Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-12-22
CIRCULAR,

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vembcr, 1865, in it's Hall at Pcndlcton, An.
derson District, Hon. II. j. Simpson, Col.
w. a. llaync and Hon Thomas G. Clemson
were appointed Committee to appeal to thci,
fclowmcn for aid to found an institution for
educating our people in the science, to the
end that our agriculture be improved our
worn, impoverished lands be recupcrntcd. and
the great natural resources lOf the South de-
velopcd
Considering the PROSTATE, and almost hope
less condition of our country; our cities
churches, tarm-houses fences burned; oul
| banks, railroad companies, and other institu
tons which held the savings of the old, the
orphans, &c., made bankrupt; our plate,
watches. furniture, cattle, horses. the trinkcts
and clothing OF our women and children even
the contents of our granaries and meat houses
carried oil or destroyed; large portion of
cur most productive lands scqucstcrcd from
their owners to the freedmen; we are gricv.
ousy taxed without representation our prop
crty under tho Constitution liberated without
compensation; VIC lave been Left without
food, or the means with which to purchase
that which the harycsts have failed to pro-
ducc.
Considering that on: lands arc so impovcr-
ishcd by the growth and expectation of cotton,
that much of them will not pay the cost of
cultivation, and that our agriculture generally
is i'll wrctched condision; that legislation
has failed to protect the agriculture resources
or the Commonwealth from unnecessary and
wholesale spoliation; that we have emerged
from an unmcrcful war, in which we engaged
to support Constitution under which we
were born and educated, aid find ourselves
ruined, but with natural resources undcvclop-
ca our population leaving their smoudcring
homes for other and far distant lands our
.'.'e'al "ca''h no less varied, than vast, in
,Ii, w. 'n'''e''se wa'"r powers without ap
.''''' !" '.'%',''o'l OF hianu'"ctnFcS;
Wv. 80 ~ .,c"". u"ofaineo, upProhtably luXnrl
"". ""u 'nc ,s w,t! pes,ilehtia enianat!ons that
the want of science, upon Which the arts are
based, and without which civilization cannot
advance; and hatignorance is the cause Of our
dcsttuion, and the parent of crime, misery
and death. We the Committee on behalf Of
the Agricultural Society, and our fcllow-citi-
zcns, now make this our earnest appeal to the
well disposed OF all classes and sccts, for aid
to found an institution for the diffusion OF sci
cntllic knowledge, that our civilization may
advance, and VIC may once more become hap.
py ana prosperous people. We believe with
out such institutions, we shall ever continue
TO be at the mercy OF ignorant politicians and
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A., "I '"'I'o 1 10 our "esce";'an,s '
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from whence science of thc L;ghest nrIcr IN
all It's forms. will he or,tn;tonsy disnnnsri tn
nuhnrn nill;nno
"i'pos 'vg',. -, o. ''o''h Oaro''na w""''
pr'"I' "npso at o.."rS, au"p'Gu lor tne oea-
v'u" y, .n;'' .n an ,,'sta'".'o'' i"r !he pc'u-
M Tnn t"s nno,." o"'an 'eii' i M'' VIC e~'%er-
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