True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1838-11-02
AIR. WILLIAMS. OcUnsr.


MR.. WILLIAMS, OCUIIST,
NOW AT THE JEFFERSON HOUSE, JEFFERSON STREET,
LOUISVILLE.
70 ne Editor of the Louisville .3doerti'er:
~ i't-lt appears by the observations of the Editors
~ OF The Nashville Presbyterian, Union and Trans
that the .0h Gentleman is among the Doctors This
IS proved by lis kngly rage, knowing that his tme is
but short and that the independcnt American people
are aote to Judge Tor themselves what pu!s and
nnpos'tons The worthy editors who Doctors,
The prnpneors, editors or editors of the above
named Journals c@t every letter from persons have
restored 10 SIGHT in tn. above places, puts.
l. The iact Is, TINT never had slici, great success
WITHIN so UNITED nerod as ten or twelve days. One
Wno was nGta n2nt zen years. who had only seen the
ny rom ~. p'Ful' eHan to see to follow his mas ter
10 my hoel, instead OF being obliged to be led by him.
TWO V"hn@ ""ieS VINO ad each lost the sight Of one
eve, one 'er zen years aud the other for nearly two
yeS tl s' p"' oI mem the o'hef eye very weak;
rt eacn" ,'ioSe Young 'adeS began to see with both
rN's? "H.n ople" eig9 tnrse SUI continues, OK
cePuns taeY ave under the influence on dominai n Of
,he Meh.fhi doctors. Another is the daughter Of
resprctlhe merchant, "fnse name am bound never
10 nenio las he pad me my teesl, who said she had
lost the sight OF one eye from the age OF II months
out mat she now begins to read large letters viii the
nthff eye completely shut; TINS the dnctor editors
k"e" rs tue gentleman told me himself he hid con-
Mc en us o.uehter !" me Once OF the medc. editors
NAV they might be informed OF the fact Tile last
sn INC non IS an, elderly gentleman by the name of
cunt, nearly seventy wears of age, who declared pub
'c ny Letter. which he took TO I'll ''a different Offices
IN hnsnVIlr but one md himself told me- he had paid
e i'll that letter that he ha otalIy deprived Of
the s'4' nt ono aye from * after his birth,
which lis mother sat d to .n, o.. occasioned by The
measles or small pox; that nu v could no, ony see
the light of the sun, for the first time that lie rcroliccts
but the sims also, aia was beginning to distinguish
'any objects; and did, before left that city, give
ny orH"f hat he could walk about the streets
with she other eve completely closed He said he had
been l'iclnber OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
| oh fi,,y,-, |. n
.. reltrl ".fi ,ai never greater success than ct
Nashville md 80 @1e medical and clerca doctors
had never batrv. 80 Lach reason To be enrnqcd. The
pinns ndisrrtcr' " Rev clerical DIR Smith proves
when ne stated 10 ~ :aat about six years past he wo
converted fror3 lGp of'inc nid4! belirre in the
docn of he tiioir thu. must have ar tr;ling
crrrtlat must have metiit TO say tn before the
end of SIX years to come, he st'!d be converted from
his nfdcliy, as the spirit of the ',r minister Of the
peaceful and cusn doctrines of the Christian religion
does rot breathe out destruction, rage cnun'ny and
ialseood to please his medical friends "ninst the
man whom he knew had done so much good an 4 no in
jury to any one. Al the inhabitants of Nashvills sNokc
OF the great ucc.ss had -cept the medical dnct,
Most OF them also had been informed by Mr. Iuin o,
the cure performed on his totally blind eye.
d Tue ttnouS 90 inh ;. otthis town. prctends that
have ios the t0frcIs gained in the North since nv
HrlVn IN the Southwest. This proves, nwever had
aud that Kept them until arrived in this section If
go'nod one ~ the NORTH ought to have gained anoth-
or III the Nh and southwest, and still hope to wear
them on NY very youthful brow on the day leave in
spite of the evaporation of the great DR. s. if NAV
Judge from the man ave already benefited in this
city ittin three days.
H.. Inc ob,cl Of the present is to inform the med-
cal Golans and c!tors Of he Republican and Trans
Scrt as well rs the clerical Or smith Of the G. Pres
hyeriat and ot the Union, of Nashville, well as the
cit"rand sub medical editor o! the Memphis Enquirer,
as well es iF Prentice, the editor of the Louisville
Journal, ana n,Sn NE medical Goliah editor of this
cN t,e great 'r =, That shall bring actions against
thsnn Tor Vtupera9n, slnnIcr or caumnv, mncdi-
utely airr my arrival III New York. as well as against
thef pro rcn the nedcal Golinhs the north
pNIrt II
!ald OF line W, hn have brought tho of all
my medical h"I'nhs ct the north, as well as the south
ana The west to the srind3'nc The afflicted, there
fore, may calculate on finding during the wcole of
next year NJ New orb, here letters post paid and
no others, will be sure to reach me.
>. 10 inform the Public that the pnl1, so called,
winch the ler cicrcaiy cont cred midel pretend was
written Tor HIM, was written than week prior
and intended for the Rev. y. Howell who read it in
my presence without nranitsling amy dsarp.obnrion;
on HE contrary took to his study and cuncnscl il in
the way he did, which lie said he thought would an
"rr my purpose hchorh he delivered them bntl to mo
without rretonin" that wanted to h"ile him from his
duty, as never could presume 10 offer that gentleman
or any OTHER any money Tor stating facts The Rev
Doctors nwm statement is before the public had he not
examiner all my dip mas, &c &c. wi h crn,lcniun,
M intimate friend {" his, ms well MS the whole of my
patients, IN company with another clergyman, and
io'hd them all to be auth"ntic and all my patients
PC more or less benefited, he never could have been
induced pF loltl stranger to draw up such article
rs Wrete nm Ell for publication, ent addressed it to
MIR StrInghe!d, editor Of the : W Advocate.
w. ~" wonder the clear sighted medical Golnhs of
nashville took the ain. and therefore used tlrir cf-
i"fiS to Iom with them the ai-powcru athnric phys
irn' and mioeym4l force Of the sud to-bc-conIcrcd
terlth hLdei. we read in the Bible thai &, tree is
N""Mn ny l'I it"'4. dare say the converted intdcl
mas preached from that passage.
Z. IL evidently wanted to establish his moral ch'r
nG!"r as "A man, by s"wing that he was above being
hllbed. let MS see whether The sum Of tliv pieces of
SN"f VIII Apply t" Inn as we'll n it we'll applied
TO anHit2r con erie Ii!e who in the days of Tho in
t"t,"n o. 'is 'Nlne '"Strr, absolutely sold him for