Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-05-20
FOR TIE ADVERTISER.

MEssRs EDIEols:-In your last paper ap-
pearcd an article de omnibus rcJus, but profess
sing to be upon tie subject Of "Our Male
Academy. ."-IIowSsucb an enormous enter
tanment, of such ap almost intcrminable vari-
city Of viands could be gotten up from so short a
bill of fare: is really The quantity is
amazing; the quality speaks for itself. If we
may be pardoncd the impiety, it irresistibly re-
minds one of the miraculous feeding Of the null
tiiude upon few loavcs and fishes and Of the
large amount of fragments left. We do not
propose to gather up the fragments left from this
literary surcharge, how amusing soever it might
be- We forego this qualification from the per-
suasion that the play would not be worth the
caudle. 1t is merely to correct single state
mcnt made by the writer that we claim small
space in your columns. The writer states that
" The Trustees cannot get Southern and will
not employ Northern Teacher" 1t is not tc
correct any impression that such statement
can make in this community that we trouble you
with this Communication but it may be read
abroad by persons who have no means of being
more correctly informed and thus prevent the
Trustees from receiving applications from Teach,
ers who might be altogether acceptable to them
For, we venture TO say, and we speak adviscdy
that the assertion ahQye alluded to is wholly
gratuitous and alteglher unwarranted BY any
the faee of every thing to the contrary, it Is .
little strange that any one could suppose the
Trustees influenced by such narrow contracted
sickly, pseudo.patlioic sentiments MS this writer
has volunteered to attribute to them. The only
qualification they require in an applicant IT,
merit. The competent, faithful teacher, native
or not, Northern or Southern. is eligible We
educate our sons for the world and invite teach
ers from any and every quarter, who may pos
scss the requisite qualifications, TO occupy our
vacant Academy.
We cannot, like your contributor, feel com-
pcnsatcd for the ignorance and stupidity of our
sons by the patriotic reflection that they have
been taught by Teachers whose only qualifica-
ton was, that they hailed from the Sunny South.
Nor can we wonder that any who gives such
unmstakeabe evidence of being home raised
should entertain such patriotic horror of cxot-
les. II things else being equal, we prefer the
Southern Teacher. But such Teachers are few
and far between and shall we close the doors
of our Academies against able Teachers, Teach
ers, too, by profession, because they happened
to be born North Of a certain geographical line {?
Shall our children grow up in ignorance willie
their patriotic fathers are waiting for such a
change in Southern sentiment as shall call the
same talent to the School Room as is now found
in the profession of Medicine, in the Forum and
in the Pulpit3 Is for pursuing such course
as this that our Trustees are congratulated
and graciously promised the approving smiles of
the citizens of the Districts Away with such
patriotism Let us not be deceived by the
miserable slang and the stale cant of ambitious
asprants for some political notoricty; but let us
rather be socitious about furnishing for our
sons and our daughters all the facilities in our
power for acquiring finished education. Let
the Big-endians and the Littlc-endians spend
their lives in pro6tlcss controversy about nom
essentials, while VIC, with our faces set like flints
quietly pursue the even tenor Of our way, in the
prosecution of what we regard our trucst inter-
est Thus, Nlessrs. EDIToRs, shall we, in our
humble opinion, be doing good to the rising gene
ration while Missionaries conten. themselves with
idle spccnlations and impraetcablc theories
TRUTH.
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