr. Eberle and  myself on  the subject of ta-
 king  chairs in it.  The  next  day  I was in
 Lexington, but had not been in the city more
 than  an  hour, when  Dr.  Holland, now of
 Nashville,  informed  me  that Dr.  Dudley

   *It is necessary hereto say, that I was kept in a state of
 almost entire ignorance of the  true causes that led to the
 dissolution of the Medical  Faculty  of Transylvania Uni-
 versity, until after the publication of Dr. Yandell's Narra-
 tive of the dissolution of the  Medical Faculty of Transyl-
 vania University, and Dr. Caldwell's Thoughts on Schools
 of Medicine, their means of instruction and modes of ad-
 ministration, with reference to the Schools of Louisville and
 Lexiv^ttm,which was in the autumn of 1837, several months
 after 1 had accepted a professorship in Transylvania Uni-
 versity.  After I had read these works, I began to make en-
 quiries, and almost every individual I spoke to on the sub-
 ject, admitted in scarcely audible whispers, that the char-
 ges preferred against Dr. Dudley bv  Drs. Caldwell and
 Yandell were true, and had been fully established  before
 the Board of Trustees. 
11
  wished to see me at his house. I requested him
  to say to Dr. D , that if he had more  business
  with me than  I had with him, he could find me
  at Keizer's Hotel.*  A short time afterwards,
  Dr.  Holland  informed  me that  Dr. Dudley
  would be pleased to  meet me at the Hotel at
  3 o'clock.   We had a protracted interview in
  the presence  of Dr. Holland.  He informed
  me .that he and Dr. Richardson.had  plenary
i powers to fill the vacant chairs, and made to me
1" formal  tender of the chair of the Institutes:
|KH.e pressed me to accept it with  the greatest
Brearnestness.  I  reminded him that  the fact
,7 that I had been in  1834,  arrayed against the
  School  constituted with me a formidable objec-
  tion—for as I had contracted many enemies on
  account of the publications I considered my-
  self obliged to make, I  could not believe that
  a  residence in  Lexington  would  be either
  pleasant or profitable.  To which he respon-
  ded with a smile  that would  have wheedled a
  diplomatist, "My friend,  you should not suf-
  fer that to influence  you in  the slightest de-
  gree, if you accede  to the proposition I have
  made to you,  you will be identifiedwithusand
  I will make it my special business  to remove
  every difficulty out of your way."   To which
  I  replied, that doubtless his influence would be
  great in reconciling my enemies to the move-
  ment he proposed to make  in my behalf, but
  that  other objections occurred to  my mind
  which  I considered almost insurmountable.—
  When  he found that his arguments were not
  likely to prevail, he insisted  that I should not
  return  to Cincinnati until the return of Dr.
  Richardson, who had some  days before gone
  there  to  negotiate  with  Dr.  Eberle  and
  myself, in relation to taking chairs in Transyl-
  vania University.  Afterwards, I learned that
  Dr. Richardson reached Cincinnati and I left it
  within the same hour,  and finding that I was
  not in thatcity, he did not even see Dr. Eberle
  on  the subject of his visit.  As  Dr.  Dudley
  expected, Dr.  Richardson returned the same
  day that I had held the consultation  with him
  in the presence of Dr. Holland.   On the next
  day I had an interview with  Drs. Dudley and
   FJchardson in   Keizer's Hotel; they jointly
  tendered me the  chair  of the Institutes, and
  urged my acceptance with  a most imploring
  earnestness.  1 gave them no further satisfac-
  tion, than to  say I would join them if I could
  prevail on  Dr.  Eberle to come with me, and
  not without.   When they found that this was
   my final and  difinitive determination,  they in-
  *This plain uncourtly reply, resulted from the fact, that,
not having had, previously, any further acquaintance with
Dr. Dudley, than a civil street nod of recognition, and be-
lieving, from what Dr. Lewis had told me the night before,
that he desired to speak to me of the reorganization of the
Transylvania Medical  School,  I was  determined he
should not think that I desired a chair in it,or that I wished
to become his colleague.
sisted that I should return  to Cincinnati hn3
mediately, and do all in my power  to induce
Dr. Eberle to join me in the movement they
desired me to make,  adding whether or not,
I should succeed with Dr. Eberle, they would
expect me to take the Institutes.  After par-
ting with Dr. Dudley, 1  told Dr. Richardson
that it was  impossible for  me . to join them
without Dr.  Eberle.   In obedience  to  their
request, I started for Cincinnati the evening of
the same day on which  I had had  the inter-
view  with Drs. Richardson and Dudley.—
After my arrival in that city, I held consulta-
tions with Dr.  Eberle on the subject of his
coming to Lexington.  Although a heavy guar-
antee  was  offered, he finally determined not
to leave the  Medical  College  of Ohio, and I
immediately addressed the . following letter to
Drs. Richardson and Dudley:
                Cincinnati, April 20, 1837.
   Gentlemen: On  yesterday I had  two pro-
tracted interviews with Dr. Eberle,  and find him
immoveably fixed in the determination to sink or
swim with the fortunes of the Medical College of
Ohio.   The guarantee caused him to hesitate,.
but after consulting with  his family he decided
not to  accept, even when I  hinted, on  my own
authority, to raise it to four thousand dollars.  It
is the decided opinion here that if you  fail in pro-
curing a strong organization there will be in our
school three hundred pupils next winter—but this
I  much doubt.  Eberle feels and, I  think, has.
acted under its influence.
   In  the interviews 1 have had with you en the
subject of joining your school, I have not  failed
to let you know that my movements would much
depend on those of Dr.  Eberle.   Indeed, I in-
formed Dr. Richardson that my going to Lexing-
ton would depend on his going with me.  It will
not surprise  or disappoint  you, to learn that 1
cannot accept on the terms  proposed.  I am
much too poor to exchange a certainty for an un-
certainty; but make me safe, and I will contrib
ute my feeble exertions most willingly and earn-
estly to sustain the character of my Alma Mater.
My feelings are already with you,  and it is with
great  difficulty  that I am enabled to resist the
temptation of joining you  at all hazards. If I am
guaranteed $3000 a year,for three years, or $3500
for two years,  I will  come, but  if to both  of
these  propositions you object, I have decided to
remain where I am.
   If to either of  these propositions you should ac-
cede, let me suggest that though I much prefer the
chair of Institutes, you perhaps cannot do better
under existing circumstances, than to place me in
the chair of Theory and  Practice,  and give Dr.
 Gross the chair of Institutes.  I have not spoken to
iiim on the subject, nor will I until I have your
authority.  A speedy decision is no  less impor-
tant to you than it is to me,  you will  therefore, I
trust, let me know at as  early a period as possi-
ble, what I am to expect.
                  Yours, respectfully,
                      JAMES  C. CROSS.
   Drs.  Richardson and Dudley. 
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    This letter has been found amongst the pa-
 pers of the late Dr. Richardson, or it is in the
 possession of Dr. Dudley.
    On the 24th  of April instead of a written
 answer as I  expected, from Drs. Richardson
 and  Dudley, I received a visit from Dr. Wm.
 Pawling, then of Lexington, but at present of
 Danville,  Kentucky.   He informed  me  that
 upon the authority of those individuals, he had
 come to renew the offer of the chair of Theo-
 ry and Practice and of the Institutes to Dr. Eb-
 erle  and  myself.  He soon found that it was
 perfectly useless to talk  to  the former on the
 subject, and  then he turned  his attention to
 me exclusively.  Drs. R. and  D. were wise
 in the selection of their  minister.  Dr. Paw-
 ling and I had been during a considerable part
 of our boyhood raised together, and for him I
 cherished, as I do  still,   the  highest respect
 and warmest friendship.   After much discus-
 sion  and  argumentation, he  finally  extorted
 from me a reluctant consent to take the Insti-
 tutes withont a guarantee.
   I here subjoin a letter from  Dr.  Pawling,
 which not only confirms  the statement above
 made, but which contradicts that made on the
 authority  of Mr. Hall.
              Danville, Ky., Sept 18,1846.
   Dr. Cross—Dear Sir: I received your letter
 of the 10th inst, but was too unwell .to  examine
 its contents,  or to answer it immediately.   Nor
 had I as you supposed read the "Statements  of
 Facts" by Drs. Dudley, Mitchell, and Peter, but
 have since.  You ask if I  did not  visit Cincin-
 nati by authority of Drs. Dudley and Richardson
 for the purpose of tendering you the Chair of In-
 stitutes,  &c, in  the  Medical  Department  of
 Transylvania University, and whether  or not it
 was exclusively through my persuasion  that you
 were induced finally to agree  to  accept it.  Af-
 ter the  dissolution of the faculty in  March,
 1837, efforts  were being  made to fill  the va-
 cancies  occasioned  by the  removal  of  Drs.
 Caldwell, Yandell, and Cooke, I  suggested to
 Dr. Bush the policy  and propriety of tendering
 the Theory and  Practice to Dr. Eberle,  and
 the Institutes to you.   Soon afterwards I had an
 interview with Dr. Dudley on the subject, who
objected  to you at first on account of  the ins-
tability of your temper.  The matter,  however,
 was fully and ably discussed by Drs.  Dudley,
 Richardson, Bush, the Rev. N.  H. Hall,  my-
self, and I think Dr.  Peter.  It was finally de-
termined that .the nominations should be made—
 Dr. Dudley not only having  become willing but
anxious that the matter should be speedily consum-
mated.  In consequence of this determination I
 was urged by Drs. Dudley and  Richardson to
go, and  I went to  Cincinnati with authority to
tender the Chair  of Theory and Practice to
 D*r Eberle, with a guarantee  of $5,000 per an-
 num  for  three years, and to  tender  you the
 Chair  of Institutes,  &c.   When  I  arrived at
Cincinnati, I visited you first, and  made known
to  you  the object  of my visit.   You  at  first
seemed  pleased but soon began to make objec.
 tions.  I used many arguments to convince rot*
 that it was to  your interest to accept, and you
 finally agreed to take the Chair of Institutes,
 &c.  Dr.  Eberle positively declined,  but  some-
 time afterwards sent his son over to Lexington
 to say that he would accept with a  guarantee
 of $4,000.   As I have said / have read the state-
 ment of Dr. Dudley made on the authority of the
 Rev. N. H. Hall, and have come to the  conclusion
 that both of them have forgotten many of the facts
 connected with the appointment of Dr. Eberle and
 yourself, for the matter  was agreed upon long be-j
fore the action of the Board of Trustees.
             Yours,      WM.  PAWLING.
  P. S. In  regard to some of the questions you
 ask me I have no distinct recollection.
                                    W. P.
  My colleagues  in  the  Medical College of
 Ohio  knew that Da Pawling was in Cincin-
 nati—knew the object of his visit, for they
 had been  informed of it  by both Dr. Eberle
 and myself, and consequently  two of  them
 immediately upon his leaving the city called*
 upon  me to ascertain the result of his mission.
 I frankly told them that I  had agreed to go to
 Lexington. Several days having elapsed, one of
the same individuals visited me and asked that as
 I had determined to leave them why I did  not
resign.  Regarding my election  to  the  Chair
of the Institutes, in Transylvania University,
a mathematical  certainty, I  did actually re-
sign my professorship in the Medical College
of  Ohio  before  I received  any  intelligence
that I had been  elected to the Institutes in
Transylvania University.   The first or second
of May I received a letter from Mr. Robert
 Wickliffe, Sen.,  Chairman of  the Board of
Trustees, together with half a dozen or  more
from  other individuals, all of which informed
me  of my election.  Here are the letters, and
I beg the reader to mark their character and
import, for he cannot fail to see that great  ap-
prehension  was felt that I would not accept.*

                Lexington,  April 29, 1837.
  James C. Cross, M. D.—Dear Sir:  I  am
instructed by the  Board of Trustees of Transyl-
vania  University to notify you of your appoint-
ment to the Chair of the Institutes and Medical
Jurisprudence in  the  Medical Department of
Transylvania University, and to  express to you
the  strong desire of the trustees that you will be
pleased to accept, and to notify them that you do
so as  soon as your convenience will allow.  To
which I beg leave to add my own.
              Very respectfully,
                       R.  WICKLIFFE,
                    Chairman B. T. T.  U.

  This letter is given that  the reader may ob-
  *This is altogether incompatible with  the idea that I
electioneered for a chair in Transylvania University and
it proves conclusively not  only that rather extraordinary
pains had been taken to induce me to take a chair in  it
but that after all they were not fully satisfied with the
reluctant assurance I had given their minister Dr  Pawl 
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   serve the correspondence between its date and 1
   the dates of those of the following:

              Lexington, Ky., April 30, 1837.
     Dear Doctor: I have sat down to write to
   you as a friend, to give you frankly and candidly
   my views in relation to the position you now oc-
.   cupy in regard to the Medical School of Transyl-
."" >ania, and in doing so I trust that you will at-
'   tribute what  I say to you to the very best feelings
L   for you personally.
N^kThe trustees of the University held a meeting
[ jMBsterday for the  purpose of reorganizing  the
 ■ajdical  School.  This  they did  without  much
'  «BCuity, although your friend Yandell, had some
\mWr  advocates for reappointment in the  board.
LJwhen, however, it was understood that both Dr.
t'—Dudley and  yourself had  feelings towards that
   gentleman that rendered it impossible for you to
   go into a faculty with him, he went by the board
   without difficulty.  The faculty, as reorganised,
   stands as follows: Dudley, Richardson, and  Short,
   in the  respective chairs heretofore occupied by
   them, Dr. Cross, of Cincinnati, professor  of the
   Institutes of Medicine  and  Medical Jurispru-
*"  dence;  Dr. Fearne,  of Alabama, professor of the
   Theory and  Practice; and professor Silliman, of
   Yale College, professor of Chemistry.  This, you
   must perceive is  a  remarkably able reorganiza-
   tion, and shows one thing at least, that even if
   they cannot procure some  of the gentlemen, they
   are determined to make the very ablest selections.
   It is supposed here that Fearne can be induced to
   come; whether or not this is true remains to be
   seen.
     Now, Doctor, to the object of this letter,  which
   is to urge you by all means to come.   It is your
   best interest,  I sincerely believe, to join  this
   school.  I give you this as my opinion, because
i   I believe that this  school must and  will stand
   upon higher ground than ever  it has done.  It
   cannot but succeed, and with its success yours of
   course  follows.  Your friends here are extremely
   anxious for you to join this facttlty, and will do
   every thing  in  their power  for you should you
   come  here.  I  know that  I  have warm feelings
   upon this subject, but I do not believe they in the
   least warp my judgment.  This is the place for
   you; your family are here; your  inclinations
   lead hither;  and in a pecuniary  point of view,
   you must be decidedly benefitted  by the change.
     I give  these views to you  as your friend, and
   sincerely hope that  you will  not disregard them.
                 Very truly your friend,
                          D. C. WICKLIFFE.
     N. B.  I have written this in great haste for
   fear I may not be in time for the mail.
            J                         D. C. W.

                    Lexington, April 29, 1837.
     Dear Doctor: We the trustees of Transyl-
   vania University have this day appointed  a new
W medical faculty consisting of the  following gen-
 ii tlemen:  Drs. Dudley, Richardson,  and Short, to
iff the  chairs they formerly filled; Dr. Fearne to the
ELchair formerly  filled by Dr.  Cooke; yourself to
■the  chair formerly  filled by Dr.  Caldwell;  and
 \professor Silliman to the Chemical  chair.  Your
  'appointment was one in which some of us felt a
deep  interest;  doubts  were  expressed  by some
whether you would come if elected.  I pledged my-
self that you would— Col. Combs and Gwin Tomp-
kins stood with  me for you like men. All appear
delighted with the faculty we have  appointed.
Now, sir, your friends are staked for your accept-
ance and able  performance.   When  you come
among us I hope you will come with  a spirit of
amity and friendship to all persons, who may
hope to see you breaking with some of your fel-
low-laborers in the faculty.    I  hope you  will
come soon and be found  at your post—I have
much to say to  you.  Dr. Richardson is the only
one of the faculty that I have seen since we closed
our session—he  is much delighted and wishes
you to come as soon as practicable.  I have much
to say to you  when I see you, which I trust will
be very soon at my house.  I  feel that Mrs. Cross
will be gratified, and that all  your friends will be
glad.  Here, sir, is a triumph over prejudice, &c,
that ought  to gratify and humble  you.  I write
in great haste.  Your real friend,
                             N.  H. HALL.

   The  following letter which I received at
the same time  from Mrs. Cross, has been sub-
mitted to Mr. Joseph  Ficklin, the postmaster
of this city,  and he has certified  on the back
of it  that it has the usual Lexington Post-Of-
flce stamp, and  therefore that  it was written
to me from this county and mailed in Lexing-
ton, on the 30th of April, 1837:
               Fayette Co., April 30th, 1837.
   My  Dear Husband: Dr.  Richardson called
here last evening to inform us that you had been
elected  to fill Dr. Caldwell's  Chair.  Now their
greatest fear is that you will not accept.   He said
he would write to you as soon as he reached home
and that I must write also immediately to prevail
on you  to accept.  But I hope there is no neces-
sity for persuasion on my part,  as you  already
know nothing would  gratify your father and my-
self more than your compliance with their wishes
if you should think it to your interest.  I will not
now write you a long letter, as you will have but
little time to look at anything that comes from me,
as you are to receive letters from Drs. Dudley,*
Pawling, Holland, and Richardson, besides one
from  the Chairman of the  Board.  Now there is
one thing I must insist on, should there be any dif-
ficulty in jour mind in regard to  the propriety of
accepting, which is, that you will not send in your
resignation before you come  over and see  us.
Dr. Richardson's boy has called for this letter—
he is on his  way to  the  Post-Office.  Let  me
know when to expect you.
      Your affectionate wife,
                       AGNES A. CROSS.

                 Caneland, April 30th, 1837.
   Dear Doctor: I should have  written by yes-
terday's  mail, immediately  after the adjournment
of the Board of Trustees, bat wat carried off by
Dr. Pinckard  to see one of his patients, and did
  *Dr. Richardson had  learned from Dr. Pawling, before
he saw Mrs. Cross, which was on the afternoon of the 29th
April, that Dr. Dudley had written to me after persuading
him not to write. 
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gust and abhorrence  from my  conduct and
character?
  But this is not the whole or  the worst of
his  odious and treacherous conduct.   Soon af-
ter  I took  up my residence in Lexington, the
following statement was  made  to me by Dr.
Richardson, and to the truth  of every word
of what I  utter on his  authority I  solemnly
testify.    He remarked:  "You will be sur-
prised, sir, when I tell you that Dr. Dudley,
instead of supporting your nomination forthej'
Chair of  Institutes, as he  assured you h/ :,
would,  did all  in his power to defeat it, bif
succeeded in prevailing on but three of til   '*
Trustees (Jno.  Tilford, Benjamin Gratz, anj
Spencer Cooper—the Board then consisted of1*
sixteen)  to vote against it.*  After you were
elected we left the University together,  when
he asked me if I intended to write to you, and
responding affirmatively, 'he  appeared  to ob-  M
ject to it,  and said that he thought that the '^
notification of the Chairman would be suffi-
cient.    After some further  conversation on
the-subject, finding that it would give him dis-
satisfaction, I'promised him I would  not write,
but at the same time determined to request
others  to do so, for  I was very apprehensive
that you would not accept unless pressed on
the subject  and  felt perfectly certain  that,
should  you  hear of his conduct, you  would
not.f  After requesting several individuals to
write to you, I accidentally met Dr. Pawling
on the  sidewalk of  the Court-House  square
and urged him to do so also.   He  answered
that he had written, and showed me a letter for
you which he said he intended putting into the
Post-office immediately.   He  then asked me
if I did not;  mean  to write also, and when  I
replied that such had been my intention, but,
in consequence of Dr. Dudley's opposition to
it,  I had promised him that  I would not. Dr.
Pawling apeared much surprised and replied
that, not more than  half an hour  before, he
had seen Dr. Dudley drop a  letter into the
 Post-Office  for you.  At this announcement
 I  was   perfectly  confounded—I  thought   I
knew him, but his duplicity and meanness ex
 ceeds the worst conceptions I had formed of his
not return to the hotel in time to write before the
mail closed.  Drs. Dudley and Pawling, I learned,
wrote you the result of the election for a new Fa-
culty of the Medical Department of Transylvania
by the Trustees, and that you have been called to
the Chair of the "Institutes of Medicine and Med-
ical Jurisprudence."  I hope yon will find it com
patible with your interests in all points of view to
accept the station and return to Kentucky, where
you have so many inducements to cast your  for-
tunes among those Who have known you all your
life.  At all events do not decide against acceptance
until you have made another visit to  Lexington,  and
then and there take the council of those you know to
be your true friends.  We hope to  have your ap-
probation to the other appointments made beyond
those who were members of the late Faculty; i. e.
Drs.  Silliman and Fearne.   Should we  secure
their  co-operation, I have no fear "of the result, or
<even  without them we can surpass  all other West-
ern Schools  of Physic.
   I need not urge upon you the importance of an
early decision on your part, as it may alike address
itself to your interest as well as ours..
   I am, very respectfully, your friend,
                   W. H. RICHARDSON.

   Dear Sir: The Trustees have been in  session
this dajf and re-organized the Medical Department,
introducing yourself, Dr. Silliman,and Dr. Fearne.
 /  hope the arrangement may meet your approba-
tion and that you will promptly respond to the no-
tification on the part of the  Board  of  Trustees of
your  election.   We are determined to  make the
 School more acceptable 'to  the community than it
has been hitherto, as with its present organization
it is certainly  capable of being rendered more
useful.
    Your position here will  be far  more  agreeable
than  where you now are; nor  can I doubt about
 the movement being  to,your advantage  in  a pecu-
 niary point of vieio.
   We are desjrous to hear  from you as early as
 convenient and hope to see you very soon  in  Lex-
 ington.
     Respectfully, your obedient servant,
                           B. W. DUDLEY.
   J.  C. Cross, M. D.
      Lex., April 29, 1837.

    Having finished the perusal of the above let.
ters what must a judicions public think of the
 icandor, fairness, or  honor  of  Dr.  Dudley?
 Will his timid, sordid sycophants have the as-
 surance to repeat again the silly charge that I
 electioneered for a chair in Transylvania Uni-
 versity?  Must not every manly and generous
 heart loathe the touch  of that  man as pollu-
 tion and his contact as moral death, who, af-
 ter pressing me by those important  consid-
 erations that  generally influence human  con-
 duct to relinquish an important, a  profitable,
 and an enviable position in  the Medical Col-
 lege of Ohio, in order to become his colleague,
 did not shrink with instinctive horror from the
 unblushing profligacy of the declaration that
 both "before" and during my connexion with
 the  School he turned with sentiments of dis-
 *Dr. Dudley's statement proves that he opposed my elec-
tion, for he says, "the individual members of the Medical
Faculty, who were opposed  to his introduction into the
School."  At that time there were but three members; i. e.
Drs. Dudley, Short, and Richardson—as no  hint has yet
been given that Dr. Richardson wasopposed to it, and as Dr.
Dudley speaks in the plural number, he must reTer to him-
self as being one of the opposition. Dr. Pawling says that Dr.
Dudley "became notonly willing but anxious" that I should
have the Chair of  Institutes ''long before the action of the
Board of Trustees."
  t This accounts for the number and character of the let-
ters, and all of them have not been given to the public, that
I received, dated Lexington, April -29th  and 30th, immedi-
ately after my election.  It is utterly impossible that so
many letters should have been  written to me at the same
time and upon the same subject, unless gome extraordinary*
cause had prompted them. 
\h
idiaracter;  it.  appears  utterly impossible for
him to pass  a  single  day without  engaging
in  some  knavish intrigue to circumvent  and
injure some one."*
   Now, I ask the reader to pause and reflect
a moment upon my situation, had Dr. Dudley
succeeded in  defeating  my election before the
Board of Trustees.  Confiding in the assuran-
ces 1 had received from  Dr.  Richnrdson and
himsdf in  person, while in Lexington and af-
terwards in Cincinnati, through  Dr.  Pawling,
it is evident that as I had resigned  my Chair
in the  Medical College of Ohio, before hear-
ing the result of the action of  the  Board of
Trustees  of  Transylvania  University  upon
my,nomination, I  would  have been without a
professorship altogether.   Upon such  attro-
cious  Machiaveliau  conduct I will not pause
to  comment, for  every man in whose heart
there is a sentiment of honor will say that it
stands forward in  all the  harshness of unmiti-
gated crime,  without a single alleviating cir-
cumstance to conciliate  resentment or propi-
tiate regard.
   Could such proofs of utterly hopeless prof-
ligacy inspire a man of even the vulgarest no-
tions  of honor, with any other feelings than
those of deep and rancorous  animosity?   Dr.
Dudley  had  hardly  escaped  "unwhipped of
justice," for an outrage which has caused him
to loose the confidence of every honorble man,
beyond the hope of condonation before his ma-
  *Bc»ides the confidence inspired by the air of sincerity
with which the above statement of Dr. Richardson was
made, the conduct which he reported to me was so charac-
teristic of the man that no one who knows him will think
of questioning  its accuracy.  His life having been wasted
in intrigue and stratagem, and having been obliged as a
consequence  to re-ort, at one time  or other, to the almost
endless subterfuges of hypocrisy, for the purpose of at-
taining hisends or concealing his delinquencies, all sense
of justice and  all respect for truth seem  to have been
completely obliterated from his mind.  So true is this that
he has adopted a peculiar and dangerous phraseology—he
has  substituted the pernicious word policy  for those old,
lima honored and decisive terms truth and justice.  Ho was
never known,  so far  as my researches have extended,
and they remount to  the period when  he was a salesman
in a dry-goods' Store, to defend or inveigh  against a pro-
position  because it was just and proper, but becnu.-e it
was politic to do so; and I have in consequence been ob-
liged to  hear the word policy fall with  priggish owlish
gravity so often from his  lips that I became as tired of
hearing  it as the  Athenians were  of hearing Aristides
called the Just. But  the word policy used for the pur-
pose of bringing truth and justice into discredit was par-
ticularly offensive because of its pernicious moral influ-
ence.  When  the young  mind hears  those of standing
making by-words and jests of things that cannot be  too
deeply reverenced, no surprise need be felt should it cease
to respect them or suffer them to become high and hon-
orable motives of human action.  I have not been an in-
attentive observer of the influence which the example of
Dr.  Dudley has exerted over Ihe principles of  those  by
whom he is immediately surrounded, and I  feel fully jus-
tified ia  averting that, like the fabulous Upas that over-
shadowed and poisoned the  land,  it has  corrupted  the
sources of just thought, correct feeling, and independent
action.   And I  have been surprised and mortified to see
men of sense pretend  to believe that by so paltry n  ma-
noeuvre they justified  a falsehood  and excused or pallia-
ted  an injustice.  Such  sophistry will for a while only
stifle the erios  of conscience.
ligimut and crafty spirit  became restlessly im-
patient to involve him in fresh acts of turpi-
tude  and treachery.   Like Melpomene,  who
it is said begat  her children  merely to divert
her melancholy, Dr. Dudley, sneakingly and
fraudulently, attempted to ruin my professori-
al prospects, merely for the  purpose I  sup-
pose, ns the boys say, "to keep his  hand in*"
This inference  is utterly irresistible, for at that
time it is impossible  for  him to  have had any
just cause of complaint against me—indeed  he
seemed to smile upon me with peculiar com-
placency.   But I havesince learned that when
most bland, that smile is least trustworthy.—
Ever since my  resignation or expulsion, if the
reader  prefers  the language  of the  Trio, his
nephew in  an article in response to those writ-
ten  by Dr. Pinckard, refers to  a  pamph-
let of mine, published more than twelve years
ago, in terms that prove that Dr. Dudley was
not only proud  of my approbation, but consid-
ered  himself under  obligations to  me.  His
nephero, after quoting what I had said of him
in 1834. and the reader, could  he  refer  to it,
would see that itwasas much the resultof pru-
dence as of principle,  exclaims :—-'High  hon-
or to the generous heart  that prompted  such
feelings,  and knowing  Dr.  Dudley as  I do,
I believe this vnbought and unexpected homage
of a  man  of genius  gave  him  more  sincere
pleasure, than  those  whose bosoms  are stran-
gers to such impulses can imagine."
   For ever  dealing in subterfuge and stratagem
—in contrivances and craft, as the last  display
ofhispeculiarfacultieshad been wantonly made
for my special benefit, it was impossible that
I should feel for him  any other than that  deep
and enduring animosity which "wisdom holds
unlawful  ever."  His turning from  me  with
sentiments  of   disgust  and  abhoirence,  he
knows full  well was  the result of necessity,
not of choice;  for  although I  was unfortu-
nately his colleague  and thus obliged to keep
my feelings  under a painful subjection,  I could
not always refrain from expressing my opinion
of  him.*  Often have I  thought, when  obli-
ged to take his hand, for the sake of appear-
ances, that had it heen dangling from a tainted
corpse, I would have shrunk from it with less
abhorrence.
   It was useless for Dr.  Dudley to  say that
"The ceremony of  installation  was scarcely
  *This Mitchell says happened so  early as 1838, and I
have no doubt he speaks the truth, but it is a wonder, for
had he  supposed I would thus admit it, he would have
Folemnh testified that I had eulogised Dr. D. from the first
to the last  moment of my connexion with  him.  I not
only told  .'Mitchell, I suppose, for I  told  other**, rather
sub rosa however, and merely for the purpose of keeping
the world from knowing what it  had no right to know, at
least from me, that  lie not only exerted an influence Ui
which he was not entitled, but insisted on measures inju-
rious to the School, nnd was guilty of conduct that render-
ed his  character odious. 
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 concluded, before reasons for regret at his ad-
 mission into the School began to accumulate,"
 for he knows  well that before I gave a siugle
 lecture in  the Institution,  my  hatred  for
 his sentiments and his principles had become
 deep,  envenomed  and   implacable,  while
 my  regret  at  being  associated   with him,
 awkwardly  disguised,  was intense  and abi-
 ding.  With his treachery towards his col-
 leagues, Drs. Caldwell, Yandell and Cooke, I
 had been  made acquainted; of his false and
 fraudulent conduct towards me, I had became
 satisfied; with his bold and defying libertinism,
 the  town had become  so familiar  that it had
 almost ceased to be  a  topic of remark or  a
 subject of censure;—with  his contempt  for
 Christianity or any other self-denying religion,
 not only the Priest but the public was shocked;
 and of his unscrupulosity  as  a medical wit-
 ness, I had the most convincing proof on more
 than  one occasion.  These facts made him so
 odious in my sight, that it was  with difficulty
 I could endure his presence.  Our intercourse
 for years  was, therefore, uniformly  civil and
 distant, but  like  those  mathematical  lines
 which appear to be taking all possible pains to
 approach one another,  but never  get a jot the
 nearer for it.   Indeed, instead of getting near-
 er, the divergence after the session of 1841—2
 became daily  more  and  more obvious, until
 the formal and repulsive courtesy that charac-
 terized it bordered upon actual hostility. Hav-
 ing at an early period  of my association with
 him  lost all  confidence in  his integrity, and
 respect for his principles, it was impossible  for
 him to conciliate me  by his hypocritical pro-
 fessions of friendship, or to deceive me by  his
 cunningly  devised  arts.   Finding,  as at  least
 one, if not more of my colleagues   did  also,
 that
    "True reconciliation could never grow,
    Where wounds of deadly hate had pierced so deep."
 he   determined through his  "painted Jes-
 abels"  to  undermine and destroy my char-
 acter  in Lexington, and then to drive me  out
 of the  School  on the  first opportunity.*
  At  page 5,1 assert that b}r my energy and en-
terpise, the complete overthrow of the Medical
 Department  of Transylvania University, was
averted in 1837. This, if not formally, has been
 impliedly denied.  What are the facts of the
case ?   The  letters addressed to  me while in
 Cincinnati, informing me  of my appointment
to the Chair  of  Institutes,  prove  that at the
 same   time Dr.  Fearne was elected to  the
 Chair of Theory  and Practice, and Dr. SilN-
 man to that of Chemistry.   These gentlemen
 declined with mortifying promptitude the prof-
 fered honor.   We had a meeting of the Facul-
 ty some time in  May, I  believe, and although
 Dr.  Dudley always  turned  from me  with
 disgust  and abhorrence, I was elected Dean.
 This was  a trifling distinction, it is true, but
 as all the  members of the Faculty arc obliged
 to have more  or less intercourse with that
 officer, it is  surprising that Dr. Dudley, with
 the sentiments  he professes  to  have always
 entertained for me, should  have  suffered  it.
 This, without  difficulty, he  could have pre-
 vented,  for he  and Dr. Short  could easily
 have out voted Dr. Richardson, and upon the
 support  of Dr. Short  he  could  have confi-
 dently relied, for they  always,I  believe, acted
 together, except  in that  disgraceful transac-
 tion  when Drs.  Caldwell,  Cooke  and  Yan-
 dell were sacrificed.
   Having  learned that neither Professor Sil-
 liman nor Dr. Fearne  would accept, the Fa-
 culty met on the  13th  of June, 1837,  to con-
 sult upon the means of filling  the two still va-
 cant Chairs.   The efforts that had hitherto
 been made having proved unsuccessful, both
 Drs. Dudley and  Richardson became discour-
 aged and obviously began to despond.   I was
 asked to whom the Chairs should be tendered
 next, when I responded  to no one, at least in the
 way that had been adopted.   I remarked that
 the  Institution  had already suffered  on ac-
 count of the difficulties that had been encoun-
 tered in filling the vacancies; and, as the im-
 pression had gone  abroad  that the  School
 was irrecoverably ruined in  consequence  of
 the dissolution of the Faculty, it would be
 difficult, if not impossible, to  procure the co-
operation   of men  of  reputation   and  im-
 portance in the profession—that, the only safe
and successful plan, consequently, would be to
 send some  member of  the Faculty  to  consul!;
 in person with such individuals as we should
 desire for the vacant Chairs, and not to make
 any appointments until  after we had received
 satisfactory assurance that they would be ac-
 cepted.  The prudence and  propriety of this
 suggestion  was  at once  admitted, and, after
all three of my colleagues had positively re-
fused* to go on the mission, they united in ur-
  *It is in my power to prove that he resorted to a most
disgraceful expedient to injure aud, if possible, to destroy
my standing and that of another  individual; an expedient
of which no other man would have dreamed, but himself,
and which  very few would  believe, unless established by
the most satisfactory testimony.  But this is postponed, for
the present, fiom prudential considerations exclusively.
  The refusal of Dr. Dudley to go on this mission no one
wil be surprised at, when he reflects that, he had  just been
guilty of an act which would have made a very uncommon
effort of assurance on  his part necessarv in order to en-
able him to propose  to  uny honest man to become his col-
league; and the fact that he  is the Tfirst individual who
made a tender of the Chair of Institutes to me, is the only
circumstance, independently of his  duplicity, that has in-
duced me to suspect that he did not think as well of me as
he professed at that time.   Be that as it may, I have al-
ways regarded the proposition as a gross personal insult,
for which I have not forgiven  him, and I probably never
shall look  upon it  with more indulgence  than  I do at
present. 
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ging me to assuni" the responsibility of filling ,
the vacancies.  This was not what I expected;
a little reflection will convince  the reader that
it was both  improper and  unreasonable.   It
was improper to send on  such  a mission a
man who had not been more than a month a
member of the Faculty; in fact it was impos-
sible  for such an one to speak of the situa-
tion and prospects of the Institution in such a
way  as to influence the judgments of  those
who had been already,  by  the representations
of  a certain individual, seriously prejudiced
against it.   I urged the unreasonableness of
the request on the ground that, as I had  not
as  yet derived any advantage from the Institu-
tion, no obligation of the kind rested on me.
Besides, I was called to  a Chair in which I had
never taught, and therefore it was reasonable
to  suppose there was little  enough time before
the opening of  the  course for  preparation.
 These c jnsiderations seemed to have no weight
 with my colleagues, and, seeing  that  nothing
 would be done unless I agreed to take the re-
 sponsibility of filling the vacancies, I  deter-
 mined to go on the mission.   I  had impru-
 dently put my hand into the lion's mouth and
 thought it wise to  take  it  out as easily and as
 speedily as possible.  I was in the School and
 was compelled, from a regard for my  profes-
 sorial reputation  to do all in my  power to sus-
 tain it.   Here is my commission and the rea-
 der will perceive that it  made  me  not only
 Minister Plenipotentiary but actual Ambassa-
 dor of the Transylvania Medical Faculty, for
 it  bound my colleagues  to ratify any  act of
 mine in relation to the filling of the Chair of
 Theory and Practice.  The reader will ob-
 serve, also,  that  it  bears the  autographical
 sanction of that finished intriguer  and arch
 traitor who has  had the frontless audacity to
 say to the public, in his Statement, that he has
 always turned from me with disgust and ab-
 horrence.   Not only have I proved out of his
 own  mouth that  he  professed  (he is entirely
 innocent of sincerity or honesty, and a truth
 has  never been  traced to him, that I could
 hear of, since he was a school boy) to be  ear-
 nestly desirous to have me for a colleague, but
 this commission conclusively establishes  the
 fact that he was also willing that I should se-
 lect a colleague "of the same sort" for him in
 a  Professor of the Theory and Practice:
    "The undersigned in  directed by the Medical
 Faculty of Transylvania University to authorize
 and  request Professor  Cross,  one of  their col-
 leagues, to proceed  to Philadelphia and elsewhere,
 with  as little delay as possible, in order to secure
 a  suitable individual as Professor  of the Theory
 and Practice in said School.*
                 B. \V. DUDLEY, Chairman.
    Lexington, Ky., June 13,1S57."
-I have sBid that the object of my mission was to fill the
  Without  delay I hurried  to  the Atlantic
seaboard and  found to my mortification and
disappointment that difficulties beset my path
numerous and almost insurmountable.   The
fatal impression had been deeply made in the
minds of the most of those with whom I had
interviews that  the recent dissolution of the
Medical Faculty had utterly and forever blast-
ed  the  prospects of  the  School.  This im-
pression it was  impossible for me entirely to
eradicate, although I did much to weaken its
influence.   Little  progress,  however, was
made with  such men as were able, by their
character and standing, to strengthen  or re-
flect  credit upon  the  Institution.   When I
began to fear that my mission would prove
wholly unproductive, I met, in the city of New
York, an old colleague, who informed me that
he wished to  be appointed to a certain Chair
in  the University of the State of New York,
and that I  could, if I would, be of great ser-
vice  in  the furtherance of  his views.  The
idea at once struck me that while I was pro-
 moting the  interests  of a friend, 1 might ob-
lige Dr. Eberle to  take the Chair of Theory
and Practice  in Transylvania  University.   It
was  also stated  to me by the  individual  to
whom  I have just alluded that  it was more
than probable  the incumbent of  a  certain
 Chair would be removed, and that Dr. Cobb,
 another  old  and  highly  valued  colleague,
 would be his successor.   These facts lead me
to believe that the game was now,  in  a great
 measure, in my own hands.   While I was in
 New York, the individual to whom I refer,
 chiefly, as  I have  reason  to believe, through
 my agency, obtained the situation to which he
 aspired, and  immediately afterwards I wrote
 to Dr.  Eberle.   I depicted  to him the  dis-
 couraging prospects of the Medical College of
 Ohio, with  two  Chairs vacant, and the proba-
 bility that a third would be  in a short time in
 the same situation.  My arguments prevailed,
 for before I returned to Lexington he had in-
 timated, through  his som to  my colleagues
 that  he would  take the Chair of Theory and
 Practice in Transylvania  University.   After
 vacating two Chairs in the Medical College of
 Ohio, with the prospect  of a third one losing
vacancies; i. e. of the Chairs of Theory and Practice and
of Chemistry, but the above commission empowers me with
authority in relation to the former only. The verbal un-
derstanding was that I should fill both, but when the com-
mission was drawn up, and it was hy himself, and signed by
Dr. Dudley, it was found that it gave me authority to act in
relation to only one of the vacancies. This is  easily un-
derstood. The moment it was ascertained that Prof. Silli-
man would not accept. Dr. Dudley turned his attention to
Peter, and he did not relinquish him until after Mitchell's
election.  It was foreseen by Dr. Richardson and myself
that no matter who might be  offered to the  Board of
Trustees, the name of Peter would be presented—and
this turned out to be the fact.  But this did not deter me
from attempting to fill the Chemical Chair, in which I suc-
ceeded, but most unfortunately  with a  heartless scoun-
drel. 
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its incumbent soon, I could speak with confi-
dence of  the  almost certain success of the
School in which I had embarked my fortunes,
for the former, our most formidable—indeed,
at that  time,  our only  rival—was,  by the
events to which I have just referred, reduced,
at least for the present, to rather an unpromis-
ing state.  My more confident tone and man-
ner, which arose out of this circumstance, en-
abled  me finally to prevail  on  several able
men  to  become condidates for the  Chair  of
Theory and Practice.    Although I  had full
power to give  that Professorship to whom I
pleased, I went no further in my negotiations
on the subject than I have stated, for 1 was al-
most certain that Dr. Eberle, after the recep-
tion  of the letter I had written  to him  from
New York,  would consent to  come  to Lex-
ington, and I knew that, should this  happen,
his reputation and the fact of his having been
located in the  West, and having  taught sev-
eral years in a Western Institution, would ren-
der him more acceptable to my colleagues than
any other individual.  The result realized my
expectations.*   Thus, had I  not  accepted the
Institutes, Drs. Dudley and Richardson never
could  have prevailed on  Dr. Eberle  to  join
them, and  consequently three  very subordin-
ate men. and i knew them well, the arrange-
ment was already made,  would have been ap-
pointed to  the  Chairs vacated by  Drs. Cald-
well,  Cooke, and  Yandell,  and  the  School
would  have sunk, long before this,  into  its
present insignificance.  One  of that  brilliant
trio is now a member of  the Faculty.
   Nor is this the whole ot my personal agen-
cy in  the re-organization of the  Faculty in
1837.   The  Chair of Chemistry, as has been
stated, was also vacant.   After the declinature
of Professor Silliman,  the attention  of  Dr.
Dudley was  directed to his sequacious protege
Peter, which filled the  little animal  with so
much delight that he skipped and frisked about
as if a horse-fly had him  to  break.  The de-
sign of Dr. Dudley was, I suppose, to reward
him for his servility in the nefarious affair  to
which I have  repeatedly alluded, but more
particularly,  I  presume,  for  a  reason that  it
would not do  to whisper into "ears  polite."
Let us not pry too closely into the nice and se-
cret springs  of action of this uprisht and im-
maculate character—this "curled darling"  of

  *My  conduct  towards the Medical College of Ohio  de-
serves a word of  explanation.   I was  not prompted by
any feeling of hostility towards that Institution;  on the
contrary, I have every reason to  be gratified and proud of
iny connexion with it, for I believe I was associated with
high-minded and honorable men.  My conduct is to bo ex-
plained upon the principle that I felt bound by every fair
and honorable means to advance the interests of the Insti-
tution with which  I was connected. This I did while in
the Medical College of Ohio—this I did while in the Medi-
cal Department of Transylvania University—and this I will
do in regard to any School of Medicine with which I may
in future be connected
 society—or we  may peradventure irrecovera-
 bly sully the  purity of  somebody's honor.
 But really there is  no need  for such  scrupu-
 losity, for the object of  Dr. Dudley's munifi-
 cent  patronage is like the Roman Emperor
 who  found no unpleasant odor in the money
 that proceeded from a disgusting and  disrepu-
 table tax.   Dr. Short supported Dr.  Dudley
 in his partiality for Peter, while Dr. Richard-
 son and  myself were irreconcilably opposed to
 him.    We believed  him utterly unprincipled
 (and every subsequent act of his life has proved
 that we  were  not mistaken) and  but  indiffer-
 ently qualified for the position to which he had
 the vanity to  aspire.  1  suggested the  name
 of  Mitchell, but to  him  all  my colleagues
 seemed to be irreconcilably opposed.  My only
 hope consisted  in bringing  Dr.  Richardson
 over  to  my views.   I had ascertained from
 the students who  had attended the  Medical
 College  of Ohio, the session  before  he was
 expelled,* that he was a tolerable lecturer, and
 from other  sources  that he was a respectable
 chemist. These considerations did not satisfy
 Dr. Richardson, who charged him with  being
 a narrow-minded, bigotted, presumptuous pu-
 ritanical  Presbyterian.   On   these points  1
 had nothing to say,  for  at that time  I  knew
 nothing.  I never believed that he would  be
 more than a  respectable  acquisition;  but  I
 understood  that  he  had   agreed to take  the
chair of  Chemistry in the  Louisville Medical
Institute, and while   I believed that he would
answer  our purposes, an opportunity  to em-
barrass  our Louisville enemies thus presented
itself, provided we could  induce him to  break
the engagement  he  had entered into.   They
had not yet been able to  complete  the organi-
zation of the Institute Faculty, and I felt it to
be important  to us that  they should  find  as
much difficulty on that point as possible,  and
so soon as 1  communicated  the fact to  Dr.
Richardson  that  by  drawing off  Mitchell we
would probably cause those  whom  he  hated
much inconvenience, he  not only ceased to
oppose  him but became a warm advocate for
his appointment to the Chemical chair in  our
school.f   On  my  way East in search of a
 *One would suppose that a man who had been unceremo-
niously driven out of one, Institution would have spoken
more modestly and loss flippantly on the  sore subject of
expulsion than he has in the "Statements of Farts." But
he knows how it afflicted him. and as he was never known
to impart pleasure when he could inflict pain, he foolishly
imagined, when speaking of it in the coarse manner he has,
that he was torturing ine.  He should, however, have re-
collected  that I am in no way dependent on Scliools of
Medicine for such a support as should satisfy the ambition
of a gentleman—while he, when I took him out of a dirty
drug shop in Cincinnati, was on the point of taking the ad-
vice Grumio gave to Catharine—which was, to sup on the
mustard with  he beef.  Poverty is no disgrace, for it was
the glory of Fabricius; and no other man would I have the
inhumanity to remind of it but one who is so malignantly
ungrateful as Mitchell.
 lit is said that "ievcn-» is the mojt delicious morsel the 
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professor  of Theory and  Practice, I  passed;
through  Cincinnati, where Mitchell resided,
and soon prevailed .on him to become  a candi-
date for  the Chemical chair.  Supported by
Dr.  Richardson and myself, and  the name of
Peter, his competitor, being presented by Drs.
Dudley and Short to the Board of Trustees, he
was easily elected, Peter having received but a
single vote.   The following letter conclusively
proves that  it was  the opinion  of Dr. Cald-
well, at least, that Mitchi 11 had violated a so-
lemn engagement with him, and when  he tells
me as he  does in  this letter that he had "no
qualms of conscience on the subject," no  one
will doubt  him, but all would be surprised to
hear that  his conscience had ever reproached
him for the commission of any atrocity.

                 Cincinnati, July 29, 1837.
   Dr.  Cross—Dear  Sir:  On my return (he
bad been in  Lexington) I  found  a  tremendous
epistle from I'r. Caldwell, wailing for me.  It  is
full  of contradictions and  misrepresentations,
and I  have given him a very  brief  reply in the
mildest i-tyle I can  employ, and  yet  with  all
needed firm ness.  He has been terribly discompos-
ed as you may judge from the fact that he called on
my father and brotherin Philadelphia to get them
to remonstrate with  me.  Should  any one at all
favorable to him in Lexington be disposed to say
 aught  against me in this matter, just assert if
you please, that I am quite willing to submit my
conduct to the judgment of any three disinterest-
ed  gentlemen in  Kentucky.   My  movements
were based upon the  council  of Judge Burnett
 and Rev.  Dr. Agdelott, (who as you know is an
 Episcopalian,) and  I  have no qualms of con-
science on  the subject.  Ir. Caldwell seems to
desire a controversy, but he shall not be gratified.
         Yours,      THOS. D. MITCHELL.

   The facts now spread before the public will
 enable the reader to determine whether or not
 I averted  the  complete  overthrow  of the
 Transylvania Medical School in  1837.  But
 the postponement  of  that "ill-stared and un-
 blessed  catastrophe," for it must come, and it
 cannot possibly  be prorogued much  longer,
 does not comprehend any thing like the whole
 of the servicesrendered by me to the Medical
 School of Transylvania,  nor will it enable any
 one to judge of the  full extent of its obliga-
 tions  to  me. The following statement will
 prove this.  During  the session of  1837—'3-;
 we had  the misfortune to loose Dr. Eberle by
 death, and it is said that both Mitchell and
 Dr.  Short wished to be  transferred  to the
 chair  thus vacated, and that 1 resorted to very
 unjustifiable  means to prevent either of them
 obtaining  the object of  their wishes.   My
 motives for wishing  to  defeat  the  hopes  of
 Mitchell are easily divined.   He  was wholly

 Devil ever dropped into the mouth of a woman'' but, cer-
 tainly it is not more relished by them than  the indulgence
 of hatred  is by some men.
disqualified—he had seen little or no  practice,
and unless he changes his language and man-
ners he will not see much more.  Besides  I
thought  it was infinitely presumptious in him
to desire to be transferred to the most import-
ant chair in the school, when he had served
but a single session in it, and had  been called
to it only the year before, not because he was
a celebrated physician, but because he was be-
lieved to be a tolerable chemist.  As  a conclu-
sive reason why he should be transferred to the
chair of Theory and Practice, he informed the
class of 1837~'38 that  his old preceptor, Dr.
Rush,  who for so many years  held that chair
with  the  most distinguished  ability  in  the
Pennsylvania Medical School, commenced his
professorial career in  that of chemistry.  Be-
tween  the preceptor and the pupil he imagined
there  was a  most remarkable resemblance,
while  every one else thought that they were
no more alike than a  horse is like a hand-saw.
Certainly the burlesque extravaganza of this
man's  pretensions presents one  of  the most
incomprehensible delusions that is to be found
in the  eventful  records  of human imbecility.
   There was at least  one reason of a different
kind altogether to explain my opposition to
Dr. Short.  I did  not believe him a friend to
the School.   This  conclusion  was  deduced
from the following facts:   I understood it had
been  stated  during  the fill of 1837, in Cin-
cinnati, by Dr. Yandell, that Dr. Short would
not remain in Lexington move than  another
winter—the  conversations of Dr. Short with
the students during the session of 1837—'38,
as reported to me, imparted plausibility to this
assertion, and a remark which he made in my
presence in the Library at the close of a con-
versation in relation  to the comparative ad-
vantages and prospects of the Lexington and
 Louisville schools, removed all doubt from my
 mind  of its truth.   With the  mildness and
 modesty peculiar to him he rather plainly
hinted that the advantages and  prospects  of
the former were not so great and flattering as
those  of the latter, and when this opinion was
rather earnestly opposed, he  terminated the
 conversation by remarking "time will show."
 From  the moment  these words escaped his
 lips 1  determined  to  oppose  every movement
 that  should be made  for his transfer to the
 chair  of Theory and  Practice.   I was satisfied
 that no  man with the sentiments he  entertain-
 ed could  desire  to  remain in the Lexington
 if he  had any hope of an  invitation to join
 the Louisville school.    My  opposition  was
 successful, but I ask the question, what would
 have been, in all probability, the result had  it
 failed?   In  my humble  judgment  a fatal
 blow would have been  inflicted upon the  In-
 stitution.  It was already in a precarious state,
 for we  had  lost Dr.  Eberle by death, and had 
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Dr. Short deserted us, as I firmly believed that
he would, even after being placed in the chair
of Theory and  Practice,  the  school  would
have been irrecoverably ruined.   But, this, my
colleagues, blinded by passion and  biassed  by
prejudice, could not  see.   We had, and my
old colleagues  still have,  an indefatigably in-
dustrious and a decidedly able rival in the Lou-
isville  Medical Institute to  contend with, and
I ask, is there  a single human being out of the
Transylvania  Medical Faculty,  so  incurably
stupid as  to believe that had  Dr.  Short left
us, after having been transferred to the chair
of Theory and Practice, our enemies, at Lou-
isville, would not  have proclaimed,  and with
every  appearance of plausibility,  if  not of
truth, that the Transylvania  Medical  School
was ruined  beyond redemption—that  it had
lost two of its ablest men—one from  death,
and the other from desertion?   Thus, by my
foresight and management, I shielded the In-
stitution a second time from a fatal  blow, that
the infatuation and  folly of some of my col-
leagues  were willing,  and would no doubt have
exposed it to.*
   Mitchell in his statement says:  "When it
was announced that Dr.  Eberle was no  more,
the  ex-professor commenced  his secret efforts
to procure the vacant chair, and hearing that
Dr. Short and myself were named as candi-
dates, [the latter certainly by nobody but him-
self,] he publicly denounced us  to the class, as
unfit for the place; called on the pupils to dis-
countenance every thing of  the  sort, alledging
that our appointment would disgrace the school,
and consequently disgrace  its  pupils.   This,
and  more, 1  heard with  my own ears, in  the
 Chemical Hall, immediately  below  the place
where this most brotherly harangue was made.
There are facts in abundance to prove that du-
ring  the  session named, he  was  perpetually
endeavoring to depreciate the  labors of  his col-
leagues, and to elevate himself."  I vainly and

  *The infamous Mitchell says that Dr. Short left the Medi-
cal School of Transylvania because he was unwilling to be
associated with me, when he knows it was because he could
not endure to remain in the same institution with  his broth-
er-in-law, Dr. Dudley, on account of his scandalous treache-
ry towards men for whom he had respect, and in whom he
had confidence, and this is proved by the fact that he volun-
tarily abandoned  the former in a great emergency, and fol-
lowed the latter when their prospects were, in the general
estimation, any thing but hright or promising. Besides Dr.
Short knew, or might have known, for Dr. Richardson in-
formed me of it,  that Dr. Dudley hated him with so deep
and malignant a hatred, because he would not testify falsely
on the occasion of the sacrifice of Drs.  Caldwell, Yandell,
and Cooke, that  he refused to have any thing to do with
presenting his name to the Board of Trustees  on the 29th of
April, 1837, when the faculty was  reorganized.  This was
done, if I was correctly informed, by  Dr. Richardson.  Be-
sides, if my informant did not  mislead  me, Dr. Short very
rarely entered the house of Dr. Dudley after the day of the
dissolution of the faculty.  For this informition I am in^
debted to an individual who also told me that after the re-
signation of Dr.  Short, Dr. Dudley boasted that he had
not suffered the former to enter his house except on extraor-
dinary occasions,  and then only for the sake of  appearan-
ces.  Dr.  Short knows whether this is true or not.
foolishly thought I had in my Appeal so firmly
nailed this counterfeit to  the counter  that he
would  never again  attempt  to  foist himself
into  circulation, even  where  only a spurious
coin circulated.   But  in this I was mistaken.
He has still the assurance to look honest men
in the face with the frantic and desperate hope
that with
       "His weapons holy saws of sacred writ,"
he may be rescued from the fathomless depths
of contempt  into  which he  is  precipitately
sinking, while he silently and secretly solilo-
quizes:
              "Thus I cloathe my naked villainy
     With old odd ends stol'd forth of holy writ,
     And seem  a saint when worst I play the Devil."
Did I not believe that it would  be wantonly
provoking Providence I would suffer this hy-
pocritical cheat and  base counterfeit  to pass
for what  he  is worth, and  that is what  in
algebra is called a negative quantity, something
worth  less  than nothing.  But this he has not
permitted—he has  rendered  forbearance im-
possible—it would prove me incapable of con-
ceiving a generous sentiment, or of perform-
ing  a worthy  action, were  I even to  wink
at a reversal of the  infallible and  eternal de-
cress  of Divine wisdom by shrinking, when
such an opportunity is presented,  from the
palpable  exposure of a man who  has sto-
len
          "The livery of the court of heaven
          To serve the Devil in."
   Mitchell knows that in preferring the charge
embodied in the above extract he was doing noth-
ing more than revamping an old, exploded and a
disgusting  falsehood,  that  had  been   trium-
phantly refuted eight years  ago.   The  con-
ceiver  is no more guilty than  the shameless
reproducer  and  propagator• of a falsehood.
But this Mitchell sticks at nothing—his soul,
although he affects to be making ample pros-
pective provision  for it, is like  that of the li-
centiate  Pedro Garcias which lay among the
ducats in his leathern bag, is  in his breeches
pocket among the ragged bank notes that he
has dunned out of the students,  one of whom
was never  known to have a moments rest from
his importunities so long  as  he owed him a
cent.   Indeed  his  cupidity is  such that the
telescopic  shadow of a dollar  in  the  moon
would make him, Judas-like, betray his Saviour,
even should he  have transferred  his homage
and devotion, as everyone believes he has, from
the immaculate  Being  that suffered and died
on the cross, to the  maculate  and  poisonous
reptile  that glories  in  the  name of  B. W.
 Dudley.   From  the  multitude of  deponents
who are hurrying to the witness-stand to pro-
nounce the  sentence of  condemnation  upon
j the retailer of this foul  and infamous  slander, 
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who  shall  I  summons  first?   Let us  hear
what Professor Lawson,  his colleague, has to
say on the subject:

           May&ville, Ky., August 20, 1838.
Professor Cross—Dear Sir:
  The first charge  which particularly demands
my attention is, that during last winter, you play-
ed off a continuous round of  manoeuvring, and
intrigue to entrap the students, and to use them
in furtherance of your ambitious views;  that you
were as obsequious as the  Janitor; and that you
entered into schemes, to injure two of the Faculty.
  These reckless and profligate assertions, bear
the  image of falsehood, on their Iront.  All who
were acquainted with your conduct, last winter,
will unite in one general exclamation of contempt
and indignation, upon reading these diabolical
charges.  That you attempted  to manoeuvre, or
to entrap the students, for any purpose is, accord-
ing to the best of my knowledge and belief, utter-
ly false.  Nothing of that character, was discov-
ered last winter, and if not then, when and where
was  it made?  By  Dr.  --------, in --------?
Doubtless, it  originated there,  and like its au-
thor, is a tissue of meanness and falsehood. That
"he was as obsequious as  the Jenator," is an in-
significant  charge.   Your intercourse  with  the
students, so far as  I observed, was open, famil-
iar, and courteous, yet noble and dignified.  I be-
lieve it is faL>e that you entered into schemes, to
injure two of your colleagues.
   Again, you are charged with  attempting, by
the  basest means, to obtain the chair of Theory
and  Practice.  This  charge,  is  as  false as the
heart of him who made it.  At the time the  me-
 morial, signed by 163 students was, circulated,
you expressed publicly and  privately, a desire to
remain in your present chair.*
   My recollection  of your  opinion is, that  you
did  not believe that any of the professors should
be transferred to that chair, that it should be re-
served for  some one not  then in the school; but
 if any of the  professors were  to be transferred,
you  did  not object to your claim being laid be-
fore the Trustees.
   The charge,  that  you  summoned  pupils to
 Bacchanalian revels and  plyed  those with wine
 that loved it, is  at once, a libel on yourself, as
 well as the students.  I neither saw,  nor heard
 these revels spoken of, nor do I believe, they ever
 had an existence.   I believe the 163 names were
 willingly and voluntarily signed.
   When the balloting took place among the stu-
 dents, for a professor of Theory and  Practice, I
 was absent, but on my return I  was informed of
 the circumstance, and also that  Professor Short
  *A word of explanation in  relation  to this memorial.
Immediately after the death of Professor  Eberle, the trans-
ference  of either Mitchell or Professor Short, to the chair
of Theory and Practice, was spoken of,  and  the idea ex-
cited great dissatisfaction, and much opposition in the class.
When this contemplated movement came to the knowledge
of the students, a memorial requesting the Board of Trus-
tees to  transfer me to  the chair of Theory and Practice,
was, without any agency on my  part, drawn up and circu-
lated through a  class of  two hundred  and  twenty-seven
students, the number of which that of l937--'38  consist-
ed; one  hundred  and sixty-throe of-whom signed it in the
course of a few hours.
received but one vote.   It was a matter of curi-
osity with us to know who this minority of one
was, who could be  «o  simple,  as to wish Dr.
Short to lecture on Theory and Practice.*
   Of the  letter complimentary to Professor
Mitchell I know but little.  As Dr. Short,  how-
ever,  signed the diplomas, as professor pro. tcm.,
it would seem  that  he had claims over others,
but no one seemed disposed to pay him that com-
pliment.  Your own lectures, were fewer in num-
ber than either  of  the others, but their charac-
ter was such as to delight and  instruct all who
heard them.  I think I risk  nothing in saying,
that they were received by the class as a desider-
atum.
  The  last sweeping  denunciation which  caps
the climax is, that the fortunes of  the school will
be fatally sealed,  if you are permitted to remain
in it.
  Fortunately for  the  school  and yourself, the
author of this discovery can have  no agency in
effecting  your expulsion.   The  friends of the
school prize too highly your services  to listen to
such  an idle declaration.  Doubtless the envious
author of that  paragraph,  would  delight  to see
one whom he cannot rival, removed farther from
him.
   In  conclusion, permit me to say, that I believed
your  governing principle to have  been to make
yourself useful to the  class. That such was the
case  last winter was obvious to all.
    The general character  of  the  charges which
have  been arrayed against  you,  proves that they
must claim as their author an envious, desper-
ate,  disappointed,  and  uncompromising  enemy;
one who will not scruple to herald forth any charg-
es which his corrupt  nature can  fabricate, <md for
which the English language can be a vehicle.
              Yours, very respectfully,
                    L. M.  LAWSON,  M. D.

         [From the Kentucky (Lex.) Gazette.]
   We observed in the-----------------, of the
27th  ult., a violent  attack upon the  character  of
 Professor Cross.  This  article appears under the
 editorial head, but judging from its phraseology, as
 well  as from public  rumor, we have no doubt that
 Dr.--------is the  author of the article—and had
 he only heaped his slander and  misrepresentations
 on Prof. Cross, the  article would  have passed un-
 noticed by us, as we know that  gentleman is am-
 ply able to defend himself.  But the author, not
 satisfied with his denunciations of Dr. Cross, has
 implicated, in his libellous productions, the 163
 students  that  signed  the  memorial  referred to,
 charging them with being  his ready accomplices
 in crime, and compliments  them by saying, before
 his personal appeals  were successful, they were
 brutalized by bacchanalian revels in his own rooms.
 As we are a part of the students that signed the
 memorial, we  feel it our duty  to pronounce this
 charge a gross and palpable violation of truth, and
 should bring down upon the author of this illiber-
 al and slanderous production the execration of the

   *I trust Dr. Short will not suppose any feeling of hostility
 to him causes his name to appear in this publication in con-
 nexion with a matter that should be forgotten.  If it should,
 however, give him dissatisfaction  he ought to blame  his
 ci-devant or rather soi-disant friend  Mitchell Cor attempt-
 ing to revive a stale and an exploded calumny. 
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whole community.   The  memorial originated
with the students, and was  voluntarily signed by
them; and so far as  we know, or are informed,
it was voluntarily signed by all those whose signa-
tures were to it.  As to the charge of bacchanalian
revels in Prof. Cross's rooms, it originated from
the same foul source that has continued to pour a
flood of falsehoods upon the  friends of Transyl-
vania ever since Dr.--------was expelled from
the Institution.   Who, but this old and hardened
offender, would thus unfeelingly drag  innocent
and unoffending young men before the public, and
attempt to brand them with  infamy?  Dr.------
a  day of fearful  retribution  is   at hand,  you
may yet be undeceived,  and  find that  all your
wicked machinations will recoil upon your own
head.              ALEX'R  NICHOLSON,
                   DAVID WALKER,
                   J. B. COONS,
                   S. T. NEWMAN,
                   S. W. COONS,
                   A. M. McKlNNEY,
                   JOHN A. NORTH,
                   C. A. PINKNEY, M. D.,
                   JOHN  G. BAKER
                   WM. H. ATKINSON.
                   WM. B.WOOD,
                   PEYTONT JOHNSON,
                   WM. CAMPBELL.

  Dr. Samuel  E. Evans, of West-Rushville,
Richland township, Ohio, wrote on the 19th
of August,  1838, on  the same  subject, in the
following manner:

  In relation to the "memorial got up last winter,
praying the  Board of Trustees  to transfer Dr.
Crossover any other member of the Faculty, after
the decease of Dr.  Eberle, to the Chair of Theory
and Practice, I know all about it.   I was one of
the prime movers in that affair, as Drs  Short and
Mitchell know;  and  whom I  met, by invitation,
with the late Mr. Gordon, of Mississippi,  with my
views frankly and  openly given, explanatory of
the causes which impelled me, with  others, to pro-
ject  and prosecute it.   It'c parted satisfied with
each other.   Professor Cross had  nothing  to  do
in effecting or ultimatingthe memorial in question,
for when he understood that such was contempla-
ted, he requested the attendance of six or eight of
us, and at our  meeting we  were distinctly  in-
formed that  he was averse to occupying the vaca-
ted chair; that he wished to remain neutral; and
had no doubt the Trustees would make a suitable
and efficient disposition of it.   It was clearly un-
derstood, and by myself in  particular—for I had
on a previous  occasion suggested  his acceptance
as the expressed wish of a majority of the Class—
that he  did  not desire the Chair, but to remain
where he was.   No, my coadjutors will testify, he
is totally absolved from any participation in its  or-
igin or  conduct; indeed, it  was a matter of sur-
prise, when  we presented him with the entreaty,
he should direct it in  the event of any of the fa-
culty seeking the vacancy, in his own favor.  Such
was the design of this famed memorial, and it was
upon these terms alone that he consented to hold it
as a check to the supposed aspirings of two of his
colleagues,  for  whom he expressed  a cherished
personal regard, and only hostile in this, their pre-
 sumed ambition;  still declaring, as before, that it
 was for the best interest of Transylvania the Chair
 should be filled from abroad, by one of known re-
 putation, whose name might balance the popular-
 ity lost in  Dr. Eberle.  I am free to say, that in
 nothing did the moral or professional standing of
 any member of the  Faculty suffer by Dr. Cross,
 from expressions made by him in my presence, or
 in that of others with whom I held intercourse;
 and as that was very  general and open, I should
 have been apprised of it had such been the fact. I
 therefore knowingly  pronounce all the charges
 preferred against  Professor  Cross,  the  sessions
 above understood,  of plotting with the students,
 false; that by him  we were withdrawn from  our  '
 studies to join in the glass, thereby to subserve his
 ends, equally false;  that never in my hearing, or
 my fellow-students, was the  character  of Drs.
 Mitchell and  Short traduced or under-valued, for
 the  promotion of this business  in question,  but
 that, on the contrary, he always spake as became
 their co-laborer in  the same  vine-yard, the  friend
 and gentleman.  And now a word or two touch-
 ing the balloting spoken of by  the class; for I was
 there, and must be acknowledged a competent wit- "
 ness—and moreover, a Teller for the occasion. It
 is  asked, "upon what authority is the statement
 made?"  I reply, by my authority, with the  connec-
 ted testimony of all present.  Dr. Cross speaks
 truth when he says there was a  note for him on his
 table, calling on him to perform  the duties of the
 Chair  of Theory and Practice; that  he returned
 for answer, he could not meet them, and earnestly
 desiring that our votes might not, in the pending
 election, be thrown for him.  I was the individual
who penned that note,  and, at the conclusion of his
lecture.suspecting the  autograph  mine,he sent for
me to stay their interference in the coming contest;
to  remain quiet, deeming it ill-advised and precip-
itate;  that the Trustees, he  was assured, would
act wisely and  for the general  interest.    Thus
much for the  ballot-box.

   Dr. John  James Speed, of Crawfordsville,
Indiana, thus testifies:

  In reference  to the memorial gotten up by the
Students and signed by 163 of them, the writer in
the Journal  remarks  that, "in the midst of  the
plots  of the Students, his active selfishness was
busy at work, and  scarcely had the accomplished
 Eberle descended to his tomb before Dr. Cross
commenced  howling  like a  hyena  around  his
grave for the Chair of Theory  and Practice."   A
baser and more  unprincipled  charge than  this
could not be brought against the most abandoned
wretch by the  most unscrupulous falsifier.   So
far as one man can hecome acquainted with  the
sentiments of  another, I am capable of knowing  '
and fearlessly stating,that Prof. Cross  positively
 objected to being placed in that Chair, stating his
 preference, decided  preference, for  the  Chair
 which  he then occupied; and  is  it r*ot strange, if
 he desired the  place—if he howled like  a hyena
 aromid the grave of the accomplished Eberle for
 the Chair of Theory and Practice, that  not even
 those who desired  him to  receive it should have
 heard and listened to his cry?   If Prof. Cross de-
sired the Chair, he was most successful in conceal-
ing it from his friends.   Passing over a number, of 
2:1
v'.uuaks equally harsh and unfounded, the writer
says:  "Thus, by taking time by the forelock, by
working without  opposition,  by  making false
statements to the pupils, and by plying those that
loved it  whh  wine,  he succeeded in geUini; 163
names  to  his paper, and, after all this  scheming
and  meanness, with the entire  game  in his own
hands, and without  a competitor for the Chair, he
has  the effrontery to  claim  the memorial as an
honor to him, and  holds it  up as a mark of dis-
grace to Prof.  ---."   Here  he  is endeavoring
to produce upon his readers the impression that
the who\e course of conduct of Dr. Cross was di-
rected  to  securing the  Chair of  Theory and
Practice—that  every  step  he took,  and  every
thought he  Uttered, tended toward the memorial
praying his transfer to the Chair.  He succeeded!
I  am one of those who assisted in  getting up and
dictating that memorial, and  1 deny that Prof. Cross
knew of its existence or  its  contemplation till  ap-
prised  by one of the Class.   Here  the  writer has
manifested the  same malignant and unhallowed
spirit,  and the  satrte  reckless determination to
crush,  by any means, hinuwhom he has just cause
 to dread.

   Dr. James  M. Dean, of Lynchburg, Ten-
 nessee, wrote me on the 1st August, 1838, on
 the same subject, tq the following effect:

   The memorial that is so much harped upon by
 Dr.------- was  got up from choice.  The class
 was induced to believe that efforts were making to
 elevate Dr.---to the Chair of Theory and Prac-
 tice.   They were well aware of his incompetency
 and  intended to prevent his  appointment  by every
 exertion;  for this reason they got up the memorial
 to the Trustees, presenting to them their choice.
 These were the motives that induced  me to sign
 the  memorial, and these  the motives that a 1 ex-
 pressed that  I  saw sign it   With regard to the
 statement made by Dr.-----*, that you made ef
 forts,  assisted and  influenced  the students to ge'
 up the memorial, I pronounce  to be an unfounded
 falsehood.   I well recollect the circumstances un-
 der  which the  memorial was got up.  I  also re-
 collect the substance of the response you gave to
 the note which was placed on your table, asking
 you to accepl the  Chair of Theory and  Practice
 You stated that you were  opposed to being ap-
 pointed—that the Chair  you  then occupied re-
 quired your whole attention.   You also stated that
 the  Chair of Theory and  Practice was the most
 important Chair that  belonged to the Institution,
 and would be a greater inducement to a man of
 talents than any other Chair.   Your answer to the
 note was  satisfactory, showing that you did not
 desire the appointment, and that you did  not want
 the School to loose talents by your elevation.

    The folio wins is an extract from  a letter of
 the  11th September, 1838,  written  to me by
 Dr. H. King, of  Greensborough, Georgia:

   Your deportment last  winter, instead  of being
 low and vulgar, was considered extremely digni-
 fied and gentlemanly.  Though repeatedly at your
 apartments alone, and in the company  of  other
 members of the class, I can conscientiously say, I
 never heard you give utterance to a single expres-
siou calculated to injure any  one of  your cdl«
leagues in the estimation of the class;  on the con-
trary, when you spoke  of them, it was always in
terms of commendation.   The morning  of the
day on which the ballotting took place, in answer
to a note,  requesting you  to  lecture on Theory
aud Practice.you earnestly entreated your friends,
in the presence of the whole class, not to cast their
votes in your favor.   In regard to your agency in
getting up  the memorial signed by 163 of the stu-
dents, and  the disreputable means said to  be em-
ployed  by you, I am   prepared, from personal
knowledge, to say that in no  respect does the
              speak the truth.  On the subject of
your  standing with  the  class, it  could not have
been better.  Your Chair  was filled with distin-
guished honor to yourself, and to the entire satis-
faction  of the  Class.
           Yours, with great esteem,
                                   H. KING.

  Testimony  in refutation of the allegation
that I desired the chair of Theory and Prac-
tice  after the death of Professor Eberle, and
tliat I attempted to injure the standing  of my
colleagues with  the students during  the ses-
sion of 1837--'-38, could  be increased  to  any
extent, for the  above  has been selected from
what was furhisned me  by at  least fifty indi-
viduals all of whom were competent to testify.
The  number  and  character of the witnesses
I have summoned will  be regarded, I  trust, as
fully  sufficient  to satisfy the  doubts  of the
most scrupulous or incredulous.*   But Mitch-
  *That I did at any time, either during the session above
 referred to or since, intrigue with the students for the pur-
 pose of injuring the standing of any colleague 1 ever  had
 in the Transylvania Medical School or attempted hy any
 means to defraud him of his popularity is foully and grossly
 false.  Never in my private and social intercourse with the
 students, nor in the public discharge of my official duties did
 1 drop an expression that did not breathe respect for them as
 men and confidence  in them as te chers.  Of some of them I
 rarely, indeed, I may say I never expressed an opinion in the
 presence of the students. 1 had nothing good to say of them,
 and to have spoken disparagingly would have been not only to
 injure the school but to have acted in violation of a ruling
 principle of my conduct. No bitterness of hostility couldpro-
 voke me to this while I remained in  the Institution.  In
 confirmation of the truth of all I have said in this note I ap-
 peal to the classes to whom I have lectured in the Transylva-
 nia Medical School. No individual who belonged to either of
 them, will say he ever thouffht the less of any colleague I
 ever had on account of any personal or  didactic remarks te
 which 1 gave utterance, with the exception perhaps  of Dr.
 Dudley.  If lever said any thing of him that limited his in-
 fluence or impaired his standing with the classes, it was ex-
 clusively of the latter character. In consequence of daily
 wandering out of his department, and for what purpose no
 one could ever guess except it was to betray his ignorance,
 into that of mine, and he invaded those of some of his oth-
 er colleagues almost as frequently, I was compelled to  han-
 dle some of his opinions rather roughly.  But even when
 this was the case it was never done in connexion with hit
 name, and  if a strauger had come into the lecture-room
 while I was engaged in the refutation of one of his ridicu
 lous vagaries of fancy, he would not have  known whether
 the author of it lived in the United States or in Europe. s<»
 ftrictlydid  I forbear making any personal allusion.  The
i students, however, knew to whom I referred, for they, per-
 haps, had heard him lecture on the same subject not twouty-
 four hours before.  As an honest man and a faithful teacher
 it was impossible &r me to shrink from the responsibility of
I teaching what I believed to be the truth, although Dr. Dud-
| ley might happen t» differ with me in opinion. I nov«r 
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the  profession."    Without  claiming  more
than respectability as   a  teacher,  which  I
might without being charged with arrogance
or  presumption,  if  the profession  at large
knew Mitchell as well as  those do who are or
have been immediately  around  him, it would
be  regarded as  a sufficient response  to  this
ebullition of slander  to  say that, with the ex-
ception of Dr. Rush, he was never known to
speak  in other  than the   most  disparaging
terms  of his colleagues or men  of distinction
in  the profession.   He is incapable  of the
conception of a liberal thought, or the perfor-
mance  of a generous   action.  Restless, un-
quiet,   and  miserable  at  the moderate  but
just estimate  which the profession, so far as
he is known  to it, has placed upon his abili-
ties  and  learning, and  the mortifying reflec-
tion that no  labor  can  raise  him to a high
degree of intellectual  eminence,  have  made
him an Ishmaelite.   The humble position  fate
has  decreed him to occupy  amongst  men of
reputation and importance,  has  rendered him
as dissatisfied and querulous  as an old maid
verging on the desperation of six  and  thirt} .
But thus it is  with  those-in  whose  bosoms
the fires ofambition burn,but who,unfortunate-
ly,  have not more capacity than fits them for the
humblest intellectual functions of  vulgar  lile.
        "Base envy withers at another's joy
        And hates the excellence it cannot reach."
Mitchell  instead  of repining at the  decrees
of Providence,  should  recollect that talent $,
like the  spirit of Owen Glendower, though
conjured  with  even so  loud a voice,  "1 et
will not come when you call for them."
  With the request that the reader will refer  i o
p. 43 of  my Appeal and p. 10  of this  work,
for what  illustrates the point under considera-
tion, I take the  liberty  of adducing the testi-
mony of  Peter  as about a  fair counterbalance
of what his co-slanderer has uttered.   In the
midst of  the difficulties  that ultimately led to
mv  resignation,  and when of course  I was
still a member  of  the  Faculty, he said, in an
article in response to one previously published
by  Dr. Pinckard, "In conclusion, I will repeat
that, so far as the Faculty of the Medical  De-
partment can judge, we never had mar. reasm
to be proud of our Institution."*   This  was
ell eves-dropped it as he has had the graceless
effrontery to admit, and asserts upon  the  au-
thority of information  thus disreputably  ac-
quired that "This, and more. I heard with my
own  ears in the  Chemical Hall, immediately
below the  place  where  this  brotherly  ha-
rangue was made."  If what this reckless  im-
postor  says  be  true,  which,  however, is
utterly impossible,  then  are  his  colleague
Professor Lawson  and  the crowd  of wit-
nesses I  have  summoned  and examined low,
vulgar, and suborned  liars.   Who  believes
this?  No body but Mitchell, and  he should
be hissed out of all company for uttering  the
gratuitous  calumny.   He   knew  it was a lie
when he uttered it, and  knew also that  his
colleague would testify against him.
   It  is very  painful  to  be  brought,  under
any circumstances, into collision  with men,
who, while they are incapable of placing; a just
value upon  others  show   that they  have no
respect  for  themselves.    Degraded  beyond
the  hope of redemption in their own estima-
tion, as they  have  been long since in that of
every man of sense or sensibility, they  think
they have full  license to slander  and  malign
in the fact, that no one will condescend to con-
tradict  them  or  compromit  his  honor   by
holding them to a strict accountability.  As a
general rule,  Mitchell, being  as he is, a  star
of the first magnitude among men who belong
to this category,  might  confidently   reckon
upon being  suffered to  indulge, unmolested,
the vicious propensities  of his nature.   Had
he not been my colleague,  I would not flatter
him by making another remark.  Buteven this
circumstance,  together  with  the  provoking
manner in which he has tried to insult me on
a point susceptible  of  satisfactory  refutation,
will notexcusemel fear, for what I feel inclined
to add in relation to him.   My reputation,  as a
teacher,  is almost as dear to me as the blood
that  gurgles through the arteries of my heart.
The scrupulous reader will, therefore, I trust,
excuse me, should he think I am giving too
much time  and  devoting  too much attention
to  a work  of supererogation.   "A  stranger
might  suppose,"  says  Mitchell,  "that he
(Cross)  was the very soul of the Institution,
that  it had its  being  in  him, when in truth,
his teaching as  well as his example was all
the while exerting a  pernicious  influence on
went out of my department to attack his views, while he,
••very winter, consumed much time unprofitable in the dis-
cussion of subjects of a speculative nature that did not he-
long to him.  This time would have been much  more use-
fully  employed in the teaching of surgery, upon which he
never gave any thing like.a complete course of lectures in
his life. Of this the classes constantly complained, and Dr.
Richardson was  wont to  say that he belived one of the
principal reasons why Dr. Dudley was so  unwilling to re-
linquish one of his chairs, consisted in  the fact that his
knowledge of surgery was not sufficiently thorough and
comprehensive to enable him to Iectura upon it six times a
week for four months in succession.
  *But such declarations amount to very little,  thej are
stereotyped expressions of the  Transylvania  Faculty.—
When the School was re-organized in 1837, the Chan man
of the Board of Trustees said to the public, "Such arc the
men who now compose the Medical Faculty of Transylva-
nia University—such are the  teachers we present to the
pnblic in redemption of our  pledge," which was thai the
School should be made stronger than it was before the dis-
solution.  When Dr. Smith succeeded Dr. Eberle in Theory
and Practice, it was asserted in the public prints that it
had never been so  efficient at any former period. W.ien
Dr. Bartlett succeeded Dr. Smith in the same chair, it was
said the School was stronger than ever; when Dr. Waison
was appointed to the Chair of Theory and Practice it ,vas
pnblicly asserted that the School was infinitely  stronjei;
and now having an equivocal assurance that Dr. Bar.leit
will takehis "oldChair," in the  "Statements of FacU," it 
grossly false, if one of its members  was such
a  man as they  now represent me to be.   In
the letter of Professor  Lawson, already quo-
ted, (p 21) he says  in relation to the lectures
on Theory and  Practice, which I delivered in
the winter of 1837-38,  after the death of Dr.
Eberle, "Your  own lectures,  were  fewer  in
number, than either of the  others, but their
character was such as to delight and instruct
all who heard them.   I  think  I risk nothing
in saying that they  were received by the Class
as a desideratum."   Again, hesaid, and much
more  recently,  "Professor  Cross who jusrly
ranks  among the ablest  medical philosophers
and writers of the age, has kindly consented to
become a correspondent of the Lancet."  One
of the ablest writers and most distinguished
teachers  in  the United  States,  wrote  me as
follows ;—"That you should be slandered is
not at all  surprising, you have  enemies, and
they  will spare no  pains to injure you.   If
you were a man  of a more  passive or nega-
tive character, this  would  probably not be the
case;  but you have talents,  energy and repu-
tation, and are  therefore  a  fair target for the
malevolent shafts of those whose interest  or
desire it is to impair your influence and stan-
ding.   Your character as a  teacher and writer
is we I established, and my opinion is, that the
Lexington School  has  no particular cause to
congratulate  itself  upon  your   resignation."
   The pupils of the two Institutions in which
I have taught, are  now  the  Physicians of the
West and South,  and being uninfluenced  by
undue  prejudice   or  partiality,  are   doubt
less the most competent  judges  of my  claims
as a teacher.  The following  notices are taken,
at random, from a  great mass of testimony of
the  same  import,  which, if adduced,   would
occupy space without rendering  the refutation
of the  charge  preferred  against me,  more
complete  or successful.   "Dr.  Cross  is well
known to the  Medical world as  a teacher and
writer of the first grade.  His  mind is  keen
and analysing: he separates facts from theory
—the real from the imaginary—building upon
the  solid  basis of experience  and observa-
tion."—Boonslick (M ssouri) Democrat.  "Pro-
fessor  Cross   is well  known throughout  the
Valley of  the Mississippi, as one of the most
able and eloquent teachers  now laboring in the
cause  of medical   instruction.—Shawneetown
is said that "The friends of the School are assured, that
atno point  in her (I  suppose the Transylvtnia Medical
School is meant) history has she offered such strong claims
upon their patronage  as she does at present." Having
found that the frequent changes in the Chair of Theory
and Practice have been productive of so much  invigora-
tion, it is wonderful that the Trustees have  not suggested
the propriety of imparting strength to the Institution  in
n reduplicating ratio, by effecting changes in some of the
other departments—the Chemical for example, as the risk
of the experiment would not be great, Mr would it cost
much.
5

(111.) Republican  "As a  lecturer, Professor
Cross stands unrivalled in popularity, and may
be deemed the pillar of Transylvania Univer-
sity."— Edgefield (S.  C.)  Advertiser.   The
moment  it was  ascertained  that  I  was
appointed  to a Chair  in the  Medical  School
at  Memphis,  Tennessee, the following com-
plimentary notices appeared  in  two Ten-
nessee  Journals—the  first in the Standard,
and the second in the  Tribune.   The writer
remarks: "In  running my eye over the list of
Professors  I  find the  name of James Con-
quest Cross; it  is a  host in  itself, and  its
weight will be  felt sensibly at Lexington, Lou-
isville, Cincinnati and  St.  Louis.  Dr. Cross
is extensively  known,  particularly  in  the
West and South, as one of the most success-
ful medical teachers in the  United States.—
Being a man of great labor,  erudition and ge-
nius, he will  at once  give the School a res-
pectable  standing."     "At the  head of  the
list (of the Professors of the Memphis School^
we find the name of James  Conquest Cross.
It would be useless to say one word in relation
to the character of this gentleman as a Medi-
cal Philosopher   or  Teacher.   He   is well
known in  this State: and  not only here,  but
wherever  great'  men  are known.  He is an
independent Medical  Philosopher—while  he
pays proper regard to  the  opinions of others,
thinks for himself.  He was  at one time Pro-
fessor  of Materia Medica and  Therapeutic*
in the Medical College of Ohio,  after which
he was Professor of the  Institutes of Medi-
cine and Medical  Jurisprudence  in the Tran-
sylvania Medical  College at  Lexington.—
With due respect for those who filled the dif-
ferent  Chairs  in that  University, I  must be
permitted   to  say  that I   viewed  him  as
the brightest star  in the galaxy.  As an inde-
pendent (and generally  correct) Medical Phi-
losopher and   practical teacher,  James Con-
questCross, has not a superior."*   The indeli-
  * I may add, I trust, without offence, that the conduct of
my late colleagues was anything else than a confirmation
of the opinion expressed bv them of me as a teacher in the
" Statements of Facts."  No public pffhrt was ever to be
made on liehalf of the Institution, that was not devolved otr
me.   When we lost Professor  Eberle, I was selected to
pronounce his eulogy; when the new Medical Edifice was
to be  dedicatPd, I was  summoned  to the rostrum; when
the Medical Convention of Kentucky  met in Frankfort in
the winter of 1841-42, I was appointed in conjunction with
Dr. Dudley, to represent the Transylvania Medical School in
it; was elected by the Convention one of its  Vice-Presi-
dents; was invited hy and did lecture to the Convention on
the"Ahtiquity of the Earth;" and was afterwards appoin-
ted to deliver the annual  address when it should meet in
the wintPr of 1842-43.  During the whole of the session of
the Convention.  Dr.  Dudley's lips were hermetrically
sealed, he leaving me to cope  in all the discussions, and
they were numerous, that arose  single-handed with Profes-
sors Caldwell, Drake and Yandell.  When it is recohVctnd
that it was believed the  deliberations of the Conven-
tion would have a very important influence on the future
prospectsof the Schools of Lexington and Louisville, this
was entrusting me with  a  very  responsible duty.  When
Committees of the Legislature or distinguished strangen 
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cacy of parading such notices before the public
is obvious, and the impolicy  and impropriety j
of it, except under very  peculiar circumstan-
stnnces, very great.  Thut these exist on the
present  occasion,  I think   the reader will
readily admit,  and this  consideration will, I
trust, induce him to  regard  my conduct with
indulgence   Perhaps I ought to have felt se-
cure in the judgment and decision of those to
whom I have  given  instruction, rather than
have given the malicious an excuse to charge
me with arrogance or  egotism.

   What  Mitchell  has  said of my  conduct
towards,  and feelings  for, Dr.  Bush,   is un-
graced by a single sentiment of honor, for  it
is known to  several individuals  to be not only
gratuitous  and  unfounded, but  maliciously
false.   On this point, after  the production of
a single document with an explanation of the
circumstances that  gave rise  to  it,   I will
turn him over to the  tender  mercies of those
whom  he has wantonly  abused and deceived,
or betrayed  and slandered.  At. the time the
memorial was  circulated  in   the  Class  of
1843—44, to which I have already referred at
p. 15, 16 of my Appeal, and which had for its
object the removal of Dr. Bush, it was stated
by those immediately around Drs. Dudley and
Bush,  that  I was the  instigator or author of
it.  This was wholly false, and as I had never
made an extemporaneous  explanation to the
Class without its being misrepresentf d, I drew
up the following paper, to exclude  the possi-
bility of misconstruction on the subject, and
read it to the Class.   Previously, in the Fac-
ulty-room, 1 had read it to Mitchell.

   "Gf.\tlemex: My name has been connected,!
und; rs and, with a  memorial that has been circu-
lated iu the Class, in relation to the Adjunct Profes-
sor  of Anatomy.   This  I wish to  say is  wholly
unauthorized.  Conscious from the  peculiar cir-
 cumstances  of my position,  that  my   motives
would be, as they have heretofore been, misrepre-
sented.   1 must be  permitted  to assure you that I
am the last man in the Faculty, who would do any
thing calculated  to disturb  the  harmony  of the
 Faculty—that of the  Class or that would expose
 my motives  to misconstruction.   From a proper
degree of responsibility, I never will shrink when-
 ever a proper subject shall be brought before me,
 in my official capacity, for deliberation, and when I
 decline action under other  circumstances, it is
 either because I feel no interest in the matter, or
 because I hold it to be incompatible with my rela-
 tions to my  colleagues, and  the obligations I am
 under to  the Institution in which lam a teacher."

 visited the Institution, they were  detained in the Library
 and Museum until the clock struck eleven, when they were
 hurried in to my lecture-room, where they remained until I
 and Dr. Bartlett had lectured.  The design of this  manoeu-
 vre, the most stupid can understand  Indeed, I am convin-
 ced I hail  colleagues that no Committee of the Legisla-
 ture ever heard givo ft *injle lecture, at least, while / teas
 in the Imtitution.
              Lex!N<-;to!V September 13, 1840.
  Dr. Cross—Dear Sir: In looking over a pam-
phlet entitled "Statements of Fads," in relation to
the  expnl-ion  of James  Conquest Cross  from
Transylvania University, the joint production of
Professors Dudley,  Mitchell and Peter, I ask the
privilege in your foruVoming publication, to cor-
rect some misrepresentations and falsehoods there-
in contained.    Dr. Mitchell  in  his  statement,
says:—"As he  ("Dr. Cross) and  his tools have
made much ado  about Dr.  Bush, 1 may say here,
that all the difficulty and objection to Dr B , that I
ever heard, ongiuated with him, (I r. C.) and those
under his influence, &c."  Now as it is generally
known that I am the author of the articles that ap-    ""
peared in the  Lezinsrton  Inquirer,  during  the
months o(  April and  Vay 1844, 1 feel called  on by
the base falsehoods  of Dr.  Mitchell,  to  state  the
facts in relation to the origin of the attempt made
by  me,  in  1844,   to re-organize the Medical
Department of Transylvania University.
  From the time the School  was re organized in
1837,1 took adeep interest in its prosperity.  This
is well known  to many of the Physicians and most
respectable citizens of Lexington,  as  well as to
some of the present Professors.  Being  my Alma
Mater, I was particularly  desirous that  it should
not be surpassed in  respectability and usefulness,
by any School in the great Valley.  From year to
year, complaints were  made that  Dr. Bush was
incompetent to teach Anatomy, and that Dr. '  ud-
ley  for want of time, was unable to give as full  a
course of instruction on Anatomy and Surgery as
was given in the Schools of Medicine at Louisville
and  Cincinnati.  In the  spring of 1843, I acci-
dentally  met with  Dr.  Mitchell  in  I r.  I  arby's
office, and mentioned to  him  the complaints that
were made against Dr.  Bush by the students, and
also stated to him that the  physicians considered
him incompetent, and that the  School was suffer-
ing much  injury from  the  fact that I r.   udley
held two  professorships.   He concurred fully in
all I had said, and  remarked,  that  the  evils com-
plained of,  ought to be speedily  remedied by  a
re-organization.  He spoke so earnestly and sen-
sibly on the subject of the defects of the School,
that I was fully persuaded he was correct, when he
asserted that  unless they  were  removed,  "the
School  must  go down."  When  I  asked him if
nothing could be done to  avert its threatened ruin,
he responded, that he  thought not, for I r. Dud-
ley was inflexibly resolved  to  retain possession of
two professorships, and  that he would  not suffer
 i r. Bush to be turned out. The latter, he denoun-
ced in a manner that has never yet been presented
to the public—he complained  of the undue influ-
ence that I >r.  I udley exercised over the Board of
Trustees—said  ineffectual efforts  had been made     5
by  himself and others to induce  Lr.  1 udley  to
agree to a re-organization.
  Thus conversation with  Dr Mitchell (and he is
the first Professor I ever spoke to in  relation  to
the defects of the School) made a deep  impression
 upon my mind  and produced the  conviction  that
 a re-organization was absolutely necessary. From
 a sense of duty to  the profession and a desire to
 protect the interests of Lexington, I determined at
 once to use every effort to avert the threatened
 ruin of our School, but soon ascertained that no- 
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thing could be done so long as  it surpassed the
Schools of Cincinnati and Louisville in the num-
ber of its pupils, and therefore said  nut little on
the subject until the next session, that of l843-'44,
when it was found that it had fallen considerably
in  the rear of the  Louisville  Medical  Institute,
and  barely numbered  as many  pay  students as
were to be found in the Medical College of Ohio.
This, I  state, on  the  authority  of  Dr. Mitchell.
The students  being clamorous during the session
of 1843-4 t for  a re-organization, and  believing.
fiom what Dr Mitchell said to me in the spring of
1843, that a majority of the Faculty w ere dissatisfied.
not even excepting Drs. Bartlettand Peter,(though
the former was too prudent and  the latter too pol-
itic to commit  themselves,-) I determined  to  ap-
proach the late Dr. Richardson on the subject.  He
fully concurred with his colleague, Prof. M ., as to
the necessity  of a re-organization, but, not being
 able  to advise me how to proceed to effect it, dis-
 couraged the attempt   The next day after mv in-
 terview  with  Prof 11., I met Dr  Cross on my way
 to his house and immediately introduced the sub.
ject of the delects of the School,  lie was  very
 reserved, and,  although  I  informed  him of  the
 opinions of Drs  .Mitchell and Richardson, he de-
 clined giving any opinion  on the subject at that
 time.  1  proposed that Drs. R., M., and himself
 should represent the defects of  the School  to the
 Trustees; to  this he positively  objected, and said
 that anv move of that kind would be attributed to
 him, in consequence of the equivocal relations that
 subsisted between Drs. Dudley and Bush and him-
 self.  Besides, he said the School might go down,
 for none  of the efforts he had made for it had
 been appreciated or attended to.  He advised me
 not to interfere with the re-organization  unless I
 could procure the co-operation of the Trustees,
 and that he  thought impossible, as they would be
 unwilling to  do anything without the  consent  of
 Dr. Dudley—but concurred fully with Drs. M. and
 R. in regard to the defects of the School.
    I had no  further conversations with any of the
 Professors on the subject until  after the publica-
 tion of  my first article, and before a  line of it was
 written Dr. Cross had gone East.  On the day  of
 its appearance Dr.  Mitchell was at the  office  of
 Dr. Darby and expressed himself freely—saying
 that the positions taken by "A  Friend to Lexing-
 ton" were correct.  When informed that Dr. Pe-
 ter intended answering  it, he seemed much dissat-
 isfied, and, after  his  article  appeared,  he com-
 plained particularly of the defence set up for Dr.
 Bush, and informed my friends that, in my rejoin-
 der, 1 was at liberty to say that Dr. Peter formerly
 thought with a majority of the Faculty, both in re-
 lation to the incompetency of Dr.  Bush and the
 injury which the School was sustaining from Dr.
  Dudley's holding two  professorships, and it was
  on his "authority that these statements were made.
  After  the controversy commenced,  I'r. Vlitchell
  was in the habit of visiting   r.  Darby's office for
  the purpose, as I believed, of communicating, for
  my benefit, anything which he  thought would aid
  in effecting  a re-organization.   During the publi-
  catian of the first three or four of my articles, '  r.
  Cross was from home, and both  rs.  Richardson
  and Mitchell wrote to him to return home imme-
  diately for the purpose of aiding them in the pro-
  posed re-organization, when the matter should  be
brought before the Trustees, whieh they (Drs. R.
and M.I determined should be done unless  ' r.
i  udley should agree to resign one of his  profes-
sorships, and to the removal of   r. Bush.
  Dr.  Peter, in the "Hatemcnts  of Facts," says
"the next issue of the Inquirer brought another  of
the lugubrious articles of the 'Friend to Lexing-
ton,'in which was a garbled and distorted account
of this Faculty meeting—a meeting at which none
but the Faculty were present and the proceedings
of which were known to none  but  the  Faculty.
This publication at once  identified Dr. Cross with
the nefarious publications which done so much in-
jury to the Institution; proved him a  traitor to the
School," &c*   Now the following  are the facts
in regard to my means of information in relation
to the proceedings of the Faculty: The meeting
to which I  r. Peter refers took place on Friday, the
 17th of May, and the next publication day of the
 Inquirer was the following Tuesday, the  21st of
 May   Dr. Mitchell  had previously informed  my
friends that at  this meeting very important action
m ght be expected on the part of the majority of
tne Faculty—that Dr.  udley was  expected to re-
 sign one of his Chairs, as he had been  requested
 by a majority  of  the Faculty.  I, of course, was
 very anxious to know the result of this meeting,
 as Was preparing an article to press forward the
 re-organization for the Inquirer  of the next Tues-
 day.  I therefore repaired to  Dr. Darby's office
 before bed-time, supposing  Dr.  Mitchell  would
 call there, as was his custom, on  his return from
 the Faculty  room, and communicate to us the  re-
 sult of the meeting.  He did not  come, however,
 as usual, and  a little after 10 o'clock I  returned
 home.  The next morning  I again called at Dr.
 Darby's, and, not finding him  in. was about  re-
 turning, when I met Dr. Mitchell in the street.  1
 asked him about the mei-ting of the Faculty of the
 evening before, when he, without hesitation,  in-
 foimed me that Dr. Dudley  had refused to resign
 either of his Chairs, although he had two evenings
 before professed his willingness to his colleagues
 to do anything for the interest of the School—that
 they had accordingly passed  resolutions, by a ma-
 jority of three to  one,  requesting him to resign
 one of his professorships which  resolutions had
 been  sent to him—that the  Faculty had  met, ex-
 pecting him to send in his resignation, but, instead
 of that, he had appeared in  person and refused to
 comply unless  Di. Bush was appointed to the  va-
 cant Chair, and, as that could only make the School
 weaker, Dr. Cross had  proposed to let things  re-
 main in statu quo—that Dr.  Peter had had the as-
 surance to propose that the members of the  Fa-
 culty should oppose "A Friend to Lexington," by
 denying the  truth  of  what  he had  published,
 which he (Dr. M.) indignantly resented by asking
  Dr. Peter if  he wished the  Faculty to  deny  the
 truth.  Dr.  Mitchell took great credit to himself
 for his  boldness and independence in this matter.
 The whole of the above facts he not only commu-
 nicated to me without  hesitation, but stated them
 more than  once, that  I might not  misrepresent
  *The insolence of Peter is perfectly insufferable.  After
havii g proved conclusively on p. 16,17 of my Appealth&t it
was utterly impossible for  me to have had any agency in
the  articles published by Dr. Finckard during my absence
from Lexington, he has the effrontery still to identify me
with them. 
28
 them  in my next publication, which appeared on
 the following Tuesday, (the21st of May.)  It was
 Dr Mitchell and not Dr. Cross who communicated
 to me the proceedings  of th«- Faculty, and 1 feel
 called on  to make  this statement in order to free
 a much-injured individual from the slanderous im-
 putations cast on him by Dr Peter in what they
 falsely call "Statements of Facts."
                    T. B. PL\CKARD,M. D.

        Lexington, Ky., 22d September, 1846.

   Dr.  Cross—Dear  Sir:  As  Dr. Mitchell  has
 thought proper without excuse, to refer to my of-
 fice in a most offensive manner, and has impliedly
 laid upon  my shoulders charges made against him
 by others, I feel bound to give the  following testimo-
 ny as to what he did say m my office, and under what
 circumstances he was there.  Dr. .Mitchell knows
 very  well  'hat what he thought proper to say to
 me, and in my presence, was not at my  seeking,
 but of his own accord, unasked by me
                       J. C. DARBY, M. D.

   "Dear Doctor: In reply to the interrogatories con
 taincd in your letter  of the 12th of September,  I
 would state, that 1 was a student in your office du
 ring the spring and summer of 1844. ' Until the pub
 lications  of" Dr. Pinckard  commenced, Dr. Mitchell
 was not in  the habit of visiting your office;  but from
 the commencement of said publications, he did not, to
 the best of my knowledge, miss being- in your office
 one single evening on which Dr. Pinckard's articles
 were to make their appearance. His  anxiety was so
 great that I have known him to go to the printing-of-
 fice two or  three times to get the proof sheet; this he
 would read  aloud  in your office, correct it, laudi
 heartily over it, and make suggestions as  to  what
 might have been inserted.  I have known him to do
 this not only  in your presence, but in that of Dr.
 l'inckard, and I think of Dr. Lewis and others.  He
 would frequently call in the forenoon and sit for ;.n
 hour or more, during which time his conversation
 scarcely ever varied from  the Medical School—the
 propriety of Dr. Dud!ey's resigning the Chair of An-
 atomy, and  the election of a competent man, &c.  He
 approved of everything Dr. l'inckard  said, and hesi-
 tated not to denounce Dr. Bush as  &c, and Dr. Dud-
 ley as a perfect tyrant, [I omit the strong expressions
 which Dr  Robinson  sa\ s Dr. Mitchell  used in refer
 ence to Dr.  Bush, as  1 have no object in having them
 repeated.]
  "One would infer  that Dr. Mitchell  was quite fa-
 miliar in your office,  from the fact that about the time
 he was negotiating with Dr. Watson to take the Chair
 of Theory and Practice in Transylvania University, I
 knew him to bring Dr Watson's letters to your office
 and read quotations  to you and others, to convince
you that he was a man of talents.
  "Dr. Mitchell  certainly made the matter of the dif-
ficulty  in  the School more public than either Dr.
 Cross*  or Dr. Richardson, for he would frequently
speak of what was done at the Faculty meetings, a
thing I never heard either Dr. Cross or Dr. Richard-
son do.  It  Dr. Mitchell denies the above he is cer-
tainly not incapable of  denying anything.
            Yours,  respectfully,
                     G. P. ROBINSON, M.D.
  Near Louisville, 20th Sept., 1846."
  *If it had been my custom to speak of Ihe proceedings of
the  Faculty it is very singular that Dr. Robinson  did not
hear me, for not a single day passed after my return from
the East that I did not spend more or less time in Dr. Dar-
by's office, and there I said more in regard to the  difficul-
ties of the School than I said publicly anywhere else.
    The "Statements of Fads" make the broad
 assertion that I was expelled  from  the Medi-
 cal Faculty of Transylvania University.   A
 brief examination  will  convince  the  reader
 that this infamous  allegation  so far from res-
 ting, as it should, upon  grounds of direct pro-
 bation, has not  been invested by  the Trio with
 even the  plausiblity of a special pleaders  so-
 phistry.   Let us see, in the first place, what
 they have said  in relation to the origin of the
 letter of requisition to resign.   Both Mitchell
 and Peter charge  this upon Dr. Richardson.
 This they can now  do with perfect safety,  for
 he is dead,  and unfortunately has not left a
 single  colleague who has honesty enough to
 keep from slandering him, and  no one who has
 any interest  or inclination to shield  his name
 from reproach.   The  fact   that both of them
 repudiate the suggestion of  the  letter reques-
 ting  me  to resign,  and attempt   to  throw
 it upon Dr.  Richardson,  proves conclusively
 that they think  it a most disgraceful transac-
 tion, and hope  to escape some  of the odium *
 necessarily attached to it by claiming  to have
 been mere  participators  in, rather than the
 authors of it.   Now  had their  conduct been
 just  or creditable, they would have squabbled
 amongst  themselves  for  the honor and credit
 of  originating   the  suggestion,  rather than
 seek to charge it upon the dead,  in whose de-
 fence   no  word  could  have  been said by any
 one but themselves,  had not  accident placed
 it in my power  to prove  that Dr. Richardson
 was no more to  blame, if, indeed, he  was  as
 much as acertain other individual who hasafiiir
 chance of going down to  the grave  as a most
 infamous  and reckless  liar.   To  me, it is of
 no  consequence  whatever who originated the
 letter of requisition, and although I  have but
 little interest, in  defending the memory of Dr.
 Richardson from the slanders of his quon-
 dam  friends and  associates, I feel bound  to
 say on  the authority  of a letter received by
 me a few weeks ago, while in Cincinnati, that
 Mr.—  had asserted that when Dr. Richardson
understood he had been  accused of suggesting
the letter  of requisition,  he  not  only denied
it positively, but charged it upon  Mitchell.*—  '
Now it is  plain, that  although Mitchell and
  The nameofthe individual referred to, is suppressed
in consequence of the reception of the following note from
Dr. Darby since my arrival  in Louisville:—"I  called  on
----, and mentioned to him what  you  hud to sav of Dr
Richardson on  his authority. He is not willing  that his
name should be referred to.  I endeavored to  show him
the propriety of doing so in  justice  to Dr. R.,  but he de-
clined: said that what he said to me was in confidence
and that  he did not  wish to appear to be participating
in the controversy. 1 hope  you  will see the propriety o'f
not referring to---., now that he has positively  refused —
F cannot consent to your doing  so."  The suppression'of
the name of the  individual alluded to, does not effect the
truth or importance of the fact, for he is a man of  high  in-
telligence and  great  respectability,  and  I have no doubt.
if it were absolutely indispensable, he would permit his
name to be used.                         ' 
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   Peter have taken great  pains to exculpate Dr.
   Dudley, and  to  repudiate  the infamous  act
   themselves, the public is as far as ever from
   knowing upon whom should  be reflected  the
   honor of  authorship.   There  is,  however,
   one fact which conclusively  proves  that all
   that has been asserted by Mitchell and Peter,
   as to  the  origin  and cause of the. letter  of
   requisition is a  gross and  clumsy fabrication.
   Mil chell says : "The  proposition came from
   the late  Dr.  Richardson, as a means of aver-
   ting  an act of expulsion  on  the part of  the
•  Trustees, which  Dr. R. declared to be in con-
   templation."    And  Peter  asserts "Thsit Dr.
   Richardson having understood that the Board
   of Trustees were  about to take the case of Dr.
   C. into  consideration, called on Dr.  Mitchell
   and  proffered to him, as the best mode of pre-
   venting the probable expulsion of Dr. Cross,
   that the Faculty  should request him to  re-
   sign."  The  reader will recollect, that  Dr.
 *• Richardson denied having suggested the letter
   of requisition, and  here let him observe, that
   Mitchell and Peter  say he  recompnded it in
   consequence of what he had learned were  the
   intentions  of the  Trustees in relation to me.
   Observe also, how  carefully  both of  them
   avoid saying that they had ever heard any such
   intimation.  The reason is very obvious—they
   could safely blame  Dr. Richardson  with it,
   but had they asserted on their  own authortiy,
   that  the Trustees  had any  such  intention,
   the proof would have been required,  and this
   they could not have  produced.  Moreover, is
   it riot very  remarkable that  Dr. Richardson
   should have  been the  only  member of the
   Faculty who had heard any thing of the in-
   tentions of the Trustees?   If further testimo-
   ny were wanting, to prove that the statements
   of Mitchell  and Peter  are  not only grossly
   false, but a  foul  and infamous  slander upon
   the  memory of Dr. Richardson,  it  is to be
   found in the fact  that  never until the "State-
   ments of Facts"  appeared, was it ever hinted
   that  the  letter of  requisition resulted from
   an intimation that the Trustees designed  ex-
   pelling me  from the Faculty.  I have made
   extensive inquiries on this  subject  personally,
   and through my friends, since  the appe-.rance
   of the "Statements  of  Facts," and find that
   this is a perfectly novel version of the affair—
   no  one  ever having heard of it before.   No
   matter what Mitchell  and Peter  may have
   said  to  the contrary, I am perfectly  satisfied
   that Dr. Dudley  gave  the cue, and they, like
   the  sheep of Panurgus caught it.  Obviously
   the work of  fancy, like Jonah's gourd, which
   sprang up  in  one  night, it was invented after
   the  appearance  of  my Appeal, and after too,
   it was found to be impossible to remain silent.
   This is almost as  evident  as an axiom  in
   Euclid.  This, therefore, taken  in connexion
with the fact stated by Dr. Lewis at p. 17 and
28 of my Appeal,  proves  conclusively  that
both Mitchell and Dr. Richardson had a better
and more persuasive reason for writing me the
letter of requisition than is to be  found in the
new version given by the former and Peter—
they  were  obliged to do it as  Prentice re-
marks :  "to save their own necks."
   This   Mitchell, who, in his language and
manners, shows  that he is as ignorant of the
common courtesies of  genteel society,  a^  a
filthy and offensive Hottentot, and who, besides
has habitually given such unbridled license to
his tongue, that his name  is generally men-
tioned with the  complimentary cognomen of
"the liar,"  has the insolent effrontery  to per
sist in and reiterate the charge, that I employ
ed  the  Hon.  H.  Clay and the  Hon. A. K.
Wooley, to have the  request  of  the  Faculty
revoked.   The reader will refer to the letters
of those getlemen, to be found at page 46 of
my Appeal, and  then  read the following vul-
gar tirade  of  Mitchell:—'-And in  regard  to
any letter imputed to me, touching the expul-
sion of   the Professor,  (for,   so his  friends
called it here,) [a greater untruth was never
penned, and I defy him to mention any friend
of mine who  ever used such an expression]  I
have  only to say that my written statement of
the interviews  with Judge  Wooley, mad^ at
the time, and a note having the signature of  a
more distinguished gentleman, fully  justify
every iota  contained in that letter.  And ldst
there should  be any  misconception  on  this
point, I now aver distinctly, that  the Ex-Pro-
fessor wiis required to  quit the Faculty, and
that he  substantially and virtually did  employ
the  instruments referred to, in order to  have
the Faculty act revoked."   This  proverbial
falsifier, has the impudence to  start a question
of veracity between himself and Messrs.  Clay
and Wooley, and it was doubtless  only from
sheer  modesty  that he did  not give them the
lie  direct—indeed  it  looks  very much  as if
he had—but the "hungry will dare any thing."
With this  I have nothing to do,  further  than
to say he has  told a most unpardonable false-
hood, and  when the character  of the  wit-
nesses,  whose veracity he has impudently im-
pugned   is  considered,  the public  will say
so  also.
   There  is also  a question  of veracity be-
tween Peter and  Judge Wooley on the  sub-
ject.  The former asserts, that "we (the Fac-
ulty) were  visited individually by Judge Woo-
ley, who came on the part of  Dr. Cross, and
interceded for  him," while Judge  Wooley
tells me in  his letter, that "You consulted me
as a  friend, and  I determined,  without  your
knmoledge,  to have conversations with  the
Professors, and ascertain, if practicable, if any
honorable  adjustment  could be  effected."— 
:jo
When the public reflects that Messrs. Cluy
and Wooley could be  influenced by no other
motive than a  desire to state the truth, while
Mitchell  and  Peter  had  every  reason  that
could  operate on the  hearts  of dishonest men
to  induce  them  to  lie, it  will  not pause or
hesitate a single  moment in relation to  who
should be believed.
   A letter  purporting to be  from the Hon. H.
Clay,   and  addressed to  Dr.  Dudley, finds a
place  in  the  "Statements  of Facts,"  but for
what reason  I am sure no one can tell, unless
it is   for the  purpose  of throwing, discredit
upon the statement  made  to me  by him  in
his note  of the 29th June 1844.Just refered
to,  and  perhaps  also to intimate to the pub-
lic that he  is a man unentitled to belief.
   I might, with propriety, ask if this letter is
a forgery, for Mr. Clay gives the reader clear-
ly  to   understand, in  his  letter to me of the
29th June, 1844,  that all  the  agency he had
in  the matter  was  one interview  with Dr.
Dudley,  and that was  prompted by his  own
feelings.   But  this  idea is  utterly  incredible,
for reckless as  the  infamous  Trio evidently
are, it would  be  absurd and  preposterous  to
suppose  that they would dare  to  take so un-
authorized a liberty  with the  name  of so dis-
tinguished  a  man.   How then  are we to ac-
count  for  its  publication?   It was  evidently
confidential, and the conduct of the authors  of
the "Statements"  proves  this  conclusively.
This  letter was addressed to Dr. Dudley, but
in his statement he does not drop even  a  hint
that  he  has any knowledge  of its existence;
Mitchell  seems to know there is such a letter,
and evidently alludes  to it; but  Peter, to whom
it was not addressed, and who seems not  to
think  it necessary to tell us how he obtained pos-
session of it, without heralding it with excuse
or apology spreads it before  the public.  Now
what  is  the inference?  Why that Dr. Dud-
ley, to whom  the letter was  addressed, knew
that  if he  were  to  publish  it  he  would  be
denounced  as  guilty of an  outrage  that  no
man  of honor would ever pardon;  and there-
fore foolishly supposed that by suffering Pe-
ter to do  what  he  knew would forever dis-
grace him. should he do it himself, he would
escape all blame  or  responsibility.   What
wretched umbrella morality!*
  ♦That the letter of Mr.  Clay was confidential there can-
not be a doubt, for when I was in Cincinnati superintending
the printing of my Appeal, Dr. Bush stated on Cheapside,
in this city, in the presence of several  individuals, that
there was such a letter in existence, hut that it was confiden-
tial—that  last winter Mitchell urged the propriety of pun
fishing it,  hut Dr. Dudley indignantly remarked to him that
it was confidential, and that he must never again mention
the name of .Mr. ( la; , or that letter, in connexion with my
leaving the school.  This whs said in the presence of those
who, it was known would inform me of it  immediately, and
it was said for a two-fold purpose.  It was intended to im-
press tt'e public mind with  aD exalted idea of Dr. Dudley's
honor and magnanimity, for although he had a document in
   But confidential or not, I ask what does the
letter of Mr.  Clay  prove?    Nothing  more
than that he feared  I had  acted  indiscreetly.
This I have admitted, and I  gave  in  my Ap-
peal  a fair and candid account of  the circum-
stance referred to, although  one  of the   Trio
has the assurance  to denounce it as fraudu-
lent,  but prudently refrains  from  attempting
to  pj.-ove  it to be* so.*   Why did  Mr. Clay
fear that I had acted even indiscreetly?   Be-
cause he formed his opinion  from  information
communicated  to him by Judge Wooley, and

his  possession which, it was intimated, if published would
seriously  injure me, he would not use or suffer it to be
used against me, and also to  deter or persuade me from
being severe upon him in  my forthcoming Appeal.  How
far  he was successful in the attainment  of  the former
object it would certainly be very presumptuous in me to
pretend to say, for John of Roanoke, asserted that there
were two things the Almighty himself could not forestall:
the  verdict of a petty-jury, and  the result of an election,
and I say there is a third, which is, the transparent deception
that Dr. Dudley cannot practice on certain  folks in this
city, who seem to have an instinctive sense of their inability
to think for themselves.  His emphatic assurance either in
persnn, or through Peter, or Dr. Bush, for what they say is
as certain a forerunner of what he would have the people
believe he thinks, as the pilot fish is of the shark, (but soon-
er than perform such a function I would
             "be a dog and bay the moon."
       "I'd rather be a toad
       And live in the vapour of a dungeon,")
seems to have the  power of the white roses  of Alnascbar to
charm away all uneasiness of thought or reflection; for when
he is in trouble or in difficulty, no matter what may be the
cause, his tribe of parasites, at his signal, flock aiound him
as if by magic, as the Highlanders did at the summons of
Roderick Dhu.
  In relation to  the latter object, however, th; speech of
Dr.  Bush had just no effect at all, for I spoke of Dr. Dud-
ley  as freely and as fully, after 1 heard what he had said,
as was my original design.  But matters have taken such a
turn that the implied pledge of Dr. Bush could  not he re-
deemed.  Fighting now vith the frantic energy of undiscip-
lined desperation,  Dr.  Dudley forgetting every sentiment
of  honor,  and acknowledging no  obligation  of secrecy,
even in regard to the most private and confidential transac-
tions, suffers an individual, in whom is mingled every pos-
sible variation of ragamuffianism, to publish to the world
the  Utter of his Illustrious correspondent.  Besides the in-
famy of the act, which cannot fail to challenge attention
and provoke censure, it  is amusing to contrast the air and
manner of the author and that of  his  automaton.  While
the  former is as mild and apparently as innocent as a "suck-
ing dove," although, in fact, there is  more humanity in a
vulture, the lugu rious loquacity of the latter reminds me
of a sqmliing and luhherly goose attempting with mighty
exertions to get out of a duck-pond, but the more he flaps
his  wings aud flounders about the faster he sticks, and the
deeper he sinks.
  *The brutal and ungentlemanly billingsgate of Mitchell
and Peter, in  relation  to my use of ardent spirits, is two
foul and contemptible a slander to  merit a serious  notice.
They say it was witnessed  in the green-room and  on the
rostrum by the students.  To the Alumni and students of
the Transylvania Medical School  1 therefore appeal.  By
their verdict I will abide.  But a few days  ago I heard an
Alumnus of the School, who had taken, I  believe, four or
five courses of lectures in it, and two of them before I left
it, assert, in tlie piesence of witnesses, that the only Pro-
fessor that he ever saw disguised by liquor, on the rostru n,
was one of those who signed the letter requ -sting me to re-
sign.  The gentleman to whom I refer has always been re-
garded as a groat admirer and particular friend  of  Dr.
Dudley.  While  I know that Peter is qualified for auy
work of infamy I ought  not to be surprised thit the ma-
lignity of Mitchell should causo him to denounce  me as
an  inebri its when  he hyena-like pursued the late, lamented
Eberle into the grave, declaring with a fiendish delight that
he  had been exposed to the cross-fire of brandy and opium
nearly all his life, and had at last fallen a victim to them. 
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which  he (Judge Wooley) had previously de-
rived from  my late colleagues.  The follow-
ing  facts  establish  the  truth  of this declara-
tion.   Judge Wooley tells me  in his  letter  of
the  16th  July, 1846, that  he  had "conversa-
tions with the  Professors."  Mr.  Clay's let-
ter  i8  dated the 28th of May, 1844, and on
that day  Judge  Wooley  had   a conversation
with  Mr.  Clay, as he told me himself, and
also informed me that  he  (Mr. Clay) wished
to  see n»e  at  Ashland  that  evening,  at 5
o'clock. P. M.   Judge  Wooley in his  "conver-
sations with the Professors" doubtless learned
from  them  their  pretended grounds of  com-
plaint against me, and  these he communicated
to Mr. Clay, for  the  latter  in the  first sen
tence  of  his letter to  Dr.  Dudley says:  "/
have heard to day for  the first  time, and  with
the  deepest  regret  of the  difficulties  which
have arisen  between the Medical Faculty and
Dr. Cross," &c.    Thus  it  is   perfectly clear
that the  fear expressed by Mr. Clay was the
result  of intelligence  furnished by  my ene-
mies.   It was not deduced, as it should have
been, from  the facts of the case as they  actu-
ally existed, but from  the exaggerations, mis-
representations, and falsifications of those  who,
like  enraged fiends, were seeking my destruc-
tion.   When the  reader reflects   upon  this
fact, so  far  from  being surprised that Mr.
Clay should  fear I had acted  indiscreetly, he
will be surprised that he  did not have  much
worse  apprehensions.*

  *Here I think it proper to remark that, in regard to my
conduct, as a man, having rendered me obnoxious to aver-
sion, it is impossible for me to extort from my accusers the
assertion of a single  fact, and therefore it is utterly impos-
sible for me, on  that point, to make a  direct defence.  Iu
my Card of the 28th of August, I challenged  Dr. Dudley
to take the responsibility of preferring a single charge, and of
attempting to establish it by proof.  This he has declined ab-
solutely, and he  and his associates hope to destroy me by
such vague  allusions  as  the following:   Dr. Dudley speaks
of the "odious stains upon a (my)  character;"  Mitchell of
"the perpetual  delinquences that  we  were compelled  to
conceal" and Peter of the  "odium of a crime."  This is
obviously so inhuman, atrocious, and cruel, especially when
it is recollected I demanded specific allegations, that no
one who has not predetermined to aid aud abet my ene-
mies in  their infernal crusade against  me will  suffer what
they have said to have  any weight in enabling  them  to
make up an opinion as to the merits of this controversy. Like
the lowest class of lying and irresponsible gossips, whose
daily employment, in a  little village, is secretly  and insidi-
ously to undermine private  character by vague but signifi-
cant hints these men have the  impudence to attempt in a
written controversy, addressed to the public, to  accomplish
their nefarious object, in the same way.  They should, how
ever, have recollected that the moment they summoned  the
press to aid in the propagation of their slanders, they ap-
pealed to the judgments of sensible men, and  not to  the
ignorant prejudices of stupid men, and gossiping women.
The former  will see, at once, that all the Trio  have said is
malicious cant—aud cant is unanswerable for
      "True no meaning puzzles worse than wit."

  This is absolutely the  case when speaking of my private
character, but when arguing  another point the "Statements
of Facts" become, inadvertantly, a little more  particular,
and  embody a disclosure that exposes to view the nefarious
transaction  in a most disgusting light.  This  disclosure
must prove that my late colleagues notwithstanding the os-
tentatious parade they  have  made on the subject, had no
                                         F
   This letter of Mr. Clay has a very import-
ant  bearing on  another matter.   If the ver-
sion given of  the cause of the request to  re-
sign  be  not  a  fabrication, why should   Mr.
Clay address himself to Dr.  DudlVy instead
of the  Chairman of the Board  of Trustees?
Be it recollected that  both  Mitchell  and Pe-
ter assert that the suggestion of this letter was a
friendly acton the part of Dr. Richardson  de-
signed  to enable  me  to escape  the  disgrace  of
an expulsion by  the  Trustees.   The difficulty
therefore was with the Trustees, and not with
the  Faculty, and  consequently  the letter  of
Mr.  Clay should  have  been  addressed to the
Chairman of  the former, and not to Dr. Dud-
ley.  But if  "confirmation  strong as  proof of
holy writ" be required by the reader  that the
statements  of Mitchell and Peter in regard to
the  source  and  cause of the letter of requisi-
tion are false, he will find it in the second let •
ter addressed to  me  by the  Faculty, in which
the Dean says "I am authorized to request that
you will make   known your  decision in the
premises by Thursday at noon,  of this week,
in default of which  it will be  their  duty to
lay the matter before the Board of Trustees."
In their Statements  they tell the public it was
wished that I should  escape the  disgrace of
an expulsion by  the  Trustees, but in their  se-
cond letter  they threaten to hurry me before
just ground of complaint against me, but had decided right
or wrong, on  my sacrifice "for no other reason," as I have1
stated in mv Appeal, than because I had resolved no longer
to be associated with such men."  The blundering Peter in-
his superserviceable zeal to convict me of expulsion says:
"The note requesting him to resign was written  by myself
and submitted, and was amended by Dr. Richardson by the
addition of the words 'touching your private character.' "
The  reader will remark this amendment which, however,
Peter in his precipitancy, and he reminds me, if little1
things may be compared to great, of Bunyan's giant Pope,,
"biting his nails that he cannot come at me," has quoted in-
correctly, for it is "relating to" and not "touching." as ho-
llas it.  Now how would the note read without the  amend-
ment ascribed to Dr. Richardson?  Infiuitely more vatruely
and ridiculously than it does at present. But for Dr. R. it
would have  read  thus:  "Circumstances  having occurred
which will hereafter prevent us." Had this continued to
be the wording of the note who on earth could have clearly
understood what was meant?  To request me to resign with-
out assigning some reason was very preposterous, and  yet
this was exactly what they were about to do. If any good
reason had existed for such a procedure it is utterly impos-
sible to believe that it would not have been  the leading idea
in the letter of requisition. According to Peter there was
not the vagueist sort of allusion  to any impropriety of con-
duct on my part—no charge whatever was  preferred in the
original draught of that letter, and for  the  obvious reason
they  had no just ground of complaint—they had it  not in
their power to bring a specific allegation against me. This
appeared to  Dr. Richardson, if Peter tells  tho truth, too
palpably unprincipled, too outrageously absurd, and there-
fore he  trumped  up, on the spot, the general accusation
against my private character.  This was consequently an
after thought.  Tbey decided to sacrifice me, and this they
at first intended to do without assigning a reason for  it, but
afterwards found it necessary to fabricate some justification
of their conduct.   There is no cause to believe that his ac-
complices were more conscientious than Dr. Dudley him-
self, and he has admitted that he  had no reason whatever to
urge  in excuse or palliation of his conduct.  Was there
ever  so  gross and shameless an  exhibition  of  incurable
ignorance, unblushing impudence, and undisguised  profli-
gaoy? 
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that body even before  I had had time to con-
sult with  my friends, or to ascertain the spe-
cific grounds of complaint against me.
                  "False, false, false!
     Let all untruths stand by thy stained name,
     And they'll seem glorious."
   Decidedly as I am of opinion that my char-
acter and  standing do  not depend  on  the
breath  of any  man's nostrils, however distin-
guished, I cannot  in justice to myself, from
motives of delicacy, as the Trio have appeal-
ed  to  Mr.  Clay's name  against  me,  refrain
from giving the public the following letter:

                Ashland,  Sept. 20th, 1844.

  My Dear Sir: Dr. Cross who may present you
this letter, being about to visit Abingdon,  where
you are expected to be, I take pleasure in introdu-
cing him to your acquaintance as a  gentleman of
fine genius and great respectability and ability,  re-
siding in Lexington.  The Doctor has done much
good service in the Whig cause, and the desire of
rendering it still more has prompted his pres-
ent tour.
   I received your letter from Baltimore, and was
extremely sorry to  hear of the indisposition of
Miss Preston.   I sincerely hope that she may be
recovered, and  that  Providence may spare her to
you.  My warm regards  to  Mrs.  Preston and
to her.
             I am faithfully, your friend,
                               H. CLAY.*
   Wm.  C. Preston Esq.
   This was a spontaneous, free will offering of
Mr. Clay, and for the simple reason that it was
altogether unnecessary,  and I told him so at
the time.   That  such was the fact, the fol-
lowing factswill prove.  I had received a letter
signed by the Hon. Wyndham  Robinson, Ex.
Governor Cambell  and a brother  of the Hon.
Wm. C. Preston, whose christian name I do
notnow recollect,  formally inviting me to attend
and address the people,  at the great Conven-
 tion to  be held at  Abingdon, Virginia, on the
 7th of  October 184.4; and I was already ac-
quainted with  the  Hon.  W. C. Preston, and
had been  since April  1834.   In  proof of
this, 1 have  now in my possession two letters
of introduction,  which several friends  have
seen, bearing  the  sign^nianuel of that distin-
guished man.   One of them is  to  General
Lafayette,  and the other to the late, lamented
HughS. Legare,  who was at the time our
Charge d'Affairs at Brussels.
   In the  concluding  paragraph  of the  first
edition  of  my Appeal,  I say, "Having now
laid before the reader a broad and inexpungn-
able phalanx of facts, which go irresisiibly to
establish the  position, that a  conspiracy was
formed for my destruction,  of which  Dr.
Dudley was  the  leader,  I will not insult his
  *This  letter is in my potsession, because, Co!. Preston
■was cot at Abingdon.
understanding, or offend his sensibilities, by in-
dulging in vulgar and vituperative  comments
upon  the  conduct of those who  banded to-
gether for my ruin."  1 believe in my Appeal I
made an  argument in support  of the  above
declaration, which no candid or honest mind
could possibly resist.  In this judgement I am
supported  by some of the most  acute  and
accomplished men in the country,  and yet
that argument was  not  perfect.  This, from
the very nature of things, it was impossible
for me to make it, but Peter,by an unintention-
al and indiscreet admission, has rendered it so.
It was very important to the perfection of my
argument that I should  be able to prove that
the letter requesting me to resign, was written
after  the interview I had with  Mitchell and
Dr.  Richardson  on Saturday  the 25th May
1844.   This I could not positively prove, but
succeeded in making that  inference almost, if
not quite, irresistible.   Now,  however, there
is no  doubt on the subject, for Peter  has un-
wittingly  testified to  the fact.   The reader
will please refer to the account  I have given
at  page 18 of my Appeal,  of the conversation
above alluded to, the truth  of which,  the Trio
have  not impugned or  denied,  and then con-
nect it with the following precious confession
of Peter.  In a note page 14 of "Statements
of Facts," after  an absurd and  impracticable
attempt to convict me of falsehood, for I  defy
any man on earth to tell what he means, and
I cannot  account for its introduction,  unless
Providence designed to give, in him,  another
illustration of the fact,thatthe false and treach-
erous are  not allowed to be  faithful, even  to
their own villanies, says: "Now Qiis conversation
(that  of Mitchell, Dr. Richardson and myself,
on Saturday the 25th May, 1844,) took place
not more than fifteen minutes before  the request
was penned."  The whole note from which
the above confession is extracted, was evident-
ly, like the shaft of Acestes, shot into Vtjid air
without an  aim,  unless  Providence designed
that I should have an opportunity of dispelling
every shadow of doubt in relation to the infa-
mous conspiracy which  had been plotted for
my destruction.
   The reader  will  recollect, as I have already re-
quested him, that in the "Statements of Facts" the
Trio have not questioned the truth of my account
of my conversation with  Mitchell and  Dr. Rich
ardson or of  the circumstances attending it, and
I state  that  when I entered the  Faculty room,
and remarked that I wished to  speak to Mitchell
and Dr.  Richardson, Peter  retired—that Mitchell,
Dr. Richardson and myself  left the Medical Col-
lege together—that I met  Dr. Dudley  on the side-
walk  between the Medical  College and my house,
and that fifteen minutes after all this, Peter says,
the letter of requisition was  penned.  Truly, they
must have re-assembled speedily  and  have des-
patched business with telegraphic rapidity.  And
truly  I may say with Peter,  "that  liars have need 
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     r>f memories "*   There is  now no  longer  any
     doubt on the subject—the world now knows al-
     most to a minute, and under what circumstances
     precisely, Mitchell. Peter, Drs. Dudley and Rich-
     ardson determined upon my  destruction.   My
     feelings of gratitnde for'this  confession of the dirty
     little Englishman,  Peter, are such, that he  may
     rest assured that should  I,  in future, believe that
     malignant stupidity can be of any service to  me
     whatever, he may look with perfect confidence for
     a job.
        The refutation of the charges preferrred against
     me, in connexion with the session of 1837 -'38, is
,     so full and satisfactery, that I might with propriety
     ■dispense with noticing  those in  regard to my al-
     ledged conduct towards  Professors  Smith  and
     Bartlett, for it is impossible for  either of those in-
     dividuals to believe that they  have any foundation
     in truth.  A brief explanation however, may  not
     be wholly unnecessary, so far at least, as the public
     isconcerned.  Idem  positively, that I ever spoke
     •disrespectfully of  Professor Smith or of his teach
      ings.  Whatever my slanderers  may  say to the
     contrary, I now assert that  his  deportment  as a
      man, commanded my  respect, and  his course of
     instruction had my approbation; and I feel assured
      that he  will say, so far  as  he could judge  from
      my conduct towards him, that this was the fact.—
      I admit, however, that I understood he did  com-
      plain of me, but it was on different grounds al-
      together.   To  render  myself  more useful to the
      Class, besides my public course on the Institutes, 1
      commenced a gratuitous private course on Thera-
      peutices.   This I believe gave Professor Smith dis-
      satisfaction, but no sooner was it  communicated to
      me by Dr.  Richardson, than I at once, and without
      hesitation,  discontinued it.   Never did this circum-
      stance, so far as I am informed on the subject, give
      rise  to  the slightest personal dissatisfaction on the
      part of Dr.  Smith, and I am certain that  my  con-
      duct towards him ever afterwards, was such as to
      assure  him that his  objecting to  the course on
      Therapeutics  gave me no  offence.
         That Professor Bartlett threatened to  leave the
       School on account of my denunciations  of him 1
       believe to  le utterly false, for in the "Statements  of
       Facts"  1 find the very first intimation  of it that I
       ever received  on the  subject.   That efforts were
       made immediately after Prof. Bartlett came into
       the School to prejudice him agaiust me I am well
       aware, for he told me  so himself, but he would not
       *The confession of Peter strengthens, if it does notes-
     tablish, the truth of a conjecture  1 have always  enter.
     tained.i. e., that the letter requesting me to re.sisn, was
     written in Dr. Dudley's  office, and not in the Facultj
.    room.  The folluuinj are my reasons  for  thinking so;
*    Peter had left the Modi :al College, and I have no doubt
     went  home which is not  far from  Dr. Dudley's ofhee-
     Mitchell and Richardson hurried to his ofhee to inform
     hi . hat I would resign immediately, and that something
     must be done, instanter, to prevent the  exposures I had
     threatened to make.  They did not find Dr  Dud ey at
     home but he ™ot being more than one hundred and fifty
     yards in their rear, reached there no doubt by the time
     f"y had ascertained that fact. Peter was sent for and
     the letter  was  written.  If the reader requires lurther
     proof of the summary proceeding by winch I was^acn.
     need, he will find it in the closmg paraempt.of Dr Dud-
     leys statement, (see p 9.) upon which i will take oc-
     casion before this Analysis and Refutation closea, to com-
     ment.
inform me by whom.  Finding, however, that my
conduct towards  him was anything  but what he
had been taught to expect, rather an  intimate and
a confidential friendship was soon  established be-
tween us.   That I respected him as a man and
confided in  him as a physician, I  gave the most
conclusive proof.  Never have I spoken of him as
a man of erudition  and talents in other than terms
of unstinted  admiration, while the fact that, when
he was in Lexington, he was always  my family
physician, proves the value I placed upon his pro-
fessional knowledge.  Nor did  this commend me
(as Dr. Bartlett knows well) to the goodwill of my
colleagues.   They regarded the preference I gave
him,  after  a  brief acquaintance, hot only  a  re-
proach but a palpable  insult.   This was the case
with Mitchell.and Dr. Richardson,in particular,for
they were not ignorant of the influence which the
fact of my employing Dr. Bartlett would have not
only with the people but the physicians of Lex-
ington.  That Prof. Bartlett ever had just ground
to complain or that he ever did  complain of me, I
do not believe, and nothing less than his own as-
sertion of the fact will  convince me  of it.  Were
I disposed I might  say much of  the  scandalous
manner in whicn he was denounced by some of his
present colleagues immediately after his resigna-
tion  in 1844, and of the bad feeling that  grew out
of my defence of him against their unfounded al-
legations.  As very extraordinary pains have been
taken in the "Statements of Facts"  to misrepresent
the terms upon which I lived with my colleagues,
 I appeal with perfect confidence to my colleagues
 in the Medical College of Ohio for a refutation of
 the  slander.  During  the two  years I served in
 that  Institution  the relations  that  subsisted  be-
 tween them  and myself were of the most friendly
 character.  The separation I have every reason to
 believe was  mutually  regretted;  it  certainly was
 on  my part and no doubt will continue to be a
 subject of repentance  as long as 1 live.  Even in
 the  Transylvania  Medical  School the relations
 that subsisted between my colleagues and myself
 have been  most  grossly misrepresented.   One
 would suppose  from the statements of the Trio that
 I was constantly involving myself in squabbles and
 difficulties with them.  If so, this would necessarily
 have produced an estrangement  that must occa-
 sionally have ended in, at least, a temporary sus-
 pension of all sort of courtesy a id civility.  Now,
 what was the fact?   Never fro n the moment I en-
  tered the Institution until I finally  left it, did I ever
  meet a colleague, either in private or in public,
  that he did not greet me with the usual compella-
  tions. Never had I a personal quarrel with a col-
  league in my life unless the  difficulties of the ses-
  sion of 1841-42 should  be thus denominated.  I
  did not like Dr. Dudley and my love for Peter was
  not very great, yeLthe "feelings of hostility  mutual-
  ly experienced, never went so far  as to occasion an
  open rupture.   The  business of the  Faculty was
  not at  any time  interrupted  on  account of it.
  Though we disliked one another with a rancorous
  and unforgiving animosity, our intercourse even
  to  the last was courteous, but of  a  most forbid
  din? and repulsive character.  I  was seven year*
  a Professor in the Transylvania  Medical School,.
  and during six of those, Professors Smith  and
  Bartlett together, were my colleagues, and to them
  I appeal with  confidence for  a full ratification ef 
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the truth of what I have above said on the sub-
ject of my  relations with my associates.
  Whatever maybe asserted of the irritability of my
temper, never did  a  man, considering the circum-
stances in  which I was placed, keep  his feelings
under more complete stoical subjection.  I had but
one ambition, one desire to gratify, and that was
to see the  Medical Department  of Transylvania
University flourish.  But every effort that I made
to place its  future prospects on a sure and  stable
foundation was  opposed and defeated  by  those
who did not differ with me in  opinion, but who
were  paralysed by the  fear of incurring the dis-
pleasure of Dr. Dudley, who,  so  far as I  could
judge, seemed to have no other ambition than to
keep  those around him who would flatter him and
fawn  on him, but who were too ignorant and too
stupid ever  to  become his  rivals  for popular
favor.
   Two things were absolutely indispensable  to the
permanent  success of  the  Medical  School  of
Transylvania.    The first was that the Chair  of
Theory and Practice, incontestibly the most impor-
tant and therefore the best calculated, if properly
filled, to give  a  School of Medicine reputation,
should be given to  an able and a popular man, and
one who would remain permanently its incumbent.
Since the  foundation of the School the  Board of
Trustees had  been  required no  less than eight
times to fill it, and for this reason, more than any
other, the Institution had not been allowed to ac-
quire any  permanent character for the Principles
and Practice taught in it, or any abiding  influence
over  the practice  of medicine in the West and
South.   Look  at the reputation which  other
Schools have  acquired almost exclusively on ac-
count of the teachings of this Chair, and no one
will doubt the soundness or the wisdom of my
policy.  Mainly  because of the frequent changes
in the Professor  of Theory and Practice, the Chair
of Surgery acquired an importance in the  Tran-
sylvania Medical School to which it is not entitled,
from  its intrinsic utility  to the practitioner, and
which it never  enjoyed in any great School in
Europe or the U.  States.  This I wished, for this
and an  other reason, to  have  corrected, and this
could only have  been done by an able and a pop-
ular man  in the Chair of Theory and Practice
who would  remain  permanently with us.   The
other reason for ardently  desiring what I  have
just  suggested consisted in  the fact that it was
said and believed the very existence of the School
was in the breath of Dr. Dudley's nostrils.   With-
out impairing his  reputation, if he had been an
honest or a reasonable man this opinion could and
should have been  corrected.  He  is advanced in
years, further than is good for his soul or body,
and his death at anytime would be  a subject of
but little surprise, and, if he were properly under-
stood, of still less regret, and when it does happen,
or if  it had happened within the last 15 years, who
is in it or who has  been  in it during that time from
the comparatively subordinate  stations they were
obliged to occupy that could have saved the School
from irretrievable ruin/  His colleagues  were
mere  subalterns—his  name overshadowing the
whole Faculty.  The necessity for a man not ad-
vanced in years  in the Chair of Theory and Prac-
 tice,  who  would  identify  himself  with  the
Principles and Practice of Physic in the West and
South, was  self-evident.  This would have made
the School  independent  of Dr. Dudley or  any
other individual—his death or resignation would
not have  then materially affected its  prospects.
The wisdom of this policy was  not seen—at all
events it was not acted on. and now it is too late.
To flatter the vanity of a very inferior man the
School has been sacrificed.   Indeed the course of
policy  pursued by Dr. Dudley was  obviously of
so  ruinous  a character  that  I  believed  he de-
sired (and this opinion I expressed  to some of my
colleagues) to bring the School into such a condi-
tion that his death or resignation  would forever
seal its  doom.   The second was that we  should
have, if possible, an  abler Faculty than could be
found in either Louisville  or Cincinnati.  The in-
dispensabilitv of this resulted from the fact that,
the Schools  in those cities enjoy fundamental ad-
vantages which that in Lexington does not pos-
sess and never will.  In Louisville and Cincinnati
they have hospitals and an abundance of subjects
for dissection—in this  city there is neither.   If
these incontestable  and great advantages would
be  counterbalanced, it was obvious enough  that
it  could be done only in  one way, and  that very
imperfectly,  which was to present an abler Facul-
ty, if possible, than could be found either in Lou-
siville or  Cincinnati.   Some of  my  colleagues
agreed with me, but instead  of doing what they, by
firmness and consistency were  perfectly able to
do  towards  strengthening  the  Faculty,  prefer-
red, like mean and dastardly cowards, as they  are,
(and this is the least of their infirmities,) to truckle
to Dr. Dudley, and aid in collecting around him an
obsequious tribe of  contemptible  parasites who
would be scorched into a cinder by the sun of sense
or science were they to venture beyond the bounda-
ries of his shadow and expose themselves to its rays.
While  they  are fast they may feed, (to fatten is
now impossible,) but when, by death or resignation,
he leaves the School, (and the latter event, we are
told, is  to take place next spring,)  they must perish;
and Lexington will have  the  glorious satisfaction
of knowing  that it stood silently  by, with folded
arms, and saw every man who was capable of ma-
king it a respectable School of medical instruction
sacrificed on the altar of Dr. Dudley's vengeance.
The day is to come, and it is not far distant when
his name is  to become with the whole population
a by-word and a reproach—as it is already with ev-
ery thinking and independent man in this city.
   Besides one charge  that I shall be  obliged to
notice fully, there is a host of microscopic imputa-
tions thrown upon me by the authors of the "State-
ments" which I cannot entirely neglect—yet in the
attempt to wipe them off, I  fear I  shall offend the
readers  of this publication by my condescension,
as much as those were disgusted who perused what
is said  in relation to them in  the ' Statements."
For example it is  asserted that I often talked of
leaving  the  School, and  tha't, when Prof.  Eberle
died, I threatened to do so, if I was not appointed
his successor.   This is false, for I never made such
an intimation except in the springs of '42 and '44.
Now what are the facts?  Upon  the death of Dr.
Eberle,  which took place in  the winter, Mitchell
nominated himself for the vacant  Chair.  The en-
suing spring he was still resolved to be the succes-
sor of Dr. Eberle, although  he received no encour-
agement from any quarter, and became so refrac- 
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tory that Dr. Dudley, irritated at his pertinacity,
remarked to me, "We must get rid of him."   We
had already lost two professors, and, having no de-
sire  to see a  third Chair vacated by  such harsh
means, I proposed to Dr. D., and afterwards to Dr.
Richardson, that we, to satisfy and quiet Mitchell,
had better transfer him to Materia Medica, and that,
as he fancied he would be of immense importance
to the School, if in a practical Chair, that we add
Therapeutics to it.  To gild the pill, for Dr. Dud-
ley did not like  him, I suggested that such an ar-
rangement would  probably enable Peter to reach
the Chemical Chair.  Dr. Dudley at once acceded
to  the proposition—the  transfer was made, and
Mitchell was silenced.  I  solemnly aver that I am
the  author of  the project to transfer Mitchell  to
Materia Medica,  and to  give  him, in  addition,
Therapeutics.   Before 1838 the Chair was enti-
tled Materia Medica and Medical  Botany—ever
since  that  time,  Materia  Medica and  Thera-
peutics.*
   One of the Trio makes the ridiculous assertion,
that  before the  appointment  of Dr. Bartlett,  I
persecuted him with my pretensions to the vacant
Chair of Theory and  Practice.  This is impossi-
ble, for I am very sure I did  not speak  to the  indi-
vidual who made  the above  observation, from the
time Dr. Smith resigned,  until several weeks after
Dr. Bartlett was elected,  and the facts will sustain
me in this  allegation.   Dr. Smith resigned imme-
diately after Commencement, and I  went to New
Orleans and St. Louis, and was  absent six weeks,

  "Here is another illustration of the extent to which I was
capable of sacrificing my personal feelings to promote the
interests of  the School.  Notwith landing Peter called  on
me several  times after I  settled in Lexington in 1837 and
endeavored  to  make himself as  amiable as possible  by
apologizing in the most submissive terms for his conduct in
1834 to which he now insolently  refers, and begged me to
forget it, I determined, if possible, to prevent his election
to the Chemical Chair, and, in conjunction with Dr. Rich-
ardson, succeeded.  In the spring of 1838 circumstances
had changed.  The School was in a very precarious state;
we had lost, as I have stated, two Professors—Mitchell was
disposed  to multiply  instead of remove  difficulties—1
felt it important that the Faculty should present an unbro-
ken front as speedily as possible, and  therefore suggested
to Dr. Dudley the project above referred to.  Nothing but
the emergencies of the School could ever have persuaded
me to submit to become the colleague of Peter, and very
frequently afterwards I was deservedly reproved by  Mitch-
ell, Drs. Richardson and Bush for  the ageucy I had in the
matter.   Thev  threw the whole Maine upon me, and
justly,saying that, had I not have united with Dr. Dudley
on Peter, they could have procured  Dr. Bird, of Philadel-
phia, which, I believe, was the fact.   But  I was governed
by the  desire  not to surfer the idea to go abroad that the
Faculty was in  a state verging  on  disorganization, and
therefore acted perhaps too precipitately.  Never, without
my consent, could Peter have been a member of the Facul-
ty", for both  Mitchell and Dr. Richardson  were irreconcila-
bly opposed to him.  When I say thatl agreed to the ele-
vation of Peter for the sake of the School, the  reader will
not  be surprised that I was opposed to the  adoption of
such measures as would have probably driven Dr. Dudley
out of it, although I hated him. The prosperity of the In-
stitution was always uppermost in my mind, and the gratifi-
cation  of any feeling, whether of personal like or dislike,
was never suffered to interfere with it, and had Dr. Dudley
been  prompted  by the same motives, the Transylvania
Medical School would now be in a flourishing condition.
But his unconquerable and irrepressible propensity to en-
gage in some vile stratagem to injure or destroy his col-
leagues, like the wrath  of Achilles has  brought upon the
Institution innumerable calamities. In this unruly passion
is to be found the mournful Iliad of Transylvania's mis-
fortunes, for being sleeplessly vigilant, it caused him, like
Virgil-Harpies, to spoil whatever he touched.
I remained at home not more  than a week, when
I set out for Philadelphia, and did not return until
the middle of June, two  weeks after  the election
of Dr, Bartlett.  If,  therefore,  I  persecuted  the
little man in  relation  to the Chair of  Theory and
Practice, it must have been done at a very respect-
ful distance,
  Mitchell most stupidly remarks:—"He feared as
a consequence  of his misconduct, that the Chair
of the Institutes wonld be vacated, and intimated
as much to the  late  Dr. Richardson,  as a  reason
why he desired the Chair of Theory and Practice."
Did mortal man ever  see  so gross a specimen of
transparent nonsense, or were  ever men reduced
to such desperate straits to find excuses for their
infamous conduct?   If I dreaded  what is here al-
ledged, how  could  this manoeuvre  have saved me?
Would not my misconduct have caused the Chair
of Theory and Practice, even after my tranfer to it,
to be vacated as readily as that of the Institutes?
Undoubtedly,  and in  this view   of the subject,
which is the only rationally one that can be  taken,
like  the ghosts  of Ossian, the force of his argu-
ment vanishes.
   "Often and again," says  Mitchell, "did we wish
him out  of  the School."  Why  then did Profes-
sors Richardson and Bartlett  interpose to prevent
my resignation in 1842?  Besides,  it is in my pow-
er to prove that, in December  1844. at the Funer-
al of my then,  last and  only  child,  when it was
feared my bereavements, which had  been numer-
ous and severe, would extinguish in me all interest
in Medical  Schools,  or indeed,   in  any   thing
else,   Dr. Richardson, unawedby the solemnity of
the occasion,  asked an individual  who he thought
might know,  if I intended tp resign,  and  added,
that if I entertained any such  purpose it must be
prevented, for it would  rum the School. Let me
remind Mitchell when he speaks so glibly of  having
wished me out of the  School, that  I more than
once  saved him from  the vengeance of those who
will yet sacrifice him.*
  Mitchell asks;—"Was  not  that gentleman (he
means Peter, but if he had not  given us his name,.
I should never have  suspected to whom he allu-
ded)  on the  eve of bringing that  man  before the
Trustees for  his scandalous interference with, and
depreciation  of the Chemical Chair."   To which
I answer, yes; but  what was this "scandulous in-
terference?   The republication  in the  Western and
Southern Medical Recorder, of which I  was the ed-
itor of an article from the London Medical Gazette,
in which the   necessity and importance of a Chair
of Chemistry in a  School  of Medicine  was ques-
tioned if not denied.  Peter was afraid that if I

  *It is a gross offence against the  peace and pleasure of
social  intercourse, to be  guilty of retailing gossip  or
scandal, but as he is perfectly notorious  for it, and on
this account, as "much as any  thing  else, has  become
odious, he wiil  not be shocked when 1 tell him there are
those of his colleagues and have been ever since the first
session he served in the School,  *'who wish him out of
itl."  Since I  left it, if I have been correctly informed,
and of  this I have   no  doubt, Dr. Dudley  denouueed
him as  the first individual who lead the Faculty  into the
difficulties of the Spring  of 1844,  and  the first cowardly
scoundrel who backed out when danger   impended, or
in other words, when he began to fear he would be turned
out.   Even within the last six weeks, an individual who
knows the sentiments and feelings of his colleagues, em-
phatically declared that so long as he was in it, he would
be involving  the School in  difficulties.  Be  ready to>
walk it Sir, for the plank is being prepared for you. 
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wae permitted to enlighted the public mind on the I
subject, his chair would be not  only  vacated but
abrogated.  The perade, however, that the  fussy
little creature made  about it,  was ridiculous and
contemptible, and this Mitchell and others thought
and asserted at the time.
  Mitchell,  who  has no more  bowels than a bear,
and but little more brains than an ass,  says that my
Appeal "was really  gotten up, not merely as an
attack  on Transylvania,  but as  an electioneering
document to help the fortunes  of  a new M edical
School."   The  man who makes this assertion,
knows perfectly well that it was gotten up, to speak
in his own coarse language, to defend  my charac-
ter against assaults made  upon it by himself, while
I was in Europe.  So untrue is his allegation, that
the necessity I was under to make an Appeal, con-
stituted the principal reason   why I doubted the
propriety of accepting a situation in the School to
which he  refers, and why, also, I did not decide to
do so until the 12th of August, two months after it
had been  offered to me.
  They say they knew  nothing of my  intention
to resign, although  fully aware that  Dr.  Darby
told Dr.  Richardson,  and Dr.  Lewis,  Mitchell,
that they believed such  was  my determination.
(See p. 23-24 of my  Appeal.)   Mitchell boasts
that in 1838  I eulogised his  "moral  character."
This I do not  believe, as I have no recollection of
it.   But  if I   did, he has given abundant  proof
that it was without authority.  The people need
not  be alarmed  at the bluster he makes on this
subject, for  there is not the least danger that the
world will be  turned up side  down by this  moral
Archimades, unless  lying should become a cardin-
al virtue.  Peter speaks  of Cross's specific for
Gonorrhaa—there is no such  medicine of which I
have  any knowledge.   But  all this  and  much
more,  to be  found in the "Statements of Facts,"
is mere twaddle, which no man of character would
acknowledge himself to be the author  of, for any
consideration.
   I  have  already intimated, there  is yet one topic
upon which I have not dwelt, that seems entitled
to  some  consideration.   In  the  '■■Statements  of
Facts" it is remarked:—"In his  atrocious pamph-
let, he has thought proper to  throw  the odium  of
his  expulsion upon Dr.  Dudley, against  whom
the vial of his  gall  is more especially  poured out:
but he better than any one, knows that Dr. Dud-
ley has  never given him any particular cause of
offence, and that, he has no cause of quarrel with
him more than with any of his late colleagues."—
Peter, although as true to Dr.  Dudley as the mag-
netic needle  is to the pole, and although the for-
mer stands to the latter,  but not vice versa, in the
relation that the waters of th$ Alpheus  and Ara-
thus did to one another, for nothing was thrown
into the one without  being seen  very shortly after-
wards floating upon the  other, cannot be permit-
ted to obtrude his sneaking and disgusting form be-
tween  my bitter foe and myself—he cannot by so
shallow a trick  be suffered to shift the onus pro-
bandi in this dispute.  As well might  the tiger  at-
tempt to unlock the curl of  the Boa, as for this
Pylades—this  Pytheas—this  second  self  of Dr.
Dudley,  think  by  his  senseless  howlings—his
gloomy  attempts  at  being facetious, or his friv-
olous,  meaningless and  absurd calumnies to pro-
voke  me to unfasten  my hold upon  his master
for the purpose  of giving him  notoriety.   He
has more than once endeavored to emerge from
obscurity by a similar manoeuvre, but he has always
been  foiled and  defeated,  and such shall  be his
fate now.  Could he involve  himself in a quarrel
with a man of any consequence in the profession,
he would think his fortune was made, and like the
Sythian Abaris when wounded by Appollo, heed-
less  of  the pain and the disgrace  of the  wound,
plucked the arrow from his side and  exclaimed in
triumph, that the weapon  in future would enable
him to deliver oracles.  The little  Tencermay, if
it be a means of gratifying his  malignanity, skulk
behind the  shield of his  Ajax  Telemon  and fire
his darts at me,  but he  will only have his trouble
for his pains, for like the javelin of Priam, they will
fall harmless at my feet.   Were  I however in a fit
of indiscretion, no matter from what cause, to gratify
the vanity ofthis  little  compound of repugnance,
prejudice  and disgust, by magnifying  him  into
an object of sufficient  importance  for serious or
special notice,the notoriety he wonld gain would be
nothing more than a  temporary phosphorescence,
like that  which surrounds a decomposing carcass
in the dark,  that is dispelled by the first beams of
the rising sun, and exposes to  view the disgusting
source of the inephitic radiance.*    No, I cannot,
  ♦When Peter reflects that I know how he fawned and
cringed, and meanly acted the beggar in 1837, and then
looks upon the following picture which every anist  will
recognize as his, and painted to the life, he will himself
confess that it  would be too  great a degradation to at-
tempt to disturb the equanimity of his sweet temper.
  "Dr. Peter is the pitiful tool of Dr.  Dudley, as such,
he  figured some  years ago in assailing the private and
professional characters or the professors  who left Lex-
ington, to establish a Medical School in this  city.  Dr.
Dudley found his services  invaluable on  that occasion.—
Falsehoods and slanders,  which  Dr. D.  was ashamed to
publish himself,  were  farthered  and circulated by this
hirelinu',  with the  greatest  alacrity.  The fellow proved
himself to be as  unscrupulous as he was servile.   He
stuck at nothing.  No falsehood  gave him a qualm,
whether he uttered it, or was compelled to retract il.—
He published his  lies  and  his  recantations of them,
when fear obliged him to take them back,  with  equal
coolness.  When Dr. Short forced him  to withdraw one
which he had  put forth on  Dr.  S's.  alledged authority,
he went about it with all  the composure of a veteran to-
per gurzzling his mint-sling  His reward for his mendaci-
ty was a Professor's Chair in  the School by the side of
his master. Dr. Dudley could not do  less for him.  Aa
Dr. D. was afraid to trust his own feeble pen upon paper,
his creature had performed a task for him to which few
men could be ffound base enough to stoop.  No one be-
lieved him fit  for the place, but he had brought Dr. Dud-
ley under obligations which  nothing but  a Chair in the
School could  satisfy.  It  is true, that, in addition to this
private claim upon Dr.  Dudley's gratitude, Dr.  Peter
preferred the strong public one of having been a vender of
quack medicines.  The.-e  secured him the place which he
now disgraces, and where  one  cannot see him without
being reminded of certain  parasites, described by ento-
mologists, which  are  found sticking to the bodies of
large animals.  He is the  laughinc-stock of his pupils,
and an object at which all sensible and honorable men in-
stinctively point the finger  of scorn. He holds his office
at the mercy of Dr. Dudley, whose smile he courts with
 more than a lover's  assiduity.  His sycophancy knows
no bounds. In this respect we can think of none who
 approaches him, unless it  be John Jones of the Madisoni-
 an, and he does it by flying to  rhyme.  The  court-fool
 deals in poetry, while the Lexington driveller  writes in
 unadorned prose. Dr. Peter's adulation is essentially
 and excessively prosaic; he  scorns thu graces of art.and is
 anxious  onl y to bespatter his master with sufficient praise.
 And this is the creature who undertakesto read lectures
 to gentlemen on "dignity."   His charge against the Pro- 
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and will not,  be diverted  from my purpose by
such men as either Peter or Mitchell,  for I look
upon them  as nothing more than two  Tom-tits
twittering upon an Eagle's  back, or,  perhaps, it
would be more proper  to  say, that Dr. Dudley
stands reeling in the "Statements of  Facts," be-
tween two insignificant characters, like a common
noun between two  contemptible  and conflicting
adjectives.
  As it has been denied let us see whether or not
I have any  "particular cause  of offence" against
their  master.   Was not his  faithless conduct in
attempting  to defeat my election after he had for-
mally tendered me the chair of Institutes a "par-
ticular cause of offence?"   Was not  his letter
addressed to me at  Cincinnati a fraudulent at-
tempt to deceive me into the  belief that he had
redeemed the  pledge voluntarily made to  me in
the conferences I held with him, first in the pre-
sence of Dr.  Holland, and  afterwards in con-
junction  with Dr. Richardson, in Keizer's Hotel,
a "particular cause of offence?"  Was not the
fact, perfectly notorious to every class, that he
arrayed  his  private  pupils  against  me,  and
through them endeavored  to  injure my  character
and  standing  with  the students, a  "particular
 cause of offence?"   Was not the fact that  his
 covert hostility to me became so rancorous and
 deadly that he set one of his private pupils, an
 individual whom I had not injured  or  insulted,
 upon me  in the street, immediately after I had
 left the rostrum, a "particular cause of offence?"
 Was not  the fact that  after the commission of
 this  outrage the identical men who joined him
 in  requesting me  to  resign were   induced  by
 him to withhold from me all justice  until it was
 extorted by the indignant remonstrances of the
 class, a "particular cause of offence?"   Was
fessors of the Medical Institute is a grave one.  He says
they go  to  the taverns and steam boats to see medical
students, and "even animadvert upon the qualifications
of the Lexington professors."  This is very serious, and
we will here do Dr. Peter the justice to say, that we be-
leve he is never guilty of any such indiscretion.  His col-
leagues are much  complained  of by  students  who pass
through  Lexington,  on  their  way to this city, for their
annoying civilities and importunities, but we have not
heard Dr. Peter charged  with any attempts to election-
eer with Louisville pupils.  His brother professors are
too shrewd to let  him enter upon that dellicate office.—
They are too well aware of his repulsive tendencies to
suffer him to go where studentsare  before they have ta-
ken their tickets  and engaged lodgings. He is not per-
mitted to show his silly face, or open his stupid mouth,
until the class is made secure.  He is kept carefully con
cealed in  the darkest corner of his  laboratatory, until
they are obliged to bring him out to deliver his introduc-
tory, which is postponed aslong as possible.  Still, he is
said to possess  certain facilities even in this business of
bringing students to that school. Though as great a bun-
gler at telling a lie as at delivering a lecture,  he is con-
sidered rather expert at fabricating one.  It seems native
to him.  He has  the  credit of originating many ol the
falsehoods in  relation to  the Medieal Institute,  which
swarm along the road, every autumn, from Lexington
to the  Alabama  line."  After saying  that Dr. Dudley
would "be neither coaxed nor  scared into giving up one
of his chairs,' although the school was suffering from his
obstinacy, the writer goes on tosav:—"Now the improve-
ment we hive to suggest  in the organization cf the Lex-
ington concern, is the substitution of Fabei'scaout-couch
mare for this automaton  of Dr. Dudley."  As a lecturer,
we have no doubt the india-rubber  thing would be the
more agreeable, and Dr Dudley could afford to do a little
talking through its  windpipe at  half the  price they
charge for  Dr. Peter."
not the fact  that  after debauching three  of his
colleagues from their duty, he harangued the
students from the  rostrum,  and vainly attempted
to set them against me, a "particular cause of
offence?"   Was not the fact that he has  never
failed, when he had  an opportunity, to poison
the  mind of every stranger  who came to  this
city against me, a "particular cause of offence?"
Was not the fact that ever  since I settled in
Lexington he has kept the  arrows  of envy, ha-
tred, and  malice, flyi'ig  in showers around me
until  he  seriously affected  my standing,  and
previously interfered with my peace, a "particu-
lar  cause of offence?"   Was  not the fact that
for the purpose of diverting public attention from
his own debauched morals, he kept  his tribe of
college  parasites constantly  busy in the propa-
gation of the most  injurious calumnies against
me,  a "particular cause  of offence?"!   Was
not the  fact that to screen  an infamous person
from complete social ostracism,  and himself
from disgrace,  he alleged  the  certainty of pros-
pective  but premature abdominal  rotundity as
the result of acquaintance with me,  a  "particu
lar  cause of offence?"   Was not  his suffering
the letter requesting me to resign to be addressed
to me,  a "particular cause of offence?"   With
 these numerous particular causes of  offence
    "Who that had reason, soul, or sense would bear it?"

   On  the subject  however of this last inquiry I
 must speak in  detail  before a response is given.
 But the  reader  should  in the  first  place  hear
 what he  has said in relation to it himself:  "In
 the  last  act of  the  Medical  Faculty,  prepara-
 tory to his removal from the school, I can claim
 neither  honor  nor participation.    Without my
 knowledge my  colleagues consulted together, and
 united  in sentiment on the necessity of the mea-
 sure.  When the result of their consultation was
 communicated  to me, I  need scarcely add, that
 the measure not only had  my approbation,  but re-
 ceived  my  humble, yet firm support."   Did  a
 sane man  ever  make, except under the gallows
 after  having received clerical  comfort,  so dis-
 graceful  and  self-condemnatory  a  confession?
 Every desert has its  oa.-is—the darkest night has
 its gleams of star-light—the  most  abandoned
 libertine is sometimes moved to pity, and thoughts
 of repentance, but Dr. Dudley seems not,  even
 occasionally, to feel any remorse of conscience.
  Without investigating  or even asking  for the
 grounds  of  complaint—without inquiring into
 the truth or falsehood of the charges, if indeed
  any were made, which no one believes, the mo-
  ment he ascertained  that Mitchell, Peter, and
  Dr. Richardson were ready and willing to  in-
  tLike Alcibiades, but only in one respect, for it would
be foul calumny to attempt to run a parallel between them,
who cut off the luxuriant tail of a most beautiful dog that
all Athens  admired, to draw off attention from his more
disreputable infirmaties, Dr. Dudley believed that while he
could keep the  public mind engrossed with the injurious
gossip, he and his miuions had sent abroad on the wings of
rumor against me, it would hardly condescend to think of
him or his  iniquitous  doings.  Like the jewels of an  ugly
dowager that kindly diverts attention from the inspection
of her face, he hoped to convert the fashionrble follies of a
man fond of society into sueh odious vices that the public
criticism would be  lured from a strict scrutiny into his own
gross moral delinquencies. 
38
 suit and disgrace me,  it "not only had his appro-
 bation, but received his humble, yet firm sup-
 port." An honest, a generous, or a magnanimous
 foe would not have treated his  deadliest enemy
 with  such injustice and inhumanity, while the
 greatest scoundrel that ever  disgraced his race,
 so  far from  boasting  of it, would have been al-
 most  ashamed to have made  the profligate  con-
 fession even to a priest.   In speaking of his par-
 ticipation in this last act, as  he calls it, of the
 Medical Faculty, he has furnished an example of
 the most  astonishing  effort of unflinching assu-
 rance  that the world ever witnessed.  During
 the reign  of terror, even those revolutionary
 butchers,  who  flooded   France  with  blood,
 thought it necessary to  plead  the  existence of
 proofs of guilt against  their  victims  in defence
 or  extenuation of  their  sanguinary  conduct,
 but Dr.  Dudley more remorseless makes, without
 the least hesitation, the bold and atrocious  dec-
 laration  that  he gave his "firm support" to the
 sacrifice of a man without  knowing why or
 wherefore, except that he hated him.  Had no
 other  "particular cause of offence"  existed,  this
 confession of Dr.  Dudley not  only justifies all
 that I have already said  of him, but  fully au-
 thorizes me to pour upon his devoted head all the
 bitterness and vindictiveness of  my nature.   His
 colleagues might have thought  they  had some
 shaddow of excuse for their conduct in the  idle
 and ridiculous gossip  set afloat in the commu-
 nity by the satellites of Dr. Dudley,  but he,  ac-
 cording to his own statement, had none what-
 ever, for he has the audacity to inform  the public
 that when the result,  not the means, by which
 his colleagues had arrived at  it, was  communi-
 cated  to him,  he, with  the utmost cheerfulness,
 signed the insulting letter in which  I was  re-
 quested to resign.*  Further proof surely cannot
 be required to establish the fact that Dr. Dudley
 was so anxious for my  dishonor and disgrace
 that he was  ready and  willing to resort to  any
 means fair or foul, honorable  or dishonorable,
 to accomplish it.  That such was the state of his
 feelings towards me for five years before I left the
 Institution, I did not doubt, but low  as he had
 sunk  in my  estimation—deep  and abiding as
 was the contempt I felt for him—bitter and ran-
 corous  as  was the  hate which his dark   and
 treacherous conduct had implanted in my breast,
 I  did  not  believe he  could so  far  forget those
 motives of policy, which throughout  his whole
 life  have regulated his conduct, as to venture
 upon  the  above  heartless declaration.  What
 respect, I ask, can  such  a man have for the
 public intelligence—or confidence in the public
judgment—or  regard for the  public  honor—or
 sympathy with the public sensibility?  I will  not
 pretend  to  say, for I do not know, and I would
 rather undertake  to discover  the philosopher's
 stone or find out the squaring of tha circle than
 attempt even to conjecture the black  depravity
 of his feelings—the  unutterable atrocity  of  his
 thoughts, or the hopeless baseness of the motives
 by  which  he  is  actuated.   The  Spartans  be-
 lieved that the crime was  in  the detection  and
 not in  the depredation—but Dr. Dudley not sat-
 isfied  with the perpetration  of every outrage
 that can  disgrace humanity, has the shameless
 audacity  to publish his  own  infamy.   What
 hope is there of the reformation of such a man?"
 Is he one of  God's creatures who can be hu-
 manised by philosophy, or reclaimed by religion,
 or converted by any sort of miracle?   I think
 not.   You might  as well cram  food down  the   «
 gullet of a  Farnese  Hercules which has  no ap-
 paratus to digest it, as expect to regenerate Lr.
 Dudley by such means,  for he has less con-
 science  than  a  French  financier.  For truth
 and  candor, and justice,  he  has no more  use
 than a ghost has for a lantern, and any effort to
 change his nature  or  ameliorate his  conduct,
 would be  like sinners attempting to draw water
 from  the wells of Jacob,  for  they  would only
 reap  the  toil.  Having  lead a life of the most
 stubborn  infidelity,  habit has  so confirmed  his
 bad principles, and  strengthened his vicious pro-
 pensities,  that you might  as well extol  the
 charms of a beauty to a eunuch, or "forbid the
 sea to obey the moon,"  as  think of awakening
 his impenetrable and selfish heart to  a  sense of
 its deep and desperate depravity by holding out
to him a hope of a bright  and glorious immor-
tality beyond the grave.*
  *When I recollect what Dr. Dudley said to me on the
17th of May, 1844, in relation to Dr. Bush, (p. 15 of my
Appeal,) and compare it with his conduct towards me, as
portrayed by himself,  as well as with that which has
characterized his treacherous deportment towards very
many of his other colleagues, I am reminded of Winder-
nostrils m Rabelais, who dieted ordinarily on windmills,
but who was at last miserably choked by a pat of butter
swallowed the wrong way at the mouth of a hot oven.
  'The reader may think me unju-tif ably severe, but he
would not be of that opinion had he suffered what I have
at his hands.  Hear what a man said of him in 1837 who
had been his colleague and had known him intimately for
nearfy twenty years:
  "I have written nothing for the sake  of  vengeance
Far from it. My object has been to teach, by trhth, a pro-
fitable lesson to those who trade  in falsehood and defa-
mation.  And such is Dr. Dudley.  Scandal of some sort
is his "heart's  delight;" and he sips it in and pours it out
with the deep gusto of the savage at his "fire-water," or
the ravening tiger at his banquet of blood.  Even in Lex-
ington, his iocial paradise, there  are few persons whom
he does not, in his moments of fitfulness, abuse and ca-
lumiate. This I know to be true, because I have wit-
nessed it.  Yet the last word of censure has scarcely es-
caped him, when, if he meets the subject of it, lie takes
him by the hand, smirks and smiles  in his  face, locks
arms with him, and, as he walks  along the street, whis-
pers something bland and friendly  in his ear!—or slanders
(o him the very individual whom he had just regaled;
with his own slander.
  "As his weapons have been falsehood and a language
scarcely superior to Billingsgate, has he a right to ex-
pect from me in return anything  more than plain truths
and decorous language?  On  a spirit so rancorous and
ignominious as his, lenity would  be thrown  away. He
would not'feel its awakening influence.  It  is  on the
head of the benevolent  and the magnanimous that for-  Ji
giveness of injuries, or good in return for evil, operates-
like "coals of fire," softening  their temper, and reform-
ing their conduct. And Dr. Dudley is not of that caste
If he can be reformed at all, i* must he  by castigation and
terror—by the  actual application  of the scourge, and by
being given fully to understand that  'even-handed jus-
tice is almost sure to return the  poisoned chalice to the
lips of the murderous wretch who has  drugged it'
  "Let him, however, repent of his malefactions.'adhere
to truth, abandon duplicity, throw from his lips  a slan-
derous tongue, and lead hereafter a life  of ingenuousness,
and, whether 1 'forget and  lorgive'or not, the evening
of his days will be not only more commendable and hon-
orable to him but immeasurably more placid and com- 
39
  But this Analysis  and Refutation must close.
It has already encroached too much on the time
and  indulgence of the reader, while it has been
expanded to an extent more than commensurate
with the necessities of the case.  But before  I
part with him,  let me ask  him in all candor and
truth, if I have  not  redeemed  my pledge?    I
said in my Card of the 10th of September:  "If
there is power  in truth, or justice in Lexington,
I pledge myself to overwhelm the infamous trio,
not by assertion, but by proof, with confusion and
redemptionless  disgrace."*
  Have I not  conclusively proved  that  the  in-
famous  Trio have been guilty of  the most revolt-
ing delinquencies of which unprincipled men are
capable,  that  they are deep, designing,  dissem-
bling, hypocrites, and scoundrels?  If this be the
case  of which I think there can now be no doubt,
will not every man who has a manly regard  for
his own character despise  them  with  a  vehem-
ence of scoin  that will leave no room for pity?
As it is impossible for any society to  abide such
anointed wickedness "if there is power in truth
or justice in  Lexington," they must for the fu-
ture, even in  this  city,  be shunned like a pesti-
lence.

         "The wounds of honor never close,"

and as the Trio have  been  convicted  by proof
unchallengably  authentic of absolute and glar-
ing  contradictions—of  the  utmost excesses  of
unbridled malevolence  and  calumny—of being
thoroughly versed  in all  the menial offices of de-
pravity—of having been actuated  by  a polity
in their conduct towards me, corrupted in all its
channels with the foulest venality—and of hav-
ing been  guilty of  an infamous trick, for the pur-
pose of  silencing  and disgracing me, of which
the lowest wretch  in Newgate would  have been
ashamed, the world will instinctively exclaim:
     "On their own  bed of torture let them he
     Fit garbage for the hell-hound infamy!"

   LEXiNGroN,  Sept. 21, 1846.
  Hamlet—Do you see yonder cloud,
     That's almost in shape of a camel?
  Polonius.— By tjie mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed.
  Ham.—Methinks it is like a weasel.
  Pol.—It is lacked like a weasel.
  Ham.—Or, like a whale.
  Pol..— Vay like  a whale.
  It is very far from certain, however, even after hav-
ing gazed upon the festering mass i f iniquity I have laid
baie, that a paiticulai se1 of people in Lexington will be
ashamed to truckle to and deleml Dr. Dudley. Undera lalse
impression ii> relation to what wuuld prove conducive to
the prosperity  of this city  in genual,  and tl.e Medical
School in particular,  there  are those who can iasilybe
persuaded thai it is stul to their  interest to susta n and
deletid him. That such should prove impiegnai le to my
Appeal, or to  this "Analysis and  Rejulaiivn" ol the
"Statement* of Facts," is not surpisiiig, for, as Hobbee
says.theie are many  people who would doubt the truth
of Euclid's Elements if it was to their  interest.
   "What damned error, but what some brow
   Will bless it."
fortable  than have  been their morning and  meridian.
For, assume what calmness and gaiety he'may,  and
make what professions he may of hi:-enjoyment of plea-
sure, Dr. Dudley is an unhappy man, because he feels him-
telf a degraded one!   During the mock-trial by the Board
of Trustees, a friend of his declared his sufferings to he
such that he was 'bleeding at every pore,' and even  im-
plored clemency towards him from his injured cnll.eogu.es.
And, were the truth known, he is 'bleeding' still.  He i as
no sense of justice anil of honorable pride,e\se his con-
tcienliousnesi and self-esteem are the curses of his exis-
tence.  I would not  be  the  possessor  of his solitary
thoughts and midnight visions for his pecuniary posses-
sions Jour tim>-t  told!"
  Mi thisdemoiislratiuu (for thus I am  obliged to denom-
inate it) dues no, open the eyes of the people of this city
to the Hue character of Dr. Dudley, and cause him to be
left alone in his glory, "with none so mean as to do him
homage," then they must excuse me lor takim; the liber.
ty of reminding them of a celebrated interview that once
took place between one Polonius and Hamlet,Prince of
Denmark: 
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I 
APPENDIX.
  On the 10th of September, I  wrote to Dr. Holland
and requested him to say whether or not, about the
middle of April 1837, 1 had an interview  at his in-
stance, and in his presence,  with Dr. Dudley at Kei-
zer's Hotel, and whether or not, on that occasion, Dr.
Dudley tendered me the Chair of Institutes &c,  in the
Medical Department of Transylvania University.  To
this letter  no answer was returned, but on the 27th
inst., I saw Dr. Holland as he was going on board the
Kentucky steamboat, aud extorted from him the follow-
ing statement:—He remarked,  "When I saw you in
Lexington, immediately after the death of your daugh-
ter, yon bitterly complained to me  of Dr. Richard-
son's having neglected her, [he, Dr. R., was her phy-
sician, originally, and through the  greater part  of her
illness, but  abandoned her to  go to Cincinnati,  to
see Dr. Eberle and myself on the subject of  taking
Chairs in  the Transylvania Medical  School. Dr.
Lewis having been called  to see her not more, I be-
lieve, than two or three  days before  her  death,] I ad-
monished you to say nothing more on that subject, as
I had understood  it was  intended to offer you the
Chair of the Institutes.   Supposing Dr. Dudley  did
not know you were in Lexington—I  informed him of
the fact, and advised him  to see you.  He requested {
me to say to you, that he would be pleased to see you
at his house.  When this  invitation was delivered to
you by me, you declined going to his hous3, but re-
marked, that you were at  Keizer's  Hotel, where  he
could  see  you if he  wished.  An  interview took
place that day,  between you and  Dr. Dudley,  in my
presence, at Keizer's Hotel, at which, I distinctly un-
derstood him to offer you the Chair of Institutes. Af-
ter your appointment by the Board of Trustees, I had
?i  conversation with Dr. Pawling, and we both ex-
pressed great  astonishment, that  Dr. Dudley should
have attempted to defeat your election."
  This is  substantially  the statement written out by
me from  recollection,  (See  pages 10 and 11) which
was in the hands of the  compositor, and I believe, set
up, before I saw Dr. Holland on  the 27th inst. He
coald not,  however, be induced to put his statement
in writing,  and for particular reasons, was very desi-
rous that I  should not say  any thing on his authority. |
But his wishes cannot be gratified, because, his testi-
mony is important,if not indispensable; besides.Ido not
think he has any right to withhold it.  Moreover,two
frie5nds who heard read what I have said in this publica-
tion, in connexion with the name of Dr. Holland, saw
him in Lexington a few days  before he came to Lou-
isville, and informed him of what I expected to prove
by him.  In their letters to me on this subject,they say
that he refused to give a written statement, but testi-
fied to the truth of what  I  had recorded from recol-
lection.  Without his consent, therefore, I publish
the above statement fully satisfied however,that should
it ever be  indispensably necessary, he will cheer-
fully confirm it.
  September 30th, 1846-
  In confirmation of the statement made at pages 17
and 18, in relation to the condition to which the Med-
ical College of Ohio was reduced,  by-the resigna-
tions spoken of, I take the liberty  of quoting the"fol-
lowing extracts, from the report of Morgan Neville,
Esq., President of  the Boardl of Trustees, dated the
11th December, 1837, to the General  Assembly of the
State of Ohio.  "Soon after Professor Locke  left the
countiy. Professor Cross resigned. Shortly before the
usual  period for issuing the  annual circular, while
Professor Locke was still absent in Europe, Professors
Eberle,  Smith and  Cobb resighed, without previous-
notice; Drs. Eberle, Cross and Cobb accepting Chairs
in Medical  Institutions  in a neighboring common-
wealth.   These resignations left the College with but
two  Professors, Dr. Locke in Europe, in the service
of his brethren, and  confiding in their support, and Dr.
Morehead at home.  Left thus  in the charge of the
College, the Chairs vacated,  the  session about to com
mence,and sevralof the Professors transferred to other
and neighboring Institutions, the Turstees doubted
their ability to fill the Chairs,  and organize a suitable
Faculty in time for the usual course of lectures and in-
struction this season."  In consequence of the facts
above  stated, the  Class of the  Medical College of
Ohio fell at once, from  178 to 80 students, of whom,
three only were from Kentucky.   B ut diat Institution,
I am gratified to know, has  recovered from the disas
tessof 1837, and now may look forward with confi-
dence, to a bright and prosperous future. 
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                         ERRATA.
Page 9, column 1, line 31 from bottom, for mendicity read mendacity.
Page 10, column 1, line 23 from top, for was read were.
Page 18, column 2, line 5 from bottom, for with the read without the.
Page 20, column 1, line 3 from bottom, for the former read him.
Page 24, column 1 line 31, from bottom, for  not been read not have been.