Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-03-19
For the Advertiser.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE.
SALuDA RIVER. Edge6eld Dis. c. s.

Fuse you no reasonable request, and you nave been
90 tiutiful to me, in your general conduct, that
would almost comply with your unreasonable wishes
Eondy Belie1eing them to be the offspring of an
Upright spirit um truly grathed at the earnest
desire you manifest Of becoming acquainted with
the Institution which you hope shortly to enter
As student, and which you expect, ut future day,
to claim and love as your Alma Mater. You may
be called upon to defend her from rude assaults,
when your friends will be greatly disappointed II
:you display as poor knowledge Of the purpose OF
her creation and Of the principles rules, and regu-
la,ions by which she is governed, as adorns the
paragraphs Of many Of the scholarly gentlemen oil
the up.country, plumed with the names Of Editors,
who so Aippantly denounce her, and vainly attempt
to bring her into disrepute with the very people
amongst whom she has diffused flood Of light and
intelligence. The South Carolina College is one oi
the noblest Seminaries of learning in the South and
for twenty five years her graduates and pupils have
uniformly ranked among the first men, in the first
places Of the Republic There is no honorable pro-
fvssion in the country, but what is graced by some
accomplished men, whose affections still linger
around the beautiful Campus and the sacred walls
in which you will spend the four ensuing years OF
your lifc Some live in the West, some in the
South, and some soousn on the shores of the Pac'.
ic, but wherever they are, their thoughts for
ever recur to South Carolina the parent of that in
sti,u,ion where they mbibed Of the pure fountains
of learning, where their love Of State rights, and
Republican freedom was enkindled into generous
passon-where their manly sentiments were neu-
tured with watchful solcitude-where their aspra-
tons were taugh, to to lofty and ennobllng at
tainments, and where their conduct shaped into
the most finished models Of gentlemen and scholars.
The pains and expense Of South Carolina in foster
ing her College, have been recompensed-and
doubly recompensed, in thousand ways by the love
and gratitude of its graduates, by their services TO
the State and to the Union, by the honor reflected
uun l.r from the recipients Of her bounty, and by
the pru.l consciousness she feels of having per-
formed her duty to herself, to her people and to
God The Intellectual attempts of the pens OF the
Informer can never mar the bright reno%n of the
darling child of the State. The education OF the
gentlemen who conduct that Journal (ifindeed they
have had sufficient regard for pa'try ON accom-
plisncnt as to bestow any portion of their precious
time and talent ,hrreon) was, perhaps, obtained in
sonic Northern City, amid rabid and unwashed
Democracy. and far, indeed, from the conservatism
and tone that fetter the minds Of Carolnans.
say this in Charity, for otherwise, their views would
be nons,rouS, and should subject them to the ami
,nadv, rsi,n Of every just or candid gentleman in
the S,atr
l.v, ne now oppose facts to fiction, and. at once
sl,i,fy your inquiries To the various points made
in yur sensible letter. Allow me, though, to adopt
my own order, so as to array the questions in their
,ru. c, loss. and meet all Of the very weighty OBJ
i.ctins of the Castor and Poux of the Edgefeld
InGormer.
The South Carolina College was founded in 1901.
It has President and seven Professors, with
salary, for the whole Faculty, in the aggregate,
amounting to s22 200. Add to this 50 600 for the
Library and we have the sum Of 24,200, the regu-
lar annual appropriations made BY the Legislature
to supper. this Institution This differs very ma
terially, (and this is correc) from the amount of
S45 900, US stated in the Informer. What right
had he to tell the people they taxed, to an ex-
tent. to include the Tuition fund, for the support OF
the Collegel In my morality the making of wrong
impression, when wilful, differs very little, in the
nature of the offence, from wrong statement.
But, further-lhe tuition fund, abou, $l2 900 per
annum, is, by acts Of the Legislature, to be applied
to the ordinary repairs and improvements OF the
College Buildings, &C., and the surplus, by the act
Of 1888, is to be added to the $4,000 appropriated
by the Legislature for the increase Of the Library
Occasionally pretty large appropriations have been
made By the State for rebuilding the burnt edihces,
and for new buildings in the College; but these
have constituted no part Of the annual appropria-
ton, partaking, as they have, Of altogether differ
ent character.
The Average annualapproPriation for the College,
since its foundation, has been (includns all the
buildings, apparatus, and salaries of professors &c,
about $4,000; and in this is embraced the
sll ,02O for orphans at College, and $4,000 for
Insurance.
shall now proceed to show the cost to the State
Of each graduate and will prove the result to ial'
quite short of S., ,00O But the Informer has since
corrected the statement You saw, and says that in
the large and numerous calculations he was COM
pelled to make to arrive at his conclusions, figures
were employed, and most unfortunety, in his hurry
and confusion, he put one little cipher too much
after the 8. really suppose, that he wds confused
after wading through, in his peculiar ,oay the vast
piles Of lumber he had collected around him. And
fbis calculations, in full, could be presented on
paper, they would confuse every body else, oven
Sir Isaac NEwToS, himself, if restored to life, and
by any benumbing spell, be could be made to give
JUL fah and credit 70 such cumbersome details. The
Intorwer was half strsek off, he bays, before the
erra,um was discovered; but | have seen no copy
Mt all, of that issue, in which it was corrected. A
good deed, though, is better done late than never.
The appropriations by the Legislature
in support Of the College from 1901,
mp to IS45, have been. $500, ,S69S, $40 ,2a
From ls45 up to 1855, inclusive, have
.o-o co o:
Making, ip all, the sum Of. .S9IO,6'9,2;
Or ip round numbers, sl,OOO,00O.
There baye been, up to 1855, Of sradu-
a.es abont. .,...,.. .............. i ,53l
OF others ip the College who did not
graduate, bpt received their education
chiefly there: ::::::.:: :......:: ,ou'
Total. 2,5s(
Now il YOU count graduates only, each will hav'