True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1838-08-11
MIR. WILKINS, OCULIST,


MR.. WILLIAMS, OCULIST, A
NOW AT THE JEFFERSON HOUSE, JEFFERSON STREET,
LOUISVILLE. ..
To the Editor Of the Louisville .4drertiser:
SI2-ft appears by the observation, of the Editors
~ of The Nashville Presbyterian, rnien and Trans
cript, well the editors of the Memphis Enquirer,
that the "Old Gentlemen is noag the Doctors Ri
is proved BY his knglv rage, knowing that his time is
but Short and that ths indenendcnt American neonle
are able to judge or themselves what pufs and
| imPostons. The o'thy editors who are Doctors,
the prprietors, editors snbetitors of the above
named journals, call letter from persons have
| res ored to sight in thu above pieces. putfs.
]. The fact is, at had SUI h great success
within so limited nerod as ten ar twelve days. One
who was aged about ten wears, who had only the
light from his birth, began to follow fs master
to my hotel instead of being obliged to be led hv hi n.
Two Young ladies, who had eachlost the sight Of one
eve, one for ten wears and the other far nearly two
wears, having both of them the other verv weak;
vet each of those Young ladies' began with both
eyes, which benefit pledge myself still continues ey
ceptng they are under the influence doninati Of
| the Medical Doctors Another is the ,|aug ',,er of
| espectah|p merchant wrosn name am hound never
to IGNITION, las he paid me my faes), who said she Ind
lest the sight of one eve from the age Of 10 months
bAt thar she begins read large letters wi the
other completely shut. This the doctor editors
| knew, as the gentleman told me himself he hid con-
due ed his daughter 70 the office rf the medic Il editors
that they might be nfrned of The fact. The last
shall m ION is an elderly gent 'nan by the name of
.Voun, nearly seventy wears of age who declared pnb
clv hv letter. which he toak ," ~ The diff rent offices
in Nashville but one, and hrss old me- he had oaid
| for he insertion whatever the anded, Nhn clar-
| e i'll that letter that he ha OtalIv deprived
| the soht # one ave fro i" ks fter his birth
| which his neither stat ID to h. occasinued by the
measles or small pnx that +, uld not only see
the light of the sum- for the first tine that he re"ecs
but the STARS also, and ginning to disrguish
many Objects and did, before left that ritv. viz ma
nv pr # that h. could see to walk about the Sr cts
with the other eve completely c sed. H sail he y
been me'sher OF the Methodist Episcopal " rh or
ne rlv forty vc~-s an that his word never doubt
ed through Il ho'e course ofhs life.
9. | rereu. ~ ,ad never greater snrce.s than 4
Nashville Az. ~ he medical aud lerica doctors
had never betr r. "a ich reason 10 he ezra ed. The
pons indignatiS1 q, Rec. clerical DR. Smith proves
when statedt that about six wears past, he wa,
converted fror tel perfect infdc to believe in the
doctrin of the b0le that he must have 'rline
error-hat he must have say, til before the
end of SIX years come he sh nd be converted from
his infdelitv, as the spirit Of the true minister of the
peaceful and benign doctrines of the Christian re gi N
does rAt breath ont destruction rage, cat ny aud
falsrhood to lease his medical friends, against the
man "lom he kne" had done so much good, and no IN,
jury to MI the inhabitants IF Naslvill- spoke
of The treat nrc IS had, s-cepi the ed"afd ciors
Most of them also had been informed bv Mr. Ynuut OF
the cure performed on his totally blind eve.
8. The f, Gus Go iah $. oills town, pret0n1 Mot
have lost the lasres gained in the Norll -urs I'D,
iva in the Southwest. This proves, hrwcver ad
and that kept them until arrived in thu ecdrn. 4
gained one n the north, ought to have Va nod uu1f
nthP south and southwest and sill hurr I'm Won
them on my very youthful brow on the day ave, il
spite of the vuuperaon of the DIR :, if ma,
judge from the man ] already benefited in TIL,
CITY thin three DAYS.
a., The object of the present is to inform the mcdi
cal Goliahs and editors of .he Republican and Ira s
script, as well the clerical DR. ) With of the c. Pres
bvterian and of the Union of Nashville, as well as thu
editor and sub medical editor of the Memphis enquirer
well es Mr. Prentice, the editor of the Louisville
Journal, and ase the medical Goliah editor of thi
city, the great DR. that shall bring actions agais
them al! f v,tuperati n Islander or calumuy ilnnadi
,Erartn al Nav Watt,
their amableh e ,re" the medical Goahs efthe north
now bind IN, 7ef by promise, nes erto quit his hApp,
land of 1.-The ~, until have br ugh tho noses of ii
my medical Goahs of the nor h, as well as the sout
aud the west to the grndstone! The afflicted there
fore, may calculate finding me during the erols o
next year in New York, here letters, post paid an,
no Others will lie sure to reach me.
5. To inform the public that the uu1, so cal ed
which the Rev. cl'cnllv converted infde pref md wa
written for him. was written ore than wees proi
and intended for the Rev. D. Hewall, who read it il
my presence without manif-sng any disapnrobatior
:, on he contrary, tnokt to his study and nden>ed il
the way he did, which lie said he thought would an
wrr my purpose better; he delivered them b til INC
u without preen ing that wanted ibe him fro h..
, duty, as never could presume to offer that gentleman
or any Other, any money for ststng facts The Rev
Doctors own statement is before The public: had he no
examined all my dip las, &c. &c. wi gen lenan
intimate friend IF his, as well as the whoIc of m,
), patients, in company with another clergyman, AM
!, found them all to be authentic, and all my patients t.
be more or less be eftted he could have bee
induced bv total sranger raw up such an article
AS wrete him elffir publication, addressed it t,
, Mr. SPRINGFIELD, editor of he S w c Advo ate.
,, g.. No wonder the clear lighted medical tioI,ahs o
j. Nashville took the ala aud therefore used their et
forts to Join with them til ail-powertu, atlll 'c, PHI
icn aud inelle tua force of the sid o-bc-conv"rte,
clerical mfdel. We read in the Bible tina tree il
$ known by its trus. dare say the converted nida
has preached from thai passage.
I. He evidently want9 to esanliS his moral ch r
acer a. man, by shelving hat he ,bove benz
brbed. Let us see whether the of Thirty pieces q
silver will apply To hin IS we'll it well applied
to another erte infdel, who in the aays of the in
cnrnation of his Divine Master, absolutely sold him TO
mt number of piece Of silv,r Wy auswe is, that i
was never inende as b ihe nor could b! con ,Ie.
part Of all the regular printers fee, of 81 per SOU re
Cona ming lwo or three columns of closely prr lie,
matrer which we've to be repeated 'mee four time:
in the PRESBYTERIAN, Union md Monitor nurnnS had
nten led bribe him, ~hould ave offered him
lenst $500, his regular fee nste OF 0, which, in al
probability, he would have gladly eived hi, fee
and not asa hrhe. ON The contrary, if ai been ca
liable of oAcrin br be, shonId cernnl> have dom
it in to have insured hi- ac eptance.
8. lla1 the Rev. Doctor been really converted t,
the helefof the doctrines the .avi ur lie would no
have promised to ce,nr and inv my patients it'll
nut keeping his word as have always found ever,
, minste" 9th gospel yea Gus to do.
9. Had he been really erted he " lul nj rub
lilly have spossn g'inst tie american ns ut on
which, 1t Is well known, are more numerous and which
are superior to many in parts of Europe. !
| conduct 30 much disgu tea Young literary char
hcterss ms to be scMcelv restrained from punish nc hin
on the spo, by laying vnlen hands on him.
The Rev. gentleman, though Scotchmau l. vih,u
excuse (unle$s he is calnmniaed), although be- m
think he has right to abuse the American n ltHtu~
hecau he is covered infde say he ha> not IA
nj Int to speak well of the hri ges he g,e -afI
over fancy the gallant Captain 'irnud .a4d sever
other rahe Young gentl' men of "a h.Ie recor lee
well the conduct of his ous eXpounder of the liol,
scriptures!
TO- | never such demon in human share
l the Rev. Doctor was the da | cal To reason Wit
him. wheu he meHred my grev HAIR, with an uplitc,
gigantic arm if he would have fcIrd me /, III,
ground, for daring draw pous minister SWAY from
his duty, by br,he IF ~ pieces of silver really
1 trenbled mora thnu If me I'D Gentleman" had an
peared in his sht} e.
II. s,emy declare before God, and am NOT afr1,t
tocall tlinto wess that never. in the whole courS,
OF AZ years practice as an Ocust, in treat Britain
rance, "el 5inn and 'merica, single instance Of
tered as bride any amount 10 the editor of av jourp
but OnpenSHton for the space nccupied mud ~
trouble which occasoned them; aud that was uIwu,s
NOR inclined to reduce, rather than i'd ar money #,
, printer bill which is a sufficient proof that lad
moi ten ion 10 brihe.
+ H. LAST y.-I'he Memphis Enquirer for tvar. so..
weeks contains tissue OF fragrant faSflyra- 81 n,.y
The medical Goliah editors learue from elr /, NINA,
q OF the NJ Goahs of the North, and shall treat them
with s'le"t contempt until the proper time arives-
Unless II is true what have been int, rmed--"Sue
beggar and you will catch L." Ibougb I maid
him for my advertisements for two or three weeks he
only inserted them once.
You will please 10 insert this letter in your next pa
per, and obige yours, ne.
In haste,
JOHN WILLIAMS,
Louisville Jnlv 1887.
Copied from s S. w. c. 4dpocate of the 2ith June 1877
At the request of DIR. Williams, we nser the follow
edior OF III South Western ,hrisrian Adyocp1e yhn
it appears has examined the dislomas and her Il en-,