Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-05-13

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the rank luxuri;lnce Of ignorance. We have
two Female Institutions here, and there are
Academies for girls, in various parts Of the Dis
tr;ct much superior to the Male Schools in the
same quarter. Now this is bad state OF things.
It ere Yates boys and makes them effeminate to
s.nd them TO Female Schools. Where it is
long prac,iced they acquire an aversion to exer-
else, and sickly fondness for play,hings, winch
prevents the growth of either mind or body.
Hence, they become partial to preserves and
parceoric and in due course of time, are race
Of rbyming, whining, pining, lisping, sugar
Tipped dandics and pgmics. The girls hen
peck them on all occasions. They say emPlicti-
cally, "Sir, this is our School, not yours-bst
here is beautiful bouquet, Jonny, which you
may have if you will behave yourself, and mind
me-" Itnjures the girls too, because contact with
the boys, makes them immodest and lessons the
distance between the sexes. | know it is fasll-
onablc to say, that the girls Of family should
be better educated than the boya, because if
misfortune should overtake them, they could
then support their helpless situation by teaching
or writing, and becahsc also, they must become
mothers in the course of nature and the theory
is, very justly too, that the mother forms the
child.
Accordingly Tom and John must work ut homo;
for the money to send Wihclmina to boarding
School. who, when she comes back is ashamed
of them, and laughs at their ignorance A
| woman should be well educated, but never better
than the man she is to marry. Intelligence can
never i've happily with ignorance, and DIS khowl-
edge is power, when Il wife is better informed
than ltcr husband, she !sill naturally usurp his
place and forget her own.
In America, the women have all the rights,
which the men possess, except to hold Office, or
rote for an officer. But in Georgia. though
they cannot fill an Office they still elect what
candidate thcy plrsse. ! believe too in some of
the o,icr States; Il few Of Them have been ap-
pointed Post Nlstresscs by gallant Presidents
But in Georgia they have more power than any
VIII, on this Continent and why because they
are far better educxted thsn the inch Of their own
State. Hence they are great politicians and
glory in giving their hand to Yankee, in pref
ercncc to na,ive Geurs shn, because she former
is always and the latter bit seldom educated
like the other young men at the South, fot fra-
sons that will give at future day. Hence
also tile Federal attachments and fcklcncss OF
Georgia Politics generally, which have become
the type Of change like April, or at least the
Poets from Homer down, have called the ladies
fcklc
In 1887 Georgia passed law prohibiting the
Introduction Of Slaves within her borders fol
traffic. so that the capital, which in the oihel
Southern States went to buy more land and ne
grocs, in Georgia built up Factories. Railway
> and other internal improvements. This brough
out host Of Engineers and operatives from til
North, and they in turn brought their famc
and friends.
The women of that cntrrprising race, coul
not long remain idle, where there was so Wuc
" to be feeced, from the golden ignorance arou1n
: ihsm. so they started schools. By7and.by III
:. College at Macon, Ia Grange, Montpelier, an
= in nearly every Town Of any size in the Stat,
8 That IL, they have decent Academies, whic
they call Colleges in the magnificent grundo
, quencc Of Hankeedam. i believe the only dif
, ference recognized between the two, is that on,
confcrs degrees and the other dnes not; whicl
is done somewhat in this guisc. After cir
has gone year or two in what is called tho
Collegiate Department, her teacher who is moi
favorably known perhaps beyond the corporation
in which he lives, crr,iics on bit of blue paper
or parchment or sheep skin, or what you will
that Caroline Whclmina Susannah TJmpson
lsa graduate Of the lIunbug University, Collie
giate Institute. lie th,n signs his namc along
with the learned Trustees. ;ffixcs something for
a seal, and sends his graduate forth puffcd with
vanity and pcdantry.
'' Near 4 bow..hot, from the College,
Half the world, from sense or knowledge"
Shall such ever be our case in South CARROLL
na and in Ejgcfcld District trust the exam
Pile of Georgia generally and her sixty thousand
n0n- Slaueholdi"g roters specially, will deter us.
shall address myself to the Farmers Of the
District, next week, modcstly, but hope with
interest May South Carolina and ,Edgcfeld
learn to educate well, all the sons and daughters
within their bordcrs, and by their own native
Teachers, is the best prayer Of one who is
proud to call them his SWEET HOME.
FOR TIE ADVERTISER.
MEsrns. DiToRs,-Wc hear much said at the
present time about Southern Manufacturers and