The central gazette. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1820-1827, 1824-12-25
FOR THE CENTRAL GAZETTE.
Imported Professors, & Virginia Slump
Orators and TrpsiGenfs

Orators and Presidents.
We have seen some extracts from Our
northern prints expressing much Indignation
at what they term, " importation of profes-
sors" for the University Of Virginia The
Boston Courier quotes. with appreciation, the
remarks OF the Connecticut Journal upop the
annunciation of the fact, that Mr.. Glmer had
engaged several professors from En- land who
were expected shortly to arrive. What Amer
lean, exclaims the Journal, can read the above
notice without indignation? Mr. Jefferson
might as well have sent To Europe for brick to
build his taverns and dormitorics Mr.. Gil
mer could have fully discharged his mission,
with half the trouble and expense. hv short
trip to New England :" and the Philadelphia
Gazette adds cor by still shorter trip to
Pennsylvania. Bot because Pennsylvania
does not prod luce stump Orators and p, esidenis,
the Virginians conclude that it produces no.
thing else of value, forgciful that the first ply
siciaos, philosophers. historians. astronomers
and painters, known in American annals, have
been citizens of our state - This importation
OF professors, say these journalists, " is the
greatest insult the American people have ever
rcceiv -
Wefear, that the respectful anticipa,ions Of
this objection, by our Rector and Visitors, in
Their late report TO our legislature. could not =,
and viii not. save us from the wrothfui indg-
nation OF Liresc sovcregns in literature the
learned and patriotick editors Of the Courier
the Journal and the Gazette. But the report
says, 50 The visitors were sensible that there
might he found 10 the different scmnaries Of
the United States. persons qualified TO conduct
these several schools with entire competence /;
but 1t was neither probable that they would
leave the situations in which thew then were,
nor honorable, nor moral TO endeavour To Sc
duce them rom their stations and to ha, c
filed the professional chairs with unemployed
and secondary characters, would not have ful.
filled the object, or satisfied the expectations
OF our country, in this institution II was
moreover believed that to advance in science.
We ought TO avail ourselves o the liehts OF
countries already advanced before us " sc
On this occasion also, it seems that we have
been so unfortunate as TO insult the American
people, by importing PIC fessors for our I'm
versIty, as we have heretofore ipsulted Them
by producing so many stump Orators and Pres
idcntS. But surely it has not been long since
the patriotic editors of New England were
seized with this adherence Of innovations
from Old England During the embargo and
wher the Hartford Convention was sittir %
they seemed To he possessed with sUcha lon =
ing after the flesh pots Of Egypt that they
would not onlv haze freely imported D. ofe4-
sors, bot also English legislators. governors
and rulers But now, it seems, they are dc
sirous that ailforeign Wedge OF Languages
History. and Mathematics should be incluGed
in the TARIFF
As to our respectable and scientific sister,
Pennsylvania, we certainly feel no inclina;ion
TO disparaCe her claim to the production Of TIA
tive genius and science hut really we Old not
know that she aboundcd so much as TO hav c
them to spare to her sister states Atthi, time.
one Of the most eminent professors in her
Medical University is Virginisn aud another
OF them, we believe, was lateya professor in a
University in Virginia and #, in recalling
him, she only took back what was her own, It
seems at least Inconsistent with her present
boosted super- abundance. For how many OF
her physicians, ph'losophcls, SC size may