Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-09-19
For The Standard.
SOUTHERN STUDENTS. ....

Colleges of the North; and it strikes me as an ap-
proprate occasion for the utterance of few words
of remonstance and advice by one who feels deeply
interested in all that relates to the profession in
North-Carolina especially.
The whole country is alive with political excite
ment for canvass is pending Of the greatest i'm
portance to its two sections, the North and the
South. The South, though divided between the
men who aspire to the chief magistracy Of the
Union is united against black Republicanism, in all
its forms and phases. The North is the battle
ground upon which the great contest is being deci-
ded, which is to determine the destiny of coun-
try, for veal or for woe. There patriotism and
treason arrayed against each other in fearful
and deadly struggle There conservatism and ia
naticism are struggling with unprecedented ardor
for the ,lnastery. There a battle is being fought
between the enemies and the friends of this coun-
try which is not only fraught with the most
fearful consequences in ITSELF but which calls
out the most bitter and rancorous feelings from both
parties. No Southern man could stand by and wit
ness this struggle unmoved. His heart could re-
spond to the rallying cries of his friends, and his
blood boil at the insults of his enemies. He could
not devote himself either to business to pleasure
when such a contest was going on around him. He
must sacrifice all considerations Of personal interest
in the sacred cause of truth, of jhstice and of
country.
Let me ask, then those who are about to resort
to the North for the purpose of acquiring profess
sion, which can only be mastered after the most
devoted and uninterrupted study, what progress
they hope to make in its acquisition, when their
minds excited by matters which render all study
impossible? How can they obtain knowledge of
subjects which require the most faithful and fixed at
tention for their proper comprehension, when their
attention is constantly devoted to other and more
absorbing things? How can they expect I'm
provement and advancement" in Medicine, when
such insults are to be heaped upon them as will
inspire them with indignation and disgust, to the
exclusion of all other impressions, sentiments or
passions?
These are plain questions, and trust sir, that
those to whom they addressed will at least
swer them candidy to themselves before the day of
| matriculation.
There is another view of the subject worthy of
consideration. Southern students carry annually
large amount of money to the North and leave it
| there Thousands upon thousands of the people of
the North carry their principles in their pockets. or
in such close proximity thereto to establish the
| most intimate reciprocal relations between them.
Such persons wonderfully fanatical at present,
| for fanatcism now is in fashion at the North-but
Just so soon as they discover that they really to
lose by such an investment, they will be converted
from their heresieS instanter Let the patronage of
| Southern students be withheld for single season,
| and there will be converts from abolitionism
| in particular localities, than could be made by a
whole century of augmentation, whatever the tai
ent displayed in it. 1t is thus made plain that
Southern students are under an imperative obliga-
ton not to sustain the institutions of the North
because by Withholding their patronage they can
ACCOMPLISH something of decided benefit for their
country.
1t cannot be urged that sojourn at the North is
essential to proper knowledge of Medicine, with
the slightest approximation to truth or even plausi-
bility
a.. ATol, ~
the South and then Philadelphia, New York and
Boston did present such advantages as the student
was under an obligation to avail himself Of on the
principle "that half loaf is better that loaf at
ALL" But ct the present day, when Baltimore.
Charleston, New Orleans, and other Southern cities,
have Medical Schools of their own-when they have
unequaled chemical advantage their models,
specimens and illustrations unsurpassed in this
or any other country-when their Professors have
been born reared and educated at the South, and
are not only indoctrinated with proper sentiments
towards our peculiar institutions" but are thor
oughly acquainted with disease it presents itself
in Southern latitudes-there is nothing to induce
Southern men to ignore their claims to confidence
and patronage save that spirit of scrvity and de-
pendence which constrains the human to pur-
! sue the "beaten track" if it were necessarily
the best and the shortest route to the attainment of
II a given object.
Il The fact IS Southern institutions require but one
thing to their complete and triumphant sue
cess, and that is patronnge-that practical encour-
ngenaent which Southern men not only have it in
their power to 5estow, but are under an imper-
atve obligation to confer upon them. So long
as this patronage is withheld the South must be
reproached with her incapacty to educate her sons.
Whilst this encouragement is refused the fact Of
our dependence upon the North must be acknow-
lodged and deplored. And there can be no surer
mode of advancing the interest of the South--of
vndlcatng the honor of her people, and Of promo
ting the true glory of portion of this .- eder-
acy. than the elevation of our schools, colleges and
universities to that commanding position which can
be so easily secured for them by the proper efforts
of their friends.
Let those, then who desire to participate in the
political conflict which now disturbs the country.
rather than to engage in that dgent study which
is essential to the mastery Of the Medical Profes-
sion-who willing to be abused, tradnced and
insulted whilst attempting to secure their diplomas,
who prefer to patronize their enemies instead Of
their friends-and who are unprepared to strike a
single blow in behalf of the honor anG the interests
of the South-let them, I say, resort to the North
in this emergency, and give their money and their
patronage to the institutions of that locality! But
the other hand let those who choose to listen to
the storm it howls without rather than TO expose
themselves unnecessarily to it-wbo prefer to study
their professions where it be done in peace and
quiet-who are anxious to teach fanaticsm lesson
that will be long remembered, and who acknowledge
the obligations which patriotism imposes upon ev-
ery Southern man-let all such remain at home, en-.
couraging by their presence our own institutions,
and showing to the world that Southern men are
capable of taking Of themselves under all cir
cumstances, and in any emergency!
I am the advocate Of no particular school. There
are numerous Medical Colleges of the first rank in
the South. Let the young men of North Carolina
patronize those which they believe best as they
learn in any one of them more that will prove Of
practical benefit to them as Southern practitioners,
than be acquired in the most popular, flourish
ing and distinguished school of the North.
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