The Daily Herald

Messrs. Editors,—I noticed in a communication from "Hartford," which appeared in your paper a few days since, that "only about twenty voted in favor of the repeal of the 8th section. of the Medical Law." Having conversed with a number of the members of the Legislature, and inquired into the facts, I am informed that upwards of sixty voted for the bill. or in favor of the "Report of the Committee." (which report, let it be remembered. was an unanimous one,) out of about one hundred and fifty members then present.

It is a happy circumstance that the Committee are well known as being unanimously in favor of granting the prayer of the petition of upwards of 18000 freemen of this State, as well as a majority of those who voted for the acceptance of the Report. We wish it may be distinctly understood, that all the petitioners were voters. Certainly, then, the 18000 petitioners means something—the Report of the Committee (one from a county) means something—and we trust that a majority of the petitioners will not be found sleeping at their posts another year. What! shall the voices of 13,000 freemen be hushed to silence? The friends of the Botanic System are tenacious of their rights—they are the oppressed party, and they only wish to enjoy the rights conferred by the Constitution upon all.

The writer from "Hartford" is certainly mistaken upon this subject. The vote was not taken by "yeas and nays," and of course the precise result of the vote is not known; yet it is believed that those who were watching with intense interest the vote and action of the House, would probably be as correct as the writer from "Hartford," being in opposition to the bill.

The object of this communication is to give the facts as far as they can be known, and that those facts should be made public. The number and respectability of the petitioners is certainly a very strong argument in favor of the petition. The Botanic Practitioners simply ask that justice may be done them—that they may have the same recourse at law with other Practitioners in this state.—We are informed that a convention of the friends of the Botanic System will be called the coming Autumn, to take into consideration the oppression under which they labor.

G.