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586 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,

be any satisfaction to him we will retract that saying. We
will admit that there waa first and second fiddle and base
accompaniment. But as he is himself the leader of the band,
he ought not to complain of the effect.

After breaking a lance upon my colleague in the honor
of this daughter of Eve, he attacks the doctors en masse.
‘What do they know, he says, more than other ment But
that is not all, he goes farther and levels a shaft at your
Honors on the bench, and says you have as much experience
in such matters as any doctors or any persons whatsoever.
Some gentlemen have a happy knack at saying anything. If
I had even suspected any of your Honors of any such ex-
perience, or at all to have dipped into such matters, even
from curiosity, I never should have ventured to hint at it.

After disposing of the faculty in a summary way, and
representing all the doctora who don’t believe that black
men’s children may be white, as a set of coasting doctors,
who don’t go out of sight of land, whe run by the line and
the dipsey lead, he then introduces a doctor as a god upon
the seene. Never was a god introduced more apropos. It
was truly dignus vindice nodus, It was no longer your men
of experience who believe nothing but what they see, and
tell nothing but what they know, who never go on voyages
of discoveries or explore the unknown regions of hidden won-
ders. Not so, Doctor Mitchill. At his name all ears stand
erect; might and power are his attributes. Be it so. I 1-
joice in his strength. I glory to magnify him, for if he be
that great Ajax elimonins, who then am 1, who have scuffled
with him for one hour in the heat of a burning day, and come
off, if not with victory, with life, which is great honor? And
now having returned by the same sally-port through which
I ventured out to skirmish with him, once more I plant my
standard on the ramparts of the law, and dieplay to the
whole camp the trophies I have borne off the field.

It is grievous to see the disposition that pervades man-
kind to laugh at serious things. But ever, by the side of
eminent learning, there is a nitch where malice loves to

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