Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-01-01

ar The medical students of the different colleges
at Philadelphia have held meeting, made report,
and passed resolutions, condemning, in no measu.
red TERMS the conduct Of the editors of the Philael.
phia Chronicle AMI the Spirit of the Times, who
in their papers denounced the students generally
set of drunken and pusiilanimonS ro,odics and
unp'1ncipied blackgaards, desperadoes and unru.
", bad passioned and iHgocerned indipiduais. If
the statements made by the committee are hut halt
true the editors of those papers had no shadow of
justification in then wholesale drnunciaton Of the
students, many among whom sustain characters for
moral acpor,mcnt and exemplary conduct, tha,
those overweenius conservJtors Of the public mo-
rails might well envy.
The following rs on extract from the report of
the committee Of students, o.chcr with the con-
cluding resolutions passed Ivy them:
III appears, on Tuesday evening, the All inst :,
a parry OF Students visited the National Theatre ,
where they had previously ensag d se,ts. Previ.
Gus to The rising Ct the curtain, one Of thc party
left his seat 10 procure bin of the performance
During his absence stranger took possession of
lis seat, who emphatcaliy refused TO give it up.
when requested to do by the occupants of the
box. When the young gentleman returned his re-
cues, was joined ty that of his fellows, but with no
avail, and he therefore compelled 10 have this
intruder elected by The authorities of the house.
Shortly after this occurrence had taken place, this
innovator returned, and 10 be prowIing
about with his eyes vindictively hent upon his sup
If, r. ,i,o
of the party being separated fom h companions,
met with the very same person who had acted so
unsentlemanly before; upon recognising the young
man, he exclaimed--'therc goes d----n student
and the next inlimaon he received of this will sus 8
hostile intentions, was blow upon his head, which
ielled him. This disturbance caused a congregation
of the colleagues Of this ruff n whp unprnvrkingly
fell upon every student who came 70 the assistance
of their friend,
1 Your Committee deem it Unnecessary TO en,er
further into the details of this aay, it being their
I ohject only to show that the Medical Students were
not the agsressors, but were acting upon the de-
fensve; the right no man, If he possesses common
sense, will deny. They would suffice it to say
though strange as it may appear; yet it is true
on that evening three students were arrested by the
police while every one Of the orignators of the
riot were permitted TO escape from justice. Wha,
can be the cause of such course Of conduc, on the
part Of the police. Are they men of known char.
acter We would inter-but we will leave tn,
inference to be drawn by the public.
/ Resolved, Tha, the students of the Medical Col
leges of this city regard the editors Of the Time,
and of the "Chroniclc," with then correspondent
''Cassius," as the organs and cl ques of class o
individuals, debased in mind and freed from the
restrain, of moral prncip ples-who, in all ages ant
in every country, have been at war with the mem
ters ofevery literary and seen ifc insuton, utter
ly opposed to dencency, gentili,y and education
and, such, their false statements require no fur
ther ne,ice or comment, ft
"rher creates. praises would scarcely prize,
Their sueeIs and Vpn.ures we alike desplse =
Resolved, That the proceeding of this meeting
he published in the United States Gazette, the Sat
urday Courier, and the Public Legsr.
r. +. BRAKELY, President.
J. X. Mason, Secretary"