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result in their collegiate education.

Now, for the first point. The dema-
gogueism in the use of such an argument
MS the above, is too apparent to require even
an attempt at refutation. Who does not
sec its absurdity But yet men are to be
found who Use it, evidently to create wind
by which to get into office. Whether it
will answer their purpose remains to he
seen. We arc Of those who believe in the
divine judgment Of the people; that is,
when that judgment is formed maturely and
deliberately. The people are sometimes led
into errors by just such fellows as those
who use the above argument; but they are
not slow to detect it, and when they do de-
tect it, they not only correct it, but kick
those who led them into it out of place.
1t is one of the vilest things that the
modern tendencies Of our State have given
birth to-the runy effort, which is being
made, to break down the College, which, it
seems to us, every son Of South Carolina,
whether an at~mnus or no, ought to sus-
tain and perpetuate-for the good which it
has done-for the good which it is doing
and that which it is calculated to do. Look
at tile many noble men it has sent forth,
who are now battling for our rights, not
only in the halls Of Congress, but at home,
around the firc-side, in places of trust,
on the farm, in the pulpit, on the bench,
'around the bedside, at the bar, and wher-
ever you look, into whatever field OF labor
that is useful and honorable, you will find not
few of the graduates of the South Carroll
MA College. Break the College down, in
deed If either had to be done, it would
be much better for posterity, in our judg-
ment, to break the necks OF those misguided
men, (not to call them by harder namc,)
who are trying to do this, than to do, if
you could, so wicked and unpatriotic a
thing.
The cry that the College is a tax to the
State, and therefore, &C., is too base for
repetition, much less for serious array of
facts to refute it. Look into this, and YOU
will find that those who make the greatest
noise on the tax subject, pay hardly cert
of fax into the treasury.
The cry about its being College for
the rich and not for the poor, is equally
base and untrue. If the lists of those who
have graduated there within the last twen-
ty years be examined, it will be found that
the larger number have been the sons of
comparatively poor parents. And besides,
the expense of graduation at this College is
not whit greater, leaving the board out,
than at any other respectable college, and
the board is to be attributed to tue place,
and not to the College itself.
For these, and other reasons which at
once suggest themselves to all who serious
ly think upon this subject, we say, let the
College stand, and let it be perpetuated
Let it be the last thing to be torn down of
what our fathers built up. If the time has
come when we have to cease to be the
3State of South Carolina" in the sense in
which these words were used and understood
in the days Of Calhoun, Harper, McDuffie,
llayne, Legare, and host Of other wor-
thies of glorious memory, let this remain
to posterity a monument Of what we were,
and n worse than the curse of Cain be upon
him who would rudely jostle single brick
in it's noble structure. A CARoL1S1AS.
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