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of New York City, to test his ability as a disci-
ple of Galen; his reputation has preceded him,
and he stands firm; and when the patients, to
whom he has administered and he himself shall
have passed away, his memory will still live em-
balmed in the hearts of his many admirers.—
Our doctors of divinity, our lawyers, our jurists,
our merchants, our poets, and our mechanics,
all help to swell the mighty tide of evidence
that we are Men, capable of the development
of every principle of justice, equality, and sci-
ence, yet attained to by man. Then, if this be
true, away with this ungodly, profligate doc-
trine of our inferiority. But my object at this
time is to speak of a young man—a towsman
of mine, and one whom, I think, bids fair to be-
come an ornament not only to our city but to
the entire country; and one to whom we might
well be proud to point as a monument—living,
breathing monument: standing forth as a bold
and prominent refutation of that unparalleled
falsehood which charges us with inferiority on
account of color.

William H. Simpson is a young man scarcely
yet eighteen years of age, who by persevering
industry and steadiness of purpose has won and
is still winning for himself an enviable reputa-
tion, and even now holds a position of which
any young man (even though he may claim
superiority on account of color) might well be
proud. Some two years since he commenced
the study of Portrait Painting, since which
time he has made almost unexampled advance-
ment in his new undertaking, and particularly
might this be said when we mention the fact
that not more than half of the time mentioned
has been occupied in his study, the first year