The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-04-26
CROMWELLL'S ARMY.

lead. shave ms ;ired their followers with a zeal
as ardent. But in his camp alone the most
rigid discipline was found in company with the
6ercest enthusiasm. His troops moved to VIC
tory with the precision of machines, while
burning with the wildestfanaticsm of crusaders. .
From the time when the army was remodeled,
to the time when disbaDded, it never found,
either on the British Islands or on the continent
an enemy who could stand its onset. In Eng
land, Scotland, Ireland, Flanders, the Puritan
warriors, often surrounded by difficulties, some-
times contending against tnree.fold odds, not
only never failed to conquer, but never failed to
destroy and break in pieces whatever force was
opposed to them. They at length came to re-
gard the day of battle as a day Of certain tn
umph, and marched against the most renowned
batallions of Europe with disdaintul confidence.
Turenne was startled by the shout of stern ex-
ultation with which his English allies advan-
ced to the combat, and expressed the delight of
true soldier, when he learned that it was ever
the fashion of Cromwells pikemen to rejoice
when they beheld the enemy; and the banished
cavaliers felt an emotion of national pride when
they saw brigade of their countrymen out
numbered by foes and abandoned by allies,
drive before it in headlong route the finest in
fantry of Spain, and force passage into
counterscarp which had just been pronounced
imprcgnable by the ablest of the marshalls Of
France.
But that which chiefly distinguished the ar
my Of Cromwell from 9th armies was the aus
tere mortality and fear OF God which pervaded
all ranks. 1t is acknowledged by the most
Jealous royalist, that in that singular camp, no
oath was heard, no drunkenness or gambling was
seen; and that during the long dominion OF the
soldiery, the property of the peaceable citizen
and the honor of woman was held sacred. It
outrages were committed, they were outrages OF
very different kind from those OF which
victorious army is generally guilty. No ser.
want girl conn planned of the rough gaLlantry OF
the red coats Not an ounce OF plate was Ia
ken from the shops of the gold smiths. But
Pelagian sermon, or window on which the
Virgin and Child was painted, produced In the
Puritan ranks an eAcltement which it required
tie utmost exertions of the officers to quell.-
One of Cromwells chief difficulties was to re-
tain his pikemen and dragoons from invadlng'
by force, the pulpits of ministers whose dlscour-
ses, to use the language of that time, were not
savory.-4Idcduiey.
SOUTHERN COLLEGIATE INsTITUTIoNs.--We
find in the New Orleans Delta, an article on this
subject, which enforces the claims of our own
Colleges, Schools, &c. to home patronage and
support, with some very jadicious remarks. We
take from it tire following extract, with one re-
marx merely to correct common error; our
own institution of which we are so justly prozd
and which 10 so can regard with feelings Of
more interest and affection, than the writer of
this, is not properly speaking University and
does not profess to be So
1t is College, and first appeared we believe
as University, in Woodbridge's Geography,
and the error has been kept up by similar publ
cations.
This mention of errors in school books by
the way reminds US of IN instance which came
to our knowledge reccntly-a geographical
work representing Railroad, as now in opera
ton between Raleigh and Camden, without the
slightest reference to the Camden Branch, which
has really been completed for some time.
But to return to the Delta, whose remarks
are as follows Telegraph.
"The South has been seriously injured by
this dependence upon the North for the educa-
ton OF her sons. Without referring to the OBJ
iectionable constitutional principles taugbtfr from
the wor"s Of Story, Kent, and others, in which
respect we regret to observe the Louisiana Law
School following in the wake of Yale and Cam.
bridge, we thnk it is obvious that our oung
men return from these Northern institutions i'm.
bibed with many ideas, feelings, and tastes,
quite lcreign to those which prevail here, and
which should characterize the sous of the South
Greece, the Latin poet hes said, conquered her
barbarian victor, imperial Rome, by the influ-
ence OF her science and her arts. We trust it
may rot be recorded OF the Southern States,
that they were subjugatcd to Northern domina-
ton by similar influences exercised through the
numerous Colleges whichare crowded with the
young men Of the South.
"it is great error to suppose that these
Northern Colleges are in any respect superior
to those of the South On the contrary, We
know that College honors and dip plomas arc of
more easy attainment and the course less COM
plcte and extensive, at Cambridge, Yale, or
Princeton, than II the Universities of Virginia
ana of South Carolina 1t is equally true that
the discipline and morals of these institutions
are superior to those of the North, where the
young men have the run of large towns, and are
lla!tercd and coaxed into all sorts of excuses
an eXtrayagancc."