Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1858-02-10
THE nnGrE1E1n MALE ACADEMY.

THE EDGEFIELD MALE ACADEMY.
We have pleasure in stating that this institution
opened on Monday last with about Fifty students. Ma
ny more are expected to arrive at IN carly day. Mr.
LysLY, and his assistant, Mr. DowrIS, are at their
posts, and already if may go speak, IN media' res
We shall now undoubtedly possess the advantages OF
first rate School for our boys,-among the best (if
not the very best) in the State. 1t is revivng, to
know that the classic old spot, where ARMSTRONG,
McCL1SrocK, MANLY and STAFFORD, have severaly
welded the bircheu sceptre and trained the young
iden is again to have the true FIRE Of literary emua
ton kinded on its rciustated affairs by scholar Of
equal worth and ability with the best of those
spectsd magisers Of departed day. That academic
grove is one of tho places, whose associations will
ever be dear to many Of who have now passed the
iron CUTE of manhood. With Gray, in his distant
prospect of Eton College," We feelingly soy of
that grove and its surrounding country
All, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade,
Ah, fields beloved in vain,-
Where once my careless childhood strayd
stranger yet to pain!-
I feel the gales that from ye blow,
A momentary bliss bestow,
As, waving fresh their gladsoms wing
My weary soul they seem to soothe,
Aud, rodolent Of joy and youth,
To breathe n second SPRING"
But we are running headong into tho poeticAl,
when were really intent only upon the practical
We repeat then, that We have now preparatory
classical school Of high order and all who are con-
vencnt to its benefits should congratulate themselves
upon the now and superior facilities thus placed in
their way. Let no one detain his son or ward from
these facilities from apprehension that the school
will be too large. There is degree Of rivalry and
spirit and enthusiasm begottcn in q large academy,
which is seldom to be found in small and obscure
schools aud this very thing peculiarly calculated to
fit our youth, first for manly aud successful career
in College, and next for taking prominent post in
the occupations of after life. Let then the Edgefeld
Academy become nm educational conventice, where
a. least the noble boys Of old Edge6eld shall come
together and arm in arm and heart heart be pre-
pared 60 forth in search Of higher knowledge when
they shall have crcitably passed beyond its walls.
FILLIBUSTERISM.
Fillibu>teriSn is Mt variance, not only with tho
mighty 1t tramples upon modern civilization, in
the only features which distinguish it from the ancient,
we uean its Christian features. 1t is wrong in re
and per sc; and no good citizen, unbiuded by pre-
judice aud unwarped by passion, will be found up
holding political monstrosity OF such Poyphemian
proportions. 1t is indeed
Monstrun, horrendum, intormr, iagens, cui lHnlen
ademptum."
Yes, it is lacking in vision. It has but one eye to
gee with and that is located in the centre of the
forehead of thing which lives hut to batten unlaw-
fully, uye barbarously upon the fatuess which is, by
all the law. of nature und truth, anothors. Hence
we are not nWN. WALHER's man. We see him only
in the light Of plundoring advcnturer. He may
have talent he may have military ardor he may
have vague notious of proragating the principles Of
American freedom. But he is at last freebooter,
and nothing else,-nut by intention, but by deluson.
And it s enough to astonish the age, that so many
men have been Carried Into the whirlpool of egregious
error by his example.
But the fever III his behalf has at length cuniina-
ted and no words are now needed qucl the rapid
ly subsiding ferment.
We quote, from the correspondence Of the Mont
gomery (Ala) COntederation few sensible observa-
tions pertaining to the matter in hand. Tho letter
ia written by Democrat Of influence and distinction,
and is dated Mobile JAM, &c, 1858. Read the ex.
tract: