The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-02-15
MO. HGe

III independent republican citizen, as
| he Roman Catholic who Is never per.
nsitted to read his Bible, or know any
thing of the religion of Christ, except
what he gets from his priest. We
have as little confidence in political
priest as we have in religious priests
Every man should think for himself,
in politics as well as in religion. The
same may be said,of every science and
every pursuit Of knowledge in. the
whole world. Without a man is able
to read his newspapers and his Bible,
ne must be more less II dependent on
the wealthy and educated classes.
Mr.. IABER contends that the work
| ing man has no time for books--that
lie goes out early in the morning to his
labor, and returns at night, exhausted.
! What time would such man have to
hear speeches and lectures? But Mr..
IABER says the laborcrr can have no
taste for literature, and Of couree would
have rs little for public speeches. !, The
wealthy and.persons ofleisure are thoso4
who are to be educated, and pursue lit.
crature. We deny that wealth and
leisure give any taste for literature. or
have ever furnished in the !. United
States one-tenth part Of her statesmen
and scholars. On the contrary, the
great men of America, the scholars of
United States, the learned Of the Re
pubic, were never nurtured in the lap
Of wealth and leisure Such men have
always been hard workers -laboring
men-men who made their living by
the sweat Of their brow. No mechanic
or field laborer works harder, every
day of his life, or works longer, than
the lawyer and physician in full rrac-
tice. AID what is there in issuing
wrIts, or making pills, in counselling
with clients, or visiting sick rooms.
more congenial to taste for literature.
than p!oughing the earth Or building
house { ii the lawyer and The doctor
can find time to devote to'books and
literature, SO may the mechanic and
tradesman, and the farmer, and day la
borer. Learning has been, as DIR. LIE
! BEa says, entirely changed BY the art
otprinting and common schools, where
reading and writing are taught to the
poor ragged, children Of the country"
Long may it continue should lie the
wish Of every, one
There is an aristocratic feeling and
prctention in South Carolina, and a
contempt and distrust OF the people.
which exist in no other State of this
Union There is less ofrepublicanism
in our State Constitution and Govern
mcnt, and less confidence reposed in
the people under them, than in any 9TH
er State in the Rcpnbic! Nowhere
else are the people denied their consti-
tutionas righ; OF voting for Electors Of
President and Vice President. In no
other State are they deprived of the
right of voting for their Chief Magis.
trate )! Nowhere else in this broad
Republic is the citizen Of swamp en-.
titled to one hundred and twenty times
the influence Of another who lives on.
the hills or mountains. Nowhere else
but IN South Carolina is property in.
vested with an influence in one portion
OF the State which The same SPECIES OF
property has not, in different sec
tion of the country In no State but
South Carolina are six hundred dollars
appropriated to the education of Six
teen poor scholars in parish, and on.
| ~ the same amount appropriated to
educate two or three hundred in some
OF The dist'icts In the Senate Of thia
State majority of the Senators nre
elected BY very small minority ofthe
people of the State. AS to any change
or alteration OF our Constitution, it is
impossible, unless the Senator'S repre-
sentlng perhaps one tenth of the people
see proper to sanction it g
these are odiuus ariStocratic features
IN our Government, which deserve to
De broken down. They tend to cncour-
age the belief that the people are not
fit for seltgovernmgnt, and if they
were not taught to read and, write, they
would not be very long.
We have been told that Mr.. TARER's
Address is not without advocates and
: apolosists III Grcenvile, as we'll az
other portions of lh" State. This does
not surprise us at all. for VIC verify be-
lIeve that if Mr., TARER had proposed,
-. 80 t'''duShuit1lr ri TANuFcSS, ttllL;s lit
the free white laborers of the State,
men, women and children, should be
blacked aud sold, aud We had opposed
Itas being unwisc, unjust and atroc; Gus.
there would have been in0nd some, no
, doubt, in Greenvlle, rs well as else,
whore III South Carolina, who could
not have Seen anything Objectionable
IN tho suggestion, and who would havo
denonnced us for opposing it. .alat
We & i've the public the following
letters, which we have received on tho
subject of this controversy. 1t was
our purpose to have. written to many
oshers, but tho publication OF Mr..
IARER's Address cut short! Cir etbrres.
, ppndence. 1t vouchcs for MS sufficient,
, III ,CokUhBIA, January 8. giS51s