The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-03
Very Touching and Appropriate.

Very Touching and Appropriate.
The following extract is from IN
address delivered by A. S. Florence,
Esq, to the pupils of Union Point
Academy, Georgia, which we find in
Fridays Augusta Chronicle and ISenti-
mel. We have never read more elo-
quent or more appropriate language
in appealing to the youth of the
South than the following extracts
contain:
With over three thousand miles of
coast, interspersed with numerous
and excellent harbors-with manu-
featuring facilities inferior to none in
the world-with inexhaustible mines,
abounding in almost variety of orc
coal-pits in abundance-with water
power of every capacity, rivers and
streams traversing every section of
the country-with illmitable forests
OF timber, waving in unbroken 81
lence, and mountain ranges inter
sectlng almost every State-yet we
have regarded these superior and
natural advantages with the greatest
and most astonishing indifference.
Caring only for ssKing Cotton" and
branding mechanism with plebian
birth, our willy neighbors silently
appropriated the mechanical and
commercial agencies, and through
these great media, now hold the
''helm of State.''
Young gentlemen and young ladies,
with you it remains to restore this
sunny Southland to elevate it
above its former beauty and power.
You are the hope of our fallen coun-
try. Will you, then, allow q soldier,
who has given his own .'.red right
arm" in her defence, to plead in be-
half of his country's future? Oh,
children, win back our withered lau-
rels, and immortalize the graves of
our brave and noble Confederate
dead by the position which your name
shall take in the country's roll of
honor. Study to be wise; neglect
not one tenet or admonition from
your teacher which savors of wisdom
remembering that you are to re-
build this temple of liberty, and to
lay again its corner stone upon the
surer basis of experience. Are you
little A B G scholars? Let the tender
root OF elementery knowledge be
deeply fixed in your infant minds;
then shall the tree be green and -four
ishing. Have you advanced to the
study Of geography? Note we'll the
geographical position, outlines and
descriptions of your country, nor let
It be said that you have only studied
for an examination, or to make dis
play Tor once in your lives; but that
you nave studied to maintain an ho-
norable position among your coun-
trymen.
Are you warbling the sweet music
of your mothers tongue? Then little
grammarians, do not murder it with
scientific touches of home manufac-
ture, but study it well-study, that
you may understand it perfectly.
Have you advanced beyond the old
held school programme, and eutered
the sylvan shades OF Virgil and the
heroic scenes of Homer, there to wit
ness the mysterious rites of ancient
Greece and Rome? Let not single
taste at the Pyerian Spring intoxicate
the brain and initiate your vanity, but
drink largely, that your young names
be inscribed among the savans of the
world.
But, beware! While you improve
and perfect the intellectual, do not
discard the practica' branches.
Young ladies', te.~1h your minds to
think, while your lily fingers make
ready work with the tub, the spin
ming wheel, or cooking stove; and
young man, lay copy Of Livy, Taci-
tus or Euclid beside your plough
handles, nor be ashamed to unite
labor with study, for the Great Jeho-
yah has commanded, ''In the sweat of
thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread.
Oh! do not let our country degene-
rate because her children are com
PEELED to take the place of her slaves;
but elevate labor to that position
which the Creator designed it should
occupy, and adorn it with mechani