I think myself complimented, Mr. President, in having boon selected to respond to this sentiment to young men. There was surely never a time more auspicious, nor a field richer in the conquests to bo won, than this time and this country offer for the energy, the capacity, and the fidelity of young men. America is pressing forward in a race of prosperity and power unexampled, and replete as it is-filled to overflowing-with the strongest and the sharpest incentives to exertion, it holds up the

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... at prizes of life with an impartial hand to the grasp of courage, of heroism, and of merit. America does not ask of her son, where wore you born ? or where were you educated '( or who was your father, or who was your mother ? but what can you do, and do well ? And she demands one tiling more, a faithful, legitimate, and conscientious use of the means and capacity he possesses, a faithful discharge of the social and professional duties devolvingupon him, of religion, of love to his neighbor, and she says to him, do this, and do it well, and 1 will give you my choicest crown and my richest blessing, the declaration, and the decollation, of a worthy citizen and an honest man. There can be no stronger stimulus to honest effort, and there is no richer reward on this earth. You have referred in this sentiment to * At our request, Dr. DeWolf kindly allows us to use the remarks made by him at the dinner given by Dr. S. A. Fisk to the members of the Hampshire District Medical Society. They were given in response to the following toast:\p=m-\ The Young Men of the Medical Profession.\p=m-\Formerly the physician gained his experience by observation in bis own limited sphere. Now, the method Of instruction in our schools, in connection with our hospitals, is such, that the industrious student can commence the duties of his profession where the old physician used to leave off. We look to the young men, therefore, to keep the ranks well closed, for the advancement of medical science, and the extinction of quackery. the confidence with which you look to the young professional men, to elevate the tono of professional standing and worth, and to combat quackery and irregularity within our borders. In this country, which permits the greatest freedom of action in all men, so long as they restrain themselves within lines drawn by the civil law, the effort to prohibit professional irregularities, is regarded as the attempt of a sect to monopolize rights, and here a grosser form of quackery in our profession is tolerated and accepted, than in any other civilized community on the face of tho earth. The barber in this hotel-a very excellent barber, gentlemen-aspired two years since to a change of location and of labor, lie rented an elegant suite oí rooms in the city of Boston, announced himself as the distinguished Dr. --, and he has told mo that the sick rolled up to his office, and the dollars into his pockets, in a very comforting and gratifying manner. You laugh at this recital, gentlemen, and you almost doubt it, though strictly true, yet every member of this society, practising his profession in this community, will bear me witness that 1 am within tho strictest bounds of truth, when