SUPPIiEMEST TO THE MTIOXAt REPITBEICAW. 
P.; but they had no influential relatives in 
the board; and although they were citizens 
of Ohio, and members of the Faculty prior to 
his election, still his' claims to retention 
were respected, and theirs overlooked. 
He was, it is true, transferred from Mate- 
ria Medica to the Institutes of Medicine, to 
make room for Dr. Eberle. To this chair, 
although one of the most elementary in 
the schools, he very justly foil himself in- 
competent, and asked for fifteen months to 
prepare himself. Without any hesitation 
Board, Col.D. being a member, complied 
with this request; and assigned his duties to 
his colleagues. Was there no courtesy to 
Col. D. in this? 
Again, in the succeeding spring, 1832, 
new favors are required and granted. A 
committee is raised, of which Col. D. is 
once more a member, and this committee 
gravely recommend the expulsion of Dr. 
Henry, for the purpose of providing a differ- 
ent chair for Dr. Moorhead, that by his 
transfer from the Theory and Practice, a new 
situation might be found for l)r. Eberle, and 
that of Materia Medica, re opened to prof. 
Pierson, the Institutes of Medicine, for which 
be had been eight months preparing him- 
self in New-York, being at -he same time 
abolished, although one of the most impor- 
tant chairs of the school. That Col. D, 
urged this arrangement, is a fact communi- 
cated to me by Dr. Eberle, whom the Colo- 
nel visited expressly for that purpose. Here, 
I think, again are strong symptoms of a 
family influence in favor of prof. Pierson. 
It prevailed with the board, and was consum- 
mated, by as violent an act of injustice to 
Dr. Henry, and as unwarrantable a suppres- 
sion of a professorship—the Institutes—as 
ever, perhaps,disgraced a public institution. 
Finally, on the 28th of December follow- 
ing, Col. Davies is one of a committee of 
two, to draft the annual repon of the board 
to the Legislature, justifying all these pro- 
ceedings. 
Thus, that gentleman has been on all the 
committees (and is the only member who 
has) which the Trustees have appointed to 
manage prof. Pierson’s case, far the last two 
years, and still he claims to have exerted 
not the least influence in the matter. I have 
stated the facts, and every reader can form 
his own conclusion. 
I have spoken freely, but not unjustly of 
prof. Pierson. He is, I have been told, an 
amiable, inoffensive, retiring, unsocial, un- 
enterprising, studious, upright, silent, un- 
ambitious, travelled gentlem.,n, and I be- 
lieve it all; but whoever heard, except from 
his biographer and brother-in-law, who 
seems to intimate it, that he (assesses vigor 
and originality of thought, impressiveness of 
speech, animation of feeling, and a lecture- 
room personal presence, without most of 
which, no man, who desires to see the inter- 
ests of medical education p osper, should 
accept a professorial chair, fou may ask, 
Mr. Editor, whether the existing controver- 
sy (provoked, as I will show, bv 
professor Biersons friends) cannot be pro- 
secuted without bringing his qualifications 
into account. I answer, that it cannot; for 
the very reason that his friends in the Board 
have sacrified the peace and interests of the 
college to his advancement. Thus it is, 
that weak but worthy men, through the com- 
passion of their friends are billeted upon 
public institutions, where their utmost ef- 
forts can accomplish nothing for the public 
good. When the acts which place and re- 
tain them there are to be canvassed, their 
qualifications must, of course, be discussed, 
and their unfitness exposed. 
j taken up, themselves entered the ring, and 
i on the 29th of the following May, issued a 
I more formal declaration of war, in which 
they set forth to the world that the “College 
commenced its first session in 1824.” Thus 
it appeared at the outset, that the party pro-- 
voking the contest had not agreed on the 
facts which should enter into their manifesto. 
No one, from this or some other cause, 
appeared in the defensive, until the month 
of December, when the Third District Med- 
cal Society made a publication, in which 
was a letter of mine, in reply to a second 
application concerning the origin, progress, 
and present state of the College. In that 
letter I ventured to question the correctness 
of the declarations which I have just quoted, 
and asserted that the institution went into 
operation in the autumn of 1820, The 
Board were not slow in replying, and Col. 
Davies forthwith published a second edition 
of his own separate manifesto, to which he 
appended his communication of the previous 
January. 
I propose, with your permission, to dissect 
the whole, and although living dissections 
may be painful to the dissected, they must, 
in this instance, blame themselves for com- 
ing under the knife. They have laid them- 
selves on the table, and invited its action, I 
shall give them as little pain as possible; for 
they are my neighbors, and some of them, 
I am sure, would not have done me injus- 
tice, if the esprit du corps of the Board had 
not required it. 
The matter stands thus. Having, by par- 
tiality and preference for Dr. Pierson, com- 
pelled me to resign, (on which event I made 
no public complaint) they were seized with 
an apprehension that ray friends might be 
displeased, and think that my early labors in 
forming and organizing the school and its 
auxiliary, the hospital, entitled me to justice 
from the Boards of both establishments, they 
adopted, as a means of justification, the 
scheme of attempting to prove that the pre- 
sent Medical College of Ohio is totally dis- 
tinct from that chartered, on my application, 
in 1819, and, therefore, that I have no higher 
claims to a place in it, than their protegee, 
Dr. Pierson. This, to use a military phrase, 
is the position from which I propose to rout 
them. 
The Medical Department of Transylvania 
University was projected in 1814 or ’l5. In 
1816 I was appointed one of its professors, 
but a faculty was not organized till the au- 
tumn of 1817. In the spring of 1818, I re- 
signed, and came home with the express 
and avowed intention of attempting the es- 
tablishment of a similar school in this place, 
where, as far as I know or have ever heard, 
such an insiitution had not been thought of 
by any one, certainly by none of those who 
are now or have ever been either its trustees 
or professors. Now, bad I continued in Lex- 
ington, it is a fair presumplion that many 
years would have rolled away before an ef- 
fort would have been made at this place,and 
that the nroaent College t -raid bav« s'.ill 
been in futuro, as you Latinists would say. 
Early in the year 1819 I made a visit to 
Columbus, and presented to the General As- 
sembly the projet of a) Medical school, with 
a bill for a charter. The present head of the 
board of trustees accompanied me on other 
business, and can testify that the proposition 
was entirely a new one in the Legislature. 
Some of the members thought it unnecessa- 
ry, others supposed it was for my own ex- 
clusive benefit, and others preferred to have 
it located in Columbus or some other cen- 
tral village, entirely unaware of the necessi- 
ty of placing it in a large town. By patient 
explanations these objections were obviated, 
and the bill which I carried up was passed 
into a law without a single important altera- 
tion. It was modelled after that of the Bal- 
timore school, inothis, that the professors 
were the corporators and governors, and con- 
sequently, there was no board of trustees. 
One of the professors appointed by the 
Legislature did not accept, and another, who 
was expected to take a place in the school, 
when elected declined doing so, in conse- 
quence of vvhich no faculty was organised 
that yean Meanwhile, the presses of the 
city were put in requisition, and all who felt 
disappointed in not getting professorships 
opened a fire upon myself and my project; 
the thunders of which must still reverberate 
in the ears of (hose who, at that time, lived 
in the city. In the autumn of 1820, howev- 
er, an organization was effected, with four 
professors and 24 pupils; seven of whom 
were graduated the next spring. Duringthe 
session I again visited Columbus, and by 
three weeks of unabating importunity,aided 
by the Representatives of this county, es- 
pecially Gen.Harrison, Capt Brown, and M. 
T. Williams, esq. and several enlightened 
members from other parts of theState,togeth- 
er with a considerable number of country 
physicians,who wrote letters on the occasion, 
I succeeded in obtaining the present char- 
ter ot the Commercial Hospital and Lunatic 
Asylum, with a sum of money to erect an 
edifice, and half the auction duties of the 
city, forever, as an endowment. 
Returning with these grants,! was forthwith 
assailed with greater virulence than ever in 
the newspapers and in town-meetings; and 
for some time it was uncertain whether the 
boon of the State would not be rejected. By 
this charter, the professois of the College 
were made, ex officio, the gratuitous medi- 
cal attendants on the hospital; but were to 
have the privilege of introducing the pupils 
of the College into it, as a school of practi- 
cal medicine; and the moneys paid by them 
for this purpose were to go into the treasury 
of the College, for the purchase of books, 
analomicel preparations and chemical appa- 
ratus. Thus the labors of (he month of Jan- 
uary, 1821, not only provided aseat of prac- 
tical medicine, but a permanent endowment 
for the College; both of which were ac-f 
quired for it, before the board of trustees 
had any existence. 
At the same time, I presented a printed me- 
morial to the General Assembly, praying for 
pecuniary aid, from which I shall make the fol- 
lowing extract: 
‘‘We have already seen that the endowed u- 
niveruties of Ohio have not the revenues, nor 
the location, that would enable them to adopt 
and foster the Medical College which your ho- 
norable body h;>s solemnly constituted; and it 
is therefore on legislative munificence only, that 
its immediate guardiansean rely, for (he means 
of supplying the wants, which, after their own 
industry and enterprise have heeti brought in- 
to the utmost state of requisition, must still re- 
main unsatisfied. For them? Ives the Profess- 
ors solicit nothing: they ask assistance for the 
Institution only. The following are some of the 
important objects which this assistance might 
be made to effect: I. The augmentation of the 
Library: 2. The collection of a Museum of A- 
natomical preparations: 3 The purchase of 
Chemical apparatus: 4. The erection of an ed- 
ifice, with suitable apartments for the reception 
of these collections, and the accommodation of 
the Classes during lecture hours. By whatever 
bounty these might be obtaii ed, they would 
be (he property of the corporation, and cannot 
therefore be expected to he contributed by the 
Professors themselves, were their resources, e- 
qual to such liberality.’’ 
The second session of the School in the 
autumn of[JB2l, commenced with five pro- 
fessors and a class of 32 pupils, seven of 
whom, at a public commencement, the en- 
suing spring, received the degree of Doctor 
of Medicine. At this commencement, in 
public addresses to the graduates and citi- 
zens assembled, I dwelt, emphatically, on 
the necessity and important of assistance 
from the State, and, thus, Sptead abroad in 
society, as far as I had it in my power, the 
importance of a liberal endowment of the 
institution. In addition to all these things, 
I distributed a printed circular throughout 
the whole valley of the Mississippi, making 
known, the great natural and statistical ad- 
vantagesof Cincinnati,fora Medical School. 
Such were some of the labors, which laid 
the foundation of the Medical College and 
Hospital in this place, the latter of which 
was endowed with half the auction duties, 
and the former with the fees which might be 
paid by the students, for admission into the 
wards of the sick Both were permanent. 
That of the Hospital was munificent, and 
that of the College might be made a consid- 
erable yearly income. 
It is undeniable, then, that between the 
years 1818 and 1822, these two institutions 
were not merely projected, where neither 
had been thought of before, but -actually 
organized and endowed, without the aid of 
an’y, and measureably, as I could show, 
in defiance of some, of those who now take 
to themselves the whole crec.it. 
The School, however, was in its infancy, 
and infancy is the era of disease. It had 
its troubles, but they were not as great as 
those of the School of Philadelphia, in its 
early stages; nor as those of Lexington, 
which, for five years, after the first professors 
were appointed, had but one session, with a 
class of only'twenty pupils. I have former- 
ly detailed the events of the year 1822, and 
shall not now repeat them. Suffice it to say, 
that in the spring of that }7ear, I was ex- 
pelled by two of my colleagues, (who have 
themselves been since expe' ;d) and that in 
December following, the legislature ap- 
pointed a board of The law for 
this purpose was entitled * <o ,J 
the act entitled an act auth rizing the es- 
tablishment of a Medical College; and it 
repealed so much of the act of 1819 as came 
within its purview.* 
In this new law, no power was given to 
confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine; 
nor, indeed, was there any enumeration of 
corporate powers; or authority to keep and 
use a common seal; or the injunction to attend 
on the Hospital. It was simply a transfer 
of the corporate powers from the professors 
to a Board of Trustees, who were (o be go- 
verned, by the unrepealed provisions of the 
Charier, obtained by myself in 1819; and 
they were so governed, for more than three 
yeats. The Board proceeded to fill up the 
vacancies in the Faculty, recognizing the 
two professors then in the School, as legal- 
ly appointed; and, after being suspended 
for one year, 1823-4, in consequence of my 
expulsion, it recommenced in the autumn of 
1824, with four professors; and this, in 
their circular of last spring, is what they 
mean by saying it “commenced its first 
session in 18124'’’; what the seven lawyers of 
the Board, would make the people of Ohio 
believe, was the commencement of a new 
corporation, and a new School! Thus, if 
a new organization should be given to our 
city council, by the Legislature, the city 
would be a new corporation, and might get 
rid of all its debts—a matter worthy of be- 
ing thought of in these hard times. 
In 1825, February 5, the Legislature, a- 
gain, amended the law, reduced the Board 
of Trustees from thirteen to seven, retrans- 
ferred, to the Faculty, many of the powers, 
taken from them in 1822, and endowed the 
insiitution with the remaining half of the 
auction duties, for four years. Here, again, 
was another new corporation—the begin- 
ning of another College—though, according 
to the publication of the Trustees, the pre 
sent one had commenced the autumn before! 
In the next December, 1825, the General 
Assembly again take up the subject, and 
consolidating all the laws into one, repeal 
the whole, beginning with that of 1819, and 
proceeding down to that of February, 1825; 
and here, again, according to Col. Davies, 
who differs from most of the Board, is 
another new College commenced, having 
its first session as late as the autumn of 1826! 
And this is the act for which (he Colonel 
claims the endowment of auction duties, 
though, as I have just said, that endowment 
was granted in the preceding February, by 
a different Legislature from that of 1825-6, 
which passed the present law! (See Statutes 
of those sessions.) This law extended 
the term of the grant from four to six years, 
that is for two years,which is the entire ben- 
efit which it brought to the institution. 
Still, the Board and the Colonel have spo- 
ken with the happiest self-complacency of 
this consolidating law, under the pompous 
title of a new charter; and insist that be- 
cause all the preceding acts were merged in 
it, the corporation is now a new one, and the 
original School of 1819, and of coarse that 
of 1822 and that of 1825 as both depend- 
ing on it for the power of conferring degrees, 
are all extinct! I have looked a little into 
* See Statutes of Ohio for 1832-3. 
this very important act, and will give you, 
Mr, Editor, its new points. First, it pro 
vides that the Board shall make an annual 
report to the Legislature, like the Trustees 
ot our other Colleges. I do'not perceive 
what there is any thing in this for the Trus 
tees to pique themselves upon. - 
Second : it authorizes eacli District Med- 
ical Society, of which there are twenty four 
in the State, to send an indigent student to 
attend the lectures gratuitously, which I am 
willing to grant, has been of service to the 
institution, by swelling its annual catalogue 
of students, and concealing the low estimate 
put upon it by (he profession abroad. In 
the present session, the number is greater 
than it ever was before, making about one- 
fourth of the whole number of bona fide, 
matriculated students. It would appear, 
• hen, that the cholera only frightened away 
those who were about to pay their money! 
This is certainly a singular distinction, in 
the moral effects of that singular epidemic! 
Third: This same famous and benificent 
new charter repealed that part of the Hospi- 
tal of 1821, which required that the fees 
paid by students for admission to the wards 
of the sick, should be specifically appropria- 
ted to (fie purcfiase of books, anatomical 
preparations and chemical apparatus, and 
cast them into the contingent fund of the 
Faculty, whence they were drawn out for 
current expenses. Thus it abolished the 
only source of constant and permanent rev- 
enue, which the College ever bad, and of 
this the Trustees feel themselves at liberty to 
boast! Bull must bring this communica- 
tion to a close. 
According to these worthy gentlemen, 
Cincinnati has already had four distinct 
Medical corporations, and four different 
schools; and still all of them, till the year 
of 1826, depended on the original charter 
of 1819, for the power to confer degrees, 
use a common seal, hold and convey proper- 
ty, and maintain official relations with the 
Hospital! 
Such are the absurdities, into which the 
Board are driven, to justify themselves for 
the course of illiberal and disingenuous pol- 
icy, which compelled me to leave an insti- 
tution, which I had founded, to which I 
had devoted four years of unremitting toil, 
and for which, 1 had expended the only mo- 
ney that was ever paid, for this object, from 
the earnings of any individual. Whether 
I ought to claim any credit for these labors 
and sacrifices, is not for me to say; hut if 
eleven of my fellow-citizens, think it worth 
robbing me of, and appropriating to them- 
selves, I hope to be excused, for regarding 
it worth defending. 
FOR THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. 
THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO. 
Mr. Editor,—Most of your readers know, 
that there is in this city an institution, de- 
nominated the Medical College of Ohio. 
It is, in its nature, and objects, a public in- 
stitution; and every body in the city and 
state, has an interest, direct or indirect, im- 
mediate or remote, gieat or small, in its suc- 
cess. Its government has been confided, by 
the Legislature, to a Board of 11 Trustees, 
10 of whom reside in the city, and have 
held their places for some time. Many of 
the physicians of the State are of opinion, 
that the administration of this Board has 
not been faithful, impartial and intelligent; 
and, last spring, those of Green and War- 
ren counties, passed a series of resolutions, 
declaratory of these alleged facts, and cal- 
ling on their brethren throughout the state, 
to aid them in an application to the Legis- 
lature for the appointment of a new and 
enlarged Board, drawn, in part, from the 
country. They also appointed a committee 
of five members, to collect and disseminate 
information, on the subject, in the summer, 
the chairman of this committee addressed a 
letter to me, as one who knew something of 
the institution, asking for some account of 
its past and present condition. I gave him 
none—and in September, he wrote again, 
when I prepared and transmitted to him a 
long letter, containing a great number of 
documents relative to the school. The facts 
which they embrace, went to impeach the 
conduct of the Board, in this, that they 
had shown to one of their professors, Dr. 
Pierson, a citizen of New York, an act of 
favoritism, which had already injured, and, 
in its progress, was likely, still further to 
injure, the insiitution. In attempting to 
account for this overweening and disastrous 
partiality, for a citizen of a distant state, 
whose claims on a place in the Faculty of 
the school, have never yet been perceived by 
its pupils or the physicians of our city, I 
ventured to ascribe it to the influence of his 
brother-in-law, Col. Samuel W. Davies, a 
member of the Board. The committee to 
whom my letter was addressed, at length 
made a publication, and it constituted the 
longest chapter. Coming to the eyes of the 
Board, they forthwith made a reply, in pam- 
phlet form; and not content with this, Col. 
Davies, one of its authors, made a separate 
reply, in another pamphlet. Passing by the 
former for the present, I propose to notice 
only the latter. Unable to overturn the facts 
which I had set forth, Col. Davies resorted 
to a denial, of having exerted any influence 
whatever, in procuriug the original appoint- 
ment of his brother-in-law, or in obtaining 
for him the favors which have been since 
granted; and, also affirms, that the late Dr. 
E. H. Pierson, the uncle of the professor, 
and another member of the Board, never 
did any thing to effect his nephew’s election. 
Now, the object of this communication is, 
to state facts from which 1 drew the infer- 
ences, ihat the folly of the Board in this 
appointment, and the later proceedings in 
relation to professor Pierson, were prompted 
by those gentlemen, 
I state it, then, as a fact, that in the year 
1821, when 1 was a professor in the Col- 
lege, Dr. E. H. Pierson, recommended his 
nephew to me, for a professorship. After- 
wards, the uncle became a trustee, and I 
-can scarcely suppose, that he forgot, in his 
new and influential situation, the interests 
of one whom he had previously nominated. 
At the time the appointment was made, Col. 
D., the brother-in-law, was, also, a member 
of the Board; and, as I have supposed, uni- 
ted his influence with that of his uncle. 
This, however, he denies. But I still think, 
that but for the presence, in that honorable 
body, of two relatives, making nearly a sixth 
part of the whole number, some other ordi- 
nary and inefficient man than Mr. Pierson, 
would have been called to the chair of 
Materia Medica. How, in fact, come the 
Board to know, that the city of New York 
contained such an aspirant, if they did not 
learn it from his kinsmen? They had 
certainly never heard of him, either as a 
writer or lecturer. He was appointed five 
or six years ago, and who, in the west, has 
yet heard of him, except in the pamphlets, 
to which I have referred? one of which in- 
forms us, that he is the son of a revolution- 
ary officer, a graduate of Princeton College, 
and has received the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine, from the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. This,"to be sure, is rare and high com- 
mendation ; but it Would havebeen higher still, 
for the writer to have felt and said, that such 
commendation was unnecessary: That pro- 
fessor Pierson, had not lived forty years, 
•without making himself known: That his 
writings, his lecture-roorn eloquence, his 
moral and professional power in society, 
had made society familiar with his life and 
character. But my business is with his bi- 
ographer, rather than himself. 
I have already said, that Col. D. denies, 
having been in any degree influential in ob- 
taining for professor Pierson the favors which 
were lately granted to him by the Board, 
at the expense of other professors, and of 
the peace, dignity, and prosperity of the Col- 
lege. I shall proceed to state the reasons of 
my belief. 
In the month of February, 1831, when 
Col. D. and myself were in Columbus, he 
proposed to me a union between the Medical 
College of Ohio, and the new Med cal De- 
partment of Miami University, by taking 
three professors from each; and stated to 
-me, that professor Pierson was one of those, 
whom he would select from the former. 
The Colonel was, at that time, the agent of 
the Board, at our seat of government. 
Afterwards, in the month of June, when 
the Trustees of the College, themselves, un- 
dertook a consolidation, Col. Davies was one 
of a standing committee of three, to bring 
it about ; and the chief difficulty was to find 
a place for Prof. Pierson, in the union which 
they themselves projected, and were urging 
upon the Miami Faculty. Without a mo- 
ment’s xWarning, they dismissed three of 
their long cherished professors, each one of 
cvhora thought himself at least equal to prof. 
DANIEL DRAKE. 
February 8,1832. 
for the dairy national republican. 
THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO. 
Mr. EditorAt the close of a communication 
on tne otti mst., i staieo, tnat me last act passed 
by the Legislature relative to the Medical Col- 
lege of Ohio. December, 1625, repealed that part 
of the Hospital Charter of 1821, which declared 
that the moneys arising from the admission of 
the pupils of the College into the Hospital, should 
be held, as a special fund, by the Faculty for the 
purchase of books, phi'osophical apparatus, and 
anatomical preparations, and that it, thus,abolish, 
ed the only revenue, intended to be permanent, 
which had, or ever has been granted to that in- 
stitution. I also set forth, that, heretofore, this 
revenue had not been appropriated to those ob- 
jects, but to the contingent expenses of the Fa- 
culty. Of this abuse, lam not aware that the 
Trustees ever took the least notice, in their re- 
ports to the Legislature, or in any other way.— 
Now, had this not been done, several hundred 
dollars, might have been, by this time, accumu- 
lated, and much more in future would have been 
lhus obtained. Indeed, if for the next ten years, 
we were to estimate the annual number ot grad- 
uates at 40, (last year it was 36,) and each can- 
didate were,as in the University of Pennsylvania, 
required to take the Hospital ticket, and only 
five dollars should be charged for it, the amount 
Would be two thousand dollars; and if the number 
of graduates should become equal to that of the 
Lexington School,at the present time,the amount 
thus accruing, would not be less than $4OO per 
annhm. Such ought to be the fruits of this en- 
dowment, created before the present Board of 
Trustees had an existence 
That no revenue has as yet been derived to the 
College Corporation, from this source, is to be 
attributed to its professors, who baVe used the 
money for their contingent expenses; and as 
that part of the law of 1821, which required the 
moneys thus accruing to be specifically appro- 
priated to the objects of which I have just spo- 
ken, has been repealed by the boasted new char- 
ter, it is now optional with the professors whether 
the hospital fees shall at any time go to those 
objects. 
But, although, from mismanagement, the Col" 
lege has derived no pecuniary benefit from the 
Hospital, it is undeniable, that the latter ha» 
contributed to build up the former. In all their 
circulars, for the last seven years, the Trustees 
and Faculty have represented the Hospital to 
students, as a valuable auxiliary to the College ; 
and there Cannot, I think, be a doubt, that it has 
Contributed not a little to raise the school into 
whatever notoriety it has acquired. Thus the 
labors of those who preceded the Board of Trus- 
tees, have been productive of fruits, which that 
Board have gathered. In the midst of the har- 
vest, they have sought to blacken the reputation 
of their predecessors, and would make the com- 
munity believe, that “whatever there is of good 
report,” in the history of the School is of their 
creation. It is neither just nor manly, in this 
manner, to appropriate to themselves what is due 
to others, and it is unreasonable for them to ex- 
pect thus to monopolize, without being exposed. 
The whole credit which the institution has as 
yet reflected on all concerned in it, is little e- 
nough to be sure ; and I do not wonder that tho 
Board feel that it will not bear division; but if 
despoiled of a part, they must blame themselves, 
for had not the pursuit been provoked by them- 
selves, no part of the plunder would have been 
reclaimed. _ 
DANIEL DRAKE, M. D. 
February 10,1833. 
DANIEL DRAKE, M. D. 
February 1, 1833. 
TO THE EDITORS OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. 
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO. 
Mr. Editor:—Will you and your readers 
consent to be amused or edified, as the case 
may be, with some remarks on (he constitu- 
tional history of our Medical College? I shall 
take it for granted that you will, as constitu- 
tional topics are the order of the day. 
Seven cities are said to have disputed for 
the honor of Homer’s birth-place, and up 
to this hour, it would be quite possible to 
raise a controversy as to that of Gen. Jack- 
son. A dispute in some respects of a simi- 
lar kind has been engendered in this quarter 
concerning our Medical school; a fact which, 
in the absence of more conclusive proofs, 
may be received as evidence of its celebrity. 
I have not the honor of having commenced 
this quarrel, though generally, the prime mo- 
ver, as you know, of the civil wars, which 
agitate the profession in Cincinnati. The 
credit of getting up that which is now raging, 
is fairly due to some Trustees of the Col- 
lege, who, although not physicians, regulate 
the manufacturing machinery, and have, 
therefore, a right, occasionally, to engender 
a little strife. 
The champion, who threw down the glove, 
in this instance, was Col. S. W. Davies. On 
the 27th of January, 1832, that gentleman 
inserted in the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, an 
anonymous publication, which concluded 
with the following sentence: 
“If the school established in 1819, which was 
abolish'd by a repeal of its charier in Decem- 
ber, 1825, as will appear by referring to the 
twenty-fourth volume of the laws of Ohio, 
page 8, had any property belonging to it, no 
part of that property came to the hands of the 
Trustees of the existing institution; and in jus- 
tice to those Trustees, it ought to be known, 
that they have established the present Medical 
College, under a charter devised by themselves, 
and enacied by the Legislature on their petition. 
“That the entire endowment of the institu- 
tion is of their procuring, and that in its estab- 
lishment, they have not been benefitted by any 
thing that was done, under the first charter, or 
that appertained to the first school. 
“It is a fact verified by the statutes of the 
State, that the medical college established in 
1819, was abolished by the repeal of its char- 
ter in 1825: and (hat in the same year the new 
school, now in operation was chartered and en- 
dowed. The result, then, of the whole matter 
is, that Doctor Drake obtained a charter, with- 
out an endowment, in 1819, and established a 
medical school which failed. The Trustees ob- 
tained a charter, with an endowment, in 1825, 
and established a medical School, which is now 
in the full tide of successful experiment.” 
The board of trustees, finding that the 
glove cast by one of their members was not I