The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-30
From the Richmond, Vs., Times.1
CORRESPONDENCE

ern lucas /: out L trust tnat SnOulQ nav
learned what was due to delicacy ant
gentlemanly department mol to thrus
into the face of a Northern physician
who had lost a son in the Northern cause
any medical document so painfully sug
gestive of the past. Give ME leave, sir
to say that / could not consent to have
any paper bearing such a title as is APP
pended to your name come now into my
Office in the presence of such memories,
You may think me unjust. Believe me,
sir, you little appreciate the feeling that
will arise in the mind of every Northern
physician who has a spark OF honorable
love of country, when such insolent re-
ference to the past is made, and l cannot
really understand how any southern
| gentleman could have so treated me.
| Sure / am certain that the late DR.. p. c.
| G. Gaillard would w have been
guilty of such an action. +
/ remain,
HENRY I. BownITCH.
P. SIN looking at your ''saluta.
tory" ] see you propose ito cultivate the
field of southern medical journalism
regret again to see that the war has
taught nothing but s%ectionalism and
If your journal, in this respect, reflects
southern feeling, the saddest results may
be anticipated. Sorrow and pickering,
and, perhaps, war, will be the results
during the next fifty years.
RICHMOND, VA, Jan. g., 1886,
SIR-I am warranted in assuming that
no gentleman would send such aletter
as that received from you, unless he an
ticipated that it would be regarded Us q
deliberete insult and, as such, hold him.
self ready to satisfactorily respond to the
usual demand that would inevitably be
made upon him. If you will give me an
assurance or intimation that you will
properly accept such a letter, it shall be
Immediately sent, and l will 60 at once
to any locality that you may indi.
cate. 1t il proper to inform you, that
s unless sS xGoaa h adapt s sttapesh4 ana op pGTiblish the the
correspondence.
Your obedient servant,
r.. 5. GAILLARD.
DIR. II. l. BOwDITCH, Boston, Mass.
BosTos, Jan. Il. 1868.
E. S. GAILLARD,
Sir-If 1t were possible for any one
educated under the influence ofany So
ciety that sanctions duelling, to compre.
bend the absurdity of it under all cir
cumstances, as it appears when looked
at through the medium of Northern
thought. l might perhaps try to describe
TO you the amusement caused by your
letter of january 9Th. 1t seemed to me
and to my friends as one of the queerest
episodes of my life, and certainly were I
to accept your proposition. the story of
my journey for such a purpose would be
worthy of the pen of a Punch or a Ger
vantes. l have no desire to irritate you
still further by putting forth the ludi-
crousness of the proposition, but / desire
to write to you calmly and dispassion.
ateIy as such q missive deserves. / re-
greet that professional engagements from
the city have wholly prevented me from
giving an early reply. In response, l
will simply say that no such letter, or
any amount of violence, will eve COM
pei me to change my course, or to think
differently of past transactions between
reversal of my judgment in the premis-
es. I therefore decline your challenge
to meet you for personal combat as a to.
tally irrelevant matter, and you are at
perfect liberty to take any further ster
you may deem proper. One thing j
must demand, and that is, that if any
publication be made, no garbled ex-
tracts shall be made of this, u CORE
spondence, but that the whole of each
letter be printed, or no statement be
made in print upon the subject. Do not,
from these remarks, imagine that / OBJ.
ject, on my W account, to the publica-
ton. will trust my character will not
be much injured, provided you print all.
Now, sir, let us, if you please, reason to.
gether q few moments ere the correspon-
| dence ceases forever. The Richmond
| Medical Journal came to me post
| marked Richmond, and, as / supposed
with your acknowledgement directly by
you to me. If not by you, / contend
that / had a right to believe that it was
sent at your order, (you being editor and
proprietor-in-chief,) by your clerk.
"Qui tdca per allan .tacH per se," /
think is true in the intercourse of gen.
tlemen as in the law: therefore / had O
| right to consider you as the principal in
the transaction. You do not deny the
act in your letter. On the contrary,
your challenge virtually admits the
truth of my Impression. On looking
over my letter l find nothing of princi.
pie to change in it. am willing to ad
init that you did not deliberately mean
to insult me, but l still contend that your
conduct, in sending me that pa
per, was deficient in that "deli-
acy and gentlemanly Department.
which should govern the inter-
course between persons of culture and
refinement. In order to bring this
point more distinctly before you, let me
supposeth reverse of the facts that have
already occurred, and that you are the
recipient from me of u new journal
which springs up under my editorial
care, after a wasting war, in which you
have been engaged on one side. and
on the other-both equally earnest In
the belief that his own Cause is Just,
Suppose the trial at arms had resulted
in my defeat, and the thorough over.
throw of my so-called Government. Al
that very hour when the thoughts of all
ON both sides, should be turned to mag.
nanimity and reconciliation, though
not, I grant, to all forgetfulness of Ii,
suffering undergone by either party
suppose l should send out to the nation,
a new journal, in which I should b,
weak enough to proclaim, 90 far as