Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-10-01

part OF our common country, and with pride re-
fer to the fact, that Hancock, and Warren, Frank
lin and Otls, the Alamses, Webster, and Choate,
and winthrop, Bancroft, Tichnor, Everett and
Prescott, Were ou" couutrymen and fellow. citizens
of this, great and glorious Republic.
But 1t Is strange that these newspaper editors
and scribblers should not think worth while to no.
tlce the fact that their distinguished leader in all
! their notification and secession movements Hon.
r. B. Rhett. has done just wha: We have done -
He sent three OF his sons to Harva.i College and
nothing was said about it. No notice was taken
oft. He was disunionist and We Union man.
We cannot do what he has done with impunitv
! without the censure of the Press. The Ailstous
and Priugles. and hundreds of other good and
true secessonists, are sending, and have sent,
their sons to Harvard College, and nothing is said,
not word. Col. John s. Preston, nullifer and
disunionist, and a trustee of the South Caroline
+ College, takes his sons from the South Carolina
College and sends them to Europe, where abolition.
| ism, aristocracy and monarchy are in the asceu-
dant, foreign country, alien to America in every.
thing, and nothing is said about il in the papers,
Hundreds are sent from the South, every year,
to Princeton and Northern Colleges, sons of nuli-
Tiers, and seccssionists, and disunionsts and they
are not censured! But when Union man, con.
sistent with his American principles, sees proper
to pursue the same course, his parental arrange
ments are called ir 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 under any obligations to the
State more than they who have been honored by
the State with seat in the United States Senate.
1t is true we sent our son to Harvard with reluc.
lance, and after trying the South Carolina College.
He was educated st home, graduated ia one Of our
Universities and received the diploma Of Bachelor
of Arts His youth induced Us, then, to send him
to the South Carolina College, where be might
still prosecute his Collegiate studies. The COL
lege was broken up by the rebellion Of the stu
dents, and We thought it extremely doubtful
whether it would be organized again, successfully,
for year or two to come Under these circum-
stances We cast about for o college or university
in which be might spend a couple of years to tho
best advantage. We thought Harvard superior
to alf others for the learning and ability Of Its
Professors and determined to place him there
We went on with him and satisfied ourselves ss to
its superior advantages for learning, scholarship
and Improvement. As to the political principles
Of the Professors at Harvard they hsye never been
offensive to the South. There are few men any
where more Southern in their feelings than Pro-
fessor Pierce, the eminent astronomer and msthe-
msticisn Of Harvard. Agsssiz, the great master
of natural science, is European by birth, and
the world claims him as one Of her greatest sa-
vans. Sophocles is Grecan. FELTON, is the au-
thor Of Greek books which are text books in tho
South Carolina College. The President, Walker,
is eminent for his learning and pety, and none Of
the Professors are known as poticR IS. The
atmosphere of Harvard is purify literary, and has
never been contaminated like Yale and some other
Northern Colleges with political meetings and leo
lures. 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.. Pringle, Mr.. Allston,
and hundreds Of others, sent their sons to that in
stitution actusted by the same motives. But
whilst they might be seemingly inconsistent, We
see no reason to FIX the charge on us. Another
one Of our sons we placed at the Naval School, at
Annapolis, and dedicated him to the Republic, Of
which South Carolina Is yet member, and We
have no doubt will be for a century to come.
Win the editors of those newspapers who have
seen proper to srraiRn Us before the public for
this disposition Of our children At school, have
maniness enough to publish this our defence to
their indictment. We ask it Of them, and have
nothing more to say on the subject. -Greenrilh
Patriot.