Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-11-03
We find the following notice in Philadelphi,


paper:
DIR Dyou, OF Philadelphia, whose success in Pat.
ent Medicines induced him to believe that he would
De equally prosperous IN making money, but who
discovered the difference to his cost is at last
Prison, and has gone back again to his nos,ruma
and lotions.
IL all the quseks OF the Currency would thus GO
to making pills which people might buy os not as
they liked, it would be happy for tho country.
Go! with heavens blessing, DR. Dyou! and mix
poison more innocent. Lcave tampcring with the
circulation. which is tho fe-blood OF every mans
daily prosperity. For God's sake bleed him no,
to death, under prctenco tina, his blood is impure.
and thaiyou must empty his VEINS to kll thom again
With healthier fluid! Nor think Of infusing. into
the canals Of his body, artificial thing, some
Government juice better than old fashioned, blood
Forbear, good Doctor your bleeding, your blis-
terins, your pukes that the public stomach ,seis
your catharics that keep US forever on the trot.
Let drugs alone a truce with physic, OF which
the poor patient has surely had enough. lie IS
vet young, strong. and the disease principally Of
the doctors makngl is far from being fatal one
Pray lot il alone! No more medicine, 20 en,reat
you! Throw the Sub Treasury out at tho win
dow and its uslier twin the Exchequcr into tho
sop-tub. Let the young fellow get upon his legs
once mole. Put an axe or a spade into his hands:
| bid him 20 plough; tell him 10 bestir himself Say
not word OF tho currency OF veins OF pockets but
| make HIM irerk. That's worth all the nostrums
That poihecary "r politician invented to purify
the elaret Try it, and you'll soon SEQ how the
patients ansuid looks will freshen ur; telling YOU
by the glow upon his cheek, how pure the steam
has become tina, now bound, through his arteries in
stead Of creeping aud sickening and looming along.
as II did while you piled him with your cursed
doctor's-s,atf.
Doctor Dyou! You'rea patriot, and (what is
much more TO tho purpose) n of sense We
honour you, Sir! The public is under infinite ob
legations to you. As CIncinnaius to his plough, SO
you to your pss;le-an example as needful, and
therefore as glorious.
But, Doctor! to e,srnizs these obligations TO you,
(worthy OF civic crownl and TO place your name
above all other patriotic ismo do yet thing more
for your country yet one more effor, of Virtue
Allow Us TO send you fe " venerable apprentices
whom the country would gladly see with you at
pill-making. Take Andrew the headlong, Min,
Drop Tom, Black Dan. Caleb Quotem, and the
Nose that Mr. Wise twists about where he likes
pray take them bind them in the strongest linden.
ana or making laiions, administering injections,
or pulling teeth, or what you like keep them only,
we enioin you, from this pukns and pursms and
blood-le,tins the whole nation a, once-no more
State drugs, if you pea,e-they have nearly made
an end Of US.
p. s. Wen fling you ia Tom Richie, to cry
your patent medicines about the Streets.
iDF The Editor Of the Enquirer, in an article
which we did no: see Till too late for an answer
yesterday, retorts blythe fouest abuse that he can
heap upon Us, plcasantries, neither gross nor i'll
tempered, but only little too singing tor such
eaden brain as his to answer.
Shielded by the impotence OF an age respectable
IN no other way, he may e, fly, 10 safety his point,
less insults. II there ever had been time when
he dared use such terms sgainst man of spirit, i,
would be impossible that he should resort TO them
now, when no man OF spirit can punish him further
than by the contempt which We DOW hur upon
him.
Tint he, whose largest allowance of principles
that we have ever heard Of is set down at "fye
loaves and two fishes" should set himself I'D
the sovereign srbiter Of good and i'll repu,e, and
from the depths Of baseness where he eroyel,
deal out his imperial edic;s Of character is, he NAV
assure himself, infinitely more udicrous than pro-
voking.
OF u.s. Personally, he knows no more than of
truth, Honour, DOcency or Patriotism. Such
guessing ribaldry hurt no one. Mex, 10 the
praise OF the good, we covet nothing Of the
Gods more than abuse from such az he
So far, it unites us with all who are ornaments TO
the State, and who would, bu, for his poisoning the
popular mind, have been its pride and help. lie,
him blaeken us. We never heard OF his abusing
any bad man but onO-Gen. jackson; and he lick.
ed his feet ever after.