The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-06-20
Northern COLLEGES,

dians will patronise these Institutions, in pre-
! ference to their own9 We are sure, that for
scholarship and dindustry, the Professors Of the
Virginia University and the South Carolina Col.
Iege will compare avorably with any in the
Union. The course of study which is pursued
by both are of such nature as to improve the
mind: if properly attended to, as much as any
plan which can be prosecuted in the time which
is allowed for College course. The Northern
Colleges devote the more time to the study Of
the Exact Sciences; the Southern Colleges give
the preference to Metaphysical and Moral Stu
dies. The first only improves the memory and
stores it with multitude of scientific facts.
and teaches one TO reason, as it has most con-
clusively been shown, unnaturally; The other
improves all the faculties at once, teaching the
student in fine, to be Philosopher. The lat
ter being, in our opinion, by far the more de.
sirable, inaSmuch as it learns US the causes
which naturally lead to the effects, and conse.
! quently imply the effects, which the other alone
inculcates. That this is so, in real experience,
has been proven by the number of distinguish.
ed men which the Southern Institutions have
graduated. If one casts his eye, for instance,
over the catalogue of the Alumni Of the South
Carolina College, he will be astonished to find
how many members of Congress and how many
distinguished Jursts dot the list. TO enter
into an enumeration would be tedious; suffice
it to say that she has furnished number of
Senators and Representatives, only for her own
State, but for all the Southern States, compar-
ed with which even Yale or Harvard, in the
same space Of time, must yield.
If, then, our Southern Colleges are discip.
lined under better and more improving sys-
tenn, can il be the principles which are inculca.
ted at the North which parents desire their
children to imbibe? We hope not. Much as
we respect the yankee Nation," much as we
desire their energy, their industry and their in
domitable perseverance, we do deprecate the
man who would tTke one of them, untried, into
his family as teacher, or place his children
beneath their preceptorage or influence What
is the case at present in those Colleges at which
Southern parents place their childrens Disu-
Mon is rife -dsunien, too, not based upon the
honorable and soulelevatng principle of Sc
ces>ion, but upon the base and degrading dog
mas of AboIilionlsm All of US who were born
under the shade of the star-spangled banner,
who have read the history of ou.' forefatbers,
and who are conscious of the dignity of the
Union in foreign countries, must appreciate,
love and revere that consecrated bond which
holds these sovereign States together, while,
at the same time, we must abhor and detest
that community which would first raise the sa-
crileginus hand to tear it asunder. In almost
every Northern College, the Professors are the
leaders of the Abolition party. In Cambridge,
lately, one of the principal speakers against the
Nebraska Bill was Professor. In Hartford
the same thing occurred, and in Princeton Col
lege, the old stand by of the South, we are pri-
vatey informed that the lectures Of the Profes
sors are replete with abuse of Southern insti
tntions With such facts before US, together
with the unjust treatment of many Southern
students who 60 thither, we are astonished to
find how many there are who persist in send
ing their sons to drink of these stagnant pools.
Only lately. the Editor of the Charleston Stand
ard received a letter from his nephew, stating
that he had been fined most severely for an
other man committing an assault upon him,
merely because he came from the South! Only
few years ago, we remember Of hearing OF
the expulsion of Southern student for exhib-
ting certain nsubordinate manifestations, when
he was ordered to accept negro from the
West Indies As his chum. These are only two
instances of inimical feel 'ngs towards the South,
out of many that could be narrated.
Let every Southern man, then, patronze his
own Institutions, where he may be confident
that his boys will be taught properly, not only
with reference to the improvement of their
minds, but with regard to those great moral
springs of action which should govern their
conduct towards their God, their country and
its Institutions GreenviNe Mountaiaeer.
South Carolina Conservatism.
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