Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-12-10
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SOUTH CAROLINA

Extracts from GOrernor Hdn,Iton's Message
Feiotc- CtizenS Of the Senate aud House of Repre
sentaees,in obedience the mandate of that Consti-
tuition, from which your authority is derived YOU have
again convened to take under your councils and dcbera
TONS the welfare and happiness OF the people whomywe
conformity represent. In meeting you occasion so
deeply interesting permit offer you my cordial salu
atons and the expression of my profound consideration
and respect.
We have had very just cause, during inerv which
has elapsed since your adjournment be filled with the
most iervent emotions OF gratitude TO the Supreme dposer
OF human events for his various and signal blessings If
In soma sections OF our State the hopes of redundant
were unparalleled and these disasters have been the
occasion of still greater calamity, disease and mortality
In tho districts In which these have
In taking survey of whole State, have multiplied
for augmented hankfuness to God In its az
gregae product our bouncous soil has Welded in more
than its accustomed abundance many the hest fruits of
tho earth, and whilst health has generally BILE our peo
pe in their hands has the grand and interesting problem OF
the fitness OF for self government, been daily reccv-
Ing fresh and suspicious combinations by attachment
not only TO peace, good order, and wereguated love
Of liberty but by the watchtul jealousy with which
freedom is guarded, and by the exarnped dedication
the public mind of the people of State to their civil
political and confederate rights, by which flood of light
has been shed these interesting themes and which, f
II gives indemnity for the past affords the best
security for the future. An enlightened age has left
doubts difficulties be solved in ard to the great and
obvious TRUTH that the only ament by which spirit of
freedom, essential TO the preservation of free institutions
can be nourshed, is TO be found in just and comprehen
nve knowledge Of ourown rights
feel ordinary pleasure reporting to you that the
south CaToina college bencfclaly
of dfusing the light OF knowledge and science
throughout State. Tho number of we'll educated
young men, who annually leave its walls imbucd with
the elements of future usefulness and honor coun
try repays thrice over the of their and nr
tue. In the prosratOn of the better this
State there is some compensation in the conviction that
In all the various departments OF public service, South
Carolina Is likely 10 suffer abatement in the stock of
that moral worth, genius knowledge and cloquencc,
which IN Gods providence, she has always been able
10 her aid in calling her sons around her There
perhaps, no institution in the Union in which The means
OF instruction are more coPious, where the President
Professors, and Teachers Of various, pro-
fosnd and useful aainments under stronger or
animated by higher sense Of public duty; is there
from which the youths are graduated better uua-
cd by manly and mpulsivc energy, begin effectively
and magnanimOusly the great business Of human life
which after ALL consists in making ourselves as useful in
allOtmcnt5
The number Of students annually graduated so far from
falling off, has augmented in spite of the competition
thor highly respectable institution which has grown up in
our State, and others of rival character in the other
Southern States and the disastrous depression in the price
o our staples which must have prevented many planters
in slender circumstances from sending their TO this
college.
During the four last years Of the Presidency of Doctor
Nancy, dcserycdly popular, the number Of students
varied from Oi to 100, during which period the average
price Of upland cotton equal TO about 20 per
pound For the last four years, the average price Of the
SINE staple has not exceeded cents; yet under these
depressing circumstances the number Of students the
lists las l5 and this year IL Nor is there
son TO believe, that the number will vary than from
to s. ue next In order TO permit the of those, 10
ibis InsdtnSon. whose present circumstances may
no. allow icm TO pn cpdc IN IFS benefits, mig btbc adj
vantageous reduce half If not abolish entirely the
instruction and term fees, amounting TO $40 per alnum
with which each student Is cLrgcabr. The frst-named
reduction would he than is just proporont the
diminished Incomes of plantcrs throughout tc State.
To you. however may we'll contde the Interests Of this
Institutions which has uniformly attracted Jour Jealous
hcitudc and patcrnal care.
ans unable 10 inform you, what. during tie last yeai
has been the result and progress Of the system Of Free
Schools which has been adopted at largo expenso
and with 80 many enlightened and beneceut hopes an,
pfospectso pubic usefulness The reports Of the
misOners OF the several districts and parishes, you will
receive during the present session and you will ID
able finally aud more Understandings 90 ibis sub
icct than you possibly from any preliminary suggc
Nonsof mnc There H. however, strong and Increasing
impression, that the present system IL liable 10 essential
setsos and tat reform - required in tho distribution