--The people of
Philadelphia are beginning to clamor loudly for the erection of fortifications and the raising of men to protect that city of ‘"Brotherly Hate." ’ They are entertaining for the first time a glimpse of the fact that invasion is a game at which two can play, and that if there has been no such Southern watchword as ‘"On to
Philadelphia,"’ the thing itself is not impossible.--Time was when
Philadelphia did not erect fortifications and enlist troops to keep out Southern men!
She greeted them, if they had money in their pockets, with both hands; she welcomed the
Southern medical fledglings to the warmest corner in her nest, and she sent them away with her blessing, and without a feather on their backs.
She waxed fat and rich upon Southern visitations, whilst the
South grew lean and wan. She not only sucked out the life-blood of innumerable plantations, which were drained of their pecuniary resources to educate some medical student; but, when she had pocketed all his money, she made him an M. D., and thus enabled him to lay waste the whole country for miles around the place of his residence.
A single
Philadelphia diploma has often proved sufficient to depopulate a healthy Southern district.
We defy that worthy representative of a city which has become bloated by Southern money, the redoubtable
McClellan, even if he were the greatest military genius of modern times, to cause as much death and destruction in the
Southern States as these
Philadelphia doctors.
No wonder that
Philadelphia trembles in her boots; that all her sins, and pills, and drugs crowd upon her guilty memory, more terrible than the air-drawn dagger which struck terror to
Macbeth. Her startled conscience assures her that there are in the army of the
Confederacy at least one hundred thousand doctors who are coming back for their money, and four hundred thousand patients who have been brought to the door of death by
Philadelphia practice, and are advancing upon that source of all their woes, howling for vengeance.
Heaven speed the march of the avengers!
We want to see
Philadelphia sacked, the medical colleges turned inside out, and all the professors brought in double irons to the
South, and allowed no other rations but their own potions and lotions.
