A reply to certain calumnious statements uttered and published by Francis S. Beattie, M.D.

  • Eberle, John, 1787-1838.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A reply to certain calumnious statements uttered and published by Francis S. Beattie, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * he has suffered his name to beJfsed, and furnished my enemies Wh extracts from my letters, and, as I believe, with a knowledge of the purposes to which they were to be applied, I may plead the necessity of refuting the slanders falsely founded on them, in extenuation of my bringing forward the name and the letters of Dr. Du- cachet on this occasion. * The original letters of Dr. D. are in the hands of S. Badger, Esq. where they can be seen and compared with the foregoing extracts by any gentlemen who may be curious on tht subject. L - •\ »» * /St^&BERLE. Fhe exposftion wlrWh Dr. Beattie lias published of the cir- cumstances connected with his dismission from our Faculty, is marked throughout with misrepresentation, prevarication and un- paralleled malignity. The trustees, the professors, and the stu- dents of our school, have much reason to rejoice in having got rid of him at any sacrifice. No principle of morality or of good policy can justify the retention of a man in a situation—and particularly in a situation so responsible as that of a public in- structor,—who is either inefficient through supineness, or unfit from incapacity or ignorance to discharge adequately the duties of his post. As to Mr. Webster, this honest fellow,!!! as Dr. D. calls him! although it may evince a want of due self-respect to notice him particularly, yet as he has falsely asserted, both in Beat- tie's pamphlet and elsewhere, that I was removed from the editor- ship of the Recorder, I will merely observe that I have his own letters as well as copies of mine to show, that I withdrew from the work in niter disgust of Mr. TV. J. F„ Am .ife . >