The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-01-13

unfit to step over the threshold of an,
calling, have forced themselves into thi
profession. Yet the bar should hold n,
sympathy with the pettifogger who de
ceiyes his client and renders the decision
of justice subject to ignorance and chi
canery.
Believing, as do, that upon the ba
rests the safety of a people, can respond
sir. most heartily to this sentiment.
is my earnest desire that this infant Ter
ritory may possess bar whose light shall
shine as bright star in the western firm
ament. ] would that, while We take
counsel from our eastern confederacies, we
might strive to rival them in our efforts tc
establish human rights upon a true ba-
sis. | would that we might comprehend
the high character of our position-that
we may be urged forward by true am
bition-that justice, unmoved by selfish
ness, may be the polar star of action, land
that an oyer-anxieus desire of success
may not blind our eyes to right, and ST.
lence the voice of conscience.
But, sir, do you not ask too much in
your sentiment Withdrawing the vel
that oyerhangs the past, the names and
deeds of Lycurgus and Cicero shine as
bright stars looking down upon classic
grounds, and lighting up the pathway o.
this glorious profession. Ataiater period
Fox, Pitt, and Burke, who, until recent-
ly, stood unequalled, honored the profes-
sion, and left ON record their noble actions
as examples for students in all coming
time. But the brightest intellects were
left to adorn the American bar. Here
are recorded names that must stand for
ever-alone and unapproachable-they
are the names of Clay and Web
ster. | would that the shades of their
departed spirits might hover over and
around the bar of Kansas to-day and for
ever! Can you, after reviewing such
names, hope to equal the past? l almost
shrink from my duty when 1 remember
that | belong to profession adorned by
such names. But, sir, however much
we may be wanting in talent, l trust
in sincerity of purpose and unity OF
action we may be unsurpassed.
AT present we must await Legislative
action. Place in our hands those laws
by which you wish to be governed, and
| trust we may be ready and able to
maintain them. Let us, then, individ-
ually and unitedly, put forth every energy
to lay broad and deep the foundations Of
a State government that shall throw back
its benign influences upon the long series
of our sister States that lie between us
and the Atlantic and may it throw no
less benign influence over the ill-doomed
red man that roams between us and the
Pacific.
He closed with the following senti-
ment: "The Medical Profession May
its representatives in Kansas be true
votaries of science; and Quackery never
find encouragement within her borders. -
To which Dr. s. G. HARRINGToN respond
ed as follows:
Mr.. President 1t always gives me
pleasure to respond to such sentiment.
1t need only be uttered indifferently in
my hearing to enlist willing ear; but
upon an occasion like this-a no less
occasion than visit from our chief mag
istrate and his distinguished associates to
the city of Lawrence in an official capa-
city-it gives me still greater pleasure ;
aye, am proud to represent the profess
sion which has been honored with the
sentiment.
From the remarks which have fallen
from the lips of our honored guests, it
would seem that here is no need for med
ieal aid; but, Mr.. President, it needs
something beside pure air, pure water,
and fine climate, to insure health. 1t
demands the effort of every individual,
each for himself. We, from time imme-
mortal, have been taught that we have
souls to save; but it is quite recently that
the salvation of the body has begun to
be considered by any considerable por-
ton of the otherwise enlightened world.
Sir, no one would hail the time with
greater JOY when that truism-" An
ounce of prevention is better than pound
of eure"-may become fully understood
and practically applied by the whole peo-
pie.
In producing this result, it seems to
me, the medical profession have some
thing to do. Our race is materially de-
generated. Disease 1.-THE result of laws
transgressed) J yearly makes sad havoc in
every community What is to be done
Educate every child in those things
which concern their physical salvation.
Would to-day it were the principal busi-
ness of the physician, rather than be ne
eessitated to peddle pills from door to
door.
/ pledge myself to do all | can, to use
the little influence so humble an individ-
ual as myself may exert, to carry out in
practice the sentiments have expressed.
The Dr. closed with this sentiment =
" The Kansas Pioneer - which called
up S. N. Wood, ESQ.,, one of the earli-
est settlers In the Territory.
Mr.. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLE
MEN That myself and family preceded
the most of you here, can hardly entitle
me 10 the honor of responding to the
sentiment just expressed; for life in Kan
sas could scarcely be called pioneer life.
Could you have joined the party that
sailed down the Ohio in 1866 years
ago-and made their pioneer settlement
at Marietta, then you would have known
something of pioneer life. Or had you
settled in the Western Reserve, in Ohio.
so years ago, or in central Ohio. as q
still later period, in a heavy timbered
country, where for years you would have
had to work among stumps and roots,
then, indeed, you might have been called
pioneers. Thirty-five years ago my pa
rents settled In central Ohio, in the beech
woods; and young as am, I have sery-
ed my apprenticeship at rolling logs,
picking chunks, piling brush, and Dig
ging and delving among roots and
stamps. For rs years our nearest mar
ket was 10 miles distant where the hard
~.~l-;,r, farr,,ar ha1zIad his wheat over