Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-01-07
MISCELLANY,
From tic Philadelphia Bulletin. Dee. -.
Departure of the Medical Students.

Departure of the Medical Students
.About two hundred seeding medical stu
dents left the city for the South by the | |
O'Clock train last night. They were escorted
oil BY = number OF tllrir classmates, who
chccred them Justify as the train moved of
from the depot at Broad and Primo Streets
The escort made considerable noise as they
returned to the city after the departure of the
train. We lcarn that the GREAT majority OF
the saccdor8 have taken the responsibility of
leaving their schools without consulting thci.
parents OF guardians
The following are the preamble and rcsolu
tions adopted at the students meeting, held
at the Assembly building on Tuesday morning:
RoSo|cc1, That Il committee of five be ap-
pointed to wait upon Drs +. G.. Luckctt, llun-
ter and Mct'ujrc, to request their presence at
this meeting; and that these gentlemen, who,
we believe, will freely checrtul!y and fearless
ly devote their efforts to bring about proper
state of feeling among southern students, and
will sacrifice every p1emiary interest and
bright prospects Of professional prcfcrmcnt,
be requested thus to announce publicly their
position, and accompany us to our Southern
institutions.
The persons named above were introduced,
and made speeches approving of the course
proposed to be pursued, and conscnting to ac
company them,
The following preamble and resolutions were
then read and approvcd
Whereas, We have left our homes and con.
grcgatcd in this city, with view to prosecute
our medical studies, and having become
fully convinced that we have erred in taking
this step that our means should have been
expended, and our protection afforded tn the
maintalnaucc and advancement of institutions
existing in oUr own sections and fOstcrcd by
our own people.
L. Rcsoic1, That in body or as many
as approve of the act sccedc from the institu-
tions in which we have scvcrally matriculated
return to the South and herein pledge our
selves to devote our future lives and best eff
forts to the protection of our common rights
and the promotion of our common interest
,. Resoivcd, That in taking this step we
diSclam any personal animostics, and dcprc-
cate any political agitation.
3. Rc~ic"I, That we tender our grateful
acknowledgement and heartfelt thanks to the
Hon. Henry a. Wise, Governor Of Vi.4nia ;
DIR. IL. $. JoyncS, Dean of the Virginia Mcdi-
cal College, at Richmond Henry r. Frost,
Dean Of the Medical Department of the Uni
vcrsty of South Carolina to President Rob
Hson, of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad and all others who have
extended to US the substantial encouragement
and aid SO essential to the furtherancc and
successful accomplishment of our enterprise
+. R"Soir"I, That we extend a cordial in
vitation, and VIII chccrfuly welcome in the
South any Northern student whowill subscribe
to the previous resolutions
5. ReSoiOed, That copy of these rcsolu-
tions be sent to all Northcrn Medical Colleges,
for the benefit of Southern students who may
have matriculatcd il them.
Is. Rc%oiccci, That the Southern papers
generally be requested TO publish the proceed
ings Of this Convention.
YANKEE ScH0oLMtSTERS AND MISTRESS
Es-fbc Lynchburs Republican thus al
Iulcs to a subject OF great import"ucc to the
Southern people:
81 One of the greatest evils which atilicts
Southern society, is the employment amongst
us Of Yankee schoolmaotcrE and SchoOmis
trcsscs. We would just as soon have rattle
snake in oar house az one Of these Yankee
teachers Ninc-tcnths of them, in oar de
libcratc opinion, are sent to the South for the
purpose of indoctrinatng our children with
their abomnabc ideas of abolitionism, and
all of them, in greater or less degree, do teach
such hcresis in some insidious form. Yankee
school books and yankee cschool-teach ought
to be forthwith excluded from Southern terri
tory by legislative euactments. They are the
greatest levers which abolitionism can employ
to undermine and eventually oycrturn our in
StitutlOns,"
A MARRIED lady, who was very fond of
her husband, notwithstanding his extreme ug-
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