Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-11-22
Southern Medical Sfudents.

Southern Medical Students.
Sometime since, the Southern Medical Students now
attending lectures in the city Of New York. held more
than one meeting to take into consideration the position
OF affairs and to consult upon their course in the
event of the secession of any of the States from which
they might hail.
After good deal of discussion, they finally passed
resolutions the gst OF which that in the event
of the State to which any student belonged seeding
would be the duty of such student to go home and take
part with his State.
| The great majority of the students youths, or
young under age and, upon subject which awakes
the widest excitement in the breasts of the most grave
and experienced it is hardly to be supposed that those
who are neither gsave experienced should wholly
suppress some ebulition of feeling not quite in accor
dance with rigid decorum. We suppose the Southern
Medical Students like other young men in this re
spect. They are not Solomons They are not yet ex-
acy qualified every respect to guide the ship OF State
but they generally young men of intelligence, with
the instincts of -sensitivey jealous OF the
honor and the interests OF their section Ii it may be
thought that young, generally sent on by their
parents to acquire education, should attend to that
and depend for guidance in other matters upon these
parents or at least consult them before leaving the in
stitutions at which they have been placed it is still GER
tain that even their lean to virtues sdethat
they are those of generous mpusefaus if faults they
are rather of the head thar of the heart. They certain
y do not merit such brutal vituperation has been
launched forth against them by the New York Sum- the
organ of the Boweriesthe erudte product of the united
intellect of the Beaches and sons of Beaches those
worthy to succeed SUCH The following from that pa
per is a specimen of their Wide Awake slang common
we might say almost universal in certain circles at the
North:
/ Secession and savvbones.
The Southern Medical Student is we'll known in the
neghborhoods of Thirteenth street. Irving Place, and
Fourth avenue. He is long haired lantern, jawed YER
dant YOUTH afflicted with chronic salvation and inve
terate profanity. Reared in the semSavage solitude OF
remote plantation and deriving his ideas of morals
grammar, and behavior from his negro and picca
nnny playmates, be becomes in New York puzzle to
professors terror to andlades, and munfcent patron
of grogshops. Having finished his so-caled course OF
study, if he be lucky enough to obtain diploma, be
turns to his native wds to commence practice on por
tentous stock OF medical ignorance calome and quinne
Next to his love for tobacco and grog his taste
for Dsunion Ignorant OF law, and innocent of logic
his stock of political ideas consists wholly of hatred of
the people to whom he is obliged to for instruc
ton Ii be does not know anything ese he knows that
Yankees shade worse than thieves and robbers
He quite ready to accept from these wretched New
capable of receiving and he balances the debt of obga
ton by abusing his teachers.
The Southern Medical student-we use the Individual
the type of the species-hed adourned meeting
: Friday night at 75l Broadway. Nearly one hundred
and fifty persons present. including reporters curl
Gus observers, and Majors, COlones and Generals from
foreign parts caught and brought in for the OCCASION
We regret to state that some gentlemen of the
: number who spoke and acted and presume they
GREETED their own presence tor such sentiments of
servatsm and sobriety they expressed were Kissed
and groaned down by the Student The student was
noisy with delight, prouse Of oahs and vocal with in
sanity For it Secession convention of the repre-
sentative Student The Southernmost States are to
cede from the Union and the StuC ent is to secede from
New York We to be bere of his picturesque pre-
sence. SawbOneS will return to his beloved SambO-
Arcades ambo! New York will hang up it's financial
fiddle and lay down its Industrial hoe for how it
exist without the S ,udent?
Rksr For every office that Abraham Lincoln will have
to bestow there will be more applicants than it would
be safe to shake stick at. The fellows have been
standing out in the cold long, that they
enous, and pretty nearly all of them want to get in
That formed the basis the nucleus of the universal set
made at the Democratic party. The Democrats bad
been the ins long, that all the rest-the outs "
"waxed exceeding wroth" at them and were ready to
swear by anybody or anything that would turn them
out johnson Hoopers shedog that had, or was to
have, thirtyseven pups, and only tits to sucke them
was well off, compared with the public treasury which
will have hundreds of pups clamoring round each tit
all its thousands OF tits.
y Old Abe is tough, and may survive the onslaught
Perhaps so. IF he don't Hamlin will for Hamin is
foxy. We don't believe word about Hamlius being
!, negro, or of mixed blood. We have seen him
frequently and would never have dreamed of such
thing. A white man can be as mean as there is any
necessity for
Some good people say Wait until the next time
Before half of Lncons term up he and his party will
fall out, and the whole thing drop to pieces and dis
gusted country turn to the Democratic party once more
There is something in all this, but not enough. The
social antagonsm of sections has gone too far for the
mere organization disorganization of party to Sc
riousy modify Or mitigate its strength 1t keeps in
creasiDg. We two people at the North and at the
. South
Nothing short of the direct interposition of divine
grace acting the hearts of men and women-tor the
women North the greatest stimulaors of the anti
Southern misunderstanding short of this direct in
erposton change the aspect of affairs or avert the
impending danger We cannot look for any such inter
IS Iosition.
But it is said that perfectly safe at least fo
the present. since there will be conservative majority
IS in both houses of the next Congress That is very
doubtful 1t will be quite the other way if Georgia. ant
t. South Carolina and Alabama and Mississippi fail t.
be represented in the next Congress- is very likely
Then the Lincoln will have both houses under the
70 indsputed control. In any event the Southern