Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Mercury.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA COL
NON d.

THE SUI i II CA NohAis1 W.
LEGE.
Let good remain as it is-ior he haz-
ardeth sore that waxelh wise by expert
ence.-RoeER AscHAM's "ToxoPHILUs.
The liberality allowed by latter day
grants each one the right to express HIM
self freely under particular condllions.-
Discussion will often produce good by
eliminating aud thereby exposing evil yel
there is no voluntary act requiring more
room for deliberation and extreme eau
ton, than an exposure in the public Jour
mails of supposed imperfeclions ln public
Institutions OF a particular class. a
healthy restriction is given to The lnroad
of looseness in irresponsible power by
timely uotice-but we must be assured OF
the truth Of every point Of our accusalon'
where so much harm is likely to ensue
from conveying false impression to tl'e
public mind, depending as they DO Tor
support on its favorable opinion. 1t is Oh
vious that its Officers cannot with pIoprle-
ty reply IN defence Of themseves-an ed
ucalional establishment of high grade
from a sautary deficiency 10 the alten.
dance on its public examinations cannot
shew demopsiratiyelY lis 2,;es 6T the
quaIfncations, OF ils "a ..,.;,,oI,
purposes inteuded-these must ultimately
be determined by lis fruits. 10 none
then eau unnecessary or false blame oe
attached with more irreparable INJURY;
and the incest discrimination is therefore
yeouisite 10 condemning either lis mea-
.,,ra. ~ ito men. Now that the Souh
Carolina College has not retrosra'ed' out
is superior, both as respects the course OF
instruction. its Professors, aud lis numners'
10 what we fiud at its earliest date and Tor
nanv wears succeeding, is not only de-
termiped BY fact, but is otherwise the re-
sui, of thirty years advance in the n'ne
teenth cenlury,-attended WIN an Tue
henef,,s acquired by experience and the
accumulated facilities derived from wIse'
Generous and continued support. lis
fruits await but time 10 deVelop,e. lnen.
We are apt, in quest OF somethlnS' 10
caviI at the present and venerate lhe pas''
and from this very principle draw com
narisous between the scholarship 0i lew
of its early alumni, aud the want OF II IN
fhose of a latter day. An adherence to
early and by-sone days is commendable
in research for legal precedent, and things
sancti6ed by hoary tradition may oe re.
vered By aniquarians, but assureuiy 'ne
South Carolina College has not this to
boas,,-and it does not apply, when The
living witnesses Of even its remotesl IN.
ception are before US; il is invidious ana
nnT,;, for their locks are whitened by
time, and in them we view the resuits OF
wears of industrious study and laborlous
research. There are those OF an ad-
vanced day that can compete a1d are last
hasling eminently TO vlndicale their gen,
GRAFTON and their Alma Mater. 1t IS we'll
known that what were The studies oil an
advanced clas, twenty years since, con-
s,itute those of one far inferior now, and
if our halls of learning are not as crowd
ed as those in regions more deusely pop
Mated. il is the unayoidable effect OF lhe
halo thrown around them by age, greater
variety of branches aud number OF ln-
struc,ors, frequently in donations from
private individuals for the endowment 0!
PARTICULAR schools, combining at an ear
IL period TO attract our students aud their
wealth in far greater numbers than at
present. That we can expect to rival
them, can only be accomplished by the
steady perseverance, Of wise and Palri'
otic Legislature, assisted by an enlighten-
ed and attentive Board Of Trustees, pur-
suipp a course that would ensure repu-
table contrast with the most favored
most certainly not by curtalling the NUN,
her of Professors. abridging the means OF
Instruction, or weakening public conf
dence. If the Press or its correspondents
are to take cognizance in order to con
denim, why did the State in its wisdom
see 6t TO en,rus, it specially TO Board OF
INSPECTORS. selected from the learning and
the parents of the land. To censure its
professors because forsooth This one is dis
liked for that foible, and that ridiculed for
another, this holds private opinion OBJ
noxious 10 a second. the other 10 third.
when can a sell Of meo, the wisest and
most competent, be ever free from the
ab;urations of a population comprising
some lhree hundred thousand. Where
would we ask was there ever depot
where young men are consresated IN
,unbers and there be not dissipation
among por,ion' Is there less at the