Address delivered at a supper given by the faculty to the students of the Atlanta Medical College, on the 13th of August, 1855 / by N. J. Hammond.

  • Hammond, N. J.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Address delivered at a supper given by the faculty to the students of the Atlanta Medical College, on the 13th of August, 1855 / by N. J. Hammond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the besl po ted man in political trash and party clap trap in all their respective militia districts. (On professional men these wierable en Lliarly severe. They say thai while there are in the United States only aboul 2,300 ministers of the gospel, there is aboul the same number of lawyer.-- and more than 10,000 physici thus showing by that a dying man who calls in a min- ister to despatch In- soul to Heaven, may also be attended by- one lawyer to carry his goods to his heirs, and two rloetoi pla.ee his body in the coffin, i Lei us examine these uo.ions, for they are uothiu true thai men are so well educated now as they v thirty or forty years ago? We think not. Then fewer men received a polished education, The masses, being moi rant, magnified their merits. Place a Pew statues in an ol unoccupied plain, and surround them by a mist, and i ippears to be n ( oloss n . But till thai plain with stal ipate the mists which have heretofore enveloped them, and while their proportions arc nol lessened, thecoi ed, and ' my. it is with respcel to newsj)apers. Let us eompa of the i uitcd States and England, li may be because not well informed upon the si eject, but we contend thatbe Times, the newspaper at Britain arc not so very perior to ours. Besides it, there is not in the English do] ion a press of higher < haracter Mian our Natio of wider extended inline, Herald. The great age of the Times, its location in London, and the imim amount of capital which it wields, make it an e ii stands as a huge sun in the zenith of the political firmament of Great Britain, darting its ray- to the lin dorn, and far beyond, invigorating \vh i1 shines upon, and dooming to chilly death whatever wants its warmth. But suppose we admit, for the sake of argn ha1 men of the present times are not as learned individual) few educated men of former day-. Would that prove their posi- tion, that a multiplicity <■: m injury ? Which would Georgia prefer, to ha \ one of ifficiently well educated in the agricultural departmen and Geology to cultivate properly their n or to