Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1867-07-12

with my bread this morning if all the occupants
OF The hive had been drones. But give swarm
of bees field Of clover, or buckwheat, or
cotton, and honey will be tho result. It is truo
that margin must be allowed for the bee-n moth.
But who should be deferred from O great enter.
prise because failure isposabIe1 Human expo
ience proves that energy, integrity, common
sense, and wise precauton, will almost always
ensure success. The danger of failure, which
has been SO commonly urged against attempts
ut colonization. has been predicated upon tho
TACT just referred to. that there arc great many
indolent selfish, narrow-minded people in the
world A colony composed of such folks would
not DO apt to succeed. They would be likely to
share the fate of many who came to Virginia in
Tho time Of Capt. John Smith. Suppose that q
colony could bo made up of persons with tho
energy OF those who established the Kalmia
Mills near you; and suppose every member of
" desired to organize society, in a strange land.
upon the basis Of religion and education, and
that all were bound together by q common sym.
pathy, in accordance with their common suffer-
ing, socially, politically and materially, would
not the expectation of great success be perfectlv
reasohaolef 1t seems to me that it may be
assumed that the most If not all, of those who
arc willing 10 abandon their dear native home"
and expRtriate themselves to a country 40 far
away, the institutions and people of which are
80 different from those to which they have al
ways been accustomed, and subject themselvss
TO all the trials. lahors and priyations incident
10 new settlement, especially in a foreign
country, may have good deal Of that yin,
which promises success. .-
Now With regard to the support of a church
and an academy in each neighborhood, the as-
tablishment of college on solid foundation,
md the erection of various sorts of factories all
OF which are necessary to tho welfare of the
colonists, the question is narrowed down to this:
will each family be willing to contribute fry
dollars annually for ten years in order.to place
tho colony upon good footing ought to
have used the word invest in place of contribute;
for the outlay Of money will not ba without
ample compensation. cannot sec why the
plan proposed may not be carried out to the
very letter. A. large body Of Scotch Prssbyts-
rlans, under the leadership of Chalmers a
Cunningham, and others of like character. som.
years since, abandoned the established church
on account Of Evastianism. The Seceders
would acknowledge no other head than Christ.
but they were compelled to surrender their
churches, their houses. their academies, and
everything else that belonged to the church.
Yet, though the great body of them were ex.
ceedlngy poor, they soon built churches. school.
houses parsonages, and provided support for
their pastors. their college, and their missionary
enterprises. The great and good Chalmers de-
V'sed system of economic, which ensured the
cooperation of all the friends of tho Fres
Church. The fund which sustained oil the
great objects just named was made up of regu-
lar weekly contributions from a .fartAinp up-
wards. There were very few large confirm.
tlons BY far the greater portion of tho large
amount collected was made up of the OFFERING Of
.he poor As people. we are now very much
like those who united in the exodus. Our social
economy has been destroyed. Our political
rights have been taken from US; our property
mas been forced away by the rude hand of power
every effort that diabolical malice could invent
has been made to infiioi extreme degradation
upon US; and if we have not been deprived of
the privilege Of worslippipg God as we desire
and choose, it's not because his spurious wor-
shippers in other quarters have lacked the spirit
OF the worst days of the Inquistion. In seeking
removal from these sources of distrust (the rsas-
ons for which shall be considered at proper
t'me1 great work is contemplated. But It
can. be accomplished. Let the spirit which
pervades the plan of Dr.. Chalmers be the ruling
spirit in this new enterprise, and success must
result. Let each colonist appreciate the mag.
nitude of the work and its consequences (of
which more hereafterl and let him resolve to do
his part in carrying it on like the Jews, In Nc.
hemiah's time. and "the wall will be built In
troublous times" A prosperous colony will be
established at very little cost and with very
great profit to each of its members. But.
after alL" rome one may say "it is proposed to-
establish this colony In a strange land, and "
among people Of strange speech and how
can we stand that" must reserve the con-
sideration of this objection 10 another letter.
Yours truly,
D. Mon. T.
To Dr.. w. r. HAMPTON, S. C.
Exchanges will please copy.
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