The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-10-07
From the Patriot and h0uriaineer.
The Press of South Carolina and Ourself

The Press South Carolina and Ourself.
We see that the newspapers of the
State great and small, have made the as.
founding discovery that Col. Mcmrninger
and oursclt lava sent our SONS 10 Harvard
College. They have undertaken TO in
terterc with our domestic arrangements,
and write us lectures about the disposi.
tion Of our children at school This is a
very polite and kind interference on their
part, and for which we are greatly indebt-
ed to them. Had we pursued the course
they have towards the North, denounced
the Northern people MS "A body of enemies
.abottonists, aliens unworthy of aSsocia.
ton, there might be more propricty ii
their wholesale ccnSure. Bat we beg
them to remember that we, ourSe'f have
EN- abused, from one endofthe State t. Il c
other, Tor saying HAT there are friends g!
the South ut the North; that ihev are
not all abolitionists or enemies OF the
South that the Democratic party North
have always been our allies and friends in
the administration Of the Federal Govern
ment. We have never been diSunionists,
or repudated the North as part of our
country, as they have done. Whilst we
love our home IN Greeuvi!lr, and are
proud of being Il native of South Carroll
ma, we glory in the sppcIIa;ion of "an
American citizen" We have ever cain
ed Massachusetts as part of our com.
mon country, aud with prize refer to the
fact, that Hancock, and Warren, Frank |
lin and O,s, the Adamses Webster and
.Choate, and Winthrop, Bancroft, Tichmnr,
Everett, and Prescott, were our country.
Inen and fellow citizens of this great and
glorious Republic.
But it is strange that these newspaper
editors and subscribers should not think
worth while TO notice the fact, that their
distinguished leader in all their nullifca.
tlon and secession movements, Hon. X. y.
Ehett, has done just what We have done.
lie sent three Of his sons to Harvard Col.
lege and nothing was said about it. No
notice was taken of it. lie was a diSun-
ionlst and we were Union man. We
cannct do what he has done with impun.
ity without the censure Of The Press
The AlIstons and priL tIe8, and hundreds
of other good and true secessionis,s, are
BENDING, and lave sent, their sons to uar
ward, on account of its superior excellence
rs College, and nothing is said, not a
word. Col. John S. Preston, nullifer
and dlsunlonlst, and a trustee Of the South
Carolina College, takes his sons from he
South Carolina College and sends them
to Europe, where aboltionsIn, aristocra-
cy and monarchy are in the ascendant, n
foreign country, alien to America in every
thing, and nothing is said about it in the
papers. Hundreds are sent from the
South, every year, to Princeton and
Northern Coileges, SONS Of nulliers, and
secessionists, and disunonists, and they
are not censured But when Union
man, consistent with his American prn
ciples, sees proper to pursue the same
course, his parental arrangements are
called in question, and he is denounced
for them
We have never sought Office or held
office under the State of South Carolina,
and do not know, therefore, why we are
uader any Obligations to the State more
than they who have been honored bv the
State with a seat in the United States
Senate. 1T is true we sent our son to
Harvard with reluctance, and after trying
the South Carolina College. lie was ed
ucated at home, graduated in one of our
I Universities and received the diploma of
Bachelor Of Arts. His youth induced us,
then, to send him to the South Carolina
College, where he might still prosecute
his Collegiate studies. The College was
broken up by the rebellion Of the stu
dents, and we thought it extremely doubt.
full whether it would be organized again,
successfully, for year or TWO to come.
Under these circumstances we cast about
for college or university in which he
might spend couple Of years to the best
advantage. We thought Harvard supe.
rior to all others for the learning and abI.
ity of its Professors, and determined to
place Linn there. We went on with him
and satisfied ourself as to its superior ad-
vantages for learning, scholarship anG i'm
proverRent AS to the political principles
OF the Professors at Harvard, they have
never been offensive to the South. There
are few men anywhere moro Southern in
their feelings than Professor Perce, the
eminent astronomer and mathematician
". hai ai'"iu' hBdsslL, Tlle great master
Of natural science, is European by birth
and the world claims him rs one of her
greatest Swans. Sophocles is a Grecian.
felton Is the author of Greek books which
are books in the South Carolina College
The President, Walker, is eminent for his
learning and Piety, and none Of the Pro
fessors are known as politicians. The At
mosphefe Of Harvard is purely literary,
and has never been contaminated like
Yale and some other Noythern Colleges
with political meetings and lectures.-
Who doubts the advantage Of Harvard
over Southern Colleges? Where is the
sin, then, of sending son there to enjoy
those advantages. We presume Mr..
Rhett, Mr.. PringIe, Mr.. Allston, and hun
dreds Of others, sent their sons to chat in
stitution actuated 10y the same motives.
But whilst they might be seemingly in
consistent, we see no reason 70 fix the
charge on us. Another ore of our sons