The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-03

and develop with their money and
their labor the resources OF our new
State. We now have all the advantages
of the free States, and we shall increase
and prosper in the same manner as the
free States are prospering and have
prospered in former times. The incu-
bus of the bondmRn no longer hangs
over our State--no longer retards her
progress.
Virginia u century hence? The old
residents of New York when
New York aud Brooklyn contained less
than forty thousand inhabitants. Now
they con ain, with their surroundings,
one million and half. They remem-
ber, too, when this country (the United
States) contained only four or five mil
lions of people. Now they behold near
forty millions. Although not II very
old man, Yeti can. remember when "a
Journey from Massachusetts Ito Ohio
and retWn was the work of Il season.
In those days travellers would start on
their journey with their one and two
horse covered wagons, as soon as the
mud was dried up and the roads set
tied in the spring., and return at the
close ~of the season for. travel-late
in the fall. The parting of friends
and acquaintances at home was then
IA matter of as much formHlity, solem-
nifty, fear and sorrow as the parting
now with friends who are about to
make avOyage around the world or start
on nn exploring e. pedition TO the north
pole,-for they hardly expected in the
providence of God to meet again. Now
a week is sufficient in which to make a
trip from Boston to st. Louis, visit
friends, do business. and return When
that great enterpriSe-the Pacific. Rail-
rond-is completed, we shall be able to
pass from the Atlantic TO the Pacific
ananh "a HuU nF with
friends, and return inside oftwo weeks.
We are II part of a great country, and
we are destined to become great
State and a great people; and we who
are the pioneers in medicine, should
look we'll to it, that the plans we now
lay for the high standing and useful
ness of the profession, are wen tGIdi
that the iWork in the commencement
il performed in a manner that will
meet the wants of those who come after
us to fill our places, and take charge of
our sons and our daughters, our kin
dredl and our friends, and all those we
leave behind us. 1t should be done in
II manner to meet fully the wants of
the progress and development of our
glorious and thriving new State.
l trust that this society will be the
means of advancing largely our noble
science, and greatly amelioraling the
sntferings OF those afflicted by accident
or disease, and l trust 1t will prove a
powerful arm in elevating our State to
Il level with her older and more favored
sisters.
Again, extend to you hearty well
come TO our city,, The city which is
now the chief city and capital of our
new State. What the chief city Will be,
or where the capital will be century
hence, no one can tell. .......t . ..
This society is intended to represent,
81 ia nFapfiI.n hln n am Drnra all
the members of the regular profession
of this State who are properly qualified
to practice medicine; and whose pro-
fessional character, professional stand
ing, and professional rectitude is such
as to make them honorable and worthy
members of the profession. We do
not propose to admit into this society
those with whom we cannot consistent
ly and honorably act or hold profess
sional intercourse. We do not propose
to admit irregular practitioner RI or hose
associated with them. We do not pro-
pose to admit those who have attached
themselves for the sake of gain 10 some
vision of the imagination, or s5The fan
ciiul theory OF smooth sounding words
that may please the weak and the cred
ulous, because tkey carry with them an
air of mysterious wisdom which they
cannot comprehend. r.5 ...I.s4r.
We do not propose to, admit those
who have been noninalIy educated as
regular practitioners, and have strag-
gled off, with various excuses, into
some form ofquackery for the purpose
of making money faster, or living an
easier, more pleasant and indolent life;
or OF gratifying some depraveds Freak
of fancy in the public taste; or because,
which is s-pTobably1 the most common
reason, they lack the talent, the energy
and the honesty, to succeed in making
al IfufntT n rrapfiRA nf raUIIIar Epipn-
titic medicine. ,ra g7l-.a a.r-. q
The question Is sometimes asked,
why the regular profession are SO stir
why they do not seek out and cultivate
the acquaintance and friendship OF
these outside, irregular doctors-men
of widespread reputation who are so
often noticed in newspapers and hand
bills, and whom SO many rich and re-
spectacle people follow after and sem-
ploY. We do not take them into our
confidence. and treat them as profess
sionul brothers, for the same reason
that we would not Hdyise u young lady
to take II drunken man into her cOnii-
dence, and marry him with the exPecta-
ton that she could make n good hus-
band out of him after she got him in
her possessions. We e6pect-in these
cases, though there may be exceptions
TO the general rule, to find, somewhere,
Il screw loose that should hold the
moral machinery together, that we
cannot fasten. Besides IL we have "A
friend and fellow traveller, we desire
him TO travel the same road and under
the same colors that we do, and not
straggle of upon strange roads, into
strange places and among strange COM
pany that we know nothing about, for
we may find ourselves in trouble some
time when we least expect il. Still
some of our respectable ladies will
md GRn1nFnf
rich, respectable and leading citizens
will follow after and patronize these
empiricS who travel through the lhnd
hunting fools TO give them money.
We often meetIwithl lmenlw ho'seenl TO
have good sense about some things; but
exhibit an almost entire lack OF il. in
others.E We know men; who 5aFe wise
enough not to call on blacksmith to
repair "A valuable watch, or a sailor to
make "A suit of fine clothes, who will
travel the country over hunting old
women, Indian doctors, spiritualtsts,
cuncer- curers, and such doctors gsner-
ally as make great pretensions and
Imaginary ailments of theirown bodies,
" hich they fear are, hurrying them to
that country where money and worldly
power are'of no avail. 'i't ~
We often see men in high positions,
Occupying places OF power-places
which give them control SO lar as pun
lie CARES are concerned, over the lives
and health of the community, who are
III fitted TO fill, those places of public
trust and responsibility We see them
placed in these positions, too, by men
who, judging from. their acts, are en-
tireIy Incompetent to institute scientific
regulations for the health of commu-
nifty; who, in proportion as, they are in
competent, become self-wiled and pre-
sumptuous. and will not allow them
selves 10 be advised or intluence1 by
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