The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-10-11
The College Again.

We ask pardon of our readers for again ohtruding
our remarks upon this subject but as we have been
called up again by the Carolina Sparcns correspon-
dent, '"Fair Play" we reply as follows:
lst THAT Camden, where the editor would have
the proposed College, is a sicky place." We answer
by an emphatic contradiction of the proposition. 1t
is not s., Again, why you insist upon it that Cam
den is the spot where we want the College located.
This isa wiful unfair Misrepresentation position.
Krkwood is the place and beautiful lot Of thirty
acres Of land, and as healthy your 'burg' or any
other place. Stick to the facts and fair play will suit
better for your motto.
2nd. "That in consequence ofthe sickness all ,Gho
get a,cay arc absentees during the months Of July,
August September and when frost keeps off, the
month Of October
Another emphatic demurrer is entered against this
assertion 1t is not correct that ' ho get auay
60. The whole paragraph is founded in ignorance,
and botrays on uuwarrantable recklessness which we
do not care to consume time in answering at greater
length. - -.
3rd "That owing to its situation near the river
swamp, Camden has an abundant stock Of mosquitoes
and gallinippers who rarely disappear even during
the winter months. / might have added that the
boasted Kirkwood is equally wellstocked with sand
flies, of peculiar and most viainous kind Of which
you in the upper country can form NO idea.
This is only another instance Of the extent to which
the human imagination may DO carried. That we
have "musguitoes" we do not deny but the "ga-nip-
per" part we must leave for the fertile and magna
tive correspondent of the Spartan to find and those
'sand fes" of such "a peculiar and most villainous
kind we will also leave his sagacious Investigations
If the citizens of boasted Krkwood" have not been
annoyed with these villanous insects we are sure
they ought not to complain in the upper country"
4th. That tho expense of living in Camden, when
compared or should rather say contrastcd with the
same in Spartanburg is as Is to 8, or rs to L.
Good boarding, washing and lodging can be obtained
in Spartanburg for 500 per annum. The same will
cost in Camdci. Sl92."
Suppose board at the hotels in Camden is l2 or Is
dollars per month"; does it follow matter Of course
that it would be the same at the College. BY the
same process Of reasoning, Barhamvlc ought not to
he paronized because the hotels in Columbia charge
25 or 80 dollars month for board bright idca that
Is the eating part the great first idea why the College
should be located at Spartanburg. Camden has just rs
much right to the College as Spartanburg has, and if
there is any chauce to get it, it will be done-thc ef
fort will at least be made and "Far Play must go
up to Conference "prctty we'll charged with explosive
materials" before he will be able to fix things exactly
to his liking
The writer of "Fair Play" after various conclusions,
consoles himself with the delusive idea that he has US
cornered or in his own beautiful conception mo Won
der the editor hodges behind corner at the dis
charce,"-of what "explosive matcrials"-whch
sends him, "Far Play" sky.hgh into thin air. thank
you for the idea Here it is
"Thus, Messrs editors, you will perceive that my
"sguib" was pretty well charged with explosive ma
terials-explosive of the insane scheme, hope TO
locate SO important an institution at or near Camden
No wonder the editor hodges behind corner at the
discharge thereof would advise him to Keep there'
Bows are sometimes hurt by "sqnt6S
Amusing thought, "Boys aro sometimes hurt oy
'squibs.'"
Wo will ask our renerabe censor question-how
hgh do "boys" get to be in the upper country we
have here generation of 'carly rscrs," and when you
talk about boys we don't understand YOU
Tho conclusion of this matter or rather the conciu
sion of "Fair Plays article is ns follows
Bv.thc cbye Mcssrs. Editors, is nj" tho temperance
,drornte diverted from its legitimate purpose, Wheh
to columns arc made the medium through Wllloh 1e
;,r ovnressrs his individual preferences on the SUD-
;",p Th,i nnn,r was established and has hccn sup
r,ol Cor single rrirpoSc--the promotion ol temper
.vrn AS such it is paronzcd by the friends oil inc
r,r,, ihr ,rrrnri III" Sta'". among whom Il" ma'!