CHARLES CALDWELL, M. D.



need scarcely add that Dr. Caldwell has been all his life warmly
attached to the Union. He has never failed on all proper occa-
sions to attest this, and especially to inculcate in the minds of the
youth under his care, the most ardent devotion to it. His pub-
lished writings breathe a truly national spirit. When, in 1832,
nullification reared its ugly front above our southern horizon,
Dr. Caldwell's voice was heard among the most eloquent and
stirring, in a discourse already alluded to, pleading for the Union,
that it might be " as steadfast as nature, and as lasting as time !"
That voice was again heard, clear and bold, uttering a similar
prayer during that gloomy period of the past year, when treason
and disunion were openly proclaimed in our highest national
council, and weak men shrunk in terror while strong men gath-
ered up their mightiest energies for conflict. Dr. Caldwell, in-
deed, could not well be otherwise than thoroughly sound on this
subject. He himself belongs to no section of the country, but to
the whole country. Born in the South, his sun of manhood rose
in the East, and after a noon of glory, it sheds its evening splen-
dors over the whole land from the West.
  We have said scarcely anything of Dr. Caldwell's purely pro-
fessional writings, and of the others, have named some of those
only which possess more general interest. It has been no part of
our purpose to follow him step by step through his long career,
or to catalogue even a tithe of his productions. To do either
would greatly exceed our limits. Id the treatment of whatever
subject engaged his attention, Dr. Caldwell's method has been
exhaustive of it. He has endeavored to regard it from all points,
to look at it on all sides, to view it in all lights, and to say all that
could be said about it. In attack, he has left no approach unat-
tempted; in defence, be has left none unguarded. With a man
of ordinary mind this would be a most prolix and tedious method,
but it is not so with Dr. Caldwell. The great object he has ever
had before him is truth. The conclusion to which his best judg-
ment with all the best lights conducted him he has always adopted,
wholly regardless whether such conclusion was popular or un-
popular. This is the true spirit. Science and truth cannot be
dissociated either in their origin or their aim. Science has truth
for its basis and for its end; and he who pursues scientific re-
searches from any other basis, or with any other end in view,
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