The following which has been for some time a standing advertisement of the South Carolina Medical College, in the Charleston papers, is another index of the same ‘public opinion’ toward slaves.  We give an extract:—­

“Surgery of the Medical College of South Carolina, Queen st.—­The Faculty inform their professional brethren, and the public that they have established a Surgery, at the Old College, Queen street, FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEGROES, which will continue in operation, during the session of the College, say from first November, to the fifteenth of March ensuing.

“The object of the Faculty, in opening this Surgery, is to collect as many interesting cases, as possible, for the benefit and instruction of their pupils—­at the same time, they indulge the hope, that it may not only prove an accommodation, but also a matter of economy to the public.  They would respectfully call the attention of planters, living in the vicinity of the city, to this subject; particularly such as may have servants laboring under Surgical diseases.  Such persons of color as may not be able to pay for Medical advice, will be attended to gratis, at stated hours, as often as may be necessary.

“The Faculty take this opportunity of soliciting the co-operation of such of their professional brethren, as are favorable to their objects.”

“The first thing that strikes the reader of the advertisement is, that this Surgery is established exclusively ’for the treatment of negroes; and, if he knows little of the hearts of slaveholders towards their slaves, he charitably supposes, that they ’feel the dint of pity,’ for the poor sufferers and have founded this institution as a special charity for their relief.  But the delusion vanishes as he reads on; the professors take special care that no such derogatory inference shall be drawn from their advertisement.  They give us the three reasons which have induced them to open this ’Surgery for the treatment of negroes.’  The first and main one is, ’to collect as many interesting cases as possible for the benefit and instruction of their pupils—­another is, ’the hope that it may prove an accommodation,’—­and the third, that it may be ’a matter of economy to the public’ Another reason, doubtless, and controlling one, though the professors are silent about it, is that a large collection of ‘interesting surgical cases,’ always on hand, would prove a powerful attraction to students, and greatly increase the popularity of the institution.  In brief, then, the motives of its founders, the professors, were these, the accommodation of their students—­the accommodation of the public (which means, the whites)—­and the accommodation of slaveholders who have on their hands disabled slaves, that would make ‘interesting cases,’ for surgical operation in the presence of the pupils—­to these reasons we may add the accommodation of the