The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-12-20
For the Journal,
TO THE PUBLIC.

1t is matter deeply to be deplOred, that the
South should have been so long, and to suclf
all extent dependent on the North for the III
structors of their children and youth. Not 1t-~
ly our public Institutions Of learning, but the
greater number of our private schools andi
academies have hitherto been entrusted to the
hands of Northern teachers At any time such
state of dependency ought to be regarded by
us, as matter of reproach. But at such a
time as this, it is an evil not to to be borne, that
the education of our children must he commit.
ted, of necessity, 10 class of teachers, whose
political sentiments are at war with our long
cherished domestic policy,
This dependency owes its existence to the
fact that education among us has been confined
chiefly to the wealthy class of our citizens, who
shrink from the drudgery of teaching, regarding
it as sort of nenal service while the poorer
class who would willingly serve their country
in this useful and patriotic occupation, are des-
titute OF the means requisite for qualifying them
selves to become successful teachers.
Our State has certainly been 'ery remiss in
not making more apple provisions for the edu.
cation oftae poor, who might otherwise become
our most useful citizens It is the deliberate
opinion of him, who now addresses you, that
the Legislature should at once provide for the
establishment and support OF schools, both male
and female, whose primary object shall he to
educate promising young persons, erprcsslytor
Teachers. In the absence Of such provision,
and in view of the imperative necessity for
supply of native Southern teachers the attention
OF the patriotic and liberal is invited to the sub
joined proposition:
1t is proposed, that those of our fellow citi-
zens, who advocate the teaching ofnative South
ern teachers, organize themselves into society
for the purpose of raising funds, for the estab-
lishment and support ofsuch schools, the kind
alluded to, as shall be conducted agreeably to
their wishes; procure qualified teachers to su.
perintend them; seek out, and endeavour to in.
duce suitable persons to enter those schools;
and appoint committees to report to the society
the characters and wants of the schools, and
the success attending these efforts.
The subscriber asks the patronage of the
pnblic to an Institution of this sort, to be estab
lished near Russell Place, Kershaw District,
S. c., to go into operation early in the ensuing
year.
The School will be one of high order in
which all the branches of thorough English
and Classical education will be taught.
Being designed for training of teachers, the
mode of instructing will be somewhat after the
plan of the Laneasterian and Normal Schools.
As the Institution is intended chiefly for the
education of those whoss means are limited,
it will be conducted on the most economical
plan; the boarding department being SO man
aged as merely to cover expenses.
The necessary expenses OF such an Institution
will be. the salary of competent superinten-
dent; aud the erection of a plain building con.
taiuing sleeping and eating apartments, and
q recitation room.
Those whe may take an interest in such an
enterprise are requested to address the subscri-
Der at Russell Place, S. c.
Dec. l3. 1850
u Editors friendly to such an enterprise
will oblige the writer by publishing this conf
muncatou.
"There are no disunionists in the North"
So says the Boston Atlas, an advocate of the
Wilmot Proviso and the repeal of the fugitive
slave law. We believe The Atlas. We believe
the North would yield the South every Const-
tutional right she possesses rather than dissolve
the Union. But we have submissionists in the
South who are willing to abide BY the DEGREES
of Congress, passed with the sanction OF ma
jority, and who are either too timid or too des-
ttute of patriotism, to make demand OF our
rights. Such as these have paralysed the arm
of the South, and are willing to acquiesce in
any law Congress may pass unless, forsooth, a
minority should be able to repeal it! This is
as far as they will go.-Memphis Appeal.
Fugitirc Slares at fhs Norihmest. John
Calvert, an agent who was sent to Chlago,
from ST. Louis, to recover fugitive slaves, IN
forms the st. Louis Republican, that while at
Chicago all the letters sent to him were inter.
cepted and broken open or destroyed, and that
although he sent thirty-two telegraphic des-
patches to St. Louis. he could get no answer
to any of them. He says that there are a
large number of fugitive slaves at Chicago, but
that through the activity of the Abotionists, it
is almost impossible to recover any OF them.
One female slave consented to return with hlm,
but she was forced from him at Bridgewater
by fifty or sixty colored persons. In pursuit
Of ffugitives, he went to Chatham, in Canada,
where he found a large number of them and ma
ny others constantly arriving from the States
LomeH Manufactures are in Lowell,
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