The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-22
The South Carolina university.

| Counties.
The grandest existing monument of the
past renown of South Carolina is the South
Carolina College, with all its memories
traditions and names clustering like q
household words of the history of South
Carolina, which have given her fame for
virtue, learning and patriotism, not excelled
in America And with all this renown is
mingled the name, the growth and the
culture of tho beautiful town of Columbia.
| almost of twin birth and fame with the
College, for both were the offspring of the
compatriots of John Rutledge and Thomas
Sumter.
Under the ''new dispensation," this time
honored College was wisely and judiciously
modified into a University-as that term is
now lnterpreted-wit professional faculties
added to, or rather super-imposed on, the
academic departments; that thereby oil lite
raj learning, fitting men for the affairs of
life, might be fully and cheaply attained
under the guarantee of the Constitution of
the State. The change was wise; the con-
stltutional guarantee was one bright ray of
the past lingering in our dark present Now
it is very painful to see that a combined
and fierce effort is on foot to destroy this
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of the Medical College of Charleston, by q
memorial to the Legislature. lend themselves
as agents to be used in this effort. It is
some comfort that, in the list of signatures
to that memorial, we do not find the names
OF Prioleau, Horlbeck, Ravenel Frost and
Others Every statement and every arguI
ment of this memorial have been refuted by
the counter memorial of the Chairman and
Faculty of the University.
Ac off of
and L call on my fellow citizens of Colum-
bia to protest, against the removal and con-
sequent destruction of the University. It is
cherished by and valuable to us and to the
State. The whole upper country is deeply
interested IN its support and retention Mt
Columbia. 1t is in the centre of the State;
in perfectly healthy locality; in town,
which depressed as it is at present, is more
recuperative in prospect than Charleston;
WI WIN all the requisite buildings, apparatus,
library, lecture-rooms and residences, and
complete corps of professors. For the city
of Columbia. it affords the ready means on
the spot for the thorough and cheap educa-
ton OF her youth; thus, too, retaining
among us large sums of money that would
be expended elsewhere. Besides this, it
brings into the town not less than $50. 600
per nnnum.
1t forms society of refined, educated and
their culture and their active interests to
give vitality and rigor to the material con-
dition of the town. It has brought and will
continue more extensively to bring nu-
merous wealthy and cultivated families to
the town, seeking education and society.
But suppose Charleston to be large and
prosperous city-unhappily, violent as
sumptlon-what is the custom of other coun-
tries, and, to some extent, of the United
In "a:
the small towns of Oxford and Cambridge
not in London or Liverpool in Germany,
they are at Gottengen, Heidelberg, Jena,
Halle, &c.-not at the commercial marts of
Hamburg or Bremen, or even the civil capi-
tails OF Berlin and Vienna; in Massach usetts,
Harvard is Mt Cambridge-not in Boston; in
Connecticut, Yale is at New Haven-not in
Hartford; in New Jersey, the State Cole ge
is at Princeton-not at Trenton or Jersey
City; in Virginia. the University is at Char
| lottcsvllle-nOt in Richmond or Norfolk,
&c. The cases might be cited numerically
largely in favor of universities and col
leges being placed in interior towns, and
not Mt the seats of commerce and business.
L revert, however, to the special interests
of Columbia, in retaining the University
where the wisdom of our fathers and of our
present government has placed it. I diff
IDENTIFY, but with much earnestness, suggest
that there should be memorial of the citi.
zens of Columbia prepared, and forwarded
by the Mayor and Council of the city to
the Legislature, respectfully and urgently
protesting against the removal of the Uni
versity from Columbia CITIZEN.
The EASTERN QUEsrIoN-PUBLc SENTI-
MEN1.-It now begins to appear that the
Paris Conference has little, if any, sympa-
thy for Greece, SO far at least as the ques-